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Show "I have three phobias which, could I mute them, Wednesday would ditch Dec. 5, 1990 make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone." TaUulah Bankhead, actress (1903-196- - A 3) Ming cIocq to feme The activation of large numbers of CJtah National Guard members and military reservists, who also happen to be Jiealth care professionals, is bringing the Persian Gulf more clearly into focus in the lives of many who were previously kittle affected. I On top of a nursing shortage that existed prior to Saddam Hussein's madness, staffs at local clinics and hospitals have been dealt a severe jolt as doctors, nurses and Specialists ship off to foreign shores. t Dealing with the fallout will be at best :a challenge and at worst a crisis for those left behind. It will require sacri-rfic- e and patience by overworked staffs, tit will require sacrifice and patience by i those needing care, as welL Emergency fcare will, more than ever, take preced-- ! en6e over elective procedures, j Some might feel the best way to bring tthe troops home soon, and to restore J normalcy to all areas of our society 'affected adversely by the activation of would be to strike Jour j Iraq now. Some might argue the U.N 'approval of "force if necessary" should .'translate into military action against Saddam with no additional delay. citizen-soldier- s, Herald comment GODZlLlk There are those hawkish members of the community who talk a tough line. There are those among our military contingent in the Persian Gulf who are itching for a fight We hope cooler, wiser heads will prevail. War against Saddam's forces may eventually prove to be the only solution. Our leaders must not be stripped of that y option by a Congress. It would be well if they were not hindered by mindless and counterproductive protest actions. But if war comes, it will be ugly and bloody. Wars always are. Fighting should be the last option, after sanctions, diplomacy and negotiation have been given every conceivable chance. We cannot afford to let Saddam get away with his aggression, but we can afford some patience. It is far better to miss loved ones for many months than to welcome them home in body bags. wishy-wash- 92 dL5 : f ipp fipl GtisttA Ofcourse our buyout of MCK have no effect ot movie contenLr will ( ILMA m$ K-r- -X Mil Ht wnTrrr nftl T. I V II Aft T I r Letters Don't nix project Apology offered Editor: Editor: We now live during a period of time when uncertainty abounds. Now, more than ever, an, juncertainty hangs over the economy, emitting a steady, dampening drizzle.' As a First of aD I want to apologize to Professor Paul Cox. I never meant to imply that he was in the picket line. I also want to praise him and the people on the picket line, for fighting for what they think is right If 25 percent of the people in this country had the guts to stand up and fight the "secret combination," which is going all out to rule this country and the world, we could whip them. d German dad once told My me, "If you get in a fight even if you get whipped, let them know that they were in a fight." I have been fighting bad government with letters and signs on my truck for over 30 years, I do it to let off steam, so I don't get ulcers. Is Seven Peaks going to do anything more to the mountains than Robert Redford did, or any other of the ski resorts? If not, why dont you fight all of the ski resorts and make them replant trees on the ski runs. teH Mexico pulls back from socialism national newspaper recently stated, "Oil prjoes remain high even though world oil levels. production has returned to The diminished role of ideology in Latin Interest rates are slow to faH Businesses American politics has led to a dissipation are postponing investment decisions. And of American interest in the region. With consumer confidence is plunging. Until all Daniel Ortega formerly the Stalinist the;" uncertainty ends, an economic recovery of Nicaragua now making a scourge is unlikely." as a used car salesman (of sorts), living In this year of pessimism and economic and Manuel Noriega living in America at decline, it is foolish to turn away the Seven public expense, few of the visible political Peaks Resort project We have an opportunitraumas that occupied America's attention ty, to have a first class resort in our valley in the 1980s remain. This is a good time for and the opportunity to provide thousands of America's Latin American foreip policy jobs. The creation of jobs is imperative to focus to shift to Mexico. continue the growth and success Utah Valley Mexico is in the 62nd year of the rule of has experienced over the last several years. the Partido Revolucionario Institutional Seven Peaks Resort will provide thousands (PRI), which has governed through a of, jobs and bring thousands of tourist dollars quasi-sociali- st oligarchy. The Mexican into our community. Dollars that can be Fair? functions as a limited-terdictapresident used to repair our infrastructure, fund our Bob Bonnann tor, ruling by decree through a congress Provo schools, and lessen the tax burdens of the which possesses a permanent majority. citizens of Utah County. This arrangement has produced the preof Seven Peaks for I applaud the efforts dictable abuses. their, dedication in bringing a first class Lazaro Fifty years ago, resort to our community. It is something we Cardenas nationalized the petroleum Editor: should all be proud of and hope for its try. In the late summer of 1982, Jose Lopez "Where's Abby?" asks Ashley. Ashley is suocess. Portillo confiscated 13 billion dollars that is her our Abby daughter. Chuck Warren been deposited in Mexican banks by had has and friend. Abby companion Provo American investors. Never content with big broTO eyes and a black and white coat half measures, Lopez-Portilproceeded to and gives love freely. Abby is a springer : expropriate the entire Mexican banking spaniel and a lost member of our family. system. I am a state park ranger and we live at I Editor: I arrived in Mexico City shortly after the We have no neighState Park. Utah lake when the I saw I was deeply angered J of the banks. The capitol nationalization to for no little Ashley play bors, playmates picture in a recent sports section of the with. was still from the celebration recovering Abby is Ashley's very best friend! Herald of a beautiful mountain goat lying had been that as an anodyne for declared 4 Nov. let at On 24, Ashley p jxl, Saturday, lifeless for no reason other than the selfish-- : the economic pain caused by the expro4:30 Abby was out house. the of By Abby animal a such ness of man. For magnificant priation. In the middle of the business to 'be killed just for the sport of it is a missing! district there remained a prop from the We searched all night and we continued to i crime! a huge lighted sign proclaimbacchanal, We run search! have posters, ads, up put I enjoy hiking Timp every summer and offered celebration of the nationalization "In ing, animal shelters contacted rewards, loye to observe the natural beauty and in four cities. not has has Whomever Abby i wildlife that abounds there. With the list of and growing, I responded! Ashley still has faith Abby will I extinct animals growing return. We will keep looking! A member of J cant understand why the killing of mountain f our family is missing! mountain allowed. is Although, goats goats we have found our search ' may During not be on the "endangered" list, still hundreds of lost pets, some at shelters. would one I and for be a rare are WASHINGTON sight One week after the they Some wandering, lost and alone! thrilled to see one of them in its natural invasion of Kuwait, King Hussein of Iraqi occurance common a are Wandering pets Jordan began hinting broadly that instead setting. dropped off by TT there are too many goats for this near our home, rather of "king," his people should start calling who think that owners mountain area, then why cant some of unthinking, uncaring him Sherif Hussein the title of his great their animals will survive ""in the fields" or Hussein's ,2$etn be reloicated to another suitable grandfather. neighbors in Saudi This seems far more humane to ending up here on their own, the result is Arabia raised their eyebrows. alone me than for our animals to be shot and the same. These animals are hungry, For the Saudis it was one more piece of and scared, they can not survive! stuffed for someone's "trophy." that Jordan was part of a conspiracy proof around the The (Thristmas season is just Christine Dowle with Iraq to invade Saudi Arabia and seize Provo corner if a puppy is on your list, please the sacred cities of Medina and Mecca. consider the long range obligation to care Hussein is a descendant of and love your puppy for all of its life. Your the Mohammed and a member of prophet own! on their pets just wont make it the Hashemite family that, in the time of n Editor: And to the person who has our Abby, his great grandfather, was the guardian of , Kudos to Margaret Thatcher! For me she If her! We she to love us! please return her Mecca and Medina, now in Saudi Arabia. an epic iron lady. She has too has stolen your heart and you will not return j.ill, remain In an emotional speech before the Jordai to class interna-from the of Love shots. her all her disappear ; her, Abby has ;jnuch nian parliament on Aug. 12, Hussein rewill tional scene and likely reappear in well. We do. called his historic role as protecvaoother important role, possibly in the Unit- Kevin Lazenby (and Ashley) tor of the family's before the Hashemites cities holy Nations? Provo were driven out by the usurping Saud r,;,We must envy the way the British can Lchange their leadership when it seems necessary to do so. In my opinion, George rSysb, would have been Jong gone if we had Isuch a system, because he impulsively and unilaterally made a massive warlike move, without strategic consultation, or even the t V f I THANKS POP 1 afnowledge of congress. Now he is trying to f HELPING former ME anhst enemy nations, and very ! ACBOSSTWE k jjuestionsble Arab allies in the pretext of j ,j establishing armed strength. To me, George Bush has only contempt vior the voters who fell for the Willie Horton He is not a constituent man, he j- exploitation. is,, a corporation man, anxious to assist the world in any way he can. The . corporate ' same goes for his Free Trade Policy with Mexico in mind. If invoked, the policy will s be ; wonderful for the maquiladora's (U.S. corporations which move plants to Mexico for, the cheap labor), but what about the 'irffect on our average worker? V '.George Bush wouldn't last another week in jSritain, and if he does something stupid to ? save his own face he may be closer to or forced retirement than he . impeachment ; ' realizes. Americans have more confidence in the combined judgments of our congress and branch, but not just George ,the executive . ...Bush alone when it comes to another war. pre-cris- is hard-heade- m Where is Abby? then-Preside- nt ld ',' lo Sporting crime H 3 Will Grigg ABROAD airSalinas has sold Mexico's state-ru- n line and the telephone company. He is reportedly considering the . of the banking system By giving evidence of an appreciation for the free market and a disinclination to rule by caprice, Salinas has improved the climate for foreign investment in Mexico. This, coupled with favorable developments in the petroleum market (favorable for Mexico, that is), may accelerate the completion of the free trade agreement that was discussed during President Bush's recent meeting with Salinas in Monterrey. Salinas' term expires in 1994, and his reforms may prove to be eminently reversible. However, he may have formed important allies among significant Mexican elites. Octavio Paz, the Mexican poet and critic who was given the 1990 Nobel award for literature, has provided intellectual counterpoint to Salinas' political labors. Paz, the son of a Mexican revolutionary g and a former ally of extremists, has made the journey from radicalism to reality. He has been critical of Latin American intellectuals who coddled the Sandinistas, and now declares, "The Sandinista defeat, like the defeat of the Marxist Left generally, is the defeat of fantasy. The communist remedy to social injustice proved worse than the malady. Now our challenge is to find the imagination to address those injustices that have outlived their untenable solution." Paz may play a significant role in the liberation of Latin American intellectuals from the bondage of second-han- d ideological conceits. UJS.-Mexi- co of the Bank of Mexico." In less affluent segments of the city, other celebratory signs could be seen spray-painte- d signs featuring a hammer and sickle and the declaration, "Ni un paso atras" ("Not one step backward"!. With a government chasing away investment in its porsuit of socialism, and with an inner city infected with Sandinista-styl- e cadres, Mexico City presented the aspects of a capitol ripe for revolution. . The presidential autocracy that cultivated many of Mexico's problems has yieldtsd a providential development. Present Meii-ca- n President Carlos Salinas De Gorta;i, who is Harvard-educate- d but not otherwise handicapped, has taken not one but scores of "backward steps." His campaign of privatization and political reform Iks been compared to Gorbachev's Perestroika. Although the comparison ignores Salinas' true antecedent Margaret Thatcher. Like Thatcher, Salinas has had to dissolve government monopolies in both the economic and political spheres, while also breaking the powsr of renegade unions. d, left-win- now-famili- ar Does Jordan want Mecca and Medina back? Praise for Maggie .d n " ', - - FueeneJ.Faux Provo Jack Anderson & Dale Van Atta UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE family in 1924. In memory of that time, Hussein said, "He who wants to honor me shall call me by my name, and he who wants to hoiior me more shall call ne Sherif Hussein." It was just the indictment the Sauds needed to reinforce their paranoia. We reported recently that Saudi leaders believe the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was pait of a larger plot. The plotters, in this scenario, are Iraq, Jordan and Yemep. Their plan was for Iraq to take Kuwait ani northern Saud Arabia. Yemen would u vade from the south and annex southern regions of Saudi Arabia. Jordan would b2 given back th Hijaz region where the holy cities are. While the Central Intelligence Agency is skeptical that Hussein would get involved in such a plot intelligence sources acknowledge that Jordan has done plenty to fuel the Saudis' suspicions. The Saudis and some Israelis and exiled Kuwaitis believe that King Hussein had early notice of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait King Hussein claims he knew nothing until King Fahd of Saudi Arabia called him at 6 am on Aug. 2, the day f the invasion. In the wake of the invasion, King Hussein called Saddam "trustworthy" and an "Arab patriot." King Hussein has continued to talk about Saddam as though the king were a lawyer invader. He even for the despotic qi historical about talks Saddam's perilously claims to Kuwait. In trie past, Jordan has supplied intelligence to Iraq, and that arrangement may be continuing. Saudi Arabia expelled some L-a- Jordanian diplomats in September on suspicion that they were photographing oil facilities and then passing along the pictures to Iraq. Our intelligence sources believe the most significant collusion, if any exists between Iraq and Jordan, has to do with Hawk missiles. When Saddam seized Kuwait he found about 150 American-mad- e Hawk missiles there. The U.S. Air Force is virtually defenseless against them. The Iraqis dont know how to use the Hawks, but the Jordanians do. According to one highly classified CIA report, there are significant indications that Jordanian military technicians have been teaching the Iraqis how to use the Hawks. The Jordanian government denies that, but our intelligence sources say Jordan is just looking the other way while Jordanian military people get paid by Iraq to explain the Hawks. Some Jordanian military personnel, who are expats on the Hawks, have been given "temporary" retirement, according to our sources. That way Jordan can claim that none of its active duty military people are helping the Iraqis. - HE LIKES IKE President Bush has called upon the memory of his idol, Dwight Eisenhower, as he has weighed the options in the Persian Gulf crisis. Bush thinks Ike would have done what Bush is planning to do if it comes to war a punishing air assault instead of a more risky ground war. The only difference, Bush has conceded in private, is that Ike would not have engaged in a name-callin- g exchange with Saddam Hussein before the attack. Congressional leaders are steamed about President Bush's plans to go to war in the Persian Gulf without asking them. But they cant get their act together to mount an effective protest. One Capitol Hill observer explained it this way: Skateboarding is one way to stand perfectly still while hurtling toward disaster. Being in Congress is another way to do the same thing. 4 ( . : |