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Show "Any doctrine that will not bear investigation isnot a fit tenant for the mind ofan honest man. " RobertG. Ingersoll, lauyerand politician (1833-189- B 9) Thursday, August 27, 1992 The Daily Herald Fmalhj smm help I 1 ' 1 After months of delay and indecision, the international community finally is coming to the aid of Somalia. The stricken nation in the Horn of Africa is a scene of mass starvation, drews, on returning from a with thousands of gaunt children dying mission, called Somalia CcicU Gcnuncnt Sl fact-findi- each week. The United States is augmenting the rescue mission by airlifting more than 45,000 tons of food from the port city of Mombasa to the town of Wajir in northeastern Kenya, near the Somalian border. The airlift, ordered by President Bush, will almost double the tonnage of food delivered to Somalia during the last six months by the International Red Cross and other relief agencies. Much of the food is for the 400,000 Somali refugees who are living in United Nations-ru- n camps along the border. The rest is to be trucked or flown into other locations in Somalia, which is suffering the twin effects of devastating drought and civil 1 Kenya-Somal- ia "the mid-198- Editor: am writing concerning the unethical conduct I have witnessed by several properly managers and owners in the Provo area. As always, the pervasive philosophy seems to be to charge the maximum possible rent and give the minimum possible service. I I suppose they justify this practice by thinking it is good business to get a large return on a small investment. Unfortunately there is such a tremendous demand for rentals in the area that they are getting away with doing next to nothing. When a tenant is unhappy because repairs are not being made, grounds are not being cared for, etc. the management need not be concerned. The worst the tenant can do is the move, and the management can unit in a heartbeat, keep.at least part of the deposit, and come out ahead of the game. Apartment manager- and owners are actualre-re- nt benefitting from the dissatisfaction of their tenants. The rents in the area I am now living have skyrocketed the past two years. Most of the two bedroom units are now renting for at least $400 a month (not including utilities). A friend of mine has been living for two years without a working oven. Another building had the "lawn" mowed forthe first time this year on the 3rd of August. Not only is management's inaction a breech of contract (for those lucky enough to have a contract), it is simply unethical. I am hopeful that the construction of new apartments in the area will ease the housing crunch and these greedy owners and managers 'will find themselves competing for tenants' who will be able to choose to rent that are apartments ' Alene Gallant d. Provo U.N. Secretary-Gener- Boutros-Boutro- al volvement in planning the Watergate break-in- s and buggings. He never knew the source of the "milk scandal" contributions to the committees he set up. In fact, you can say Bob Bennett knew nothing in the 1970s. Bob wants to remind us of famous people and he does. Only instead of Jefferson and Franklin its Sgt. Schultz of the old TV show Hogan's Heroes. Schultz would walk into the POW barracks, see all kinds of illegal activities, roll his eyes, and walk out saying, "I see nothing. I know nothing." He would then always have a good explanation of why he had a lack of knowledge of events around hiiuwhen the POWs were caught by someone else. The real question is, "What scandal did THINS UT.. ) BEOIKE inhmeJ . s you know nothing about next, Bob?" Howard Hughes campaign contributions? Super-fun- d problems with Bennett Paint? "Bob Bennett Denies Scandal" headlines are becoming more numerous than Elvis sightings. As the September Primary nears remember what President Bush said, "Who do you trust to make change work for you?" Hopefully it is not "Slick Willie" and "I -- Know-Nothing Bob." RodStach Layton America's last persecuted minority Even before Patrick Buchanan had uttered a syllable of his Republican Convention address, the custodians of approved reality established an official line: Buchanan, it was decreed, is a merchant of hate, a rhetorical thug whose implicit racism is conveyed through elegant, witty phrases. It is appropriate that a man thus despised would use his most notable address to publicize the plight of the Korean inhabitants of Los Angeles. particularly Koreans, could justifiably consider themselves to be America's last officially persecuted minority. There are isolated instances of d violence; there are examples of organized racial hostility. But racism is neither practiced nor condoned by the government or public entities are inexcept where Asian-American- s, Will Grioo At Home and Abroad this century Korea was brutally occupied by Japan. As Buchanan said in his hateful speech, Korean immigrants embody the American Dream. Many of them come from families that have known warfare and persecution; they practice the virtues of thrift, industry and family unity volved. and discipline that typified America's is the practice of adjustfounding generations. Accordingly, they on test scores employment applications find themselves at odds with the conteming to account for the ethnicity of the appliporary Compassion Industry. cant. Notwithstanding the Bush AdminisDuring the L.A. Riots (what George tration's assurances to the contrary, Will correctly describes as an attempted endures, to the disadvantage of ethnic cleansing by black gangs), the Kojob applicants. Many of rean community lost $350 million in propAmerica's notable colleges businesses including, erty; 1,867 Korean-owne- d have were destroyed. If not for the organized, at least until recently, Berkeley admission quotas that restrict the matricuarmed defense mounted by Korean comlation of Asian students, including those munity groups, the loss of life attendant to who have American citizenship. Asian the riots would have been severe. But what students are often resented for their tendwas preserved during the riots may be taken away by the reconstruction. ency to ruin grading curves through academic achievement. BankAmerica has established an emeris par- gency loan fund for reconstruction of The case of businesses; the eligibility reticularly poignant. Their nation of origin is a divided country. In the early decades of quirements governing those loans exclude puta-tive- ly -, racially-motivate- Asian-America- Get registered Editor: On September 8, registered voters across the state will have the chance to vote in a primary election. On September 1 , 2, and 3, someone in your neighborhood will be doing registration so you will be able to vote in the primary. This person's name and his or her address will be published in uie newspapers at the end of August. Many people do not realize mat they can vote for either party in the primary, but they must vote for that party only. This means that registered Democrats can vote for Republicans, but they must vote Republican in all races, and vice versa. So, if you want to vote for the governor in one party, but the senator of another party, you will have to decide between the two. However, this will not have any effect on who you can vote for in the November general election. At that time, you can vote for someone from any party in any race. Please, if you're not registered to vote, do so during the first three days of September. Then remember to vote in the primary election. With the many highly contested races that are going on this year, your vote may very well be mat one vote that makes the ns Elizabeth Marshall Salt Lake City Full buses race-normi- Asian-Americ- an Korean-America- A businesses. In May, many Korean-owne- d the city government passed an ordinance that relaxed permit requirements for business owners seeking to rebuild after the riots. The ordinance also exempted many businesses, such types of Korean-owne- d as gun stores, swap meets, pawn shops, and shops. Furthermore, the city council has also produced an ordinance requiring community hearings as a prerequisite for the issuance of rebuilding permits. This will subject Korean merchants to the Shylockian savagery of malcontent mobs. It will also frustrate the reconstruction of the neighborhood stores that provide most of the staples of living. The Korean victims of the L.A. uprising are in a position similar to the Jewish merchants who fled after the Watts riots of 1965. The government did not protect them from the rioters; by devising regulations that make it nearly impossible for Koreans to rebuild, the government is effectively taking property without compensation, in violation of the Takings Clause. For the first time in their lives, many Koreans are filling out applications for and thus becomgovernment assistance ing entangled in the reticulations of victim politics. It is not pure racial hostility that animates the official persecution of Rather, it is the Welfare State's categorical hostility to independThe L.A. mobs ence and battered many Koreans into subservience;, the Compassion Industry will do its best to" keep them there. auto-repa- ir Race-normi- Utah's Clinton? just being mean. Now Bob. like Bill, is laying the blame for articles about his haunting past in the press at the feet of his opponents. Bob knew nothing of Mullen's CIA contract when he bought the company. He knew nothing about his emloyee E. Howard Hunt's in- ( MTS Ghali has persuaded several Somali warlords to accept the deployment of a contingent of armed U.N. troops from Pakistan to help safeguard the rescue operation by escorting food difference. Editor: Is Bob Bennett the Bill Clinton of the Utah senatorial race? I remember Bill's early problems with draft dodging, infidelity, and favoritism articles in the press. It seemed like every couple of weeks another crisis would surface. Of coarse Bill always had good explanations of his innocence or else it was no one else's business. He claimed his opponents were ISrlr 0s ILclScro Greedy landlords? 7 world's worst horror story." Relief experts say the crisis is a bigger disaster than the Ethiopian famine of the which claimed between 1 million and 200,000 people. one of the globe's poorest Somalia, countries, cries out for U.N. intervention. Without a contingent of international personnel to ensure that relief supplies reach the people, much of it will be hijacked by bandits. shipments to their destinations in armed vehicle. war. More military muscle may be needIn the nearly two years since long- ed to make certain that the food gets to time Somali dictator Mohammed Siad the people. But the limited nature of Barre was driven from power, rival the conflict thus far suggests that the clans have turned the country into a United Nations can carry out its misnightmare of anarchy and indiscrimi- sion with only minimal risks. nate slaughter. The United Nations is ideally suited with bands of thieves armed to lead this kind of humanitarian misRoving semiautomatic weapons have looted sion. What's more, the presence of an what few supplies have managed to get outside authority could have a calming beyond Mombasa. Meanwhile, a So- effect on the chaotic African nation. At mali man, woman or child is starving the very least, the United Nations can to death every minute. begin to save the starving children of Irish Foreign Minister David An- - Somalia. ly 8 ns ed low-co- st Korean-America- ns. self-relianc-e. generational thing: Conflicts that separate eras By MARK SIMON Peninsula Times Tribune The campaign has become a generational thing. World War II vs. Vietnam. Parents vs. children. While the Democrats may be the first presidential ticket from the Baby Boom generation, George Bush is probably the last presidential candidate from World War II. And what he understands and experienced and believes are not the understandings and experiences and, perhaps, beliefs of another generation. Editor: This didn't happen to me. It happened to A recent letter to the editor from Don wife. my Peterson points out a very real problem with UTA service that many in the Salt Lake When she was in high school, her counis that buses that and of. unaware are told her not to take the SAT because selor Valley are full, particularly those that run during she was only going to be a secretary. At about the same time, at her first job, rush hours. In 1985, UTA began service from Salt her bosses told her to get a note from her Lake to Provo with 16 buses a day making parents before she could go on a night that run. Service has been steadily expanded assignment. on this line due to its popularity and now When we were married, she couldn't there are 50 buses a day making the trip between Salt Lake and Provo. From 4:30 get a credit card in her own name, even p.m. to 5: 10 p.m. there is a bus to Provo though she had established credit and I had every 10 minutes. And still the demand for not. It's a generational thing. bus service grows and passengers like Mr. the on bus find seat a Barbara Bush didn't go through this. to unable Peterson are it's the next for wait one, to hopeing have or not full too. UTA is taking steps to add service to this route, but the bus fleet is being stretched to The Daily Herald welcomes letters to the its limit. A revised scheduling and bus asin Novemeffect into Address letters to Letters to the Ediwill editor. go signment plan ber which will make one more bus available tor, PO Box 717, Provo, UT 84603. Letters must be signed and include the writer's full for the overloaded service to Provo. will in November bus I hope the extra name, address and a daytime phone numfor seat find a for verification. Letters should be typed, others ber and help Mr. Peterson in I afraid that double am but spaced, and less than 400 words in commute home, their length. The most common reasons for not a short time this bus will be full too. Kip Billings publishing letters are: too long, unsigned, UTA Planner illegible, obscene or libelous. Letters policy of the young people I know in their 20s or so don't have to, eithtr. Because people my wife's age did. This did happen to me. I had a student deferment when I was in college, and I didn't get drafted or go to Vietnam. Near the end of my college years, I purposely let my student deferment lapse, thinking I might refuse induction into the service, because I saw the draft as just one complex that aspect of a was too eager to go to war, using people like me as fodder, Then, I got a high draft lottery number, I never got called, and my life went on. Apparently, this would make me a draft dodger were I running for president today. It's a generational thing. George Bush didn't go through this. Dan Quayle did. He did what a lot of people did, ducking into the National Guard as a means of avoiding Vietnam. And if he tells you he joined for any other reason, those of us who were around then know better. Bill Clinton went through it. He did what a lot of people did looked for some way to get out of being drafted because he thought the war was wrong, the way it was being fought was wrong, the country wasn't behind the war, and, as Muhammad AH said, he didn't have any quarrel with no Viet Cong. Then, he did what a lot of people at the time would have understood as a moral thing to do. At the last minute, he turned down the chance to take the easy way out, turned down the favor that would have been done him. In the end, Bill Clinton took his chances and just never got And a lot military-industri- al This may seem morally unclear, and the Bill Clinton of 20 years ago may look like somebody who can't make up his mind or lacks a clear philosophical rudder. All I can tell you is that's what it was like. You volunteered in World War II. In Vietnam, you didn't. Life was a lot less clear-cu- t then, and each of us wrestled with it the best way we could. If you're my age or older, you remember. The arguments we had with each other. Parents disowning children. Sons leav- ing home. Daughters leaving home. Maybe it didn't happen to you. But you knew someone to whom it happened. Marilyn Quayle said at last week's Re- publican convention: "Not everyone joined the counterculture. Not everyone demonstrated, dropped out, took drugs, joined in the sexual revolution or dodged the draft. Not everyone concluded that American society was so bad that it had to be radically remade by social revolution. Not everyone believed that the family was so oppressive that women could only thrive apart from it." Well, of course not. But the rest of us were not completely detached from all the people who did all that stuff. It was on television and in our streets and on our college campuses. You couldn't have missed it. It was in all the papers. It was about ideas and challenging the way things had always been. About how war would be conducted. About power and authority. About who had a right to a job or a credit card or to go to college or law school or a career. We grew up on the Beaver and Wally, Annette, Jim Anderson and Princess and Kitten, Lucy and Desi. We grew up on them. But when it was our turn to become them, life had changed. It was only TV, We had learned to tell the difference. Mark Simon is a columnist for the Pen? insula Times Tribune in Palo Alto, Calif. po |