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Show Mm "iimnry is nut Hie. But tinct ml hie make hnion. the union of ike two h obvious" Louis. D Btandei. U.S. ). Supreme Court Justice J fc5-JS- The Daity Herald fime to C Monday, March 17, 1997 efoamige sex rules miliftary men and wornefl art going to serve .;eiher m the military, the rules regarding se. should be changed. That's the only w a to av ert what the headline writers and Hruadcaster breathlessly refer tw as Si 1 "e Vv'uiidais. Think about it: The military fnjghl be last place in our ociei y where it is possible to have a "sex scandal" 3t doesn't harden in the v. orld of entertainment, where Madonna and other big tui s hav e children w Jthoui benefit of marriage and nobody even Muckers about it In sports, some of the top names have fnliered children by this or that female acquaintance even before they quit college iv pro careers. .And in politics, we have a president vho was and saw his popularity 3iting go up while facing a lawsuit and rumors that he was one of the tomcats in uiosj active Arkansas. Nobody would be shocked if they saw a Headline that said: "College students rngaging in vex" or "Professor reported sleeping with teaching assistant" And in Chicago, a most conservative utv. the mayor has said he wants to give health benefits and suet to the Jne-i- n part-k- t of homosexual city workers. That this w.iy or s name is Daley is the only shock-si;- !: aspect to jt. But we're supposed to be wide-eyethat m an Army thai has more than 50.000 Ivniales training and working closely with a Sew hundred thousand males, there ould be an occasional surrender to glandular urging. So what happens' What is really a predictable occurrence turns into a scandal, with locked an stockades and put military trial for engaging in that which ippens every Friday night in singles bars acr oss the nation: making out. We have female soldiers holding a iw k conference to say that they engaged in "cwsensual" sex. but superiors tried to u11y them into saying it was rape. If that's true, the bully ing and di storting 4 what actually happened is far worse tb-aanything that went on between the slieets, it trying to pm a fake criminal charge m vomeone. And the peple who t that should be locked up and court martialed themselves. The main concern about sex in the mil-j'a- n appears to be that some cads will use J heir higher rank to persuade lower-rank-ifemales into satisfying their lusts.. And that is bad behavior, whether it is . in the military, private industry or else. It also it a mark of pour char-.iand a lack of initiative. If a guy can't seduce a female on the up and up. lie ought t be ashamed of himself and give it up. lint it can happen. A person with mure militan rank is in a position to use intimidation or reward in exchange for wxual favors. I will be hank. If. when I was a young enlisted man. a female officer told me thai she would give me an assignment that .it it -- d two-legg- .like r noyko q j if The Chicago Tribune it 51 ed d pe-opl- n -- any-vbe- re er would exempt me from KPand guard duty and permit me to sleep late in the morning and play poker half the night if 1 would satisfy her animal desires. 1 would have Milled my pride and allowed her to use my body. Yes. I might have wept tears of shame alterward. but I would have done it. Some guv s are just weak sluts. So that is the real problem die use of the power that conies with rank. It is naive and unrealistic to expect that with thousands of healthy: timorous young people being in such close proximity, there will not be natural urges. The volution is not to outlaw vex. w hich just leads to wily scandal of the sort we have now. The answer is to change the military's sex rules. Sex should be permitted when it involves consenting people of the tame rank. That would not only help eliminate the possibility of harassment and favoritism but would be fair, and fairness is always good for morale. After all. why should a lowly male y ardbird. or whatever they are now called, have to look on in envy while some drill sergeant or a commissioned officer has his way with a shapely female private"' If a male officer wants to engage in hanky-pankbe should find a willing female officer. Stars and Stripes and other military publications could start running the Kind of classified ads dial are now common in civilian lile: "Lean and vigorous male lieutenant colonel wants to meet like minded female lieutenant colonel fur quiet forced marches, working out on obstacle courses, fireplace discussions of Alexander the Great's siege tactics and going to off base motels to really mess around. y, -- 10-mi- -- Non-smoke- rs oih" Ads overwhelming America By ANDY ROONEV While I can't bring myself to think by jhertssing should be regulated mean limited by die government or any other agency. I can't help ij linking dirre' low much advertising and wnoetbwg should be done about it. I real-r- e this isn't the subject for a column that iiill be wildly popular in the business iHces ol' newspapers across the country but even they might agree that it's unf.r-Uinainew s is vo dependent on commerce. 'Hie fad is. too. dial newspaper advertising is often interesting and easily the least inirusne because y ou skip over anything ttiat doesn't interest you. When the tKnnmercials come up on television. i eathcr have to watch and listen or switch 4 hie") I way, it's up there on the billboards in Iron! of you. They plaster it on street light poles, the sides of barns. You make a long-distanc- e phone call and AT&T wastes your time with a simple but time taking advertisement when they vay. "Thank you for using AT&T." The dealer you buy your car irom plasters his name and rxrhaps a slogan on your license plate. As il a box of cereal didn't cost enough, they cover it -- Intellectual' beef have read everai articles by Sheila aid wind up regretting il every time I do. As a former TV anchor, with experience in newspapers, wire service and radio. I must say I have never read a more biased, agendized my word reporter in my life. Someone ought t remind her. again, that she's ihH writing for the editorial page, thank heaven. Sanchez identified people critical of Richard Lloyd Anderson as intellectuals. I suggest that Sanchez wouldn't know an intellectual if one bit her in the butt. The editors of the Herald have used this label in the same way before. The implied definition is that only a critic is an intellectual, which by definition makes Anderson a mere lackey . I suggest dial the h slier vend the editor back to vchool so when he reads the word "intellectual" used in a pejorative way. as the agendied Sanchez did. he will have the brains to correct it On second diought since the Herald seems to only use the word "intellectual" as a derisive hammer against anyone who defends the LDS Church, just don't use it. Hand E. Qente Springville 1 Sanchez, Put brakes on fuel I have been keeping track of the gas mileage on my new 19 truck since I got it in January. AH summer long I averaged 15.5 to 15.7 rupg. Then the first of November. I noticed a significant drop. It went to 12.9 mpg. At first I couldn't ligure out what it was. then I realized that we had switched to oxy grnated fuel. laie-flig- ht ti com-ijterci- Late-ter- m From The Detroit Free Press with sales messages, even though you've already bought it. There's no hiding place. Advertising anxjunts to jmething like 20 percent oj'what we watch m lelevisii.in. If ifsiiels. Several years ago. a New York Times you waut a rrKftje. it's more than wrote an article abxit how many that and even the best mm le i only marginttievision viewers were zapping commer-oal- s ally worth watting because of die commerdie story. that is. using a remote control, cials that interrupt the flow There have been frequent attempts over tf iey click olf any fetation showing a I thought the new spaper repiJner die years to produce advertising-fre- e magwas vort of wnug about it and inasmuch as azines but for them to break even, their I make wme of my living from television. price has to be prohibitively high and with letter. the exception of a few academic jwrnaK I a the rule paper t "Iear Editor." I wrote, "the first thing dn"t know of one that ha lasted more I Jo Sunday morning is go to the driveway than a few years. The television networks are bemoaning to pick up my New York limes. On the it ay back through the garage. 1 put the the fad they 're losing some of their audipaper on the hood of die car and zap ence. Years ago. I began to think they were duough it discarding all die junk in my killing die goose laying those golden eggs by increasing the raiio of commercials to ft.uidy garbage container. Is this any different Irom what you describe television piogram time and that may be what's hapviewers doing?" pening now. Ironically, to make up for the Needless to ay . The Times did not run money they're losing with fewer viewers, and lose they add more commercials my letter. I accept the quid pro quo of commercial more viewers. television just as I accept newspaper ads. I On an American Airlines flight recentset a show free in my living room or a ly, they bombarded us with commercials few spaper cheap on my Iront door and the on the screen. If you wanted to watch the pntdu'rs of television vhows and editjrs movie and hear what the actors were sayof new spapers get korne of my attention ing, you had to rent headphones lor S5. but whh dieu- content, for companies whose the commercials were broadcast over die jnoducts they have made me aware of. plane's public address sy stem. Do I pay an The most intrusive kind of advertising airline a ridiculous fare to fiy me wme-plac- e so they can veil me vomething else? pitch is the guy who calls you at home to vdl vou Kwrieifiirig just as you're sitting Maybe die best thing would be a generdow n to dinner. Even hanging up on these al uprising in which even one stands up and veils. TVE HAD ENOUGH people takes lime. ADVERTISING AND I M NOT GOING V.e are faced with advertising every-wlxrTO TAKE IT ANYMORE'" we tum. If vou drive down a high What message will patrons, young and Keep gifts secret Jesus said. "Let thine alms be in secret." These words are reiterated in the Book of Mormon. Herald artiAccording to a front-pag- e cle on March 7. the foundation in charge of raising funds for the Academy Square library has decided to attract donors by promising to publish their names at various places in the library, depending on how much they contribute. To get a water fountain with your name inscribed on it. for example, will run S50.0W, old. receive when they see these donor name plaque all over the library ? What w ill this type of thing in the library teach about the community "s adherence to what they profess to believe? What doe it say about our grassroots understanding (let alone implementation) of the gift of salvation offered to us freely by our Sav ior? As a solution, rather than promoting the why doesn't publication of the foundation publish only those donors who insist that their names be known? May be these could all be put on one plaque and placed in a designated History of Fallen Civilizations section of the library ? Sterling D. Allan Fountain Green alms-givin- The principle President Bill Clinton has expressed in the debate with Congress abortion partial-birt- h over that the procedure should not be barred for women whose life or health would otherwise be jeopardized remains legitimate. For those women, however many there are. the choice should continue to rest w ith them and their doctors, not w ith the federal government. One of the participants in the debate about numbers of "partial-birth- " abortions Ron Fnzsimmons of the National now Coalition of Abortion Providers says he lied when he asserted only a few hundred of the procedures were perf ormed each year, in fact he now claims, there are 3.000 or 4.0 JO. Some of them, he adds, are Car ad misleading During the past few months there have been articles concerning the Good Samaritan woman who was putting money in parking meters to prevent the owners from receiving tickets for over parking. In the March 5 issue of The Daily Herald, an article appeared giv ing the outcome of this case. The woman was given a S500 fine. During this same time period there has been a TV commercial sponsored by Honda Motor Co. This commercial shows a police officer doing the same thing (feeding the meter) that this poor woman was fined for. This certainly sends the wrong signals to the TV v iew ing public, that it is all right for a police officer to break a law that results in a fine for a priv ate citizen. James F. S'ieben Orem performed on an elective basis in the second trimester of pregnancy . The number of such abortions was a matter of dispute zl the time of the president's veto of a congressional ban on the Commentary procedure last year. We based our support for the president not on Fitzsimmons assertions, or on any specific number, but abortions generon the fact that late-terally are relatively rare 0 percent of the total), even as they are harder to justify. Nonetheless, there can be no doubt that Fitzsimmons distorted the debate a year and a naif ago. to the extent any one relied on his numbers, and that he distorts it now. There are circumstances in which the procedure is better than letting the mother suffer irreparable damage in the name of assuring a liv e birth of a fetus know n to be seriously defective. The medical threshold for any late-terabortion should be high. But the decision should be medical, not political, and the option should be kept open in emergencies. President Clinton will not find it easy to stand his ground on this issue. Even many abortion rights advocates find the partial-birt- h procedure repugnant, and the idea that they or someone they love would ever need to use it pretty remote. The L'.S. Supreme Court has recognized that the threshold for late-terabortions should be higher than for early-terabortions. It seems a mistake, though, to start down the road of narrowing choices ' for w omen and their doctors. m m m Doonesburv HEY, CCP g, abortions should be an option L' Obscurations have continued to keep track of my mileage. During this time. I have filled my tank 17 times. Four of these times were in Salt Lake City with regular unleaded gas. Here are the results: Nine lanks were f rom 12.9 to 13.1 mpg. three tanks were 14.0 to 14.1. and the f our I got in Salt Lake City w ere from 1 5. 1 to 1 5.3 mpg. The three that averaged 94 came just after I filled up in Salt Lake. Now I'm no expert but if I get 50 more miles out of a tank of gas that hasn't been oxy genated than the ones that are. which pollutes the air less? You may argue that fewer emissions are coming out of the tailpipe, but the total emissions per mile driven have to be more. Think about it. I think it's time to scrap this plan entirely. Has anyone ever calculated the pollutants per mile? The EPA tries to tell us that the reason the mileage g.'ts down is because of the cold weather, but two of my tanks from Salt Lake were during the coldest time of the winter. 1 think my studies refute theirs. I think it's time for a change. Mike Robert ion Provo I 'HOUP jfOUUKBTOMAKE BY GARRY TRUDEAU ifgarrouTozourpUP l&S EWpeSTDFCPJMA SHOUWIKNGHTT vl BOOK! Z. I SCFXy, HM TJu ueot: nu 2 ; 1 5T CF6AMINQ HOimflYOU KNOW AW-THING ABOUT f J t - re jjlllp r |