| Show T ij "vorijj-- “nmr“"i— mrn g'—n"1 18A Thursday May 6 1 fraifwqfj Opinion 999 Standard-Examin- - Standard-Examine- r SERVING THE TOP OF UTAH SINCE 1888 Scott Trundle Publisher Don Porter Editorial Page Editor Ron Thornburg Managing Editor OUR VIEW Punish students who threaten their peers Fellow students and adults are recognizing the potential for harm when troubled children warn of violence nothing else comes as a of the massacre at High School in Littleton Colo it would be progress to have parents teachers and students getting more serious about threats of violence Just last week a female student at Wahlquist Junior High School was arrested for allegedly saying she planned to shoot fellow students In Lay-to- n only days before police materials found bomb-makin- g Central Davis in a Junior High student’s bedroom there apparently was no plan to make and plant a bomb at the school but parents were understandably con- If cerned Maybe students finally understand: This is what should happen when they hear their peers make threats We’ve seen the tragic results when too many people looked the other way as youngsters were obviously out of bounds - students are dead and everyone’s left scratching their heads How did this happen? Why did this happen? It is much better to remove student that threat-makin- g from school get them professional help and analyze the potential for real violence than to ignore the problem and hope nothing happens As some have observed in the wake of the Columbine rampage people are not allowed to even joke about carrying bombs or firearms into airport secure areas or onto airplanes Should schools be different? Perhaps not it It is important though that Americans of all ages have be- “Madonna” Formulate the question gun to recognize the importance of reacting swiftly to threats at schools - it sends a clear message to would-b- e terrorists that their tactics of intimidation will not be tolerated Our children have a right to feel secure at school and those who would violate such safe havens must suffer the consequences Mallory Irvine still are the great climbers The discovery of George Mallory’s body atop Mount Everest is cause for reflection on his enormous achievement When might prove the two Englishmen did indeed make the summit It’s possible that in the end the expedition will not be able to solve the mystery to everyone’s satisfaction And even if it is found that Mallory and Irvine reached the summit it should not take away from Hillary’s and Norgay’s achievement after all they lived to tell the tale But the expedition would be valuable if it only shed light on two men who braved Ever- est without benefit of Gore-Te- x clothing and high-tec- h equipment Even today climbing Everest is a tremendous death-defyin- g challenge One can only imagine the hardship Mallory and Irvine endured 75 years ago in their w oolen coats and trousers - Tacoma News Tribune NATO and Milosevic Goal must be expulsion of Serb forces from Kosovo repatriation of refugees and creation of a NATO protectorate the outcome war to stop ethnic cleansing NATO has now' committed itself so deeply that it is in reality fighting to save its own credibility If the war is now lost or brought to an end with a shoddy compro Whatever US bungling will let Milosevic get away Still Clinton a victory may likely call for NATO WASHINGTON - The answer is The question is: What is the name of the discotheque located in Slobodan Milosevic’s hometown of Pozarevac and owned by Milosevic’s son Marko that NATO might bomb as a “signal” of seriousness? Last week after NATO bombed Pozarevac The Washington Post reported: “NATO military sources said the attack on Pozarevac was designed to send a chilling signal to the inner circle of the Yugoslav leadership which includes several members of Milosevic’s extended ‘We are going to draw the family noose around them until it starts to hurt’ said a senior US policy-mak‘When people like Marko start to feel the pain of this air campaign then Milosevic might wake up and come to his senses’ ” Milosevic is frightening So is the thinking of that “senior US policy-maker- ” er ANOTHER VIEW George Mallory asked why he to climb Mount Everest he replied in words that are famous still: “Because it is there” Everest is still there and so is Mallory He and climbing partner Andrew Irvine vanished on the peak in 1924 their bodies never found Now two Ashford men Eric Simonson and Dave Hahn are part of an expedition that may solve one of the great mysteries of mountain climbing: Did Mallory' and Irvine reach the summit before they died 29 years before Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay? On Saturday Hahn apparently found Mallory’s body 2000 feet from the summit The expedition led by Simonson is continuing to search for Irvine in hopes of finding a camera - and photos that COLUMNS mise that cedes Milosevic “cleansed” territory in a partitioned Kosovo it will do great injury to the Western security system and leave a dangerous power vacuum in the world - The Daily Telegraph (London) VN S Nowadays no diplomatic farce is complete without a cameo appearance by Jesse Jackson Media raptures about his brokering of the release of the three US soldiers has underscored for Milosevic America’s aversion to even the mildest costs of combat But then surely Milosevic noticed when President Clinton visited with the family of one of the captured soldiers A nation serious about military objectives would not advertise its distress about three prisoners “I think” says Yale’s Donald Kagan author of “On the Origins of War” A dent w hen Saigon fell But when there is no penalty for failure failures proliferate - like these senior administration officials who are saying these astonishing things about the debacle they have produced Unless the emptying of Kosovo becomes the first Balkan diaspora to be reversed what Clinton will try to sell as a NATO success will be Milosevic’s success in radically and permanently altering the demographics of that province Even if the Kosovars had homes to return to they know that sooner or later -y ears perhaps decades hence - whatever compromise “peacekeeping” force is cobbled together to make Kosovo safe will leave Serbia will still be what and w here it is - fierce and next door Kosovars know that a synonym for “safe area” is Sebrenica NATO's minuet of capitulation has begun accompanied by the US media’s celebration of Jesse Jackson's “success” How likely is it that Milosevic Jackson's partner in prayer is going to be deposed and put on trial? It is deeply demoralizing and perhaps for civilized people even to watch justice traduced In recent years Americans have been mesmerized by the extremely public spectacles of OJ Simpson essentially getting awray with murder and Bill Clinton essentially getting away with perjury' and obstruction of justice Now Milosevic may be getting away w ith war crimes on a scale not seen in Europe since the Third Reich collapsed 54 years ago this week George II 111 is a regular panelist on ABC's “This Week" His column appears on Thursdays and Sundays idea: Kerrey McCain not-so-mol- dy Abe’s lesson: Draw strength and candidates from both sides WASHINGTON - The savvy veteran strategist of the Grand Old Party is asked a softball question about his party’s famous father - and he is puzzled by only one thing: It seems too easy So it must be some kind of trick That’s the only part he got right Question: President Abraham Lincoln elected as a Republican ran for in 1864 as the head of what party ticket? Answ er Lincoln ran under the banner of a new National Unity Party that w as formed to bind up the nation’s wounds And to lead by example with malice toward none and chanty for all America’s most famous Republican picked as his vice presidential running mate a southern Democrat Andrew Johnson of Tennessee We are never too old nor too modem to learn from our fathers And yet the wisdom of the father of the Republican Party has clearly been lost on his progeny - especially those in Congress who have been given the run of the House Even today’s grand old men of the Grand Old Party were stunned and shamed by what the Republican Young Turks who run the House did a week 8 These House Republicans convinced their colleagues into refusing (by a 2 2 J tie vote) to support the air war that is being fought courageously and carefully by the US military and NATO forces m Kosovo You got to know these Young Turk House Republicans just months ago when they zealously rammed through the House the impeachment of President 1 3-- speaking of the United States today “you have to go all the way back nearly 2000 years to the Roman Empire to comfind a single power so all neither but True to others” pared nececonomic nor military essarily translates into effective power absent a certain hardness that could be called Roman Clinton says the bombing may continue into the summer It probably will not for two reasons First before Milosevic is toppled by his supposedly disgruntled military (NATO's hope du jour) NATO’s determination to continue punishing Serbia may be sapped by television pictures of the wretchedness NATO is trying to produce in Serbia as when the power goes off in pediatric and geriatric hospital wards Second Clinton surely shares the high estimate of himself that “a senior administration official” recently expressed to The New York Times The official explained that Clinton although he has ruled out compromise with Milosevic will be able to compromise: “Once Clinton decides that’s what he's going to do he'll sell it If Nixon could sell the fah of Saigon as peace with honor Clinton can sell this” More farce: Gerald Ford w as presi 1 V S William Jefferson Ginton House Republican Whip Thomas DeLay who makes no attempt to conceal his hatred of President Ginton is one of their leaders They hate everything about Ginton and seem bent on making this his war Which although they are at pains to deny it may explain why these longtime hawks oppose even this united NATO fight against the most vile and violent ethnic extermination ethnic rape and ethnic relocation seen in Europe since Adolf Hitler Ask yourself: Would these hawkish House Republicans have voted and jawboned against an air war over Kosovo if it had been the policy of say a President Dole (Bob or Elizabeth) or a President Bush (GHW orGW)? Now it has spread across the dome and into the Senate Republican leader Trent Lott is colsounding like his Ginton-hatin- g leagues in the House Oppose the president (no matter what) avoid responsibility (no matter what) Fortunately some truly courageous and patriotic Republicans have stepped up to display true courage under these most difficult conditions Sen John McCain of Ancona and Sen Richard Lugar of Ind ana are among those who base taken the lead m the face of opposition from within the GOP They have urged the Congress and the nation to combat the ethnic extermination and atrocities in Yugoslavia by supporting the president We are just beginning to be able to measure the full depth and breadth of the bitterness that remains from the battle to impeach convict and remove Clinton from office We are left w ith many bitter politicians who seem bent on governing with malice toward one no charity at all Take time to consider a bold proposal that is both very new and 35 years old America would be wise to relearn the lesson of Lincoln Once again the nation is in need of a National Unity ticket Consider this National Unity Party ticket for the presidential race in the year 2000: Sen John McCain the Republican from Arizona (who is running for the GOP nomination) And Sen Bob Kerrey the Democrat from Nebraska (who once ran and should again) Two heroes from the Vietnam w ar Two sensibly centrist politicians w ho have considerable appeal to the right and left wings of their parties Run them in cither order McCain-Kerre- y Or Kcrrcy-McCai- n Their National Unity administration would do so much for America It would instantly heal the bitter wounds of the Ginton era the years of impeachment scandal and distrust It would unite the natton and in time even Washington real probbehind real solutions to lems - from warfare to welfare to health care to Social Security It is perhaps an idea too good for its time Martin Si hram houses on the intersection of the no r rtedut polurv an J poltus Ha column runs occasuna'’y 1 or ’ t jUpjfc I f |
