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Show The Satt Lake Tribune OpINI ME ROLLY REPORT, AAS READER ADVOCATE, AA2 @ PUBLIC FORUM, AA2 AA MAY30. 1999 OUR VIEW TheSalt Lake Tribune’s Editorial Position Privacy Rights Paramount If the law on media “ride-alongs” with police was not “clearly estab- lished” before, it certainly is now: The Supreme Court hasruled that reporters and cameramencannot accompany law enforcementofficials inside a private residence ona raid. Normally, any First Amendment infringement is troubling, but in this instance an individual's Fourth Amendment rights deserve preference, as the justices properly ruled. Writing for the court in its unanimousdecision last Monday, Chief Justice William Rehnquist quoted from an English court four centuries ago that “the houseof every oneis to him as his tle andfortress . . .” That is the ba- of the Fourth Amendment's“right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,” a freedom that outweighs the police and media considerations in this matter thatis, ely voyeuristic interest in documentingpoliceraids. The court agreed that the Fourth Amendment rights of two couples in arate but similar cases were violated, because law enforcementofficials, armedwith warrants to search the couples’ private property, brought along news media to documenttheir raid activities (The Washington Post in a 1992 third parties whose presence was not “related to the object ‘ives ofthe authorized intrusion,” as the media presence clearly wasn’t. Media memberscanstill go on ride-alongs withpolice; they just have to stop at the front doorif the police enter a private home. Newsorganizations understand that principle. For instance, whentheystake out the homes of newsmakers, seeking a commentor a sighting, they campoutside, knowingtheycan’t enter the home uninvited. A law officer's invitation doesn’t alter the homeowner's rights. It was instructive that law enforce- ment officials argued that media ac- companimentprovided a re police behavior.If police real outside parties to monitor their behavior on raids, why not ask civilian po- lice overseer? Well, the sheriff in the Marylandcase unwittingly gave the an- swer: “We would neverlet a civilian into the home. . . That's just not allowed.” Justice John Paul Stevens used that testimony to contend that the lawmen involved should have knownnotto take the media into private residences on raids. On that, though, hestoodalone: res justices granted the law men immunity on the flimsy grounds Maryland case and CNN in a 1993 Mon- that the law hadnot been “clearlyestablished”at the time. Without judging the media’s culpa- homeis his or hercastle, to be invaded these cases had no right to bring along only by those on a warranted search, not by television cameramen. tana case) If it wasn't then, it is now: A person’s bility, the court said the lawmen in One tough assignment for the par- read before and use dialogue, transi tions and othersimple grammarin their writing. Win second grade, children should be talking about bookswiththeir peers and teachers on a daily basis. They shouldtalk about themes in writing and comparedifferent authors. In their own writing, they should be able to intro- duce characters and use details about at the Universityof Pittsburgh and the National Center on Education and the settings and motives. @ Children inthe third grade should Economy should help parents and teachers find the norm. Almost two dozen reading experts figurative language, suchas similes and WChildren in kindergarten should metaphors. They should be writing short stories, songs and poetry. The terrible fact about literacy in prepared the standards, base‘ search onearly reading instruction: be able to nametheletters, heardifferent sounds in words and use those sounds to read simple words. In addi tion, they shouldbe abletoretell stories they have heardand shouldbe able to LONDON An American who finds himself far from home as Memorial Day United States and Europe, menuntested personally in battle, are coping with the cussing the plots and settings of books and shouldgrasp the meaning of this countryis that the young learnthe quickest andthe best. If children do not master the basics of language by the time they are in the third grade, then they continue to havedifficulty with flect on and celebrate their commonap: proachto the challenges of this new e1 They all it the Third Way, denoting theory of politics, economics and govern: ment theywouldliketo think is going to be dominantin the next century. As leaders of center-left parties, they said they were committed to a morein clusive and generous socia y the conservatives they had defe insisted they had learned the folly of the doctrinaire leftist economicsthe previous generationof their ownparties had practiced. They want to beseen as thoroughly modernmen, accepting the realities of the brings. But at the moment theygathered under spawned President Clinton's candidacy and has nurtured his administration, all of them were acutely conscious that Kos: ovo has become their war, as much as tion marks andquotations they teach. The fact that tne standards commas, periods, ques to under. and what they read. They should be ableto read simple stories they have not progressoftheir ownchildrenandthose are written in language most parents can understandis a bonus Year-Round Schooling It is a misfortunethat economics was the prime mover behind Utah's foray into year-roundschooling in the1980s. Because of this, there has been aten dencyto see the experiment as a nettle. some necessity, but only a temporary one,to deal with crowding. ‘Thus, it comes as no surprisethat a group of parents ofchildren enrolled in Sandy's Sunrise Elementary School These are valid concerns, but there are academic advantages to year-round schooling that too many Utahns are oblivious to. This largely is because the concept’s initial popularity and imple: mentation was due to the need tofit more students into existing buildings, sincetheschool-agepopulation wasris ing faster than revenues to pay for schooling under protection of an int rnational mil- y force, Blair vowed. p will not ne gotiate on these aims. Milosevic must ac: cept them.” The speech was applauded on both sides of the Atlantic asa clarioncallto the NATO allies. But in the five weeks since verelytested. One of them, Wim Kok, the prime minister of the Netherlands, has been standards punctuation force Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic to endhis brutal campaign ofethnic cleansing against the Kosovo Albanians just war”andthat “thereis noalternative to continuinguntil we succeed.” Citing NATO's demands for a with: drawalofall Serb forces from Kosovo and the returnof the refugees to their homes wrenching changes a world economy should make judgments byparents and teachers much easier as theyassess the Being aware of these cameoverhere, THE WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP then, the unity and the durability of the pictures. WChildreninfirst grade should use strung together with Washington's chief promoter of Third Way government fold mejust before I informationage, but determined to cushion vulnerable families against the the auspices of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), the organizationthat ribblesorletters and threaten Belgrade with invasion un: less Milosevic accepts NATO's terms. Al From, thepresident of the DLC and are now, five of them thepresident of the United States andthe primeministers of Great Britain, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands gathered on a Sunday afternoonat the end of the NATO 50than. niversary summit in Washington tore- World War Il and the Cold War been for their predecessors. Threedays earlier, on April 22, British Prime Minister Tony Blair had declared in Chicago that the NATO campaign to five “Third leaders has beense- forcedto step down, because of domestic policy splits in his governing coalition. Another, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder,hasseenhiscoalitionpartner, the GreenParty, so loudlydissent on Kosovo that Schroeder hassaid his country would oppose any NA'TOeffort to deploy groundforces. And Italian Prime Minister simo D’Alema, who faces even stronger domestic opposition, has pressed for a NATO bombing halt and a BY ROBERT McFARLANE it, we must not lose. The stakes are too SPECIAL TO THE LOS ANGELES TIMES high. Our ability, now and in the years ahead, to deter challengers and to pro- American goals in the Kosovo crisis, as defined by President Clinton to secure the withdrawal of Serbforces, the return mote and defend our national intere from the Persian Gulf to North Korea rests largely on our being perceived as of Kosovo Albanians to their homes with an outside security force to protect them Salt Lake City Schools Su perintendent John Bennion promoted are praiseworthy andachievable, To do so will requiretheuseof groundforces r-round schoolingfor academic rea: thetraditional nine-monthschool year sons, but he wastheexception. from two to five divisions depending upon security alliances, that our allies have confidence that siding with us will put them on the winning side. case before the Jordan Boardof Educa There are sound academic re for a year-round scheme. The shorter of maneuver, No serious military author: ity questions that judgment However, 60 days into our conduct of this war using air power alone, those who is competent to defineour interests previously learned material and the of all necessary means from the start quit theschool’s 1 yearsof operating on year-roundcalendarsoit can return to Theparents recently argued their tion, Many of their points arelegiti mate. Year-round schooling has forced parents to juggle family life around dif ferent school schedules, and it has caused children to miss out on some traditional, structured, summer activi ties like camps and vacations. In addition, some children may end up be ing home alone during year-round schooling’s short breaks, when both parents work and oldersiblings are at tendingtraditional schools. Former learning brea’s associated with year roundo.iivoling reducetheneed for an nual remediation, the brief reviews of time needed to get youngsters back up to academicspeed Had the year-round concept been promoted as much for academicreasons as it was for getting more students into existing buildings, parental support or willingness to endure its inconve niences perhaps would be greater today The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH’S INDEPENDE! 'T VOICE SINCE 1871 ST PUBLISHERS John F. Fitzpatrick (1924-1960) John W, Gallivan (1960-1983) Jerry O'Brien (1983-1994) the character of the force andits scheme ame serious experts who urgedthe use Winning, however, requires leader ship at the top a commander inchief in terms intelligible to the American people, define threats to those interests are beginning to question whether we persuasively, forge a sound politico military strategy that spares no available resources and prosecute that strategy thoughts derive from the woeful inepti with unwavering determination to a successful conclusion regardless of doubt should go ahead to do so. Their second tude the Clinton administration has shown in its conduct of the war thus fa and the fear that if that pattern continues we will not accomplish our purposes but instead suffer a humiliating defeat at great cost in lives, treasure and interna tional standing. These critics reach this conclusion with heavy hearts and a sense that the impending defeat before us represents the beginning of the demise of American power and leadership in the world. But PUBLISHER Dominic Welch they are beginning to fear that a decision to use ground forces, and then to subject them to the constant and inept interfer ence of a commander in chief driven by EDITOR James E. Shelledy lead to an even worse loss and lasting embarrassment. Let me back up to KEARNS-TRIBUNE CORPORATION, 143 8. MAIN ST. SALT LAKE CITY, MUI ib tei is terribly important ionof[Viet the respon completing a wartime mission anatheybetter not fail.” From’s publi cation, The New Democrat, takes a Blair. like tone in aneditorial in its current is sue, twice saying that Clinton and NATO. mustachievetheir goals in Kosovo, even if “it means risking and accepting casualties. Clinton shrinks from that risk scious that Vietnam and Somalia countrywith a “body bag syndrom could cone back to haunt his hoped-for , Vice President Gore, in the Blairfaces nosuch problemin Britain, wherepublic opinion and all parties are stronglyin supportof the war. The threat to himlies in a negotiatedsettlementthat falls far short of NATO's goals making his rhetoric seem empty But the challenge extends toall the “Third Way” leaders. None of them has yet demonstrated that the consci cautiouspolicies heis pursuing at home can accomplish the ambitiousgoalsofa celerating economic growth and assuring social justice. In Kosovo, they have re vised NATO's historic rationale as a de fensive alliance and launched a limited war onein whichthe military means may not be adequate to achieve the bold humanitarian and political ends. Kosovo has becomethestandard by which their leadershipwill be judged Clinton Lacks the Right Stuff to Win This War competent to wage and winany conflict weface. Similarly, it is important, if we hope to lead and benefit fromcollective have askedthe JordanSchoolDistrict to negotiated settlement with Milosevic. Meantime, Blair is depicted daily in the British press as the stout-hearted Churchillian leader who is pressing re luctant ( linton to screw up his courage how a new generation ofleaders in the reading and writing, the two basics of learning just about anything. write beginning stories and poems, evenif the compositions are madeup of. DAVID BRODER 1999 approaches cannot help butreflect challengeof war. Five weeks ago, when the Kosovo hostilities were less than half as old as they Reading Guideposts ents of elementary-school children is figuring out if they are learning what they should be learning at each grade level. Teachers in grades kindergarten through third often find themselves baffled bya lack of clear-cut standards onwhat theyshould be teaching. But at least in the area ofliteracy, new standards developed by the Learning Research and Development Center Untested Leaders Cope With Challenge of War domestic political considerations, could ting aside whether we ought ever to have become involved, now that we are in orcriticism Under any outcome in this crisis, we are probably going to suffer enormous damage to important American interests First and foremost, allies who by defini tion look to us for leadership may hedge their bets by mending ties with Russia and China, Their support and votes in in ternational bodies may become less reli able andtheircriticism guarded. A worse outcome, how would be to lose and withdraw in humiliation, Or so | have always believed. But | am be ginning to fear that there is a worse out come: to launch into a ground war and then fail. I have little doubt that left to do its job, our military could take back Kos. ovo, provide a safe haven into which the Kosovo Albanians could return and pro tect it until an acceptable regime of au tonomy is functioning. Unfortunately however, from what wehave seen in the more than two months of this war, it seems clear that the military will not be left to do its job. Instead, with a wet finger in the wind driving policy, forces once committedwill be vulnerable to the dey astating effect of bombing moratoriums. negotiating “pauses” or paralyzing refer rals to the U.N. or to NATO, with its painstaking 19-nation decision-making process Once maior ground forces are commit ted, body bags will start coming home in significant numbers. And, with the presi dent continuing to interfere based upon domestic political considerations even while unable and unwilling to make the case for doing what it takes to win, we will end up watching the White House spin the failure of Russian diplomacy” or Serbian fanaticism” into an excuse for withdrawing after a humiliating failure Regretfully, | believe that we could with draw nowat less cost Somewill say that such is life in the multicultural world. Nonsense. Leader ship and winning create their own constituency As one who came away from the Viet nam War with at least the expectation that we now knew what not to do, itis as tonishingto see this return to feckless in crementalism, the absence of coherent policy and a void of political leadership. Maybe you had to be there. We're in a war Mr. President. Thisis important. Let's get on with it Robert McFarlane is a retired Marine lieutenant colonel and served as President Reagan's national security adviser from 1989-85. |
