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TTl1 Alt The Salt Lake Tribune Thursday January 17 1991 IA! t Thunder of Fearless Voices Stronger Than Blast of Bombs " fro tati4 By Coretta Scott King Special to The Washington Post "We must come to see that peace is ot merely a distant leal we seek ut the means by which we arrive at that goal We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means" 11' Those words spoken by Martin Luther King Jr on Christmas Eve in 1967 remain poignantly relevant as nation prepares for war in the persian Gulf Martin fiercely believed that the force of peaceful negotiations Is more powerful than a bomb in resolving conflicts among nations It is that same spirit that etched out the mandate of the United Nations and gave it the supreme authority as the arbitrator of world peace to( Coretta Scott King is founding president and chief executive officer of the Atlanta-base- d Martin Luther King Jr Center for Nonvit-olenSocial Change t It is regretful that the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr champion of would be designated by the UN as the launching date for a military offensive in the Gulf although followers of Dr King should oppose a military conflict on any :day It is disturbing that one day our 'government would hand the United Nations a check for $185 million in -- lel : S-e- o -' rt tor - 41109! 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At' 4 0 " : - u - 6 4i If e a rot - 41"galtiami— commu- ES full-tim- (3 IP i'l likr by a peaceful alternative to military intervention an opportunity to work This will require patience restraint and international cooperation Time spent waiting out Saddam Hussein is a much lower price than the untold numbers of lives that would be lost in a shooting war Without a shot yet fired nearly 100 young people have already died a $30 billion price tag has been assessed and tens of thousands of families are enduring hardship and disruptions As Martin once stressed "the bombs that explode on the foreign battlefield also explode at home destroying the hopes and possibilities for a decent America" Where is the peace dividend we eounled on as the Berlin Wall crumbled? Is Saddam Hussein a greater threat to our national security than the fact that 37 million Americans lack health care 20 million are malnourished 3 million are homeless 20 million are illiterate and 12 mile lion cannot find a job at a nity It e (ra:! braced ' ' ' -- 414 should able Other multinational initiatives particularly efforts by Arab leaders should be considered as an integral part of the urgent quest for peace We must give economic sanctions against Iraq which are wholly em- rt I 4 US administration - 1111111101 L I 'Iv' 411 FT :4:: - 4Itr 1 k411 t 7 The not unilaterally decide whether Iraq's offer to negotiate is accept- st ' ' Oh fZ til back dues — becoming current in payments to the world body for the first time in two decades — and then successfully push the United Nations to adopt a resolution authorizing force against Iraq as a means of settling the conflict As a former public delegate to the United Nations I viewed with pride and hope the United Nations' recent peacekeeping achievements in Afghanistan Namibia Cambodia and Nicaragua Each of those missions was framed by its own unique reality but the constant element was the role played by the United Nations as a guiding uncompromised agent of peace In this new era of East-Wecooperation the United Nations has an unprecedented opportunity to lead the world to a golden age of peace and prosperity Yet I fear that the UN position as a peace arbitrator is being undermined by the US administration's policy in the Gulf at a time when diplomacy and negotiation are desperately needed to settle the conflict The United Nations must reclaim Its responsibility to exert leadership for a peaceful settlement If the response to Iraq is to genuinely be a multinational one no nation should contribute more than 20 percent of the personnel and forces under UN command 10 'Al pmempoompunnommino- 1 -- Fienrcitassolk ILI — tunity destroyer Can we simply dismiss the tling statistics? For instance starAfrican-A- women — less than 7 percent of the population — make merican 1 AI - - The Public Forum refrains attempted to dismiss peace advocates as naive or weak But our mission remains clear That deadline on Martin's 62nd birthday reminds us that so much remains to be done to end the triple evils of poverty rad: ism and war Martin's message is appropriate: "The thunder of fearless voices will be the only sound stronger than the blasts of bombs and the clamor of war hysteria" The voices of peace and must be amplified as a moral challenge to President Bush Sad-daHussein and the world 1 non-violen- m US War Strategy to Have Large Impact On Future Relations With Arab World : New York Times Service NEW YORK — As diplomacy defaults irrevocably to the will of Sad-daHussein and George Bush the brave and frightened ready them selves to settle accounts There is a hush a reverence an emptiness as leaders bow to the inevitability of their decisions For the moment the wisdom or folly of those decisions is beyond useful analysis and argument Possibly still within reach are matters of how the war will be fought War strategy is of overriding importance because its conduct will pro foundly affect the balance of power in the Mideast and US relations with the Arab world There are always grounds for concern as political leaders and generals inescapably refight their last war and often draw the wrong lessons Almost from the day President Bush committed US forces to the Persian Gulf he pledged to avoid the mistakes of Vietnam To him and his military advisers the central strategic mistake of that war was gradualism The theory there was to apply force incrementally in order to avoid a larger war with China or the Soviet Union and to give North Vietnam an incentive to negotiate Military experts have good reasons to quarrel with that strategy But the question at hand is whether trttri) !0 3 ' is- any of its neighbors except Kuwait But without sizable ground forces Iraq would become easy prey latei 1 for Syria or Iran It is also of vital political 'nape: lance that our key allies participate visibly and officially in air attacks against Iraq itself If the Saudis the Egyptians and French for example refuse to bomb Iraq they would be leaving us and the British alone to bear subsequent Arab hostility That t is intolerable These considerations suggest a strategy with the following objectives: — Rapid destruction of Iraq's will to fight and launch attacks The key to victory lies in Baghdad not Kup wait — Conceraration on quickly det molishing Iraq's offensive military power — aircraft missiles headr quarters and stockpiles — while avoiding targets that would entail high loss of civilian life The vresent threat comes from the Iraqi regime and its striking power future threat from Arabs enraged by needless violence — Liberation of Kuwait consistent with our fundamental Interesti in minimizing American casualties Leslie Gelb 4 launch precision missiles against command centers in Baghdad It is another to strike at chemical factories where the debris could be lethal to thousands of civilians interests are to America's long-ruspare the Iraqi people and economy even if some military targets are left standing What exactly does "quick" mean? Does it mean that if Iraqi forces in Kuwait do not surrender after one or two weeks or three months for that matter that the US will launch land attacks? It is difficult to see the need in that course If supply lines between Iraq and Kuwait are as vulnerable as the Pentagon says they can be sliced day and night leaving Iraqi troops in Kuwait stranded and waiting to run out of water and ammunition The US has no strategic interest in quick victory in Kuwait if quick means high American casualties If others like Egypt and Saudi Arabia want to make a bloody land attack to free Kuwait the US should offer all available air and artillery support and nothing else The meaning of "decisive" is not either Clearly the US needs to destroy Iraq's nuclear and chemical weapons and ability to strike from the air But the US has no strategic interest in devastating Iraqi ground forces Without air power Iraq cannot easily threaten n the virtually opposite approach 11 - up 487 percent of the Army's enlisted women compared with white women who are 436 percent accord- inn to Pentagon statistics Can we silt our eyes to the reason that these grossly lopsided figures exist? Is it an unrelated statistic that shows black women and their children the largest single group of Americans living in poverty? Is it not the conditions of social and economic injustice that force African-America- n youths to seek escape in the military? Proponents of war grew more vocal over the past month as the Jan 15 deadline authorizing the use of force against Iraq drew near Their shrill living wage? Much has been said about the disproportionate deployment of African Americans estimated to be nearly 30 percent and about the war for wealth and power fought by the most denied of our society Proponents of war excuse the deployment as a just reflection of the volunteer military ignoring the reality that if war erupts it will not be an equal oppor- makes sense for warfare in the gull From the outset Bush has prom ised massive force for a quick and decisive victory He ought to look hard at exactly what that goal might mean Does massive mean for example that US bombers can attack any target in Iraq? If so the repercussions would be grave It is one thing to and maintaining credible Iraqi ground forces after the war The aim is to destroy Iraq's ability to attack its neighbors not its capacity for self-defen- — Bush not the Pentagon bureauIt will cracy is commander-in-chie- f be his responsibility to insure attention to strategic and political inteests as well as pure military requirements But however fought there should be no doubt that Saddam — first and last bears the core moral responsibility for a war self-evide- nt Tribune Readers' Opinions Don't Ignore Rape Recipe for Disaster This letter is in reference to the pile up on the north An 2 50-cand the subsequent in:end of vestigation into the cause or causes I drive that stretch of freeway ev- :ery day and it is my opinion that the fog was only a contributing factor to not the cause of the multiple acci- dents There was at least one on that same road last summer hi broad daylight and there was enough rubber left on the pavement from hard braking to blacken a good part of the road surface on a Find the cause of a rear-endclear sunny day and you may have the cause of a 50-cpile up in the ar rear-Send- er 1 log " Heavy trailer trucks even some 'triple trailer rigs enter this section Forum Rules Public Forum letters must be submitted exclusively to The Tribune and bear writer's full name signature address and telephone number Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reason on others Writers are limited to one letter of 300 words or less every 14 days Preference will be given to typewritten (double spaced) letters permitting use of the writer's true name All letters are subject to condensation Mail to the Public Forum The Salt Lake Tribune PO Box 867 Salt Lake City Utah 84110 from Redwood Road One of quarter of a mile from the end of the is the beginning of a steep "slope to carry traffic over the rail1 Soviet Utah p Some heavy road and over trucks are only able to get up to 'about 30 miles per hour by the time they get to the slope and they are barely able to maintain that speed up hill This wasn't too much of a problem until someone decided to close ' the right-han- d driving lane at the bottom of the hill forcing all uphill traffic into one lane Slow moving trucks an uphill grade and narrowing from two lanes to one are a recipe for disaster During the investigation into the ''pile up I kept reading and hearing "excessive speed and fog" That may well have been the cause of the g truck at a wreck but a in bottleneck caused a rear-endclear sunny weather at the same lo cation last summer I expect that when the investigations are all over we'll get a flashing fog sign That may help but what we really need are two traffic lanes over the top of the hill! GEORGE HAWKINS Bountiful slow-movin- Son of God Ed Allen in his letter to the Forum Jan 6 claims that Brigham Young and others taught that Jesus' birth was a result of physical sexual relations between God the Father and Mary They taught that God is the literal father of Jesus but they did not say anything about physical sexual relations Mormons are also taught that Jesus was born of a virgin and A God who is and who can create man and the universe we live in does not have to do things in the same way that man does It was not necessary for Him to have physical sexual relations with Mary in order to cause her to coneeive His Son The Bible tells us that Jesus is the Son of God so it is the "Christian" God that is not the same as the God of the Bible LAVEE PIERCE West Valley City ' 1 i cannot agree more with the Dec editorial in its conclusion that Gary DeLand or the legislators who condoned his mismanagement of the Utah Department of Corrections owed the people of Utah an apology However I would take exception to the editorial comment that he "can be justifiably proud of" the legislative auditors' finding that the state prisons are generally secure orderly and safe Since Mr DeLand as a public employee is already paid to securely keep prison inmates behind bars he does not deserve any extra recognition or praise Common sense and sound organizational principles dictate that Mr De Land ran only be proud of arcomplishments above and beyond the basic missions of the Utah Department of Corrections I 13 Tribune which are defending Mr they are demoralizing the legislative auditors who are already unBy publicly De-La- der pressure to fulfill their legitimate role of watching over a Republican administration while trying to avoid invoking the displeasure of their Republican bosses who form the majority Qf the Legislature In addition McMullin and Moody have also prostituted their role in a legislative committee designed to oversee the executive branch of government While the Soviet Union is moving toward a multiparty system it appears that Utah is regressively allowing one party the Republicans to unhealthily dominate politics Perhaps very soon this state can rename itself "Soviet Utah" PAUL PATTISON Salt Lake City ''1"'S 0 s D voted for Paul Van Dam and I am sorry I find it rather outrageous that he has hired a "spokesperson" for his office at an annual salary of I $34000 The obvious purpose of this spokesperson is to promote his office and himself politically Perhaps he is afraid to allow the actions of his office to speak alone or perhaps he just wanted a little more "spin control" as the politicians say I find this particularly offensive in view of the fact that in times of a budget crunch he pays a rather inexperienced person more than a starting attorney in his office Isn't this the same man who wants more budget money for more attorneys? The fact that Mr Van Dam spends 82 days at meetings also raises a question He is not a tenured professor or teacher gaining experience he is an allegedly experienced attorney who is subjected to the will of the voters If as I expect Mr Van Dam is voted out of office in the next election the voters have paid for nothing except the absence of the gentleman from his office for 82 days GERALD L POWELL Salt Lake City out-of-sta- te 0 0 0 : : 1 21()F11117111(116 11 0 $25 off compact Pro Performer Series III from JBL: ProPerformer or-Pr- I - Azspvil7ria-1goP11 - i- c- - -t - ' fr:'"""-- o 7 : 071 !: 'y A4 s: Ao -- ! 27"::2!"4g4INIM"MN - r ' !: ' "' - ' 4 ' t - M SatelliteSubwoofer System Will Save You $230- - This and Out-Perfo- rm You Get M e ra — Them Tool ' ::11"1: e'i ' st: ! '4 ( i ffr7iticis: :: rt)1 t V 2: 7::"' I: : ' f 0 95 PR $9 COO " $37195 $500 Over The Competition il t ' f 1' : s : : - ii NV ' ( c Spin Control non-existe- In addition since both Sen Dix McMullin and House Speaker Craig Moody are Republican I am not surprised that they have condoned Mr De Land's allowing of his key aides to both waste taxpayers money and endanger public safety by hiring and promoting relatives who do not have the necessary credentials to meet their respective job requirements as employees in that public safety agen- t" I have never been raped nor do I think that I am overly sensitive to the issue However I am appalled by the lack of coverage this newspaper gives to rapes On numerous occasions I have noticed that rape stories get buried on the inside pages of the local section The Dec 5 story warning families about a series of rapes was no exception Not only was the article on page 2 of the local section it was also lacking in specific information (such as where the rapes where being committed and how many were included in the series) Obviously this series of rapes has to be significant for the police to issue a warning to the area It's only too bad that The Tribune did not find it important enough to place the story where most people would actually see it and be able to act accordingly Having lived many places before Salt Lake I can assure you that rape stories were headlines on the front page of the newspaper! It is shocking how complacent the local population is to these media omissions cover-up- s and gloss-over- s The people of Salt Lake have a right to know that violent crimes can and do happen here Living under a false sense of security only helps to perpetuate these violent crimes not to solve them Natives ask me how it is to move here from the "big bad East" where this violence is supposedly a way of life Salt Lake City is not really any different from those cities it just prefers to keep its head buried in the sand and ignore real problems In this case ignorance is not bliss — it's dangerous SUSAN MULDOON Salt Lake City 1147N1-1m"b- I 95 $9 ta 0 " Professional monitor PL 'rims Quality in the Most Versatile Package COO — 10 12" Only High With A Full Range Sea g U 9 PL Odives 12 Spanning Everl$9 " the Same Titanim Transducers Same 95 Rich Bass Same Studio Monitor Sound As The Pros Same Way People Who Make Music For A Living Have Been Making It Mixing It and Mastering It Since Day One The Only Thing You Don't Get Is Forever Good Until January alst Then This Deal Is History OREM 40 E 1300 S Ph 22743800 1111 I cmatorbe Preferred Customer CREDIT CARD IJust Add It To Your Willey Account C:ZIE ItSUBMC9 MOMELFURNISAIING SYRACUSE 1693 W 2700 S Ph 774-23- MURRAY 861 F 6600 S Ph 2614300 KEARNSWEST VALLEY 4739S4-Z- 3 h -- 4Z 967-4- I 1 Pftt04M9114PM”M140100r ftyeW4danft0‘40b0ewmwgM14Na |
