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Show T T I I "i m" O' "IP ' I T t i I I T F V H y T V' W f w 'V Keagan races A(W!,1R, Salvador Rescue Test By the phrase v4 use. Well. I don't have to hand it to anyone whos a poor sport, and I don't plan to hand it to John McEnroe. I never handed it to him when he won and I'm not rude young jerk going to hand him anything for disgracing named John McEnhis county in Argentina by losing his last roe. McEnroe was match in three unsportsmanlike sets. part of our three-ma-n Arthur Ashe Is the Davis Cup team. captain of our Davis Cup team and hes one of the true Not only did McEnroe continue with his ,, gentlemen of sports. If there were a Hall of Fame of good sportsmen, he'd be a charter outstanding display member. of poor sportsman- r I have a little note I'd like to ship while he Was get delivered to Arthur when he returns from there representing America, but he alArgentina: Mr- - Koone most Dear Arthur: lost the first round for us and eliminated the I admire you a great deal, both as a tenUnited States from the competition. nis champion and as a human being. You're One thing a poor sportsman can t do if my idea of a sports hero, but there's somehe's a public figure is lose. There have been thing I want to tell you since you're captain dirty, unsportsmanlike football players, box- of the U.S. Davis Cup team. ers and lots of baseball people as ignorant of I don l want John McEnroe representing sportsmanship as Yankee manager Billy me anywhere, anytime in the future. Let him Martin, but the public usually excuses their go around the world making money and callbehavior when they win. ing himself an American, but please don't Listen, you got to hand it to the guy" is give him any official status again Anieri- - it was said America's paralysis post-Vietna- i A W W fV'V W me mii Lake Inhune Chicago Tribune Whether, you know it or not, you were represented in Argentina last weekend by a PJB Enterprises WASHINGTON With the election of . Ronald , Reagan in over. w mursii.n, March in him ai Rotten Sports Reflect on All Americans Patrick J. Buchanan 1980, f w was president g who had derided America's Vietnam conflict as a manifestation of moral poverty was replaced-ba candidate with the courage to call that war effort a "noble cause." With Mr. Reagan in charge, the United States eager once again, we were told, to history's assigned role of leader oi the West in the protracted conflict with the West's greatest enemy, the Soviet Empire. That proposition will be put to the test in El Salvador. After two years of bloody stalemate, the , military situation in that small Central American country of five million can fairly be said to be critical, and deteriorating. The communist guerrillas, armed out of Cuba via Nicaragua, have established themselves on , the volcanoes and in the hills and recruited some 6,000 to 7,000 men, ruling out a military victory by a Salvadorean army of 22,000. The old 10 to 1, ratio, considered necessary to eradicate any and entrenched communist guerrilla movement, cannot be achieved without a vast recruitment drive by the government of El Salvador, and a buildup of weapons and material by the United States far beyond the piddling $60 million Mr. Reagan is requesting. With the routine destruction of bridges, power ljnes, buses, the guerrillas have demonstrated they can consume the country's economic surplus faster than the Americans can replace it, and destroy the nations economic infrastructure faster than the government can rebuild it. Daniel Ortega, the Sandinista junta leader in Managua, pdt it succinctly last week to Marylands Congressman Long. El Salvador is lost, he said. You Americans have two choices: Get out or invade." Which pretty well sums it up. Either Mr. Reagan requests and receives a significant increase in Americas military assistance or we begin prepa-- . and U.S. involvement rations to write it off, and with it Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica and eventually Panand elected regime ama. If a in San Salvador is allowed to fall to a Castro-it- e revolution, four years after Nicaragua, few serious men think Central America can be spared the same fate. The White House desperately wants to avoid comparisons with Vietnam, and desperately wishes the cup would pass away. After all, the economic news is good, why bring (ital) this (end ital) up? But El Salvador will not go away. Central America is the soft underbelly of the United States, a good deal closer and more critical to the security of the United States than was South Vietnam, 10,000 miles away. Yet, where America, 15 years ago, was willing to invest $30 billion a year and 500,000 troops to prevent a communist victory in Southeast Asia, today, in El Salvador the Congress is squealing over the presence of 37 American advisers, some of whom have ac6 tually been photographed carrying rifles. The question that will be answered in El Salvador is whether the United States remains the credible, capable leader of the West thht it was between 1945 and 1974. Whether the United States has recovered from the Vietnam syndrome, or whether we have suffered a fatal relapse. We jiave 6,000 troops in distant West Berlin, thousands of Marines in Lebanon, 30.000 troops in South Korea, 100,000 being trained for the Rapid Deployment Force to engage in Soviets on the Persian Gulf, 300,000 assigned to Nato. How credible is all this force if the United States proves militarily incapable of blocking a few thousand guerrillas from establishing half a dozen Cubas on the doorstep of the United States? Is the question of whether or not radical Arabs take control of Bahrain of more consequence to our future than whether or not communists take control from the Panama Canal to the Mexican border? If El Salvador goes, and with it Central America, the Soviet bases will not be on the Tonkin Gulf but on the Caribbean and Pacific coasts, covering the Panama Canal. Instead of boat people pouring across the South China Sea, refugees will be coming up the Pan American Highway by the hundreds of thousands, headed for the United States. To prevent a communist military victory in El Salvador, there needs be a communist military defeat. Which will require air and naval interdiction of the guerrilla's supply routes from Nicaragua, American advisers training an enlarged and better equipped Salvadorean army, and U.S. air strikes taking the war to the enemy on the volcanoes the way the enemy has taken the war to the towns and villages. And probably American dead. Mr. Reagan has a choice. Recommend to Congress the necessary military buildup which will bring a firestorm from the Left the media, clergy, academics, politicians, demonstrators opposed to nothing so much as American military force resisting communist revolution. Or quietly accept the collapse in El Salprobability of a near-terthe 100,000 men of the vador, and RDF as a permanent garrison along the Rio ' . Grande. , (Copyright) single-handedl- cans have a hard enough time being liked as it is. You must know some real nice young tennis players that you'd be proud to have on our team and who wouldn't have lost any worse to Guillermo Vilas and Josc-LuClerc than McEnroe did is Next time you put u team together, get some of those nice young guys who play decent tennis who won't embarrass us in the eyes of the world. Just don't take John McEnroe. By the way, Arthur, that goes for Jimmy Connors, too Sincerely, game too, losing America friends at every whistle. Unsportsmanlike conduct was never as widespread as it is today, and I think the coaches are at least partly responsible. They are pressured into it by the fathers. winmng-is-everylhin- winning-is-everythin- Winning in a game simply is not everyI love the moment in tennis when a good loser goes to the net and shakes hands with a good winner. He didn't want to lose but it was a game. It was fun and it's over. I like to see a lineman w ho has just knocked a running back on his tail with a vicious tackle reach out his hand and give him a lift to his feet. Not all coaches like that, but I like it. I like any display of friend- thing. d d Andy Rooney y In addition to McEnroe. America has another great unsportsman about to icprcsent us in the Olympics. Bobby Knight, coach of the University of Indiana basketball team, has been chosen coach of the 1984 U.S. Olympics basketball team. It was Knight who in 1979 behaved so badly at the lan American Games in Puerto Rico that he was arrested by local authorities. You can bet that he'll make an idiot of himself up and down the sidelines during every Olympic basketball liness between sports opponents. When I read over the weekend that John McEnroe had been badly beaten in Davis Cup play by two Argentinians. I was delighted. They say he cried w hen he lost, hut tears are unrelated to sportsmanship. I was for Britain in the Falklands War hut now against McEnroe I'm for Argentina ilopyrightl The Public F orum Tribune Readers Opinions army-to-insurge- well-arme- .. - Curbing Exclusionary Rule Wont Help Stop Crime New York Times Service Not long after President Reagan's Task Force on Violent Crime recommended in 1981 that Congress legislate How can a boy noted for his accurate throwing arm on the baseball field miss your porch so badly with a newspaper. h ed ' s good-fait- exception" to excluthe sionary rule, a Task Force member told me privately that the rule did not really prevent many criminals from going to jail. But, he said, peo-pi- e Mr. Wicker thought it did. In his view, something therefore had to be done about the exclusionary rule, so that people would believe something was being done about crime. The rule, promulgated for federal criminal prosecutions in 1914 and extended to state courts in 1961, provides that evidence seized in violation of Fourth Amendment prohibitions against unreasonable and improperly warranted searches and seizures is inadmissible in criminal trials. As fear of crime has become epidemic in America, the myth has spread that streams of criminals are going free because the exclusionary rule prevents the evidence against them from being used in court. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has responded with an exception to the rule, providing that unconstitutionally seized evidence is admissible if the police had a reasonable, good-fait- h belief that they were acting properly. Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether it too should adopt a good-fait- h exception, presumably for courts at all levels. Five justices have already indicated some willingness to modify or abolish the rule. In an article in the December 1981 issue of the Georgetown Law Journal, William J. Mertens and Silas Wasserstrom, both experienced public defenders, argue compellingly that for the Supreme Court to take such a step would significantly widen police latitude and water down Fourth Amendment protections. Their article is too long and detailed to be easily condensed, but several of their points can be summarized: m A good deal of todays TV programming could be adequately replaced by good boredom. a ' . Your editorial "Plight of the Handicapped" March 1 was excellent. I was encouraged to see an article in the Mr. Burnham's suggestion that Roosepublic media that expressed the many concerns I have felt for years about our handivelt contrived to lead up into World War II is not exactly true. The Japanese were making capped population. Yes, the policy statements have been war on China before Roosevelt was elected written recently, which have absolved our Hitler had his plans laid out for world con"caring people" position but the pocket books quest and nothing would stop him. Britain and France were our friends but France have not responded to meet the costs. the GerGrowth for our severly handicapped didn't receive much aid because 1940. Russia June France mans overran by youngsters may be made in very small steps, at first didn't receive much aid. either. Great but these are important steps, leading to less Britain received most of our aid because she dependency and some ability to care" for stood alone. themselves. This saves money! This elates parents! This gives accountability to the edu- Japan was very brutal in China. Maybe Mr. Burnham would have liked the United States to have continued normal relations Forum Rul is with the Japanese and the Nazis. True, JaPublic Forum letters must be submitted pan did attack the United States at Pearl exclusively to The Tribune and bear Harbor, but four days later Hitler's Nazi writer's full name, signature and address. Germany declared was against the United Names must be printed on political letters States. Mr. Burnham should read more but may be withheld for good reasons on history. others. Writers are limited to one letter Mr. Burnham is correct in his facts that every 10 days. Preference will be given to war came our unemployment problems once letters (double short, typewritten spaced) permitting use of the writer's true name. ended. Those who fought and died made the All letters are subject to condensation. Mail world safe for Republican bureaucrats too! to the Public Forum, The Salt Lake Mr. Burnham forgets that there has to be a and the Tribune, Box 867, Salt Lake City, Utah, balance between the 84110. And I don't recall any type of government offering burial services, other cational system! And. this is positive action than those who served our country. Perhaps a pauper's to show that our public really does care Mr. Burnham is talking about burial. about these kids! But. the most important JAMES M. VENDITTI step is that the child with the handicap, beWest Bountiful comes more a "child" and less a "handicapped. Thank you for this positive perception of an age-olproblem. I do believe that where there is a will, there is a opportunity for all children. Passing laws is not the way to solve all of DORT SIGVARDT the moral and social problems of the world. A recently proposed law would make it a crime to provide contraceptives to minors without giving notice to the parents. to Such a law makes as much sense as: Clark Burnham's (Forum.Feb.2) answer Making it a crime for minors to engage to a Common Carrier in the Tribune on Feb. in sexual intercourse without giving notice to their parents: or 20, failed to mention that President Hoover didn't do much to get the nation moving Making it a crime for minors to engage in sexual intercourse without using again and that's why Roosevelt was elected in 1932 at the height of the depression. contraceptives. Roosevelt offered hope to millions of un JENNIFER B. CHRISTENSEN well-to-d- Tom Wicker M-1- The average family could liOe for months on Items that were bought to take advantage . of coupons. , employed: Hoover didn't have the personality to rally the American people to support him in the election. Roosevelt was also reelected in 1936 by carrying every state in the Union except two. Positive PiTception d ableness" rather than the constitut ionality of an officer's action. Not only would that often condone the action; but also, if it did the court would not need to decide whether or how the Constitution might have been violated. Officers would be left in welcome ignorance. free to make such 'reasonable' mistakes in good faith forever." 2. The good-fait- h exception also, would undermine what the authors call systemic deterrence. At their own discretion, for example, District of Columbia police used to stop autos for routine license and registration checks. But in 1979 the Supreme Court held such checks unconstitutional, unless the officer stopping the car had articulable suspicion" of criminal activity. The decision brought an immediate cessation of routine checks in the District and other jurisdictions. If the court had taken a "good-faith- " approach, or had applied a test of reasonableness rather than the standards of the Fourth Amendment, routine procedures probably would still be common in many jurisdictions; and in future that could happen on far more serious constitutional questions. 3. In deciding upon the good faith and reasonableness of an officer's action, what standards would the courts apply? Who would bear the burden of proof? What evidence on the question of good faith would be admissible? If a criminal defendant, for example, had to prove bad faith or unreasonableness on an officers part, the defendants rights might be doubly endangered, for such proof could be difficult to establish. Or suppose the defense contends that an d officer was and should have known better than to violate a defendant's rights, hence could not have been acting mistakenly but in good faith. The prosecution might have to argue that the officer was not well trained; poor training might actually become a police aid in making unconstitutional searches and seizures stand up in court. d o Doubtful Sense Failed Mention The Way It Was Here are the briefs of The Salt Lake Trinew measure, which had been bune from 100, 50 and 25 years ago. rushed through congress, the chief executive Mar. 10, 1883 summed up his view of the present situation the During coming season, it is expected in these words: that more visitors will come to Salt Lake The national emergency still exists and City than ever before. Would it not be an act it is necessary to take further measures exof grace for property owners to put their tending beyond March 9 in order to acccom-plissuch purposes intended by the original premises in repair, and for the city to do something substantial for the street? Of proclamation of Sunday." course it is too much to ask that anything Senator Glass said, upon leaving a White like a system of sewerage be begun; but cerHouse conference late tonight, that the purtainly a town as large as Salt Lake ought to pose of the president's proclamation extendhave smooth and reasonably level streets. ing the national bank holiday was to give Mar. 10, 1933 "more state banks an opportunity to come to By proclamation. President Roosevelt the shelter of the Federal Reserve system." tonight ordered the national banking holiday Mar. 10. 1958 continued indefinitely, soon after signing the in Utah this year deaths Highway emergency banking bill granting him almost reached the 20 mark the week (that during autocratic powers. ended Saturday midnight -- a decrease of 11 Acting without hesitation, little more compared with the 31 that were killed in the than an hour after placing his name upon the state during the similar period last year. i well-traine- 4. If. to protect constitutional rights under a good-faitexception, officers were made personally liable in civil and criminal law for Fourth Amendment violations, the authors argue that law enforcement might actually suffer. Policemen in ambiguous sit1. Deterrence of police misconduct will uations, fearing personal liability for wrongbe diminished under a good-faitexception ful action, possimight refuse to act at all rule because the exception Inevitably will more criminals to escape bly permitting substitute for the specific standards of the Fourth Amendment a test of the general justice than the exclusionary rule docs of police searches and reasonableness The argument, of which these points are seizures. but a sample, is complex but the logic is But a police officer "cannot be deterred persuasive: a good-faitexception1 will from violating the Constitution unless he weaken not just the exclusionary rule but the knows that his actions are In fact unconstituFourth Amendment itself. extional"; and the danger of the good-fait(Copyright) ception Is that courts would test the Vreason- h . If.. v i v. JI ?? h h Eureka! I did I it! A elieinieid dial dne-n- 't cnii'e eaiieer! |