Show ' v "'v'Y s'v Vv V-- ' '' -- vv-- t ''- P X$T -X v &::?& v- - 'v f ' u Xv v-t- '::? ' - VV April 2 2604 X V copy' XH: W: a Friday c AVAILABLE ? 'V i v‘ Vr ' V - 1 l’ A 1 i' i i XXxv x-- : A4 The Herald Journal' ' Our view Apt road names ' H it occurred to others as it has us that the names of two roads adjoining the proposed location for a new Cache ‘ Valley landfill are uncannily appropriate for' a dump site? If the site is mately ulti- approved valley trash will be transported north of Clarkston to an address along both Stink Creek and Dirty Head roads f r ‘a— m0 X I1' d -- inquiries some' time ago but nobody ' seemed eager to talk about it “I can tell you' but you won’t want ’ to print it" one north valley old- timer told the reporter He was right we won't print it It’s too lX f" off-col-or A fish picture in Thursday’s Herald Journal caught the attention of Frank “Hank" Smith who visited the newspaper later in the day to show off a catch of his own The German Brown trout Smith is holding in the newspaper clipping below was caught in Logan Canyon near Second Dam in September 1958 The fish weighed 175 pounds and Another Cache Valley road in the news recently — the site of a accident in Cove — has an name: Cannibal evocative equally Road Curious about the name a Herald Journal reporter made un Smith remembers running with the fish as it fought its way back upstream “I kept a tight line on it though” the Logan fisherman said on Friday recalling the awaid-win- ning catch V £ rT ‘ 'She wants to put a tank of gas on layaway" Your view notUN the global threat To the editor I support the idea proposed by Mike Lowe about creating a Model United States program High school students would learn to be ethnocentric ami leant the ideals of an imperialistic nation They will leam how to : spread the ideas of laws to all the “backward” people of the world They will also learn to Judo-Christi- an spread “freedom” through the oppression of different societies cultures traditions and beliefs What a relief that will be To teach our children about the supremacy of Amerin can democracy and the in all to people opposi- right oppress tion Now let’s step forward and analyze the Model UN programs The Model UN program at Mountain Crest teaches high school students to look at situations from another stance It teaches students that there are many solutions It teaches students to strive for peaceful solutions and diplomatic ways for settling disagreements Not like the American diplomacy the kind at the : end of a nuclear bomb or an 6 Shades of John Dean God-give- 'president !He charges manifold abuse of power in his new book “Worse than Watergate The Secret Presidency of George W Bush") President Reagan fired Secretary disconcertis' here something disaffect-eof d State A1 Haig budget director the a about way single ing David Stockman and chief of staff the can official upset public Donald Regan-Anall three wrote d plains of his superiors up to their former thebooks to the and including' unflattering president of bossMr Regan for example ' United States revealed that Nancy Reagan Had You Will have guessed that I'm ' allowed White House scheduling to referring to Richard Clarke antiterbe guided by an astrologer for 0 rorism coordinator 'rifle years '' Before President Bush had the under four Now let’s analyze the real UJf lie had the Paul ' Clarke P3 problem presidents Through peace O'Neill problem The Treasury secwho exploded settlement the q war of 1988 like a time retary fired in a dispute over fiscal was ended Meanwhile the United bomb under policy wrote a book that described States wasa supporter oflraqThe the president as fixated on Iraq and the Bush US gave them money training and ' 'White House acting in cabinet meetings “like a weapons to fight Iran blind man in a room full of deaf peowith his The UN also helped to end El ' Salvador's civil war and charges that 'ple" Then came Clarke with his asserthe administracivil war The Guatemala's tions backed by documentation that tion obsessed UN is supervising the White House officials hddsimply not ance programs in Mozambique ' with Saddam Hussein had done too ' taken ihe terrorist threat seriously little before Sept 11 200 l to While the US refuses to the ' 1 1 ' Mine-Ba- n Treaty The UNsign counter the machination's of A Testifying enough before Sept provided r' before the‘91 1 commission Clarke humanitarian assistance in Somalia Qaeda asserted that by invading Iraq ?the But before Mr Clarke there were and Sudan The UN stopped the ' v" others who blew shrill whistles on president of the United States has ethnic cleansing in the former ' : their superiors There was foir exam-pi- e undermined the war on terrorism” Yugoslavia Meanwhile die US V the the on the defensive Thrown Coleen Rowley counsel to pnly conducted air bombardment dud: White House backed down on its FBI field office in Minneapolis who killed countless civilian lives not to refusal to allow National Security disclosed the bureau's failure to pur- -' mention the bombing of the Chinese Adviser Cbndoleezza Rice to testify 20th hijacker sue the Embassy in Sarajevo ' before the commission in publicarid Zacarias Moussaoui Through the UN ' ' A generation ago there was former - under oath resolutions were passed such as ' The end is riiot yet White House counsel John Dean ' Universal Declaration of Human Not since John Dean has a singki who started Resident Nixon down Rights the Nuclear disenchanted if not the road to niin by testifying about Treaty theComprehensi ve had Mich a powerful impact the Watergate coverup and how he (whichthe on the fortunes of a president! had warned Nixon of “a cancer on ' US has not signed) the presidency" (Mr Dean seems The UN Development Program Daniel Schorr is a senior news analyst and the World Bank provides over ready to try to bring down another at National Public Radio ' By Daniel Schorr Christian Science Monitor T best-lai- L ed Iran-Ira- : 12-ye- ar : 35-yei- u: mine-clea- r- - - ed peace-promot-i- : ! Non-Prolifer- a- dis-grunt- Nuclear-Test-BanTrca- ty ng ‘ Just what are Plaza preachers against? To the editor 1 aUN-sponsor- thought they (and anyone else feel- ing so negative) should go home and turn on their televisions watch a David Anderson Millville M-1- : sands of its members Maybe instead of standing on the street sometime I $30 billion a year to assist developing nations UNICEF and WHO have eradicated smallpox worldwide and polio throughout the Americas Not to mention the 3 million children’s lives saved annually by immunization Lowe asked “Where was the peace?" Concerning Rwanda my question to Lowe is where was the United States? And why did the US do nothing while 800000 Rwandans died? The United Nations is not a “very dangerous organization” the dangerous organization is the United States and its rogue leader and his complete disregard for international cooperation and resolutions Through his reign of terror we have already invaded twd countries and are fighting two wars When will this rogue leader be taken out of command? 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Hopefully not In "all likelihood (reasoned the men neither knew nor bared about what actually took place or was preached about at the conference but were motivated to show disapproval simply because it was sponsored by the LDS Church and attended by thou- - ' complete session of Conference with “open ears” open minds and humble hearts and figure out what it is they’re really so against I can understand to a point some of the negative feelings directed at the Church by those who feel “threatened” by or resentful of its influence in so many areas of Utah life from political candidates to liquor laws and the infamous “Plaza dispute” I’m not sure that’s terribly different however from any other area where you find a majority of people with a common culture or ideology And such a citizenry isn’t necessarily dimwitted or wrong just because many of them have similar opinions or follow others they esteem highly Contrary to popular belief it is possible to think for oneself and still think like or follow the counsel of someone else (The Bible doesn't tell of Christ encouraging people to “do their own thing” but rather to exercise faith and follow Him) ’ I ' ' - |