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amendment
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wii Muiiuay, jrresiaeni ueagan urged a group
of spectators on the Captiol steps to support a
constitutional amendment balancing the budget.
The crowd, estimated at 25,000, was enthusiastic
about the idea of a balanced budget. It
should have been, since according to news
reports, the rally was organized by the White
House and admission was controlled.
"I have said before, balancing the budget is a
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utuc nivc piuiecmig your virtue: you just nave to
learn to say 4no;'' Reagan said.
Evidently, Reagan also needs to learn to say
no. He has found himself responsible for budgets
with record deficits. But will a constitutional
amendment to balance the budget help this
president or future ones say 'no? '
Not according to news reports, which said
Congress could decide to have a deficit if it felt
one was needed. Also, a great deal of doubt exists
about whether such an amendment can be
passed by the required number of states for it to
become part of the Constitution.
Added to this are dire predictions of the consequences
a balanced budget could have on the
economy. .
Reagan's call for a balanced budget amendment
amounts to little more than election-year
propaganda. The mood of the country is one of
restraint so, as he has done in the past, Reagan is
merely playing to his audience in calling for the
amendment. Concrete actions are needed to help
the economy, not symbolic gestures.
Oil conservatinn
still a necessity
It wasn't so long ago that America was suffering
from the effects of the Arab oil embargo.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries' control of oil prices and supply
threatened the freedom of the western world.
Today, OPEC is in disarray. At a recent
meeting of OPEC, the oil ministers squabbled
over production limits. They reached no
agreement.
Poor economic conditions and calls for conservation
in the western world have resulted in
declining gasoline consumption. The gasoline
supply is up, and fuel prices are not as painful as
in the past.
. OPEC feels the pinch now, not the United
r?..i i i
otatca. out jusi as me situation turned against
OPEC, it could reverse again, putting the United
States in a bind.
Unfortunately, one of the byproducts of the oil
glut is the decision by many oil companies to
discontinue work on alternative fuel projects.
Both consumers and oil companies must
realize research and conservation are still
necessarv.or the United States could find itself a
slave to OPEC.
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Editor:
So many events yet so little comment.
This dilemma is of critical
importance to each of us, yet there is
no input. Even when there are 15,000plus
students blissfully herding their
way through the system like so many
sheep, the voice of a few don't begin to
touch the issues?major or minor. So
much for the free flow of ideas in the
free world.
Let me takp this nnnnrhinit?r
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enlighten the sheep. Something very
dangerous is breeding in the nation's
capita), and that something is labeled
"teamwork" by the press and administration
alike. Every day the
corporate elite of the Republican
Party strikes another blow against
your freedom and mine. Your
freedom is your concern. I voice
mine, NOW!
Not long ago a very fine man
resigned from government service
because he was sharp enough to see
that the illness that is labeled
"teamwork" is so powerful and so
malignant that he had to pack his
trash and get out of Dodge before it
ate what self-respect he had left. This
man, one that packs the grit of a
Student obse
By Liz Chandler help in tl
The war in the Falklands
and news of the Queen's |Lintrv
intruding vistor have *
heightened America's in- .
terest in events in Great vmin{J<^
Britain. A natural reporter's J ?
instinct overtook me when I Hrinirna
met a young British student voc
ai a receni social event.
I cornered her in a booth ^a>'in6
for a while and started 1 ine^
asking questions. women
Linda Newman, a Briton ?*PJ.a!n?
attending USC, is young, not ^KA in l
one of an older British se*es ha
generation, which she said tota
still thinks Americans are w?rrian c
rwvlfv has to b
y< ONE 1
THE POST-World War II surprisej
generation in England still ^ngianc
influences the country's ob?^sl?
opinion of America and after # ?V
all these years, many of arouna
them hold a grudge because 0 .a
Americans went Kussiai
there" with the attitude that Par|jno^
"you were there to save the rea % .
world," she said. count
"The older generation(in rea ze
England) also hasn't suP^rP?N
forgiven you for taking our nothing
women while you were there afr.ou ff
either," she said, admitting otlcroff
that her country did need our "Well,
3US MjOOP CON(
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gSS ask
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ion's teamworl
cowboy and the savvy of an Indian
fighter is known to the world as A1
Haig. The current regime had no
greater savant despite the manicured ,
appearance of its corporate puppets. i
When A1 split, the wind left the sail of
the ship of state. 1
Let me give you a big nickel's worth j
of advice concerning (Jen. Haig. He
was the glue that held together J
American foreign policy. His years as *
a military man were spent protecting
the Constitution. j
You see, a military man has no real
politics of which to speak. He works (
for the npnnlp anH ctonrlc oc o i
, ? I untiiuu U? U uuiwal l\ ?
against those politicos or miscreants *
that conspire to negate your freedom. 1
HAIG IS all the "right stuff." His 3
knowledge of global matters makes
him an invaluable American asset. *
His ability to soothe the nerves of our c
shakey North Atlantic Treaty !
Organization allies and his staunch
anti-communist attitude confounded ^
the Soviets. f
Haig worked for the Republicans ?
because they have a sense for the
global. The Democrats can only see as
far as our sandy shores. If there was
irves British op
le war. 7
miACt
mc yuunger CUIIUI
ons in the mother T . .
take little heed of an>7'ay,?.111 as^fd' W1
Jiers' attitudes and P"de a little ruffled.
' ways parallel the . 1 saw dollar, s>Zn* "
generations in her eyes, and I could t.
. Yes, they do start hadca"^h"!ie f?vf'
before age 18, and , YOU GET what yot
sy do smoke pot. orhere, "she said, ?
, . i that she planned to s
- she was amazed at America to make her f,
luality of men and studying at USC
in America, Linda t. innri
d that there'was no ** ' d ?
continued ancM smirl
at an r the o{ wha
>f 22 fo sav that she val'ious etlual riehts t
*liev ?it would have t0 say abou
HINO she said that "Americans have
s all generations in sfc,al Patriot.c qi
1 is America's always '"V,8' t0..
n with Russia. government, shesa.d
(the Americans) sit a^al" , ,slrl!r^^ ,?
and work yourself j H? , e
panic over the draft -"esisters an
is You're so ^etnam vets who s.
! " but bitterlv hat* and i
if ii ' the government for thi
ad for the smaller ^
i , ~ them into that ridi
;s because they
hat you two are the ' ?
vers, and they have , 1 ?uef >"lu re Pa
jetter to do but wait K'causc America was
for you to kill each fr?m(. lh,f .sP,r'
,, J patriotism, she said.
always been a way of 1
why are you here you here. Right
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kdangerous
an in-between where a strong
American (domestically) could help a
shattered alliance (abroad), then I
am sure Haig would be sailing on that
ship.
He is an American who has the
welfare of his country as his primary
concern. Anyone that follows the
lethargic elephant or the mindless
jackass will never see above the dung
:hat each defecates.
INDIVIDUALISM IS the American
keystone. Didn't your daddy ever say
'Stand up and be counted as an inlividual?"
Do you feel slighted when
you're not part of the team? Is it all
hat important to conform to group
lorms even when it comes down to
four opinions?
You can always tell the company
nan by the brown on his nose and the
lung on his shoes. It doesn't put
noney in the bank to ride alone and
ivf* with vnnr Hppicirtn
. . - .. -?- j vtwitJivu, UUt Ul iCdSL
ou won't fall into disgrace like the
layers of the infamous Nixon, et al.,
quad. That was some team. Have we
>een fooled again?
Mark B. Ellis
Journalism Student
inion of U.S.
| England is the most patriotic
rial it has been in a long time,"
th she added, "because of the
in my Jri ??
TTwi ? ? mv x' amiaiiua.
ash in Observing that America's
all she are basically sound,
she said that one reason
1 work many countries have a
iddinc negative view of capitalists
^ .jj is because they don't hear
^ about the welfare programs
"It's Provide for the unfnnitv
derprivileged. And again I
' she ^ac* to a sn*c^er?
cpH at thinkin& of the budget cuts
it tjie that are filtering down,
groups manV aimed at welfare.
that ONE BIG REASON Linda
,it said she liked America is the
fS weather.
and "It's always gray and
t the overcast *n Britain, sort of
etnam ominous?" she said, as our
^ conversation wound down.
>rvpH "What do thtt F.nfflish
T O- ,V""
resent think about the revolution?"
owing 1 asked, grimacing at the
niilnuc trite ^ut rebellious sound of
the question.
triotic "Well, frankly," she said,
? born don't think about it that
t much any more."
"It's The author is a senior in
ife for USC's College of Journow,
nalism.