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Viewpoint ; ! 2 ^ Wednesday, October 15, 1986 Bombed out Reagan's stubborness stifled progress ^ r , m n * - i i wwara disarmament wiw soviei union Hopes for finally alleviating the Earth from its most threatening worry ? the arms race ? were shot down at Reykjavik, Iceland, the location of the summit between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Reagan refused to delete his Strategic Defense Initiative, long-term plans for an anti-missile system, in compromising with fellow superpower Russia on offensive arms cuts. And Gorbachev would not agree to these cuts unless Reagan gave up SDI, commonly referred to as the "Star Wars" nlan. But Reagan said no. He said he had promised Americans to keep SDI. His intention of keeping his promise to United States citizens is honorable, but when it comes right down to their welfare, it is questionable that he would not negotiate when relations with the Russians was at stake. There were high hopes for this summit. It was to be the most extensive disarmament pact ever attempted by the superpowers ? an agreement for the gradual reduction of nuclear weapons on the road to peace. But "Star Wars" got in the way. The Soviets offered to slash their medium-range missiles in fcurope to zero and reduce their Asian arsenals to 100 warheads in exchange for U.S. agreement to pull all Pershing 2 and cruise missiles out of Europe, reserving a 100-warhead compliment of the medium-range weapons within the United States. That proposal seemed to be right in line with eventually eliminating nuclear arms. Reagan agreed to that. rpl ] a. ? _ 1 1 . 1 i nere was progress lowaru an agreeineni 10 nau nuciear testing, but the main point of argument remained the deletion of SDI in exchange for nuclear disarmament. Gorbachev remained set against "Star Wars," and Reagan was determined to preserve his vision of a worldwide shield to protect against nuclear attack. Gorbachev insisted on confining all work on the program to the laboratory, but Reagan said realistic tests would have to be conducted outside if there was any hope r\ f D\ror rlnnlrwn ti rt o ctrct^m U1 V.VV,! uvpiwjlll^ Ci . Reagan offered to go along with a 10-year pledge not to withdraw from the old Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, which bars deployment of defensive systems, but he still wanted to preserve testing of potential systems. Gorbachev refused. He wanted the United States to aknowledge that the ABM treaty prohibits any research on defensive weapons outside the laboratory. Reagan suggested not deploying the defensive system for 10 years during which time both sides would destroy all offensive ballistic missiles. The Soviets were all for this, as long as Star Wars was deleted. The meeting ended abruptly here, with no final decision made on the future of nuclear arms. Reagan should have left with some kind of permanent agreement instead of leaving the future of ties between the two superpowers in limbo. The United States and the Soviet Union should be setting an example to smaller nations. They need to display their ability to compromise, give and take. As Reagan and Gorbachev parted the following vva; heard: Gorbachev: "Well, there is still time." Reagan: "No, there isn't." He's right. If we don't come to some kind of agreemen soon, with or without SDI, the future of the world is literally, a time bomb waiting to go off. Mragfc 1 ./-tfr i>f?j: . vA?yrnuV.t./ g^rrr- ^--- - -J"11 **+* 1^ GOfU 1ACHE V ''''' Write us a letter Tell us what's on your mind. Letters must I here is a limit of he typed, douhle-spaeed and only 250 words. the same writer. Include name, address and telephone We reserve the r number for verification. Names will be on outdated topic withheld upon request, (iuest editorials arc topics. limited to 500 words. Indicate whether you Write to: Vi are a student, a USC stiff member or a com- Gamecock, Drawc mnnifv mptnhpr in Itrv anH prlimri'ili ( olnmhia I ' - - ? rm.mGOT^S r SQMEIMN'R)R101/ Ilf fci IWII Wl KT HP I An allegory: Thi "It was many years since good King Richard the Rileyhearted had left to fight the Crusades in (he Unholy Lands of Furmanharn. Carroll the Wimpy was king in all hut name, having barely conquered the forces of the true heir to the throne, Prince Mike the Ousted at the battle of Electionham. James B. the Norman, the only lord left from Richard's day, was still S her riff of University ham. "Only in the woods did men remember the days when the Rileyhearted had ruled the land with a just hand. The invading Repubman made the Saxon-students second-class citizens. Prince Carroll and his lackeys had e'en refused to return the right of the students to drink spirits. 'Only for the privileged few,' they did say." ? from The Chronicles of a i -r * i? * 1 -c m<ii mcvc, /> iiimui) ?ii iiiv i,unu ti i Carolina. 1 was walking back to Thornwell Abbey. But time was short. 1 was forced to cross the dangerous Horseshoe Forest. 1 was halfway through and 1 began to think I was safe. "Welcome to Horseshoe," a rogue dressed in green tights and a feathered cap said, appearing out of nowhere. "1 am Student Hood. I desire only the contents of the purse on yout belt." "1 am but a country friar, who has just a small, poor parish of outcast students, and this money is for them," 1 said. ijl- you me i niti caitcu sieve: inc rogue asked me. "And if I am?" "For all you've done for the poor, you arc free to walk the woods of Horseshoe. Would you honor my men and me, and dine with us?" ' I was hesitant, but I agreed. As a result, I learned much about the man called Student , Hood. flip . Letter content 1IE.K a , - 1 dream t i was disturbing .uai,.u?in pect a prt To the editor: such as th< I In response to the letter "Arti- reflect on cle not racial, stated statistics" society," \ on Oct. 8, 1 submit to the author, is "in our Grayson Amick, the following whites. Ar statement: Change your name to tion in the Jim Crow, please, so that we may may be "e see the true direction of your Well, lei comments. today, " The irate respondents to the ar- Grayson." tide "Black people score lower separate on IQ tests" were not naively culture, b operating on the assumption that telligent t I all non-black readers would sym- than a bit pathi/e with their objections or telligent tli agree unconditionally. However, simply bee the nerve of this Grayson Amiek about rest is surprising, amusing, and some loos disturbing. Never would 1 have fact, guessed that anyone would In all S seriously contend mat oitended uamecoch blacks should accept such the origin; stereotype building comments results of about blacks and intelligence on descendini ~~ |TheT Kdllor in Chief two letters per month by Linda Taylor ManHKin$( Editor !?hl c. nrinhnn lot.nr. /?/?? HOVl'ltC s 10 make room for new Assistant Copy iewpoint Editor, The Desk Chief r A, Russell House, USC, Wendy Eden >208. News hditor Buddy Moore * 1jt OftS&l Am ? Ikhiid " ~ Ml 11 pErreR... S |^||\ e adventures of Stephen Guilfoyle The ilood lost everything trying to remain in Universityham, but the tuitions rose too high. The Sherriff was ordered to capture him, but the Hood escaped to the woods of Horseshoe Forest and raised a band of Mcr rymen to defend the downtrodden students. They stole from the rich and gave to the students. "Carroll says he supports education, but takes away our full portion of the tithe, forcing his lackeys, like the Sherriff, to raise and raise the tuitions. Were Richard here, he would not allow the Saxon-students to be treated so," Student Hood said. "Rumour has it Carroll will be at Castle McBryde, to meet the brotherhoods of Saxonstudents who bought their way to Repubman favor," 1 said. "Good Friar, 1 believe I've a plan." The next night. The bridge across the moat was up, so I bellowed, "This is Friar Steve! Open the gate; let down the bridge! 1 would have a word with your lord! I've been given the power to lay interdict on all your ale if you fail to respond! NOW MOVE! ! !" The gates opened. As 1 made my way across, the Merrymen - M. V/ A. f some novice reporter was supported when an em "fact." Nor would cle was printed contaii hat so-called intcllec- mation about cultural f g in the 80's would ex- certain biases that may )ud group of people, ed the black scores to ; black race, to calmly "where they stand in Ken tnowing that "where" Junior, | place" and not beside e we to take consola- F*Vrilssifl hope that someday we CA|JIClllI I tSo' : me be the first to say, in IQ test ? WE ARE EQUAL, ' We're different and To the editor : from you and your This is yet anothe ut we're not less in- response to the recentl; han whites any more College Press Servi ilogy major is less in- headlined: "Black pe lan a psychology major lower on IQ tests than ause he knows nothing cording to professors. ;arch and may mistake According to that icly reported data tor professors hntlmgs showed that "blacl fairness to The scored lower than "\ I don't believe that IQ tests but, blacks " ?1 article containing the to school longer in o the 1Q study was con- educations comparabl S to blacks. I his belief (and in order) to perf< Y ci ^ UAI1WV/VIV Assistant News Editors Mary Pearson Amy DelPo Sports Kditor Maria irains Jeff Shrewsbury Viewpoint Kditor Assistant Sports Kditor Juliet Nader Wayne Washington Monej Kditor Photography Kditor Patrick. Jean Jennifer Steih Features Kditor Assistant Photograph) Kditor Paula Wethington Thomas Humphrey AlwL|(...I ft.A.k<i.?OL L(ll?/t.? 1/ IaI< I' i?% L!.. . I Jl. niimMi/ina^nu.s r.unor Kathryn Jeffries Tracy Mixson JnMm | HI6 MOREl p I -vm-noi \ . ( vnr . iTn cv:' 'H's,"riu* is?*) s f \ * ! i "JHiFOILLF- H 1 I A CONRETE Stiirflent Hnnrf began to swim across the moat. I was soon in the hall witnessing the drunken debauchery of the brotherhood. To iny surprise, I not only saw the evil prince sitting by the lord of McBryde, but the Sherriff himself, seeming uncomfortable. "What do you want, friar?" the prince asked. "The bishops and friars of Thornwell Ab- A I" bey agree you forced these men to serve evil. The helpless Saxon-students of Universityham are killed, taxed, tuitioned and special-feed to to near-extinction, but only because you've denied Univcrsityham its full ! portion of the tithe. You've shown you are in Satan's service." "He is alone, oh sheriff, what can he do?" asked the swarthy Egyptian maid the Sherriff had brought back from parts unknown. "While we talk," I continued, "some of the Merrymen of Student Hood have seized the castle, and others have scoured the countryside looking for Prince Mike, who escaped your villainy Carroll, and has returned with good King Richard the Rilcyhearted, who's soon returning from the wars." "He has returned," the familiar voice of Student Hood yelled. Next to him was a man short of stature, yet true of heart; definitely the Rilcyhearted. "Yes," he said, "And I've seen the evil things you've forced your servants to do in your name. You've attacked my people, ^ Richard, and I banish you from Carolina." W "A cheer went up from the Merry men. With the restoration of the Rileyhearted to the throne, all seemed right once more in the shire of Universityham, in the goodly land of Carolina. The king decreed that Friar Steve be his very scribe, and he took to the task of ordering a history of the lands. " ? from The Chronicles. , I lother arti- as whites in the same jobs." ^ ling infor- I will not dispute the findings actors and which show that blacks score have cans lower on IQ tests than whites, be lower . Generally speaking ? that may be so. However, to sugget, as the n Simpson professors did, that blacks need psychology more schooling than whites ? if they are to obtain comparable pamh Pcrf?rmance ? 's unsound. CCll ull Nowhere in the article was 1 there mention of: demographics, llTICIG the percentage of IQ tests that were used, or what "certain kinds / \f iaKcm f Vw? rncoa rr?Vw?rc vn jvn/j 111v i vavui vuvi o iuvuo\,u Vggs i letter in on. All of the aforementioned / published should have been included in the ce article article and would have made for oplc score a better understanding of the whites, ac- research findings. Samuel Starks arucic, me c ommunity memner not only Editor's note: This is the last of c people" the letters we will run on this whites" on topic. As stated in the letter need to go policy, we reserve the right to rder to get stop printing letters to make e to whites room for new letters on current )rin as well topics. ^ Special Assignments Director of Student Media Kdltor Bill Clements Hal Millard Production Stuff Artist Mark Armstrong Robb l.ane Lewis Covington Dull-hook hdifor Advertising Muna?er Hobby Jones Margaret Michels Advisor Assistant Advertising Manager Bill Rogers Jan Hodges (iruduale Assistant Margaret Renkl V t