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S A Monday, April 13, 1987
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makes bad situaiton worse
In South Africa, like in the USSR and other countries
where freedom is a virtually non-existent commodity;
anyone who is deemed a threat to the state can be held in
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jan or in aeienuon wnnoui iormai cnarges ever oeing
brought against them. Political dissenters, people
persecuted for their particular religion and prisoners of
conscience are held simply because of their beliefs and are
caged like common criminals.
South Africa, however, differs from the Soviet Union in
one small respect: there is a token democracy in ^outn
Africa. The whites in that country are free, but the blacks
have to deal with a subjugated form of freedom. People
are relatively free to oppose imprisonment of those individuals
who are just exercising their own free will, yet
they get gassed, beaten or driven away with high pressure
fire hoses in South Africa for doing so. Now, in a fit of increased
onnressionistic zeal. South Africa has made illeeal
any form of protest or opposition to the detainment of
political prisoners.
The new law is punishable by up to 10 years in prison
and was put into place by Police Commissioner P. Johan
Coetzee. The law's purpose is to silence a national campaign
seeking the release of between 13,000 and 20,000
people; 256 of the people detained are children under the
age of 16. Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called
tne Dan ' power gone utterly crazy, indeed, it seems tne
Pretoria government has gone out of its mind this time in
trying to maintain stability in that troubled country.
Under the guidelines of the new restriction it would be illegal
to: participate in campaigns, projects, or actions
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the 1982 Intcnal Security Act; sign or petition for the
release of detainees; call, orally or in writing, to the
government for their release; support or sign documents
that protest detention without charges; exhibit in public
clothing, stickers or posters protesting detentions; attend a
gathering protesting detention or honoring detainees; or
perform any act symbolic of solidarity with or in honor ot
detainees.
Even church prayer for the welfare of the detainees
could be nunishahle bv this law
The ban is such a patently offensive subversion ol
democracy that it reeks. President Botha and his
regime take no stock in freedom and liberty. Even the mosl
conservative American should be able to realize that the ac
tion taken by South Africa goes against everything positiv<
in the American psyche. But that message is slow tc
permeate the thick skins and thick skulls of some
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itiwuidNci s wiiu iciusc iu dCMiuwicugc, ill cuuiie even ctLi
on, the fascist tendencies inherent in South Africa. Thu
ban against protesting for detainees is just one more example
of a country and a government going over the edge anc
jeopardizing decency, equality and freedom.
Americans wouldn't allow something like this to happer
here. Why should we let it happen in a country that we ar<
linked to? Each added law designed to suppress black ac
tivism will one day explode in Pretoria's face; as long as w<
arc linked to them, we will also have to face th<
consequences.
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Marriage is n<
Just bccausc I'm getting married in a few
weeks, some people have assumed I'm dropping
out of school.
I'd like to state for the record that they're
wrong.
On May 23, I'll get a new roommate, a new
name and a new status.
But I will still have my goals of being a
newspaper journalist and a USC graduate.
What's wrong with that?
According to some people, I should wait
until I graduate in iMay 1988 to get married.
1 They don't seem to think it's possible for me
to get married anu go 10 college ai me same
i time.
Or do anything else.
I know those people mean well, but I'm going
to do it anyway. Being married does not
automatically put a person out of society.
? What everybody is worried about is that my
fiance, Michael, is in the Army near Savannah.
We plan to live together in the summer,
j but while I'm in school 1 have to live near Col^
umbia. We can't live together all the time durino
thf> novt cchnnl war
People sometimes say, "That's no way to
- start a marriage."
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I am writing to take issue with which from
t Mr. Guilfoyle's column of April America ha
l 3. In a rather naive piece, all too values in c
typical of glib journalism, Mr. the guise o
Guilfoyle perpetuates the myth political ga
Ithat the British are maintaining uniquely hi
the Irish problem. ? phenomi
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inging desperately to the last bastion
of the British Empire," the
British would gladly relieve
themselves of this entrenched
problem costing millions in taxpayer's
money, not to mention
British soldiers' lives, were it not _ .x a.
for their guarantee to the people JJUl, I
of Northern Ireland that while
the majority want to remain part To the edit
of the U.K. (which they do with a You hav<
passion), they will uphold that great respc
right. Far from imposing "apar- that somec
theid" in Northern Ireland, Your colun
Margaret Thatcher signed an on how pe
"Anglo-Irish Agreement" with tain issues,
the Dublin govenmcni to try to to degrade
ensure greater recognition of the pie, you sh
rights and cultural identity of at the issin
that minority that identifies with that we ha
Eire. Prejudice and discrimina- (his; I km
tion are not by the English, but hearing ab
oy a ciiviuca insn people, come to si
paralyzed by their own fear and and finally
bigotry. Stephen
Mr. Ciuilfoyle's implicit solu- April 1 rc
tion is little more than an align- and Presid<
ment with terrorist graffiti ? lack of ui
"Brits out." It is this pseudo- feeling. ^
patriotic thinking that prompts never mad<
thousands of American dollars to know eith*
be sent to finance an evil and what they
despicable group that murders, lirst of
bombs, and paraly/cs a country warm, sen
in the name of Irish liberty. lady; we at
As a citizen of Northern to have her
_J Ireland, I resent such all too capable of
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But, for us, love doesn't follow an
academic calendar. After talking about it for
months, we decided May was the best time for
us to get married.
For the past three years, we've had to arrange
time and space with roommates and
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iiiciiun iui us iu vis11 cacn inner on wcckciius.
Most of my roommates have been very
understanding, but I don't like having to
always ask if 1 can have company.
And because my family lives in Ohio and
his family lives in Virginia, we've been each
editor
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at's happening in my here for the amount c
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ither countries under you, obviously, do no
f "democracy." The the kind of lady who
me of power is not a gle over this salai
storical ? or British gracious and kind, a
cnon. not even a shado
ridiculous blame bi
Chris McCuskcr upon her.
Northern Ireland Thank God many
Exchange student people have realized I
this embarrassing a
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make tactless jokes at
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and before you decide You have all hurt
or ridicule certain peo- yourselves in making
ould take a closer look ty so negative. But let
es at hand. I thought that Jehan Sadat
d all seen the end of Holder man have feel
Dw we're all sick of President Holder
out it. The time has our confidence an
et the record straight Jehan Sadat needs v<
put this issue to rest. apologies,
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Carolina were blessed To the editor:
here. She could not be I would like to
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life at college ?
other's family for holidays when neither of us
can go home.
Getting married seems like the obvious
thing to do.
But I've heard some comments from people
who think I'm going to drop out of school
after getting married. I want to set the record
straight.
I worked hard to get to USC and worked
hard since I came here. After this semester, J
have just 24 class hours to go before
graduation.
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goals to get married, but I'm not one of them. ^
Most of the women I know who dropped out
of college when they were young went back to
college when they got older and had children
or full-time jobs to worry about as well.
That's not for me.
Since I've announced my engagement, I've
met more people at USC who are doing the
same thing. They didn't have to choose between
college and marriage ? they're doing
both.
So far, none of my married friends at USC
arc saying I'm making a mistake.
I don't think I'm making a mistake, either.
I
:r to teach the Free South Africa Alliance,
if salary of- who placed an advertisement in
you, if of- The Gamecock personals section
ay "Thank Friday, which referred to SG
r offer, but President Michael Hogue as the
laryissimp- "antichrist." As an SG Senator
:ourse not. and as a Catholic, I was deeply fP
know her? offended by their disrespectful
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i. one js iiui anu muiscreie comment, i ininK
would hag- the individuals who authored the
y. She is ad owe a public apology to Presind
deserves dent Hogue and to the entire
w of this USC student body. The coming
placed ments of these individuals
demonstrates an obvious indicaresponsible
tion of the blatant rudeness and
hat none of lack of morality that is present in
ffair is her the Free South Africa Alliance!
;e you who
)Out her just Janice Kraft
c's opinion President,
and end up USC Students for America
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estment in 1*51 flPr UPPflS
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J distort it.
nobody but To the editor:
this publici- As of late, I have noticed that
's not forget the editors of The Gamecock
and James have been continuously plagued
ings, too. with unnecessary criticisms of
man needs their articles. Although letters to
id support. the editor are helpful in many
>ur humblest ways, they should not be demean-'
ing to The Gamecock or its
editors.
;y M. lirady 10 those ot you who wish to
udies, senior criticize them: Why don't you
become editors for The
, Gamecock? I'm sure you would
find it much harder than it appears
to be. Please, let's try to be
g? positive with one another during
these last few weeks of the spring
semester.
express my A. Good ^
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