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Israel Palestinians declare independer Israel ignores PLO recogniti The nation of Israel is really blowing it. The rest of the free world has had ud to here with thir centration camp-type interment of Palestinians on the Bank and the Gaza Strip. The free world knows why telev crews and photographers have been banned from those a The Israeli government doesn't want to show pictures o: brutalities going on in that area. In the past, the Israeli government has said the Palesti Liberation Organization must first recognize Israel < legitimate state before it would begin to think about negotia Well, since PLO leader Yassar Arafat is becoming r moderate in an effort to end U.S. resistance to the PLO, recognition has been offered. Israel has just come through an election in which neith( the two major parties won. The Conservative Party le( Shimon Peres will not form a coalition with the other leac more liberal Labor Party. It is attempting to form a coali government with the fundamentalist, religious groups. And the indications from that coalition are that the PI recognition doesn't matter anymore. Israel is blowing its only chance to end the occupation oi West Bank and to free the Palestinian people who are priso without a say in their own government, without a say in they rule their lives. The PLO's parliament just drafted its own declaration o dependence. And, as our own Declaration says, it someti becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the ties that 1 them to another. Judging from our own past, the United St should not stand in the way of the Palestinians. All people 1 a need to be free and a right to seek that freedom. We're supposed to believe in freedom in this country, with the way the Israeli army is acting, we should not be sup] ting them. Maybe we don't need to actually help the Pal< nians, but we shouldn't hinder them either. "COULPI HAVE JUST ONE LITTLE THUNPFJW j . ..V . . U3IO rrf| | ihe Gamecock Best Non-daily Collegiate Newspaper, Southeastern Region Society of Professional Journalists, 1987-88 Editor in Chief Datebook Editor stephen guilfoyle jenny sharpe Copy Desk Chief Graphics Editor wayne yang michael sharp Assistant Copy Desk Chief Comics Editor kathy blackwell tracy mixson News Editor Adviser hal millard pat mcneely Assistant News Editor mary pearson kelly c. thomas Director of Student Media Features Editor ed bonza susan nesbitt Advertising Manager Assistant Features Editor margaret michels tom joyner Production Manager Sports Editor laura day kevin adams Assistant Production Manager Assistant Sports Editor ray burgos chris silvestri Assistant Advertising Manager Photography Editors barbara brown brian sauls teddy lepp Letters Policy: The Gamecock will Iry to print letters received. Letters should be, at a maximum, 250 to 300 words long. Guest editorials should not exceed 500 words. We reserve the right to edit letters for style or possible libel. The Gamecock will not withhold names under any circumstance. ice, on ss REAP-M ision a 1/iKinc GENTLER is a ting, nore that ?r of i by ling, r # Part l:'We hat I read in The State newspaper Tuesday that T Clemson Head Football Coach Danny Ford is try? 6 ^.ing to psyche his players up for Saturday's game against USC. In the past few years, Clemson has cared more about winning the ACC Championship and hasn't been concerned so much with the "state championship." The result was three consecutive ACC Championships in the last three years and no vietory for Clemson since Todd Ellis started leading the USC offense. ' No longer, he was quoted as generally saying in The State article. He is now reminding his players ? and the Clemson campus ? that this game is "* just as important as their Conference clinching vie- tir tory over Maryland last weekend. sh ^ So my next two columns will be devoted to the fa 0 Carolina-Clemson game, or, more accurately, go /y/ devoted to trashing Clemson. ur Now, to begin with, I really don't hate Clemson ^folk. In fact, The Gamecock's Fearless Features w< y Editor Susan Nesbitt is up in Moo U. today, as part ne ify of an exchange program begun last vear between CI student leaders at both universities. wc 79 Good luck, Suze. an *?? She'll probably come back painted orange. They an <*? paint everything orange up there. I heard once that -V they go into supermarkets and paint the oranges if y, orange because they're not orange enough. fal y f Their blood is orange, also. Did you know that? ab: ' , The orange gets into the brain, and instead of hav- do y/ ing iron-based hemoglobin, they've got orange 1 juice-based hemoglobin. gai ^ Speaking of blood, we all know what time of the cy, yz year it is, don't we? That's right, it's blood drive me | Letters to the e i r Foundations 1 J J a. system is wron -1 should divest co,t h<i off from the gol ]"job" he may 1 To the editor: baby has been b It seems that at least once every his presence or t semester I must write a letter to The shot by the polic Gamecock defending divestment of color, can be jail funds in South Africa. This is my let- and killed with i ter for this semester. him or his famil Between 1963 and 1982, 56 people 802 people p died in South African police custody. custody. oincc me latest siaie 01 emergency in i nis is not ju: 1986, 30,000 people have been de- problem. It is tained without charge. Most of these How can we, a people were arrested simply for our university': disagreeing with apartheid, the Carolina Resear* racist, inhuman system that gags and Foundation anc binds them. tional Foundal Under this system, 84 percent of system with the the population, the part of the they have invest* population legally defined as "non- ing business in S white," have few legal rights. Non- figures are frc whites are forced to live in records availabk "homelands," non-arable, highly the foundations, policed lands, much like detention Some right w camps, which they may only leave at used the argume certain times. They are only allowed National Congre into the white's cities during working discount the fact hours, during which most of them ing in South Afr serve as low-paid domestic or menial Africa Alliance c labor. The main exception to this rule violent tactics of is that many industrial and domestic ly wanting freed employers require laborers to live on one communist, the premises in barracks-like housing blacks in South where they are strictly policed. In communism; the some jobs, the workers are only They simply wa; allowed to go home once a year. freely, without th They are not even recognized as being killed, rap \ r m iY... LlrbR ANP ! NATION'- ^ e you Clemsor ' ne. This year, USC, or rather, The USC, is ooting for 2001 pints of blood, in honor of our bulous football theme music (oh yeah, and it's t something to do with the Holderplan for the liversity). Apparently, the first time we did this, Clemson >n the blood drive and then won the game. The xt time, we tied in the blood drive and we tied 1 emson. Then, we won the blood drive and we < >n the game. Being the superstitious guy that I < 1, I am going to overcome even my weenie-ness < d donate sometime this week. The stakes are too high, donate blood. Give it all i you can do without it. And to clear up a silly, < se rumor I've heard from time to time, there is < solutely no way you can get AIDS when you < nate blood. It's impossible. c Now, I'm not sure where I am going to watch the ? ne. I would love to cover it for some news agen- c but my own Sports Editor Kevin Adams denied c one of The Gamecock's press passes. He said c ditor I v ? own country. their skin color. They want crime of saying "this opportunites for success and g," a worker, after ment, not in name, but ii me on his one week that their white counterpart: d mines (or whatever the idea of eaualitv so terril told) to find that his The policies of divestme orn and died without South Africa and sanction: hat his child has been South Africa "are the only e for the crime of his door still open for us," acc< led, beaten, tortured, Winnie Mandela. Are we t no legal recourse for the pleas of so many (such , ly. There are at least Peace Prize winners Martii resently in police King Jr., Albert Luthuli chbishop Desmond Tut it a black or African disregard the growing cry f a human problem. tions and divestment? s human beings, let > foundations, the To end this letter, I woul :h and Development leave you with a quote fror 1 the USC Educa- Biko: [ion, support this "It should be undersi ^,.i uiuuim uuiiain curope ana iNortn Amer ed in companies do- foreign investment supports outh Africa? (These sent economic system, and im 1987, the last directly the present sys : to the public from political injustice. We blai ) therefore, not interested in ing extremists have investment. If Washington i nt that the African contribute to the developi ss are communist to South Africa, we blacks are j that there is suffer- willing to suffer the conse< ica. The Free South We are quite accustor loes not support the suffering." the ANC, but simp- Biko died on Sept. 12, lorn does not make South African police custody The majority of the Africa do not want y want democracy. Katherine nt the right to live P le constant threat of Free South Africa . >ed o- tortured for Englisl r I i,we really do' something about, "I'm going to cover it, you pandering neophyte weenie." You're fired, Kevin. And we (to suddenly get all pompous and royal) didn't get a ticket in the lottery, despite entering it 5,000 times. That's just a joke, really. But there were five subsequent lists of people in the lottery who got picked in the secondary lotteries, and your > c .1 iiumiriv. iianaiui wiun l LM1C UI IIICIII. But whether we make the trip Upstate in hopes of buying a ticket outside, or if we stay here and watch it on the ACC network, I'll be pulling for the Gamecocks all the way, and I know this team can get it all together and beat the orange-clad bozos once again. One final note to Coach Joe. Gosh, those black uniforms looked MEAN. And if you don't want to wear black on black two weeks in a row, try garnet on black or black on garnet. Those are our best looking uniforms. Come on, get the cheer going ? GAME COCKS GAME COCKS GAME COCKS GAME COCKS Sound fades as columnist rides off into the sunset. GAME COCKS SAME COCKS SAME COCKS AME COCKS iamf. cocks ame cocks ame cocks ame cocks ] ; *. ' ' * ['achieve- RetUlTl Of BlUC :?vae h Blazers Part II ;nt from s against To the editor peaceful in response to Janice Kraft's letter )rding to in the Friday edition of The 0 ignore Gamecock (Nov. 11, "Return of the as Nobel blue blazers"), I'd like to say ? 1 Luther Janice, 1 know exactly how you feel, and Ar- I was at that same game (at least I u) and was under that impression at the or sane- time), and I was also exercisin' my right to free speech just like you, and they booted me out as well. Now I d like to wasn't shouldering any ideas that n Steven might offend the kiddies; no evolution theory or Libertarian propagantood in da ? no, my banner just said "PUT IPQ thof TXT /^rv A /^T 1 H ' 1 n?c?v ivic lix cause ya Know the pre- our Gamecocks were looking a bit thus in- limp. tern of Now I was just speakin' my mind cks are, as usual (I'd tell ya' wha' I said, but foreign they prob'ly wouldn't print a word of vants to it), and this fascist high-steps over nent in and shouts somethin' real violent at ?erfectly me, so I 'ad to give 'em a good swift ^uences. kick as usual ? but whaddya know, ned to next thing I'm like wakin' up in my quantitative analysis class, and 1977 in everybody's eyeing me like I'm some i. sort of freak or somethin'! So I says ? and I know you'd say the same, Janice ? "Bloody hell! I thought I Gilbert was gonna have to sit through all 59 resident points!" Alliance Dan Jensen ti junior Anarchists in Exile