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Mandela Wife of South African leader disappoints those who want peace There was worldwide jubilation when Nelson Mandela was released from prison a little over a year ago. Yet at the same time that South African Prime Minister F.W. Dc Klerk announced he would work to bring apartheid to a close, Mandela's wife Winnie was put on trial for kidnapping and assault. These are not the racist accusations of the white police force. Several black union leaders allied to the Mandcla-lcd African National Congress testified that Winnie Mandela ordered the kidnapping and beating of four young black teenagers who had quit her so-called "soccer club." Winnie Mandela used Mafia-like tactics to keep control of the Soweto township. As John Carlin says in the Feb. 18 issue of The New Republic, Winnie's Mandela United Football Club has been accused of murdering 15 young men that refused to join the club or violated her rules. It is disheartening to see a woman who was hailed as a symbol of black resistance to white oppression turn out to be no better than a common street thug. Her trial could not come at a worse time, as it comes only months after the controversy surrounding Martin Luther King's plagiarism. But where King eloquently spoke for peace and justice, Winnie Mandela seemed to be working for her own aggrandizement under the veil of racial equality. The next question to be asked is how much did Nelson Mandela know about his wife's actions? With heroes of the civil rights movement from two continents being reassessed in the public eye, one wonders what black leaders will take the lead. Will it be moderates such as Gov. Lawrence Wilder and Desmond Tutu or radicals such as the ubiquitous Louis Farrakhan? The conviction of Winnie Mandela is shocking, but gives a valuable lesson in the basic humanity of those we would admire. Just as Mikhail Gorbachev has been revealed to be limited and weak, Winnie Mandela proves that all heroes have feet of clay. 'WE'RE P0IH6 VERT WELL ON THE OROUNp $0 FAR" The Gamecock News: 777-7726 Advertising: 777-4249 Kathy Blackwell robyn Thompson Editor in Chief Managing Editor ' Chris Silvestri David Bowden Copy Desk Chief Viewpoint Editor Lucy Soto Kathy Heberger News Editor Carolina Life Editor Steve Johnson Renee Meyer Sports Editor Photography Editor Aaron Sheinin Tige Watts Assistant News Editor Assistant News Editor Oct a via Wright Patrick Vellegas Assistant Carolina Life Editor Assistant Sports Editor ? Jennifer Jablonski Julie Bouchillon i Assistant Copy Desk Chief Assistant Photography Editor i 17. DT^* 17X1X1 117 a */%rr? 1I7ti t t * * #n * VJAA^IAIA TTAIHE, TTILLIAIVW > Darkroom Lab Technician Comics Editor t f Ed Bonza Erik Collins S Director of Student Media Faculty Adviser Laura S. Day Ray Burgos 1 Production Manager Assistant Production Manager u Renee Gibson Kyle Berry 1 Advertising Manager Assistant Advertising Manager n Carolyn Griffin t Business Manager f a c Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should di be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words long. The writer must include full name, pro- ^ fessional title if a USC employee or South Carolina resident, or year and major if a student. An address and phone number are required with all letters sent. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit letters for style, possible libel or in case of h space limitations. The newspaper will not withhold names under any h< circumstance. re l 80ry he infidels?a5 soon as 1 figure a wout iding dooms L f Arthur C. Mayer I Financial Columnist noted, this is a larger increase in two years than Jimmy Carter was able to achieve in four. So, what's the problem? Conventional Keynesian thought views government spending as a positive force in the economy, providing needed public good and stabilizing aggregate demand. This may have been true in some past era, but government passed the point of diminishing returns long ago. Federal spen Many people are accustomed to thinking ol the burden of government in terms of the money missing from their paychecks every twc weeks. Others gripe about the annual tax form ritual, but usually get over it when the refund check arrives, with interest and other opportunity costs happily forgotten. The shrillest voices over the past 10 years have focused on the government's repeated forays into the nation's credit markets. Of course, all are partly right, but each perceives only a fraction of the total cost of government. Lacking any national debate on government's competencies, failings and costs, it is no surprise that many have come to think of government's burden in narrow, incomplete ways. To approach the real story, we must look beyond taxes and deficits to the obvious culprit ? government spending. It is this figure which represents the public sector's direct claim on resources. While some are content to gape at the raw numbers (like Bush's recent $1.45 trillion budget proposal), a more appropriate measure is the percentage of gross national product devoted to federal spending. The picture isn't pretty. When Reagan left office, this indicator stood at 22 percent, the lowest level of the 1980's, but still well above his original goal of 19 percent. In this new kinder, gentler era, however, spending has surged to a record 25 percent of national output. As The Wall Street Journal has LETTERS TO T1 Lab animals IMS # , cal resear not mictrPQiPn If anyoi To the editor: Ihfw^hn i In response to Leisha Easte- sib|ye ^ gard s letter to the editor printed ,]]rp , Jan. 28, I am amazed at the state- sponse t0 ments she makes regarding the use ^ an(j 1 of animals in research. The letter is , TT<^ riddled with half-truths and abusi've falsehoods. XT . . ~ T will mves The National Cancer Institute fnl1. ? , . , , ... . , . rail under 1 tias and still uses laboratory am- cQ mals where needed to develop and ^ Dr0Der refine potential cancer fighting drugs. They do not torture animals ^ . , but comply with the Animal Weifare Act of 1966 as amended. Any soarces Fa^ torture of laboratory animals is a Edmi felony and punishable under this ict and its amendments in a court 3f law. Diethyl stilbestrol (very useful in treating cancer of the prostrate), 1 penicillin, digitalis and aspirin are f-f-| ?-w ill used extensively and fruitfully r" n veterinary as well as human nedical practice. To the edit The alternatives to animal test- I would ng cited have been used for years to Hope ( ind are a useful adjuvant to use lished in t vith laboratory animals, but have must first tot and will not in the foreseeable tion is nol ;uture replace the use of animals in Desert Sto; liomedical research. President I If Leisha Eastergard is aware of I would sa iny inhumane treatment of laborat- simple rea: )ry animals at any research institu- be true, ion she should contact the Deputy The Un Administrator for Regulatory En- comes invc orcement and Animal Care, Un- simple reas ted States Department of Agricul- - don is clea ure, Washington, D.C. highly amt She should be prepared to state himself as pecific instances where cruelty or Arab Natii nhumane treatment occurred. If chosen mi ler cnarges are jusunea me cuipru means ui vill be judged and penalized under Empire, he provisions of the Animal Wei- His invt are Act in, the Federal Court with little Jystem. half of the Dr. John Orem's work at Texas ter he triec "ech University has produced val- his neighbt table information about Sudden less tyrant nfant Death Syndrome. Ms. will not st< sastergard is probably aware, but power, teglected to state that any implan- n0vv it i ation of electrodes must be per- did not tak ormed under antiseptic conditions against agj nd on anesthetized animals. Dr. massed tnx rem's research has been fruitful, der. In fail dcs not torture animals and con- tions early nues to be funded. govern men i As a final statement, I would In its dc ke to say that in the 45 years I in the Sov ive been a veterinarian the many Europe ha\ search scientists in the biomedi- perhaps lh< il field I have been in contact those situa Public spending, whether taxed or borrowed, diverts resources from the private sector, where they are allocated by market forces and voluntary exchange, to the public sector, where they are redistributed by an increasingly corrupt and arrogant political process. More often than not, this transfers funds from more productive to less productive uses, from investment to consumption, from workers to non-workers. Regrettably, by focusing on the deficit and ignoring the numerous market distortions caused by taxes, many policy-makers imply that it doesn't matter how much the government spends as long as it doesn't run a deficit. While federal spending is the most obvious and easiest measure to compute, it is not the most accurate. To the 25 percent of GNP spent HE EDITOR been kind, caring peo- But regardless, the sit is no place in biomedi- exists and must be deall ch for mistreatment or Please allow me to d Kr>rQtr>nr onimolc PYQmnlp Accnm^ that tcyvy* UUUl J UllXIllUlO* v/vuiu^iv. I umv U1UI. le observes behavior of countries in the world ; n any laboratory setting, in a playground with d report it to the respon- The United States and al. There is a USC Pro- Union are the biggest ai Investigations and Re- kids on the block. One Complaints Involving ies (Iraq) starts beating Use of Laboratory Ani- smaller child. ^ doesn't condone any The child has little jatment of animals and protect himself, let aloi tigate any reports that and is beaten up badly, ts jurisdiction. the bigger kids if they t ntinually provides for help out the little guy care and treatment of they don't, they establis tory animals under its ous precedent for other 1 insists on a gentle, car- bullies, saying they ca here in the Animal Re- thing they want by use ( :ility. If Adolf Hitler would and L. Fountain, DVM stopped from re-milit; n/^i n_i . ii m # . < acnooi 01 ivieaicine Ktuneland, pernaps Wc could have been avoidec ripppcci^-y And I assure you ths HCVCooIlj' Bush does not feel "tl 1{lrp lofpr prove he's a man." G< ^atC lalCl was the youngest Am (meaning he shot down or; fighter planes) of World like to write in response He flew combat miss D. Peebles' letter pub- Pac'Hc at an age yoi he Feb. 6 Gamecock. I many ?j the students oi say that the U.N. coali- Pus. an was s^ot d?wn t involved in Operation anti-aircraft fire. He has rm because of Exxon or fiends killed in war ant lush's testosterone level. war s human c?st- He ly we are there for one ta^e ,^e va'ue ?f hi son, but that would not American, Iraqi, Saudi, any other, lightly. Thou ited States never be- y?un8 men who wil1 lived in conflicts for one hack from this confl ;on. However, the situa- heavily on his mind, ir. Saddam Hussein is a ^*s my Pr?f?und hoj iitious leader who views and others hke you w a leader of a United ***??* of our action: on. He seems to have a'so stale litary conquest as his test war ,docs not ex'st establishing an Arab Hussein s Iraq. I wou thank and join you in y< ision of Kuwait came of our trooPs ai?d wisl provocation on the be- sa^e and sPeedy rotum. Kuwaitis and shortly af- . Hal"es * I to conquer another of International stu )rs, Iran. He is a ruth- f J and an egomaniac who r|;| :>p in his effort to gain * HCI Q s true the United States t0 edll|pt< e a firm enough stance To the editor: jression when Hussein Regarding ?5 ^. 8 )ps on the Kuwaiti bor- umn, ed.) "'EB * shoul ling to attempt correc- fought by au^Mcrson on, the United States Dennis Shcaiyy f agree was in error. Holland's anc 'V. A1 fense, however, events theory about M, M -,nis ict Union and Eastern Mr. Shcaly, jav< 'e been surprising and tedly seen tooyou1 % w, J people who monitor ? especially r lions were distracted, budget Victnan movj f.S. economy at the federal level, add off-budget outlays, state and local expenditures (another 17 percent of GNP), the costs imposed by regulation, the opportunity costs of resource pre-emption, and not least of all, the loss of individual economic freedoms. Few realize that our economic liberties are in far worse state of decay than the civil liberties we always hear so much about. The growth of government has shifted the efforts of many away from earning their own incomes through hard work and risk-taking toward asserting claims on others' incomes through the political process. Along the way, property rights and economic liberties are subjected to self-righteous attack! and redefinition by Congressional committees. This system works politically because of the; concentrated power of special interests and the tendency of all types of voters to suDDort the politician who wants to spend more of other people's money ? on them. The American public needs and deserves a national debate on both the benefits and, increasingly, the costs of government spending and interventions. As long as discussion centers on the deficit and the so-called fairness issue, ( nothing productive wil be achieved. That is, of course, unless higher taxes and spending are your recipe for freedom and economic growth. Arthur Mayer is a student in USC's Masters of International Business program. ? i ffl rag / .. 85 H I m 1 | ggpg ? g ,.-x/ < /}? uation now eran of the LLSTArmy, I know ab: with. out military policies from my own raw you an combat service (Panama 1989) and all of the from talking to senior noncoms ire children and officers who served in no adults. Vietnam and Korea, the Soviet Your stories of raping women id strongest and killing children is so much of the bull- Hollywood bullshit! You really up a much should ask people who know about these things before you write vour ability to articles, ne retaliate, You say you won't fight for KuIt is up to wait because it is an undemocratic ire going to aristocracy, but does Saddam Husor not. If sein have the right to move in by h a danger- force and take over a country? schoolyard Should we just let him have it n get any- (K"wait)? We let Adolf Hitler take )f force. Austria right before World War II I have been and look how that turned out! irizing the Tou talk about how Bush has rid War II not tried to have a peaceful solu1. tions. He tried every alternative to it President military force, but force is all Hushe need to sein understand. jorge Bush Don't get me wrong, I am not erican ace an ultra-conservative. I am neither * five enemy a Republican or a Democrat; I War II. choose my sides and make my deions in the cisions on each and every issue by mger than following my heart and using my l this cam- mind. by enemy "We should all pull together to seen close try and get this conflict solved 1 he knows peacefully." Didn't you realize that s does not the U.N. has been trying just that iman life, since Aug. 2? Man, you must have British or woq1 over your eyes and cottage ghts of the cheese in your ears. You really not come d?n't know what's going on. ict weigh Try watching the news and reading the paper (other than the com- ! ye that you ics) for a change. I don't think ill see the everyone should go off and join s. I would the Army, but if you are drafted am to pro- (as I very well can and probably in Saddam will be), you should serve. Id'like to I can tell you from experience >ur support that the main thing a soldier in the * for their field craves is support on the homefront for what he is doing. If * Hoadley you run to Canada if a draft oc^es junior curs, I hope to hell the FBI catches ; k. you and locks you up! i For your information, if you iwCtS dodge the draft and have taken out m g* anY government grants or loans for . SCI} college, they automatically become canceled, and payment in full is ; due. letter (col- I can't think of a better way to d not be close than what Mr. Wimsatt did ! by Mr. with the quote from John Stuart with Mr. Mill on Feb. 11. Please read that cxandcr's again Mr. Shcaly and if you need Shealy. facts on the war or the military 1 * undoub- will gladly supply it (my number ar movies is in the Columbia phone book), ated, low Billy DuPree As a vet- HRTA freshman