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Assistance
Gorbachev tries new Red Scare
to get help for his country
Mikhail Gorbachev wants it both ways. He wants Western assistance,
but he hedges on how he will use that aid to help his
beleaguered country.
Gorbachev means well, but he consistently ducks the hard
issues. He is vague about when his country will be democratic,
when free market reforms will be implemented and when secessionist
republics will be allowed to leave. Until he makes up his
mind about when the USSR will enter the 20th century, the West
is under no obligation to help him.
The Group of Seven meeting this week in London should not be
held hostage to Gorbachev's scare tactics. He warns of the Soviet
Union's imminent demise unless Western help comes soon. He
tries to justify not allowing the Baltic states to secede by conjuring
up images of a "nuclear civil war" within his country, a war that
would spread to engulf the world. One can call this scenario the
new Red Scare: Help us or we nuke everybody.
For all the talk of instability, Gorbachev knows the truth. On
NBC News last week, he said that the USSR is still a superpower,
which is a fact many seem to forget. With all his bluster, about the
Soviet disaster lurking just around the comer, Mikhail Gorbachev
may well be the most powerful con-man in the history of the
world. Despite its peoples' poverty, the USSR still possesses huge
military power.
Let him talk all he wants. If he wants Western money, it must
be on our terms. We must remember the Modified Golden Rule:
whoever has the gold makes the rules. The Western world has the
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treaty will be a big step in the right direction.
Drugs
Grandstanding county solicitor
has self-serving motives
The State newspaper reported Saturday that Richland County
solicitor Dick Harpootlian is trying to take away the alcohol
licenses of twenty-one liquor stores, most of which are owned by
blacks. Harpootlian contends that public drinking in front of the
stores leads to drug .dealing.
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Harpootlian is obviously pandering to anti-drug hysteria.
Targetting predominately black-owned businesses is a dubious tactic
to say the least, and it borders on outright racism. Is Harpootlian
so bankrupt of ideas to fight the drug problem that he has to
stoop to such methods? Why not just arrest all black people that
are "loitering" on the sidewalks? By the solicitor's logic, most
black people out on the street must be drug-pushers or drug-users.
A terrible side effect of the anti-drug movement is the way the
government uses drugs as a pretext for inexcusable violations of
human rights. While Dick Harpootlian becomes the darling of the
anti-drug movement, 21 liquor store owners lose their jobs.
By taking these liquor stores' licenses, they are being found
guilty of their customers' actions. Well, Mr. Harpootlian, the ends
do not justify the means. If ridding the U.S. of drugs means suspending
the U.S. Constitution, pass the crack pipe, Dick.
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Let's talk about advertising and the American
way. More specifically, car advertising. What
does American-made mean these days? Not as
much as you think.
I saw an ad the other day on the idiot box
advertising some sleek-Japanese-looking car. j
The guy with the baritone voice in the background
spewed off statistics making it faster
than Nissan's 300Z. Then, I know I heard i
something about it being "American-made." I
had to check myself on that one. What does t
"American-made" mean now anyway? Does it <
mean that you buy a car with the Chevy name i
plate stamped on the back and Toyota stenciled ]
on the break lights, blinkers, and even find it i
adorned on the dash-board?
American-made means an English chassis
(which is what most cars today sit on) and Ja- i
panese workmanship. The only thing American
about it is the way American corporations are ;
making money by by-passing the American'
worker. An American-made car faster than anything
made in Japan? Wait a second. The car is
made in Japan. .. oh I get it They're trying to i
Car insurance
Can anyone justify why car insurance might
raise 56 percent?
Let me correct that Can any sane person justify
why car insurance might raise 56 percent?
I was driving to work the other day and I
heard on the radio that insurance companies
have won approval for increases up to 56
percent.
As if car insurance wasn't overpriced already.
the great demon of bureaucracy hits with
another dog turd.
The radio report also said the increase was to
help insurance companies make up for their losses
from bad drivers and Hurricane Hugo.
If I'm not mistaken, wasn't Hugo two years
ago? If so, then why are insurance companies
now saying they had losses from it? Did something
happen last July to balance these insurance
companies books?
Why are we now feeling the effects of Hugo
two years later?
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nake believe that the car is American made.
Where is the American sense of virtue ir
his? Is this what we want to be known ai
\merican-made? This American doesn't. An<
where does the worker fit in to this operation'
Sot anywhere near the money making part of it
that's for sure.
This kind of commercial ranks right up ther
with Astro-turf and Vanilla Ice as the top thre
enemies to the American way. What does i
prove? If you're going to sell-out your workers
at least admit it Say something like, "we mad
it in Japan, but it's still American." Promise.
Okay, but I'm not so naive as to think th<
blame lies completely on the corporations. Par
of the problem lies in the fact that the America]
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Or could this Hugo thing be all a scan]
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Another question: Why do the good drive
have to pay for the bad drivers' mistake*
Doesn't it seem correct to have stiffer pr<
miums for those drivers with tickets or acc
dents on their record?
That makes about as much sense as sentero
ing an honest liquor store owner to prison f<
an alcoholic's problem.
It's not the case where honest drivers cou
stop these other drivers from going 75 in a 1
or playing bumper cars on malfunction junctio
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worker will not work for the same money, and
historically does not put out the same quality
car as their Japanese counterparts. But is this
enough of a reason to pick up and move across
the Pacific? So does this mean that anytime a
company doesn't like the quality of its products
made here in the good ole U.S., it should pack
up and head out? Where would we be? In
search of a better mouse-trap I guess.
Okay, so if these companies want to do this, I
j guess they are entitled. But it says here, that
J they are not entitled to call them Americanmade,
because it is fundamentally wrong, it is
as wrong as lights in Wrigley and Thurgood
Marshall not on the Supreme Court. But like
e most things in life, the really big disappointe
ments are here to stay. Sort of like Astro-turf,
t huh? At first it seems like a good idea, then you
dive for a ball and get the wind knocked out of
e you. Except in this case, you're cruising along
in your Japanese wanna-be sports-car, and
e wham! you run into a telephone pole and get
t your spleen knocked out of you. Americann
made, through and through.
ood drivers
1 themselves and stay out of accidents.
However, these pea-brained, pastry-eating insurance
executives would rather stick it to the
honest and straight-forward. Gee, that's so nice
of them
J Because of Louis the Leadfoot, I'm going to
end up paying over $210 for their mess-ups. I
try not to break traffic laws and when I do
i? break them, I don't cause accidents. However,
men with the mentality of Homer Simpson
rs think I should pay extra.
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What's the cure? Do we not pay insurance
_ and write down fake numbers on our registration
renewals? Do we scream at our congressmen?
Do we cancel our insurance and hope we
don't get caught? Do we hunt down bad drivers
? across the state and kill them to lower
.. accidents?
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n. there's no way out. What justice will do next is
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ministration to Mr. Nelson Mandela has said
may begin to that George Bush "acted prema5
rush to lift turely" given the fact that apar5
can still be theid is still the order of the day.
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steps taken tion-. heal'h' h?u.sifn8 and soci?'
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operates by its the letter and the spirit of the law.
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