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I Wednesday, September 18, 1991 Electior Democrats have ask tough Come 1992, the Democratic 1 White House for 12 years. Th back the presidency in 1992 an a chance if they hit the incumbe Now that the Republican for the Persian Gulf War has c some serious questions of Presi allow Saddam Hussein to stay only minutes from Baghdad? V Iraq and then allow the Shi'ites they did rebel? Why is Iraq stil Bush has no answers to these qi The collapse of Communi goal. So why doesn't Bush give USSR as he does to Red China, left on Earth? Why are massiv Japan and South Korea when U.S. assistance? Despite glaring flaws in 1 been a subject of interest for t said for domestic problems. Bui Education President, has done i , even as school budgets are beinj Poor education breeds poveri is it that American streets are le our nations' cities becoming \ violence? Bush is not the sole blame fo elected official in the most pow blame all the nation's ills on his media and foreign economic co Far from being out of the ] 1992 have a golden opportunit despite having great public rel; crvvfr An infplliffpnt PunHiHafp UVV T VI ? M. U1 ItllVlll^viav VM11U1UUIV isolationist, fiscally conservative Democrats ? and Americans most important question, to our can presidential leadership have ited States of America, why st four? \ W?2i | H0W ' \ Km) Ml 1GAM1 1 News: 777-7726 Chris s Editor David Bowden Managing Editor/Viewpoint Edi Tini? Watts News Editor Aaron Sheinin i Sports Editor Patrick Villegas Asst. News Editor Tracey Davis Asst. Carolina Life Editor Virginia Marshall Asst. Copy Desk Chief Wayne Williams Comics Editor , RenbE a. Gibson Asst. Media Director/Advertising i Stacie Lewis Asst. Advertising Manager Erik Collins Faculty Adviser Lara C Asst. Classij Letters Policy: The Gamecock wil try to p maximum, 250 to 300 words long. The wril a ISC employee or South Carofina reside ? and phone number are required with all k to edit letters for style, possible libel or in c not withhold names under any circumstc 1 . '<V> I 7^ ' chance if they ions on future Party will have been shut out of the e Democrats' chances of winning z obviously slim, but they do have ;nt president with the tough issues: s' ad nauseum self-congratulation lied down, the Democrats can ask dent Bush. Namely, why did Bush in power when U.S. troops were Wiy did he call for a revolt within ; and Kurds to be massacred when I a military threat to its neighbors? lestions. sm has always been a U.S. policy as much support to the democratic , the only major Communist power e U.S. forces still kept in Europe, all the bad guys are applying for actics, at least foreign policy has he president. The same cannot be sh, the man who styles himself the nothing for our American schools, 5 slashed across the country. [y and poverty breeds crime. Why ss safe to walk than ever? Why are >owder kegs of racial hatred and r these issues, but he is the highest erful nation in the world. He can't favorite scapegoats: Congress, the mpetition. picture completely, Democrats in y to show the country that Bush, itions skills, has no agenda what; like Douglas Wilder with a neo; policy can win votes, in general ? should ask this, the president: If 12 years of Republidone so little to improve the Unlould we let you stay for another r/ll w^r kmow fVUR Few FFEU? I TA&9PWN. J jjpfc ECDCK Advertising: 777-4249 IlLVESTRI in Chief Brant Long tor Copy Desk Chief Oct a via Wright Carolina Life Editor Teddy Lepp Photography Editor Gordon Mantler Asst. News Editor Rich Taylor Asst. Sports Editor Greg Rickabaugh Asst. Photography Editor Eric Glenn Darkroom Technician Laura S.Day Manager Production Manager Ray Burgos Asst. Production Manager Carolyn Griffin Business Manager ' :hapman tied Manager >rint all letters received. Letters should be, at er must include full name, professional title if nt, or year and major if a student. An address 3tters sent. The Gamecock reserves the right :ase of space limitations. The newspaper will mce. /IEW KiAiV use poli< A few days ago a friend of min her car across campus from her r It was about midnight, and there for her to call for an escort. She about making the walk home alon< careful to stick to the lighted paths I ran into her with a friend of n pened to be walking me back to at the same time. After I verbally for walking alone, she told me si two USC police officers who had notice of her what so ever. These officers were not chasing in any kind of hurry at the time, things, they were escorting anothei It is amazing to me that these n much as ask her why she was wal more importantly, if one of them her, especially since there were together. They could easily have sj one of them could have walked hei I would think with all the cri P.D. sees going on around campu be on the ball enough to know Abortion still woman's right To the editor: I am writing in response l Brian McCarter's editorial on th abortion issue. I will try not to be come either angry or irrational a most female humanities student do. However, I am a bit puzzle* by what exactly is the point o your article. You asked us to ponder the dif ference between the termination o a six-week old fetus and the anni hilation nf wplfarp rppinipntc r\r or ? -w-. T. vuwv lwiyivuvj w* vyi phans and the elderly. The mail difference is the word you so care lessly dismiss: choice. A woman who has made the dif ficult moral choice that she is in capable of caring for a child ha: the right to carry the child to term and to apply for welfare to helj her through her pregnancy ant child-rearing. Whether or not slit will receive this funding in eithei case is a matter for the lawmakers to argue about, and the Departmcn of Welfare and Social Services tc decide. Mr. McCarter, you seem very anviouc to Hicmicc llio wmrf "choice" and to replace it witli abortion, murder and manslaughter. Are you that much afraid ol reason that you must resort to fireeating? In the title of the article, it is stated that the abortion issue cannot be based on logic. In that respect, I agree with you completely. However, you proceeded to bring up biological questions to form a logical argument about when life begins (does it have brainwaves, POIN' 1KCOCK bury you g -nikitav-h :e should ] ie had to park esidence hall. was nowhere Ouri was nervous bHEL J, but she was line who hapmy apartment rhactkfvl hpr le had passed the best way to figh not taken any Well, perhaps they'r of unregistered parti a criminal, or yial details. In fact, of all T . .c . . yT I wonder if tho membered her if th len did not so king alone, or m8 3,1 emergency c; could escort Granted, we fern two of them waj^ aione on cam plit up so that us j,ave jQ|)S an(j 0|, r home. ^y ch0jce ^ut t0 i me the USC vents us from beinj is they would The police can't be prevention is not omnipotent. Ho^ LETTERS f( etc.). The fact is that the abortk issue is a metaphysical argume f as was pointed out. The truth that there is no way anyone c; decide once and for all when li begins and how life is define 0 One person (or group of people e be they scientist, theologian < " philosopher, cannot prove this fac s While no one can know (and it s entirely possible we may nev< ^ know when life begins), isn't tl * only conclusion (logical, mora metaphysical or what have you) I ~ allow personal choice? A woman confronted with a unwanted pregnancy must as these questions herself, and the 1 make her own decision. In th cases where she chooses the altei native of abortion, she should als have the right to apply for welfai " aid to terminate the pregnancy, ju: 5 as if she chooses to cany the chil ' to term, she has the right to appl j for prenatal care. Women are not breeders, Mi McCarter, and the state must rec [ ognize this and not discriminat ' health and medical care just be 1 cause of a self-righteous minorit ' who believe they can decide wh< is a "justifiable medical expense for a pregnant woman and what i ' not. i Darcy M. Harri English senio Israel has had enough monej To the editor: The United States should nc give Israel $10 billion more an should reduce the current $3 bil lion we already supply. The U T be more re* to make s self, I thii they seize LEY I am nc /Npr* not an idi M Ava CC ing alone passed no men alonj .. ? . , walk her. t potentially violent crimes. when he , e too busy fighting the evils home es to take note of such triNo mat se officers would have re- noring th< ley had to answer her push- 1116 Pa*n c all box five minutes later. t0,?ne *n : odds mea ales know it is not safe to alone on a pus. Unfortunately, a lot of (ligations that don't leave us 11 an ol >e out late and parking pre- was walki I able to call for an escort dnue on 1 there all the time. They're should be (vever, when the opportunity happen. E 3 THE EDITOR cannot afford to give away such )n large amounts of money because nt we must confront our own probis lcms. Also, Israel should apologize m for their selfish and threatening fe behavior. d. Money is in short supply and 0. everyone around the globe from or Russia to South America wants ;t some. Besides these countries, 's which have real humanitarian and er economic needs, people inside our ie country are desperate for aid. il, Next year the people of Puerto to Rico vote for independence or statehood. If they vote yes, the US n will have to spend billions to bring k them up to our economic and liv:n ing standards. If the vote is no, le countless thousands will join the r- growing Cuban migration to the o US. These are problems we have e to face and support. We don't have st to support Israel's plan to bring d Russian Jews over to Israel so that y they can out-number the Palestinians and live in relative luxury, r. Even if this was a humanitarian :- need, which it is not, we still cane not help. i- I believe Israel was out of line y in their reaction to Bush's demand it tliat HiCPiiooiAno rvn fKn 01 r\ f KrvnM ii uiai uiovuooiuiid uii uiv aiu diiuuiu wait. Desert Storm was partially 5 carried out to protect Israel from their greatest enemy. After the s war, we actually gave them over r $600 million for supposed comI pensation. Also, we already give [ them more aid than any other country. J Eric McKenzie MBA Program H Only whites ,d can be racist S To the editor: - 3 r? n E| jlenins I TOMB ming Scon * sponsive omeone's life a little safer presents itnk it's part of their job to make sure it. >t a trained professional, but I am also ot. As soon as I saw my friend walkI was concerned. She told me that she ?t only the officers, but a number of I the way. None of them offered to That was the first thing my friend did saw her. By then she was practically ter who you are, I cannot imagine ig; chance to possibly spare someone >f a violent, sexual assault. It happens six women. Do you realize what those in if you pass six women walking my given night? fficer saw a rape happening while he ng someone home, would he just contiis merry way? I think not. And he just as quick to stop a rape waiting to ven if it isn't convenient, it is his job. I am the man who said it's impossible in this society for AfricanAmericans to be racists, simply because we don't have control over the power structure. AfricanAmericans can definitely be prejudiced and have hatred towards other races, but in this Eurocentric society, we can't discriminate against whites through laws or in corporations that practically run this country. I can be very ethnocentric and condemn everyone of European descent, but if I don't control what goes on, who the hell cares? Can anyone tell me why the United States' main enemies in recent years have been men of color? Castro, Khadafy, Hussein, Arafat and Noriega. These men are all looked at as "bad" men, but P.W. Botha who condoned apartheid was overlooked by many. Strom Thurmond once said he didn't want white kids going to school with "niggers." Thurmond is one of the most influential men in the United States. I was misquoted and I hold the editor responsible. I also said that African-Americans could be racists towards Native Americans only if African-Americans controlled the power structure. It was reported that someone at the forum told me to lode up the definition of racism, but it wasn't pointed out that dictionary was nearby and my point was proven. Racism: discrimination through laws based on prejudice. Robert L. Ellington Political science junior p