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CIA
Who is director of this age
not as important as its mist
Senate confirmation hearings of Robert Gate*
pointless as the Clarence Thomas interrogation,
accused by a former colleague of being slow-witt
Veteran CIA analyst Hal Ford said Gates was si
Communism was on its way out and repressed the
that disagreed with him.
Imagine that, Gates found it hard to believe tf
was collansina rinrinfr the 1980s. The onlv nerson
predicted the recent dramatic events in the USSR
'80s would be Nostradamus, and he probably was
the agency at the time.
The other criticism of Gates is equally dubious
Ford claims Gates had to know about the Iran-C
cause Gates is so intelligent. That's supposed to
Most likely, anyone we hire from within die intelli
ity to run the CIA is going to have skeletons in the
The Democrats are following the fallacious r<
they reject Robert Gates in confirmation hearings,
will see me error in nis ways ana nominate 1 in
Mother Theresa, or even Walter Mondale. If G;
Bush will put up another conservative clone. The I
ical brinksmanship is pointless. Unless we find c
member of the Manson family, let's just get this
confirm him.
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wondering when we are going to <
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there are homosexuals among us, who
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their neighbor, it gives them the right
the rules by which that neighbor she
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'ography Editor should remain as political party in
the Soviet Union, just to keep a
lRIC GLENN two-party system, I wondered what
oom Technician flavor of Jell-O he was using for
brains. Why not say the Tories
, ID . o n 7 should have remained as a political
p^y after the American Revolu]action
Manager tion. We were only a one-party
AY BURGOS system then too. But Mr. Watts'
action Manager mmaiess oiauieni.g 15 puicucu ,
the First Amendment, so he has ^
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siness Manager Yet, I Find myself getting more
and more disgusted with his "point
of view," ana his editorial on Sept.
27, 1991 drew the line for me. 1
First off, let's get beyond the fact 1
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tudent. An address Watts' disdain for religion is 1
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Watts doesn't do in his articles.
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nore and more involved in serious The former wa
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nore often than any previous gen- the latter is a
ration. Also, in the past 10 years, from the moral:
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depending on what report you to lose them,
ead, today's youth spend any- Watts?
vhere between 4?8 hours watchng
this daily.
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Vatts, but if you sit anyone, ado- a.
escent, teen or adult, in front of 20CS li.
he TV for 4-8 hours watching and
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n' Roll," whoever is seeing this . ihis 1S m re*
vill not only believe in it, but will iaI wntten ?n 1
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Mr. Watts, you say people will groups at USC
not (and I quote), "listen to Ma- iem. Let's g<
donna and go right out and imitate news! USC has
tier." Then explain the thousands On Nov. 1,1
3f teenage girls back in the in a national \
mid-1980s who dressed just like jhe Streets. I
the "Material Girl." Dressing like, dents, faculty,
acting like, let's face it, people and communit;
succumb to peer pressure and be- portunity to go
come so imnro^ionable that they a day of comi
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ists are certainly not going to succeed in making
progress come more swiftly by breaking
; windows, spray painting on buildings and as
saulting police officers.
Martin Luther King led the greatest human J
rights movement in history, peacefully. He was *
wise enough to know that irrational and violent
behavior would only cause his supporters to \
ition to l?se ground in their battle for equality. In anal- ?;
Dunter- ?gy> the gay protestors' behavior will only give
people a reason to feel Wilson made the right !
decision. The only people the protestors proved I
00 de- showed a lack of judgement was themselves,
pplaud. To finally crumble the walls of prejudice, gay ;
1 when rights activists must prove to society that their ?
e will homophobic attitudes are unfounded. Violence .
be fact is certainly not the answer. If you hold someone !
ive and at gunpoint you can probably make them say
anything, but that certainly doesn't mean they'll
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like their idols. ultimate goal of Into The Streets is
at about rebellion?" bringing people to a lifelong com- l<
How can you even mitment in community service,
merican Revolution To participate, USC has had to
n of youth today? form a coalition representative of
is a moral uprising our campus. Our coalition has
ressive government, brought together all kinds of peohedonistic
nosedive pie ? a "mixing of all groups" if
5 of our forefathers, you will ? from across the cam:
has to have morals pus and the community. Together
doesn't one, Mr. we are identifying issues facing
society and by going into the
Keith Hoffmann streets we can begin to solve them.
MIS junior The Into The Streets challenge
rnaram statement says it all too well, "...
* ^?5" ?11I We must strive to create communi~1
* a 1 _n
X _ ucs inai mien iu auu vaiuc an
) SllCtllj voices. Our diversity is our greatest
strength. Believing each individual
has something to contribute to
iponse to the editor- unifying the world in which we
Sept. 23 concerning jjve j Wl\\ ?
ejudice. It stated, i encourage everyone to accept |
lixing of all ethnic this challenge by participating in
will help the prob- inl0 jhe Streets. By doing so it ?
jt started." Good win strengthen student community !
already begun. partnerships as well as diversify !
JSC will participate the leadership and the volunteer ;
3rogram called Into 5asc culturally, politically, ethnit
will provide stu- caHy an?j economically. Look for !
staff, administrators it "77-5" coming,
y members the op- Kim Lovelace
> into the streets for Student coordinator,
nunity service. The Into The Streets