OPINION
University Daily Kansan, June 13, 1984
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JAMES BOLE KAREN DAVIS Editor Business Manager
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Drinking age
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved recently a bill to cut federal highway money for any state that does not raise its drinking age to 21.
Raising the drinking age, though it would certainly lower highway deaths, is only a temporary response to a serious problem. If 18- to 21-year-olds have a higher risk than other adults, it is only because they have just been given the right to drink. If the drinking age is raised to 21, then it will only shift the risk to 21- to 24-year-olds. Raising the drinking age will not change people's attitudes about drinking and driving
Legislators would be better off tying federal highway money to something that demonstrates a cause-and-effect relationship to drunken driving.
Why not require states to have minimum sentences for drunk drivers? Or base funding on the number of repeat offenders? Or base it on a state's ratio of alcohol-related deaths to its total population?
Instead of the cosmetic and politically oriented legislation now being considered, these are measures which would attack the problem at the roots.
A classic series
What makes an NBA playoff series a classic?
Start with two of the most successful professional basketball teams in the history of the sport. Then add several living legends — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson. The rest of the roster, too long to list here, reads like a Who's Who in basketball.
A classic playoff should feature classic confrontations
At the star level it was Bird v. Magic, a longstanding rivalry dating back to their college days when they battled it out for the NCAA Championship, and an ongoing debate among sportswriters over which one is going to become the greatest player in this decade.
At the team level it was Pat Riley against K.C. Jones, the explosive power of the Lakers against the solid control of the Celtics, with both teams displaying brilliant execution of the styles that are there trademarks.
After seven games it was Boston that won the title, and Bird had won the Most Valuable Player award, but the debates will rage on. Nobody will deny respect to the gentleman veteran Jabber, who at 37 years still sets the standard, nor will anybody have to wonder if Magic Johnson will continue at the same level of greatness as "The Hick from Frenchclick," Larry Bird. He will.
Yes, it was a classic series, and for now anyway, the long awaited smile on the face of Larry Bird tells the whole story.
Olympic sponsors
Imagine Athens in 776 B.C.
You would not have seen Coca Cola banners or Nike logos on athletes' shoes at the first Olympic games. But then again, the first Olympic athletes didn't wear shoes, or any clothes, for that matter.
It has become fashionable to complain about the commercialism of the Olympic games. On the contrary, the private financial backing of the athletes is a good thing. It enables the athletes to participate without financial backing from the U.S. government.
It is nice to know that private enterprise will pick up the tab — a form of support the government has purposefully chosen not to provide since the beginning of our participation in the Olympics in 1896.
Ironically, although the U.S. government does not believe it is responsible for financially supporting the athletes, it does have the influence to cancel their participation in the Games, as in 1980.
Occasionally businesses overuse the phrase that pays ("official sponsor of the 1984 Olympics") , but more often the emphasis remains were it belongs — on the athletes. In short, everyone benefits from the commercial sponsorship of the Games.
The U.S. Olympic athletes deserve support for their training and hard work to prepare for the Games, and financial backing from private enterprise should be looked upon as just that, a pat on the back for excellence.
LETTERS POLICY
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Population threat looms
The world is getting smaller. World-wide transportation and communication networks have reduced the distance between countries and put the continents within hours of each other.
But there's one more reason why the world no longer seems to be the vast expanse we once knew — population.
As the numbers on earth grow, the world itself is shrinking in a phenomenal way. Unfortunately, this population boom affects those very young and fragile millions—Brazil, China India and many African countries.
For reasons singularly their own, each of these countries has been unable to control its population explosion. A significant discrepancy between its birth and death rates and an unwillingness on the part of its people to comply with family planning are the major concerns. The result — people here, people there, people everywhere.
According to UN estimates, population will zoom up to 851 million by the year 2000 from the 513 million of people in the 1930s figure no doubt, but inevitable.
By 2095, say population statisticians, the birth rates and death rates might be equalized; even then the number of 2.0 billion will be twice that of today's.
Even some Western industrialized countries, such as the United States.
Australia, Canada and New Zealand, will experience a baby-boom generation because of a high percentage of women of childbearing age, say experts. US statistics for 2000 predict an increase from 234 million to 288 million, excluding illegal immigrants from the South.
What the growing numbers mean to the affected countries is that social and economic problems will be on the rise. But any kind of control will have to overcome formidable socioeconomic barriers.
KALPANA
TRIVADI
In Kenya, children are considered a ticket to better life and a symbol of
birth control system. The government now stresses one-child families. This family planning ideology based on "state guidance and mass volunteerism" helped halve China's birth rate. By 1979 the birth rate had declined from 33.6 to 17.6 births per thousand.
India is another country in which any effort to control the population runs contrary to the age old beliefs of the people. Its population of 730 million is expected to increase to 960 million by the year 2000.
In Brazil, the havoc caused by more people, mass robberies and rampant bank holdups is the result of a society that is now out of control. As the country can no longer provide either jobs or shelter, more are born into a society where the natural alternative seems to be to live on the streets and to steal or even kill to survive.
Japan disapproves of state mandated family planning. In Japan, abortions exceed live births and the pill is illegal.
Africa today is one of the fastest growing regions in the world with an annual growth of three percent. The government has to change social habits gradually to prevent a major national calamity from occurring.
In a few countries the birth rate of children is encouraged because of an amazing drop in birth rates — East Germany offers a financial incentive of $450 to women to have children; Hungary and Czechslavia have tightened their abortion laws.
By contrast, China has a very rigid
Moreover, a tribal community is intrinsic to Kenyans, and the interests of a community are considered best guarded by large numbers. Kenya resembles the situations in other African countries.
In the USSR, concern over the low birth rate of ethnic Russians relative to those of Asian background made the government encourage more births in the mid-70s. The concern stems from the fact that the proportion of the population not of ethnic Russian descent is now at 28 percent.
As staggering as the statistics are, they pale by comparison to the social and economic implications. Very soon somebody will have to call fluor to the adage. "The more the merrier."
social status. Parents have large families in the hope that their children will "make it good" and raise the family out of poverty.
Political season here again
It appears that like the baseball season, the every-four-year political season is here again with our president leading off the grueling race for a pennant and world series berth. Reagan and the Republican Party represent the American League (AL) while Mondale (it now appears) and the Democratic Party represent the National League (NL).
The aspects of the confrontation make it look like the battle between the two sides will be a hotly contested series featuring a pitching duel between Reagan and Mondale. The game is actively involved by not taking risks and merely conforms to what the public wants.
On the opposite side is the NI, which is liberal, does take risks and does not pretend to be something it's not.
No doubt about it, it will be a lengthy series.
The AL's star was caught stealing second base once, yet he "acted" so convincingly innocent with that
give his ailing batting average the uplift it needs to even be in contention this fall.
been committed. His administration reeks with the odor of a "break-in" and cover-up as in the Republican Nixon administration. Mondale was in perhaps an unpopular administration but at least it was one of integrity.
DEB ORSBORN
"Who? Me?" expression on his face that he persuaded the umpire to let him off (Reagan once cheated on a military exam in order to quality for reserve rather than active duty, but avoided punishment) As a superpower leader, he needs his acting power to control the game and to sway the game his way. But double-duty or more bluntly being Mr. Two Face simply won't
However, in 1980, the Carter Administration failed to win its second straight title game, and he was only optimistic about repeating his 1980 run.
The AL has committed too many errors. Just one example is the incident with CIA Director William Casey and the Carter briefing papers. A House subcommittee found "credible evidence" that a crime had
Staff Columnist
Now is the time to decide whether you, the trampled-on spectators, want to sit through another four grueling games with the AL team which has had a poor showing. A sportswriter predicts that the AL will lose the title game against the NL. He记述ed historically, a Democrat has always won the presidential whenever the NL has won the World Series, and he predicts the NL will win this year.
But the nation's fate is in the hands of the people. Realistically, World Series do not determine the outcome of presidential elections. Voters do So which side will it be, the AL or NL?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
I will remember
Dear editor:
Last week was one of many reminiscences, including the formal observation of Memorial Day and the burial of the Unknown Soldier from WWII. The day will also be filled with recollections of 40 years ago, the war in Europe, D-day.
But there was another anniversary that occurred recently. It was on June 3, 1967. One may wonder what happened on that date. Very few people know. I know of only a tiny handful of people who might recognize the date. It is the date that an enlisted marine, Master Sgt. Timo R. Bodden of Illinois, was lost in Laios during the Vietnam war. I do know he returned home. He is only one of many Americans (2,400 according to a recent National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia newsletter) who never came home.
President Reagan said. "We will
Whereas the American people counted the days that our people were held in Iran, those involved with the POW's and MIA's have had to resort to counting the years. Perhaps, if more Americans realized these things, more might be done to obtain full accounting. There is always hope. In the meantime, however, I remember Master Sgt. Bodden, and the 17 years he has been missing, and I will not forget.
write no last chapters" on Vietnam. I do not fear a last chapter; instead I fear that the American people will not forget that there is a last chapter that has not been finished yet. Every year the dates of "incident" for these 2,490 Americans come and go almost unnoticed.
Vicky Millar
Lawrence Junior
It's a dog's world
Dear editor:
The article bothers me especially, because I have seven cute, cuddy kittens to give away. This may be no easy task, judging from the number of free cats advertised in the classified sections of newspapers.
I only wish that barking at strangers, fetching the stick, and making a public spectacle of urinating on inanimate objects while on three legs were in the nature's sights — for it is surely a dog's world.
which appeared in the June 6 University Daily Kansan, was an annoying display of stereotyping. In it, he asserted that men own cats, or pretending to like cats (in order to please women) are "wimps." That statement was not made by the public sentiment makes this article annoying to read by any cat owner.
Nonetheless, I am comforted with knowing that there are good homes for the kittens among virtually all animals. The Royko article is to be believed.
Jurgen C. Scott Lawrence senior
Mike Royko's syndicated article. "Now admit it: Men hate cats."
Reagan's policy marks departure from sad history
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Like many American Presidents before him, Ronald Reagan inherited a stark dilemma in Latin America. He was asked to choose between dictatorship and chaos, between "stability" and subversion. Virtually all previous Presidents chose "stability" — that is, dictatorship. In this, they disregarded Latin Americans' real democratic possibilities and gave many of us the impression that the United States' interests are at odds with its moral ideals. At first, Ronald Reagan seemed almost certain to follow this unfortunate path But he has surprised us in El Salvador.
If the new government of Jose Napoleon Duarte survives—and the United States continues on the course Mr. Reagan has started—El Salvador may eventually emerge as a genuine democracy, free of the terror of the right and the left that has been desolating the country Unfortunately, however, the Reagan Administration has applied its new wisdom only to El Salvador, and less actively, to Costa Rica, which is always an exception That is not enough. Guatemala, Nicaragua, Haiti and other countries of the Caribbean also deserve democracy
American liberals have generally spoken out strongly in favor of democracy, but somehow their ideals have never quite translated into reality here in Latin America. They went on talking about freedom and justice but did not seem to notice that we central Americans were living in a kind of hell – a barbaric political culture that surpasses even the bizarre fiction of Gabriel Garca Marquez. For some reason, they did not seem to see the genocide illiteracy, malnutrition and despotism that many of them have begun to notice in recent years. We Latin
LUIS BURSTIN Costa Rica
Americans wondered why not. But then, it was not, until recently, a theme of electoral importance in the United States.
President Reagan's policy toward El Salvador marks a sharp departure from this sad history. He did not sloganeer. But he also refused to give in to the bizarre and supposedly inescapable patterns of our political environment — the genocide, brutality, populist demagoguery, mysticism, corruption, professional patriotism and leftist revolution without ideas. He simply did what he deeply felt should be done: He prevented an armed minority from grabbing power by force.
He proclaimed that no group should be allowed to siege power without elections, shooting its way into the government. He rejected the notion of "power sharing," which would only have legitimized the power of groups that do not want to submit themselves to the boring details of the electoral process. He eschewed both dictatorship and chaos, holding in both word and commitment to democracy.
Some of us were hopeful when President Franklin D. Roosevelt seemed to take notice of us in the 1930s. But even President Roosevelt seemed more or less skeptical about the possibility of helping us to move toward democracy Remember, after all, what he said about the Niccariquan dictatorism Assimone Garcia."He was an S.O.B., but he is not in the end, Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy did not out one of the 17 Latin American dictators in power at that time.
The Republicans' record is not much better, although at least they never disgusted their noninterest or their scorn for our banana republics. They said openly that the United States could not assume responsibility for historical inability to govern ourselves; our nurses must manner — that Washington could not impose democracy where there was no fertile ground.
President John F. Kennedy took a somewhat more active approach in his Alliance for Progress, although he seemed more concerned about Fidel Castro's triumph in Cuba than about encouraging real democracy in the rest of the region. True, two or three of the 17 dictatorships gave way to fragile democratic governments. But finally, the Alliance for Progress did very little to modify our political culture.
This policy should now be applied throughout Latin America — to all Latin American political groups, on both the left and the right. Wishful thinking? Perhaps, but it would be an unprecedented turning point in the country toward our hemisphere, a political revolution of dazzling possibilities.
Luis Burstin was Costa Rica's Secretary of Information from 1974 to 1978.