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4 • The Red and Black • Friday, October 12, 1990
OPINIONS
The Red & Black
Katabliahed 1893—Incorporated 1980
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■ EDITORIALS
Welcome statesmen
We would like to extend a welcome to our
distinguished visitors — and thank Former Secretary
of State Dean Rusk, our distinguished faculty member
for bringing them here.
Former secretaries of state George Schultz,
Alexander Haig, Cyrus Vance, Edmund Muskie and
William Rogers join Rusk today in giving the Eighth
Annual Report of the Secretaries of State at the Fine
Arts Auditorium.
How’s that for world class?
The panel of former secretaries will analyze foreign
policy affairs, and veteran newsman Edwin Newman
will moderate the discussions.
The six statesmen served six presidents from John
F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan and bring a great deal of
experience to the perusal of events in Eastern Europe
and the Persian Gulf.
They also bring prestige to the University —
honored as the choice for the report. It is being held
here in honor of Rusk, who served under former
Presidents Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from 1961 to
1969. The University has Rusk to thank for this coup.
The event will appear on closed-circuit television at
the Tate Student Center from 10:30 a m. to 1 p.m.
It’s tomorrow
If Congr ess and the White House were bakers, right
now they’d be serving a really dry cake with a lot of
icing. Washington seems to think that all the friendly
rhetoric of bipartisanship and tough posturing about
deficit reduction are enough to satisfy the American
public.
As Georgia’s Senior Senator Sam Nunn said earlier
this week, “We’re building a whole other tier of
disillusionment.”
Well folks it’s just not going to work. When the
illusion fades the only truth left will be the dark
shadow of the economic disaster looming over a once
great nation.
Rather than do what must be done, Washington
chooses just to scratch the surface because the
politicians are afraid to tell the public how bad the
situation is. As a result very little is accomplished.
According to a report in Thursday’s Atlanta
Constitution:
• In the time it took our illustrius leaders to
hammer out the deficit-reduction package of $40
billion, the projected deficit grew almost $69 billion.
• The $40 billion reduction package, if passed, is
only 3 percent of last year’s total federal spending.
• Even with the reductions included in the package,
the federal deficit will be $91 billion over January
estimates.
There’s a time to cut bait and there’s a time to fish.
It’s time to fish. We don’t need, and we can’t afford, for
our elected officials to continue these cosmetic efforts.
We need some sweeping changes in the way
Washington conducts business.
Anyone who thinks the problem can be solved
without serious budget reductions and a restructured
tax system is either naive or ignorant. And anyone who
says that these changes won’t have to hurt everyone is a
liar.
The time has come to pay the rent. Politicians must
accept that their constituencies will suffer because of
their mismanagement of the economy. The public must
accept that they elected these officials and must
therefore face the consequences.
Everyone shares the blame. For too long we have
acted like Scarlet O’Hara and thought, “Oh well, I’ll
think about it tomorrow.”
Tomorrow is here.
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New realities are central to global development
With the onset of decolonization in the late
1950’s and early 1960’s, many scholars began to
look at the issue of global development. This
issue is still on the frontbumer today. Some
writers (the “modernization” school) tend to
stress that Third World countries need to emu
late the development of the West.
The prescription is for the lesser developed
countries to adopt the “liberal” structures of the
more advanced countries and move rapidly into
higher stages of development. However, be
cause of the realities in the developing world,
this prescription is flawed. Not only are the
conditions which were extant when the devel
oped world modernized simply not there, but
it’s ethnocentric to believe that the Third World
desires to emulate Western society (witness
Iron). Even though the modernization school
makes many valid points concerning the devel
opment of a political/social system, we cannot
accept its propositions as the simple answers to
rapid Third World development. Indigenous
Third World development is much more com
plex.
Other writers (the “dependency” school)
argue that development indegenous to the
Third World cannot happen because Western
exploitation keeps lesser developed countries in
a state of dependence. The contention is that
the developed world sucks up all the resources
of the developing world and allows only the
amount of wealth which will keep the Third
World’s political and economic elites in posi-
Chris
Brown
tions of power to trickle down (to keep the
system going). Basically, the First World states
are the developed “core,” while the Third World
states are in the perpetually dependent “pero-
phery.”
The dependency argument is easily grafted
onto many of the emerging issues in developing
countries. For example, it’s argued that the
world’s rainforests are being destroyed to feed
wood and beef to the hungry “core;” ethnocide of
indegenous cultures is taking place because
they are in the wav of resource extraction; and
inequality in the Third World persists because
it facilitates the dependency system. Neverthe
less, when placed in proper perspective, we can
see that the dependency argument is just as
flawed as the modernization argument.
Too often we try to place blame without
looking at the whole picture. The dependency
school does draw our attention to inequities in
the global system, but we shouldn’t accept that
Third World underdevelopment is simply a
matter of Western exploitation.
Until last year, East European communists
argued that the West was the great evil. They
failed to see that their systems were the real
problem. Today, Saddam Hussein would have
us believe that it’s the imperialist West which
doesn’t understand Arab realities (that the
West is the aggressor in the Middle East). Even
Syria won’t buy this argument.
The point is, while there may be evidence
that Western economic exploitation of the
Third World exists, we cannot suppose that the
problems of the developing world rest solely on
this point. Instead of looking for simple an
swers, we need to accept basic realities.
The East Europeans saw that their system
was gravely flawed and were successfully able
to change. Saddam Hussein must accept that it
is him versus most of the world. The West must
accept that the amount of the world’s resources
it consumes must be reduced. And, even with
the harsh cards they have been dealt, Third
World countries must confront forthrightly rea
lities such as economic inequality, corruption,
population explosion and cultural diversity if
they are to develop or, as some would say, be
liberated.
Chris Brown is a graduate student in political
science. This is the first in a series of columns by
graduate students and professors in the polit
ical science department.
Sacco: ‘Begin preparation for third world war’
World War III is upon us. It will determine
the fate of our country as well as that of every
nation on the globe.
The gathering winds before a great storm of
destruction and death have produced villains
more terrible than Hitler and killers more
loathsome than Stalin. Their armieB use
weapons worse than mustard gas, napalm or
biological agents. With no regard for life, every
single living thing is the object of their wraith.
They will sweep the ideals of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness from the chambers of
our great nation. They will hew down the lofty
goals of democracy and human rights, only to
replace them with a wasteland devoid of human
occupation. Our ememy will relentlessly and
systematically destroy us. We must never allow
the purpetrators of this new world war to be
victorious in their twisted aspirations.
As the Berlin Wall has fallen into ruin and
communism fades into a bad memory, this new
terror lifts its ugly head to threaten the sanc
tity of life everywhere. We will all have sacri
fices and hardships to endure until, with
finality, we bring the enemy to heel, subdue
and vanquish him. We must all become mem-
Steven
Sacco
bers of the most massive offensive force in his
tory, so we can defeat the war machine of those
who are killing our planet.
Mother Earth is tne target of the enemy’s ag
gression. His weapons are clorofluorocarbons,
pesticides, deforestation, water pollution, unre
strained fossel fuel consumption, nuclear arms
production, big business and all those who sup
port these and other destructive activities ei
ther actively or passively.
The war against the planet started with the
industrial revolution. It will end only when the
soldiers for the environment take decisive ac
tion to lay earth’s killers to rest once and for all.
Short of this, our world will become just an
other lifeless stone in the universe.
The same way Hitler’s blitzkrieg overtook
Poland, The Netherlands and France, chain
saws are taking The Amazon; dioxins are
taking the oceans; industry is taking the atmo
sphere. As in the first years ofWorld War II, the
United States is standing by idle while it hap
pens before our very eyes. How long will we
wait until we fight the expansion of unrelenting
global extermination?
We responded like firefighters to a 5 Eilarm
blaze to halt Iraqi aggression in the Gulf, yet in
the face of an enemy that will blacken the en
tire world we have done next to nothing. While
we patriotically waive our colors supporting ac
tion in Saudi Arabia, we are overlooking the
conflict that will ultimately destroy us along
with America’s new-found bad guy. As we
clamor for war against the dreaded Saddam
Hussein, we walk silently into a global Ausch
witz.
We must recognize there is indeed a new
World War. Which side are you on?
Steven Sacco is a senior criminal justice major.
Heath and company are silly
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and Black's offices at 123 N. Jackon St., Athens. Ga.
Terrance Heath seems to feel
that it would be “worth it to cre
ate...protection” for homosexuals
by adding them to the University’s
non-discrimination policy.
It is the University itself, how
ever, which needs to be protected
from Heath and those of his ilk,
who seem to have nothing better to
do than wallow in their own politi
cally correct attitudes as they
imagine new ways to gain mar
tyrdom from their "victimization"
at the hands of the “hegemonic
power structure."
One wonders who will be the
next group added to the sacred roll
call of equality. Perhaps people
whose sexual orientation, or lack
thereof, precludes long-term
relationships with men or women.
Justice David Souter rocieved
much criticism of his bachelorhood
during the past several months,
with some of his critics going so far
as to suggest that his solitary life
style so separated him from the
mainstreEim as to render him unfit
for the Supreme Court.
I think the University should
nip this potentially embarassing
problem in the bud, and vow not to
discriminate against single profes
sors up for tenure.
Silly? You bet. But then so are
Heath and company.
John Hunter
Junior, English
Congratulations
Congratulations to the entire
staff of The Red and Black on being
named the top college non-dculy
newspaper for 1990 by the Society
of Professional Journalists.
The Red and Black serves its
readers and The University of
Georgia very well, providing excel
lent news coverage combined with
thoughtful analysis.
This award is well deserved and
comes as no surprise to those of us
who are regular readers.
Best wishes for continued suc
cess.
Charles B. Knapp
University president
Goff says thanks
As we cross the mid-point of the
season. I’d like to take this oppor
tunity to express to the Georgia
student body the appreciation of all
our players and coaches for the tre
mendous support this season.
The student support at our
games has been a great lift to our
team during the early part of the
season. As you know, the second
half of our schedule is always the
most difficult and that begins with
Ole Miss on Saturday.
As a former Gerogia student and
Bulldog player, I can say from first
hand experience that the level of
enthusiasm in our stadium always
begins with the student body. We
need that enthusiasm to be at its
peak in Sanford Stadium tomorrow
as we play an Ole Miss team that is
off to its best start since 1970.
I can promise that your football
team will play hard from start to
finish. Thanks for your support to
morrow and for the rest of the
season.
Ray Soft
Hud Football Coach
No gay rights
In regard to the article on gay
rights and the editorial on Univer
sity President Charles Knapp, I
have something to add.
According to Webster’s, a mi
nority group is "a racial, religious,
or political group that differs from
the larger controlling group.”
An objective study into tnis defi
nition would show that homosex
uals are not a racial or political
group, and they are definitely not a
religious group.
God abhors homosexuality and
we mustn’t continue to feed this
disease by condoning it. Only once
we stop creating excuses for the ho
mosexual community will the dis
ease be cured.
Rand Csahy
freshman, political science