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“Z guess you can claim a win by forfeit, but in reality there was no team called ‘Open Date’ who was supposed to show up and play us.” Opinion Freedom there ... Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler s blueprint for the Third Re ich, is on sale again in West Germany. It and other Nazi-era literature was banned at the end of the war 35 years ago. A German court overturned the ban earlier this month, and reaction is strong. One side argues for unrestricted access to Nazi sources, so the children of the era can better understand the nature of the evil. The other says evidence of needed German maturity is not yet available. However, the court is not eroding the evil in the docu ments. Instead, it is putting it on display to serve as warn ing. The German people can stand the freedom, as the tele cast of “Holocaust” last year demonstrated. The truth did set them free. ... but less here A recent court decision on this side of the Atlantic is closing doors on freedom instead of opening them. Three months ago the Supreme Court held that judges could close pretrial hearings to the press and public. Fallout from the decision is scary — last week a re porters’ committee confirmed 58 instances in which closure was requested. In some cases judges have closed proceedings that amounted to trials where guilty pleas and sentences were considered. Meetings that crucial to a person’s freedom should be open to public scrutiny. the small society by Brickman N£>T PUNNING- £>NLY a[)cnit\& OF THE PUNNING LAST TIMES- —"£^2-—jl. Washington Star Syndicate ZO-Z3 The Battalion u s p S 045 360 LETTERS POLICY Letters to the editor should not exceed 300 words and are subject to being cut to that length or less if longer. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit such letters and does not guarantee to publish any letter. Each letter must be signed, show the address of the writer and list a telephone number for verification. Address correspondence to Letters to the Editor, The Battalion, Room 216, Reed McDonald Building, College Station, Texas 77843. Represented nationally by National Educational Adver tising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. The Battalion is published Monday through Friday from jSeptember through May except during exam and holiday j>eriods and the summer, when it is published on Tuesday hrough Thursday. Mail subscriptions are $16.75 per semester; $33.25 per school year; $35.00 per full year. Advertising rates furnished on request. Address: The Battalion, Room 216, Reed McDonald Building, College Station, Texas 77843. United Press International is entitled exclusively to the use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it. - Rights of reproduction of all other matter herein reserved. Second-Class postage paid at College Station, TX 77843. MEMBER Texas Press Association Southwest Journalism Congress Editor Liz Newlin Managing Editor Andy Williams Asst. Managing Editor Dillard Stone News Editors Karen Cornelison and Michelle Burrowes Sports Editor • Sean Petty City Editor Roy Bragg Campus Editor Keith Taylor Focus Editors Beth Calhoun and Doug Graham StaflF Writers Meril Edwards, Nancy Andersen, Louie Arthur, Richard Oliver, Mark Patterson, Carolyn Blosser, Kurt Allen, Debbie Nelson Photo Editor Lee Roy Leschper Jr. Photographers . Lynn Blanco, Sam Stroder, Ken Herrera Cartoonist Doug Graham Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the editor or of the writer of the article and are not necessarily those of the University administration or the Board of Regents. The Battalion is a non-profit, self- supporting enterprise operated by students as a university and community newspaper. Editorial policy is determined by the editor. Broder What ideas about running the Cabiml did Jimmy get from the World Series! 1 conti By DAVID S. BRODER BALTIMORE — As a lifelong Chicago Cubs fen who was in no position to afford a World Series ticket when the Cubs last played, in 1945, it was strange to be in the stands here when the Orioles and Pirates met in the seventh game in their fall classic. But when you pass your 50th birthday, you begin to think about the things you want to do once in your life, and seeing a Series game was one of them. “Waiting for Wrigley” began to seen less and less pru dent. It was a marvelous experience — eight innings of superb baseball, with mounting tension, in a game that was 1-0 Orioles, and then, 2-1 Pirates. But the real fillip for a Cub fen was the 40-minute top of the ninth, when the Orioles proved that the champions of the American League could be just as mad deningly inept, at a crucial juncture, as our perennial National League also-rans. Let your mind’s eye blot out the light towers, and imagine that the brick two- deckers on Baltimore’s 33rd Street are those on Chicago’s Waveland Avenue, and what happened to the Orioles in the ninth was a scene any Cub fan has etched on his soul’s memory horn constant repetition — the collapse of the pitching, when you need it most. Like dozens of departed Cub managers, Baltimore’s Earl Weaver emptied his bullpen searching for a stopper — to no avail. The first three reliefers he tried gave up successive singles; the next two hit the first men they faced. Each of the middle three men in the pathetic parade was jerked after facing one batter. Tippy Martinez and Dennis Mar tinez went into the record book, au thorities affirm, as the first two pitchers with identical last names to hit opposing batters on successive pitches in a World Series game. The only worrisome thing about this bit of nostalgia the Orioles arranged for the Cub fans in attendance was that Jimmy Carter was in the crowd as well, getting goodness knows what ideas from Weaver about how to manage his next Cabinet shake up. As it happened, about six hours after the lights went out in Memorial Stadium, this Cub fan found himself at a Washington breakfast table with a football fanatic and former President named Jerry Ford. Ford was holding forth in his usual friendly fashion about how the mistakes and waverings of his successor had “re duced the odds” on Carter’s being re nominated, let alone re-elected. And sud denly the thought occurred to this baseball-addled brain that the voters of the United States have been running through Presidents the way Weaver ran through his pitchers in that awful ninth inning. That prompted a question to the former president about turnover rate in his job. He said, “I’m worried about it. I makes the job harder. It makes the capacity of a president to do his job more difficult. But I’m not sure I have the answer as to how to change the situation. “Part of the problem,” Ford said, “is what’s happening on the (Capitol) Hill. The role of the party leader in Congress must be very difficult now. The disintegra tion of party responsibility means Con gress doesn’t move on something like an energy bill.” Musing along on his own track now, opened to t the year, h thinking of Congress (wherekin I sa '^ most three decades) more thantkl graduates House, he said, “The reform»: rrned he (inside Congress) got out of haitl; ihools. T1 development of singlet! istructor t movements has just torn partyi aid. apart. It’s been very harmfultotiei I n addii of a president or Congress to doajn ue to a co I don’t see any answer for it. Arabian gc Nor does this Cub fan. The cons Ungineerir not had what it once thought of;: audi Aral mal two-term president)' atesaren Eisenhower left office, almost21 ng. They ago. Ford is far from alone in thinlj spects of the voters may dismiss anotherprt | The coi as a failure in 1980. |sts of eig But unless we figure out (hears nal exerc those more fundamental problem, he skills I fragmentation of leadership, notjijt t The first White House but in Congress;! backing t political parties —changing pre*giant T. i may be as futile as Weaver’sd«®im into pitchers. Somehow, that breakfast though lot less enjoyable than the night Ixrfore. (c) 1979, The Washingta Post Company ross anc signed to ace they e car.” The ma is next, I reak old a panii ush the s A PRE-ELECTION TURNOUT PREDICTION; //, AS SOON AS W£ pnd OUT WHO THE RAT IS FOR, I’LL BE ABLE TO ANNOUNCE ^ v THE WINNER. Y can. Peoj push stop, but Next a gise, he ouple of irough. ad revei “We’ve about 35 hat a pol onfined fFRElHVAN ELECTION eff- 4 / V/QTg- COUNT1N Cr COM M- Snveway hey’re ti they get benders ; major, b | them the lot of me lent, ar red tape, Bramh ver the s the slalo “Then the car i steering it ‘chassi ^ 1 know wl has on tl tating in the weig you con shock at that out Dick West If inflation didn’t already exist, to go so las a vio car in tl someone would have to invent In the he said. that we By DICK WEST United Press International WASHINGTON — The nation’s economists are ticked off at us consumers, and for good reason. Thus far, the recession they have been forecasting for this fall has failed to mate rialize — at least to the predicted degree. And that has delayed the recovery that was supposed to take place next summer. The latest blow came last Friday when the Commerce Department announced an unexpected 2.4 percent jump in the Gross National Product for the third quarter of the year. Economists, caught with their trends down, seem to take the upturn as a per sonal affront. “How can we get started on the road to recovery if we keep putting off the reces sion?” they grumbled. Or words to that effect. Some blamed the rally on consumers, accusing us of perpetrating a “fluke” in crease in spending. But my favorite economist. Dr. Adam Strangesmith, be lieves the problem is more deeply rooted than that. “The economy’s failure to go into the anticipated downspin is direct result of people learning to stop worrying and love notion, ” he said in his analysis of the situa tion. “That would be like learning to love the atom bomb,” I protested. “Who could possibly love inflation?” Dr. Strangesmith stroked his chin thoughtfully. “Home owners love it be cause it permits them to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving. Bankers love it because it has driven up interest rates. “Gold traders love it because it has caused gold prices to zoom right off the charts. Currency dealers love it because it has stimulated wild monetary speculation. Oil importers love it because they can counter Arab price-gouging with cheap dollars. “Congressmen love it because it eases the pressure on them to cut taxes. Admin istration officials love it because it gives them a good excuse for being unable to control government spending. And the list goes on and on. “If you could see inflation through their eyes, you might feel the same way.” I said, “If inflation is so lovable, why does everyone say such rotten things about it?” desigi “It is, dear boy, as a scap tion fills the greatest Strangesmith explained, what goes wrong, you can alwaysH on inflation. “In that regard, it has become-| indispensable. If inflation didnta exist, someone would have to inv9 “But anyone using inflationasae bugbear can’t afford to embrace it] cally. Therefore, most of its ioven-j cret admirers.” Expounding on that them(| Strangesmith insisted it is relit part company with inflation that is up the recession. “Unless the bottom drops out^ soon, he warned, “recovery! too late to influence the 1980 ele cierrt Tfr hazar the si “If in th; then light, greer unde high- in we cidei viole skid that We us tl have Letters Shuttle buses don’t run past 10 p.m. so off-campus Ags stay home a lot to cont Editor: I can offer at least one very valid reason for the “low-attendance epidemic” cur rently plaguing the student activities men tioned in the October 18 editorial. The big problem for a lot of us off- campus Aggies is getting to and from the campus. The shuttle bus is great for get ting back and forth to class, but for those of us without cars or alternate means of transportation, we have to rely on it as a ride to our entertainment also. The catch to this is that the shuttles stop at 10 p.m. A lot of activities don’t start until around 7:30 or 8 p.m., and I don’t know of many people who want to take a chance of getting stranded on campus. “Get up and leave if time is getting short,” you say? My friends, consult Emily Post! It is much more rude to get up and leave the room while someone else is talk ing than to just stay away in the first place! I would thoroughly enjoy many of the speakers and entertainment provided, but since I have no transportation, save the shuttle bus, I have no choice but to stay home! — Theresa Stone, ’83 successful seasons and possibly have an all Texas superbowl. We both believe our state is the greatest when it comes to foot ball (just look at the Southwest Confer ence). However since school began this semes ter we have often been ridiculed by Hous tonians for supporting the Cowboys. They constantly insist that Houston is a superior team and that Dallas is in a “weak” divi sion. Because of these students, we have slowly grown accustomed to rooting against the Oilers, one of our Texas teams. Of course, we won’t mention the beat ing that Pittsburgh took from the second place team in the Cowboy’s division, Philadelphia, or the massacre that was dealt to the Oilers by the fourth place team of that “weak” Cowboy’s division, St. Louis. The fact is, the Oiler fens need to learn to appreciate and pull for both Texas teams until they do we will be forced to pull for a rematch of last year’s Superbowl. — Glenn Creamer, ’81 — Michael Kaplan, ’81 Where were you? Editor: Hey Aston! What happened Saturday? Where were the 150 people you were supposed to have working on i Maybe those of you that did attsj might have noticed the 112 Playboys that were out there. I believe that there was a lift tween the yellow pots of this doj your dorm. We want to see; cue balls, Aston. What’s more, 1 about 68 freshman we have 64«> : | and cut Saturday. Where wert | yours? It’s amazing to me how Puryear»| the number of residents but I many people show up for Bonfire kind of trend continues, th< have to call it the Puryear Bonfire — Kevin ]• : THOTZ by Doug Graki Support both teams Editor: Before school began this fall my room mate and I were hoping the Dallas Cow boys and the Houston Oilers would have HUM IF MbfcS DON'T COhE TO US, WE GO TO THEM- what ABOUT THose wkesHXAAfu ^abesH 1L) THAT CROWD OP G4NJMIKTES?,^V TH M I y£. How CPHf VOTERS ’ iPATHCTli.
