“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.
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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.”
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most three decades) more thantkl graduates
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(inside Congress) got out of haitl; ihools. T1
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movements has just torn partyi aid.
apart. It’s been very harmfultotiei I n addii
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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?”
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part company with inflation that is
up the recession.
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so off-campus Ags stay home a lot
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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?
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have to call it the Puryear Bonfire
— Kevin ]• :
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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
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