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Chappaquiddick
is a legitimate issue
Why don’t politicians quit beating around the bush about
Chappaquiddick as an issue in a presidential campaign in
volving Senator Kennedy?
It’s simply hypocritical for a politician to say that Chap
paquiddick is not an issue when by its very mention it is
being made an issue.
It’s hypocritical, too, for a politician or a president to
brag about not panicking in a crisis in response to a ques
tion about Kennedy and then deny that there was any in
tent to imply that Senator Kennedy did panic at Chap
paquiddick.
Chappaquiddick is an issue. It is a legitimate issue.
It’s part of Senator Kennedy’s record. He drove the car
off the bridge at Chappaquiddick and, for whatever rea
sons, he left it and the body of Mary Jo Kopechne there
unreported for 10 hours.
To some, his behavior at Chappaquiddick indicates a
flaw in his character. To others, it may not. In either case,
it’s a legitimate issue to raise in a presidential campaign.
It’s as appropriate to discuss Chappaquiddick in connec
tion with Kennedy as it it to discuss John Connally’s in
dictment in the milk case in his campaign. Both go to the
matter of trust.
We do not mean to say or even imply that Kennedy
cannot be trusted to lead the country.
But if he becomes a candidate, voters will have to decide
that question. And the voters have as much right to hear
and weigh his reactions and comments on Chappaquiddick
as they have to hear and weigh his comments on inflation,
taxes, foreign policy and other affairs of state.
To pretend it is not an issue to is to ignore reality.
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Texas A&M University
Friday
October 26, 1979
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WASHINGTON — Brace yourselves,
folks! It looks like we re in for a cardiac
conscious, anti-cholesterol Christmas this
year.
Come December 25, the nation’s health
nuts should find their stockings bulging
with more than calf muscles and varicose
veins.
The trendy gift catalogs now arriving in
the mail simply are loaded with largess for
the jock who has everything.
Has a long distance runner on your
shopping list quit entering marathon races
because he or she doesn’t have a thing to
wear?
Quel tragique! Grab a Bloomingdale’s
catalog this very instant and order the poor
baby a mink jogging suit.
Better yet, order two. That way, the
jogger can wear one while the other is air
ing out. You know how soggy mink be
comes when saturated with sweat.
Bloomingdale’s, of New York and other
points, offers jogging suits of “rich, rich
mink in navy with racy, red stripes” for
only $10,000 each. For another grand or
two, maybe you can pick up a matching
mink headband.
Should you have more than one exercise
freak to buy for, I recommend acquiring a
Christmas catalog from Sakowitz, the
well-known Houston retailer and
wordsmith.
Noting that someone once “verbalized a
great truism” to the effect that health was
“the ultimate gift,” Sakowitz devotes its
two most prominent catalog pages to fit
ness items.
summer si
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For $127,147.32, you can give a truism
verbalizer on your list a genuine “Texas
shaped swimming pool filled with Per
rier,” the imported sparkling water.
The 32 cents presumably covers the cost
of packing and handling.
For $20,000, Sakowitz will see that an
apple is “hand delivered” to the health
faddist of your choice “each and every day
of the year. ”
If $20,000 seems a lot of money to keep
the doctor away, bear in mind, as the
catalog points out, that “1980 is a Leap
Year. ” The extra day in February reduces
the unit price of the apples from $54.79 to
$54.64 each. So you can see it is quite a
bargain.
Nevertheless, I personally was more
impressed by a “miniature, lightweight
heart rate monitor ... designed to be worn
while exercising. Tyrant, t
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TEL AVIV, Israel — It is said in Israel
that for every two Jews in a room there are
three opinions. So it came as no surprise
when a new political party formed last
month.
has weakened considerably since he came
to power 28 months ago.
Begin’s popularity is at an all-time low
despite the major foreign policy accom
plishment of his administration — the
peace treaty with Egypt.
It is to the political right of Prime Minis
ter Menachem Begin, appealing to a vo
cally demonstrative segment of the popu
lation that opposes returning the occupied
Arab territories and favors widespread
Jewish settlement of those areas.
On domestic issues, Begin is in trouble.
The cost of living has soared beyond 100
percent since Begin took office and is the
cause of much unhappiness with his gov
ernment, expressed largely through labor
unrest.
Democratic Movement, an election in the
near future could well mean the return to
power of the opposition Labor Party.
One of the founders of the Renaissance
Party is Yuval Neeman, a 55-year-old nu
clear physicist. He said he tried to work
within the existing political framework but
that Begin had changed once he became
prime minister.
Called Techiya, which translates as Re
naissance, the party is viewed as a definite
threat to Begin’s ruling Likud bloc and its
major coalition partner, the National Reli
gious party, in an election contest.
The Renaissance Party was bom amid
calls for new elections, coinciding with the
feet that Begin’s hold over his government
In new elections, the Renaissance Party
undoubtedly would sap the electoral
strength of the Likud, as the dovish Dem
ocratic Movement for Change did to the
Labor party in the 1977 election that
brought Begin to power.
Given the dwindling strength and loss of
confidence in the dovish stance of the
“We believe we have no alternative but
to set up a new framework and appeal for
popular support with a clear line on the
major issues confronting Israel today,”
Neeman said recently.
Among the new party’s supporters are
the radicals in Gush Emunim, most of
whom voted for Begin or the NRP because
of their campaign to expand Jewish set
tlement in the occupied territories.
“All these territories must be annexed
to Israel — the Golan, Ji
(the West Bank) — and Gazaaii
must not be relinquished,’
As for the 1.1 million Paleste
those areas, he said, “their hunaj
problem will not be resoW
hypothetical Palestinian statek
they are not natives of those areas
He said the Palestinians should:
settled in the Arab oil countries,s^fv,
afford them.
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straw was the signing of the Cam!
accords. I was shocked that underi 1 1
leadership the majority of the Zi®' ^
ties in the Knesset (parliament 1 '• r
abolish an entire settlementl!*®
Yamit.”
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Editor: pressed with the pride the Aggies take in could be distributed in a less careless fash- ness shows apathy, but c
This letter poses more of a question than the physical appearance of Aggieland. It ion. Maybe “Batt boxes” such as those tion like this is malicious.
Editor:
This letter poses more of a question than
an opinion, yet I feel it is still relevant.
Since I have attended Texas A&M Uni
versity, I have learned by “word of mouth”
and gossip about several rapes and attacks
on female students at our school. I stress
that I learned about them from gossip and
“word of mouth," not from factual infor
mation or published articles.
Why are we being kept in the dark
about such incidents? Why must we learn
of such occurrences second-hand?
I realize that Texas A&M is trying to
maintain the image of a “safe” school, yet
by withholding such information, they are
making the matter worse! If students are
informed when attacks or rapes occur,
then they can take preventive measures
against them. Keeping students ignorant
of such incidents can only lead to more
such occurrences!
I love Texas A&M and I hate hearing
about such tragic accidents happening at
our school, but we must face reality. The
only way to help solve this problem is to
keep everyone informed.
— Pam Franklin, ’83
pressed with the pride the Aggies take in
the physical appearance of Aggieland. It
does my heart good to see an Ag pick up
misdirected trash and put it in its proper
place. However, despite the good efforts
by the student body in general, it seems
that litter is slowly taking over Aggieland.
Probably the worst offender is this very
newspaper, which everyday is tossed in
bundles all over campus. It would seem
likely that a school-funded newspaper
present in the MSG could be set up at
suitable places around campus in order to
curb this systematic pollution of Aggie
land.
The Batt is not the only offender. Today
I saw signs taped to sidewalks, buildings or
slapped loosely on cars proclaiming “A
Davis-Gary Slave Sale” or “The Proverbial
Fraternity Party.” Littering by careless
ness shows apathy, but o
tion like this is malicious. ItwoiiK
the proper place for signs wouldk-
numerous bulletin boards around
— that’s what they are there for.
— Kyle te
Editor’s note: The Battalion i
some funding from student senic<
but is primarily self-supporting,
Thotz
by Doug Grab 1
Editor’s note: This letter was accom
panied by 87 other signatures.
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