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July 9,1981 As
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Slouch By Jim Earle
“One thing that impressed me about registration this time
was how they kept the line moving. “
Is time-and-a-half
after 10 rounds next?
By DICK WEST
United Press International
> WASHINGTON — Now that baseball
players are on strike, many Americans are
wondering where labor unrest will break
out next.
A definitive answer is hard to come by,
but any day now you may be picking up a
newspaper and reading dispatchs such as
these:
LONDON — Professional boxers under
contract to the All-English Lawn Pugilism
and Quoits Club went on strike today to
press a long string of grievances against
matchmakers.
Sir Reginald Tiddlehood, legal adviser
and chief negotiator for the boxers, said the
chief issue was the union’s demand for an
end to arbitrary weight classifications.
Most promoters, Tiddlehood said, re
fuse to book matches between
heavyweights and fighters weighing less
than 13 stone.
“This stricture discriminates against lar
ger boxers by depriving them of opportuni
ties to compete for purses in, say, the mid
dleweight division,” he pointed out.
“We want open boxing matches in which
titleholders take on all comers, regardless
of size.”
Matchmakers oppose the change on
grounds it would enable a few
heavyweights to dominate the sport and
force many smaller boxers to quit the ring
and go into politics.
Also ranking high on the union’s list of
demands is a proposed change in the Mar-
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By HELEN THOMAS
United Press International
WASHINGTON — In his first six months
in office. President Reagan has defined the
direction of his domestic policy, bringing
with him views he has held since he
changed his politics from Democrat to Re
publican.
But his foreign policy remains nebulous
in the eyes of many observers and Reagan is
touchy about the criticism.
At a political dinner in honor of Illinois
Gov. Jim Thompson earlier in the week,
Reagan said the press has been “overly con
cerned because I haven’t made a “major
foreign policy address.”
“Their automatic assumption,” he said,
“is that until I do, we don’t have a foreign
policy.”
In defense of his conduct of foreign
affairs, Reagan said he did not believe it is
necessary to spell out in detail and in adv
ance a formula that will guide his every
move in international relations.
“Basically good foreign policy is the use
of good common sense in dealing with
friends and potential adversaries,” he said.
“We know where we’re going and think it
might be counterproductive to make a
speech about it.”
But aside from a buildup in the military
establishment and his anti-communist
thrust, Reagan appears to be playing it by
ear, and with luck.
In the Middle East, like so many of his
predecessors, he dispatched a troubleshoo
ter to help put out a fire in Lebanon. And
veteran diplomat Philip Habib managed to
dampen some tensions with shuttle diplo
macy. But clearly it is a Band-Aid, and has
no relation to a permanent solution for
peace in the Middle East.
In the beginning, the administration
waffled on whether it would support the
Camp David accords initiated by President
Jimmy Carter. But for lack of its own con
crete remedies for that tinderbox region,
Reagan has embraced a continuation of the
process.
In Africa, the administration has alien
ated the front line countries which had be
come more friendly to the United States.
The African leaders no longer are con
vinced that the United States will continue
to support majority rule in view of the clos
er ties Reagan is establishing with South
Africa.
During a recent trip to Asia, Secretary of
State Alexander Haig seemed to be tearing
a page out of the ‘60s and ‘70s in terms of
Pacific power and Vietnam.
In Europe, Reagan has established a
more forceful image and he gets along fine
with British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher and West German Chancellor
Helmut Schmidt, but attempts to lecture
Francois Mitterand after the socialist
French president took four communists
Agent-
Station £
into the government hardly sat
Elysee Palace.
There are tests ahead in theneaii5 0U j P r(
Reagan will attend his first majormp]
tional meeting with the heads of!HL|..j nc0]
Western industrialized nations 1&: Thret
month in Ottowa. It will be thefir:;the Worn
face meeting between Reagan anc (WIC)
and and the spotlight will be on l:Assistant
As for the East-West tensions iBfch-
doubts that Reagan has taken aig
Stance against (lie Russians. Mu;''f ra/os
rhetoric is reminiscent of the Cold
as personified by John Foster Dullt ^ eir . j n f a
the age of coexistence was ushe: o necono ,
Dwight Eisenhower and NildtaHromen a
chev. or cards l
Moreover, Reagan is still pL.sertain g
friction within his own ranks. W hous foo
seems to have been given far re:;® er ‘: a h
the State Department, there is ut *
coordination with W hite
Reagan gets his daily morninr|{:“\v e t e
gence briefings from national j n d mil
affairs adviser Richard Allen, who money
has been i isuic o < .■nth I he prt • son. WI(
relies on White House counsek’-heydoh;
Meese to guide foreign policy, altf Jf^hhier.
past expel ienc e has been in the . .
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torcement held. liering
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is on top of foreign policy, Ameri ^eeded.
foreigners will remain confused or plementa
ject.
quis of Queensberry rules providing for
three-minute rounds with one-minute rest
periods.
“We want to change the format to one-
minute rounds with three-minute rest
periods,” Tiddlehood said. “Our studies in
dicate this would prolong the career of the
average boxer by 6.2 years.
Another demand, thus far rejected by
matchmakers, would extend the 10-second
count by referees before a knockout is re
corded.
“We feel boxers should be given a more
time to recover from a knockdown, ” Tiddle
hood said. “Two hours seems about right,
but we are always willing to compromise.”
WASHINGTON — All 100 members of
the U.S. Senate went on strike today fol
lowing their fifth refusal in as many years to
vote themselves a pay raise.
The vote that precipitated the walkout
was a 79-21 rejection of a House-passed bill
that would have raised the base pay of
members of Congress by 6.2 percent.
Picket lines were set up outside the main
entrance to the Senate chamber and at the
doors of the major standing committees.
“Senators have been without a pay raise
longer than any other major deliberative
body in the world, ” said Sen. Hubert Good-
fringe, chairman of the Fraternal Order of
Solons, Lawgivers and Filibusterers.
“It is now apparent that the only way we
can ever work up enough nerve to raise our
own pay is to force ourselves to do it by
going on strike against ourselves. ”
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By PATRICIA McCORMACK
United Press International
Pelted by words from the brightest of their
lot, 3.1 million in the nation’s high school
class of 1981 made it to the “real world” in
recent weeks.
Floral and musical touches helped them
emerge to “face the unknown.”
So did a certain amount of deviltry.
Smoke bombs, on occasion.
A reading of selected speeches delivered
in gymnasiums, auditoriums, and on athle
tic fields showed the most popular valedic
torian theme was the move to the “real
world.”
Next: looking back while looking ahead.
A lot of quoting. The Bible, presidents,
parents, poets.
Among the latter, William Shakespeare
rated hit status. His “to thine own self be
true” — a natural nugget for seniors break
ing out — fell on lots of ears.
Right behind in popularity were some of
Robert Frost’s words worked into more
than a few speeches.
Some speakers preferred homemade
poetry.
Anne Frechette, 18, of Lake Region Un
ion High School in Orleans, Vt., modeled
hers on “Twas the Night Before Christ
mas.” Excerpts:
“Twas the night before graduation and
all thru the school,
The seniors are cheering, no more of the
rules.”
At other high school graduation scenes
old familiar lines — most likely uttered over
the decades and due to be uttered for de
cades to come — struck these notes:
— Impoftance of education cannot be
overstated.
— Now is our chance to improve the
great work of mankind.
— Education serves the user for the rest
of his life.
— Education is the cornerstone of life.
— Today marks the end of one chapter in
our lives and the beginning of a new one.
— It is not for us to say “goodbye” but
rather to say hello. “Hello, World!”
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— In parting I’ll say two small i e d are pi
Thank you. :ards. “We
And just to keep teachers, schoolkault lies,”
makers of school supplies, buili Anothei
schools and all else who live offedurf?^
their place, there were words fr«®“f e<a y
Holzman at Wilson High, L on S they
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“Why is attending school importaiMHs, the
asked. o 1,200.
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“It is not a guarantee ofanythingl-he low ir
school, just school, is useless. >ills, espe
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dicated sometimes rebellious minds,aVCAA is <
is nothing. ” (
The writer is at a loss to expl^ 6 ^" 6 ” 2
meaning of this commencement^
By Scott McCullar
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