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Call Battalion Classified 845-2611
Page 12AThe Battalion/Tuesday, March 24, 1987
Bush: U.S. should support neighbors
to achieve solidarity for hemisphere
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Vice
President George Bush, fresh from a
trip to earthquake-ravaged Ecuador,
said Monday that Americans must
support their southern neighbors
because “they are just like us.”
Bush, speaking to the Texas Daily
Newspaper Association, said demo
cratic governments in Central and
South America are in the majority,
but are suffering militarily and eco
nomically.
“What we’re going to need to do
as we move into the 1990s is hemi
spheric solidarity, trust such as we’ve
never seen and never had,” Bush
said.
“I believe we must look homeward
because of the threats, because of
the opportunities and because these
are our neighbors,” he said. “We
haven’t always treated them with the
respect and attention they deserve.
“These are our people. They are
Americans. They are just like us.”
Bush said he has encouraged
bankers to lend more money to the
financially plagued governments.
“Debt is a tremendous problem
that weakens these new democracies
and also prevents them from buying
our products, which in turn would
help our trade deficit,” Bush said.
He said that the Reagan adminis
tration has failed to educate the
American people on the dangers of
the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.
Bush criticized the U.S. House for
wanting to turn its back on the Con
tra rebels fighting the Nicaraguan
regime.
He said that Congressional appro
priations for fiscal year 198/ re
quired that the U.S. economic assis
tance to Latin America and the
Caribbean be cut 20 percent to $1.2
billion.
“Either we’re going to support the
democracies that exist and those
who are seeking democracy or we’re
going to turn our backs economically
and strategically,” Bush said. “We
cannot continue to say we support
democracy in Latin America, but
then do nothing.”
He said a Gallup poll conducted
Supreme Court hears case
on Reagan death comment
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Su
preme Court heard arguments Mon
day on whether a Houston constable
had a right to fire a newly hired
computer operator for saying she
hoped President Reagan would be
assassinated.
In the case, Ardeth McPherson
claimed her free-speech rights were
violated when she was fired for tell
ing co-workers she wished Reagan
had been killed in an assassination
attempt in 1981.
McPherson was on duty in Con
stable Walter H. Rankin’s office
March 30, 1981, the day Reagan was
shot and wounded in Washington by
John W. Hinckley Jr.
While listening to radio reports
about the incident, McPherson told a
co-worker, “I hope if they go for him
again, they get him.”
The remark was reported to Ran
kin, who called McPherson into his
office and fired her after asking her
if she meant it.
Attorneys for Rankin argued that
by merely making the statements.
McPherson showed that she was not
the kind of person who should be
working as a deputy constable, and
Rankin thus had the right to fire
her.
Outside the courtroom after the
justices heard her case, McPherson
said she never meant the president
should be killed.
“It doesn’t have anything to do
with death and dying. It’s just me
disagreeing with his policies. That’s
just the way I speak,” she said.
In its decision, the 5th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals said McPherson’s
remark was political in nature and
addressed a “matter of public con
cern” protected by the right to free
speech under the First Amendment.
The appellate court also said that
in weighing freedom against the in
terest in maintaining discipline and
efficiency in government work
places, McPherson’s ‘Jaotential for
undermining the office’s mission
(was) trivial.”
in Central America in January con
cluded that people in that region
support U.S. policy.
“The people of Central America
have a right to know what they can
expect from us,” Bush said. “They
have a right to a consistent U.S. pol
icy.”
Bush said Ecuador is trying to
hold on to democracy while it works
out economic and military problems.
“When it comes to democracy in
Latin America, my heart is in my
throat,” Bush said. “I don’t believe
there’s anyplace in the world,
am more hopeful and at g2
time more concerned.” *
He said the earthquake,
claimed thousands of lives, al
stroyed an oil pipeline carrvir:^
the country’s oil, which provffl
It) percent of the government”
uues.
He declined during queso
f rom delegates and reportersj]
what his opposition to
Reagan’s plan concerning tlifl
Contra arms deal.
Analyst: Newspaper Indus
losing readers over profits
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paper industry is losing readers be- conference of the Texas Daili'
cause making a profit has become paper Association,
more important than producing a
quality product, an analyst told
newspaper publishers and owners
Monday.
“Year after year, the ratio of cir
culation to households has contin
ued to drop,” said John Morton, a
newspaper analyst from Washing
ton, D.C. “And year after year,
newspaper companies continued to income,
demonstrate how they can make
even more money despite the dwin
dling readership.”
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goods and services industries are
different. It states that the service
industry has produced the most
net new jobs from 1980 to 1986,
while the goods industry actually
has had a deterioration in the
number of jobs available to Tex
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support this. Over the past five
years, 56 percent of all new jobs
created in Texas have been in the
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