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Nuclear arms evaluation. . .
It’s not all dismal on the political front this November In
spite of the muddy races for local, state and national seats,
some ballot measures signal the beginnings of nationwide
attention to foreign policy and continuation of environmental
gams made in the last twenty years
Nationwide nuclear freeze initiatives mark the evaluation
of the course of U S defense policy since World War II
At least nine states and 17 cities or counties are voting
on nuclear freeze measures this fall
For instance, Ashland has a petition circulating to make
it a ‘ nuclear free zone" — a place where nuclear destruction
is illegal Chicago, Anchorage, and Philadelphia, to name but
three cities, have bilateral nuclear freeze measures on their
ballots
Children, physicians, and congressional leaders- are
joining in their opposition to the course of our defense policy
According to a poll by Ballot Measure 5 proponents, the least
support for the Oregon measure comes from 45 to
54-year-old males who favor the measure by 60 percent.
James Schlesinger, energy secretary under Carter and
former Defense Secretary under Nixon, recently told a
meeting of military and industrial leaders that the consensus
on the arms race has gone: "The United States as a nation is
not prepared to provide the resources to match the Soviet
Union."
Resources seems to be the heart of the matter for
members of the industrial, usually conservative and military
minded, complex
opinion
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race and these men have made great profits from that fear,
but what they and others realize is that nuclear weaponry has
become the fearful object Not only have the nuclear
weapons led to a skewed view of our means of protecting
ourselves, but a waste in our economic resources
Supporters of the nuclear freeze measures realize that
they are but gesturing disgust for the current proposals such
as Reagan's START (Strategic Arms Reductions Talk) which
still increase U S and Soviet arsenals The grassroots nature
of the freeze measures are an admission that our govern
ment over the last 30 years has failed to come to terms with
the bomb
The freeze measures act as mandates for elected na
tional officials to oppose increases in defense bills and
question the "usefulness” of various defense systems
The nuclear freeze supporters may be motivated by
different reasons, but they all concede that a more rational
look at defense would be conventional warfare (non-civilian)
and efforts for economic stability. The measures are a
stimulus for human efforts to cooperate
. . . and fate of bottle bills
A lot of Oregonians have their eyes on the results of
proposed bottle bill legislation in at least three states Having
won a similar fight a decade ago, we can sit back and watch,
and cheer the bottle bill supporters on to victory
Our neighbors to the north and south — Washington and
California — both will say yea or nay to bottle bills modeled
after Oregon's Colorado, a state that seems to be in a
continual catch-up game with Oregon's progressive laws, is
trying for a second time to pass a mandatory deposit bill
Four years ago Colorado even tried eliminating their state
sales tax.
The bottle bill races are close in all three states The
outcome of the decisions, especially California's, could have
a big impact on what environmentalists across the country
are hoping for — a national bottle bill
The closest race is in California where bottle bill sup
porters hold a very narrow margin over their opponents The
supporters have had their work cut out for them Many
Californians would prefer not to be "Oregonized ”
Polls taken in Washington about three weeks ago
showed bottle bill supporters ahead by a comfortable mar
gin.
In Colorado, history seems about to repeat itself Four
years ago polls taken two months before the vote showed 60
percent favoring mandatory deposits, 40 percent opposing
Then the Coors corporation and beverage packaging indus
tries began pouring money into an anti-bottle bill media blitz
Two weeks before the vote the numbers flip-flopped —
40 percent favoring: 60 percent opposed The bill was easily
defeated
We ll watch the results of these other states with interest
in November They may help determine whether Oregon is
strangely ahead of the times or just strange
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Not in conflict
Both Congressman Jim
Weaver and candidate Ross
Anthony addressed a Wilder
ness Society conference at the
University, Qct. 17, on "The Fu
tures of Oregon’s Federal Fo
rests.” Readers of the Emerald
might be interested in their dif
fering views,
Anthony said that he seeks to
find a compromise between
protecting the environment and
providing jobs The audience
questioned what they saw as a
false distinction: protecting the
environment is not in conflict
with providing jobs They said in
response that clean air and
water and sound land use are
fundamental to healthy and
sustained economic growth
Anthony also said that he
favored additional wilderness
for Oregon but could not give
any specifics as to areas or
acreages
On Monday Sen McClure of
Idaho visited Eugene to endorse
Anthony, McClure is one of
James Watt's most consistent
supporters in Congress As
Chairman of the Energy Com
mittee, he has blocked many
bills sought by conservationists,
including legislation, S B 2801,
that would protect wilderness
areas from mineral leasing by
Watt. In my opinion, for Anthony
to claim to be an environmen
talist and then welcome the
support (and the fund-raising)
of McClure is sheer hypocrisy
Weaver spoke about his
record of working for environ
mentally-sound forestry legisla
tion He described his role on
the House-Senate conference
committee for the 1976 National
Forest Management Act
Weaver pointed out that con
trary to Anthony's claim, he and
Hubert Humphrey drafted the
provision of iaw that ensures
sustained yield management for
our national forests
Peter Kirby
The Wilderness Society
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There is nothing like a good
comic strip, and Waddle Life"
is nothing like a good comic
strip
Steve Reinschmidt
senior, psychology
Sympathize
Someone is stealing Cort
Fernald's music and he does
not like it.
You can t help but sympath
ize with his article in last week's
Emerald editorial section His
whole world is crumbling
around him and he does not like
it
To begin, the poor oppressed
individual faces numbered days
at school with the government's
increased hesitance at pouring
money into his pocket in the
way of grants, loans, welfare,
Social Security, food stamps,
free meals etc He does not like
it
So he joins a staff of "profes
sional" journalists at the Emer
ald so he might enlighten us all
with his musical talents Yet, in
his attempts, he is disdained by
a discovery Frat boys, dressed
"so right," are head-bumping
to the Clash He does not like it
He also does not like being
oppressed by that "upper
echelon" of society and then
having them steal the music
he s been faithfully following for
20 years Ordering records from
England and all Where the fuck
will it end7
Cort, you poor stupid idiot
You have become a perfect ex
ample of Emerald stupidity and
narrow-mindedness You have
now been initiated into the
Emerald tradition of writing
without having an acceptable
understanding of who or what
you are writing about The
words are great but the mean
ing is ironic. (How do you spell
sesquipadalian anyway?).
Yep. Someone is stealing
Cort Fernald's music. They do
not deserve it He does not like
it and we feel sorry for him
(the poor bastard)
Darren Berg
junior, business
Satanic
Is rock satanic? Yes, back
masking could be done But
why would someone take the
time? Yes, there is some men
tion of hell and Satan in the
lyrics of some songs. But, hell
and Satan are mentioned in the
Bible too
However, there are some
things wrong with music, be it
rock, country, or classical One:
The lyrics might have anti-moral
messages; they might suggest
that sin is fun, ignoring what it
does to your conscience and to
your outlook on the world
Two: The lyrics might be
clean, yet the presence of the
music might bring up remem
brances of actions from the
past Like Pavlov's dogs, the
music might cause a specific
reaction which is wrong If the
music brings up a remem
brance of hanging around get
ting high, ignoring the wrong
ness of the situation, then it is a
bad influence
For most students on this
campus, that is the main prob
lem with rock
Craig Conner
economics
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