Editorial
Safety with fireworks
needed for weekend
This year's Fourth of July, like usual, promises to be a
bang. But it is essential that people do not get so carried
away in the celebration of our great nation's birthday that
they neglect basic considerations for others and the
environment.
Thus, safety and common sense in the firework fun is
imperative.
To prevent injury to oneself and others, fireworks
should be exploded outside, not inside, and away from any
concentration of people.
Consideration for dogs, cats and other pets also should
be kept in mind. Because some animals scare easily, it is best
to keep them indoors, Loud explosions can traumatize a pet.
Because of the extremely dry weatner tugene nas ex
perienced lately, fireworks should be set off in an open area,
preferable a parking lot. where there is no dry grass or plant
growth. To minimize the risk of fire, bottle rockets should Ik?
shot off over water.
The U.S. Forest Service warns that fireworks should not
be used in Oregon’s national forests because of the extreme
fire hazard this time of year. So if you go camping over the
Independence Day weekend. leave your fireworks at home.
Remember: Sinokey's watchin’ you.
So. while having a hang this Fourth of |uly. be careful
not to blow up anyone or anything.
THERE AIN'T
NO SMOKING
GUN
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High court to be further right than public, expert says
The piper* predirt Reagan will nominate ludge
Robert Bork. How do you feel about thin choice,
especially with his connections in Watergate?
Well I don’t think you can lx; sure that he will la
the nominee, lust because the papers say he is ahead
doesn't necessarily mean he will be selected. Intellec
tually he is the strongest candidate.
fames Klonoski is a professor of political
science. He leaches several courses dealing with
the Supreme (hurt. In a short interview with the
Oregon Daily Emerald he offered his opinions on
various aspects of Supreme Court fustice lewis
Powell's resignation on June 26.
He does have this “black mark" with the Watergate
administration. But in the legal community he is very
well respected as a scholar and judge, and he would
have a great deal — even though his views are very con
servative — he would still have a great deal of support
because the guy has intellectual integrity and smarts.
But you have to be careful in this business because
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with all the names out there., and all of a sudden
plop-o comes a different name altogether... .So one
should not be led or misled by what today's papers say
Watch out because there are conflicting points of
views in the administration .. . Everyone out there has
a chance Bork probably has earned the right intellec
tually. But there have been a lot of professors out there,
and even good judges, who look like they have earned
the right but are never appointed. So you can be ready
for a June or July surprise At the same time you may ex
pect the name of Bork.
How do you see the Senate judiciary Committee
approaching and investigating a candidate, especially
because the committee is controlled by the Democrats?
See. if this was next year they would probably
delay it until after the election. But because it is this
year there is just too long of a time until now and the
election to delay it and string it out.
The Court will be meeting '87-'88 For the Senate
Judiciary Committee there should be a full Court on
board, so they're more likely to approve and say let's
get on with it.
Then do you think they are just throwing names
out to see reactions?
They're just going about business trying to find
best person who fits the bill for what they want: A per
son who has intellectual integrity, who could
philosophically and ideologically satisfy the critics'
philosophy and ideology and gel a guy on there who
could serve 20 to 30 years
What they’re doing now is just politics of judicial
appointment, as usual. So they have to decide who is
the IhisI choice — one who can manage to go through
the crucible. He has to run the gauntlet. . . It's just a
pure political challenge. But so much is riding on it.
Do you feel it wax right for Powell to resign now,
or should he have wailed until ne*t year?
Must of us ami his colleagues war# taken complete
ly by surprise when he resigned. W'hat were Powell's
motivation for resigning when he did in terms of tim
ing? Well, I think they're going to remain obscure at
this time.
. .. .He’s been on the C'ourt for 15 years. Did he
finally feel he had enough? Or is he really a Virginia
Democrat — that’s pretty conservative. Or is he really a
closet Reaganite? See. I can't believe he is a closet
Keaganite.
Hut I'm still surprised that, given all the considera
tion, that he would have chose this particular time to
resign. Hut then I don't think hu is as ideological as
these other guys. Brennan would never resign to give
Reagan a chance. And Marshall would never resign to
give Reagan a chance. Stevens is a younger man who
would never consider it. And Hlackinan has switched
over to that side. He would never resign to give Reagan
a chance.
I'm not sure that I understand the timing of
Powell's resignation at this time. Why he would give
Ronald Reagan the opportunity to put his stamp — in
tellectual. ideological, philosophical stamp — on the
court for who knows how many years to come?
Somewhat obscure 1 would have to say given my
own anaylsis of the decision... .
lk> you have any final conclusions?
The catch in all this, of course, is the country's
now is moving back to the center. I didn't say it was
moving left — but it's had its little adventure with
Keagan to the right.
You can read that in Ixju Harris's new book "Inside
America" on the issues of the country moving to the
center, but with this appointment the Court will move
to the right. And you're going to have a real
philosophical, ideological incongruency, I think, be
tween a country that has readopted moderation as its
approach in understanding of politics and choice
making and a Court that will reflect the country's desire
to have Ronald Keagan as president in '84.
They made that choice. Maybe not tor the
ideological reasons that Keagan stood for and some
social issues and so on. but that's what they got. That's
what then? going to get now from Ronald Keagan in
1987.
What they did was they made a choice of a pres
ident in '84 and the president chooses the members of
the Supreme Court. So the public in a sense, then, is
now returning to the center of gravity, the political
center of gravity. Hut it's going to pay a price, if you
will, for its choice in '84 I mean that’s just the way it is.
So you have times on the Court when the country s
in one mood and the Court's in another.
Robert Dahl has always said that the Court even
tually follows the election returns. Well, 1 guess the
Court is kind of following the election returns of Ronald
Reagan Hut there are all sorts of election returns bet
ween '80 and '8t>. Reagan's election returns didn't
necessarily mean that the country went that way
totally.
So Dahl, when he says the Court follows the elec
tion returns. . .Well, the election returns aren't that
pun; In the last six or eight years they had Reagan as an
election return but also voted for an awful lot of
Democrats during that time. ...
But then, if you have a Democratic president in
1988 he might make some appointments too, so then
the Court would follow the returns of '88. We can't see
that_
So you have all these considerations of who the
next president is going to be and maybe, if he is a
Democrat, he will appoint some justices that reflect the
changing public opinion now when the public is retur
ning to the center of things.
For the time being it looks like we're going to get
the Ronald Reagan public opinion of '80 and '84. and
it's just going to be out of synch and out of tune with
the political movement of the public generally. That is.
1 think, the must interesting aspect of this whole
movement.