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OPINIONS
Gainesville Daily Register
Mon., July 11,1988—3
William Buckley
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high that to impose it on the sale of
liquor would inevitably mean the
rise of private stills. People are
prepared to go to jail now to make
profits from the sale of marijuana.
They would presumably be willing
to run the same risk if they could, let
us say, sell tons of booze at $5 a
quart to customers who would
otherwise need to pay $25 per quart.
But he favors playing with the
formula, and using a substantial
percentage of the tax money from
the sale of liquor and cigarettes to
advertise the dangers of them.
Szasz is ruthlessly philosophical
on the whole drug question. In the
first place, he says, not everyone
becomes an addict — of any drug.
Up until 1914, he reminds us, anyone
could buy any drug, and even Sig-
Miss Judi Miller, worthy ad-
visor, and her corps of officers
conducted a double meeting
Tuesday evening for the
Gainesville Assembly, Order of
Rainbow for Girls. Three new
members, Misses Mary Alice
Potts, Cheryl and Patricia
Commer, received their de-
grees.
However, we know enough about
the statistical distribution of risks
to make some elementary cal-
culations. On the matter of tobacco,
we should tax the sale of it sufficien-
tly to raise those funds that will be
expended directly by the state (as
distinguished from those incal-
culable sums that will be forfeited
to the state) in looking after the
patient. Let us say that that comes
to $2 per pack of cigarettes. OK,
then instead of the (approximately)
$1.50 per pack that cigarettes cost,
begin charging $3.50. Experiments
suggest that for every four percent
rise in the cost of tobacco, one per-
cent fewer sales will result.
Now, Grinspoon doubts that the
huge cost of alcoholism could be
borne by taxing booze. The problem
there, he says, is that the cost is So
But there are insights here
abounding, as the public mind turns
to doing something to control de-
mand, since we are having so little
luck with controlling supply.
costly reminder that space
flight is still in its infancy,
still dangerous. It’s an emi-
nently worthy undertaking, of
course, but it’s no job for am-
ateurs.
We hope the Discovery
flight and the Soviet Union’s
unmanned Mars expeditions
will refocus American atten-
tion on the promise and the
potential of space explora- ■
tion. The Soviets don’t seem
to need convincing, but after
the Challenger trauma, we
apparently do. We need to be-
lieve yet again that space ex-
ploration is worth doing, and
that it’s worth doing right.
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U.S. Rep. Dick Armey, 514 Can-
non Office Building, Washington,
D.C.20514.
State Rep. Richard F. Wil-
liamson, P.O. Box 2910, Austin,
Texas, 78769.
U.S. Senator Phil Gramm, Senate
Office Building, Washington, D.C.
Register photo: American
Legion officers took over their
duties Tuesday night. Pictured
after the session were Comm-
ander DavidP. Turner; George
M. Grice, W.J. Bennett, Ster-
ling Pembleton, Frank Cum-
mins Jr., Harold Homer, Dan
KirchenbaUer, Edwin Quisen-
berry and Hoyt Tiller.
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versifies were practicing racial
segregation.
One year ago: Australian Prime
Minister Bob Hawke won a third
consecutive term, becoming the
first Labor Party leader in the coun-
try’s history to be elected to three
straight terms in office.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Tab
Hunter is 57. Singer Bonnie Pointer
is 37. Boxer Leon Spinks is 35.
Thought for Today: “History is
written by the winners.” — Alex
Haley, American author.
government policy in a law-and-
order direction.
“The Reagan legal agenda is big-
ger than Ed Meese,” said Daniel
Popeo of the conservative Wash-
ington Legal Foundation. “I think
the Reagan legal agenda is de-
tracted from and taken down in
having to defend Ed Meese’s prob-
lems.”
Meese, in an interview Wed-
nesday on Cable News Network,
said, “I think we have de-politicized
the Justice Department in favor of
strong law enforcement which ben-
efits all of the people. ’ ’
“If you hadn’t had people like
myself, and others in the Depart-
ment of Justice who feel the same
way, we wouldn’t have the fine
nominees that have been recom-
mended to the president who be-
lieve, as he does, we should have
interpreters of the Constitution, and
not people who will impose their
own wills in the guise of con-
stitutionalism.”
The outgoing attorney general,
who began his public career ad-
vocating tough action against
anti-war demonstrators as a deputy
Everyone, including presidential
candidates; is thinking about the
drug problem, and in recent days I
have heard radical thought from in-
teresting men representing two
different schools of conservative
thought. Both Thomas Szasz and
Lester Grinspoon are professional
psychiatrists and renowned in their
profession. Szasz practices and
teaches at the State university of
New York at Syracuse, Grinspoon
at Harvard Medical School.
Grinspoon has for years been
associated with the notorious posi-
tion that taking marijuana is less
dangerous than taking alcohol or
inhaling tobacco. Caution: This
doesn’t mean that he thinks taking
marijuana is risk-free. Clearly he
believes that, tobacco and alcohol
are very far from being risk-free.
Good ol’ summertime sale at
Safeway: tuna, 29 cents a can;
Vienna sausage, three cans for
39 cents; cane sugar, 10 pounds
for $1.02; frozen lemonade,
three cans for 25 cents; pot
roast, 59 cents a pound;
cloverleaf rolls, 19 cents a
dozen; sliced bacon, 59 cents a
pound; bananas, 10 cents a
pound.
Grinspoon believes that the cost of
knowingly taking a dangerous drug
should fall on the shoulders of the
consumer, and there is instant
plausibility in his argument.
Take, for instance, tobacco,
which will kill 350,000 Americans
next year. Ah, but before they die
there will be considerable cost. How
exactly to parse that cost isn’t en-
tirely obvious. Some of it will be a
public cost, even if we are dealing
with an affluent victim of tobacco.
If Mr. Jones develops lung cancer
at, say, age 58, and before expiring
runs up doctors’ and hospital bills
of, say, $150,000, some of this will
come in from insurance companies
and from assorted state and federal
programs. But meanwhile, he will
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Overshadowed the other
day by tragic news from the
Persian Gulf was news of a
more hopeful nature: Ameri-
ca is headed back into space.
In a special Fourth of July
ceremony, the space shuttle
Discovery was rolled to the
launching pad at the Kennedy
Space Center. The celebrato-
ry event marked the end of
two years spent redesigning
the shuttle after the Challeng-
er disaster and the beginning
of a two-month countdown
toward Discovery’s flight,
now scheduled for early Sep-
tember after four earlier de-.
lays. It also marked the com-
ing out, so to speak, of a new,
more purposeful space pro-
gram, a program sobered by
tragedy and focused by pru-
dent reflection and reform.
The hardware redesign, to
the tune of some $2.4 billion,
has been so drastic that the
Discovery voyage is viewed
as a test flight. The Discovery
crew, unlike the diverse crew
of the Challenger, will consist
entirely of veteran astro-
nauts. In fact, the five men on
the Discovery will be the
most experienced crew to go
into orbit since the start of
the American space program
25 years ago.
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WarrenG. Flowers.
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Eric Williams, Managing Editor
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Floyd Ferguson, Circulation Manager
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district attorney in Alameda
County, Calif., was still talking
tough when he came to the Justice
Department in 1985.
He accused the Supreme Court of
weakening the Constitution with
sometimes “bizarre” rulings that
he said were not “the supreme law
of the land. ” Among other things, he
said the court had erred in its land-
mark doctrine that the Bill of Rights
protects citizens against state, as
well as federal, government action.
A.E.' “Dick” Howard, professor
of law at the University of Virginia,
said, “That created a lot of hue and
cry, and a great deal of fuss. I don’t
see that any long-term debate has
resulted. Those turned out to be sort .
of flashes in the pan. ’ ’
More importantly, he said,
“throughout the years that Meese
has been attorney general, the Su-
preme Court has dealt one rebuff
after another to important ad-
ministrationpositions.” X
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Register photo: Cooke
County Home Demonstratin
employees who offered a help-
ing hand in the publication of
the 1958 Conty Fair Catalogue,
gave city mailmen a boost
Wednesday afternoon. The pert
trio, Mrs. Bernice Thurman,
Mrs. Yvonne Jenkins and Mrs.
Pat Selby, are pictured looking
over stacks of the booklets.
All five of the crew mem-
bers have been involved inti-
mately with the redesign,
which involves hundreds of
changes to key shuttle sys-
tems and support equipment.
The changes are supposed to
enhance reliability, improve
performance and increase
safety. Discovery also has
been equipped with a new es-
cape system designed to
allow crew members to va-
cate a ship undergoing the
kind of trouble that doomed
the Challenger.
The major change, of
course, is one of attitude. The
Challenger tragedy was a
ishment of his wife, and in
decreased taxes, income and es-
tate, to the government; i.e., to the
people..
Now Szasz, who is a thoroughbred
libertarian, says very little to Mr.
Jones. His only prescription: If you
wish to run the risk of lung cancer
and other afflictions in exchange for
the pleasure of smoking, go ahead,
that’s your business. Only don’t
come to me, a taxpayer, down the
road with a sob story. Szasz does not
believe in taxing the public to pay
for the ravages of self-inflicted be-
havior.
Grinspoon takes the position that
we live in a society in which we are
pledged to help those who are in
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a
White House ceremony.
In 1979, the abandoned U.S. space
station Skylab made a spectacular
return to Earth, burning up in the
atmosphere and showering debris
over the Indian Ocean and
Australia.
In 1980, American hostage Rich-
ard I. Queen, freed by Iran after
eight months of captivity because of
poor health, left Tehran for Swit-
zerland.
In 1985, Nolan Ryan of the
Houston Astros became the first
pitcher in major league baseball to |
strike out 4,000 batters as he fanned
Danny Heep of the New York Mets.
Ten years ago: A tanker truck
overfilled with propylene gas ex-
ploded on a coastal highway south
of Tarragona, Spain, setting off a
fireball that devastated a nearby
campsite, killing 215 tourists as well
as the driver. The National League
downed the American League, 7-3,
in baseball’s 49th annual All-Star
Game.
Five years ago: The Reagan ad-
ministration filed its first school
desegregation suit, charging that
Alabama’s public colleges and uni-
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Carl Hederstedt, who’s
assumed full command of the
Gainesville Lions Club for 1958,
got down to business brass
tacks at the Monday night
meeting of the organization in
the Curtwood Cafe. With no
program on the docket for the
night, Hederstedt appointed
committee chairmen for the
year.
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“Shooting our airliner down was unspeakably barbaric., How many
hostages should we kill?”
Washington Today
Meese's goals not yet attained
By W. DALE NELSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON — Attorney Gen-
eral Edwin Meese III entered the
Justice Department pressing a con-
servative legal agenda that heart-
ened his supporters and drew fire
from liberals, but he is leaving with
little of it accomplished.
The lower federal courts are
more conservative than when he
came, but he failed to get two nomi-
nees he wanted on the Supreme
Court, and the ones who made it
have at times charted an inde-
pendent course not to his liking.
20515. The high court has chipped away
U S. Rep. Charles Stenholm, 17th at constitutional criminal law pro-
District, 1232 Longworth House Of- tections that Meese opposed, but
fice Building, Washington, D.C. they still stand and he has been re-
20515. ’ buffed on a variety of other legal
U.S. Senate Lloyd Bentsen, Room issues. . . , '
240, Russell Senate Office Building, He failed to articulate any co-
Washington, D.C. 20510. hesive rationale for what he has
been trying to do, Michael Glen-
---------- non, professor of law at the Univer-
sity of California, said in a
telephone interview.
Some conservatives argue that
the long-running investigations of
Meese have in fact hampered
President Reagan’s efforts to move
mund Freud (and, of course,
Sherlock Holmes) did a little drug-
taking with no devastating effect
(actually, Fraud’s torture resulted
immune to the pleasures of giving
shock) says, “When you need to test
someone by taking a urine speci-
men to find out whether he is on
dope, doesn’t it follow that the
effects of that dope are not other-
wise detectable?” (A debater’s
point, surely: Social indis-
tinctiveness doesn’t necessarily
translate into good or safe conduct.
Len Bias could score a dazzling
basket and OD a few hours later .)
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By The Associated Press
Today is Monday, July 11, the
193rd day of 1988. There are 173 days
left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 11, 1804, Vice President
Aaron Burr mortally wounded
former Treasury Secretary
Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel
near Weehawken, N.J.
On this date: _
In 1767, John Quincy Adams, the
sixth president of the United States,
was born in Braintree, Mass.
In 1798, the U.S. Marine Corps
was created by an act of Congress.
In 1864, Confederate forces led by
Gen. Jubal Early began their in-
vasion of Washington D.C.
In 1934, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt became the first chief
executive to travel through the
Panama Canal, aboard the cruiser
Houston.
In 1955, the new U.S. Air Force
Academy was dedicated at Lowry
Air Base in Colorado.
In 1974, the House Judiciary
Committee released volumes of
evidence it had gathered in its
Watergate inquiry.
In 1977, the Medal of Freedom
was awarded posthumously to the
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