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PAGE 2 - THE NORTH TEXAS DAILY
Wednesday, September 29, 1976
An Editorial
Threats Alarm Police
Once upon a time, a young boy, playing alone
in the woods, cried out "Wolf!" to attract the
concern and attention of his nearby friends. They
all rushed to his side to insure his safety, only to
find their friend had shouted a false alarm to
benefit his own amusement.
Most people remember what happened after the
young boy pulled this stunt for the third or fourth
time. His friends failed to believe his wolf cry and
in his time of real need, they ignored him com-
pletely.
Three university bomb threats Monday, in the
Business Building, Journalism Building and the
University Union, all turned out to be nothing
more than false alarms, and yet in each instance,
University Police responded to the calls,
evacuated the buildings and made thorough
searches of the premises. They are to be com-
mended for not doubting the veracity of the
threats.
Bomb threats seem to be becoming the latest
college craze. Within the past two weeks, five
campus bomb threats were reported to University
Police. Whatever the caller's motive may be, to
skip a Spanish test in the Foreign Language
Building or to gain publicity, although
anonymously, in the next day's newspaper, to
make a bomb threat is a federal offense,
punishable by a prison term.
University Police Chief Robby Robinson said
Monday his department is meeting with university
officials to discuss procedures to follow when
future bomb threats are made. He said he dislikes
the publicity given to the events because such
notoriety may cause someone else to make a false
alarm.
Chief Robinson said such procedures might in-
clude alternate class sites to be attended where
classroom instruction and examinations could be
given while buildings are being searched.
It takes a sick mind and certainly a sick sense of
humor to make a bomb threat. The threats disrupt
classes, force work slowdowns and in the end cost
students for additional campus security. While the
threats may become commonplace for students,
let us hope the University Police never tire of
hearing the cry "Wolf!"
—SCOTT DANIELS
David Board
Debate Answers
Few Questions
For more than a month Americans and other in-
terested parties across the globe anticipated the
debates. Not since Kennedy taught Nixon the impor-
tance of a good make-up man in 1960 had two
presidential contenders met before television cameras
to battle their wits. The prospect of seeing President
Gerald Ford and challenger Jimmy Carter putting it
on the line in such a manner was greeted gleefully by
the voting public.
Now, we would see which of the two should be set
up for business in the Oval Office. But did we?
All that could easily be determined from the first of
a series of debates was that both candidates had a
great command of statistics to support their domestic-
policy positions. However, most reports agreed that
the barrage of statistics and political rhetoric left
viewers cold by and large.
As one viewer concluded, it is difficult to see how
such opposite answers could be made to sound equally
correct.
So, after the 90-minute word exchange, most
viewers probably support the same man who was their
Peace People Wage
'War' on Terrorists
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — They call
themselves "Peace People," a growing group of
Protestant and Roman Catholics who have set aside
centuries of bitterness and distrust to campaign for an
end to Northern Ireland's sectarian bloodshed.
"We've started a guerrilla peace," declared Mrs.
Betty Williams, the 32-year-old Catholic housewife
who launched the crusade in Belfast Aug. 10.
That was the day three children—Joanne Maguire
5, and brothers John, 2Vi, and Andrew, 6 weeks—
were killed by a runaway terrorist car whose driver
had been shot dead by British troopers.
Mrs. Williams' campaign has not stopped or
noticeably diminished the fighting between Protestant
extremists and the mainly Catholic Irish Republican
Army, which launched the war in an effort to end
British and Protestant control over Northern Ireland
and to unite it with the Irish Republic in the south.
BUT SHE and her swelling army of supporters are
determined to end the feuding in which nearly 1,700
men, women and children have died.
"We're waging psychological warfare against the
terrorists on all sides," she said. "They won't know
who their friends are any more.
"We'll isolate them in the community. We want to
show them they represent no one."
In the last few weeks she has brought an estimated
100,000 people out into the streets to march for peace.
Support grows every week.
The response has surprised government officials
and others who a month ago predicted the peace peo-
ple would fade away, just like earlier campaigns.
Betty Williams' tactics are more hard-nosed than
other efforts.
"We plan, whenever possible, to physically stop ter-
rorists and rioters from doing their worst," she ex-
plained. "We plan to have peace groups on every
street of every town. We've already got nearly 60
groups active across the province.
Mrs. Williams' warriors have gone out into the
streets armed only with 5-cent whistles they blow to
summon suport when trouble starts.
Its greatest achievement has been to bring Protes-
tants and Catholics together to break down the bar-
riers of religion and politics that have divided them for
50 years.
"We've made history," Mrs. Williams declared
when she led 20,000 Catholic women into Belfast's
Shankill Road, heartland of Protestant militancy for a
giant peace rally last month. They were embraced by
tearful Protestant women.
Mairhead Corrigan, Mrs. Williams's partner and
aunt of the Maguire children, said, "Our aim is to
weld one community out of the two. Fear has kept us
apart all these years, but now that's crumbling.
The crusade has sparked similar peace drives in the
neighboring Irish Republic and mainland Britain.
Messages offering support and assistance pour into
the Peace People's Belfast headquarters from
organizations and individuals around the world.
Labor chiefs, community leaders, businessmen and
newspapers have publicly backed the crusade.
THE CAMPAIGNERS also have been attacked by
extremists on both sides. The IRA's "Provisional"
wing has vowed, "We will not be deterred by the
hysterics of the peace-at-any-price brigade."
But there are indications that the terrorists on both
sides are becoming uneasy as the peace movement
gathers momentum. Security authorities reported that
the number of people using the confidential telephone
system through which they can give anonymous
Feedback
Cyclist Stresses Safety
(iarv E. Masters
3400 hall Meadow No. 3202
I ride a bicycle to school. It is good exercise and I
don't have a parking problem. The one problem that I
do have is with other bike riders and motorists that do
not know the laws that relate to bicycles.
The other day a motorist got quite angry when I
rode in front of the car after it had stopped for a stop
sign. According to the law, I had the right of way.
Yesterday I had to stop to avoid a bike rider who ran a
red light and nearly hit me. The rider, who probably
had never driven a car or studied the traffic laws, did
not think she had to stop for red lights. My point is
that too many people who ride bikes and who drive
around bikes do not know the laws that relate to
bikes.
I would appreciate very much an article on the laws
and an interview with a police officer that stresses the
death rate for bicycle riders in the United States. It
might even make it safer for me to ride my bike to
school.
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tipoffs to police has increased "considerably" since
the campaign began.
Mrs. Williams says, "I'm scared to death. But we
can't let go now, not after we've encouraged so many
people to take the risks and oppose these animals. We
will not be scared into silence again."
But peace means different things to different people
and, experienced observers say, that could be the
crusade's biggest obstacle.
Seven years of death and destruction have left deep
wounds on both sides, A whole generation of young
people has grown up in the ghettos fed on hate and
violence.
"The bitter truth," said Catholic community leader
Tom Conaty, a longtime critic of the IRA, "is that the
IRA and the Protestant paramilitaries do not depend
on popular support of the communities in which they
exist. They have enough hard-core sympathizers to
survive peace crusades.
"However, their support has been eroded little by
little by earlier peace campaigns. Maybe the best Betty
Williams can hope for is simply to continue that
process."
choice before the debate. Round one ended in a draw.
Both men appeared a bit wooden in their responses,
although each sparked to life on certain points. After
Ford reminded Carter that it was a Democratic
Congress not the Republican administration to be
blamed for the nation's economic maladies, the chal-
lenger responded by linking Ford to Nixon and
Watergate.
At least neither committed any major faux pas,
which have been the norm in this election year.
Nothing was mentioned in the debate of Carter's
Playboy magazine interview. As we all have heard by
now, Carter revealed that he has lusted after women,
thereby committing adultery in his heart. The peanut
farmer also said he considers himself no better than
those who do not keep their lust to themselves. But
God will forgive us for these sins, Carter assures.
While Carter's honest) and candor are to be ad-
mired, one cannot help but wonder at the political
strategy involved in this matter.
At any rate, now we have heard from both can-
didates on the sex issue. To Ladies' Home Journal,
Ford has said he would protest in a vigorous way if he
discovered his daughter Susan was having an affair.
The views of the candidates on this issue are not at
all out of line with their respective stands on other
"domestic" concerns—Carter has many proposals he
would like to initiate while Ford tries his hardest to
make sure that very little happens at all.
Carter's plan to reorganize the Federal bureaucracy
is as intriguing as it is difficult to foresee actually
working. On this matter voters must decide whether to
go with the challenger's theoretical plan or with the in-
cumbent's vow to maintain the mess we now have.
To what was regarded by many as no more than so
much political buffoonery, the highlight of the debates
was undoubtedly the 27-minute technical time out.
While viewers across the nation used the break as an
excuse to sharpen their comic talents, ABC's Harry
Reasoner tossed a few one-liners of his own. His
remark that the audio failure had isolated
Philadelphia, something people have thought to be the
case for some time, was sure to gain no fans in Philly,
although it did bring a few snickers in Texas.
Hopefully, the dullness of the first of the presiden-
tial candidates' debates was not enough to turn the na-
tion off to the next episode. Ford loyalists should cer-
tainly watch. Their man supposedly holds the edge in
the area of foreign policy, the subject of the next
debate. It will be interesting to see if Carter can hold
his own in this area.
All things considered though, the first debate really
should be considered a minor victory for Ford. At
least he didn't fall down.
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