European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june 14. 1980 the stars and stripes Page 11 tetters to the editor nuclear Power plants Are Given an endorsement in a idler published in the june 3 stars and stripes a writer makes an emotional and irrational plea for the abandonment of nuclear Energy and the shutdown of uranium mining and processing industries. Echoing the repeatedly discrediting As saults of naders commoners and fondas she trots out the imaginary calamities that threaten Mankind in some vague future. At the same time she ignored the Mountain of evidence that shows radioactivity to be manageable phenomenon that is already providing vast benefits to Mankind the treatment of cancer among them. She hauls in three mile Island As Man s closest Brush with holocaust. In doing so. She disregards the findings of the one year Long study of the Kenney commission Art Buchwald it May be my imagination but More and More people seem to be talking to themselves during this election year. All you have to do is walk Down the Street and you can hear someone mumbling. I was curious to Bear what people Are saying so i followed one Man who was muttering. This it whal i heard i can t Vole for Carter. Anyone but Carter. But then i can t vote for Reagan either. If i go for an Derson i la be throwing my vote away. I better vote for Carter. But Carter does t seem to know what he s doing. He got us into a recession and in four More years he could get us into a depression. I better vote for Reagan. Reagan will get us into a War. It would be terrible to be in a recession and a War at the same time. I better vote for Anderson. What do i know about Anderson i voted for Carter last time because i did t know anything about him. I won t make that mistake again. I better vote for Carter. 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And no reactor malfunction has Ever Cost a human life. The alternatives to nuclear Energy pro posed by the anti nukes purportedly through their concern or Mankind and Mother Earth reveal instead their callous Ness toward both and their isolation from reality. The Sun s Energy May be inexhaustible but it certainly in t free nor is it depend Able. The Cost for building a solar Plant Wall for wait is 30 times that of a nuclear one in addition to the Cost of the  to the 25 acres required to accommodate a 1,000 my nuclear plan a solar one of the same capacity would re quire 5,000 Square Miles for its Sun collector. The biggest ones envisioned so far arc less than 1/1,000 As Large. And they of course will be inoperative at night and fee ble on Cloudy Days. American Farmers on the Western Plains one of the most consistently Windy areas in the world abandoned their unsightly and inefficient windmills Over 40 years ago. As centrally generated electrical Power became available. Improved windmills now in the design stage will be More unsightly the will stand 300 feet High bul no More Relia ble being useless on Calm Days. Deriving useful Energy from the Ocean Waves is still in the pipe dream slag. Tides look inviting and repeated attempts have been made to exploit them. But with the toting up the costs of and evaluation of engineering problems the efforts have been abandoned one after the other. Besides suitable natural Siles Are few and far be tween. Finally there is Wood to be burned and agricultural products from which alcohol can be derived. But the anti nukes Are Little concerned thai a Greal surge in Iree cutting could have disastrous effects on the ecology of forested areas of the world. Raising Corn and beets for example for the production of alcohol looks like an easy Way Oul. Bul in ignores the repealed reports of the world health organization Hal one third of the world s population is suffering from malnutrition. My mind does l run in the same Chan Nels As the humanitarian anti nukes. But i for one would feel uncomfortable turning on the Light to read knowing that the electric Power i was using had been generated Burn ing alcohol derived from Corn Hal could have fed a starving cambodian family for a week. Particularly if an otherwise useful nuclear plan was standing Idle because of anti nuclear protests. . Bra a Bonn Germany the Anatomy of obscenity i want to comment on a writer s letter published May 21. His line of thought was that military people normally use very obscene language and that everyone particularly women ought to accommodate to that  i strongly disagree with most of his reasoning justifications and conclusions. For example i. Most military people arc in fact not knee deep in either blood or mud As suggested by Mcmullen 2. Obscenities Are not Good tools for pressuring others to per form in a trustworthy manner on the Battle Field and 3. Obscene language is not Inte Gral to military behaviour. I suggest that the following Points iced to be considered by the writer a. It is Normal for a person to be angered and insulted by obscene language directed it him that reaction is not childish nor defensive As suggested by him. It is a predictable and healthy response to an insult. B. It is ridiculous to expect people to lol Fralc obscene goading. It is even More Ridic Ulous to presume that victims of such be Havior will View it As a positive contribution to their personality development. C. The military slim of Justice does not say that soldiers should go to jail for merely voicing obscenities. Hut As it. Col. James Kucera acting Sari our judge advocate explained in response to this writer s letter the Ucma protects everyone s rights and at times obscene language can be pro Vocative. One May not believe hat a Law i needed to restrict such behaviour but recent courtroom decisions do in fact validate its need. D. Our civilian society and our military society have both established reasonable standards of behaviour from adults. Today i will Grant you the deleted expletive has become a fairly common  of our nation Al language and emotion. Though not accepted As gentlemanly expression it is nonetheless tolerated by most. However vulgar personal attacks arc not sanctioned in any Quarter. No one is presumed to have the right to verbally abuse another person to be quasi accepted voice obscenities must remain impersonal. C. Most people respect themselves and expect others to treat them politely. Heal thy people do not tolerate their being physically or verbally abused they counter by whatever Means is possible. I Hope that this writer reconsidered his stated position. Granted most of us at times voice less than polite language but let s not term that to be our personal Ideal and most certainly Lei s not twist that to the Point of attempting to justify the verbal abuse of others. I would not tolerate being spoken to in that manner by anyone and i Don t expect others to tolerate it either. To restrict Hose who can t or  1 be gentlemanly i sup port the use of other Means As might be legally appropriate to the circumstances. Maj. Charles k. Munro Wei Bruecken Germany