European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes july 1985 daily Magazine terrorism is a product of modern Fife by Russell Baker a lot of the fretting and fuming about terrorism is based on the naive belief that it will go away if Only a few disagreeable men arc disposed the Ayatollah Libya khad Afy and Lidl for were listed by president Rea Gan As men whose absence would make the world a nicer for Good measure lie threw in the nicaraguan one of his favorite gangs of and the North who previously haunt enjoyed much denunciation from the White possibly for political the president didst mention Northern Ireland provisional Ira India sikhs or Central americas righting death maybe his writers realized that casting the net so wide would make hash of the argument that terrorism is the work of a handful of murderous the net could have been cast even wider by including Italy red West Germany Baader Meinhoff Spain Basque what of South Afri Cas Border the philippine insurrection its and our own Madcap bombers and publicity crazed assassins who have succeeded in sealing off so much of washing tons once Public life from the Public far from being the work of a few beastly terror ism is a natural product of modern like air poll family excessively casual sexual prom traffic paralysis and the exaltation of terrorism is one of the Many embarrassing byproducts of our everyone for that terrorism flourishes by exploiting the by which is meant of course it terrorism gives us melodramas that Are irresistible to television audiences marinated daily in hokum in which screeching gunfire and casual violent death pass for with televisions ability to bring real life melodrama of this sort immediately into Parlours around the the modern terrorist receives a Boon from the Miracle of electronics and satellite technology such As his primitive predecessor never dreamed of in the Early Days of radio Cable press dispatches and slow mail from Over it is not surprising that malcontents All Over the world who believe they have just causes should spend their lives scheming to get a piece of the camera the inevitable relationship Between to and terrorists now seems to Embarrass some of the television news during the Twa hijacking there was a Good bit of stewing among them about whether they were being abused by the terrorists or whether they were rightly doing journalism unpleasant the silliness of this becomes apparent when you ask the obvious question Given a competitive news Industry in a nation devoted to the principle of maximizing prof should the kidnapping of a Host of americans by murderous thugs be treated by television As though it were not of much interest the air plane is another modern Miracle without which terrorism could not be so its dramatic Speed permitting terrorists to travel entertainingly immense distances adds adventurous spice to the televised so does its Peculiar vulnerability to Bullet cockpit of there is the easy availability of which is so characteristic of the modern age in the View of Many absolutely vital to the preservation of democratic the almost Universal individual armament that one sees in much of the non communist world might not seem quite the Blessing that television and the air plane yet it has been often True that people without guns Are people vulnerable to the oppression of arms for the striving television these Are blessings of the modern and few of us would give them up if we we May As Well realize that our nightmares Are the result of our bless c new York times red Ink repels the takeover Sharks by Art Buchwald there was a time when any american company Worth its Salt would be Happy to proclaim it made High profits and held Large Cash reserves in the no our captains of Industry arc now scared to death when they have to announce there operating in the Boomer chairman of Dapper an who just announced his company had lost is an example of the new Type of executive Whiz i assumed Cogswell would be depressed when the news of his losses was but i was he was if we Luck out and have a Lousy third Quarter we could drop a billion dollars this and that pleases you Why it last year we showed a net profit of million and had million in Cash stashed away in the every gunslinger in America wanted to take Over the our glowing balance Sheet threatened our very it was a the merger boys not Only at tacked us for the Way we were running the but they hired detectives to look into our private we make a move without being sued by a Stockhold the better the company the More the Sharks kept swimming around the worst part of their takeover strategy was they said they intended to buy our company with our they also declared they would sell off our profitable subsidiaries to raise capital to retire their the More they studied our assets the More they drooled All Over their Wall Street 1 have to assume then that you took the Only thing we could do was Call in the Bankers and lawyers to devise a shark repellent takeover the first thing they did after examining All our books was criticize us for having one of the most outstanding management and profit records of any company in the United based on our earnings they were amazed we haunt been acquired Cogswell it was hard to explain to them that our since old Man Dapper an founded the has always been to have Low maintain High Cash balances and give our stockholders a fair re turn on their they heard us out and then said we were not in tune with the the Only Way to save the company from a takeover was to make ourselves so unattractive that no one would go near us with a 10foot junk what shark repellent did they suggest for starters they made us unload our Cash surplus by buying several companies that were after making the acquisitions they persuaded us to borrow As much Money at High interest rates As the traffic would they proved to us that the More debt we built up the More Chance we had of surviving in the takeover Cogswell went it want enough to have High indebtedness and no Cash we also had to produce Low earnings so the Stock would be overpriced on the last year our shares looked like a dream now were in the Bottom of the i you apparently followed your investment Bankers and lawyers advice to the it want easy to turn the company overnight from a Winner into a but we managed to do he said i can Only take so much credit my manage ment team has to be Given recognition for the precarious position the company now finds itself and although youre almost bankrupt you can still smile Why not thanks to our strategy no one has tried to take us Over for six c los Angeles times ov0wai0 we eating y tonight uie have something to at last Camp of malnutrition in today crossword by Eugene Sheffer across 1 does a tailors Job 5 work unit 8 Leanto 12 Entrance 13 Pool stick 14 girls name 15 Aarons Forte 17 leave out 18 Beetle Genus 19 City in Kansas 21 Light Gas 24 space module 25 yearn 28 Wash 30 Likely 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