European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 columns the stars and stripes monday july 21,1956 today s crossword Cable gives Choice of tedium by Russell Baker Cable to came to our House last month. Now i Cangel the weather Channel. It tells me of the climate in faraway places very hot in Dallas. Severe Thunder storm warn Ings for three counties in Kansas f straggle 1o gel interested but fail. It is hard getting interested in weather that is 1,500 Miles away. And anyhow what is Cable to for if you dont keep Chang ing the Channel i get the inescapable sports Channel. Some men Are playing soccer on the tar Side of the Earth. It it a game that was played last week. Hungarians Are involved i am not. Watching televised sports events that were held jail week last month last Yew or last night make me weep with boredom. A voice beg me not to tune out. As soon last week s soccer game u Over says the voice i will see a prizefight held last week in Las vegas. I get the eternal news Channel from Atlanta. Some narcotics dealers have been arrested. They Are the same narcotics dealers who used to get arrested every night on the network news shows before we got cab let. The same policeman puts the Sante improbable value on their narcotics Cache hundreds of million of dollars. A woman is pleading please Don t tune out became after these advertisement you will see people bombing and shooting each other in the Middle East Sony sweetheart i growl but the Only reason be been watching those Birds shoot each other Tor years was because i did t have 45 other channels to tune to Many of which now offer 1932 movies starring Kay Francis and Lyle Wong. Instead highbrow moviegoers Are having1 . A Brilliant 17-year-old Campus newspaper movie critic is talking about the great horse stars. The great est he jays was Roy Rogers nag trigger. The kid does t even mention Tom Mil s Tony because he s obviously never heard of either Tony or Tom. I get the perpetual prayer Gunnel a Man in Messina Italy has written a letter. It it bring read aloud Over the perpetual prayer Channel Lut Atea that prayer has had salutary effects on hit life in Messina. 1 get the endless social Security Channel. A deceptively genial Man urges me to enrol in a lobby that win apply and Castinado to politicians who dont redistribute the. Wealth in my direction once i hit the Golden years i get the utter Success Channel a Man in a suspiciously Chap looking nut assures me that easy wealth a weft once i set up my own corp Cutka i Tuuu the baseball Nam flt. Toe Chicago cubs replaying the san Diego padres. Tace Azlant by tvs and new York Mats Are taking up two entire channels t tune out toe Brave tone not the Mela pause at the Nashville network to catch a Little championship Rodeo then flip 1o Nickelodeon for a mister de rerun while i decide which Way to tune next. Hob perhaps not yet a few Yean ago we rented a summer place that bad Cable with Hob. It was a solid month of Burt Reynolds. Burl s an right in moderation but in his movies he always has to have All the girls in love with him which 11 depressing if you Stop to think about it though Tot not Tare which is More depressing oat having All the Girts in the world in love with you or never having them give you a moment free from love to watch the weather Channel. Speaking of which the Jet Stream is Cooling of North Dakota. Outside i can hear my Garden dying of drought. It s the same kind of sound i hear in my head. A How tort Tenn. War on drugs in t going Well by Andy Rodney so How arc we going to attack the problem of drugs we Haven t done very Well up to now we All know cigarette smoking is a cause of lung cancer. The Case against drinking is Clear too. I you drink too much and drive you re Apt 10 get killed. If you Don t get killed driving you May get cirrhosis of the liver. The Case against drugs has never been so persuasively made As the arguments against cigarettes and alcohol. The people who take drugs or use them doa t really know what s wrong with doing it. The Case certainly has never been Nide against Nur Juana and it a in i been made very Well against co Caine. Those of us who Don t use either feel in our Bones that drags Are wrong but users Don l rare How our Bones of Young people who would t use cocaine smoke marijuana. Hundreds of thousands who would t Lake heroin use cocaine or the newer no one is telling them exactly what it does totem and Why it s wrong. Put Forth this argument the other night and Tome one said drugs Are wrong because they re s True but if you can t Tell Young people what s wrong with drugs what difference does it make whether they re addictive or not we All should have much More specific information about what drugs do to the mind and body. It s apparent that the Caw against drugs tas never been made Tomany College athletes who seem to be Able to compete even though they re on drugs. A major amount of crime it committed by addicts desperate to get Money for drugs. This in t really an argument against drugs either. The British have a theory that if you let the government jell drugs cheaply 10 addicts the problem of crime disappears. There Are a number of ineffective ways we re attack ing the drug problem. Every few weeks we see pictures of police destroying big plastic envelopes of heroin or cocaine or burning Bales of marijuana. In spite of All the Money we be spent fighting the growing of marijuana it will be California s biggest Cash crop this year. Crackdown result in biggest dig bust Ever is familiar headline but it does t have any effect on drug use except perhaps to drive prices up. Our government spends a Fortune to catch smugglers and it Slosing the Battle. More drug Are being smuggled into the United states than Ever. Condemnation by religion Hain t helped. None of the things we be tried seem to work. We be put pres sure on foreign governments trying to get them to destroy their drug crops and that has t worked. Where do we go the death often Bias the univer sity of Maryland basketball Star who died from an overdose of cocaine might help. Some athletes will refuse to take cocaine in the future for fear of death but fear won t have any effect for Long. Historians suggest addiction to opium had a serious and Long term effect on the chinese. Cocaine has serious implications for us. Medical experts should make it Clear what s wrong with taking drugs. Then All we Nave to do is make it popular among Young people Todo the right thing. 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