European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday. May 6,1987 columns Jim Fain humanity May suffocate under its own garbage if you think there s something funny about that flying dutchman Gar Bage from slip lung Island Gyps Itig around inc High seas the chances arc you do not live in new Jersey. The Barge Morgo set sail March 22 with 3,100 tons that had been barred by the town Council from the overcrowded slip Landfill. Towed by the Luc boat inc break of Dawn Morgo made landfall at Morch cad cily a c., where someone got a Coull order to keep it from dump ing. Thai s when the voyage turned frantic. Effort to dump were thwarted in Ala Bama and mini Ippi. Gov. Edwin Edwards of Louisiana in the spirit of Andy Jackson Al the Battle of new Orleans. Threatened id Call Oil the National guard. The tugboat skipper remarking with modest restraint that Hii cargo was ripening managed to evade the . Coast guard acting for the environmental Protection administration an headed for tampon Mexico. By then the Morgo was an International incident the mexican Navy use four ships two air planes an j a helicopter 10 keep in from coming ashore. Newspaper thundered against a Yanqui plot to turn the land of their fathers into a Gar Bage dump. Epa referred inquiring re porters to the stale department. The reason All this seems More Amus ing to people in Wyoming than to Jer scites ii that All North Jersey is sinking under a veritable Rocky Mountain Range of garbage. Cities pay 1130 a ton to dump their garbage As far away As Virginia much of the rest of the country is right behind. World watch Institute i Washington says More than half of . Cities will exhaust their landfills in the be. Three Yean. So much for fir or ice. The Way the world end is neither with bang nor whimper but with the sad slurping of doomed souls drowning in i hair own waste. We will be spared radiation William Buckley through loss of the Ozone layer inc Inera lion from nuclear holocaust and explosion in the Crescendo bunt of the , we will quietly and ignoble sink into he ooze of our rolling garbage. Anyone who has been in Rome Dur ing a garbage strike knows this is no Waylo die. It s smelly draws flies and is aesthetically offensive even to a card carry ing Slob. Belter to be shot in a Brothe Brawl world watch says we re too Rich. Gross world product went from 5 500 billion in1900 to $13 trillion last year pushed by a twelve fold increase in Fossil fuel con sumption. We re throwing stuff away fas Ter than the Roaches can cat it. Popula Tion explosion does t help. There Are answers. Incinerators will replace Landfill though that s not a per manent fix. Recycling offers most Hope. Much garbage can be returned to use some of it producing Energy along the Way. Whats known As the Nimby syn drome not in my backyard keeps the dialogue angry. Everybody wants the problem solved some place else. Pali Lucians confront it with the valor of Rab bit facing hound. They still have not located our first dump for commercial nuclear waste. They recently decided 2003 would be a Good year to Cross that Ridge. Obviously we need to live More mod Estly and make less mess. If the obituary of the human Experiment is to read fouled its own nest sign Here for & minority report. Spaceship Earlb does t have to become another Monjo. Down with More As in bloat fellow  with less As in lean wiry and renew Able. Co Newt Santee lbs taken to task for biased Contra coverage the question is usually always asked Are the Media biased the question is answered with this or that equivocation. Well Here is an observation about lbs news with Dan rather for april 29, i9g7. The first two segments might As Well have been broadcast by radio Moscow. The first segment had to do with the arraignment of Carl r. Channel for using a tas exempt foundation to collect Money to help the contras. The viewer heard in the course of a minute or two. Such word As con tra fund Raiser Channel. Guilty. Defrauding the government. Cd conspirator. Oliver North. Non humanitarian Aid. At least 12 million. Illegal contribution. Faces five Yean in prison a d s250.000 in fines. How much did president Reagan know about All this secret private fund raising. The chairman of the Senate committee investigating the arms fiasco Daniel Inouye said the evidence indicates that or. Reagan knew a  there was no editorial voice there to say the con Gratsi voted arms Aid to the contras both before and after the activity of Channell. What Laws he violated in concealing the purposes of the committee for which he raised funds were technical. No one who volunteered fungi 10 Channel s organization was cited As objecting to the uses la which they were put. The second segment dealt with the death in Nicara Gua of american Engineer Benjamin Ernest under Dan rather introduces him Maiter of Fadly As work ing to help the sandinista and to oppose .  he said there Are two versions Aslo Why he died. The first that he was killed in an unprovoked attack by the  the second that he was caught in a firelight the commentary for the duration of the Seg ment would not have been different if under had been murdered by the North vietnamese while trying to help the boat people. It is official . Policy backed by both houses of Congress hat the United Stales should assist the contras who Are seeking to restore Freedom to Nicaragua a country in which the National income has been reduced by about 40 percent of whatsit once was in which the military draft conscripts More Young men per capita than in any other country in latin America in which civil rights have been officially suspended in which the miskito indians were victims of Gen Oddal persecutions in which the Only surviving opposition newspaper has been closed Down in which More than 3,000 military technicians from Cuba an j from Eastern Europe arc helping to develop a police irate and a soviet satellite. What lbs gave the viewers in an interview in 1983, Linder said most nicaraguans were afraid of the  and then a Flash Back to Linder himself when you talk to any of the nicaraguan people it s Clear that their fear is not the Soviel Union their fear is not commit Nirk their far is the constant attacks on the people of Nicaragua being supported by the .  lbs the Reagan administration has labelled the nicaraguan government a threat to . Security but there Are some 1.500 americans who live in Nicaragua and most of them like Ben under sympathize with the  yes and most of the 300 americans who live and work in Libya Are sympathetic with the government of Qadhafi. Lbs some of those americans lost no Lime in demonstrating outside the . Embassy. They blamed the Reagan administration not Only for under1 death but also for the deaths of Lens of thousands of nicaraguans. Today they vowed that Binder s death would Only make them work harder for the Nicaragua  rather with Benjamin Linder s death critics of Contra Aid raised a new question today. Why u american Money going to rebels apparently responsible for murdering an american presumably die answer to that question is that an american was located on the trajectory Between a Contra revolutionary and his target. If an italian had been on a flight path of a Bullet fired by George Washington Al general , he d have been a dead italian. Lbs last year he Linder was a party to a lawsuit filed to Cut off Aid to the contras arguing the danger to my physical safety is immediate Congress and the president do nol make foreign policy on inc basis of the physical safety of any individual american. Lbs Here in Linder s Home pwn of Portland family and Friend pres their anguish sad their  Man he was known As somebody who would Hurt a Fly " brother the United slates government kilted my  this is Dan rather for lbs news. Good night