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Reason administration officials who
have defended the U.S. bombing of
Syrian forces in Lebanon Sunday mor
ning are right The air strikes were leg
itimate acts of self defense.
The bombings were a reasonable
and acceptable reaction to earlier
Syrian attacks on American reconnais
sance planes. The United States, like
any other nation, should return fire
when provoked.
, The real question at hand, however,
is not whether the air strikes were
appropriate measures but whether we
Should be involved in this conflict at
fill : . .
In case you have forgotten, the
Marines are supposed to be in this
war-torn country as part of a four
nation peacekeeping force. They may
be there with good intentions, but in
reality, they are not helping to keep the
peace.
Quite the contrary. News reports
coming out of Lebanon recently indi
cate the conflict is escalating.
Eight Americans were killed Sunday
night in an artillery bombardment of
their positions. Tuesday, US. Marines
destroyed a fortified Syrian gun posi
tion east of the Beirut Airport. All told,
254 UJ5. servicemen have lost their
lives in Lebanon this year.
Many now fear the United States will
be pulled into an all-out war with
Syria. In fact, An-Nahar, Beirut's daily
newspaper, reported Syria already con
siders itself at war with the United
States. For the first time, a senior
Syrian defense cHIcial has used the
term "war" to describe the ongoing
conflict
How much longer can we continue
to kid ourselves that we are playing a
peaceful role in Lebanon? '
We should never have gotten our
selves into this mess in the first place.
Now, we find ourselves in the difficult
position of being engaged in a conflict
nobody wants but unable to get out
without looking like we backed down.
Nevertheless, this country should
reconsider its role in Lebanon." Sen.
Gary Hart, D-Colo., already has asked ,
for an emergency session of Congress
to evaluate the situation.
He likely will not get that special ses
sion, but when Congress re-convenes
in January, the Lebanon crisis should
be one of the first things it discusses.
In the meantime President Reagan
and his staff should begin studying
measures to decrease our involvement
in that country. It's time to bring our
troops home.
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One; man's cheesecake
is another's exploitation
f r-J Paul
)jgf " Harvey
Jaclcson's record deserves
investigation from news media
For a dozen years Chicago was home- ignore the shadows over Jackson's
base for Jesse Jackson's operation, finances.
Pcopi? Unitejtojklp Humanity. "They should wonder who. paid for
ttmjSJXPkm wJEtcHd Jscksoii 07Ofidd!e Istlour. ete-': X
as 7ft got coTrporatioiuTsuch as Coca- " Tune and Newsweek put him on
Cola and Schlitz and Seven-Up and their covers. r
others to hire more blacks or else . .v And "60 Minutes" showcases him
entirely favorably.
Jackson has become the media's
darling, though he is less acceptable to
other blacks.
He claims a "rainbow constituency"
of blacks, women, Indians, Hispanics
and homosexuals.
Yet the Wall Street Journal notes
that many black leaders are publicity
coming out against him Coretta
King, Julian Bond, Tom Bradley, Ccle?
man Young.
No J ackson endorsement has come
from Mayor Harold Washington of Jack
son's home town, Chicago. ;
Indeed, a recent newspaper poll,
shows Jackson would get fewer black
votes in his hometown than Mondale
.or Glenn..--.-
' A black candidate b escaping public
scrutiny of his record because neither
the white media nor his white political
rivals dare risk being accused of
prejudice. - . -
But the blacks who know him best
do dare. .-. - -. , , '
-! . lteS, Lcs Assist Tkae Synks& ' ::.
Dick Kassan is trying to bring back
an honored tradition to American news
papers. So far he's doing lousy.
Kassan, a photographer, put the fol
lowing classified ad in Editor & Pub
lisher, the trade magazine of the news
paper industry: ,,.
, "Increase circulation, feature pic
tures of beautiful women in swimsuits
at beach. $7.50 each. Dick Kassan,
7745 SW 33rd Terrace, Miami 33155."
Years ago, "cheesecake" pictures
dumb-looking photographs of young
women in bathing suits striking ludi
crous poses on the beach used to be
The St. Louis Sentinel, a black news
paper, called it a "kick-back ap
proach." '
Jackson sued the Sentinel for libeL
The Sentinel then demanded to see the
financial records of FUSIL .
The libel suit promptly was settled
out of court.
Auditors presently are trying to
learn what happened to the money
PUSH got from the federal govern
ment. . '
Becently the Wall Street Journal
accused people in the news media of
looking the other way.
The Journal says newshawks were
super-diligent in scrutinizing the
finances of William Casey and Bert
Lance and Billy Carter and Richard
Allen and John Connally and on and
on and on yet the media tend to
. Bob
k,. .Greene
USA
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Letters
Trial not 'political '
in the prceecution of the Crg-dycizj
case, I fed compelled to 'respond to
Erie Peterson's Inaccurate and mis
leading column (BaTy Nebrcskan, Dec
2).
First of all, this was not a "political"
prosecution. Two uncontroverted
facts supported prosecution: 1. An
American Cz was dyed purp ! 2. 2. Jerd
cus;ticn. It rraj the duty of the ccur.ty
drr.c3 to the court The fast tht the
late into a political prcrccutlan.
dcia cf speech; she b frca to tty any
thing she wishes about our flg. Ilar-
evcr, when anyone mutilates, defaces -cr
dsZlzs the Cg, they, have .violated
theism '; . -'; :
- Ccr.trr.ry to Petersen's assertion, the -IzCz'i
Cll net order- the H:.g-to fce.
'fcur:;::d at the-American Leon, he
- r:rc!y rz -"rctcd that r s one means of
dirking of it. V, ' :-(,.C.
' - Ihe nahe Petercen concludes by
expressing amaz thai anycr.e
could get ar.gry about Jacobs' actions, ;
Perhaps if be rc:ettd upon the true
rr."ir.g cf the red; white and blue, his
hur. cf itszzzziCz cf Americar.3
v.l:o cm r.3 1;r.":r "get angry" about
czzh l-.z'.l:zi ttty ere the ones r.I o
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a staple of the newspaper world. The
capiions mvariaoiy ran sometmng
along the lines of, "Debby Smith, an
aspiring model, enjoys an 84-degree
day in Miami Beach."
That was it Not, exactly stop-thes
presses type news but male readers
used to love to look at the pictures, and
male editors obliged those readers by
printing the photos in their newspap
ers. It happened all the time.
Hassan's ad in Editor & Publisher
made me realize that we hardly ever
seem to see "cheesecake" pictures any
more. I gotin touch with Kassan and
asked him if he was getting any orders.
"None," he said.
The way Kassan tells it, he made a
good living up until the mid-703, shoot
ing cheesecake in Miami Beach. He
says he was even on the payroll cf the
Miami Beach tourism department Ills
job was to take bathing-suit pictures cf
pretty women, and get the pictures to
the wire services and to newspapers
around the world.- '
"It was a great line of work," Kassan
said. "I would tell the girls that I could
get their pictures in newspapers in
places they'd never even heard ol And
I could. Te had a clipping service, and
ofeen a gfrl's picture would be printed
in more than 100 newspapers."
; The whole point cf his work, Kassan
said, was to get people to think about
Miami Beach.' "If they err.o rf:l a
bCdni on a beaut!Tlbeach in r r'ecs
weather, me;te they'd t!;i tt-zzl
coming to Miami Beach cn their next
mpim I "
All cf a sudden, thcug juet when
Kaeean thought he was eet fer LTe, the
bottom dropped cut cf the Miami
"I thl-k tha wer.en'a novtmtnt had
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Indeed. Heightened consciousness
on the part of women around the
, nation made cheesecake pictures a
political issue. In the old days, when a
newspaper would run a cheesecake
picture it would mean only one thing:
There was a picture of a pretty woman
in a bikini in the paper that day. By the
4 mid-703, though, the appearance of
- such a picture meant something com
pletery different. It meant to some
readers that the newspaper was
taking a sexist view of women.
"It didn't help me that women edi-
- tors were starting to rise in the ranks
of newspapers," Kassan said. "By the
time a woman has risen to a position of
editorial responsibility, ehe has gone
through some killer fruits and some
killer oOce politics. Unfortunately, I
found out that one cf the first things
that women editors kill b cheesecake."
According to Kasean, the final blow
- came when Miami Beach hired a new .
executive in charge of tourism promo
tion. "One of the first thinp he did was
cut out the cheesecake," Kassan said.
" "He made an announcement He said, 1
am shocked to learn that we have a
factory here turning out cheesecake." I
was the factory he was referring to."
Now Kassan is going it on his own.
, : He is shooting cheesecake photos and
trying to sell them to newspapers him
self. As he waits patiently for his first
order he's not sure it's ever going to
come he muses cn the diHeuities of
his business. : "v r r -
"If I want to set up appointments
with girb to shoot cheeeecake, I have
to schedule four eppointments to make
sure I get two pictures," he said. "Half
cf the girb wont show up.
He said he was to keep telling the
- women to smile peppy, cheery smiles.
( "For some reason, many models favor '
a kind cf slutty expreseien," he said. "I -,
5 dent understand this. I keep explain-"
' ' ir.g to them: if a newspaper b going to
i-. uee a cheeeeeele diet, .fey want a
" hrrpy face. A happy I tell them." :
Ile said his f-ver::; p cr b still a shot ;
cf a ax man ruar:,i cu: cf the surf;
toward hh camera "It's a classic," he
said. "I don't know bar r zr.y cf those
Ie taken crzr the re:.. It always
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raced to plek up t: ; f --:r cr.d see a
pieture cf a pretty i'; I Li a tisloa the
teach."