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y Opt mion The Daily CoUegian • September 19,1991 Z*. The Dally Collegian Editor in Chief ]arta Ballinger Managing Editor Shannon Wentworth News Editor Krista Lemos Copy Editor Debbie Richards Graphics Editor Claire Anselmo Sports Editor LoriAsh Staff Writers Michelle Martin, Stacey Dennehy,}. Scott Walker, Syed Zaheer, Heidi Burkhardt, AimeeFisher, Kimberly Wright, Yu Ting Huang, Rente Ruelas Sports Writers Chris Cocoles, Richard fames, Danny Evans, Dave Donnelly Staff Photographer Edgar Ang ■ News Aide Dee Envoy Columnist Michael S. Handorf Contributors Uric Burney, Calbenne Jiguet-Jiglaire, Erin Yasuda ArtSpeak Editors Business Manager Khalid Rashid Advertising Manager Brenda Marie Whitla Advertising Production Manager lance Jackson Published since 1922 by THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS, INC. Editorial Headquarters Keats Campus Building Newsroom 278-2486 Sports 278-5733 Advertising 278-5734 by Trtburw Media Sotvkks To Yeltsin or not to Yeltsin By Bruce Brenna I was bom in 1961 and grew up with television and viewing the Soviet threat. Pictures from all over the world covered the screen on the nightly news while I advanced in age. Only a few of them still come to memory easily. JFK's last ride down that Dallas street; Nixon resigning. Ford's pardoning him; and the Challenger accident. During the entire time, I remember being told of the growing menace of communism. Today, things have changed, Remember the videotape of Boris Yeltsin standing on the top of a tank? Did democracy come immediately to your mind? It didn't come to mine. What I thought of was a master politician at work, American politics is full of them. But what Boris and any American politician have in common is that they know how to tell the people what they want to hear. Yeltsin has said the right things at the right time. He has the ability to read public opinion in the Soviet Union and changes his policy to fit the 'political wind'. We, on the other hand, have learned from our politi¬ cians lying to us that as the more promises they make, the less they can deliver. What we should do is ignore Yeltsin and give Gorbachev's plans whatever support we can. By following Yeltsin we a re being led down the wrong path. Why not Yeltsin? I'll give you five good reasons. (1) Who is this guy and where did he come from? The Soviet people didn't know who he was 5 years ago. How can the U.S. expect to understand what makes Yeltsin tick without a past? The Soviet Union will be a power or a problem for the next 100 years, and this revolution is being led by an unknown element. (2) How much power does he have and does he know how to use it? After the coup, in a meeting of the Soviet ruling body, Yeltsin forced Gorbachev to take<»list of the conspirators, and read their names aloud, all the while shaking a finger in Mikhail's face. Even if reading the list was right, did Yeltsin act like a 'leader1 by embarrass¬ ing Gorbachev on worldwide T.V.? If he tried that crap with any other politician in the world, Yeltsin would be at war by the evening news. (3)Nuclear warheads. Yeltsin says that the Soviet Union's 30,000 nuclear missiles will be transferred to the Russian province. If he can't move them, then the control of the warheads are in the hands of 15 different republics. If he succeeds, then he's as powerful as Stalin ever was. (4) Dictatorship. If Yeltsin is allowed to gain power from the unquestionable support given by western nations, then he could have control over all the republics and create a Stalin-like dictator¬ ship. If he can't control them ail, than Yeltsin will have to fight to protect the interests of the new Russian nation. (5) Preaching independ¬ ence. '• * Yeltsin does well saying' that all the republics should be independent, but what happens if they want total and uncondi¬ tional sovereignty? When it comes right down to it, does the U.S. want to deal with 15 new nations? What if they all draft armies and decide to fight to solve border disputes? How does Yeltsin handle this, civil war? (Look at Yugoslavia.) But in the Soviet Union it would be fought with atomic weapons. Nice thought... - - So the more things change, the more they stay the same. Television is still dominant and the Soviets are still a threat. Mr. brenna is a columnistjbr Tbe Daily CoUegian. Procrastination is the thief of time. , ^d^vard Young Run, don't walk io The Daily Collegian and submit your pofetry, prose and fiction to Spectrum, the hippest literary „ supplement on campus. The deadline is Sept. 27. 1 Mwxmt
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| Title | 1991_09 The Daily Collegian September 1991 |
| Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
| Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
| Publication Date | 1991 |
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| Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
| Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
| Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
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| Title | September 19, 1991, Page 2 |
| Alternative Title | Daily Collegian (California State University, Fresno) |
| Publisher | Associated Students of Fresno State, Fresno, Calif. |
| Publication Date | 1991 |
| Description | Daily (except weedends) during the school year. Microfilm. Palo Alto, Calif.: BMI Library Microfilms, 1986- microfilm reels; 35 mm. Vol.1, no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- |
| Subject | California State University, Fresno -- Periodicals. |
| Contributors | Associated Students of Fresno State. |
| Coverage | Vol.1 no.1 (Feb 8, 1922)- to present |
| Format | Microfilm reels, 35 mm. |
| Technical Information | Scanned at 600 dpi; TIFF; Microfilm ScanPro 2000 "E-image data" |
| Language | eng |
| Full-Text-Search | y Opt mion The Daily CoUegian • September 19,1991 Z*. The Dally Collegian Editor in Chief ]arta Ballinger Managing Editor Shannon Wentworth News Editor Krista Lemos Copy Editor Debbie Richards Graphics Editor Claire Anselmo Sports Editor LoriAsh Staff Writers Michelle Martin, Stacey Dennehy,}. Scott Walker, Syed Zaheer, Heidi Burkhardt, AimeeFisher, Kimberly Wright, Yu Ting Huang, Rente Ruelas Sports Writers Chris Cocoles, Richard fames, Danny Evans, Dave Donnelly Staff Photographer Edgar Ang ■ News Aide Dee Envoy Columnist Michael S. Handorf Contributors Uric Burney, Calbenne Jiguet-Jiglaire, Erin Yasuda ArtSpeak Editors Business Manager Khalid Rashid Advertising Manager Brenda Marie Whitla Advertising Production Manager lance Jackson Published since 1922 by THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS, INC. Editorial Headquarters Keats Campus Building Newsroom 278-2486 Sports 278-5733 Advertising 278-5734 by Trtburw Media Sotvkks To Yeltsin or not to Yeltsin By Bruce Brenna I was bom in 1961 and grew up with television and viewing the Soviet threat. Pictures from all over the world covered the screen on the nightly news while I advanced in age. Only a few of them still come to memory easily. JFK's last ride down that Dallas street; Nixon resigning. Ford's pardoning him; and the Challenger accident. During the entire time, I remember being told of the growing menace of communism. Today, things have changed, Remember the videotape of Boris Yeltsin standing on the top of a tank? Did democracy come immediately to your mind? It didn't come to mine. What I thought of was a master politician at work, American politics is full of them. But what Boris and any American politician have in common is that they know how to tell the people what they want to hear. Yeltsin has said the right things at the right time. He has the ability to read public opinion in the Soviet Union and changes his policy to fit the 'political wind'. We, on the other hand, have learned from our politi¬ cians lying to us that as the more promises they make, the less they can deliver. What we should do is ignore Yeltsin and give Gorbachev's plans whatever support we can. By following Yeltsin we a re being led down the wrong path. Why not Yeltsin? I'll give you five good reasons. (1) Who is this guy and where did he come from? The Soviet people didn't know who he was 5 years ago. How can the U.S. expect to understand what makes Yeltsin tick without a past? The Soviet Union will be a power or a problem for the next 100 years, and this revolution is being led by an unknown element. (2) How much power does he have and does he know how to use it? After the coup, in a meeting of the Soviet ruling body, Yeltsin forced Gorbachev to take<»list of the conspirators, and read their names aloud, all the while shaking a finger in Mikhail's face. Even if reading the list was right, did Yeltsin act like a 'leader1 by embarrass¬ ing Gorbachev on worldwide T.V.? If he tried that crap with any other politician in the world, Yeltsin would be at war by the evening news. (3)Nuclear warheads. Yeltsin says that the Soviet Union's 30,000 nuclear missiles will be transferred to the Russian province. If he can't move them, then the control of the warheads are in the hands of 15 different republics. If he succeeds, then he's as powerful as Stalin ever was. (4) Dictatorship. If Yeltsin is allowed to gain power from the unquestionable support given by western nations, then he could have control over all the republics and create a Stalin-like dictator¬ ship. If he can't control them ail, than Yeltsin will have to fight to protect the interests of the new Russian nation. (5) Preaching independ¬ ence. '• * Yeltsin does well saying' that all the republics should be independent, but what happens if they want total and uncondi¬ tional sovereignty? When it comes right down to it, does the U.S. want to deal with 15 new nations? What if they all draft armies and decide to fight to solve border disputes? How does Yeltsin handle this, civil war? (Look at Yugoslavia.) But in the Soviet Union it would be fought with atomic weapons. Nice thought... - - So the more things change, the more they stay the same. Television is still dominant and the Soviets are still a threat. Mr. brenna is a columnistjbr Tbe Daily CoUegian. Procrastination is the thief of time. , ^d^vard Young Run, don't walk io The Daily Collegian and submit your pofetry, prose and fiction to Spectrum, the hippest literary „ supplement on campus. The deadline is Sept. 27. 1 Mwxmt |
