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·' THE RECORD- JANUARY 9.1!)91 • 13 • •• -·I· n·· ·• .t·· .o--n· • · '' - . \ ' . - \ . . . . . . . ' -- - . . R.I!R·~~~@ -ON RECORD . • \. ·- ---- ·~wnat is important ·iS to look at the big picture, not an insignificant segment, ln: order to get honest statistiqs.' -See Letters EDITORIAL Question: The January 15 UN deadline for Iraq to :leave Kuwait is aettlP& closer. What do you thlnk will happen? Keep Protests Out Of Battlefield COMPILED BV lU~ A\LMQUIST June Henry Huntington \I think there'll be negotiations. There won't be any type of military aotion taken.· Joel Kupferman Huntington *I can guarantee that Bush will blow tt .. He hasn't shown hlmaetfto be averyaooct dlptomat~ .. Linda Nirenberg Huntiqten Station THEREC(JU) ~E.& I PENT J.QM\ McNamora FOR HUNTINGTON\ro~fl Picture this: Saudi Arabia. The desert. Vast and hot. Lines of anny tanks prepared to do battle: one group on home territo- ry, familiar with terrain and weather conditions; the other, far from home but trained to be familiar with the environmenL But there is a hitch. A passel of tents and 200 or so civilian men and women- frQm over 10 counuies, including the United States, who call themselves the Gulf Peace Team - are prepared to lie down in protest in the path of battle. (See story on Page 1.) There~s something wrong with this pic~. , It -smacks of a simmu- scene nearly 130 years ago, during the first Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Vuginia, at the beginning of the Civil War. Here, his- tory books ten us, Northerners, certain that the battle would be a sure win and the first and last of the war, packed up ~ir children and a picnic and went to a hillside overlooking the battle scene ' Commends Voters Dear Editor: When Commissioner Thomas Jorling of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced that the department would exercise en- forcement discretion and allow us to continue using the Smithtown landfill, he had a good deal of praise for the - progress we have made in implementing a solid waste management plan. Citing the double-lined landfill, mandatory recycling programs and our resource re- covery plant currently under construc- tion, Commissioner Jorling commended the leadership in both Huntington and Smithtown for making the difficult but necessary decisions in meeting the chal- lenge of devising new methods of solid waste disposal. . As a member of the Huntington Town Board since 1988, I -am grateful for the commissioner's recognition. But the real PUBUSHER Anthony Coates -- --- ------ EDITOR RiNlUE:RS PRODUCI.lC>N STAFF Catherine Schmoller MMY Beth G\lyther LomliRe Trezza,· Super.visor ENTERTAINMENT EDITO'R a.MHalfond Stephen-- Noetzel Utn Sonoaky Jenn JacobSQn Judith H. bernstein SPORTS·EDITOR ffi()lOORAPHER ADVERTISING ART STAFF floger Moon-ey 1m. Palmquist JOhn Gieser Wendy Mercfer COPY EDITORS 1\Rt OIR.ECTOR Tammy Sauter kathy Esseks Cl\mtopber Carbone Stella Terranova Bernard r.'J. Skolsky Sea Wander ~'tS~MS MANAGER PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR 'tQmaa Baade Richard Wyatt Jim Cooper to watch tile action. What tlley did not expect was the terrible, gruesome reality of a battle that took the lives of 1,500 Northern- ers and 2,()()() Southerners, including many sightseers. There is a lesson to be learned here. War zon-es are not for the untrained civilian. 'The battlefield is not the place to stage a demonstration. There is a pl~ for protest and dis- agreement, but the battlefield is not that place - not only because of the threat to the pi'Otesters themselves, but because snell action will thwart and demoralize those who must fight. At home, waded families are fight- ing their ()Wn emotional war to ensme that their loved ones stationed in the Persian Gulf a:re not risking their lives in vain. Some are marching to Wash- ington, D.C., in protest, l)ut others are determined to show support for the servicemen and women overseas- by sending supplies and letters to keep them mentally strong and ready to withstand a potential battle. credit belongs to the voters in Hunting- ton. Since 1985, they have consistently supported the (;andidates who have fa- vored movmg ahead with the resource re- covery project over the loud protests of special intemts groups. It is this support that has enabled the town board to con- tinue the }JI'Oject and join Smithtown in an innovative and productive partnership. I have always thought that Hunting- ton's electorate was better informed and more aware of .issues than those in other towns, and recent ~vents have proven that to be true. The landfill closi.II'e dead- line found several towns with no alter- nate means of garbage disposal. If voters in those towns failed tel support practical and somtd solt1tions, they may pay de.ar- ly for their- mistake. Commissi()ner Jor- ling has stated that enforcement of the landfill closure la-w will be exercised in those towns and fines will. be levied. The Huntington-Smithtown solid waste management plan will provide en- Several new groups have sprung up to provide moral support for service people abroad and families at home. ·Some have a political agenda, while others resolutely maintain neutrality on the issue of whether the United States should engage in war. The Gulf Peace Team takes a firm position, saying that it ~ not our war, that the war would be staged to pro- tect the wealth of a small number of people and to that end, it would SOCii- flee innocent people. No one wants war, and few con- done it or rationalize the reasons for it. Those who want to fight U.S. poli- cy and protest this country's :involvement have a perfect right to do so, but it would be a grievous error to endanger American lives and to un- dermine support for U.S. service peo- ple at this critical moment. Another war - the one on U.S. · policy and on public opinion - will be fought on home turf~ in Washing- ton. That's where the protests ought to take place, not on the battlefield. vironmentally safe and economically sound disposal methods for at least the next 20 years, the first long-range solu- tion in our town's history. Huntington's voters have made this plan a reality. They recognize the need for a new facil- ity, participate fully in recycling pro- grams and are well aware of the prob- lems we face. Their voting record proves that they support action rather than rhetoric, solutions rather than wishful thinking and officials who do the right thing. It is their steadfast suppon that should be commended. QUENTIN SAMMIS Councilman, Town of Huntington What Is News? Dear Editor: Recently I watched CNN as they re- moved any faith I bad in their standard of honesty and newsworthiness. 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