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ooo Friday March 12 1982 The Miami Herald 27 A USoujpafinflc Anti-Busing Bill a Disaster the power be vested to decide how where and when little children should be bused? In the view if a judge fixes a limit of 30 minutes or 10 miles that manifests the integrity of judges If Congress fixes a limit of 15 minutes or five miles that manifests the shifting whims of a transient majority How come? THE infallibility of Federal judges is not decreed in heaven or in the Constitution either Judges are as capable as others of making large mistakes The problem is that while judges may check the large mistakes of Presidents and congressmen there is no effective check whatever upon the large mistakes of judges If a majority of the people perceive the abortion decision of 1973 as a large mistake what are the people to do? The threefold answer is 1 to amend the Con-t stitution or 2) to pray that the Court will reverse itself or 3) to elect Presidents who will nominate and senators who will confirm future judges who will correct the error We should live so long Let us stop the hysterics The' vote of March 2 the beginning of the end of the Constitution It even the beginning of an end of an argument Thoseof us who oppose government by judicial oligopoly will be arguing this' issue for years to come Universal Press Syndicate Calle Ocho Highlights New Spirit of Miami World Viewpoint: i By JAMES KILPATRICK FROM time to time we reach a kind of Henny-Penny Chicken-Little point in our public affairs One side or another is hollering so loudly that the sky is falling that difficult to hear a sensible small voice saying no not at that point now in the matter of pending bills affecting the powers of Federal judges One such bill passed the Senate on March 2 The measure would prohibit Federal courts from ordering that students be bused more than five miles or 15 travel time for reasons of racial balance Well sir the sky is falling Sen Vale Bumpers of Arkansas saw the vote as beginning of the end of Constitutional guarantees in this Busing is not the issue cried the senator issue is whether we are going to remain a free The American Bar Association has mounted a major campaign to press the same silly notion The ABA says that bills to restrict the courts are around the Constitution Such bills would abandon the rule of law to whims of an ever-changing The real issue is that one branch of Government does not become dominant over the If Congress successfully can restrict the Federal courts in one area and thus destroy their independence it would thereafter require only 269 votes a simple majority in each house for Congress to act in other areas We will have our THERE there I would say to these hand wringers stop your sniffling and dry your eyes The busing bill impresses some of us (including 57 senators sworn to uphold the Constitution) as an entirely appropriate exercise of legislative power Our impression may be wrong If that is so if Congress has exceeded its authority it will require only five votes a simple majority of the Supreme Court to declare the act void Assuming the House concurs with the Senate a most uncertain assumption it will be months or years before the matter will be resolved Meanwhile are we truly to believe the Constitutional sky is falling? This is Henny-Penny stuff For the record I happen to believe that other pending bills in this general area should be rejected out of hand Absolutely to deny the Supreme Court appellate jurisdiction in any case involving abortion or school prayer would be most unwise The busing bill it should be emphasized does not go nearly so far as to deny jurisdiction The bill fixes limits it defines a permissible remedy It does not nullify Constitutional principle it rewrites judicial legislation Underlying the immediate commotion is one of the great continuing concerns of our system Put simply the question is minding the store? Where should munities together has been met But it is indicative that the idea first conceived almost six years ago as an attempt to get people of different ethnic backgrounds together is on the right track Leslie Pantin Jr remembers those early days well He remembers how the first idea was to have a concert that was discarded when we realized that in a concert the Americans were going to one side of the hall and the Latins to the Pantin said Then they talked about a bicycle race That was discarded because of the fear that competition between the groups would not help meet the needs of a divided community THEN came the idea of a block party a small one at that expected between 20000 and 25000 people that first said Pantin a past president of the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana and one of the proponents of the original plan The first festival drew 100000 people And it has grown Last year police estimated that nearly 500000 people attended the day-long festivities Now the program calls for a series of events spread out over a 10-day period It is still anchored by the traditional Calle Ocho festival with its usual fare of Latin food music and dancing But this plans also call for a full-costume ball street parties at the Orange Bowl and a parade of floats convertibles and car-drawn boats Neighborhood dance groups will compete in a Cuban omparsa contest the equivalent of the famed samba schools of Brazilian carnivals The first step of what someday soon may become equivalent of Mardi Gras is underway Present will be many of the most popular performers from Brazil Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago Already 10 hours of this events are going to be telecast to more than 60 million viewers in the United States Mexico Colombia and Venezuela ALL of this will be welcome publicity for Dade County But it will be more It is indicative that more than profound pronouncements from Chamber of Commerce types the idea of people meeting people works It is indicative that Calle Ocho is not an event for Latins or for Americans but rather an event where people can meet and enjoy each other Someday in the not-too-distant future Calle Ocho will be a major tourist attraction for Dade County I have no doubt that if it continues to grow the way it has in the last five years the day will come when these events will become version of famed carnival But that is in the future What counts now is that Calle Ocho is here with us In these troubled days in which it appears everything we do is either harmful to our health illegal immoral or an insult to somebody else Calle Ocho is a welcome relief So go out Sunday and enjoy yourself! By GUILLERMO MARTINEZ Herald Staff Writer ONE OF the radio personalities will be dressed as Zorro one will wear a full Mexican costume complete with sombrero and zarape and two will appear as a couple of rumba dancers Because they will be participating in fhnual Calle Ocho festivi- "ties their regalia is predictable and will be overlooked by many But the appear- Martinez ance of Kid Curry Earl the Pearl Sandy McBride and Felix Chinea should not go unnoticed For the first time since Calle Ocho began five years ago as a community project by the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana one of Dade English-language radio stations is sponsoring one of the events 1-95 FM will have a music site on the corner of 12th Ave and SW 8th St that will project the atmosphere of a full outdoor concert The radio personalities will be mixing Willy salsa music with their usual fare from the Top 40 charts And their radio chatter will be in two languages The participation of an American radio station in a program often perceived as a Hispanic event does not mean that the the original goal of Kiwanis Club to bring our com CARIBBEAN PLAN speech at the OAS is a serious and vigorous warning about the dangers of subversion now besieging Latin America La Prensa Grafica San Salvador (conservative) message espouses a well-defined line of political action more far-reaching than is immediately apparent La Hora Guatemala City (conservative) OAS address was a clarion call of hope for the Western Hemisphere El Heraldo Tegucigalpa Honduras (conservative) The plan tends to deepen isolation Such neglect leaves this country more exposed to extra-continental powers La Prensa Managua (independent) The United States has awakened to the fact that partnership rather than patronage is essential if the Caribbean is not to collapse lomal do Brasil Rio de Janeiro (independent) "I'm sorry Our company treasurer is no longer with us Try South America" proposed package looks good on the surface But the pieces of the package simply add up to a workable and realistic solution Toronto Star (independent) The plan is cheaper than a Cenr tral American war Robert Held Frankfurter Allgemeine Frankfurt (conservative) The proposed aid represents a grand generous attempt by the United States certainly comparable to the Marshall Plan for Europe to help a zone that is one of the poorest and most strategically important Mauro Lucentini II Giomale Milan (conservative) CHEMICAL WEAPONS President decision to produce chemical weapons contains political dynamite for West Germany where these weapons would he stockpiled He has escalated the arms race Der Spiegel Hamburg (newsmagazine) The indiscriminate nature of the weapons puts them in the same class as nuclear weapons and Europeans are likely to feel more rti pelled than most because it is once again in Europe that the weapons would be used The Guardian London (liberal) Chemical weapons are more dangerous than ever because we know how to stockpile them safely Le Point Paris (conservative newsmagazine) After testing chemical weapons on Vietnamese soil the United States is planning to pack Western Europe with them Izvestia-Moscow (government daily) World Press Review lifestyle and Forget Good Old St Patricks TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY By DON SHOEMAKER ST PATRICK an Irishman? Now there was one such And maybe two There were maybe two because our St Patrick who bested the Druids performed miracles and drove the snakes out of Ireland supposedly lived to be 120 years old Some scholars of the sod believe there may have been two St Patricks who performed back to Shoemaker back Birth and death dates in any case are confused Our St Patrick appears to have been born at Kilpatrick near Dumbarton Scotland or in a village close to Gastonbury England or in Monmouthshire England or in Tours France or somewhere in Wales In his Confession he tells us he was born at Bannavem Taberni-ae but nobody knows where that is or was At any rate he was captured by Gaels when 16 and taken by boat to Ireland There he was sold as a slave He escaped and went to Britain or Brittany He became a priest How can we tell who the good guys are in El Salvador when we even tell who the good guys are in Washington? You can have a PhD in political science You can spend years studying the socio-economic history of Latin America But it all boils down to whether you subscribe to the strategies of Ed Asner or Charlton Heston Asrr 1 1" Screen Actors Guild bring sanctions against El Salvador If human rights improve not one and then a bishop He went to Ireland and spent the rest of his life there Handling the Druids was easy He their fertile lands so that they became dreary bogs cursed their rivers so that they produced no fish and as a last resort cursed the very Druids themselves so that the earth opened and swallowed them Then he was free to preach Christianity to the Irish and to perform such miracles as burning snow to make a fire So they say May the Irish hills caress you May her lakes and rivers bless you May the luck of the Irish enfold you May the blessings of St Patrick behold you And so on this coming holiday that brings out more on Fifth Avenue than there are Irish in Dublin we come to one of the things the old sod is famous for toasts Is it a matter of your good health? That a doctor might never earn a dollar out of you And that your heart may never give out! The health of the salmon to you: member of the ruling junta will ever work in Hollywood again Charlton Heston supports the Duarte government and says it can only be saved with US arms and money and by a merger between the Screen Actors Guild and the American Legion So you see El Salvador is definitely not another Vietnam closer therefore the air fare is lower therefore the war will be cheaper MARK RUSSELL a long life a full heart and a wet mouth! Health and long life to you Land without rent to you A child every year to you And may you die in Ireland! May you be shot at 95 years by a jealous husband! As for holidays to the holidays all 365 days of them! May you be the first house in the parish to welcome St Nicholas! May your corn stand as high as yourself your fields grow bigger with rain and the mare know its own way home on Christmas night! As we start the New Year get down on our knees to thank God on our feet! I GUESS the most famous and most beautiful is this one: May the road rise to meet you May the wind be always at your back May the sun shine warm upon your face May the rain fall soft upon your fields And may God hold you in the hollow of his hand from this day forth This is not only a toast but a blessing that is said at some wakes As for age not as young as you used to be But not as old as going to be So watch it! To your host or hostess a health to thine and thee not forgetting mine and me When thine and thee again meet mine and me may mine and me have as much welcome for thine and thee as thine and thee have had for mine and me No wonder the Irish enjoy life more than any other race Happy St day! While there once I was told there are real snakes still in Ireland but they are small l-aith and McGowan the peripatetic ped- Her of Irish Whiskey and a famous collector of toasts savs that the custom began when people heated a little bread toast and added it to flavor whatever they were drinking Then adding something to a drink by salutation became known as toasting Crumby but probably true We're packed with savings for your Florida Every store Every floor Hurry in for best selection! Sorry no mail or phone orders IW A UNIT Of AUltD STORES CHARGE IT! Your own JM credit account American Express Diners Club We welcome them JM DAILY 10 AM TO 9 PM: SUNDAY 12 NOON TO 5:30 PM-.