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/SECTION 2 - PAGE 5 • PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 2. It78 They're No. 1 Fiesta Floats STAFF PHOTOS BY WAYNE GAYLORD «r ZZm. » 1 THE AVONETTES Baton Corps Round Lake n KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Mini-Floats Original O.E.A. CONSTRUCTION Large Floats v Humorous ANTHONY COSTANZO Mini-Floats Humorous \ m* GEORGE THOMPSON INSURANC E I^irge Floats Original McHENRY COUNTY 4-H Large Floats Beautv • • • • • • • • 4 • • i • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • McHENRY TVMBLE-WEEDS Tumblers Operation Boost" Designed To Reach Eligible Veterans The Veterans administration has launched a nation wide campaign to attract Vietnam era veterans who have not used their GI bill training benefits, according to Howard Miller, MCC veterans coordinator These benefits are available to any veteran who enlisted prior to Dec 31, 1976 served more than 181 consecutive days of active duty, was discharged with an other than dishonorable condition and was released from active duty within the last 10 years Operation Boost includes a concerted effort to reach out and inform many unaware veterans of their remaining educational benefits," said Tom Grant, veterans representative on campus at MCC "These benefits include counseling, tutorial assistance, student loans, free entitlement, and work study assistance." Grant added The MCC* Vets office has maintained the longstanding practice of attempting to reach area veterans, but there are always veterans who learn of what benefits they had after the period of entitlement has ex pired It is for this reason that Miller is excited about the new VA program "With the weight of the Federal government behind it perhaps more veterans can be reached and receive sufficient notice of their entitlement in order to best take advantage of the op­ portunities available Miller said In addition to the Federal benefits available, many more SUBSCRIBE To The McHenry Plaindealer area veterans may be eligible to apply for a state military scholarship that will pay their tuition at MCC To be eligible for the scholarship a veteran must have been a resident of Illinois prior to entering active duty, must have served at least one year received an other than dishonorable discharge, and must have returned to the state within six months of separation from active duty This scholarship does not have the ten year disqualifier that the Federal program man­ dates. and can be used in conjunction with the GI bill Any veteran with questions is encouraged to contact the Veterans office at MCC by calling 813-455 3700 extension 266 or the VA regional office at their toll free number 800-972- S327 Per-pecmt* WITHDRAW THE GAMES It* RON \l l) UK \(. \\ Outrage Scorn Frustration. For a week they have bern reverberating in about ecj^ai quantities throughout the world over the Soviet kangar -)- court trials and convictions if Anatoly Shcharansky ard Alexander Ginzburg Though the Kremlin s in­ tolerance for dissent ard human freedom are nothing new. the show trials serv ed a means of riveting world opm: n on the techniques of repression practiced in the USSR The sentencing of Shcharansky ard Ginzburg validated everything Alexander Solzhenitsyn has said about Soviet repress lor . - if anyone needed further proof. On many hps however the outrage and •icorn has given way to the question What can do about"1 The frus tration sets in. then for the options are l imited The t arter administration s f irst response to the holding of the tr ials A as to cancel some scientists visi ts to Moscow But this can register l i t t le more than a momentary, blip or. the So\ let consciousness Theda> before Ginzourg A as sentenced Andrew Your.g weighed in with the latest and most outrageous of his man> wild statements He said there are thousands of poli t ical prisoners in the United States Aside from the faisi ty of the statement i tself the ver> pronouncement of i t gave todder to the Soviets who treat •he news media as tools of propaganda to be manipulated The Kremlin 's approving response was swift and the result was to undermine completely the ad ministrat ion s posit ion on the tr ials What indeed can be done about the human rights outrages of the Soviets '1 The ("apital Coali t ion for the l>emocratic Majori ty pointed out that C> rus Vance s i l l - t imed tr ip to Geneva was not necessary to the conclusion of an ar-CQS control agreement The Sow^ts A ho have much more to gain than we from this sort of agreement which has r»eer. discussed to date no doubt saw his determination to go to Geneva as a sign that the Carter administrat ion wants a SALT II agreement verv badlv Considering the way the Soviets usually negotiate, this signal wil l no doubt encourage them to st iffen their resolve Oi day the administrat ion insists there is no l inkage between aspects of our policv t oward the I ' S S R nex t d a y i t acts as if there is Which shall i t be a comprehensive policy or> bits and pieces '1 The Carter administrat ion ought to make up i ts mind Alas the White House seem® too enmeshed with the idea that i t must get a S .ALT agreement at any cost to seriously con s ide r pos tpon ing the t a lks n o w What about t rade" A com plete review of L S trade with the ."soviet Union is long o\erdue What kind of t rade enhances the Soviet power building apparatus and what doesn' t" Denying the Soviets advanced equipment when they most want i t offers an op­ portunity for countering their human rights outrages But again the White House •• aci l lates There is another opportunity that could give worldwide voice to the outrage so many tee; The International Olympic committee which professes the Olympic ideal but which in reali ty has al lowed the Games to be poli t icized should con­ sider withdrawing the 1980 Olympics from Moscow and reassigning them to another ci ty The Olympics have operated under a double standard for too long > I f the South Africans are too odious to compete because o? aprartheid what of the Russians who throw dissidents in concentrat ion camps" If the- Chinese on Taiwan are musclec out as they were in 1976 because the IOC is more con cerned about the feelings of the communists in Peking why should the tyrants in Moscow be permitted to hold the Games The Soviets have done nothing to demonstrate the ' , abide by the Olympic idea, What better t ime than now for world opinion to tel l them so through withdrawal of the Games from Moscow" Reduce Calories Trim excess fat from me^ before coomng to reduc- ca lories And Save $8.80 Over Newstand Price FILL OUT ANO MAIL OR BRING TO: McHENRY PLAINDEALER JB12W. 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