0 Page 2-Sunday, November 8, 1981-The Michigan Daily Newman speaks out, agaist By KENT REDDING Former NBC Correspondent Edwin Newman brought his crusade against poor grammar, absurd wording, and the general abuse of the English language to Ann Arbor Friday. Addressing the annual meeting of the University Press Club Friday, Newman, the author of Strictly Speaking and The Civil Tongue, warned that unless Americans dramatically improve their understanding and use of language, American society cannot hope to move forward. "IF THE LEVEL of English we speak and-write declines, we decline with it," Newman said, pointing to Secretary of State Alexander Haig 'as one of the worst abusers of the English language. In Haig's speech, the word "now" is replaced with "at this juncture of I poor grammar maturization," Newman said. speak correctly were seen as In one hospital, the death of a patient (during that period)," Newman s is considered "negative patient care Educators accommodated outcome," he noted. movement and the quality of te "An educator turns writing into 'ar- of the language declined in schc ticulating on paper.' Vocabulary whole new generation of studen becomes 'new word aquisition,' " unable to speak and write prope Newman said. "Planning is no longer said. enough in the United States; 'Pre- "Rules cannot be tossed planning' is required. without consequence," he said, "Why is it that so many Americans that too many students are 1 speak this way?" he asked. Some school unable to fill out simple people use this mumbo-jumbo to im- correctly. press people, Newman concluded. "It "Ask a politican if somet introduces overtones of profundity. h OTHERS WHO abuse the language do possible and you may hear this r so simply because they do not know 'There is no identity with tha proper English, he said. He blames this cept, Newman said, suggestin abuse on the emphasis during the 10 this inability to communicate and 70s on "relating" rather than may have led to waning public is speaking in correct English. in politics and government in "Those who wanted to write and years, snobs aid. this aching tools. A nts are rly, he aside adding eaving forms ing is eply'; t con- ng that clearly Interest recent Newman ... addresses press club Advertisers are also chief offenders. An after-shave lotion manufacturer claims that its product "'instinctively1 calms and yet arouses your basic animal desires' If it calms your animal desire at the same time it arouses them, what's the point of putting it on?" Newman asked. DESPITEhBEING labeled a "linguistic Chicken Little" by some critics, Newman said he thinks it is time that Americans dig themselves out from beneath thebanal, gassy language in which they have been burying themselves. "We are speaking about something that is of fundamental importance to the United States," Newman said. "We have no hope of dealing with our. problems unless we understand them." IN BRIEF Compilied from Associated Press and United Press International reports Soviets claimmila supriorT MOSCOW- Defense Minister Dmitry Ustinov vowed the West will never overtake the Kremlin in military strength as missiles, tanks and troops were paraded through Red Square yesterday in the Soviet Union's annual revolution day celebration. "The Soviet armed forces possess everything necessary to deliver a crushing rebuff to any aggressor," warned the 73-year-old marshal, a mem- ber of the Communist Party's ruling Politburo. He accused the Western nations of feverishly building arms to achieve military domination, but asserted there was "absolutely no chance" Moscow will be beaten. Rebels stage massacre in Iran BEIRUT, Lebanon- Kurdish rebels and leftist guerrillas machine-gunned scores of civilians in a "wholesale massacre" and suffered scores of their own killed by troops defending a northwestern Iranian city, Tehran radio said yesterday. The radio said the members of the outlawed Kurdish Democratic Party and Mujahedeen Khalq guerrillas blazed into the city of Bukan and killed "men, women,,children in public baths, cafes, and streets as well as outside bakeries in a wholesale massacre." The radio said corpses littered the streets and "counterrevolutionaries suffered scores of dead" from government counterfire. It gave government casualties at 74 wounded or dead. Jaruzeiski says conditions improving for union talks WARSAW, Poland- Communist Party chief Wojciech Jaruzelski said yesterday that "favorable conditions" exist for settling Poland's labor crisis. But more than 150,000 angry strikers remained off the job and authorities were reported abandoning attempts to negotiate with them. Jaruzelski, a general who is also prime minister and defense minister, said his meeting last week with Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and Arch- bishop Jozef Glemp was "momentous" and "improved prospects for the construction of a front of national accord and for improvement of the social climate," state-run newspapers reported. Sace shuttle liftoff rescheduled CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.- Space officials yesterday rescheduled Laun- ch II of the space shuttle Columbia for next Thursday, setting up a special birthday celebration for one of its pilots, astronaut Richard Truly, who turns 44 that day. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials made the decision after certifying that two contaminated power units that halted a launch attempt on Wednesday are now ready to fly. Dirty oil has been flushed from the units and their filters have been replaced, If it had been necessary to install new units, the launch could not have been attempted until the week of Nov. 15. IRA bomb injures nine BELFAST, Northern Ireland- IRA guerrillas set off a bomb in a tractor in the main square of a farming village yesterday, slightly wounding three British soldiers on patrol and six civilians, police said. A gasoline bomb was hurled into a house in the heavily Catholic West Belfast district, but damage was slight and no one was hurt, police said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the firebombing. A Belfast police spokesman, Sgt. Jim Green, said the tractor bomb was detonated by remote control in,Crossmaglen, near the border with the Irish Republic, as a half-dozen soldiers passed by on patrol. The almost exclusively Roman Catholic Irish Republican Armyclaumed responsibility for the attack, which occurred a few hours after it condemned a new Anglo-Irish initiative to end sectarian strife in Northern Ireland. The IRA said the proposed intergovernmental council agreed on Friday by Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher of Britain and Garret FitzGerald of the Irish Republic was designed to increase British influence in Northern Ireland. 0 IN-1 II - SF apP Vol. XCII, No. 52 Sunday, November 8,1981 The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The Univer- sity of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 49109. Sub- scription rates: $12 September through April (2 semesters); $13 by mail out- side Ann Arbor. 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