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lincoln, nebraska vol. 97 no. 23
Argentine leadership role
stressed at symposium
By Lori Demo
"We are dealing with two countries that
don't communicate," James R. Scobie said
Friday during a discussion that ended the
two-day symposium on Argentine-U.S. relations
in the 60s.
Scobie, professor of history at Indiana
University, said the U.S. has little reason to get
involved with Argentina economically.
"The predominate concern of the U.S.
regarding to Latin American has been, is now,
and will be based on security," he said. "This is
the underlying principle on which decisions will
be made."
Scobie said the only way the U.S. and
Argentine will meet may be in the area of
Argentine leadership.
John N. Plank, professor of political science
at the University of Connecticut, agreed that
the role of leadership will be the biggest job for
the two countries.
"It is my judgment that the inter-American
system is transforming in a way that is so
profound it will be inappropriate to refer to it
as a system at all," he said.
He said he thinks recently-elected President
Juan Peron does not want to see American
states attain the leadership role.
Earlier, Peter Smith, professor of history at
the University of Wisconsin expressed his idea
that Argentina is dependent on other nations,
including the U.S.
"But it must be stressed that it is less
dependent than many other countries of th
world and less dependent than all of the Latir
American countries," he said.
He described Argentina's dependence a;
based on two dimensions: the spreading out ol
dependence between capitalism and commerce,
and the spreading out of dependent ties among
many nations. This allows Argentina to avoid
dependency upon one country.
He said the greater the diversity of this
dependency, the greater the scope of policy
alternatives Peron will have.
"We must not try to second guess Peron and
what he will do, but rather try to decide what
alternatives for action he has," Smith said.
"Perhaps the most obvious choice with regard
to dependent ties is that Peron can afford to do
nothing."
If Peron does decide to do something, his
decision hinges on Argentina's role as internal
spokesman for Latin America, his own support
at home and the Argentine economy, he said.
"But the greater this diversity of
dependence, the less likely the prospect of
raising clear-cut mobilization of the people
against dependency," he said.
"I don't think Peron will take didactic
action against the U.S. He will not stage a
revolution and Argentina will remain in this
state of diversified dependence."
The two-day symposium was co-sponsored
by the UNL Institute for International Studies
and the Embassy of the Argentine Republic
under the direction of Roberto
Esquenazi-Mayo, Director of the Institute.
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Amendment
would join
NU, state
colleges
State Sen. David Stahmer, Omaha, said he will ask
for a constitutional amendment next year to combine
the NU System and the four state colleges, Saturday.
He said the best way to equalize financial support
and student opportunities is to have a single system
of public higher education.
The change would require a statewide vote because
the NU system and the state colleges are established
by the state constitution, he said.
Stahmer, a member of the Legislature's Budget
Committee, said he proposes creation of a 12-member
board of higher education to operate the new system.
Several bills to coordinate campus operations are
being studied by legislative committees, but he said
he would go beyond these by consolidating the
schools.
Equity in higher education won't be achieved by
equalizing state college salaries with those at the
University of Nebraska at Omaha, (UNO), he said.
State college budgets proposed Friday requested
more state funds to raise salaries to the level of those
at UNO.
Tuition at UNO is one third more than at the state
colleges, Stahmer said, He said the state already pays
two-thirds of the operating costs at the state colleges
and only half of the ofwrating costs at UNO.
Kings and queens were captured at UNL this weekend at
the 23rd annual Midwest Open Chess Tburnament. See
story, pictures on Page 3.
Minorities march
to protest holiday
Despite problems getting a parade permit, the United
Minorities and Concerned People's Organization (UMCPO)
will march Friday to protest Columbus Day, according to
Indian student spokesman Rick Williams.
The group will leave at 1 p.m. from the State Historical
Society Museum and march to the Capitol. The permit
dispute is over marching on 0 St. afterwards, Williams said.
He said the purpose of the march is to bring minorities
and poor people together and make people aware "we're
here to stay." The march is a joint Chicano Indian student
idea, he said.
"It's an absurdity that the government would make a
national holiday year after year, when actually this guy
didn't discover America. He got lost and was found by the
Indian people and fed and helped out by them," he said.
Williams, a UNI iurvor majoring in integrated studies,
said he didn't !-...uW how many persons would march.
About 50 have been atttending UMCPO meetings, he said.
He said Chicano, Indian, low-income white students,
UNL faculty members and several persons from the
community have attended the meetings.
UMCPO, organized on campus last spring to support the
takeover of Wounded Knee, S.D., enables minorities to pool
their power to fight pioblems, he said.
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