The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, January 24, 1980, Page page 3, Image 3

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    thursday, January 24, 1980
daily nebraskan
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Fears for safety of relatives "
Former Afghanistan governor afraid to speak
By Diane Andersen
The former governor of Herat arid
Badakhssan provinces in Afghanistan, now
in exile in the United States, said he cannot
allow his comments on the Soviet invasion
of his country to be printed. .
Marshall Ayeen, associate professor of
National Programs and Services and Inter
national Educational Services at UNO, said
he fears for the safety of his relatives in
Afghanistan if his comments about the.
Soviets are seen by the wrong oeoDle. was imminent Yet. there have been three
Ayeen spoke to the Lincoln Chapter of Soviet, coups in Afghanistan since 1978.
the United Nations Association of the
United States of America. He was the guest
of Dr. Joseph 0. Young, professor at
UNL's Institute of Agriculture and Natural
Resources.
Young spent 1975-77 in Afghanistan as bridge construction, military advisors and
a piani sciences consultant ai naoiu
Yourig said that aJthouSh' Jw: Soviet found unity in opposing invaders" through-
Union and the United States vie for control out history
in Afghanistan the Afghan government Y0Ung explained that the Afghans are
made no bones about accepting aid from poor and mostly illiterate, but that they
both Countries in the form Of road and are well.wrserl in thMr rnnnrrv'e hlcrnrt
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University. He said he met Ayeen there and
offered him assistance when he came to the
United States in February of 1 979 .
While in Afghanistan, Young said, he
had no premonition that a Soviet invasion ,
weapons.
"In these times a person who has lived
in Afghanistan for a couple years," Young
said, "cannot speak of his friends there
without some emotion."
Ayeen, who earned a master's degree
from Columbia University, said the many
ethnic . groups within Afghanistan "have
Food tax credit bill delayed by debate
and are generally hospitable to foreigners.
"We (Americans) send . engineers to
places like this to teach them how to build
like we do in the West," he said. Afghans
have only earth to build with in an arid and
mountainous country , he said .
Young said the Pashtun peuple , who live
on the border with Pakistan, are causing
some "unsettlement that could be
for Afghanistan's
very
new
A bill intended to raise the state food
tax credit from $20 to $26 failed to
advance in the Legislature Wednesday after
debate over several proposed amendments
exceeded the 90-minute time limit.
LB44, introduced by Millican Sen.
amount spent in sales tax on food. The
Legislature has stymied attempts to elimi
nate a sales tax on food in favor of the
tax credit.
"I support $30. I'll support $40. No
body from the governor's office will come
Richard Maresh, was delayed after several to this floor and tell me the money is not
amendments were offered to raise the
credit to as much as $34. The bUl, held
over from last year, originally called for an
increase to $23. However, Maresh request
ed the extra $3 increase heranse nf the
one-year delay. ,
Maresh refused to endorse any increase
higher than the. $26 recommended by Gov.
Charles Thone.
The food sales tax credit is intended to
reimburse the average family for the
available," Keyes said.
Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers supported
the Newell amendment, calling the sales
tax rebate program a "hoax and a char
ade," because it didn't do what it promis
ed. He later introduced an amendment to
raise the credit to $34, a motion that failed
17-28. ' . , '
Newell also offered an amendment to
raise the credit to $28, but that failed, as
well as Lincoln Sen. Shirley Marsh's
amendment to raise it to $27.
The bill will remairi'on general file until
Speaker Richard Marvel of Hastings sets
another date for debate.
Students who file a state income tax
return can claim the credit unless their
parents claim them as dependents or unless
they lived in a residence hall more than six
months out of the year.
, The Legislature never voted on the
Maresh figure of $26 because of amend
ments offered by other senators. - Sen.
David Newell of Omaha initially tried to
increase the figure to $30, but that motion
failed on an 18-23 vote.
"The figure of $26 is totally and woe
fully inadequate," Newell said during floor
debate.
important"
situation. '
"Islamic peoples carry their religion
much more into their daily life than we
do," Young added.
He said he wouldn't have been afraid of
being able to get out of Afghanistan, had
the invasion happened while he was there.
Ayeen said he agreed with Young that
Muslim's generally like Americans.
"In my mind Khomeini is an aberra
tion," Ayeen said of the anti-American
hatred of Iran's leader.
Just as the American people should not
have felt that the former shah of Iran
represented the Iranian people, neither
should they think the opinions of
, Khomeini are those of the majority of Iran
ians, Ayeen said.
He called the holding of American
hostages in Tehran a "temporary
situation."
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