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Monday, March 1, 1982
Vol. 109 No. 35
Lincoln, Nebraska
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Protestors demonstrating in Lincoln against U.S. intervention in EI Salvador march down 14th Street to the
State Capitol Saturday.
Rally denounces aid to El Salvador
By Leslie Kendrick
The Reagan administration should not intervene and
increase military spending for El Salvador while aban
doning necessary social programs at home, speakers
and demonstrators said at a Saturday afternoon rally at
the State Capitol.
The rally, organized by the University of Nebraska
Latin American Solidarity Committee, attracted 300
to 400 demonstrators. The group marched from the
Nebraska Union to the steps of the capitol, carrying
banners and chanting their disapproval about U.S. in
volvement in El Salvador.
Father Tom Kozeny of Sacred Heart Church noted
the number of demonstrators that turned out for the
rally.
"At least we can thank Reagan for taking away our
apathy," Kozeny said.
Ann Aldrich, spokesperson for LASCO, said the
demonstration was called to protest U.S. support for a
regime that is guilty of countless human rights violat
ions - from the killings of Catholic nuns, lay workers
and a local archbishop to the slaughter of hundreds of
civilians.
Aldrich said LASCO sees the basis of the civil war in
the deplorable conditions in which the Salvadorans
have been forced to live.
"According to United Nations statistics, El Salvador
lias the lowest per capita caloric intake of any country
in Latin America. Nearly 75 percent of Salvadoran
children suffer from malnutrition. The illiteracy rate is
50 percent," Aldrich said.
Population starving
Two percent of the population owns 60 percent of
the farm land, Kozeny said. The land is used to grow
sugar, coffee, cotton and other cash export crops, in
stead of being used to feed the starving Salvadoran peo
ple, he said.
"There has been continuous military rule for over
50 years in El Salvador, the longest continuous military
rule in Latin America, and some people want it to go
on! I don't want it to go on, do you?" Kozeny said.
The U.S. government has recently spent $55 million
for aid to H Salvador, Kozeny said. The State Depart
ment is seeking $535 million in additional aid for
economic and military reasons, Kozeny said.
Doreen Charles of the ASUN Afrikan People's
Union said she had no interest in creating another Viet
nam, and that the American people must be wary of
UJS. rhetoric.
row a name like Marxist guerrillas on a freedom
movement and it becomes an excuse for American
intervention " Charles said.
She asked how the American government, which
can't afford to feed its hungry, provide jobs, or give
money for schooling can spend millions of dollars in
military aid to El Salvador.
Forced to join military
"With the loss of jobs, many of us have been forced
to join the military for monetary support. What a good
way for the government to get rid of its poor und un
wanted - kill them off in a war," she said.
World peace isn't threatened by the spread of Marx
ism, but by the spread of American imperialism,
Charles said.
"We must speak loud and we must speak in a united
voice and let the American government know that no
more will there be another Vietnam," she said.
"It's time for us to say no: No to the draft, no to
the troops, no war in El Salvador," Charles said.
Spokesmen from the Iranian Students Association
and the Moslem Students Association expressed their
support for the struggles of the Salvadoran people
against oppression and American imperialism.
"It is the policy of the U.S. government to protect
the interest of American multi-corporation businesses,"
a spokesman from the ISA said. The ISA requested
that the names of their speakers not be used.
"Throughout modern history, the people of the
world have been witnessing the imperialist aggressions
of the U.S. government against the people of undev
eloped countries," the spokesman said.
The ISA sees its struggle against the Khomeini
regime as part of an international struggle of oppressed
people attempting to liberate themselves, he said.
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Photo by Davt Bentz
The Rev. Tom Kozeny
STUPID II charges
false testimony given
at first court hearing
By Betsy Miller
A suit against the ASUN Electoral Commission was
filed Friday afternoon by Mike Frost, STUPID II Party
presidential candidate, and Kathy Mach.
Joe Nigro, Student Court chief justice, said the court is
tentatively planning to hear the suit tonight at 7:30.
The suit calls for a postponement of the March 3 stu
dent election because of two actions taken by the com
mission. The suit says the commission gave "false testimony"
to the UNL Student Court Feb. 18, when the court heard
another suit filed by Frost and Mach.
It also charges the commission with telling only one
party, the Real Party, that campaign posters could be
posted before the Feb. 10 date given in electoral rules.
The suit reads that it was "clearly unfair" to give the Real
Party two additional weeks publicity by not informing
other parties of the poster rule.
Frost said this will be their final suit against the com
mission. Feb. 16, they filed a suit with the court against the
commission asking that the election be postponed because
the commission was guilty of committing five "unfair or
ambiguous" practices connected with the running of the
election.
The court heard the suit Feb. 18 and dismissed four of
the five charges and ordered the commission to have a
hearing about the Real Party posting signs before the Feb.
lOdate.
At the hearing Tuesday, the commission ruled that the
Real Party acted in good faith by following directions
given to them by the commission in posting signs. The
commission admitted that it told Tim McAllister, a Real
Party member, that posters could be displayed before
Feb. 10, but there would be no guarantee that janitors
wouldn't pull down the signs.
The recent suit filed by Frost and Mach charges that
the commission gave false testimony to the court in its
answer to the suit that read "at no time prior to this was
any candidate or party informed that it was permissible
to place posters before Feb. 10."
Frost said he and Mach filed the suit because their
original intention was to have the commission's activities
reviewed by the court.
Frost said he did not intend to injure the Real Party
by instigating the commission hearing on alleged poster
violations. However, he said he knew if there was a hear
ing he and Mach could appeal the commission's decision
to the court and then file suit against the commission,
which is what they have done.
"Neither of us felt anything was settled in the hear
ing," he said.
Dan Wedekind, Real Party presidential candidate, said
Sunday he had not yet heard about the new suit.
Jennifer Fager, commission director, refused to com
ment about the charges in Frost and Mach's suit, but said
that the suit would not slow the commission's preparation
for the elections.
Scholars to benefit
from professors' plan
Some UNL Regents professors have come up with a
plan they hope will benefit UNL National Merit Scholars.
According to Henry Holtzclaw, dean of graduate stu
dies, the new program involves Merit Scholars visiting
Regents professors' homes.
Regents professors at UNL are chosen based upon their
teaching, research and service, Holtzclaw said. After a
selection process, the professors are approved to receive
the award by the NU Board of Regents.
"Scholars will meet with professors in their homes,
have refreshments and discuss mutual interests," Holtz
claw said. "It will be an opportunity for professors and
scholars to get together."
Holtzclaw said the program starts this semester. The
first phase of the program involved a dinner in which
some 80 scholars met UNL's 29 Regent professors.
In the second phase of the program, a committee,
headed by Holtzclaw and Hazel Fox, chairman of Human
Nutrition and Food Service Management, will arrange
the visits. Holtzclaw said UNL's 153 Merit Scholars
will be divided into groups of five to six students for each
faculty member. Holtzclaw said they may also arrange to
have 10 or 12 students visit with two professors in one of
their homes.
Holtzclaw said students are not obligated to take
part in the program.