Thursday, October 28, 1982
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Daily Nebraskan
)'f Letters
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Student action needed
The next 10 days very well may be as
important to us as any other period in our
academic careers. Of course you know
what makes them so important - the
election. After several weeks of intensive
mudslinging, you may be cynical enough
that you've already stopped reading.
The only problem with this attitude
is that when one adopts it, he tends to
stop participating in the political process.
That is a mistake. Our vote, whether we
feel it is significant or not, is our most
basic access to the system. When one
chooses not to vote, he says he doesn't
want to have a voice in how our country,
state, county and city are managed.
At the same time, he loses his right
to complain about decisions. Therefore,
if you don't vote, don't complain - I
don't want to listen if you didn't even
care enough to push a lever in protest.
Besides the election, something else is
coming up that will have an even greater
effect on us, at least in the short run and
in the long run, too, when one considers
its implications. That "something" is
the special session of the Unicameral that
Gov. Charles Thone is calling. The ex
press purpose of this session is to cut
the state budget. We all know what that
means to UNL. The results of a cut in
budget would be devastating, especially
to the Agriculture College.
Last year, when the Legislature cut our
budget, it caused virtually no response
from students. If the same lack of interest
is displayed this year, why shouldn't they
cut our budget? We obviously didn't care
enough to say anything.
We as students have an obligation to
our children to try and stop the decline
in the quality of education offered at UNL.
Students need to get mad, and then do
something about it. Don't worry quite
so much about your grade point average.
In 30 years, you won't care that it was
3.77 instead of 3.80, but you will care
that your children had to leave the state
to get quality education.
So write your state senator, the gover
nor; write letters to your hometown
paper, occupy the Administration Build
ing. Do anything, but at least do some
thing! Kelly Downing
senior, mechanical agriculture, soil science
Terrorism intensified
Oct. 1, many people in South Tehran
were victims of an Israeli-style mass
murder. At least 60 were killed and more
than 700 injured when a huge bomb (150
kilograms of TNT) planted by the terrorist
organization, the Mujahedeen Khalg
Organization, exploded in a parked truck
on a busy and crowded street of southern
Tehran.
Two buses and several other cars loaded
with passengers were destroyed. A five-
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story hotel was level and many other build
ings damaged. Among the victims were
children and a mother with her small baby
in her arms. Many of the injured were
taken to hospitals and are still in critical
condition.
This heinous crime is only one in a
series of events that is part of a campaign
of terror designed by the superpowers and
carried out by the MKO terrorists in a
futile attempt to topple the Islamic
Republic of Iran.
The U.S.-supported MKO has intensified
its cold-blooded, ruthless terrorism against
the people of Iran, ever since the Islamic
army began gaining a great many victories
on the war front last year. These atrocious
crimes are clearly aimed at:
-Attracting popular attention away
from and undermining popular support for
the victories of the Islamic army in the war
against the Baathist-Zionist regime of Iraq,
who invaded Iran in a futile attempt to
destroy the Islamic Revolution. Records
clearly show that shortly after each victory
of the Islamic forces on the battle front,
mass murders have been carried out by the
MKO. The recent bombing occurred soon
after the Islamic forces successfully
launched a major offensive against the
Iraqi invaders, inflicting heavy losses on
Saddam's mercenaries and freeing over 150
square kilometers of Iran's territory.
-Through random terrorist activities
among the masses, futile attempts are being
made to create an atmosphere of instability
and fear which the terrorists hope will
undermine the Islamic Republic. -
-By bombing and massacring innocent
people, mostly in the poorer areas, the
terrorists display their hatred and desire for
revenge against those who will not support
them. The liberated masses of Iran continu
ously have supported and fought for the
Islamic Revolution while rejecting all anti
revolutionaries and agents of the super
powers, such as the MKO.
In the United States and other parts of
the world the pro-Zionist media, in support
of the MKO, has been spreading false stor
ies about the executions of MKO agents in
Iran. The media have tried to distort the
heroic struggle of the Iranian masses who
fight to remain free of the West and East
and safeguard the Islamic Revolution.
The masses of Iran have responded
courageously to the MKO terror and have
helped arrest many of their armed agents,
many times while acts of crime were taking
place. The Islamic Republic of Iran is much
stronger today than it was a year ago, and
the Muslim people of Iran have proven
many times over that neither the U.S.
backed invasion of Saddam's mercenaries,
nor the mass murders of innocent people
by the agents of imperialism will be able to
destabilize independent, free Iran.
Muslim Student Association,
Persian-Speaking Group