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One of the worst things about American reporting is
what you might call its "trendiness." An issue or a nation
appears on the evening news and in the newspapers only
as long as there is nothing more interesting going on any
where else - as long as that issue or nation is "trendy."
This repoiter is as guilty as anyone else, I suppose. The
reason I chose El Salvador as a subject is the same reason
that El Salvador has come back on TV: every six months,
the administration is required by law to certify that
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political and human rights progress is being made in El
Salvador, in order to continue American military aid to
that government. The State Department recently did this
certification, and some Congressional critics like Con
necticut Sen. Christopher Dodd are beginning to question
the commitment.
And all the time that American journalism has been
focusing on Israel and Sharon, unemployment and Anne
Gorsuch, the war has continued and heightened in El
Salvador.
For Ronald Reagan, the conflict is simple enough: it is
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He said that my attacker probably
realized this and ran. I firmly believe
that the threat of the police being in
close proximity was the reason that I
escaped this incident physically unharmed.
If having the police patrolling campus
on foot saves one woman from an attack,
it is time and money well spent. This
an indirect attack on the United States by the Soviet
Union, which has been "challenging us, even at home here
in our own hemisphere." (Note the friendly paternal tone
Reagan takes toward the neighbors who happen to share
"our hemisphere")
Pope John Paul 11 puts it differently. "On one side
those who consider armed battle a necessary instrument
for obtaining a new social order, and on the other side
those resorting to the principles of 'national security' to
legitimize brutal repression." Roman Catholic clergy in
the country have been among the most vocal opponents
of government-sponsored murder.
A United Nations report on the human rights situation
in EI Salvador lists 4,777 killings of civilians outside of
combat in El Salvador last year - neatly all of which, the
report states, are murders committed by the El Salvadoran
army and police, often in collusion with paramilitary
rightist groups.
The State Department does not deny that political
murder of non-combatants happens systematically in El
;Salvadore - the Reagan administration merely points out
that it's not as bad as it used to be. Those 4,777 assas
sinations are about half, according to the United Nations,
and about a quarter, according to U.S. ambassador to E!
Salvador, of the violence that occurred in years before.
This, according to the State Department, means that the
government there is making a "concerted and significant"
effort to protect human rights.
The State Department insists on this human rights pro
gress despite the prominence in the El Salvadoran govern
ment of Roberto D'Aubuisson, the man who seems to
have had El Salvador's Archbishop Romero assassinated.
Congress, however, is not likely to refuse more guns
to El Salvador on a human rights basis alone. What is more
likely to count in the minds of the senators on the
Foreign Relations Committee is the practical uselessness;
of throwing good money after nearly a billion dollars bad.
If a current guerrilla offensive continues, Congress might
want to pull out of another potential Vietnam.
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is a concern for both men and women.
We must do more than hope that someone
is listening, we must make them listen.
Hie UNL Police are very helpful when
contacted, and can provide information
to people who are interested in how to
effect this change.
Tamara M. Rullo
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Foilay is National
Nothing Day!
Education key to raps prevention
Although I don't agree with everything
that "Becky Stingley said in her article
(Daily Nebraskan, Feb. 22) on rape, I
applaud her appeal for community action.
Rape is unacceptable, it is an intrusion,
it is a violation of a person's body and
mind. It is our responsibility to do some
thing about it and the Student Watch
Group is that something.
The Student Watch Group is a newly
formed, ASUN-recognized student
organization. Our primary purpose is to
develop a student-oriented rape education
and prevention program. The question of
rape is a much more widespread and com
plicated problem than Stingley presented
in her article. It is not merely a question
of prevention, but one of education.
Stingley said "Recent sexual assauts
prove that the administration is failing to
protect its students," and "We need lots
of police officers ... to prevent sexual
assaults from occurring." Honestly, they
can only do so much, and we can only
expect so much. The responsibility is
ours. We must deal with our misconcep
tions about sexual assaults, from which
stem the problem, if we are to effectively
confront this dilemma.
We are concerned, not only with strang
er rape, but also with acquaintance or
date rape. Stranger rape is a problem that
must be dealt with. However, there is ano
ther, more serious problem and that is date
rape. It is fast becoming an epidemic on
the college campus. As stated by Amy
Levine, who directs the rape prevention
program at the University of California,
'it's hard to make women realize that if
they do get raped while they're in col
lege, it's more likely to be on a date than
in a dark alley."
Troy Lair,
sophomore, engineering
president, Student Watch Group
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