Friday, September 23, 1934
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Daily Nebraskan
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men call for scaling down
of U.S. military intervention
By Gene Geritnip the Reagan Administration's pol- tutes has been established.
Daily Nebraskan ufi Writer icy of enlarging U.S. military pre- AMNLAE also opened the first
US. militarvintervention in Cen- sence in that region. . women s legal omce in Managua
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Plastas said it is imbortant for Campbell said she joined the
women to be more active in govern- women's tour to inform Amerl
ment affairs and she said recent cans of what actually is happen
reports indicate that women are ing in Nicaragua,
doing just that. "I am here 0 combat the level
"Women are starting to find of misinformation Americans are
their voices and finding they can receiving on Nicaraguan activity,"
have an impact in the Un'ted she said.
States," Plastas said. Campbell said innocent people
She said that last year women are being killed each day, but that
came closer to equaling men in recent reports of two American
the existence of a "gender gap" on yoting than ever before. missionaries being killed are un-
Central America. Since 1 979, when the Anastassi true.
Somoza dictatorship was defeated, "These American missionaries
conference were Yolanda Camp- AMNLAE, the Nicaraguan Women's were not missionaries. They were
bell arerjresentativenfthpAssn- Association, has organized the shot down in a CIA helicopter
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eiioixs ci mcaraguan women to
rebuild that country's society.
AMNLAE has devised a program
to enforce fathers' support of
tral America is drawing greater
opposition among American wo
men, according to a poll taken by
the Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom.
Results of the poll were pres
ented at a press conference Thurs
day by Melinda Plastas, director
of the women's league. Plastas'
presentation was part of a Women's
Speaking Tour, which focuses on
ciation of Nicaraguan Women.
and Sheila Collins, coordinator of
the Rainbow Coalition.
Plastas said a national random
sample of 17,000 women polled abandoned families; a day care
program; ana cooperatives wr.ere
by the league revealed that 65
percent said the United States
should decrease its military involve
ment in Central America. Only 4
percent of the women supported
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and the previous week they were
seen searching an area that had
been off-limits to civilians," she
said.
Campbell said other problems
such as shortage of food and
women can learn a productive medicine supplies are Hampering
trade. Prostitution, legal under efforts to rebuild. But despite the
Somoza, has been outlawed, and adversities, the women are mak-
a program to rehabilitate prosti- ing progress, she said.
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vp.vv YORK Democratic oresidential contender Walter
Mondak Thursday conferred at length with Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko and afterward said he expected
progress on arnu control at Friday's meeting between the
Soviet official and President Reagan.
"I do believe that there is an opportunity tomorrow to make
significant progress," Mondale told reporters after his 90
minute meeting with Gromyko at the Soviet Mission to the
United Nations. Mondale said the meeting was "serious and
businesslike and gave me a chance to spell out my views on the
importance of making progress in tomorrow's meeting with the
president."
Gromyko i3 scheduled to meet with Reagan for sever al hours
Friday in the White House. In a speech Thursday before the
U.N. General Assembly, the Soviet Foreign Minister launched a
sharp attack on Reagan's policies, saying UJS.-Soviet relations
had been upset in recent years.
Mondale said he stressed to Gromyko that he was not in the
position to negotiate. "I made a strong point that Ronald Rea
gan is our president. He should not misunderstand, or mis
construe the fact that the vigorous campaign we have going
should not in any way detract from the sheer hope of all
Americans that progress will be made tomorrow at the meet
ing," he said.
The unusual meeting between a senior Soviet official and an
opposition candidate for president in the midst of a U.S. elec
tion campaign grew out of an invitation from the Soviets to
Mondale.
Mondale declined, for the most part, to describe Gromyko's
comments except to say that they paralleled the Soviet leader's
speech Thursday which was critical of Washington. He said the
meeting centered mostly on arms control
Soiitli African violence re-erupts
JOHANNESBURG Angry blacks rampaged in townships
across South Africa Thursday in growing protest against the
state's racial policies. In Port Elizabeth on the south coast riot
police "repeatedly fired tear gas to disperse black youths. In
Soweto, near Johannesburg, about 200 youths stoned and
looted a delivery vehicle, and police said they fired two rubber
bullets as the protesters were dispersed.
Roaming crowds of black youths in townships east and south
of Johannesburg hurled stones and damaged buses, torched a
government vehicle and looted a bread van. Police said at least
14 people had been arrested. The company which runs segre
gated buses for blacks, Putco, said it had withdrawn its service
from Tembisa, northeast of Johannesburg, and a spokesman
said, "The situation there is very bad." In Grahamstown, in the
eastern Cape Province, a man was injured and three cars
damaged by stone-throwing youths. In Natal Province, three
gasoline bombs were hurled into private homes. Thousands of
black pupils boycotted schools Thursday as the unrest con
tinued, and residents of Soweto, the country's largest black
township, said many schools there were deserted.
A group of lawyers, doctors and political activists opposed to
the government said at a news conference in Johannesburg the
official death toll of about 40 in riots over the past few weeks
was a gross underestimate.
U.S. farmers protest low prices
CHICAGO About 200 farmers protesting low crop prices
descended on the world's busiest commodity futures market
Thursday demanding changes in the way business is conducted.
"Low prices are the farmers' problem, and those prices are
set right here " said Wayne Cryts as he and other farmers in
blue jeans and caps waved placards at well-dressed bankers
and businessmen outside the Chicago Board of Trade. Cryts
became a farmers' folk hero of sorts three years ago when he
raided a bankrupt grain elevator to take back his own soybean
crop. He was later acquitted of charges stemming from the
incident.
Police were on hand Thursday but there were no clashes as
the protesters asked commodities exchange officials to sup
port a plan for regulatory relief by changing the rules governing
the way their crops are traded. Members of the American
Agriculture Movement, the National Farmers Organization
and the National Farmers Union attended the rally.
Cryts and other farm leaders are backing a plan that would
either ban or limit speculative short sales of commodity
futures. A short sale is a paper trade in which a futures con
tract is sold in the expectation that its price will falL The
protesters said speculation in such contracts drives prices
down.
Responding to the protest, Board of Trade chairman Tho
mas Cunningham said in a statement: "Producers often com
plain when commodity prices are too low, but consumers com
plain when prices are too high'The function of the commodities
exchange "is only to discover what the actual price of commod
ities is at any given time," he said.
S0iet diplomats get reminder
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gress must formally approve the corapromisa but no problems
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