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Dally Nebraskan
Thursday, October 25, 1934
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Marcos will weaken U.S. prestige
resident Reagan's blind
support of the Marcos re
gime in the Philippines re
ceived a severe blow Tuesday with
release of an investigative corn
mission's report on the murder of
opposition leader Benigno Aquino.
The majority of the members of
t the commission labeled Gen. Fab
' ian C. Ver as the major culprit in
the crime.
Aquino and later trying to cover
up the murder.
Committee chairwoman Cora
zon Agrava Tuesday gave Marco3
a minority opinion that exoner
ated Ver and accused an air force
brigadier general and six soldiers
of the murder. Marcos, seeing hb
buddy exonerated in the report,
lapped up the minority opinion.
The State Department in Wesh-
The Associated Press called Ver ington said the Reagan adir.ir.i3
a "close associate and distant tration will take immediate steps
to see action against anyone nam
ed in the majority report.
relative of Marcos." Marcos, of
course, i3 president of the Philip
pines for life.
Ver was accused by the major
ity report of conspiring to kill
Reagan defended his policy of
supporting Marcos.
"What is the alternative? Rea
gan asked. He answered, "A large
Communist movement to take
over the Philippines."
Reagan is wrong about the Phi
lippines as he ha3 been wrong
judging the mood of oppressed
peoples throughout the world.
Because he thlnk3 the only alter
native to a Marcos regime is Com
munism, he is ruling out any
chance of American Influence in
the Philippines.
him. They are itching for a change.
Reagan naively suggested that
we can persuade Marcos and
other rulers of his ilk to change
their ways and become more pro
gressive. Marcos is too engrained in his
ways and the Philippine people
will not trust the man no matter
how much he changes. Our con
tinued support of Marcos,even if
ve give him an occasional slap on
the wrist, does the United States
no good.
human rights because of the
country's strong anl Communist
stances. Thii equation of human
rights with supporting non-communistic
govcrments can only lead
to anti-U.S. sentiment In such
countries.
Why can't the president learn
that that policy didn't work in
Iran, Nicaragua or Argentina?
Reagan's probable weak re
sponse to thb latest Injustice in
the Philippines can only weaken
VS. prestigs around the world.
Yeah, sure.
In Sunday's debate, President
The people of that country are Reagan said during the debate
tired of Marcos and don't trust that he is a strong advocate of
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'Liberation Days 'questioned
As one of the medical students places as Nicaragua, El Salvador
in Grenada at this time last year, and Honduras.
I am deeply concerned about'the
so-called "Student Liberation If American troops are sent to
Days" being organized on college those countries ss some would
campuses by right-wing groups, like, they wont be facing a few
purportedly to celebrate the U.S. hundred glorified policemen and
invasion of Grenada Cuban counstruction workers as
they did in Grenada They won't
Whether my life and those of be fighting on a sunny tropical
my fellow medical students were island, m they did in Grenada
endangered by the coup that
overthrew Maurice Bishop 13 very There is still is time to act before
much open to question. It is clear, our government sends us on a
however, that our "liberation" by hopeless mission in Central
the Reagan administration came America Regardless of the foolish-
at a terrible cost: dozens of young ness of these right-wing "Student
American, Cuban and Grenadian Liberation Days," let us ensure
lives. that our country not repeat the
mistakes of the past by getting
11) at is a fact that the people involved in an endless war on the
organising "Student Liberation vrong side of the battle.
Day" may not want you to know.
Nor may they want you to know Morty Weissfelner
the course they'd like to see our St. George's University School of
nation follow in other parts of Medicine
Latin America, namely such Class of 1837
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half
onsider the lowly Jack-in-the box.
He lives in darkness, scrunched up
and out of sight, a prisoner in a box
his size. He waits impatiently for
someone to let him out, only to burst
forth rudely ta daaaaa and be stuffed
back In his box again.
Poor Jack. We put him in his box, you
know. We put lots of things in boxes old
books, Christmas presents, even real
people.
We stereotype people and Ideas, put
ting them comfortably in mental boxes in
our minds. Often we lock our boxes and
refuse to consider new information. We
close our boxes and we close our minds.
That's why actor Bill Murray will have a
u in.
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tough time repeating his success in the
movie "Ghostbusters " with a more dra
matic role in "The Razor's Edge." We've got
Murray in a box marked "comic actor,"
and he wants out.
Some put women in boxes. Women
must be hememakers, mommies, wear
dresses and have supper on the table
right at 5 p.m.
' Likewise, some put men in boxes. Men
must earn the living, discipline the kids,
be strong and go out hunting.
This isn't right, folks. Men and women
are individuals who make choices about
who they will be, what they will do, and
how they wi3 do it. It is unfair to group
them all together and put them into two
separate boxes marked men and women.
We put things in boxes because it's
more comfortable that way. Things aren't
so confusing. Problems can t? sol
in our boxes, things are black and whits.
In reality, things arent black and white,
tut rather, a thousand shades of grsy. In
any controversy, the truth will Lie soise-
where in the middle. That's why we must
keep an open mind, listen to others and
accept new ideas.
Boxes aren't all bad. Dont miss my
point. We all need boxes to bring order to
a chaotic world. We all have a red box
marked FIRE in our minds. Automati
cally, we know that fire is dangerous and
hurts if you touch it. Ve need this infor
mation readily accessible in a memory
box.
Had we shut the box there, however,
we would never have discovered that fire
also sterilizes, hardens clay pottery, heats
rooms, sheds light, keeps bugs away and
roasts a mean marshmaliow. Dont close
your mind.
One reason we do close our minds is to
protect ourselves from the unknown.
Many people put androgynous dressers
those who blend stereotypical quali
ties of male and female together in a
box marked "freaks, dangerous, do not
open." We're protected as long as we keep
them at arms lengt h, locked tightly in our
box.
We're afraid that, like Jack, they might
jump up rudely and scare us if we ever let
them out of the box. So we play it safe. Ve
write them off as weird and put them in
our weird box on the back shelf.
We put lots of complex things into
xcs, and give them a labeL Homosexu
als evil; Ion? hairs hws.. nftBu
oy Reagan war monger, sex before m&r-
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ticn. None of these are necessarily true
. e ssisri putting every uttla th
in ls ct. preconceived bos, we start
Munwng we nave all the answers. As a
result, we stop thinking, listening; dis
cussing and understanding.
What we're really talking about is prej
udice the pre-judging of someone or
something without ail the fact3. Ever seen
an unshaven man in tattered clothing sit
ting against a brick building drinking
from a bottle-shaped paper bag? A bum
right? Maybe, maybe not. But it doesn't
really matter, because we've already got
him in our box.
Think a minute about all of your boxes.
They're all over. Capitalism, for instance.
Capitalism, socialism and communism
aren't mutually exclusive isms. Look
around, China is growing more Western
every day by incorporating capitalist
principles in their fsrms. Sweden has
blended socialism with capitalism and
now enjoys the highest standard of living
in the world.
And what about wsterbeds? Ten years
ago they were considered to be a fad
only fo the young. Now look at them.
Older people opensd up their minds and
found that waterbeda were wonderful.
Hospitals use thenffor bum victims and
many others. No boxes anymore.
Do yourself a fovcr. Replace your closed
boxes with open minds end common
sense. By putting everything and every
one in a ccnvcnbnt, closed bos, you put
yourself in a tcz. No growth, no under
standing. Sure you're safe, tut you're also
stagnant And youVe fa for a life of confu
sion and dkappointnurt whenever some
one dees something that decant fit into
one of your boxes.
Go on, open your mind. Dont you
deserve a tetter Ms than a Jsck-in-the-box?
