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s Ion time opponents cf President Rest's M-16 diplomacy
in Central America, we were happy to hear an honest voice of
rca:snv.r.cn tr.e former U.S. embassador to El Salvador,
Robert White, spoke here Wednesday night.
White his lived and worked in ens cf the worst "trouble spots"
in Central America. Ha tells a little dierent story than Keshan
end company do.
For instance, standard administration rhetoric portrays ail
Central American revolutions net supported by the United States,
as calculated Soviet efforts to undermine the security of the
region, establish communism there and, the theory runs, threaten
the United States. Eebcls supported by the United States are
"freedom- fighters;" 'these W8 -oppose are "leftists insurgents."
White, however, posits that Central American revolutions are
"home-grown, authentic and would exist whether the Soviet
Union and Cuba existed or not."
When the revolutions do occur, the United States is firmly
entrenched on the side cf dictators too often the yoke
revolutionaries would throw off has a "U.S.-a?proved" stamp on it.
That tendency has produced some specific and negative
American countries have developed a hatred fcr the United States,
reducing the odds for peaecl consistence between the United
States and the countries in the region. We are committed to
military ventures in El Salvador and elsewhere, ventures costly in
dollars and lives. Indeed, we may well be defeating our stated
purpose of enhancing cur national security by actually driving
governments such as the Sandinistas to the Soviets."
White said the United States should define its national security
in Centre! America as policies that exclude Soviet and Cuban
military advisers and personnel from therein. He cited Resgan's
refusal to sip the Ccniadcra peace treaty last fall as an example
of tli administration's insincerity over U.S. national security in
regard to Central America, and specif cully Nicaragua.
While we are encouraged by a voice cf reason such as Robert
White's, ws are at the same time disherrtcned because he was
lecturing in Lincoln, not negotiating in El Salvador or Nicaragua
or making policy in Washington.
While White is telling UNL students we should allow Sslvadorans,
Hcndurans and Nicarsgaass to decide how they wish to govern
themselves, our president and Ms henchmen are telling the
ration we need -to "remove the- Smainista government in
Nicaragua." U.S. military advisers are teaching SaMdoraa soldiers
how to use the guns we gave them guns which often end up
pointed at children. And Nicaragua ccntras are toning up their
assassination tactics by readir CIA. manuals.
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Secretary of State Oecrge ShuJtz outlined the administration's
goals in Nicaragua our terrorist demands in a March 4 lime
magazine article. There are four: The Sandinistas must "stop'
serving as a Soviet sarrogate and expel Soviet and Cuban advisers,
reduce the size of their armed forces to levels comparable to those
of neighboring nations," they must "absolutely and definitively
stop their support for insurgents and terrorists in the region" and
they must include opposition groups in the political process.
Presumably, if the Sandinistas do not comply with cur U.S.
demands, they will see the invasion they have long awaited. In the -meantime,
U.S. policies of supporting the contraband bellowing
belligerently about removing the Sandinistas will continue to
make it dlScult for them to do what the United States wants them
to do. How can the Sandinistas reduce the size of the armed forces
when they are fadng a U.S.-backed revolution and expecting a U.S.
invasion? How can they embrace political opposition when they're
fighting a civil war? And who are they to turn to when cue cf the
two great world powers is -bent on removing them? .
Big Brother to the North is not only watching little countries
south of the border he's breathing down their necks. And while
. holy crusaders such as Ronald Reagan are stoking the fires in Eig
Brother's belly, men such as Robert White with cooler heads'are
lecturing on college campuses.
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Ferraro loses her taste' as Pepsi advertiser
n Feb. 10, Geraliiae Ferrero and
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w V0V3 a real-life reenactnier.t ef
the ccaatry-western hit, "Stand Ey Your
L!" Here was the virtuou3 wife reaSnn
her leve for a husband ccmicted cf
feand and' accused, in the course of the
presidential csxtpaigrt, of everything frcrrt
havi"g mob aaseciatiorts to misapplying
the assets cf a widow. Now it turns cat the
two have mere in ceinmon than we thought
They don't let propriety stand between
them and making a tuck.
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The evidence for this is Ferraro's
contmerical for Diet Pepsi. For this, she is
to be- paid what's known in the movie
business as the "high six figures." Some .
say the aaeur.t is $1 million, others that it
is as low as $200,000. At any. rate, it is '
enough to provide a respite from the
pressures of her husband's real estate
dealings.,
Francis O'Brien, Ferraro's campaign
press secretary and her current adviser,
defends the Pepsi deal by saying it probably
won't spell the end of her political career
thereby all but conceding that her "
career is over. "I find it interesting that
Pepsi-Cola must be seeing something in
the market research about her appeal," he .
If that's the case, bt's reverse the lo$c
and assume that Michael Jaeteon, who got
far more for a pop commercial, is even
more qualified to run for public c'Ice. God
knows how many votes Ferraro couid get if
her hair caught cn fire.
Ferraro, Q'Brien, et al, miss the point
and the importance cf Geraldine Ferraro.
If she were any other politician who made
.& commercial for a sell drink, the question .
c? taste would arise and the answer would
be in the negative. Politicians, public
servants, elected ofScials fill them'
' what you want are not for sale. They do
not endorse products fsr money
especially when they do not need the
money. Ferraro, after all, just si-ped a $1
million book contract and reported a net
worth last August of almost $4 million. . '
That kind of money, and not any soft drink,
is the real thing. -
But Ferraro is no ordinary politician. By
hard work and shrewd politicking, she
became the first woman to run for national '
office on a major party ticket. Her mere
presence on the ticket meant something
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of p eople.
Ferraro's Diet Pepsi commercial
reportedly ends with a shot of her end her
two daughters and the announcer saying,
"There are a lot of choices for a woman and
one of them is to be a mother." Not only is
that a tasteless echo cf Ferraro's campaign
speeches (Is pro-choice about picking up
a soft drink?), but it is a message she has
managed to ignore. She, too, made a
choice. When she chose to go gunning for
the vice-presidential nomination and when
she chose to accept it, she chose also to be
a spokeswoman, a symbol. Now instead cf
standing unambiguously for that, she's
chosen to sell a piece cf it to Pepsi.
Ferraro has hurt the cause she chose to
lead. It seems that she's just determined
to prove 'that her critics were right all
along that she was not qualified either
by experience, stature or judgment for the
.office she was seeking. Now she has made .
it harder for the nest woman who is
chosen to run on a national ticket. That
person will be obligated' to prove many
things one of them being that she is not "
a Geraldine Ferraro.
So it is fitting that Ferraro and Zaccaro
renewed their wedding vows. Everything
seems to be real estate to them, to be
bought and sold in a world, inexhaustibly
supplied with suckers. Mow it's Pepsi's
turn to be snookered. For a commercial
about good tas te, it's chosen a woman who
has lost hers. '
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We are writing in response to the Daily
Nebraska's Feb. 18 editorial concerning
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ws cur.'ttci cur:Iti to iUz r.iticul"?
act cfcirll &: :l z ler.cs to te; etteriei
to the 1:!:rc3 r Jr.-t v,c::.:n f:jr,i in
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Izza ci'j tlPcrih :us lc;a thenerth
drk ia I;-.rr. l: Ur.i:n to illuetrate
Avar " ?--t et ffl-r-n ? a f ! ifna fvr,
are, T-3 r.re net arr?:t:d th::e becmee
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graphs' clepleting Oriental women bound
and pfged One of the Vv'omen in' the
photos was tied to a tree, left for dead. In
early February cf this year, an 8-year-old
Asian girl, Jean Ear-Har Fewd, was arei.t
ing adoption in North Carolina when she
was found beaten, raped, gsged and tied
to & tree dead This is a drsmatic
eiampb cf the direct link between the
type ef violence toward women in the
E!s21a snd actual violence that occurs
against women in scciety.
. "-Too r.z-y women are incest survivors,
many have been raped beaten and
cntmue as silent ecnsuira-
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muriered to c
tcrs in cur own d
issks the violence directed tdnst women
sccially unacceptable by expesing the
pi&iio to pornography's images. Who are
these lsages ef violence appropriate for?
You can't tell us the problem is house
keeping or makeup. Those are merely
symbols cf the greater oppression e gainst
women which too often result in self-hate.
V,"h:t v;e are ccr.ecrred v.ith is the
ii:: et Lr 'i v 2 z : 3 b .tre en vie! :nee in the
r : " z it 1 l Jtz nc 3 Li s cci ily. T.'e are not
t3 tl.3 i , c!;:". res e-Inrt women to
e:iu 11 rrc "0 r cn. The December issue
cfFentLcuie ccntaincd 10pges cfphoto-
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TURD enters race
Weil, I guess the First and Fourteenth
amendments and freedom of speech have
been reserved for the people running for
an ASUN position (second vice president)
and hot for J erry Beaumont. '
Think again. I'm going to grasp what I
said and am announcing my bid for ASUN
president.
We're not' going to take it. Bang your
heads hard rock fans the TUHD party
has arrived Yes, TURD (Trying to Under-
breaking out of juvenile court 111 need a
snappy slogan, but don't worry. How about:
"Vote TUSD and be a turd in ASUN's
punch bcwl," -
- Well, UNL, vote. Vote STUPIDLY or p
with the winners the TUT.DS. The
people who knew hew to deal with pspla
andjust want to be turds in ASUN's punch
Patty Sitzer
Jem 1
presidential candidate
71T.D Party
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