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tion they need about AIDS.
“I think that if there is any hiding, it is
because of the political backlash,” he said.
When a person is exposed to the disease,
Carper said, it takes about 27 days to six
months before the body will develop anti
bodies in the blood system. Those antibod
ies will allow the disease to be detected in
the person’s body.
About seven to 10 years from the infec
tion point, the immune system breaks down
enough that a person is diagnosed with full
blown AIDS, Carper said.
Ten weeks ago, Carper was diagnosed
with a rare infection called toxoplasmosis,
which affects the central nervous system.
The virus is in his spine and will cause his
brain to swell, Carper said.
“This is my farewell tour,” he said. “I’m
here not so m uch to speak, but to say goodbye
to my friends. I would like to say I am filled
with hope, but the realist in me says it is
. hopeless.
“We’re in the middle of a war, and if I
sound angry it’s because I’m going to be one
of the casualties.”
But, he said, “I feel gratitude that I don’t
have to watch any more people die.”
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campus unprepared for the presence of cultures
other than their own.
“They come here and they get a culture
shock,” he said.
Senators also tabled a resolution supporting
higher admission standards until they could
study the final draft of the proposal.
In other business, ASUN passed a resolution
in support of keeping a Homecoming king and
queen in the Homecoming Court.
The Homecoming Steering Committee was
considering eliminating the positions to abate
concerns of minorities that they did not have
enough support to elect a minority king or
queen.
Speaker of the Senate Andrew Loudon said
he thought the steering committee was moving
the wrong direction, away from a long-standing
Nebraska tradition.
“There’s going to be a lot of hell to pay on
game day when people come to the game and
there’s no king and queen,” he said.
I
Shining Path flourishing in Peru
Organization teaches
kids rebel ideologies
in primary schools
By Neil Feldman
Staff Reporter
When U.N. troops recently occupied Lima,
they were startled to learn that some grade
school children believed the president of Peru
was Comrade Gonzalo.
Gonzalo is the war name of Abimael Guzman,
the leader of Peru’s Shining Path guerrilla
rebellion, a powerful movement often com
pared to the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia.
Thcsechildrcn.who
l'vc in the poor eastern
edge of the capital city,
are forced to attend a Shin
ing Path “popular school”
because there are no state
schools nearby. The rebel
organization teaches its
pupils Maoist ideology
4A/m and d10 basics of the vio
'MLY«* lent Shining Path move
ment, known in Spanish
as Sendero Luminoso.
Bill Avery, a University of Ncbraska-Lin
coln political science professor who specializes
in Latin American politics, said he saw the
movement as a major problem within Peru, but
he said he did not believe the strife would
permeate beyond the country’s borders.
“Shining Path is a major concern with Peru
vians,” Avery said, “but it is an issue that will
remain there.”
Several published reports in July and August
indicated that Ecuador to the north and Bolivia
to the south were concerned that they could
become entangled in Peru’s quandary.
Shining Path has been in existence for many
decades, but only within the past several months
has it moved into highly populated areas such
as Lima.
The movement became particularly evident
when Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori sud
denly displayed dictatorial powers over his
own government in May. He fired a number of
Parliament members and forced others to re
sign. Fujimori’s actions, Shining Path argued,
defied rhetoric and principles that always have
reigned in Peru.
Avery said the press, particularly in the
United Slates, had wrongly used the term de
mocracy in its coverage of the upheaval in Peru.
Avery referred to reports published in May and
June that suggested Peru had suspended de
mocracy.
“Democracy is a misused word among the
press, especially toward Latin America,” Avery
said. “Peru has never seen the democratic es
tablishments that we have.”
Haynes Johnson, a reporter for The Wash
ington Post, said on Washington Week in Re
view that Peru’s swinging ideological pendu
lum between democracy and constitutionalism
was broken up by Fujimori when he injected
dictatorial policies against his own govern
ment.
While Avery said Johnson was on target in
saying the Peruvian president had acted as a
dictator, he argued that democracy “is some
thing that country has never legitimately seen.”
A considerable amount of debate exists over
what type of role, if any, the outside world
should play in this conflict. Every representa
tive from the Organization of American States
agrees ihat no military action should transpire
through multilateral efforts.
Peacekeeping missions have been widely
suggested, but little has been accomplished
outside the Washington-based meetings.
AP
Former U.S. Secretary of Stale James Baker
mediated the OAS meetings when the Shining
Path entered Lima this spring. In a published
report, Baker indicated that the various Latin
American states had too many conflicting is
sues among themselves and with the United
States and Canada.
An argument made by the Bolivian repre
sentative pointed out that more than half of
Latin America is faced with enormous debts.
“An OAS mission into Lima could have
positive results in this issue,” Avery said, “but
the OAS is not used to its fullest capabilities.”
Manuel Piqucras, a former congressman
who coordinated research for the book “The
Schools in Times of War,” said recently on the
McNcil-Lehrcr News Hour that Shining Path
would “continue to be a legitimate force in
Peru’s government and schools unless outside
intervention is applied or the parliament is
turned upside down.”
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