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· VoL m, N0.2 . WORKING FOR A FREE; WORLD, . October _ by · :: schwi.Qg . . ·, Last Thursday, _ Te:d :Bell, · · - ·iJie However, ·-- .,·_ ·the h,e.fajled.to , . {, _ , , . . a flag burning ceremony ;,· ihai · il1 -' :meiely < - · d · ' · ' front 'pf t:he - Fine Arts' '; ,_·_ .-- ;'·· n: ·s · 'e· '. the -ceremonial -·_system will > · · :. , , : ,_ · - burning- was protest expressing · , in· jail, if -npt ki!lep. ' · / :, .:: .. ':· · e e e b_eliefs_ of : our American . The bi.unin'g .anit .. · · -- forefat}lers.. beH, efs held: by ·, .. attracte{l a qrowd .. o{ more thap J50 ltonorabie meri. such as Thomas '·. people inciuQing. both-students, ane:t _ . Jefferson:" · · - 9f - the .. surroun_ ding ·. ... --.- In a speech the - COJnml.,Ulttle$. · Joe Goldman, .a Navy '·. bW'Iling, Bell stated, "If a flag be who servee:t - dQI"ing World ·- .. then .,it is a religious · War II in both the Atlantic and the , icon .. jt is , then ' impl!i.ed . 'that the . :was with· the -' state it represents is ,_ He'- · number of students who protested . , further .. stated that '' · to :defend the ·-i- Bell's ac-ticins and the manner in · · · . flag and· pot defend -the- it ·. / . 'whiCh dley· American · · represents is· fascism." , ·· flag. · - . ' · , - . The Bing_h'amton Review,. alo.ng '·, Goldman. further stated,. "The · with the Re:tmblicans. Senate and · [in . organfzed a counter rally protesting to] the legislation _ the actiqns cmd beliefs ( Q_eld by BelL . protecting the American flag.should .. · , The Review argued that · the flag be replaced... The. flag is not only a . . embodies .every ideal. which makes . symbol, but stands for everything America the most free. nation in the 1. for which the veterans fought and world. lt is a unique, symbol whose died." . burning . cannot 'be as. "freedom of gpeech." ' · The flag _burning coincided with the Senate vote against legislation · which would ·have P!('}tected under - th·e - Unifed ·. States · Constitution . . · Bell cited · this as · evidence ofthe freedoms this country . gr:a'lts to its citizens. He argued that in Cuba, they have laws prohibiting Flag · continued· 5 SA Scanda;t •. •. ••••• pg 3 .:· Encountet'sue ..... 4 Wotld in ......... pg 6f Pup pets.u ....... ,fg 7 The .. Right Side ........... s Left Look Back ...... . .... ·.· The· Russians 14 ' . ' \ / (

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· VoL m, N0.2 . WORKING FOR A FREE; WORLD, . October 198~

_by · Katrint~r:,~~-' ::schwi.Qg. ~ . -~ ·, Last Thursday, _ Te:d :Bell, ~ · · - ·iJie buiiung-·ofth~'n~g: However, -~s ~- ~

former; SUN:Y-Binghaintori · s~qdelit~ ·-- .,·_ ·the R~view·· pointed'-out~- h,e.fajled.to , . {, _ , , . .

organ~ed a flag burning ceremony in~. ~"~:', mention ;,·ihai · il1 -' Cu·ba~:. :meiely :~,.-;.:. -~- < - • · d · ' · ' front 'pf t:he -Fine Arts' Build{ng~ '; 'staiidingon_ afountai~ -to~:prowsfthe ; ~ ,_·_ .-- ;'··n: ·s· I~ 'e· ' . ~ Accor~iilg ttfJ~ell, the-ceremonial -·_system will get- an- in,dj-yid~aLtq.rown . > · · :. , , : ,_ · - .~

burning- was ~·a protest expressing · , in· jail, if-npt ki!lep. ' · / :, .:: .. ':· -· · e e e religio~s b_eliefs_ of :our American ~ . The bi.unin'g .anit the~co'unter r~ily. .. ·

· -- forefat}lers.. ~ beH,efs held: by ·, .. attracte{l a qrowd .. o{ more thap J50 ltonorabie meri. such as '· Thomas '·. people inciuQing. both-students, ane:t _ . Jefferson:" · · - mem'b.er~ :~ 9f - the .. surroun_ding ·.

~- ... --.- In a speech pre~edin,g the -COJnml.,Ulttle$. ·Joe Goldman, .a Navy '·. bW'Iling, Bell stated, "If a flag c~ be vete~an · who servee:t -dQI"ing World·- .. desecrate~\ then .,it is a religious · War II in both the Atlantic and the ,

.· icon .. jt is , then 'impl!i.ed . 'that the . Pac~fic', :was lmpr~ssed with· the -' state it represents is ,.ti9Iy~" ,_ He'- · number of students who protested . , further .. stated that '' ·to :defend the ·-i- Bell's ac-ticins and the manner in ·

· · . flag and · pot defend -the-fr~doms: it ·. / . 'whiCh dley· d~fended·,the. American · · represents is· fascism." , ·· flag. · - . ' · , -

. The Bing_h'amton Review,. alo.ng '·, Goldman . further stated,. "The · with the ~college Re:tmblicans. ~ Senate and · 'Supn~me · C9~rt.' [in

. organfzed a counter rally protesting opposiiio~ to] the legislation

_ the actiqns cmd beliefs (Q_eld by BelL . protecting the American flag. should .. · ,The Review argued that · the flag be replaced ... The. flag is not only a .

. embodies .every ideal. which makes . symbol, but stands for everything America the most free. nation in the 1. for which the veterans fought and world. lt is a unique, symbol whose died." . burning . cannot 'be ju~tified as. "freedom of gpeech." ~ ' ·

The flag _burning coincided with the Senate vote against legislation

· which would ·have P!('}tected ~the:·flag , · under -th·e -Unifed ·. States

· Constitution . . · Bell cited · this as · evidence ofthe freedoms this country . gr:a'lts to its citizens. He argued that in Cuba, they have laws prohibiting

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SA Scanda;t •. ~~ •. :.uo·~ ••••• pg 3

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Wotld in RevieW.~ ......... pg 6f C~t'st:rO!-s . Pup pets.u ....... ,fg 7 The .. Right Side ........... ·~.pg s .· Left Look Back ........... ~.pgll

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On<_Thursday, October 19, 1'~d Bell was going to · t'fascist" . . The first time I was called the name, I ~drmtit bum _an American flag . . · That got the attent~on of !he ~:_· caused -me s.ome conce-rn. ·· How.dothey-figure ·I. am a cro'wds. But what was not so notice~ble'~ was ·his, . fascist? But then I real~zed that the people who·were extremely skillful misuse of language~ _Bell stateq that · calling m.e fascist were simply using !his nebulous tenn ~'Fascism won in· China~ , referring to· the massa:cre:. 9f to. define the yrtemy that~ ~hey needed to create. It must

· · Chin~se stu~_ents ·in that country. This drew c!1eers _, be-a horrible' feeling for .thoseself~proclaimed socialis~s · :. from his foolis.h fans who realiZed tharM.r. Bell had , and Marxists to see the· fruits of their theories,_ only to ,­ju~t.i~en the .re~ponsipility for this ·Il}assacre out of the \- realize that they th~niselves are their own real enemies.· . hands ~o.r . the cot}l,munjst$,~- The purpose . of this · For. all they· ne,~d to· :do 'is··peek ou~ of t~eir .b~ndets-for

- observation is( not to somehow come to the 'defense of :one second and the truth wilL become ~atrto obvious. : · · -­~ fascisin, ·for hi~;tory. ;has :~ho'*n itto·.be as r~pulsiye as The .real ·probi:e~ here is the _ Left's .attempt_-. to '

.•. _ communism~ ~;llui.this qU:ote· does 'provide spme· insight-.· manipulate -lang\lage · to keep. their ·'ideology · . . alive. . ... into the unwillingries·~ of tji~ ·Left:to ad~it th~ failure of . Thus; the statement_ that- ':'Fascis.m won "in China~·'; __ :makes -, . c:ommu~sm an4 . .- ~oc.ia~ism.<· · yYhy, can't · .. th~ .brt:ttal (· only one thing _painfully clear. ~o·day's_ S()Cialis-ts still

· r. commu~st g_ove~nmen,:t~.of _Ch~na ~e held ,t~~pons1~le · .. rejecf the truth. · They· ~till: ·:t¢ftis~ _to"-::b¢lie.ve_·;that the ~; for the 4uwn~w.a..Q S·quarG massacre? _Why can't those . socialist system· is p'e!Veited, .. notjustindi vi duals: within ·. :. -~aple peo:(>le ,~~o}ati4~:<l th~_ ,great ~.'Cult.lJ!.(,ll:R~v()luuo~ '_' · . i~._ Until · they po. realize _. 'it~·: ih~: inas$:~~r~s ~ill i~.onti~fie·, ; ~.: ~ow . recogn~ze_. _tbetr: horre;nd~u~ -.- mtst~e? •. _Th_ts ~ not only' ·in ···cllina; b~t,. in<,. _Ethiopia,_\_-Av.go.Ia .and

massac~e .was __ not ctrespl~ of~f~pl_S~ InfiltratlOUI?t(?~O :. lylozambique. People will · cofttinue-· to· flee-- from .·' -- oFher:~.vtse,_ pure_ .. ~~mol~ _ c~~ll:018t state: !~s · was Nicaragu+t, Cuba, ~past ·.Germany·, the So'viet Union, · stmply -~or~ P~~o~ ~~~t · .~?ctal~s~,_ M~rxts~ ,a~~ Yietnam ... shalri go on? ·_ · · · -_ -··. · ... : ... ~ · , commumsmaredead. ~. · . -.. · - · ·· · - · - ·;·,. · · · <' .. ~- •.

It is .not unus.ual 'fof- ··a · conservative bt ... even . .. · . -..... K ·D. - · ... - ·- :·., --· Republican student;.<)n this campus .to be referred to as a · · ~ •, · ,' _ • .- · .. - ~ · ...

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. By B'rian D. Sullivan . - . . The past two months has been a ._ . tiil).e of \; great conflict and cont~ov~rsy within .. the s t-qdent

--" Associatron. The· · student . · government has been the victim of'r resignal;ions-·and wide spread rumors that have rendered it' mostly ineffective in . the ~yes .of many studentS and adminis.trators.". . •

The problems l)egin . early this . semester . with· the resfgnatitm of

. ·. Kim Blair from _.~he pos~tiQI) of . Academic .Vice President · on 1

September 4tli. and was _heightened · with the resignation of SA President · Cr-aig Siegel on Tuesday Octop~r lOth. _J?_u~ tp Si~gel's ·i-e~ignfl#<m ·

·Christine: Fecko ·assumed the I' . • ~Pre.sldeilcy and along with the only

:· · ·other Executiv.e Board member Mary ; ,Ka~trCU:llen ~:.became the center ,of

· .,. intense criticism. .. . · - · · · f_ • . . " . . ' . ' ·· One of these criticisms stems

1_; from Fecko's .handling_ of .$iegers letter of . resignation. · Siegel

. ,'·~ originally hilnded in his resignation q-,. ~arly . in._,the - s~mes~er . citing,_ "v~ry, :··' very, very . serious disagreements tt

:·"'i :_ am·ong . · the Executive. Board~ ~rHowever, .. after having iime to . rethink _his decision he decided that .

he wished ·to ·remain as· SA President. ·

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A week later afte:r' a~ ~xecutive _ Board meeting he aske<lldi hi~ letter back . . Fecko refused stating that _if -she acquiesced to Seigel's request she ' would be, "destroying a . piece of . history." Angus Johnston speaking

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,_ Zapata-,' -:last . y.ear's : '_Stude-nt .'. , . ~ - In an ,attempt to deal with the . Since Kim . Blair resigned the first · · week of Classes, according to · tpe constitution, an election should have

·- • ' 1Assoe'i~nimi Presiden·i, srateil ihat the . proble~s·: fa~·ing_. ihe~ ' ;~h~den t · ·- -SA had made a bad decision and if . Assoc.ia,tion . the residential .

been held in the fourth week of ,- · ~· · •: classes. · However, elections weren't

,'~ ·-r.::··in F·eeko!s·-defense said-thatit wonltt~­be like unilate~ally disarming.

- - . held -uiltif the 'ninth week' of' the -Therefore, S_ieg.el feeling that the .

· · letter · was b~ing· -held _ by:~F.ecko -to · . .-~ · .: potentially blackfu~ii 'him iost any ·· ··~ hope for compromise and officially resigned. u poh his- resigmition . Siegel · stated that' he· felt . ~at there · were certain people [Fecko, Cullen . · and Johnston] who were preventin-g

- . him from . doing the job he was elected to do. ·It is no coincidence· that the Fecko, Cullen, and-Johnston. live together -· and : admit to .,

semester in clear viotation of the ~onstitrition.

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Many· students . feel Jl)a.t the ''reason this was done. was so the Boaid's~hand pi~Jced choice of Angus Johnston could . run as . the -·experienced incumbent. ' Despite · Siegel's plap;, to hold the:·election

-- within the 'constitutiort.al ·allowed·· .· ti:me limi-t the other two ·members ·· on the, . boatd disagreed. . . Pecka "

· maintained tharthe elec'tions·couldn't discussing SA · matters at ·home · without~Siegei's presence: . . '.

. A second criticism ·stems' from.. ., . the appointment of.,.Angus-Johnstop · as acting Vice President for ·· Academic ;\ffairs. According to section 5 of .the SA Constitution,

· · be held earlier :because the _student . assembly was just forming and there ·. · were . contrad~ctions with. the_ rules governing the elections of candidates ' in the ' constitution. Spe sta,ted that · .. she was also concerned that ·me . · . election ~Ouid --·not be ... cOnsidefed , · ;

II .-.. jf a position becomes vacan.i before the third week of the semester, an election will be held in the' fourth . week of. that semester o II

'• legitimate despite the fact that ·the · SA alr.eady had a .ele~tions _, , commtttee chainnari. , Raphael

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ihey were worried about legitimacy -gov~rnments met in; an infor~al· _th~~ - co~ld ~~ave c~e~~~d with ~he-::.~ --(> "~'i'~es_~~o~ -l~t V.:~e~}~.~l~~~~~V!on~ : residential commumty councils;·;~ _ a.vatia~ble to r,ect1fymg !Jle pr~en~i No mention was ever made· to the :i" · situatiOn. Among. the. options;:· . stJid,ent assem~ly as to the Executive .' · , . di~cussed was the pos.sible

. -~ l39~d's ,~~~s!¢n to disregard the SA. impeachment·· of Fecko. At tne ··. constitution. · assembly meeting on the 17th she

There -are · also · numerous · questfo;ns.' SUJ(TOunding -the role · of " Angus Johnston as acting AVP. _At the · Student Assembly meeting on ·

. Tuesday · October 17th numerous

. ~tudent . Association members · · : question John,ston~s use of authority .

while serving as ac.ting AVP . . · -:Siegel stated that, "The position was . abused and used in an inappropriate ' way t0 affect non-academic issues." _' · Mapy students -felt -that the· ·,

.. ~xe€tltive iBoard didn't have the right ,to . give Jdhn_s~on all the power and at,~thority that he exercised such as making appointments.· When questioned on · this by meQJ.bers of th~ . ass·embly Fecko s-aid, "The constitution · .. ·doesn't say anything · r

:. about any.thini.'' · ·

repeatedly stated, "I don'i want to be . President." Impeachment could· be accomplished by-a vote of four fifths or the community governmepts, however no action was taken. -

These ar.e only a few of the · critieism which are beleagu~ripg the student government. Not only do tl)ey have to answers questions p~rtaining · to their decreasing· , effectiveness but also ; questions dealing ·with ethical w~ong doings

" and their. 'blatant disregard for the constitution which they ~ere elec~4, ,

.. to uphold. · At the . end .of . the assembly _meeting Fecko suggested to. the representatives that they gQ -back to their -constituentS and tell

· them that thin-gs. aren't as bad as it seems and not' to believe &lL. the h)rp~.'· I guess the .truth -hurts~ ..

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... WinnJe.'s ·.Palace , The ·plush house . of ·Winnie .

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JiiNGHAMTON~iffivmw ·-\.·~·. - I -. , , , • .

make. Until ·tmly, radical r~forms. aie'· · · . carried out;· any for~ign aid would be worthless. · ·

they : . openly operate a large drug

· smuggling ri~g- in which they ·play · the tole .of ·middlemen. The

'< • · ' , ' Shining . Path collt~cts a percentage. ·The Wretched P.fttfi · .- .. . _·. · Jroni . the .p_easants"coea · ~rop and • · . ~ , · - ~ · · · fQree drug .traffickers to. buy directly

Man·dela was ransacked. by ~ her neigh\)prs in s ·oweto.. According to .. · tbe City Press, South A_frita'(. "· 'Iarg~st circulating n~wspaper for ' Blacks~ tiles, floors; plumbing-· .fixtlires, and ceilings we!ie iotn out of tile house·.. The estirilat~d damage . was $40,000 . .. Mfs. "Mandela has ..

- ' As municipal ·el~ctiQJlS draw . ·····. . Jro.m theni . . This provides the - . . :ne~r, , the . AriieriC.'JS.7.'most' blood . , guerillas with r. as much. as $30 · ::.thirsty guerilla ~Y has gone on a . . .. millimt annqatly'· and the Colombian - riew offensive. The· Shining Path·, · · .r . · .. ' . . drug Cartel· with one of its ·major

often been criticized by other Black South African leaders for. her-

' exiravagani: lffe style. ~he clai~s that she plans to live there full time . when Nelson Mandela is released, ·

. ~ven though Mr .. Mandela has ·been·.· r~p_orted as S'\ying he doesn't want to ·uv.e there. ., ·

· :{Se-ndero Luminosa In: Spanish) h~s. . J), spurces of cocaine. · .,, 1 · .

alteaqynriircder:ed. 123 mayors and ·- :r .· .· ~he Shining Path insurgency, . · ·ciVil servants since _the beginniJ!g ,oC~ .... _<which ~Iently.began in 1980, has ··,. this year. . The cuirent .terrorist · :: resulted · in the~· death of at least campaign is aimed . 'at disrupting . .14,000 civilia~s: . This. year a~one up~oining el~'ctions, esp,eci~lly tfie . . · , <over 1,000 .. cjvilians 'and nearly 300 . piesidentiat ,el~ti~ns~ in&~pril,1990. ·· •, · ..... ~Peruvian ~oldiers Have h~el! killed. ·

··· · Firlnished. The Shining Path holds' sway over ·. The guerillas have built a nationwide:·

. approximately o11e-third·· of P~rq, · network whi~h .operates in individu~ · · . ·mainly in ·the CentraF Andea~ · :terrorist .cel.ls. - This · system allows ··

.~ Gorbache,V. fias gotle ~n .anoth~r trip, · this ti~eto. Finlap.P,,~ nation which has IT\an'!ged to 'maintain itS: · inc;lependen~e from the ~oviei Unipn. / While iri Finlan4. Gmrb~chev .mane. ·

. seyeral proposals which appear as little mor.e · than. diplomatic

· chicanery. .. . .. tris first· proniise was to ria th~

B·altic' ·sea of .nuclear submarines. -: "'-· ·The .truth is thak these . 6 ,i-qbmarines were going to mothballed anyway 'because they 'are .·outdated -and hav.e experiencoo repeated accidents in the pa.St few years. ·

. Gorbachev's second proposal called for the end of all-· military alliances. What a surprise! Tlie . .

. ' Warsaw Pact' is in. compiete . Clisarray ·. and is of almost no use to the Soviet Union anyway. Hungary and Poland have abandoned tommunism-to the trash bin of history. Eist derm·any is experiencing a major democratic revival. .. :~ · ~ . ~~ _

Rumania remains the neo-S talinist king dam of . Nioo{ae. Ceausescu and·it remains completely diSinterested , in · Perestroika. Czechoslovakia ren)ai_ns feryently anti-revsionist ·because the regime's · l(fgitimacy' is based upon the - · ilk~gitiinacy of Dubcek's reforms. ' If they accept Perestroika ; they must ·

.. a~cept the legitimacy of thtr Prague · Spring· of 1968. ' '{his would be a ·'· ·· dis~ter for the current regime because · ·

.. it would undermine its author-ity ·· o¥er · the .nation. This -leaves- the- ·

Soviet · Upion ' witfi--its · slavishly · ioyal ally of Brilgru;ia; _ · · ~-

,·- As .for NATO, it ,is·as ~~ong ... a~ ever ·an4 althoJ;Igh there are voice~ on· '" both side·s of the Atlantiq cailing for': . · changes in the _relationship, it wilt' .. ptobably continue . t6 he . strong.

·With th~ economic integration of th~ . 1 . . European Cpmmunity occurring -in,

1992, perhaps the role of Nato will . . be altered. But any radical changes in .the 40 year alliance still seepi far off.' · :f .•• . .

.· · Gorbachev\ also asked the .:w .est · ·i6 send him af4 .to helpJtis .program . of restructuring. ., The question is~ . though, wqy. sliotild the West send ..

~.-·aorbache\r economic aid for ' ~s . reductions£ ·, Shouldn't- there be .

:(reciprocity in th-is relationship? .. -Shouldn:t arms cpntroLagr,eements ··

be based on aims? · · :. " . · .·. . Those in ·the West why think

thatthe West ca'n solve the-problems . of 70 year of mismanagement and ·

· im~fficency . by giving .the . ~oviets' . . , economic aid -are fooling themselves. · · .t

·~· For Perestroika, t,o · succeed., . - Gorbachev must make ~the painful · ·

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, re~ions whe~~ ·many indians liye·. . ,. . . . ·'the Shining , P-ath·. to strike - with • j ·: The· Shin.ing Path w~. organized · ·.. impu:o,ity. _' All members are highly .·

in ·1969 as ~· sp1inter7 group from_ the· · indoctrinated and recruits: are mainly -

Peruvian CbmJ:n!mist Party~ Its ...... ;7 drawn from. rural ·twelve to fifteen . ideology was ~eyel~p·ed]>y ;Manuel - ·;..·: . year olds, . who are molded into . ' · RulD_e):l Abi~ael , ·auzman, .· (a.k~a ~"' • -.;;,,'" highly motiv,ated revolutionaries. , J>J;e~ident Gonzalo), ·a philosophy · · .. · Th,e Shining ~ath is .estimated to·.be . professor: at . the .'unlv~rsity· of... ., rio more than '$,000 membets, alld . 'Hua_niang.~ . in .. Ayacucho. . I.fi~ ·.· .,- yet i~ is. ~ble .to dominate much of : p-hilosophy : ··cal'ls ' fot ·. a ,, rur.al ' Peru. , · . , , . . . insurgency, based .on· neo-Maoist . · ' ; The effec't'. of the"' guerilla · dogma and Qu~chua Indian campaign on the upcoming elections ·

withdrawal

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The · hallmark of . the -Shining of over 400 ·offiCe-seekers. The Path's terroristic activities is the · . ultimate goat oLthis campaign is-to .ritual mutilation. of victims whose cause an ovetreaction oh the pait of bodies ~re lett on pul>lic 'display_; . ·. the Perqvian mililflrY. Either a copp :This method :is used not o.niy-. . d 'etat or a marked iiicreas'e ih human because· of the -fear it invokes; ptik .. rights' violations " would th~eaten also because it · harkens back to the . inter~ational support" ' for the Conquistadors' tre~tme·fit . of . t_he "' , .. : struggling Peruvian democracy. It is ind~ans.. .,The wjite invaders of h • ., , of the utmost importance _that the nearly 500 years ago brutalizec,i the . ' ~· iritematiomil community 'support the in~ans and now the Shini)lg Path . · Peruvian · people and their does the sam5!. ,to go_ternment ·: ., . gqvernment against . the "Khmer · officials and civil-servants. · , . ··Rouge of the .America8/'

. The Shining Path se~ms to .be· . . . . . 'the .. only indigenouS· . guerilla ' .. by- Ephrahn ·' Bernstein movem:ent in-· the- Americas that · qnd Matthew Carr .-receives no support: from the Soviet .

· Union or its regional'-.:lackies, Cuba . .. and Nicaragua. In, fact, the Shining Path ~ttacked both the Soviet 'Jn{f · Free_,~om Flight Chinese embassies and -· the _;N'orth .. , Korean Commercial Commission in by _Steve· Kaplan ·

' Lima: .This exemplifies. the reality - ... '·'I )lave FlO harmful intentions,'' · that the Shin'ing Path is highly the pilot said jn Arabic to shocked · xenophobic and tloes not hesitate to . ~m:lookers as' he: stepped out of his

. ove,rtly .cspcmse ~his fact. . .· ,. . aitpl~me after' landing ' at a · ~ivilian Since this guerilla army ·receives . · .11irstrlp 'in ·. I~rael on, t0 6tober 11, .

no foreign support, it raises'its funds .1989. · ·. ·· . .. --- by a var~ety of methods, ·inC!tKli-ng . . . '' j'his was no routine flight. The '

. bank robqety, ~xtortion., a wir::- U1x, ,, .. pilot~ Major Mohammed 'Bassem and drug .trafficking~ The war t:aj( :is ·: - ,p,del; defe:cted ·from·· Syria with a ·

" -~~ soviet-made MiG-23. After a . extorted from the ·rvtal peasant.rf .. , If ·- ~ : routine .' i~ai_iiin'g mission, A del . · . a v-illage is unwilling to pay the~'· ..... - ;-. somehow Iil~aged to cross therten~e ~' ' ',· ·or d.isli)lays ·resis~ce to .~e 'Shinip.g:. · ,!# ~~ .· ., :.Jsrae~J~Syrian b,order, fly ·over Israel ~:. · Path's "proteciiori.," :·'the · vHlage ~:- ·~:: ·.·' for about fo'ur .rninutes.aild land near leadership is. assassinat;efl. While. the · · · '_the tbw.n of Megiddo. · !he border gueri-lla . mem~bers liv·e . ·by ,a/ Qetween.the.two arch-enemies is one

r· of ·tlie- mo~t potentialiy volatile

October 1989 ·

spots on earth and e~trenched with, highly · sophisticated security . systems. ·

·The Syrians .• who, rieedl~ss to say, were .highly' ein ba.tr~sed by ~e incident, originally insisted that the plane was fo.rced · to · land for · "mechanical reasons\" They latyr retracted this s~tement, calling ~del

. "a traitor who sold· himself and 'his weapon to the enemy."

. The defection was a double . ble.ssing for ·israeli ·intelligence, ; · bringing valuable information ·about the. plane and· the Syrian Air Force . while at the ·same time exposing · sho~comings in Israel's defenses. ·

. The MiG-23, although a . relatively old jet fighter~ was'updated with the most advanced Soviet

"electronic security equipment. Most _ of this information will . inevitably be shared with the United States.

An Israeli Arfi:ly inquify found that the fighter-bomber was able to .peqetrate Israeli airspace, because "an

. officer .did nof exercise correct judgment." The investigation did · nQt fmd any fundamental flaws with Israel's air defense system.

Meanwhile, at a press .conference· -two days 1ater, the 34 year: old Add, a ,bach~lor:. stated that the reason for . his defection. ·was because he "wanted to live in a democratic coQnt:ry where people are free to express. their yiews. II He said he was influenced by. what he read about Israel and what he saw on· televis.ion.

ov~r Exposure .. by Hudsa·n Bronh~r

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; This past summer's- video ·of Colonel ' Higgins, ' an American .member of the United Nations ', ·peacekeeping -forces in Lebannon,

'· hanging by a rope cinched around his neck, once again brought the topic of terrorism to the forefront ofi the ·

/ Western media. The media has al~o~ once again, unwittingly 'playdd into · the hands of terrorists, actiilg as their agent iri spreading fear among tnillim'ls of people.

'The media's appetite for such ~ stories - has made terrorism an increasingly efficient. and effective _.\ means of · influencing Western for~ign policy. To demonstrate this point, one need only reflect back Ot;l President Reagan's attempts at arms for hostage :swaps· .with. Iran.

- Although ; wtong for doing so, ' Reagan bowed under ·public pressure

for political reasons--to release . hostages even though it involv~d

mean -.that he· previously denounced. · l'his public pressure was to an

overwhelming· extent caused by the media~s sensationalist coverage of .Middle Eastern teuorism, which greatly exaggerated the the threat · . from . .terrorism to Americans.

Terrodst acts should not, nor c~n · be ~g.nored by the media, but th~y .. · · should not be sensationalized or ·· given undue significance. Of all the terrorist acts ever reported by the . meQ.ia, how many have ~en place ,. ·

. on .American soil? How many mofe · Americans die each year as a result of .traffic fatalities, than nave ever

. • qied as a result of terrorist acts? . ' . ::we Americans canhot let OQ:I; , .

foreign policy which affects millions · · Qf people, be changed because of an~' r

overmagnified threat caused by sa few. · · · · · · . < ; '·

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'Jt is always . a treat ~hen a . campus ·-group sponsors a_ SJ>e~er to

· ·. :discuss.'--the · fr:uits -of the Cuban -'· ·­Revolution. On Friday, ·October 13, ·the · Young Socialist · Alliance· presented Jolirr Hillson, a : member ' ..

- · --· · of the Vencetertios Brigade to·-·do · just~·this. . . . ·. _ ' ~-

. The Venceremos Brigade is a · · worldwide orgahization ftmried· by- · -'

· .. the Cuban government 'soon· after -· _< . the -. revolution~- ·The , Brjgade, · stationed in Caimito Del Guayabal

. region _of Cuba 'is knoW1l _-also, by the name Qf !'Frie11ds of ~uba"., · .and functions as one . ·of . the . mo:St

.. important, IJlOuthpieces . for Castro : and his government. · Brigade . , . members around . the . world, . travel to Cuba courtesy of Castro and are , . · treated as the el~te. ~They stay in the

'- best hotels, ana dine in. restaurants which ' are 'unavaihible <to the

, majority--of Cubaps. The m4;lin role of brigade:mem,bers is to travel the

, world as Castro~s useful idiots, spewing fortli ' .. vintage · Cuban · propag~da. · ·-·

More amusing than the speaker himself, were , the entranced "believers II . of the ~udience who · hung ori ·his ·· every· word·. They nodded and smiled as Comrade .. Hillson de~cribed · Cuba's spperior eco!lomy,. ·absence of homelessness .­arid unemployment~ and -their role in -·international peacekeeping. One · can't _ help but . to compare ihe audience to ··disciples ·. of the Ayatollah Khomeini, blindly absorbing "ahy ·an.a all propaganda,

· regardless .of fact and historical record. ·

Conirade :Hillson relishes in the fact that Cuba has made tremendous economic strides since the -revolution "~espite the Uni'ted States-blockade." According to himt this has resulted in the most modem hospital in all .of Latin America, along with free universal health care and housing, and a high rate of employment. As is customary, the facts allude Mr. Hillson~ . .

The .aomnide conveniently disregarded the $S billion dollars a

. year Cuba 'receives from the Soviet '

Unibn. Despite the. economic boost, · Cuba's- economy is less diversified than it was prior to . the revolution.

_ Whil_e sugar rem~ris the-basis of -the , Cuban economy, it's Rrices are still depressed. . Other Latin American countries have increased their expert of manufactUred goods over the past · twenty years~ · Meanwhile'· the

I · - I percentage of ,nanufactured goods exported by .Cuba remains at 5%, the saine-as in ·1960 ..

· . , · Alorlg 'with low pro­ductivity, . unem.ploym~nt . has . emerged as a probiem for Cuba. According to the latest statistics ayailable from the Cubari~go;vem­ment; joblessne_ss wh1c!t was 40,000 in 1981, nearly tripled to 100,000 in 1985. This, ~ong with il)~ fact that out qf Cuba's ten. ,million ·people, one-fouftl1. live in· inadequate hous.-

- iilg, clearly shows tithe great strides hi the Cuban economy" as -a result of the rrevolution. . .

The speetacuiai health care that the Cuban government speaks of is · practically non·-existent. Severe . sanitation problems remain

· in · Cuba. Hospitals which provide . care: for government Qfficials and ·menibers of the nomenklatura, or the elit~. are closed to the .---people .

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. Thos·e wno ,do ~manage to · secure a · spot·in a hospital must rely ()Ii their -· own' family to bring them food, and "

· provide bedside c~e.since nurses are . · unavailable to them for such routine

· tasks~ . The Cuban· people first · · · "" l~ed ·about -the AIDS epidemic on ·

their island through Radio Marti. This·-proved·to be an embarraSsment ~o the Cuban-government who were trying to cover ·up the outbreak~ ·

. . . \ .

. . . · :-In re_gards-to foreigri policy, llillsop appeared devoid of any ·

: · historic perspective. He bOasted that · · approximately .49,000 - Cubans volunteered to go to Angola to· fight for their African .brothers. he :­

_stres~ed ·that a(ter he~ing o( theii . / brothers' plight,' these Cubans demanded that C.astro send them on

I their jilngle Journey • .. This daini - · stan as in direct conflict with a recent

that .country's Marxist:l.enmnist dic~torsbip. . . ·- · · . . . ·,

· . Mr. Hillson's presentation . . . ~~old have be~n comically .amusing

· 1f 1t were not for the. horrific ·realities of Cuba's MarXist-Lennjnist regime . . · The Comrade 'proved hiffiself to be a goo<J little· puppet for the Castro -..

. dic4ttorship. -Hi.s blatant disreg~d ·

. for. the thousands of Cul)ans .. who have. fled that country since the .·

"Ca~s~ro 's sixty·-~ight _p,~;ison~$,

estimated ~ .15,-0·00 '_- pol-~ti.cal ,. · pris.one:rs. '· 'h·old an

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-(h-ig~_es( pei_- ., :capita--· in <: the . \wo_r:ld), , who ··- ,suffer torture, .· forced _ la_b~or;< and countless other ·· tndigilitie.s,' -a-re Fi'del

.a testimony_ to the wretched_- legacy ·::'of c ,astro.·"-

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Mr. Hil1son 'spoke with great pride· about" racial equality in Cuba. He went on to . e~plain that ·

· _blacks have been fully integrated · into Cuban society. A young black

man in the audience C3:geHy asked . ,• ' · Hillson to expound on · this statement. In , the trUe fashion of a propagandist, Hillson ex,plaitied that unlike the U.S., "Cuba has abolished . institutional racism. II Indeed this leads one to wonder why in fact, to this day, not one black has ever- served in ' the Castro

' -dictatorship. . Perhaps the young · -m_an in the -audience would like to ask Eldridge Cleaver ·the same question. Cleaver is· an ex- Black Panther, who once -hijacked a·pfane to Cuba in order to teach a country more-in line _with his ideological beliefs. The disenchanted ·.cleaver

. soon returned to· the United States, stating tliat Cuba was a "miserable, -racist" coun~; · ·

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Cuban Central Committee document whic,-h reporte<t ,the eX.tremely ·high desertion rate of Cuban soldiers in Angola as "unacceptable.;' The great Cuban victories· that Hillso11 spoke of are · nowhere to be found in the Angolan · conflict -Indeed, the great losses that the Cuban military suffered at the hands of the u.s. ·backed UNIT A forces was what recently fQrced <the _ Cubans to the bargaining · table. The one contribution Cuba did make to the

" ·war in Angola, was it's introductio~ of rierve · gases and phosphorous _ · born bs against UNIT A, as was reported by Dr~ Aubin Heyndrickz, . senior-United Nations consultant on chen:iJcal watfare. Comrade Billson, . in discussing ~e Cuban yearning to aid its fellow comrades,. failed to mention, and seemingly ignored,

'Ethiopia.. In Et}liopia, thousands of , Cuban troops have been used to carry out th~ murd~rous nolicies of

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revolution and-those who remain! Suffering qnder the Stalinist trtodeled

- dictatorship, is reflective of the vast ignorance displayed by the well­traineq pets of t,he Leftist propaganda machine. . · ·

Castro's sixty-eight pris­on~, .. which hold an estimated 15,000 political prisoners (highest per capita _ in · the world) who suffer torture,

.forced labor, and countless other ' . i_ndignities, . are' a testimony to the · wretched legacy of Fidel Castro. The U.S. has been fa:r too lackadaisical in its handling of the Casiro regime: As Armando Valladares, a former victim of Castro's repression, and a prominent spokesman for Cuban human rights ·stated, "Someday · when the whole

· . truth is known in detail, mankind will feel the·· revulsion it felt when the crimes of Stalin were brought to

. light." .

"I CARE .... about the village, the people, and preserVing_ the integrity. of:the

· village-fOr ~the . generations to come." .We have to think of the future aS well 3S the .'preSent." ..

~-~eryl Deemie

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. · -.. · .. . Muainmar ·'(jJadiJilft; .. kasfiiially~ q~cepted the.-need :., : .~ ·-- -" -··, ::·for .a--JewiS:h lion:lelqnd. ;,' Hiisaid ·.he~ wouldn't ,·._ ·· ... .- ~- ·. ·.-· m-ind -giv{ng f!ew_s Al~sk:a, ~the -~alti9 Republiqs-;--· . . :~, - or Alsace-Lorraine. - ·-.. · · .-: -". ~- · -· ... · ~ :_:~- · •• ' •;>-•, ,,, '.. •• ~- I

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. -·: Possiblltl:ie·s: _·~ Filet ·:_Mtgnon Now!, ,Pretty Curtains ·; .. :· ~ ·. ·.< -Now! :club Med -No.wl, _or. $15,00 _An Hour ·Ear ··_· ··

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. : -M'Ctnual-·tabor. Now!. ~ · 1?ollow~d, of course, by .- · .- . Ecq~omi~ ·_ Stagnation -NO~_! ·, - · -· ·

. ;;_. , I·n.- the absence' of radic.dl .reforms of the Soviet ~­·. system; _"'Sitch': ''ids~lstfince .. "could' ~-nly ' s~rve '··td ''p~op - · ... ·UP . an-qiling ~·system -. and de.lay· Jhe ,ady.ent of -':.-- . .

~~-"---'-,-____.,_~~--7-"-----'---c--+---:--~-~-~· · • democracy. It W(Juld ~e like pouring . water . into · the · sand." ·

-~~7~~~-~-·-···-· ~- ~-.--.-~-·~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :A~~l Sakharo~ -~pe~hng '. on

Western" Aid to the Soviet ·union_. :--<:- .. • The B~llot fo:r · S.1L Presid~nt:·· ·,_,,,'

1. ·Menu Man · (BU:t he has ·a joH.) _ ·, 2. C Zitford :Clark (He needs -~ job.) - . . - ,_·l: . 1 .

3. sta -:THomas (He :· r~a.lly .-needs ··- a job.J~- · · ... 4. Linda · Beale (She;s go~ng to need a job~) . ~-

, 5. Glenn G. Bartle'· (He'$ dead, but no one lYill -) notice.) . • , :- . , ~ . 1 ' •- ·, "

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·Get out your_ sc~lpe! .'a,nd suct~on : ma~htnes> ~ - it's · ,;Reproductio/t· ~;A~~.,~-n~es'~ W~ek. 't :,· A ·~ m(:)te -· .a ~

:propos n_ame would be·, '(How to ratio.n.alit·e ,, · baby-killing

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... Tenth AJ!-niversary_ _ B.ash·~ . He couldn ~t attend : because he feared ·losing -his job in ,. COUJi carried~--' out ·by loyal comrade;. , ·

" .We have :· seen " the .·ala~rity · ~i.th ·}vhich the ::; American -populace sprang, ... _ate th(! first tap of .

drums, to arms ~ not for gain, not jor glory, not _ . to repel invasion ~ but for 'an emblem, a .,;,ere .. · abstractlt;>'!>- for the· life, t~e saie!y -of the .flag."

._- .- <.- Walt Whitman

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F _or, -tlf.<; · Sa.nda,Znistas. J)~ . our campus, w_g . hop~ "-· it. . < ··. came·· IlS ·tlD-'siirprise (hat Nicaragua, ;;_side.· from . . · .·

. -_ (;u_lfa; .Albania; and '_ Na,rth 'torea~ _was the only · --nation to applau(t . the · Tiananmen .Square . Massacr-e _ of ~ the Cfzinese students . . - . ·

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3'3 year so"' after the HI:tngarian Uprising began, -the . F_ ourth Republic is· declared. Lon-g Live Democracy! - Death to Communism'l ,, -·

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"[f Ger;ldoRivera is. thefirst journalist in , space, _NASA can test the effect of . ·

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· by·'Adam· Bromberg · l

-· In · -1964, President Lyndon- objected to :J(emp's plan and the · J<?hnson and the Democratic Party -,. ACLU is suing.Kemp. On one side lauJi~hed the "war . on~ poverty'~ ' ~ . . you have the liberals saying the'poor

_ campiU.gn. Here we are, twenty five · ·must. put up with crime, drugs, and · year~ · f_ater and we _can -see ·that this ·· filthy living conditions. On the ,_ war has-been~ failure. Between the other side_ is Kemp saying the poor · years· of 1960 · and 1985 the ·U.S. don't have to endure this.-. If we want

· annri~ spending ori .soCial programs - the ·poor ·to -h~ve a· c'hance · ·at werit fro_m $29.5 billion to $484.5 . improving their lives, the least we

,billion, a more ·man . a . 1600% ,' ' - ' can do is . saye them from havjng incre'ase. When you look at this known drug dealers living next door ·· huge;J.ilcrease in spending you would- and ~estroying . the . very

. ~s~ume that poverty has· gone down:, .. . neighborhoods they ·are trying to .. ·.·-· · Qut that has not happened. . In fact; · . save. · .. · . · · - · · :) ·

between thos~ years · o( increased Urban homesteading is a pl&n_ . spending,~ . the niu;nber-· of people ' which would. allow residents· of · . living in povyrty has increased. . . . public housing. (or projects) to· have - ·

People who are poor are treate<f an Qpportunity to buy their· as though they . c~n't ·take ariy apartments . ai low prices. , This_ ,

· responsibility for themselves. This. would give them ~e fee~ing of prid( . attitpde m3kes them_ feei liice v-i~tmi~ and . responsibility of owning · wno are totally helpless to deal with something.- They would -work harder . their OW!l problems. They therefore to .take care of the area since they .

· bec~orne trapped in a culture of :. own it an4 they would have a feel:ipg poverty that lasts for generations. of pride, therefor~ giving therri more ,

· The liberal democrats who believe .. incentive. Once, in a debate on the thai m·o~ey is the o..nly answer to an ·floor of the House, ~epresentative problems have been proven wrong, • ·Ron Dellums (D-Ca.) and Barney once again. · The United States has·. Frank (D-Ma.) argued that if we poured billions ·or dollars down the. allow the residents of public housing dr~n' with no· positive results. It ~~ . to buy · apartJ:nents ·they might sell . time .that this ·country had some . . ·them and. make ·a profit. Oh no! innovative P-!"Oposals to. give the This .could mean they may no longer · poor pride and opportunity instead of be poor. . · causing childish dependeiice. . . As a congressman, Kemp

· The liberal democrats have failed 'sponsored .1egislation wliich gave miserably in the "war on poverty" : tenants self-management and then and nQW it is · fime for the ownership. This plan was enacted in conservatives, led by Secretary of Kenilworth-~arkside~ a public Housing and Urban Development . housing project in Washington D.C. (HUD) Jack Kemp to come to the Within six years, renuil income rescue. Kemp has many .innov&tive raised 77%. · Administrative costs · proposals ·to help '.'empower" the were down 60%. Welfare poor. Among them are urban dependency dropped from 85% in enterprise zones, quick eviction of 1982 to 2% in 1988. . The tenant . drug dealers from public.ltousing and . managers provided more · -than 100 urban homesteading. new jobs for· residents. What was

Urban enterprise zone_s are a once a bleak ~d depressed project proposal to give low tax iqcentives h b d for peop· le . to start hqsinesses ·in · as een turne into a ' thriving community. · depressed areas. 'fhe government · Once again, we see the failure of wilJ provide more jncentives for liberal policieS: The liberals who people io . open · up stores in have long called themselves the economically underdevelopment . champion~ of the . poor have spent areas. This will · help bring. bimons of dolhrrs, worsened. the economic growt]J. and opportunhy to conditions of the poor and trapped

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When Kemp became Secretary <of , and filth. Tht! conservatives are_ now HUD he immediately shortened ~ the . ones c:reating .irtnovati ve HUD's long process for evicting.· > · propo.sals to . give the poor- po:wer,

-drug dealers from public housing. opportunity and pride. It is a cl_ear \ .. Instead of waiting six months just to choice between empowerment and ·get-~o court, ~e cases can aow go entrapment. · · -

· straigHt to court and drug deal¢rs can -be evicted much more quickly. Many people who .live in publi~ · housing have told Kemp that if he can get the drug dealers out they can

·take_ .care of the rest. 'f,Naturatly, the ACLU and other liberals . have ~

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by Alexa-nder Arevalo ··. The -statu~ of Eas~ Gerinany.has

changed. over the past year. . There . - has been the flight of East Germans, .,... through . the- othef',,w arsaw Pact ·

. 90untries; to WestGermany. There were--the m'assive· demonstrations

. when East Germap.y clo,sed off .its borders to · Czechoslovakia and

· Hungary. Finally, there w&s . the removal of Erich Honecker as

. · Comm·unist Party chief. This· has · lead .. to a state of confusion and · disarray. in a land .iliat 'has. not been kilown ·for· unrest and turmoil over ·

...,__ the last ~everal decades. · · The ·action started in May when

\ ,Past- Germans · ~tarted to' move to ·,. ·'.West Germanym one oftwo ways. ·

They would either stop in the West german ernpassy in Prague and 3$k for asylum, or they would go. across Huri~ary into,Austria and eventually end up ~n ·WestGermaily. Ac.cording

. to Newsday , "more th'ln 52,000 have fled West. " . ,

. This obviously pu~ the East Germans in a bad spotlight. · East Bloc countries are expecied to-have

. some immigration . due · to the - repression of freedom of speech, of

religion, and other liberties that all should possess. However~ 52,000 in .

. five months is, without· a doubt, an enormous - amount of people to leave. If /they were to conti~ue to leave at that rate, East Germany would be depleted of all its citizens wiihin a decade. Thus, the Honecker government did th.e only thing that a

..7 Communist country would do: attempt to stop the-exodus.

. . .· This . _placed ·· Party . Leader __ -: . ~ Hon~ker in a pickle .. · He had. been··.

seriously ill_ ,ov:er ·the summer, .so · .much so that he was . near death . With thy ·. mass exod~~s • . t.~e .. de_monstrations, and his .age, -. 71, _

' · there was little doubt a ch~ge had to .· be made_. .There were, rumors _that · . Soviet le':lder ·Mikhail Gorbachev ·

- wanted. the conflicts to be solved before he arrived in East .Berlin . They ~eren't, ·and he placed pressure· on· the East German · PolitbUro to oust Honecker. True or not, on October 18, during' a meeting of the

. East German Politburo, Honecker .. ' was forced to resign -his position;

. In his place, Eron Krenz" was ·- · installed as the number one man. . ·

-~ He . is considered by The New York ··: . . Times to be a hard-liner espousing neo-stali{\ism. But to the contrary, ··.

. he . indicated that new travel regulations would soon be enacted · making it easier . for ~ the East.

· Germans to travel abroad. Though he lVants to be know~ for a to~gh stance, he knows that he wbuld be. the big loser if :demonstrations ~ere · ' to continue and expand like ·his predecessor allowed. , · .

The Bus)J Administration, which · · . has remained quiet on this situation,

· spoke up a notch recently. They.are applauding the events of the last few · ·· · months. The President who referred · to the situation as . a "change that is -too inexorable, " Is currently · reviewing U.S. policy 'to East

" Germany, and at the same time, _ adjusting. it to supporL ,the ;:.

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What he did .was to seal off the flolllishing democracy movement. borde.r to Czechoslovakia. This was Events are changing day by day significan~ because that was the .only for those in power, as well. as the · country an East German could visit ordinary man or woman on the street without' a visa. At . the timef there .. in the German Democratic Republic. ' ' were ·tho_usands of East Germans in It ·appears that the only people

· ' Prague, hoping ' to ,. go io ·West · . leaving at this moment are doing so ·G(frmany, _who were Jearful 9f · illegally. · However, .the reprisal if they _were forced to go . demonstrations have · continued~ ·· back. .After anxiously awaiting, the increasing in size and intensity since ·

·East German government' announced the one that' occurred pn Octob~r 16. they could , go to the West. The demons-trations of ·October 23

. However, future attempts .to leave . exploded to 300,000 marchers would not be allowed .. ~ through Leipzig, with sizable

This enchanted the East Germans numbers of people in other partS of ' who remained in· the country. They the country. Meanwhile Krenz, started organiZing demonstratioqs for elected as both party and state leader, the · purpo~~ of allowing . their though for the first time not brethren .to . d~cide ,whether they unanimously; is trying to. solidify wanted to leave . or not. The his-base of power . . Krenz may have demonstrations were small at first, been able to tum down ·the flame on-but quickly increased in size. The · the stove, but 'the water is still

. one on October 16, 1989~ con~isted . boiling. of 120,000 people itho marched However, tb.e events of the through the str~ets of Leipzig. They .. / summer and early fall are bound to _chanted slogans such as "We a;re the. - . flame up again. The best situation ~eople!" and "Democracy. Now or ~ would be for Krenz to allow _som_e · Never!'' " In a demonstration that · immigration to West Germany. At · occurred about the same time in East . . the same time, he should implement

. Berlin; . a' man ~as shouting ifOr more reform, like Poland, to appease ·freedom of organi.zation, free · · the citizens of East Germany. The elections-, opposition· access to the U.S. could help by tying reform to~ press, and a public . de bat~ on the · monetary aid. Krenz may oppose Communjst's . re-gime past. This · liberalization, but he. may have no

· · statement brought .about shod~, choice. It's time for East Germany although. soon after a. vocif~rous · to have ·. a breath of. fresh ·air and · cheer came _from the crowd. experience the .real world.

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by Richard Cafr:' :· . _ Standing, out among the sl$dard less.' unified an.ti-war coalitioii than . Elliot Mask~ o(the class of '72; ' ·

fare of --bland and syrupy sweet . · those ·outside of"the movement Saw. saw t~e _ anti.-war activism as· a • seminars. and lectures offered by the- . fie said that tlie . m.e,mbers of the · · -. · · ; · · university during Parents' Weeke~d. · panyl agreed-that the war should stQp "con¥ergence.ofpQlitics.and fes~val" . "American lnvolvement in South- . bu(the "why" of it was a -diffe:cent and in mafiy respects he interpreted east Asia: Reflections/fwenty Years , "'<. m·atter. Mr~ Werh did. not share ·· his skill's ~d those of the .other Later," offered a fascinating glimpse - 'inost of the goals that Mr. Gellert student leaders .. as . tl!ose of into a bygone era. Fonner SUNY-:· . ·strived to obtain. . .· "managing a good· rock concert. i• He Binghamton anti-Vietnam . V{ar . . :;.- '.· Mr. Wetb also strongly -disagreed ·._: .. argued that _.mucb 'of the work of -activists . returned to· .the , Southern ~. . with Mr. Gellert's assertion that as a , many of 'the student leaders was , " . Tier to reflect on their actions of , . result of the anti:-w~ movement; the ·.· . "t_heater .... H~ W.so asserted · that irt

- nearly two decades ago. The 'panel, : -_ ~' II axis 0f discussion -has ' moved . ' . many ways if YO '!:I were able to composed of eight for~et student . . · · ~onsiderably to the Left,'~, ·Mr. Werb . ,_, . gather large numbers of people . leaders .from .the late 60'~ and early _. argued that the U.S.'is ')much more - · together you could "claim~ political 70's, and' tlfe moderator, former conservative ' today .... in ' ·mariy power that you did or <Ud riot'have." Harpur College ne·an,--- Peter .. important respects . tban it ·was · This argument, that m~ny students

· Vukasin,.,.spoke. about the Jessons· . twenty years ago." · He\ ar.gueq~that . as well a:s student ieaders~were not they had learned, and what they''- . '. _the·effects ofth~ movement couJd be '' . motivated 'by the-political, ·concerns .might ttave .done differently dirring ; ,_ s~en most clearly___, in the '6W' of the moyement, ·was denied-by a that turbulent era. 0': , generation. . However, the move- few members ofthe panel and the

, Most of these greying ac.tivists · - ,, ·· ment's ..influence on the federal -audience, although no one rejeeted if have moderated their idealist views - _ government: was much weaker than:-; completely. · .. . . ~d~~ - ~~doo . ~~~ : ~~.~ ~; •. :~Mr~·-~:~G~e~ll~M~h~~~-~- ~~~- ~---~~·-~-~~0-oo.-.m~e•m•b•e-r~. o~_ f·· ·th~e • .• ~~d•i•e•oc•e•,-~ : endeavors. - However .there was_ one : · _, • graduate ~ ho bucked this trend. Peter< Gellert, in ember of the class _of ·, 19.71 and currently . a tenan~ . organi?-er, extolled the accomplish- .··

. ments of the anti-war movement. ' . He proclaim'ed ~ the he ·was II very,, ' very .proud" of the results of the movement, especially the renamjng · of Saigon to Ho Chi Mihn City. However, ·Mr. Gellert neglected to . .mention whettier or not he was . "very, very proud" of North .. Vietnam's brutal occupation of · · ~ South Vietnam, Cambodia and· Laos . · since its achievement of "i.ndeperide.aGe~:. Jn L915," thanks·iifl. u,:...

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who .was 'anothe; SlJNy -B anti~waf.' - · activist sharply 4i~agreed with ~e ·,

. asseitiop rn~de b}'tii~ mpderator:that': the reaso~ why . the campus did no,t , . "blow up" ljk:e many other ca:mpu~s .. was due to the resp,ohsible·leade:r;:shlp ' I· of the· rilem~rs of the panel. , :ae . argued that. the s.iudent movement ' 'was so .. ~trong and': tbat' the swv~,· adrilinistratim1 "so capdy assed~ . thati. every .. titne push canie::to.sliove, they',_' fell .· over.~' · He · said ~e ~dn1ini:- . · sttation capitulated ·to nearly all (Jf. -·stij(}.eni . demands~·· .no matter ~hew • ··· .. friv<)i~nis they may have been . . WI}9, ;' says $at today is:hny different from~·-·. the .60's? · .. , · :.' <. ·

' ·It is · certaiilly:··'unfortunate~}th·a:t · · this :event was not_be.uer publioi.ze(f bec;:u~1)e it gave~:--a ··Qlore realistic .. -:·

-char~~terization · .. ·of. a too of.t~n . · romanticized movement. The 'real : . anti-war movement .and itS student. .

_ leadership was }if~ . with v~1a~tiity, ... and·intemal diviSiveness~ · · ..

. Mtich ha·s ch~gea in the-:past · two decades, and the views of most .. , of the . pa~lists . ·- have iikewise. eyolved. . Although the majority ·of ~e ·member of the: ,panels are still · · r!lthet liberal, only: cine member; Mr. Gellert remains politically petrified · with his antiquated views of 20 . years ago. Mr. Gellert said that he 'did_ not then and does not -now : believe the revolution is aroun(l the co:tnet but he asserted that "wha't I did. thinlc then and do think now, is

. that this country 'needs a revolution;" Fortunately-most Americans oo nor favor an · ideology of th.e lunatiC · 'fringe or the totalitarian nightJ;Dares whiCh · Mr. Gellert so prou,dly . defends.

Mr. Gellert also asserted that as a . consequence ofJhe war, a perrrtarient chasm has emerged between the u.s. government apd the ·citi~ens of the.

~ United ,States. ·For the first ti'me; ,'ir==~r========:;::::;:==;::::;:~:===!:::;~===:::;:;=::::;:::==;==;=====;"'===:===~,. =;=, =. =='====;::::;==-;==;=:::;:=:::::::::====~=====:::f:::==-. ·· Mr. Gellert -~serted that "hundreds of · ' · thousands, perhaps even millions,

recognized that their main enemy was_ not · communism, was riot the

· \ Vietcon-g, hut was · rather Washington D.C .. "

Mr. Gelleds opinions· did not meet with the appr,oval o( the other .

. mem hers of the panel, although a . few 'members or · the ·sparse,ly ' populate4. au(Jie~ce in Lecture· Hail · · Two applauded his views-. . The · . former student who . disagreed with · Mr. · Gelleri"s comments I most · veh~mently was Mitchell Pearlstein, the main organizer of the reunion,, and fountling pres{dent . or' a . conservative think tank .

· Miimesota-. , · ··-. Alt.bough Mr. Pearlstein .does

'~ not repudiate his -opposition tO the . Vietnam .. War, there were certain~

. tacti~s which b_e wish he had not . used. He asserted that the rejection -: : of symbols, .such as the American :.·' Flag and the 'Statue of Liberty~ w'as ·::

- most unfortunate. ·He -illustrated the : · . irony of ~tQis point by comparing the :: use of.these. symbol~, which the :_~, anti-war protestor~ , saw as .~ "irrelevant," with thei~ use aS~itlie· . ·symbols of_ freedom and democracy' .

. by the courageous Chinese"~tqdents . last spring·before they'wer.e crushed, by the :repressive " Communist · regime. ·' · · . _ ~ ~ . : . .

-· Mr,; Pearlstein· was ·riot the'-only:,;. · member of the panel to disagree with_.:-·· . ·Mr. Gellen: . ·Stan Werb, from u•t:_"i§i,) IE

class of'72, said .thai the ·mrun- thing ~. · · he rerife·inbe:r$- rtrost · .clearlx U: i~ ;;~ arguing .. with

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· .- In fact; they We_re,havil']g-a harml_ess-. pr~yer rreeti_ng iri their b\Yf"J home whert M~rxi$t ,sandinista "t.roop~ ~ame: to .tf:i~· · . house' loo~ing_ for Contras; that is, .. free<:i_o_mfighters.· .. ·_ · __ ·-'l·- . . - ..• -,. :\~-- -. .. · -. -r,- .-

. .-'\~J~en -the sbtdi:e·rs reaUz·ed.thata 'religfou~ serVrce ~a.S in progress,. the;y ord.e·red. ~ -· .. ; the·group to stop-and ~di~perse. .·. - · · · .· - · . · ·

--~-~ Out' o(~onviction . and. f~ar, the gro~p refused to obey and co-ntinued praying. So, . · th-.e~ so;ldi-ers m-achine gu'n·ned the 'hou.~_e and tqssed in a' gre:nad~~ . ',.·_, -._ ', .. " . . .. Sevefi' died and ~ihree were wounded. Mantia receiv.ed two bui'lets in her- arm. :. · H~~r -broth~r. ~Q~e, was.!)ot--as fortunate. ~Je di~d. of bullet wou·nd~ tqth~··faoe. . . ·­

. :::;<-Driven ·tratN ·their home, ·Maiitza and her .mother fled to Hond~ras as -reJug·ees. ,:;·: Why, ,yot);;·a:sk, .would someone shoot-a;Jittle ~irl and-.oth~r innocent women and -

cbild_ren wh!Je they were _priy_if}g.T -- ~-- '· _ . _-·_ . . ·.. ·. .- ~ . . -: · ·.. . . . . ·:>, · . ::··,~whil:e ~u·s: .. ~ardtb- belle~e, this~scene·-is ·r~p·eated every.dayin -~arxi-st \coun;trie:s- .. y~f~ere .hom~_~·prayer me.etings-_'are .considered - cownter~revol'tJtionar}'·_ by .th€Hr , ·.-.: ,. .

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---A~~r yciu - do.;~·it .wiJt .becn-tne :.eviefentthat the . M~'txi·sts· in-· Nicarag:ua .. are-fo:l.towi.ng --in - :~ · the footste·p~;;qf:their ·comrades;and ·mentors h., q·uba .and the Soviet Union~ ·- - ,;

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. never forget. The last , days of the . . judgement, pot available to those . big war lri 1945, 1 remember-most . . whom I am irielined to consider- as ; vividly: standing with my back to ,a I ·handicapped by the-lack of---tragic ·wall; with hand-s ·raised; and staring experience. ·It is this handicap which·· . at the muzzle of a machine gun', held leaves them with no inhibitions to ~y a ·grim SS-rrian .in a black , advocate - ~heir elitist . designs, uniform.- That.wasin Pilsen; my· contemptuous of·deniocracy i:nq. of ·

·native Czechoslovak town, to be comfu-o_n mari... And, . not I fiberated the next day afteJi' six years ·~ . . infreque.ntly' _ of" .comlnon sense. of Nazi oc-cupation by . the Hence, ·accord!pg to one of my

- Americans . . Gen. George Patton . faculty colleagues, a professor -of 'arrived; ;Germans fled; J was not . philosophy', the only· correspondent shot. '· What a l!lemorable time for a from the univ~rSity to the only daily .

· .youngster, barely a tyenager: - · in our town,' the A.mericaris shotJld However, soon the liberators left . . apologize to the -Soviets· for their

and the coUntry ~am(1squeezedJnto _ shooting down .~e Korean airliner~ . a red straitjack~twithhammers and 'None· -of m-y. , American--born .

I . -sickles. 'The 'Iron Ctif>!:ailil deseended colleagues, soli.d ' democrats, ever· . . on Europe an_d we started tO suffocate . . bother to respond to this and a 'host . facing· .a new and more ·perll_lanent · - of similat·outrages.·. I did speak:·up, . ~ enemy--th.e totalitarian state·,_ taking . e·arning . the : philosopher's .

charge. of our lives. I planoed to ' contemptuous dismissal of not being study - literattire;:~.'Pld the Big' .BrotJier ' ~an Amedc~n, but merely ' an

-·.· sent me to a· Taw . schooL After "American,". an inferior breed in . · graduatio~ I V{ished to become a · inverted comfu~. · -

counsel for-defense (the little theie .· ~·we -are better Atnericans -than . was· left .of it) and instead was --...,· · · · · · you--we had, to earn it, we even had

assigned to a jgdicial bench to serve -~o" risk our fives to. get here, but "1(j/re/:r: sa z0 my, gfory, the ?/':,:~~~~~·;,:.~;~n;?'~ectul, . your only merit is your tuck or and thoroughly miserable, I felt .in . -having been born hete," -utters a ""'-ram_ '~ {ive.-d_ 0_ ut_- _m_ y· p' at.,·.n. my unW.anted., role wl)ich .J.. was . ~ero in my __ novel on his way t<f~e -' '(! . .. detet!llined to quit, to defy the Big n_aturalization ceremony· · . ,

. f fi . . fi. Brother for good. It took four years '. i was natur-alized~ two decades I stooc( my grounu, bn . oreian s ' _ore, . of plann1Q.g,; surre,ptitious . self- . . ago. Incessant critical-dissections of . - "0 education in English, and the luck to- .matters American have :become a

In Sunsli;n~ -Or·. t~n- -rat·n· _. . illegally escape from _ the country favorite pasti~e of the natives. I, . ,.. ' I - • :und.er '. :rather . interesting . - .. . tao, do take part, but a criticahvays .

· · · · . circumstances. I reached the West . turns iQ.to' ,a ~rotective mothez: h~n, . - ... · · . - · . ' · feathers standing,. when encollntenng ,. ~~~L~'-i:W~'%"~~~~~:t-~~iis~~~:·}~~:.,.~:~_-;,'.,~,..:<~ '- ~'"~= , ... ~ ~~~~~~~~'L~;tirWh~~: -1i~~ffi~~-.L~,;",~ '-£7"-~..what il~c~nsid~~- iinf~~udgementsr'"~~ ·

-.. c-:c. J·~m"'·tlie:· -p-·routfsy' mB·o{·"~y- out- coUntry· I . '-~ation . .- \preferred to share my outra=~ ~~~~-;~:a~hanged in _ _ _ _. _ . v J _ . · liberation - or go~d. . academia--and not only in academia.:.-

ri · .£E. . fi /i /Q . · . Freedom ·IS bhss .but also a _ · . · -n1 e pr" e -your at e· <rc n_ eW _ b d . f . 'bTt t . . , to the bet-ter . . Whereas m the peak . .L I . . . ,.. . . . ' .::1. , . . - ur_ efn o rei~PQ?Skll III Y . oedr ones period o.f the Vietnam war' my . , _ _ . .., .. . _ _ " own ate, a& qmc y . earn _ upon - · · d t · b th · f _· ['{{ sta·ni· be£ore y-ou< a{w_ ·, cl11SI' '. ; _my . -arri.val . ·. to. · __ New Y?r~~ - . ' ;~~!tt~:~m~in~rit;, t~~e ?'~Oti~; . .. _. _ ;} ' _ . _ _ ; - ::1' _ - . IJ.na~custom~d to self decision , generation of today I face . m . the /:. • : • . . - ' .· J - -t: • . r • • . f . c. r. . . - '• ~. . making and no state burea~cracy to . classroom has far more rappo!i with s n:tntna r_e·u,, Wntte, an,u CJ t,..Ue ·order m.e ~hat to do. Iagomzed .oyer my, set;'and_ understanding ?f values . . "0 " - the chmce among equally promtsmg 1 than with the advocates of Ideas and

"> ~( _ and_ ~jsc?:uragin~ altemati~e~. .ideol9gies increaSingly discredite4:

%ey want tv takJ antf6u11! ~me, Vefa-ce f!U: · in 'your sfgf!t .

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· . scholarship, l went back to school, . hear. · .,_ · · · made a living as a waiter, obtained a "By the -veiy-fact of hAving said Ph.D. degree-..:at Columbia in three this with impunity, you answered

- years, .went into ieachllig and became the question : .a~d proved ··~your' a naturalized U.S. citize.n, just as did foolishness," I -retort, -adding ·_'ihat my Swiss-Chinese wife. . "had 'you ever 'dared to utte£. such .

Where else in the world could a , words · in the Soviet · Union, - in newcomer .be actepted as a university . · CzeChoslovakia and a host of other professor .in s:uch a short time?- ' . countries·. you would h~ve been put Nonetheless, this intellectual setting behind bars--probably, and expelled

. provides individuals- with a measure · · from- all 'institutions of higher of disa,ppointment.and- frustration. . learning· in the country--s-urely." · We simpl'y cannot stomach the Even if l were unable to unpeel '

· contempt for ~merican dem~cra~c -t~e inverte~ com.mas _-frot? my · ~ value·s . expre~sed · by .rtumerous ea:gerly acqurred Qationalidentity, no

· ·American · academics, the ·very commas, ·no stigmas, can '· be 'beneficiaiies of the privileged way of appende'd to . our son, a native .

I : Jife. they judge on. the ·basis of their American of Czech-Swiss-Chinese performance, · whereas . the non- · ancestry: He is-just in the. age I was democratic~ totalitarian systems they when 'facing an SS-man on the last judge on the ba.sis ·of tll:'eir alleged ~ day of:the .- war: His views- of ·the

- Ideas. ·promises. Repeated failures. .world and apprecllition of .democracy, ·wrongs, statistics about mountains - which ~e do·es not take for granted,

_ of cqq)ses are nQt suffi~iertt evidence, . is b~sed ·on the appreci~tion related - -. · to niove our academic ideologues. - _· -to him by his parents.

" In every case of the postwar --. . And aU. this has been made hist ory,_ time has · proven· 'them possiBle ._ by this· i:mp.erfect,' •

'.wrong. To my· bri~ging up -these -extravagantly, even infuriatingly · · c:rys~1 clear facts of life, they retort tolerant Ametica. Used, misused, that I am biased . bec.ause of my. abused. Yet America, our home, we background. had the luck to choose.

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';J\fifl, tlieRussians ,'Stayed ~:·by' Matlhew~:·.;·Car{ . .

. . _, · .·!'The ComMittees for the Defense =:·of.. the · Rev'olut'ion ... enable -- the - · ' Ministry of tiie·::fnt~rior . to . watch·

~: au 'rrwvements~:;·chec:k all ·visitors, -:: monitor all .. ·sensitive comlmiri..: : .. ~ lc'a~_ion _· .(pru:,t{cqlarly · opl~ions

... · expressed on '{ioliiical: is$ues); track, ·: .reception .of · foreign radio _broad­

easts; and evep_: record conspicuous­.. cohs~mption.'-'< .\:+ .. ' .. > .. : _. . · .... B1g Brotherts ai1ve·and well; .he

· ;:iules Cuba; ) lis · . :Q.~me~ i~ ·.fidel · C3$tro. And "Fhe'Russians Stayed ·b-y . N¢~tor T. Cm:bon~ll chronicles tPe · t:ragjc . story of the · enslavement of · the 'Cuban people·· ~y Castto, and h·is ·

. ··6~farious ideology~ · CI,iba~ a islaJld· ·: ·· ·. ~EJffimense n~tyt~ -b~t!tY andlip~e. · ·

:· . t6 -~ a _ free. spirited ;pebp~e., lias Been. ~ .,~'qai;sformed by·Jtre :noiscime·\vinos · · '·· j)f~io~litariani~fii~ J:n'to a. Suiliriist . ,. ba~tiqn in an · ei~ 'o.f reform .in the ·

Today. ' Mt. Carbonell~ with the . . skill Qf ~ , surge~m. carefully and methodic-ally -dissects an~ expo~es .. many · of .the ':'auilted ·gains of the FevoJutipri'_ as · .. nothing more .. than · ·

· outrageous lies. For. · example, · ... Communists and their useful idiots ·(some right ·here :on campusY claim· ,

.< that the revolution has ·br.ought universal liter-acy to Cuba. What they will · neglect to mention is that Cuba was -ai,ready among the ·. most'

·, literate nations on-·the~ earth ~t the time of the .. revolution. He takes his scalper to marif.:. areas - including ho.usin.g (a· sever~ .shortage),' health cru:e, sports, suiCide, class structure

. (highly -stratif1.ect' &nd very rigid)," . hum~n rights, ~~pnomlc well be!ng

. -~ (p~r capita jncoine has drop from ' third: place in -1952 to -fifteenth p!ac,e·among Latin America.) . - ,_ The Soviet-Cuban alliance 'is 3Iso ·

; :E;~t. and a demodratic r~swgence in ·-~· th({restofthe - wbrid. ~,: . · .. , ... -."~·-:

dj,s~qss~d i~. the l~ght of gargantuan ;:-. 'l •• ·i

. · :- · • .. ') Fhe author b~gins htfstOcy as .a J :~ ' painter .Prepare~-·-.ihe e~*«ss _9f;iii~·· ~ ·

.. mas.terpiece by<_~stabllii$h}ng~!ttie•'') · .. :f.Gpd~entals of::'tile: Cu~afi ~Siga;"ihe :.cu~an People:;-- Castro, and

: :CompellingcGeo§oaphy; In ·succeed- ·~ .. · _ing~, c~aptt}ts:'fi:~~e·, -~d.4s . ·cot~( ·a~.d:~.:

te,c.ture . to· J:J-iSi•work, .. with~,;broad •. - sttokes of hi,si£.Jb< \Yliich pf~)lid~(~ . the baclcgroul1fl ,\1 an(3;,':j~e fine;J!e~l .. 1• (of .personal a~couni{o'f the~Cubari '''·

people. The work is concluded with · -··an· analysis ·of c_pntemporary Cuba, · the Cuban-Ame:dcan experiince in eXile: and hopes ·foithe. future. . · · Mr. ~Carbonell 'Wrfting' style-is entrancing anp -enti~ing.)ike ·&-.fFesh . sea breeze on·ahot'summer:day'. He -~ .scintillates · the rea~er with his . command of th~ Englisl:\ language and his choice of words. The reader .i~ . earned off to ·cuba_ to experiyrice. ,a:ll .thaf has ·ttanspired · in . the last , . . ·· c~ntury :, This~ c;·om.bination_ of ~ historical ·narrative and personal .

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anecdotes proviq~ .. a , pleasantly\· humanizing -alternative to the booRs w~ich reco~mt··the t!.ag~dies of . human . stupid~ty with ·· (,ln over reliance on statistics and figures: :. ,

Perhaps the most p9ignant · section in the-book is· his .account of the" failed Bag <)( ·Pigs invasion ~y

.. Cuban deniQci:ats ·ana patriots. Even . though Mt. ,_. C~tbdnell seems , to . exonerate :~ tile K,enhedy Admini- . stration for much .. ef the .failure of the :operat!ori;.' one~. c~n~ot help but feel betrayed by a President ·who so

.· staunc]lly support West Berlin, -both rhetorica:Ily_ and ·.militarily, while allowing Cuban ,patriots to

· be slaughtered by Castfo's army. This event has thus 'far proven to be the· nadir 'in th~ United? S~ates ~ ~upport ~or , 9emoGracy in the Americas. 'As .• the author also pointed. out, ~t · ~as t~e Kennedy Admit:t~stration which guaranteed Castr(?'s safety l).y 'preventing Cuban_ emigres· ;. (r.om . organizing and . carrying, out ' a . -democratic

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w ·hen the . author 'recounts . tfie death or the .. :repubhc in 1961 py the

. imposition ., of .. the ·Communist · dfctatorship·, ·he , makes:. it ~ plainiy' ·, c~ear that mal}y opposed the .comip.g .the first: Latin American t0tali- . · tarian regime. The Bati~ta 'reglrp.e was an aberration ;' and it was' the Cuban democrats_ who actively . opposed it and dema"ad . the

' restoration . of rhe . progre:ss1ve Constitution of 1940. - ·,,._

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· eco'nomic·-.and .'milit~y ~aid which helps to . maint~in the- Castro dictatorship . in - return . for the transforll)ing Cuban into a heavily armed . unsinkable Soviet<" aircraft · carrier. The Soviet Union pours . $16-$18 millions ·a day irit6 Cuba in

,, . \ . . · ·the form of massjve subsidies for

sugar (bought by the Soviet Union at four times . the world market . price).,. oi~ and natural gas (provided by the Soviet Union . for .. resale onto .the world market), · and military . weaponry. 'Fht(_ dichotomy between . a reformist ' Gorb:ache¥ and : his policies ·Of Glasnost and Perestroika . are juxta,po-sed to' Castro's own viiulerit form of neo-Stalinism.

The f~a1 chap!e1 is ad<;lr~ss¢d }O · the future. Mr:"'Carbonell calls on

America to wake,up, stand. up, an& . help put an end, to' the dicta~orship and ·~the human rights violations: terror-_and fear ~rule Cuba .now,

.. hmv,ev~~r~ ,. th_e . author expressed his hope.:'that futtJre g~nerations maybe able to ;return 'tb '-a liberated Cuba, fr~e _f-rom ;. benighted forces . wh~ch ovcupy: it . now,i Jose Manuel' Cortina; the , ·auth.or's maternal ·grandfather, put it best. · "C.ub.a will be the first Soviet satellite to ~nse · and roll back the Iron Cmtffin·. · And

- \~.- virldicate .the bono~ -of .the republic tar~i'shed by those who· . today serve as,. legionnaires for Marxism~Leninisri ; the Cuban

' leaders who ,.emerge will tour the · . world as . champions of d.em6cracy - / and missionaries of freedom. Never

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''!Vhen,l oppose disinveStment as an option ... : I receive · ·mass applause (in the Black community)fot doing so .. ; . Th.pse who call for disinvestment do so in dire'ot opposition to Black sen~jment in Sout.hAfrica .. · . . . . . .. . . .

."Enlightened investnieniin South Africa strl}ng(hens the· · . forces working for change._ .. Blacks are ~o.w ga_thering ·a ·

: bargainingppwer they never had bt;fore and their bargaining ... \ power will be enh~nced-~y tapid econ01p.ic grow!h, which . increases White ,dependenc;y on. J3lac_ks. ·~

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Collegv students across ' the .. country often. wonder . about li{e

·.after graduation. · When it's 'time to ·· put aside thoughts of fiQals and keg

· parties and face , the dreaded "real world;" all of us will be hoping to iimd ~atperfect job. But if present national tr(fnds continue; starting a

·career iri the ·1990's may not be all mat 'easy ~ The reason: . diminishing supplies of electticity could ha.Im the economy and, adversely affect

. employnie~t~ ' :'-Ainerica's growing appetite for _

electricity ·- .~iinply cannot. .be satisfied with current supplies.

. While · our - consumption of · ¢lectricity is expected to soar by more/ than 40 i>ercent by the -year . · ·iooo, construction of new electric · ·

·· powerplaBts is_ata_15-year low. In New Engla;td· alone·, electricity demand since :1984 has risen 3.0

. percent while --g-enerating .capaCity has increas~ by, only 10 per~ent. .. U~ilities . across the country' are ~- ..

· already reaching demand'levels that .·. were not projected until the mid­l990's, ·and . the. entire East Coast's ·: "~

., .. ' cushion of electtical teseive ... ~·:' "capacity_ is now below what expertS' .'

. ·· .~cons-~er:: a · saf~ "·level to ,prevent . · -• brownouts.- · ... , .

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SHO . Enviromriental concerns ·about . - ~ ~- THE ~~- ·· E ~!~~:i~E !~~~£~: _· __ ·_ •. .·. _ · _ _· -.. _ _· _· , _._·_ .-_·-"·_·_.• •.. -and oil. While new "clean-coal j,_

technologies ·will alleviate much . of · the concern over, sulfur-dioxide . emissions. a rriajor contributo~ to

1. -. 1. 1. . . E ;acid rain, they remain expensive, and . ·_~ . '.·-.. ,·... . . -:. . . political realitie~ dictate that we pursue-other energy avenues. An increased · use. of g&s· seems unwise since adequate suppiy is a question, ·and it w~mfd b~ ctac'k-:-brained to

· increase our alrea~y dangerous ­~ependence on foreign oil. Oil . .­

. , imports now compromise almQst. · 45.% of the trade defiCit and .could

· . co~.t .$100 billion _;1nnuaUy 'by the . year, 2000. Nudear ··power is ·oiir .C

best solution~ · - · ...... ~esently. nucl~ar" power is· the . secortd .· ·'largesi , .. ·. supplier ... of < •

· --. el~tricity after.-coal, accounting for ··~ · .. ·almost 2()% .o( our tot31 capacity . . -.

.,-~ ·:While _so~e ·are concerned about its safe :Use; nuclear power, with .over 1,3_00 reactor.;years of exp.erieace in the United State.s. · has an unparallele~ : r~cord of safety.• '_ In nearly thirty: years of operation; not a . single 'injury . or .' death .. fr~m .

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~· _CfJnstructiTJ:g plants nQw .. '.'

. . To think f:bis doesn't affect jobs and state economies- is absurd .

. Whife the summer brownouts in Boston made national headlines, few people· heard .about the Greater.· ·Boston Chamber of Commerce

- estimate that the §tate's electridty ·supply problems cost ·Massachusetts industries almost ' $100 milliGri .. in lo'st revenues. A

' I . recent report about ·the Midwest is even more alarming._ It is. estimated­

- as a result of inadequate , electrical -. supply, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio · will lose a total .of almost $14 -billion in business profits and more t han orie and a .half million jobs in · the 1990's. If good jobs are rare

·today ; they may be even more;scarcb by the time incoming freshrri_en t

. begirt their hunt. '· The r~al question, therefore~ ,is .. ,. , . not . whether . we n-eed more· ·

electricity,- but rather what kind of . ·· \,

'power plants we should build. Currently, our· electricity is largely generated from oil, coal, nat:uiW gas,

· and nuclear sources, with ·renewable forms · of energy· (wind, solir, 4ydro) making up · a small percentage. ;..; According ·to_ most ·

. experts. any solution to the coming ' ~lectric_ity crunch must rely on oil, coal, gas, or nuclear sources since renewable energy technologies wiil not . be capaqle . of delivering . sufficient juice for many years to come • .

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radiation has been found among the public or utility employees. Even . after the accident at Three Mile Island in 1979, federal and state agency· ·sponsored _health studies

. conflimed this p~rfect safety record. . And ~a~ even safer generati9n clf

nuclear _power plants is ., on the -horizon. ·. ··

In addition lo its impeccable safety record, nuclear pow~r is a friend of the earth and. its wildlife . . - ~ . . ' ~Nticle~ plants do fiot spew out.· · smoke,- soot, . sulfur fumes, or air

· .. pollution of any tyPe. Even the · minimal amount · of ·-high-level

· · waste is being managed safely and . · · effec;tively by federal agencies with

strict regulations. , _·Power plan~s ·are not .built overnight. If our nation is to ensur~ adequate electrical supplies for the- '

. coming decades, we must begin • licensing and const;ructing nuclear .

p·ower plants now. ~u we .fail to · meet our electrical demand, many of ' · us will hav,e ample time -to

reminisce about our College days as we stand in the unemploymentline.

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·By Matthe.w GfHr7 _, ..... · :: "·:·· . • . On a rainy Binghamton evening .

- :hist Saturday; fifty or so dediCated · .Bioome ·county and SUNY-B . peacenik~- co~ver~ed i_n .on~ (:).f the ~ . .larger Science I classrooms. They were there . to · hear one of fue high ·

-.priests of their movemeJit~ the .right · ReverenQ William Sloane C0fqn. ·

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understand that _Mr. Gorbaehev is ;riot undertaking Perestroika lor his health or hum().nitarian reas0ns. '

As he entered the room, Mr. Coffi~"' was flanked by ·none other ~ than Estelle Diamond, the ex­Broome County~ legislator; ·who _ misrepresented 'the campus and some '

?"of the surrounding· community · of . Vestal. Among her illustrious deeds, __ she attemp~ed· to get _the

' legislature ·to . dec~are Broome County a "Nucl~ar .Free Zone;" Linda Forcey, chair of the Peace Studies program, a mishm().sh of various disciplines and . utopian c,lreanis, introduced Mr. Coffin~ ·

With a long background .in various ministries . at . Yale.· University apd th~ Riverside· Church in Manhattilfl, Mr. Coffi_n came

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off as · the quintes·sential ' liberal . mainline protestant minister. He made occasional reference to th~ Bible, to illustrate -his opinions, :and annunciated ~he·, ~­standard litany of ·. the ratper._ · ~ nebulous tenets of · social and . economic justice. Mr. Coffin boasts -:·: a long history of supporting caus.es as diverse as civil rights -for minorities to giving last rites· to a central committee member of the

' Communist Party;USA. . . The event was. billed as a dialogue

with Mr. Coffin ~md it was just that· except for: -some rather lengthy "· response which ate up a _considetable amount of time. The questi9ns ranged from econom_ic conversion, . to the environment, to Gorbacbev; to · tactics.· Interestingly enou.gh, . even . though Mr. Coffin is the President of SANE,(FREEZE, · a cbnglomeratloH ·of _anti-nuclear

· disan:nament gr~!Jps, there _w~ very _· ·little · discl!lssion about r.:uclear · weapons or for that ·matter a call foi: freez~ng .them. ·

Obvioqsly, . the world. ~i:.l:-:: _ qramaticaUy {;hanged sine~ the anti· nuclear chic~en Iittles . took cover .. aftet the sky . fell on them i'nJ the .early ~'80's, ·when NATO bravely · res~sted their demagogic attempts to preve-nt the modernization of nuc~ear forces. .. Perhaps the .reason for this silence is ·the fact ··· that during the . r 1980's, {t was a consertative_ RepQblic~. P{esident Reagan who signed th~_ frrst nuclear · ·arms agreement t,hat 'actually " reduced nuclear weapons. His policy of building up 'riuclear arin·s to b.uild them down, eqtbodied in · . the·phrase-"Peace through Str~ngth," , _ was vindicated by the"•INF Treaty~ ' ,. ·' . "

A member of the' audience asked' Mr. Ceffin what _he thought the· United s:tat~s $hou1d <l,o to help· Mr~ . · ,.

. Gorbachey ·and his ~~sti:ucturing of · tJte. Soviet UnjQr\. . Being,--a good --~ Gorbj~phile, he .said that the U.S.

. should : .dQ all it can to help by o(fe#ng. m<;>-st : favori:t.e·-nati_QI!_ -­sta~il~· by· repealing ·.the Jackson-

Perestroika is . Gorbachev's re_spons·e to seventy · years_ of ·• eeoriomic .· mismanagemeot and _ ·foolishness. The crise_s wQichforced Perestroika .cannot be solved by aid

.·. front' the West;· they · ~e s~ctural and sy#emic; Givi~g aid to th~ Soviet Unit>n would be like giving

. :~; ' erack io a crack addict; it's not going · to · get . them . to . gi've up their

addiction . . Mr, Coffin rambled on a while longer on the · topic; btit yve shall move on. · ·

Probably the most reasonable ahd -- interesting proposal he made httd to · do with economic conversion. For . . ·the uninitiated, _this simply,.means · converting/ military industries · into ·. civilian industries. . _Mr. Coffin · ~haracte:rized the miliWY budget ~s

.·a.ii "eco-nomic welfare agency." · This , ~ot~ wjll 'particul:;irly ring true for . sttu:ients who-se p_a:rents .· were I worryi'ng about the layoffs • from ' l::.ink and · Grumman. Economic

.·. ··~·onversion is a, senous topic which ·- requires the att¢ntion of l~w makers

. and . businessmen. It is vitally , important that-the~e decision about . conversion are not made by a band of - ideologues such as Mr. Coffin and his ilk. ~.·

Perhaps the most interesting part ..---- . of Mr. Coffin's dialogue was his .

· 'discusfiion of tactics used by · ·sANE/FREEZE activists. He gave

an example of targeting the rural poor whose concerns are often education and health care.- One _activist was able to persuade . the rural poor outside of Raliegh, North Carolina, ·that nuclear disarmament went hand and hand with education and health care. · This activist w'as able to do this by . first

· showing interest in their . goals _and then injecting the SANE's agenilil. · · It would be -a. lfttle ·naive not to

· qu~stion . whether · qr -not 'this . activist. wasn't just exploiting these ·· people. · . . · .

Mr. Coffin fin!shed this story by . saying t~·at the _·"wisdom of the ·uneducated is matched by the folly_ of the-educ&ted:'-' Ifs a good :quote. .

. After all, anyone who you don't . agree with · - univers~ty faculty, university - administrators, . politicians, writers, and ~everends - . can be put intg , tha~ category.

·.However, if education is such .a waste of time· and.resultS in .the loss .of wisdon:i', why is Mr. Coffin's. · organization going around trying to .·

. educate the already wise_rural poor? -,. The · apl)e-ararice ·of ·william S~oane Coffin was quite a catch for · · the campus aHd it is ~urprising that . mote Student;; pidn:'t take . the opportu:nity to ·come out and 's·ee him; ·Among the missing included most of the campus establishment and the ·campus Left. Mr. Coffin must be too moderate for.them.

. Vapilc Amendment. ·· He based this be.l1ief ·on-.· some · rather weak ·

· ·historiCal :ar.g~ment:s->' .. :· ·: - · ----: · · He ·claimed that reformers come .. ·· '

:. rarely. Well of COUrSe, in the·case'of . the Soviet Union,. the West has only

i pe.rcei:ve4 every new Soviet leader as .. a reformer, ·but this doesn't interest . .­. Mr. ·coffin .. ' . . He doesn't seem- to

October l989

.··. Parent's··Weeke~d· John- Maggio and Paul Schnier

. 'Parents' .weekend is a time when parents jeumey to the scenic campus ofSUNY.Binghamton to spend two

· or three'. days with their children. In . fact, mariy : parents as . well . as students Jook forward (o parents . weekend, when parent and child ate once again reunited. · Afthough_ · students were indeed able to see

. their parents, ' the weeken·d was ·poorly publiGized, inappropriately . scheduled, and full of unfit'

activities . . Who knew about parents' _

weekend? · Most students were shocked · to learn that their ·parents

> were coming ··up to SUNY Binghamton. Whether this was the .fault of an RA; an RD, or · of Cliff himself, ·who knows? The underlying fact is that many of us didn't know and didn't know what to do once our parents arrived.

. Obviously many professors didn~t . ·know, or rather didn't cate as they continued , to administer midterms and colle~t. reports throughout the · "'.

. week following parents' weekend: Thus, many students were left up the proverbi~l .. c,reek ·without _ a paddle. _ · .

What 'the organizing staff forgof is ·that some students. actually want to do well while they attend SUNY ,· · Binghamton, and allowing Parents'

. weekend to occur during a ·crucial 'time in the academic semester was ludicrous. As parents' visit for the , . we·ekend, _they must wonder how students ·can get · by at a top university, not -needing the weekend

for .mid-term preparation: The 1..

midterm problem swelled over ·the entire campus as , st'udents -frimtically trjed tO Study as .ffi.UGh as· possible while still, keeping_ the!,r parents . occupied. }4any of the . programs that · were provided for parents were preposterous ·for this ­event,: leaving students in a greater bind. · · ·

Although the presentations were · Kiven by ~ certain knowledg~able · faculty · members, the t0pics discussed were not at all geared to J

the· interests of parents .. PareRts did -nonravel hundreds of miles to hear

·a lecture on The !rfiddle East Today, .and this was clearly eyident

~ by the low attendance at several of , : the lec tures. In fa'ct ·the most current and eontroversial topic, Fr~m Flags ·to F'ree speech :' The Supreme Court and the . Bill - of Rights, was ca:m;elled (could Ted · B'ell have been behind this?). It would have been . much easier for students if . ther e actually.._ were some more · decent social events which ~parents and st'uderits could atterid, so 'that studenls didn't 'have to resort to dragging their parents to the Oakdale. MalL

Overall, we II)ust admit,. · that parents' weekend was a success as parents and children were able to spend quality time together. But. the credit for that certainly can't be taken by the organizers of Parents' Weekend. Fortunately, even they weren't able to s~rew that up.

.Just Say No by · Andrew Heintz

-, The Binghamton Review_ would _like to· ·than~" the· -administration . fo.f i its sad re:buttal to the . front ·page .. I

' article of our last issue -·entitled, "SUNY-B On Dtu)s·." ·The administration's ·response, which appeare~ . in the October. 5 · edition _of .·Inside · Binghamton, was -an .-. obvio-us attempt _ ·on _ t~e -. part of· the administration·· ·to present an , outiine· of its lame drug policy. Why didn't ·

· ~n- article ~such as this appear i~ an. earlier ·addition of . Inside Bing hamto'n? Maybe the· · administration ju~t · doesp't c·are; ~as -was ~uggested in our article concerning the . · tack of - any serious anti~-drug · policy at SpNY

·_Binghamton. ,, -~ ·· Anyone readin.g .the, SUNY ~:eingham.ton _ . drug . policy as outlined- in Inside Bingham.ton · can

.. easily s-~e that the .policy lacks ·any · sort of sub~.ta~ce. u 'ntil the-. administration sits . down and decides '_ ,_ to formulate . a visible, . strong, ,and- ~ col).erent anti -drug~~­

( ·policy-;, notlling ·_. can be done to .prevent drug abuse at SUNY·-Bftighamt~n . . . { . ...

The current hick of any .serious drug··. policy ,· · lends -·· taci,t approval to the pie~ent ·use :of il!egal , drugs . at ~~UNY-BiJ!gh~rnton.

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