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The Red and Black
Athens, Georgia Thursday, May 7* Volume 88, Number I©2 An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community News 543 1809 Advertising 543 1791
Britain sends more troops
to Ulster to prevent attacks
following Sands ’ funeral
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By GREGORY JENSEN
United Prw International
BELFAST, Northen Ireland — Bri
tain airlifted a crack 600-man army unit
into Ulster Wednesday to reinforce
11,000 British troops already on guard
against any eruption of violence after
IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands'
funeral
Two British soldiers were wounded
by automatic weapons fire near the
Irish border and violence increased
during the day throughout the province
despite an appeal by Catholic activist
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey for calm
until Sands’ funeral Thursday
At the request of Lt. Gen. Sir Richard
Lawson, British army commander in
Northern Ireland, troops from the
"Spearhead Battalion,” a rapid deploy
ment force held in reserve for emergen
cies, was airlifted in from Wales.
“This is not an emergency move," a
British spokesman said. "It's all part o f
practical planning.”
Britain, however, had maintained
that since Sands began his hunger
strike March 1 that its 30.000-man
security force in Northern Ireland — in
cluding more than 11,000 army troops —
were enough to deal with any problem
Responding to Sands' death, Irish-
Americans sought revenge Wednesday
by taking aim on British pocketbooks
"England will rue the day she allow
ed the Right Honorable Robert Sands to
die for Irish," vowed Massachusetts
state Reps Marie Howe and Charles
Doyle. And, to bring home the point,
longshoremen announced a one-day
boycott of British-owned ships.
the International Longshoreman’s
Association said its boycott against
unloading British-owned ships Thurs
day would extend from ports in Puerto
Library computer checkout may start by fall
Rico to the Great Lakes to protest the
“violation of human rights by the
British government in Northern
Ireland.”
United Irish Societies of Detroit an
nounced a boycott against British Air
ways and all tourism in Britain
The United Irish Societies organized
an interdenominational memorial ser
vice for Sands at Holy Trinity Church in
Detroit Thursday night The service
will be followed by a Gaelic League for
an Irish wake, where leaders will
outline plans for the British tourism
boycott
A spokesman for the Irish Northern
Aid Committee said demonstrations
would be held daily in front of British
consulates across the country, with a
major rally Saturday in New York City.
In Ireland, a stream of mourners, in
cluding women carrying babies, filed
past Sands' frail body in an open coffin
at his family’s home Three other IRA
hunger strikers vowed to follow Sands
to the grave
One of them, convicted IRA
murderer Francis Hughes, was
reported suffering vision problems in
the 53rd day of his “fast to the death" at
the Maze prison
A funeral mass for Sands, 27, who
was elected to Britain’s Parliament
April 9 and died Tuesday on his 66th day
without food to demand concessions for
IRA prisoners, was scheduled for 1 p m
7 a m EDT Thursday at St Luke’s
Church.
The IRA plans that the funeral, which
will include a four-mile march through
Catholic districts to the "Republican"
plot at Milltown cemetery, will ensure
Sands an unforgettable place in its
gallery of “martyrs "
Many posts contested,
unlike last council race
By WAYNE GARCIA
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All eight schools electing student
representatives to the University
Council May 12 have at least one
candidate, unlike last year when three
posts had no candidates.
Arts and sciences, environmental
design, and business administration
have more than one person running for
a seat on the council Representatives
for the other five schools will
automatically take their seats after the
election.
University officials offered some
explanations for the low candidate
turnout in some of the schools
Said Peter J. Dyson, undergraduate
coordinator for the School of Forest
Resources: "The students in the
professional schools tend to be not as
involved in these things because they
function almost solely through the
professional school," adding that the
smaller schools operate on "the fringe
of the University."
Robert John, assistant dean of arts
and sciences, agreed, saying. "The
professional schools tend to specialize
early on and gravitate towards the
politics of their individual school
Arts and sciences traditionally has
the most people running for the school 's
council seat "This doesn't surprise me
at all,” John said. "The liberal-arts
background tends to expose our
students more to this sort of thing They
don’t just have a wide background of
classes, but extend this wide interest to
things outside of the classroom ’
Student Affairs is running the elec
tions for eight schools at the request of
the deans of those schools Five other
schools on campus (law, veterinary
medicine, home economics, social work
and pharmacy) conduct their own
elections The candidates now have less
than a week to campaign before the
May 12 election
The candidates are: agriculture.
William J Bland, arts and sciences.
Mike Chidester. Jim Griffin, Lauren
Lyles, Mark Elliot Murphy and James
Bruce Smith; business administration,
David Key, Deborah Wahl and Cheryl
Lynn Wong; education. Wanda Barton;
environmental design, Perry Williams,
Kurt Wolf; forest resources Clint
Moore; graduate. Dave Mason:
journalism. Reisha Behr
By KEITH CROSBY
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By STEVE GOLDBERG
K<a >ml Black Stall Writer
A computer checkout system for the
University libraries may be in use by
the end of summer quarter, although no
startup date has been set, said library
Director David Bishop
Bishop said he is awaiting the arrival
of the libraries’ new main computer
before implementing the automated
checkout system
The computer the libraries presently
use for accounting and book-ordering is
operating at "almost 100 percent
capability," he said
The new computer wil have twice the
present computer’s capacity, Bishop
said The libraries need the space to
record library patrons' identification
codes and match them with codes
identifying the books they check out
Bishop said he expected to receive
the new computer sometime after May
15.
The cost of upgrading the present
computer is $6,664 per month, including
maintenance, said Walter McRae,
associate director for University
computing services. The University
leases the computer from Control Data
Corporation in Atlanta on a three-year
contract, McRae said.
When the system is implemented,
patrons will present their ID cards and
books they wish to check out to a cir
culation desk clerk The clerk will move
a light wand over bar codes (affixed
inside book covers and on IDs) The
codes are similar to the new pricing
codes found on most grocery items. The
code numbers on the books and IDs will
be stored in the computer
A problem that delayed the project
was synchronizing the computer
system’s individual units, which are
mde by different manufacturers.
Bishop said
The system’s three units — the light
wands, the main computer and a mini
computer used to store information
when the main computer is busy —
operate at different speeds, and they
must be synchronized, Bishop said.
"They’ve been working (on syn
chronization) since last fall," Bishop
said.
After working on synchronizing the
computers lor half a year, Carolyn
Gard. director of library automation at
the University's computer center, said
she is making progress
“The light wands are talking to the
mini," she said. “Now we're working
on the mini talking to the main com
puter."
The mini-computer, which receives
information from the light wands and
feeds it to the main computer, will
prevent delays in checking out books,
Gard said.
If someone other than circulation is
using the main computer, the mini
computer will store the information
The science library in the graduate
studies building will be the first location
to begin using the new checkout
system, due to its proximity to the main
computer in the basement of the same
building, Gard said. "It's a more
controlled environment," she said
“If computer delays should occur,
they would not cause serious
problems,” Bishop said. The cir
culation staff would ask patrons to use
the present manual checkout process,
Students
By KEITH CROSBY
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Although American involvement in
El Salvador sparked what has been
called Washington's largest anti war
demonstration since Vietnam last Sun
day, traditionally conservative Univer
sity students are apparently lethargic
about the situation.
Reaction to U.S. military aid and ad
visers sent to the El Salvador military
government, which is besieged by lef
tist insurgents, has polarized in the
splinter political groups on campus, but
many students are disinterested and
uninformed, according to an informal
survey taken by The Red and Black
The Student Coalition for Peace and
Equality, a liberal campus organiztion,
Several Athena groups will aponaor a
forum on Central America, which will
deal with U.S. policy in El Salvador and
human rights in the area. A U.S. State
Department spokesman and a
representative of the Democratic
Revolutionary Front in El Salvador will
debate on May 26, beginning at 7 p. m. in
the forestry auditorium. On May 27,
academic and government experts on
human rights will speak at 7 p.m. in the
Catholic Center on South Lumpkin
Street.
opposes U.S support of the government
in El Salvador, according to president
Michael Collins, who called the junta a
"minority fascist government" both
criminal and oppressive Collins accus
ed the Reagan administration and the
media of distorting the situation in El
Salvador
"The American people don’t fully
understand the complexities of the
issues in El Salvador," Collins said
"The most important thing we can do is
to educate the people, which should
cause a public outcry against involve
ment
“We do not necessarily support the
insurgents against the junta We sup
port nonviolent diplomacy — we sup
port self-determination for the
Salvadorian people, " Collins said
Young Americans for Freedom, a
conservative student group, supports
aid from Cuba yet doubts that the aid is
part of a serious Communist effort to
topple the government
Sunday's demonstration in
Washington, sponsored by the National
Peoples Anti-War Mobilization Move
ment, drew more than 25,000 protesters
who marched to express their
grievances over the budget policies of
the Reagan administration and U.S
military involvement in El Salvador
While campus sentiment over U S in
volvement in El Salvador is divided, at
least one student wholeheartedly sup
ports current U.S policy toward that
Latin American country
"Because of the new policy we are
beginning to solve some of our pro
blems," said Julio Melendez, a
sophomore poultry-science major from
San Salvador
Melendez, the son of a poultry-feed
manufacturer in El Salvador came to
the University from Georgia Tech,
where he had completed the English
language proficiency course required
of foreign students before they are
allowed to take college courses in the
United States
Melendez said his family is largely
unaffected by the situation in El
Salvador because it keeps a low
political profile
"The American people do not com
pletelv understand the situation in my
country,” Melendez said. " because the
news does not always present a clear
picture
Melendez doubts that El Salvador
will become "another Vietnam" for the
United States, noting that the military
was successfully battling the guerrillas
prior to the involvement of U S ad
visers and additional military aid
Aside from increased military aid.
Melendez attributes much of the ar
my's success to a decline in popular
support for the guerrilas Melendez
says this loss of support by the guer
rillas is due to their bombing factories
"after the people ended strikes called
for the the guerrillas ”
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in which patrons fill out information
cards for every book "We can always
fall back, ’ he said.
Library employees also have been
working on labeling books in the
science and main libraries with the bar
code patches "In a few weeks, all
science library books will be labeled,"
Bishop said "By early summer, the
main library will be completed. ’ ’ In less
than one year approximately one
million books have been labeled
Students will have similar bar-code
patches placed on their IDs Two copies
of each patch have been made, so that
when the computer checkout system
starts, a student can go to either of the
libraries to obtain his patch
Bishop said he estimated the cost of
labeling books and IDs would total
$50,000.
apathetic despite protests
U.S. military aid for El Salvador, ac
cording to president Dan Mitchell.
Acknowledging the possibility of the
development of another Vietnam-like
situation in El Salvador, Mitchell con
tends such a situation could evolve only
if policy toward El Salvador were
mishandled by the Reagan administra
tion
Mitchell, whose group is not opposed
to linking aid to democratic reform,
warned,"We must be realistic in
countering Communist aggression —
tying aid to mandatory reform would be
like throwing pennies into a well." Ad
mitting that he was not familiar with
the human-rights record of the junta,
Mitchell said the present regime
"probably would be no more oppressive
than the regime which would replace it
should the leftists win,"
Spokesmen for the Free Speech Task
Force, a liberal group, expressed op
position to military aid for El Salvador
Member Peter Patrick accused the
United States of "propagating violence
for blatant political ends. ’'
Patrick favored self-determination
for the people of El Salvador, saying
that the people probably support
neither the insurgents nor the govern
ment
Another spokesman for the task force
Marshall Dyan, noted that the United
States reacts very late to situations like
those in El Salvador and tries to use the
military as a last resort
Our strength is diplomacy instead
of fighting let's get food in people's
mouths (and) roofs over their heads,’’
he said
A member of the Young Democrats,
John Allen, favors humanitarian aid for
El Salvador but said, "The United
States should send no military aid or
advisers."
Students not allied with political
groups presented no such clearcut opi
nion, although a slight majority of the
roughly 20 students questioned by The
Red and Black seemed to favor some
sort of military aid to El Salvador
Almost all believed that military aid
should be given to that government only
if democratic reforms were made
“No way (is El Salvador another
Vietnam) The circumstances are dif-
r
Julio Melendez reads his hometown newspaper
ferent," said Tom Shawe, a chemistry
major “The current government is
more legitimate than the former
government of South Vietnam, where a
Catholic governed a nation of Bud
dhists There are no direct supply lines
and they (the insurgents) don't enjoy as
much popular support as the Viet Cong
did."
Shawe does favor linking military aid
to reforms to make El Salvador more
democratic. ' Shawe believes that the
insurgents are receiving some military
over aid to El Salvador
One student
agrees with
U.S. policy
