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Peace rally brings
together activists
By JOE WILLEY
Ked and Black « .rntribuiin* Writer
The Athens Committee on Latin America sponsored a rally
5® | °H e ge Square Sunday with the theme
c f*° Intervention in Latin America — Support the Peoples’
Struggle,” despite cold, rainy weather
Randy Tatel. a public relations volunteer with the com
mittee. said the committee has existed for about two years
This committee exists to educate people and to give an
alternative to biased press reports," Tatel said.
The hast West conflict in the area is a fabrication to
cover up our neo-colonial relationship with the people of
Latin America. Tatel said ‘North-American Corporations
have used the people as a source of cheap labor
The Marines first invaded Nicaragua in 1898, and six more
times between then and 1W8 ”
The entertainment began with Dave Lippman, a folk
musician from San Francisco, posing as George Shrubb, an
anti-folk singer.
"We need commercial jingles in our schools, right after the
mandatory prayer,” Lippmann said
Lippmann sang, “Free enterprise guarantees Wars" to the
tune of “Eleanor Rigby "
Lavaun Ishee, of the Committee in Solidarity with the
People of El Salvador, spoke of a "Propaganda war” that the
l ? .S government is waging w ith the people of Latin America.
Ishee. who has travelled extensively in Latin America,
said. "7,000 Nicaraguans have been killed by contras There
are 2.000 U S. troops on the border of El Salvador (in Hon
duras* The L.S. is preparing for war "
A member of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade
distributed flyers that said. "A vote in 84 is a vote for war,"
which calls for "rebel vouth to take to the streets on election
day and night.
Monty Green, of Students Who Conscientiously Oppose War
spoke and explained how to be a conscientious objector
He did a comedy routine about what Young Republicans
say at parties when confronted with facts, and he rated an
swers from one to ten based on the amount of effort needed to
reply
"When someone confronts a Young Republican with
President Reagan's link of aid to Ethiopia with military aid
to the Contras, one response would be. Yeah, but they're
Communists!” Green said
This response only rates five because it is an emotional
response The best response is to ignore the facts completely
and say something like, "General Foods gained three points
on the NYSE today," Gren said
Ed Weir of the Jubilee Partners, a Georgia religious
community, explained how his group buses Salvadoran
refugees to Canada, w here they receive aid and education for
a full year after their arrival
"Our first two trips were legal, and we had authorization
from the U S Government to proceed, but they changed their
minds when they decided our actions were attracting
Salvadoran refugees to the South Texas border where we
pick them up." Weir said
Kim Sinuwi The Red am) Black
Hat and Duck performers
Weir brought a Salvadoran friend to the rally who talked
about how government soldiers killed his family
Neil Bogan, of the Athens Rat Duck Theater staged a mini
drama which consisted of two simulated Salvadorans rolled
out of the back of a station wagon. The actors, tied and
blindfolded, imitated dead Salvadorans for about 30 minutes,
lying on the cold, wet street
Craig Rafuse and the Performing Artists for Nuclear
Disarmament played music with anti war themes Also
performing were Men in Trees and the Squalls, two Athens
groups
Linda McAlister of the Women’s International League for
Peace and Freedom said "The exploitation of the people of
Latin America is a continuation of the enslavement of non
white peoples begun in this country in our colonial days.
"When the British passed a tax on sugar, they broke up the
triangular rum, sugar and slave trade, on which our
economy depended," McAlister said "That was the real
issue of the American Revolution, not ‘taxation without
representation’ but our right to continue exploiting people.
"International slavery is still the basis of our economy,"
she added
The rally concluded with a film, "Letter From Morazan,"
which was shot, produced and edited in the "liberated” zone
of Morazan in El Salvador
Vendors sold Nicaraguan coffee, boycotted by the U S.
government
Tuesday, November t, mi
Students say fear
for country great
H.v INKS PINTO
lie. and Black Sufi Writer
With the Reagan ad
ministration declaring their
countries a threat to U S.
security interests and the
ever-present threat of
communism in their
homelands, Central
American students at the
University say they are
worried about their future
“I fear fer my country
when 1 am here in the United
States, because I feel
disconnected from my
country and I feel uncertain
as to what is going on there,"
said Felipe I .emus Grob, a
graduate student in
agronomy from Guatemala
Guatemala, a country
whose government has been
plagued by corruption and
military rulers, has also
been a victim to the threat of
communism.
Lemus said Guatemala's
position in relation to Cen
tral America's problem has
been one of neutrality. They
refuse to support the United
States to conduct military
maneuvers in their country.
He said the only reason his
country continues tolerating
military controlled gover
nment is "fear of falling into
the hands of the com
munists.
"The situation seems
worse to me here in the
United States than when I
am at home,” Lemus said.
"The papers make
guerilla warfare sound as if
it is widespread, when In
reality it is localized only to
certain areas," he said.
Stefan Victory, a
sophomore in pre-
engineering from Costa
Rica, said "Costa Rica's
main fear is that the
Nicaraguan terrorists will
invade their country."
He said he believes the
United States should help
Central America because,
"If they don’t, the region will
turn to the communists for
help just like Nicaragua did
when the United States cut
off all aid to it."
Panama, a democratic
countrv. is also of concern to
the United States, because if
Marxism were to spread
throughout the region, U.S.
trade in the Panama Canal
would be gravely en
dangered. Political experts
say there is also a threat of
Marxism spreading
southward, because Panama
borders South America.
A freshman from Panama
who wished to remain
unidentified said he doesn't
fear a communist invasion in
his country because "the
tininrr t tie nea gna nwik
Felipe Lemus Grob
Panama Canal is of vital
importance to the United
States and if there was such
an invasion, I am sure that
the United States will protect
us.”
He attributed the
problems in Central
America to poverty and said
"The communists feed the
people and help them out so
much that they don’t care if
they are communists.”
“If the United States in
tervenes and gives these
poverty striken people
economic aid then the people
will have a choice and they
won’t need the com
munists," he said
The Reagan ad
ministration has conducted
large scale and extended
maneuvers in the region.
Reagan says he feels this
will send a strong signal to
Russia, Cuba and Nicaragua
of America's determination
to oppose the further spread
of Marxist influences in
Central America
Reagan win may mean new
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. arms
control officials are hoping for Soviet
approval of a new anti-chemical
weapons treaty which would give each
of the superpowers the right to make
unprecedented and wide-ranging in
spections of the other side’s military
and government facilities.
The proposed treaty, which has been
offered by the United States at the
ongoing 40-nation Geneva disarmament
talks, is now the subject of intense
discussion among U.S allies, according
to sources who spoke only on condition
that they not be identified.
With polls showing President Reagan
likely to win re-election, the arms
control policies which would be pursued
in a second Reagan administration are
now under review by advisers who are
divided on how to verify any pacts,
particularly amid U.S. charges the
Soviets may have cheated on past
treaties.
The unprecedented inspection
proposal in the draft chemical weapons
treaty is one possible way to keep the
Soviets from cheating, say ad
ministration officials.
But the Soviets have publicly
arms treaty
criticized the U.S proposal and it is
unclear whether they will ever allow it.
Douglas Feith, deputy assistant
secretary of defense for negotiations
policy, said in a recent interview that
the U.S. treaty "is totally un
precedented We’ve never made an
offer like this." The heart of the U.S.
proposal is an offer to permit "special
inspections” of all government
facilities, including any military in
stallations, along with all “govern
ment-controlled facilities," which
would Include private companies doing
contract work
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