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Wednesday, October 22, I9H6
The Red and Black
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Americans discuss Nicaragua
By Alice F'raker
K«*d mid Hiiick ( ouu ilniliiiK Writer
Two Americans who have lived in
I^atin America for the past three
years believe that recent actions by
the U S. government towards Nica
ragua are unfair and stifling to the
growth of the country.
"I feel like the United States is
slowly torturing the Nicaraguans by
our cutting tliem off economically
and militarily; they are bleeding to
death,” Mary Kisacher said.
The Athens Committee on Latin
America sponsored a speech
Monday at 7:30 pm. in the Tate Stu
dent Center featuring Risacher and
her husband Tony Equate who have
lived and worked in Madagalpa, Ni
caragua since 1983. About 25 stu
dents attended the speech.
“I think it’s real important for
people to hear personal events from
others who have lived in Latin
America,” said Carol Hakanson,
one of the committee’s coordina
tors. “1 think many times newspa
pers are biased."
"We (Americans) need to recog-
‘I feel like the United States is slowly
torturing the Nicaraguans.
— Mary Risacher
American volunteer in Nicaragua
nize that the United States is at war
with Nicaragua and we can stand
up to it,” Risacher said. “We need
to do something about it before it
becomes another Vietnam.”
Equale volunteered to go to Nica
ragua as part of a program spon
sored by the American Friends
Service Committee, a division of the
Quakers, he said The committee,
based in Philadelphia, pays people
to work in many different countries
as representatives of the religious
group.
“These people are sent to see
what is going on in these other coun
tries and return home to educate
the committee.” Equale said. “Most
of the work is for peac«» and jus-
tice."
Part of their work includes com-
ming back-to the United States and
educating the people about life in
Nicaragua, Risacher said
In 1979, the leftist Sandinista polit
ical group toppled the the U.S.-
backed government of then Nicara
guan President Anastasio Somoza.
U S. policy under President Ronald
Reagan has been to support rebels
who want to overthrow the Sandi
nista government led by present Ni
caraguan President Daniel Ortega.
The United States has taken of
fense to the fact that a smaller na
tion of three million people has
broken free from its power and con-
tml, not to mention the fact that Ni-
Farmers see tax bills lowered
<AP) — Some Georgia farmers will see their tax
bills lowered because of changes in federal income tax
laws, but most are likely to pay more, says an agricul
tural economist with the Georgia Extension Service.
Ed Brown, who studied the tax overhaul passed by
Congress to determine how it will affect Georgia
farmers, said the changes will strip farmers of tax
breaks they have enjoyed for years
Investment credits, important to farmers because
so many types of farm property qualify for such
credits, will be lost, he said in his assessment, re
leased this week by the extension service.
Farmers also will be affected by a change that
makes the total gain on a capital sale taxable, instead
of 40 percent of the gain as under the old law. "In the
past, the use of the capital gains provision on the sale
of breeding or dairy livestock, for example, has been a
major advantage for farmers," Brown said.
All deductions for land clearing expenses will be
lost, and deductions for soil and water conservation ef
forts will be allowed only if the farmer has a conser
vation plan approved by a government agency, he
said.
Some low-income farmers will see their income
taxes eliminated altogether. Brown said, but others
will pay higher taxes because of the loss of such ad
vantages as income averaging.
Incentives for investors to use farms as tax shelter
will be curtailed, but “some have said those incentives
contributed to the problem of overproduction," Brown
said.
“The long-run impact (of the cutback in investor in
centives) should benefit bona fide commercial farms
as agriculture investment decisions are based on their
economic merits and not on their tax benefits," Brown
said. “However, in the short run, there may be some
negative consequences for some farmers as financial
resources are withdrawn from an already weakened
agricultural economy .”
Advantages for farmers in the tax overhaul include
a change in depreciation rules, allowing many farm
buildings to be depreciated over seven years instead
of the present five, and a provision allowing farmers
to deduct their expenses for reforestation even if they
are enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Pro
gram, he said.
Paul Aho, an Extension Service poultry expert who
specializes in economics, said the tax overhaul will
place limits on the selling of tax-free notes, such as
loans made by the Georgia Development Authority.
caragua wants to trade with the
Soviet Union, Equale said.
By eliminating U.S. government
aid, cutting back trade and doubling
aid to the Contras, the Reagan ad
ministration has shown its feelings
to Nicaragua, he said
The Contras, or counterrevolutio
nary forces, are based in Honduras
and Costa Rica and collaborate with
thousands of Samoza supporters to
overthrow the Sandinista govern
ment, Equale said.
The Contras are responsible for
carrying out raids that have de
stroyed schools, food storage facili
ties and medical clinics, and also
engage in torturing and killing thou
sands of innocent civilians, he said.
“The United States policy is a
racist, cruel policy of suffering,"
said Chris DeBarr, a University
graduate who attended the speech
“I have studied the peaceful revolu
lion, and 1 can see that our (U.S.)
policy is against youth and poor
people in a country of three million
people ”
Equale said that contrary to what
the Reagan administration would
have the U.S. public believe, the
Sandinista government has made
vast improvements in Nicaragua.
“People there participate more in
government and are constantly in
volved in writing laws," Equale
said.
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