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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1973)
_ Photo by Jean O'Leary r raternity members furiously speed their pushcarts down the road to victory in a revival of the All Greek Pushcart Races, sponsored by the Intra-Fraternity Council to raise money for the ASUO Day Care center. Viet fugitive says war ‘ridiculous’ “It’s so silly, so ridiculous,” says Ngo Chi Thien from South Vietnam. “The war for this country is supposedly over, the United States gone home, but still the military aid keeps coming to my country and more of my people die.” Thien, 22, was sent to this country in 1970 by the South Vietnamese government to train in medical technology. He began, though, to talk at the naval hospital, where he studied, about the “puppet dictatorship” in Saigon and the effect that American aid and military support has had on the Viet namese people. In March, 1972, Thien was ordered to return to South Vietnam for his “insolence.” But he refused and was jailed in Portland by Federal officers. Since that time immigration officials have ordered Thien to be deported back to the Saigon government. Presently out on bail appealing his case, Thien comments, “I am IFC cuts salaries for now The Incidental Fee Com mittee (IFC) met Sunday in a marathon session to decide how much money it would recomment to the 51 ASUO programs. At the end of the meeting, :£ recommendations had been :*i* made for 45 of those :$ programs. The remainder will ijj: be decided in a 3:30 p.m. g meeting today. The recom :•!: mendations will be subject to appeal from the programs, ijl: IFC is scheduling appeals i-i- beginning 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and programs wishing to :ij: appeal their allocations should schedule an appointment by calling committee chair person Randy Shilts at ex tension 3720 or his home phone, 345-3671. Only two representatives from each program may be present during each appeal. The recommendations reflect a shift from salaries to program development. Although the total sum of the recommendations about equals the executive recommendations, money has been shifted from salary line items to program line items in many cases, according to Shilts. This shift followed a decision by the committee last week to cut all assistant directors’, consultants’, and temporary employees’ salaries. In a joint statement issued Sunday, the IFC said that the move encouraging volun teerism rather than salaried positions was a “step beyond the executive recom mendations, a long overdue move.” The IFp heard appeals on those executive recom mendations last week. The committee also recommended reserves for 13 programs. The reserves, in addition to a $2000 salary reserve for most of the :g programs, will be available Si for special needs next year from the IFC. Si After Tuesday evening’s Si last round of appeals, the IFC Si will submit a finalized budget SI to the ASUO executive, who Si can veto any or all of it. Vetos Si may be overturned by a 4-1 ;ij! committee vote. 1 The completed ASUO Si budget will then be sent to &i President Clark. The &i president has the power to g revise the budget but rarely g has a president done so. g Next, Clark passes the •:*: budget on to the State Board of g Higher Education. mmsmm Recommendations Athletic Department ASUO Executive Asian American Student Union Black Grad Student Council Black Student Union Canterbury Center Chinese Student Assoc. Community Video Access Cntr. Cosmopolitan Student Assoc. Cultural Forum Draft and Military Info Cntr. Drug Info Cnr ESCAPE Eugene YouTh Hostel, Inc. Foreign Student Organization Gay People's Alliance Grad Student Council Grower's Mrkt. Handicapped Students Housing Office lllahe School IUS IEC Legal Services Legislative Coordinators 72-73 budget $135,000 54,930 0 500 5896 209 0 650 0 31030 7299 5513 9847 704 3948 0 5380 0 0 4385 3500 2695 10360 19000 3090 73-74 recommended ~ $135,000 45,961 4126 incl. in GSC 7963 0 incl. in FSO 0 0 31250 0 4046 4430 847 4927 1282 4131 0 0 3250 0 1008 6510 19000 2751 MEChA Music National Student Lobby Native American Student Union Oregon Daily Emerald Oregon Prisoner's Coalition OSPIRG Recreational Folk Dance Repertory Dancers SEARCH Student Administrative Board Student Bar Assoc. Student Educational Programs Student Employee Defense Council Survival Center Tax Table University Feminists University Theater Willamette Student Housing Women's Transitional Living Cnt. 6560 1850 0 5593 26400 0 41000 395 2530 7144 1717 845 12500 0 4861 850 2366 0 410 0 6913 1850 1533 3962 35000 3176 41000 530 4200 7098 1840 8206 12500 0 4273 0 2832 7000 100 incl. in OPC Not yet decided: EMU, Action Now, Day Care, Forensics, KWAX and Migrant Labor Proj. Note: 73 74 recommended includes both in-budget and reserves. Ngo Chi Thien here in Eugene to participate in several activities for the benefit of the citizens of Vietnam and get some support for my case. I am not as important as is the war that has continually hurt and made my people suffer, but I do need help. “Only the people in this country,” says Thien, “can give me back my right to return where I want to in South Vietnam. The Thieu government, a puppet controlled by the U.S., will make me a political prisoner if I am sent back to them. Either way, I am a prisoner, here or there. “The United States has con tinually backed the Thieu regime,” says Thien. “Without the billions of dollars in direct aid the government in Saigon would not mean a thing. “The United States is still in tervening in the Vietnam war despite signing a ‘peace agreement’ to the contrary," says Thien. The only difference now “is that the U.S. pays mercenary soldiers to do most of the ground fighting. But they still provide the supplies and guns which do the killing. “Our civil war is not a Viet namese civil war, it is an American-funded one. The U.S. Air Force flies the missions which drop the bombs and the navy off our coast,” says Thien, “is virtually all from America. The people in the U.S. are not bad,” stresses Thien, “but this government is not doing right, they kill, they hurt.” Talking about his personal fight against deportation back to the Thieu regime, Thien says that his main interest now is getting a defense organized. “I don’t want to be a political prisoner,” he pleads. “It’s hard to speak out against the South Vietnamese govern ment right now,” says Thien, “or we all become prisoners. It’s sad, so sad.” He points out that the Paris peace agreement, which the United States initialed, is (Continued on Page 10)
