_ 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.
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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
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