Herbicide spraying plans cancelled
By KATHLEEN MONJE
Of the Emerald
Oakridge citizens have won their battle to
keep U S. Forest Service herbicides out of
their city's water supply.
The Forest Service announced late
Thursday afternoon that plans to spray a
34-acre unit in the Salmon Creek
watershed have been cancelled. The Sal
mon Creek provides water for residents of
Oakridge, 35 miles east of Eugene.
The Forest Service announcement fol
lowed filing of a suit in U.S. District Court
yesterday by Eugene attorney Bruce An
f
derson, on behalf of Oakridge Citizens
Against Pollutants (OCAP), the Oakridge
Audubon Society and four area residents.
The suit charged the Forest Service
would “in effect be carrying out tests of the
chemical’s effects on humans in a domestic
water supply," Anderson said.
The plaintiffs held that such testing is a
violation of the Federal Insecticide, Fun
gicide and Rodenticide Act, which prohibits
testing on humans without their consent.
The Forest Service could do it if they did it
properly, but they didn’t," Anderson said.
“They didn’t obtain the written consent of
area residents."
Oakridge has been fighting the herbicide
spray program in the Willamette National
Forest since early April, when the City
Council passed a resolution against the use
of 2,4,5-T and Silvex in the Salmon Creek
area.
Both herbicide sprays contain the highly
controversial poison dioxin, which en
vironmentalists content is dangerous to
human life. The Forest Service uses the
sprays to control brush growth around
young fir trees.
Members of OCAP held a brush-in April
26 on the 34-acre parcel scheduled for
spraying, clearing about 10 acres in three
and one-halt hours to prove manual conirot
could be effective.
Forest Service helicopters were idle dur
ing the brush-in, waiting for weather condi
tions to improve before beginning the aerial
spraying.
Jan Schuetze, OCAP member and one of
the 35 brush-in participants, said she’s re
ally pleased with the spraying cancellation
in the Salmon Creek drainage, but wishes
the Forest Service would cancel the rest of
its planned program, too.
“I think they knew they couldn’t get away
with it, (in the Salmon Creek area) after we
filed the suit,” Scheutze said.
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Writer tackles world’s problems
Alexander Yanov, a noted Soviet jour- *
nalist and specialist on public administra
tioni, visited the University this week to lec
ture and speak with faculty members.
He lectured Thursday evening on “The
Origins of Democracy or Alternatives for
Russia’’ and will be available to talk with
interested persons from 10 a.m. to noon
today in 253 PLC.
By PETER GAY
, Of the Emerald
Alexander Yanov stops in mid-sentence
to exclaim with alms waving, “Wait, the
words, they are not right.” His warm eyes
dart about the room as if he is searching to
discover something to bring his thoughts to
words, finally focusing on a fly dancing a
cross his windowpane.
“You understand,” the Russian writer
says, “I’ve been speaking English only
three years. It is too bad I cannot relate
better, because there is much to say. On
the other hand, it is not everyone who gets
the chance to lead two lives in one.”
Yanov defected to the United States in
1974. Since then he has taught college and
lectured at universities across the country.
“What I’m trying to do is solve the prob
lems of the world,” he says. “Russia is the
world’s strongest power , .it has the ability to
de-stabilize the world. Americans should
know this. They should know too that the
hope of the world lies in a new kind of
detente...a giving of ideas between West
ern intellect and Soviet nationalists.”
Yanov maintains that “true politicism”
has failed in Russia throughout history be
cause the oppressive regime in power has
restricted the freedom of ideas. He adds,
“Kruschev tried to de-Stalinize Russia, to
end the oppression, but he failed as all have
because he had no alternatives. He knew
not what to do when he came to power,
except to continue in the old ways.
The West, he says, can help eradicate
this phenomenon by providing left-wing
Russians with ideas.
Alexander Yanov
“What makes Russia so strong," he con
tinues, “is its ability to put all its resources in
one place...to put all its eggs in one basket
as you say in America. The basket is the
military-industrial complex. In Russia, the
government can afford to say like the Nazi’s
did in World War II, guns instead of butter.’
In this sense, they are much stronger than
democracy. Democracy cannot deprive it
self from butter. In Russia there is no but
ter."
His hands now pound the table between
us; as he speaks, he is perched on the edge
of his chair. He continues, “The number
one enemy of U S S R, is not the U S. but
China. The Chinese communists are trying
to create a military-industrial complex that
the Russians already have. The only differ
ence is quantitative."
To deal with a rising China is another
reason for the type of detente he advo
cates, “I see Maoists in this country," he
says, “claiming that capitalism will lead us
to the third World War. To me, it is ridicul
ous; I respect their right to complain, but
they have no solutions. The substance of
socialism is to eliminate butter and create
guns. This is the main lesson of the history
of the 20th Century.”
“You understand,” he begins, but hesi
tates, slouching back in his chair with a
deep sigh. “It is terribly hard to speak logi
cally and make people understand. No one
can answer the question if it is possible that
I would be successful in inspriring people of
the West and East to act together in this
idea, but there is nothing more important in
the world to do. It is my justification, for
when I die, I’ll know what it is for that I have
lived.”
He smiles. He must get back to his writ
ing. I rise and we shake hands; a Western
salutation, but it’s performed by Yanov with
an enthusiasm and rapidity that is purely
Eastern. Appropriate, it seems, for a man in
limbo between the two worlds and trying to
bring them together, peaceably.
Student writing effort hot off press
The second annua! edition of
the Clark Corner Literary Review
went on sale this week at tables in
front of the Bookstore and EMU.
The review, published by Hon
ors College Students, contains
almost 50 pages of poetry, short
stories and drawings by University
students. It sells for 75 cents.
Robert Alexander says he and
his co-editor Robert McSweeney
collected submissions from all
over the University. "We put up
flyers and talked to all of the crea
tive writing classes. This is the ,
only real collection of student
creative writing on campus."
Last year the publication was
only open to undergraduates. This
year the editors accepted work
from graduate students too.
“The quality of submissions is
better overall than last year,”
Alexander says. “What’s in here is
the best we got.”
Alexander says he and
McSweeney looked for work that
would be accessible to a lot of
people.
“Lots of people write very per
sonal, symbolic poetry that has no
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meaning.
“Almost all of the poems in the
review deal with the personal ex
perience of the author, not narra
tives. There are a lot of things on
communing with nature and love
affairs."
The review was completely
student-produced, Alexander
says. Micha Grudin, instructor in
the Honors College, gave general
advice but didn’t make any final
r
decisions.
Money for the publication came
mostly from patrons. Alexander
says $300 was collected through
letters sent to parents of Honors
College students asking for dona
tions. He estimated the review
cost $250 to print.
The Clark Corner Literary Re
view is available through next
week and at the Honors College
for the rest of the year.
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