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‘Man, what a bummer' Peace groups support Soviets in Alaska By Ml KRUST Of the ImmoraM The United States is over reacting to the recent Soviet invasion of Alaska, several campus leaders said Tuesday. Student opponents of the proposed American interven tion in Alaska quickly mobilized and held a noon rally on cam pus. “We rejoice with our com rades in Alaska who have sha ken off the bonds of American imperialism and the domination of the oil companies," said Lin da Screechy of the Arctic Peo ple's Solidarity Committee. Screechy said all students who desire to know the real story of the Alaskan invasion*' should read The Burning Ice block, "the only Arctic nation alist newspaper in the world " Tomseth rescue attempt fails A failed attempt to rescue ex-hostage Victor Tomseth from Springfield ended last night in the deaths of nine U S. commandos. Springfield police said the nine died when they were thrown by a mechanical bull in a local tavern. Tomseth's whereabouts remained unclear Wednesday morning. The Springfield High School Band threatened after the raid to move him to a closed-down Georgia-Pacific lumber mill. Before the raid, Tomseth was being held in the business district by the Chamber of Commerce and local television reporters The latest pictures of Tomseth, broadcast by ABC's “Nightline,” show him bound in yellow ribbons with a microphone stuffed in his mouth. Details of the raid were sketchy at presstime, but this much is known: Dressed in flannel shirts, down vests and shit-kicker boots, the 34 commandos rode six Lane Transit District buses from downtown Eugene to Glenwood After obtaining tokens for the return trip, they got off the buses and com mandeered pick-up trucks for the final leg of the journey. Here the raid apparently went awry. The plans called for hijacking pick-ups with rifles mounted in the back, which would be used as weapons in the raid. But only five suitable trucks could be found. Ten of the commandos drove them to a local tavern and waited for the rest to find transportation. There, nine of them died after they chal lenged each other to ride the mechanical bull. Springfield officials have threatened to hold another parade because of the incident. "Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel, the "Kop peltollah" in whose name Tomseth was captured, warned he would “skip a few days" in his latest hostage countdown if another raid is attempted. : / 'V':. ■ The APSC, an organizaton of people who wish they had been born in the Arctic Circle, is af filiated with the Arctic Peoples’ Soviet Party. “How many of you are going to be fooled into fighting in Alaska?” asked Alvin Siphon of the Coalition Opposed to Life and Death (COLD). “First there was Vietnam, and then that place in Africa and I think maybe a couple of places in Latin America, too. Or maybe it was in the Persian Gulf. When will you begin to educate yourselves?” University sociology Prof. Dick Wormy told the seven peo ple at the rally that he fears the Reagan administration will use the invasion to justify increased military spending. “I can’t really say that I ap prove of any country having troops anywhere,” Wormy said “But I’m pretty disgusted by all this knee-jerk talk of Soviet im perialism.’ "Inbred nationalism" and “economic royalism” are at the root of American objection to the Soviet invasion, he said. “Let's not make any quick value judgments,’’ he said. “After all, we forget that collu sion between American corpor ate interests and Czarism en gineered the so-called ‘pur chase’ back in the 1860s. Real ly, they have as much right to be there as we do.” Don Fliskieurtbnwesky, also a sociology professor, said he agrees that Americans are overreacting. “I’m really upset by all this talk of an ‘invasion,’ ” he said. “The Pentagon is trying to manufac ture an incident out of what is a fraternal effort on the part of a few Russian divisions to support the Alaskan revolution " Students reacteu to the rally and news of the invasion with consternation and puzzlement. "Isn’t that up in Canada or somewhere? This doesn't mean I'm going to be drafted, does it?” asked undeclared freshman Jim Inocuous. "There’s going to be a war? Man, what a bummer,’’ said Buck Prickly, a sophomore who said he takes only ESCAPE and SEARCH classes. 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