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Efforts by interior secretary
James Watt to reopen the
northern California coastline to
offshore oil drilling were sup
ported by the newest member of
Oregon’s congressional
delegation at a Eugene press
conference Thursday.
Denny Smith was elected to
Oregon's Second District last
fall in his first attempt at public
office. The 43-year-old Repub
lican narrowly defeated Al Ull
man, a 24-year incumbent and
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►President of Texas Consumer
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►Former Director of Agribusiness
Accountability Project, Washington D.C.
Speaking on
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Tuesday, April 28 8 pm EMU Ballroom
David Kinley
•Co-author, Aid as Obstacle, with
Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins
•Coordinator of Aid Education Project for the
Institute for Food and Development Policy
Speaking on “Politics of Food ” and
highlighting El Salvador
Wed., April 29 8 pm EMU Ballroom
Both Events are Free
Co-sponsored by Food-op and CALC
Denny Smith
Photo by Dennis Tachibana
Denny Smith speaks out
for offshore oil drilling
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Ways and Means Committee.
Oregonians should “find a
way to share" Oregon’s off
shore oil reserves with the rest
of the country,” Smith said. He
is “tired of the blackmail from
OPEC” and thinks Oregon’s oil
resources “shouldn't be set
aside."
Environmentalists have
raised the specter of offshore oil
spills, a question raised at the
press conference.
“We can’t protect against
everything,” Smith said.“There
are natural faults greater than
those caused by man.”
Smith said he favors the li
censing of 12 nuclear plants
now before the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, in
cluding the controversial Diablo
Canyon plant in California.
“No one wants to be down
stream of a dam with a leak in
it,” he said, but a “lack of
leadership and bureaucratic
bungling” at the NRC have im
peded moving ahead with nu
clear power.
While Smith doesn’t think
nuclear plants should be ap
proved without public hearings,
he said that the United States is
“the only industrial nation not
pressing ahead with nuclear
power."
Smith sits on the Interior and
insular Affairs Committee,
which oversees the NRC and
the Interior Department.
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ans Affairs Committee. He is
“greatly concerned” about
delayed stress syndrome and
feels veterans should be given a
chance to re-adjust.
The “unreality of the Vietnam
War” has meant that some ve
terans “find themselves in the
combat zone one day and the
next day they're in San Francis
co." he said.
He added that outreach pro
grams for Vietnam veterans
were short-term, but that Pres.
Ronald Reagan is “committed
to help these people.”
Smith also addressed the
question of gun control, saying
too many politicians are trying
to make “political hay" out of
the issue. Criminals should be
controlled instead, he said.
Smith, a member of the
National Rifle Association, said
that if guns should be registered
then knives should be too.
The message of a press con
ference next Tuesday in Wa
shington, D C. will be that it is
“time to play hardball" in the
fight to approve Reagan’s
budget, Smith said. He said
Reagan will autograph a ba
seball to make the point.
Smith said he thought several
Democrats would cross over
party lines and support the Pre
sident if House Majority Leader
Tip O’Neill “doesn’t blackmail
them into following the
Democratic line."
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