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America seeks revenge
on Vietnam, activist says
By OSCAR HALPERT
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Angered by losing the Vietnam War, the
United States is trying to revenge itself on the
current Vietnamese government, human rights
activist Don Luce said Friday.
The United States is denying aid to Vietnam,
Luce said in a University address, is backing the
Pol Pot regime in Cambodia and is turning its
back on human rights violations throughout
Southeast Asia in an effort to destabilize the
Vietnamese government, Luce said.
The United States stopped sending 35 tons of
rice to Vietnam when the war ended in 1975 and
won’t help the Vietnamese clear their fields of
mines, Luce said.
"The people in the cities are afraid to go back
to the farms — they're afraid that they’re going to
step on a mine."
According to Luce, the Pentagon refuses to
send Americans to aid in mine detection
“because they don’t want anyone to get hurt.
"Apparently, the United States doesn’t think
the farmers are people.”
By cutting off other sources of aid, Luce said,
the United States “almost forces Vietnam into
dependence upon the Soviet Union.”
For instance, he said, American pressure has
forced European nations to cut off the supply of
milk to Vietnam while milk shortages have caused
widespread malnutrition among children.
Luce has urged American colleges to raise
funds to send a ton of milk to the impoverished
region.
Luce, — recently returned from a fact-finding
mission to Indochina — also said U.S. support of
the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia is proof that the
American government is trying to revenge itself
on the Vietnamese.
"Our country is still angry at Vietnam
because they beat us, so we support him (Pol Pot)
as a means of destabilizing Vietnam,” Luce said.
“The U.S. government has charged Pol Pot
with being a suppressor of human rights and, at
the same time, has supported him diplomatically,
economically and militarily.”
The U.S. also has turned a deaf ear to human
rights violations throughout Southeast Asia and
isn’t really interested in solving the refugee prob
lem there, Luce said.
He said Thai children sometimes are sold to
work in factories and earn less than three dollars
for a 14-hour work day. But the Thai government
doesn’t crack down on the practice because it
isn’t hurting relations with Washington, Luce said.
"The Thai government interprets Pres.
Reagan's foreign policy as meaning that either
there are no human rights or governments are to
be trusted solely for economic reasons.”
Regarding the refugee problem in Southeast
Asia, Luce said the United States “likes the
propaganda of the escaped refugees.”
After spending 13 years in Vietnam as an
agriculturist for the International Voluntary Ser
vice, Luce made international headlines in 1970
along with two U.S. Congressmen when they
discovered “tiger cages” in a South Vietnamese
prison camp. He was expelled from South Viet
nam in May, 1971.
Luce currently is director of the Asian Center
in New York City and former director of Clergy
and Laity Concerned.
Folk music to highlight cultural night
The music of a Nicaraguan
folk group on tour to benefit
reconstruction efforts in
Managua, Nicaragua will high
light a cultural evening Tuesday
night.
Carlos Mejia Godoy and Los
de Pataguina will play at 7:30
p.m. in the Central Presbyterian
Church.
The musicians will be accom
panied by Aura Beteta, Nicar
agua’s Consul General in San
Francisco. Beteta will discuss
the current situation in Nicar
agua, emphasizing the par
ticipation of the Roman Catholic
Church in the new government,
the role of women in the revolu
tionary process and the
"worldwide significance" of the
National Literacy Campaign.
The Eugene City Council will
officially welcome Beteta to
Eugene tonight at 7:30 in the
council chambers at 777 Pearl
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Beteta also will speak at a
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war against the Somoza
government, they toured the
country in support of the
revolution.
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