Oregon daily emerald., May 13, 1981, Section A, Page 6, Image 6

Nicaragua wants respect
from U.S., speaker says
VWs-MERCEDES-BMWs
DATSUN-TOYOTA-AUDI
Reliable service for your foreign car
342-2912
2025 Franklin Blvd
Eugene, Oregon
I-Save At
LAZAR’S BAZAR
FREE ROACH CLIP
WITH THIS COUPON
(Limit one coupon per customer)
No Purchase Necessary
LAZAR’S BAZAR
RECORDS AND PIPES
1036 Willamette Street
and 164 W Broadway
on the downtown mall
687-9766 or 687-0139
-Valuable Coupon
The New
Carlos
Casteneda
Book
In The Book Department
Now!
$12.95
In Eagle’s Gift Casteneda emerges, for the first time, as
the inheritor of Don Juan’s powers and tasks, a
sorcerous leader and figure in his own right, to create a
work of bizarre and overpowering strength. Eagle’s
Gift is as moving and dramatic as it is deep and
thought-provoking.
uo
BOOKSTORE
13th & Kincaid
Mon-Fri 8:15-5:30
Sat 10:00-2:00
Textbooks 686-3520 • General Books
686-3510 • Supplies 686-4331
Upstairs in The Book Department.
Only at the UO Bookstore.
Check the classifieds
By DAN BROWNING
Of the Emerald
Nicaragua wants a relationship with the Unit
ed States based on ‘‘mutual respect and dignity,”
Evelyn de Castillon told a Nicaragua teach-in
Tuesday.
But it’s hard to carry on a relationship when
the "Reagan administration is consciously and
deliberately using food as a weapon,” said de
Castillon, the West Coast coordinator of the
National Network for Solidarity in Nicaragua.
The United States has suspended economic
aid to Nicaragua in the wake of allegations that
Nicaraguan arms are being shipped to leftist
forces in El Salvador.
Nicaragua’s revolution left 1.5 percent of its
population dead and 70 percent of its main crop —
cotton — unplanted, she said. When ex-Pres.
Anastasio Somoza fled the country, he left a $1.6
billion debt but only $3.5 million in the national
treasury, she added.
“The reconstruction of the economy is the
most difficult task yet before us,” de Castillon
said.
To further that reconstruction, the Frente
Sandanista de Liberacion Nacional — the
ruling party in Nicaragua — declared 1980 the
year of literacy. The country's illiteracy rate was
reduced from 53 percent to 12.9 percent through
a program headed by Father Fernando Cardenal,
who is being considered for the 1981 Nobel Peace
Prize for his efforts in the program, according to
de Castillon.
The FSLN has declared 1981 the year of
defense and production, de Castillon said.
The revolution will succeed only if the masses
are well armed, she said.
"We don't want nobody from the east, or from
the north, or from the south or from the west to tell
us what to do.”
The FSLN represents a "popular demo
cracy,” she claimed. Although elections haven’t
been held in Nicaragua since the 1979 revolution,
people now help make decisions through mass
participation groups, she said.
The FSLN values public welfare over profits,
de Castillon said. The private sector, which is 60
percent of the economic base, will be left alone as
long as business owners make public welfare the
first priority of their businesses, she said.
Nicaragua presently is trying to re-establish
subsistence crops like corn instead of growing
only cash crops like coffee, de Castillon said.
However, Nicaragua ships 90 percent of its
exports to the United States, and the shift to
economic independence will be slow and difficult,
she said.
Forum ponders deserts
The rich and varied treasures
of the Southeastern Oregon
Great Basin country will be
explored today and Thursday
during the Oregon Desert
Wilderness Forum in the EMU.
Scheduled discussions,
slideshows, debates and
special features range from a
night under starry desert skies
at the Willamette Science and
Technology Center Planetarium
to a debate on the future of
Oregon’s desert public wild
lands. The two-day forum is
sponsored by the University
Survival Center and the
Oregon Wilderness Coalition.
The Bureau of Land Man
agement is evaluating approx
imately 2.5 million acres of
roadless land for inclusion in
the national wilderness system.
Conservationists claim the
aesthetic, cultural, wildlife and
recreational values of the Ore
gon desert are endangered by
overgrazing, uranium mining,
geothermal development, off
road vehicles and a renewed
interest in the Sagebrush
Rebellion.
Bighorn sheep, antelope,
coyote, birds of prey and thou
sands of migratory birds live in
the desert.
Wednesday's events begin at
10:30 a m. with a Diamond
Craters Slideshow by Ellen
Benedict. It will be followed by a
ON BIG PRINT
REDUCTIONS!
Eugene Print's Xerox 1860
printer can reduce originals
as large as 36" wide down to
18"—on white or 5 colors of
bond paper Ideal for ter
minal projects and port
folios. And U of O architec
tural students will receive a
15% discount on 1860 xerox
copies
Camera services also available
Line and screened prints up to
18"x23" Oiscounl does not ap
ply to camera services
% EUGENE PRINT
20 East Thirteenth. Eugene. 484-2601
HairLofc
'/wrist *
THOSE EASY LAZY DAYS \
ARE ALMOST HERE! ^
for Men and W*neti
Be ready with an easy style
for comfort with class from
the HAIR LOFT.
2 campus locations
1239 Alder
485-1202
1461 E. 19th
484-2565
WALK INS WELCOME
talk on The Oregon Desert Trail
at 11:30, a film on "The Birds of
Prey" at noon, a discussion of
Mammals of the Oregon Desert
at 12:30 p.m., a discussion of
Uranium Mining in Oregon at
1:30 p.m. and a Bureau of Land
Management Wilderness
Review panel at 2:30 p.m. Each
session lasts one hour.
A talk, slides and music pro
gram titled "A Night Under
Starry Desert Skies" will be held
from 7 to 9 p.m. in the WISTEC
Planetarium.
Thursday begins with a dis
cussion on The Sagebrush
Rebellion at 11 a m. followed by
a film titled "The Earth is Our
Home" at noon, a talk on Desert
Wildlife vs. Grazing at 1 p.m.,
Birdlife of Oregon's Great Basin
Country at 2 p.m., Era of the
Cattle Barons at 3 p.m. and an
Oregon Desert Wilderness
Slideshow at 4 p.m.
A multi-media presentation
on People of the Oregon High
Desert will begin at 7 p.m. in 177
Lawrence.
For more information, contact
the Survival Center at 686-4356.
Students fill
Bookstore
Board posts
Five positions on the Univer
sity Bookstore Board were filled
in voting that took place Mon
day and Tuesday.
A total of 278 votes were cast
in the election.
Mark Burgess was chosen to
fill the freshman position on the
board, receiving 100 votes to
Paul Barish's 73. The freshman
position carries a two-year term
Two sophomore positions
were filled by Scott Essig, who
received 133 votes and Bryan
Van Meter, who finished with
121 votes. Eighty-one ballots
were cast for a third candidate,
Isacc Babbs
Two graduate student posi
tions were available — one two
year term and a one-year term.
Bobbie Weidner gained the
two-year term position with 120
votes, while the 96 votes cast for
John Ragsdale gave him the
one-year term position