In city council action
Bikes, cars receive boost
By RICHARD WAGONER
Of the Emerald
Bicycles and small cars — two important
elements in Eugene’s program to cut energy
consumption — got a boost Tuesday from the city
council.
The council approved the annual revision of
the Eugene Bikeways Master Plan calling for
more city bike lanes and amended the city’s
zoning code to provide more parking spaces
downtown for compact cars.
The council approves each year an update of
the master plan to evaluate any changes in needs
or conditions that were not known when the plan
was originally passed.
The plan lists the proposed bikeways projects
to meet the city’s goal of providing 150 miles of
bike lanes and signed bike routes on city streets.
Some of the changes called for in this year’s
update include:
• A general policy statement which requires
bicycle facilities be provided where applicable on
all new or reconstructed streets.
• A connecting bike path for commuter cy
clists near an extension of Hansen Lane in the
River Road area. The connecting path would
provide bike access to the West Bank Trail and
would run along parks-owned property.
• A bike path along the railroad tracks
between the Willie Knickerbocker Bridge over the
Willamette River to Glenwood. The path will go
south from the bridge and skirt near the solid
waste treatment plant on the south side of
Glenwood. The path also will be lit.
• A signed route along Olive Street from 15th
Avenue to 10th Avenue for cyclists riding down
town. Olive Street already is heavily used by
bicyclists but it is not now a signed street route.
The plan update also calls for 10 other bike
paths or signed street routes to be added to the
city's bikeway system.
The code revision approved by the council
allows parking lot owners to designate up to 30
percent of the spaces in their lots for compact
cars and establishes smaller size requirements for
small-car spaces.
City officials say the code change will in
crease the number of parking spaces possible in a
given parking lot and should reduce the amount
of land needed for parking.
The new size standards will be reviewed in
two years when the council can decide to in
crease the amount of compact-car spaces al
lowed.
Guatemalan tragedy described
By TOM VISOKY
Of the Emerald
While the American press
focuses on El Salvador, a
tragedy unfolding in neighbor
ing Guatemala is being largely
ignored, a Guatemalan trade
union lawyer said Tuesday.
“There has been a tremen
dous news blackout on the si
tuation in Guatemala,’’ said
Francisco Larue.
Larue, who left Guatemala in
February after discovering his
name was on two “death lists"
there, is on a speaking tour in
the United States to publicize
Guatemala’s plight. Larue
spoke in the Koinonia Center
and on campus.
Larue is asking Americans to
resist any efforts by the Reagan
administration to send arms or
economic aid to Guatemala’s
government. Arms shipments to
Guatemala were halted by the
Carter administration.
Larue traced the beginnings
of Guatemala’s “black history”
back to 1954 when an army
coup overthrew a 10-year-old
democratic government. Since
then a succession of military
governments have become
more repressive, he said.
Amnesty International es
timates that 55,000 people
have been killed or kidnapped
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remaining villagers who began
attacking the executioners, he
said.
Larue said some of the
villagers escaped into a ravine
behind the village where they
were killed by American-made
helicopters fitted with machine
guns.
More than 85 people died in
that massacre, according to La
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Larue said the Guatemalan
army, which is the largest in
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ruthless qualities that permit
such atrocities in the young
men it enlists.
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herded into the army where they
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Larue added.
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like the fascists yelling and
screaming: ‘If my father goes
communist, I kill my father. If my
mother goes communist, I kill
my mother,’ ” Larue said.
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he added.
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