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emerald Vol 83, No 54 Eugene, Oregon 97403 Wednesday, November 18, 1981 These tamihar clouds should be clearing from the Eugene area today, according to forecasts issued by the National Weather Service and The Associated Press. Chance of ram is 20 percent while temperatures should be in the mid-50s today and in the mid-30s tonight •K WAX airs Jonestown documentary Three years ago today 913 followers of Jim Jones joined him in a glorious moment of triumph,'' a mass suicide in the remote Guyana village called Jonestown KWAX 91 1 FM airs a 90-mmute documentary. Father Cares The Last of Jonestown," tonight at 7 p m on the third anniversary of the tragedy "Father Cares," created and narrated by James Reston, is a condensed version of tapes recorded by Jones and his disciples in Guyana "With this program you can begin to understand how they made the final decision," says Deborah Amos, producer of the National Public Radio documentary "You actually hear how they were able to do it " It's a tremendous example of radio journalism," adds Denny Guehler, KWAX promotion director It's terrifying. Guehler says "Cocksure rhetoric until the end when he (Jones) was going mad " In his book on the suicide Our Father Who Art in Hell, Reston says. "I saw the glimmering of a profound story, not lust of America in the post-Vietnam period, but of human nature itself It was a novel in reality, a story so incredible, so horrifying, so fascinating that no one would ever believe it, if it were related in a vacuum And yet, it had happened That it was authentic heightened the horror and also the importance " Former University president fired from civil rights position Compiled from Associated Press reports Arthur Flemming, fired without notice as chairman of the U.S Commission on Civil Rights, said he was told in a call from a White House underling that he was being replaced but given no reason Flemming served as University president from 1961 to 1968 The 76-year-old Flemming got the word of his firing minutes before he released a commission report that said the Reagan admimstrastion has "tended to support" a backlash against methods being used to achieve desegregation — busing — with its decision on school cases in Houston. Seattle and Chicago "We belive the Reagan Administration ac lions are in conflict with the Constitution of the United States," Flemming said "All of us, including minorities and women, have something to fear if people succeed in either eliminating or weakening methods we need to use in order to take the Constitution of the United States and make it a living document A spokesman for the civil rights office, Charles Rivera, said he doubts there was a con nection between the release of the report and Flemming's firing Flemming, who was Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Eisenhower admin istration. will be replaced by Clarence Pendleton, a black Republican The nomination is subject to Senate Confirmation Legislators urge board to reverse loan decision A Federal Reserve Board ac tion that resulted in a freeze on Guaranteed Student Loan processing in Oregon has not gone unnoticed by state repre sentatives A letter drafted by Rep Jim Weaver urges the board s governors to reverse a decision contained in an October 1981 Federal Register sent to national banks "Jim is really worried He's initiated this letter and is calling members of the reserve," says city councilor Cynthia Wooten, a member of Weaver's Eugene staff Oregon's six congressional members joined in signing the letter, which was hand delivered to the Federal Reserve Board Monday The conflicting order, cont ained in comments made by the reserve board staff, tells national banks they must comply with a Truth-m-Lending r1'”". Regulation requiring certain disclosures before loans with origination fees can be dis bursed But Congress waived the regulation until August 1, 1982, to speed up Guaranteed Student Loan processing, already weeks behind in many states because of increased demand and new regulations “We respectively urge you to concur with the intent of the legislation as passed by Congress and signed by the president, and modify the staff commentary as it pertains to the Guaranteed Student Loan programs," Weaver's letter says “Students have told me that they're going to have to drop out," Wooten says, and that even action taken Thursday, when the reserve board meets to reconsider the decision, may not be soon enough Special section inside In honor of the traditional shoot-out CM War football game between the Oregon State Beavers and the Oregon Ducks at Autzen Stadium on Saturday, section B of the Emerald today features a facsimile edition of the OSU student daily newspaper, the Daily Barometer. On a potentially dangerous mission, a team of Emerald edifors will travel to Corvallis before the break of dawn today to distribute the four-page Barometer look-alike at strategic points on the OSU campus
