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Friday, April 2, 1982 Eugene, Oregon Oregon daily Volume 83 Number 122 emerald Photo by Bob Bakor Too Tall Trio This not-so-obvious trio performed in the University music school faculty's 13th an nual Aprille Foote's Concert Thursday night at Beall Concert Hall. This threesome in cluded Les Breidenthal, Dorothy Bergquist and a hidden Paul Weslund. European activists ask for nuclear arms freeze By Ron Hunt Of *10 Emorakl Two Europeans, distressed with American and Soviet stockpiling of nuclear arms, stopped Thursday in Eugene on the "U.S.-Europeace Tour 1982.” Anne Grinyer of Great Britain’s Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and Enrico Chiavacci, leader of Pax Christi Italia, are two of ten European peace movement leaders speaking in 50 U S. cities through the end of this week. Grinyer and Chiavacci, speaking at a morning press conference, rejected the concept of limited nuclear war and encouraged Americans to join the nuclear freeze campaign. “Any nuclear war would not remain limited,” Grinyer said. Only in the last three or four years has this point hit “close to home” with question of British-based U S. missiles, she said. A majority of Britons oppose them because the missiles are designed to fight — not deter — nuclear war, Grin yer said. The United States and the Soviet Union both desire to negotiate from a position of strength, she ad ded. The nuclear freeze campaign in the United States is "a very important start.” she said, because a freeze could be followed by bilateral nego tiations to reduce and, finally, termi nate nuclear weapons. “We have to learn to trust the Rus sians,” she said, adding that there is a question on whether the West is any more trustworthy than the Soviets. “Oppression is something you can fight . . but there is no way you can fight against the aftermath of a nu clear war,” Grinyer said about a pos sible eventual Soviet domination of Europe. The options are non-violence or non-existence, she said. European peace leaders are at tempting to influence Soviet policy as well, Grinyer and Chiavacci said. For example, 18 pacifists visited the U S S R, in January to participate in interviews at the Kremlin and with future pastors. It’s had to be said over and over that the European peace movement is not anti-American and pro-Soviet, Grin yer said. Chiavacci — priest, social ethics professor, and president of the Italian Society for Catholic Moral Theology — outlined four “truths” which, he said, form the rationale behind the Eu ropean peace movement: • “We reject flatly any kind of nuclear war,” he said, adding that self-defense is not an unlimited right. • The arms race is "a machine gone mad,” and is unjust, stealing from the poor of the world. Photo by Erich Bookothoido Rev. Enrico Chlaraccl • Europeans, unlike many Amer icans, view the world as one family rather than a collection of sovereign states, he said. The “They're Rus sians" or “They're Chinese” mindset is pointless because people of all nationalities are fellow human beings. • The East/West problem is con nected with “North/South gap.” Nu clear disarmament between East and West could leave the southern hemis phere, where many die of starvation every day, no better off, he added. This point is largely ignored in the U S. peace movement. The "U.S.-Europeace Tour 1982” is sponsored nationally by the American Friends Service Committee and by Clergy and Laity Concerned. County dumps Glenwood garbage facility By Harry Estave Of Dm CnwnM University and Lane County official! are happy with the recent decision to set the county resource-recovery facility, * project that so far has cost county tax payers more than $2 million and hasn' worked since it was scheduled to open ir 1977. The Glenwood facility, which is sup posed to shred garbage and separate i into recyclable metals and burnable fuel has been under consideration by tht University as a source for alternative fue to produce electricity. Prospects foi eventually buying “refuse derived fuel’ from the facility “are enhanced by open ing it up to private industry," says Ra) Hawk, University vice president for ad ministration and finance Hawk says he hopes a private firm car get the plant into working condition anc then sell the garbage-based fuel to the University — something Lane County has been unable to accomplish. The Univer i sity would use the fuel to bolster the I dwindling supply of wood waste t products, or "hog fuel" now used to fire generators in the physical plant. The University has the capacity to burn all the refuse-derived fuel the Glenwood plant could produce, according to Hawk. The alternative fuel could replace as much as 50 percent of the hog fuel it needs to heat and light the campus, he says ■‘Our initial concern was that the county would raze the plant,'' Hawk says. That concern came from statements made by Lane County Commissioner Jerry Rust, who introduced the motion to terminate Lane County's involvement with the resource-recovery plant. Rust shares his views with several Lane County environmentalists who would like to see the facility dismantled entirely. In the only test burn of fuel generated by the facility, which took place at the University Physical Plant last year, air pollution was measured to be higher than legally allowed. At least three firms have already ex pressed an interest in the plant, says County Commissioner Vance Freeman. Freeman named Ratheon, Teledyne and Amco as potential buyers. Whoever buys the facility would contract the county for a steady supply of garbage to feed it, Freeman says. The county could eventually break even on its initial investment, he says. Hawk says he is confident that who ever buys the facility would eventually sell the refuse-derived fuel to the University at a price comparable to that of hog fuel. ‘‘We really at this time are their only customers,” he says. Photo by David Coray The County plans to sell the Glenwood garbage facility — and three companies have expressed Interest.
