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.