Myers weighs African apartheid
By Brent Walth
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South Africa is "a part of the worid that is
as potentially explosive as the Middle East,
El Salvador, Northern Ireland," according
to Clay Myers, Oregon state treasurer, who
recently returned from a vacation in south
ern and eastern Africa.
"I saw this as a great human rights trip,
one of the best educational experiences
I've had,” he said of the trip.
He and his wife Elizabeth spent almost
four weeks in Africa interviewing people
about the social and political climate there
Myers spoke Friday night to 350 interna
tionally-clad high school students in the
EMU Ballroom for a statewide model United
Nations.
He emphasized that his trip, which in
cluded time in Kenya and Zimbabwe, was a
private one, but he noted he will go through
some debriefing with the State Department
The treasurer spoke for the most part of
South Africa's apartheid rule — the
legalized segregation of the races
"There are very strong winds of change
blowing in South Africa," Myers said. "The
only question is whether the change will
come fast enough to avoid a very violent
and a very bloody revolution.”
The US, as well as being part of the
human rights movement there, hopefully
has an "opportunity to still get strategic
‘The only question is
whether the change
will avoid a very
violent revolution.'
minerals," including uranium, he added.
As to the issue of American investments
in South Africa, Myers noted that a with
draw of U S. interests would hurt the people
of South Africa more than its government.
"I'm very ambivalent. I have a split per
sonality on the subject," said Myers, ex
plaining that even though he cannot sup
port the apartheid rule, too many blacks
would go without work if the international
community withdrew its investments.
Following Myers' 15-minute talk,
students posed questions and views, at
times counter to those of the speaker
One student from Lesotho — an in
dependent black country within South
Africa’s borders — questioned the
credibility of the 150 interviews Myers
conducted.
“You met nobody," the student said,
saying that the "black leaders” Myers had
interviewed were not representative of the
majority of South Africans.
When Myers responded with a list of the
officials he spoke to. the student interrupt
ed, again saying Myers had spoken to
"nobody.” The audience responded with
applause.
Myers said he understood the student's
frustration and viewpoint, which he com
pared to a black porter he met in Johan
nesburg The reference drew jeers from the
diners
The student, who refused to be identified
or interviewed, remained unmoved. “As far
as I’m concerned, you met nobody,” the
student maintained. "Those interviews
were arranged by somebody that made it
possible that you meet the ‘nobodys.’ Am I
wrong?”
Discussing the student's response
privately after the talk, Myers said South
African are experienceing much frustration
‘. there might
be a... revolution;
that can’t be held
back 20 years. ’
and pessimism.
"They say there might be a violent
revolution, that they can't be held back
more than five to 20 years,” he said.
Myers quoted a "great Christian state
ment” from an interveiw he had held.
" ‘They can deny us our rights. They can
rape our women. But why can’t they treat
us as we wish to treat them?’ ”
Israeli calls Sinai return
necessary risk for peace
By Rick Attig •
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The Middle East is a "crazy
area with many complex prob
lems,” a retired Israeli military
official told a University audience
Thursday
Colonel Yacov Heichal, who
helped negotiate the controversial
Sinai withdrawal that officially
ended Sunday, was well guarded
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by Eugene police as he spoke to
about 100 people on the past and
present problems in the troubled
Middle East The police guards
accompanied him in response to
death threats Heichal received
last week in Corvallis
Heichal spoke and answered
questions for nearly two hours as
he discussed the history of many
Middle East problems, the return
of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.
Faculty awarded grants
Fourteen University faculty members each have been
awarded a $2,500 Faculty Research Award for studies to be
conducted this summer
The awards are intended "to stimulate research by providing
a sustained time for scholarly and creative endeavors." said Fred
Wilhelm, the graduate school research administrator
Project topics range from a history of alternative voices in
American journalism to a defense of French poetry, from the
structure of hydrogen bonds to Japanese corporate influences
on the American labor market
This year, 35 faculty members applied for a share of the
funds, which come from state appropriation. The Faculty
Research Committee approved awards for six tenured and eight
ur>-tenured applicants
Tenured faculty members awarded a grant include: William
Calin, Thomas Dyke, Stephen Kohl, Stan Pierson, Donald Taylor
and Jerry Wolfe
Un-tenured faculty awards went to John Cornell, Robert
Hackman, Lauren Kessler, David Milton, Christer Mossberg,
Robert Ousterhout, Gregory Retallack and Catherine Wilson.
The faculty research award program began in the
mid-1950s. It has distributed more than $500,000 to faculty
members in the last decade.
the Palestine Liberation Organ
ization and the West Bank, and
the Reagan Administration and its
work in the Middle East
Transferring the Sinai back to
Egypt is a risk, Heichal said But
he said he feels that the risk must
be taken for peace
"I fought there three times,” he
said. “I'm very sad But because
of the peace it is necessary and it
is good.”
Heichal, noting that the nine
month truce between the PLO
and Israel ended last week when
Israeli jets blasted Palestinian
strongholds in Beirut, Lebanon,
said he knows no solution involv
ing the Palestinians and West
Bank.
“It's very sad,” he said. “But
the Palestinian problems will not
be solved in the next 10 or 15
years.”
The American media is not fair
ly portraying the conflict between
the Israelis and the PLO, Heichal
said.
“The American media is being
bought off by the PLO,” he said.
"They have an American public
relations firm, and the media is not
showing the casualties of the Is
raeli soldiers. They only talk of
Palestinian casualties. ”
The Reagan Administration is
just “not interested enough” in
the Middle East, Heichal said.
Reagan is interested in only three
things — the U S. economy, Eu
rope, and his ranch in California,
he said.
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