Thursday, May 6, 1982
Eugene, Oregon
Oregon daily
Volume 83
Number 148
emerald
No choice?
Speakers support
abortion freedom
By Ron Hunt
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Women's right to an abortion is under attack in
Congress and must be aggressively defended, said
political candidates, American Civil Liberties Union
representatives and other pro-choice advocates at a
“Pro-Choice Day'' rally Wednesday afternoon
"The most elementary freedom is the right of choice.
That's what s being challenged," said Sen Ted Kulon
goski, D-Junction City Increasing unemployment has led
to a self-concerned conservatism, he told an EMU
courtyard audience
"What is the next issue they will deny?” asked the
gubernatorial candidate
Kulongoski pledged that if he's elected he will be in
the forefront of the battle against a human life
amendment
It is a “crucial situation, ' said Susan Sowards, a
candidate for the Eugene City Council, Ward 4, but
women have learned to organize, largely due to the fight
for the Equal Rights Amendment
' 'Let's keep our rights strong,'' Sowards said, adding
that pro-choice candidates need support in upcoming
elections
Cynthia Wooten, Eugene City Council member, said
that she and U S. Rep Jim Weaver, D-Oregon, are
alarmed about the proposed amendment Women are
“older, smarter and stronger," Wooten said, adding that
A crowd gathered In the EMU Breezeway to llstan to activists advocating a pro-choice stance on abortion.
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Liberation House members dressed In "sack cloth and ashes" at a Wednesday pro-choice rally to symbolize
mourning tor aborted fetuses.
they will not let a "handful of conservative extremists” tell
them what to do. Wooten said she represented Weaver,
who is running for reelection this year, because he was in
Washington, D C.
A human life amendment would require a two-thirds
vote of both houses of Congress and a three-fourths vote
of state legislatures, said Dave Fidanque, associate
director of the Oregon ACLU.
The "anti-choice forces” know a constitutional
amendment would be difficult to pass, he said, but a
human life statute couid be adopted by a simple majority
in Congress. The congressional proposals are "much
more dangerous” than the amendment, Fidanque said.
There are more than 50 bills pending before
Congress that would limit “the right of a woman to have
an abortion,” said Steve Schneider, director of the
campus ACLU.
Abortion is “not just a woman’s issue," said Shirley
Barnes of the National Organization of Women. She
asked the young men in the audience who want to marry
and have children, "Wouldn't you like to determine how
big that family is going to be?" Adding that the right of
contraceptives is in danger, Barnes admonished the
crowd to “Do something constructive!”
"Millions of religious people” are pro-choice, said
Polly Moak of the United Church of Christ. The Southern
Baptists and Lutherans are two of 27 religious organiza
tions that support abortion, she said.
Abortion is also an aspect of religious freedom, Moak
said, adding that pro-choice supporters are concerned
with the "quality of life” and are, therefore, pro-life.
But protestors at the rally carried signs and dressed
in "sackcloth and ashes” to symbolize what they called
God's mourning for the aborted.
About 10 people from Liberation House, a Christian
community affiliated with Faith Center, carried signs
reading, "Jesus Wept," "They've got a right to choose
life they don't want to lose,” “Doctors in Boston and
Orange County have either killed them or left them to
die,” and "God hates sin but loves sinners.
Al Krietz, Liberation House resident, said he's glad
the rally demonstrated freedom of speech at work, but he
said America "needs to protect the unborn who don't
have a voice in the matter.”
The FBI isn’t all glamour and guns
Lots of interviews
fill up agents' day
By Sandy Johnstone
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Eugene’s FBI office looks unpretentious
from the second-floor hallway of the federal
building Its small sign could easily be
missed by passersby
Visitors must ring a bell for admittance
into the FBI quarters. Inside, a poster of the
"ten most wanted" list covers most of an
austere, institutional-white wall.
Special Agent Lynn Enyart looks more
like a businessman in his three-piece grey
suit and tie The interviewing room is func
tionally bare, housing a table, four chairs
and a creed expounding the ethics of a
federal employee
"My life is erratic Crime isn't limited to 8
a m to 5 p.m.," he says, adding that the life
of an FBI agent isn't quite as glamorous as
the media implies
“Our work consists of a lot of interviews
and long drawn out investigations which
would be difficult to sum up in a television
show. It's far from routine.”
Enyart speaks with authority about FBI
matters and does not mind explaining the
technicalities of his work. He volunteers
information and explains himself well,
perhaps a result of his own interviewing
experiences.
"People usually react nervously initially”
when he tells them he is from the FBI, he
says. "They say ‘Gee, what does this guy
want?’ But 99 percent of the people we talk
to are not the target of the investigation."
What Enyart wants is information — from
anyone who will give it.
‘‘There’s no magic way to solve a
crime,” Enyart says. “The key to all
successful investigation is the ability to talk
to people who will help and volunteer >
information. We have to get them sold on
the idea that what we're doing is a worth
while service that benefits the majority of
the population."
The Eugene office deals with federal
offenses com...,tted in Lane, Benton and
Douglas counties. Enyart has worked in
Eugene 13 of his 15 years with the FBI. In
that time, he says with some pride, he has
never had to shoot anyone.
“An unsolved case is like a jigsaw
puzzle. An incident occurs, like a bank
robbery, and a lot of people have seen bits
and pieces of it that they might not think are
meaningful," he says. “After we talk to
everybody, we can put the jigsaw puzzle
together by relying on what people tell us
and any physical evidence like fingerprints
or weapons.
"It’s not enough that someone saw it
happen. Every statement must be cor
roborated as much as possible.",,
Interviewing leads to paperwork, he
says. Everything FBI agents do must be
written up and copies sent to the U.S.
Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney's
Office and sometimes the White House,
usually within a few days.
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