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Monday, May 17, 1982 Eugana, Oragon Oregon daily Voluma 83 Numbar 153 Photo by Erich Boekelheide Protesters wind their way through city streets. Nuclear freeze Warm weather rallies urge weapons freeze Groups voicing support of a nuclear weapons freeze gathered at five points in Eugene and Springfield Saturday for mini-rallies and then marched to a main rally at Alton Baker Park An estimated 1,500 to 2,000 demonstrators visited the main protest and a Peace and Social Justice Fair, organized by Citizens for Lasting Security and co-sponsored by other local anti-nuclear groups At the EMU courtyard about 150 people gathered to hear speakers and sing folk songs in protest of nuclear weapons before heading to the park Self-proclaimed ' peacenik” Aaron Novick, head of the University's biology department, was at the first atomic bomb test in New Mexico in 1945 Unless a person has seen a blast, he can have "no conception of what it means,” he said The English language doesn't contain a word to describe the destruction, he added Karen Steingart, president and founder of the Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, told the crowd to "feel in your guts" the effects of a nuclear bomb Besides deaths from the initial blast, doctors would have to cope with radiation sickness, fires, and sunburns due to a depletion of the ozone layer The problems would be intensified due to "few doctors, and no painkillers for the suffering,” she said Nothing can survive a nuclear war, said U S. Rep. Jim Weaver, D-4th District. "The only hope is the prevention of nuclear war Only through awareness and our own action can we survive,” he said. There is no such thing as a winnable or limited war, Weaver said, adding he has voted against all expenditures for weapons "I did that as an act for national security," he added British Sea Harriers hit Argentine supply vessels LONDON (AP) — British Sea Harrier war planes bombed and strafed two Argentine vessels in the Falkland Sound Sunday and the crew of one abandoned ship after the attack, the Defense Ministry announced. British correspondents with the task force said Harriers also bombed the airfield at the capital city of Stanley for the sixth time since May 1 when the shooting began in the Falklands war zone. The Argentine military command said one ship, the Rio Carcarana, "caught fire," and the Bahia Buen Suceso “was damaged." It said nothing about the crews but reported they “were carrying fuel, food and medicine to the people of the islands,” were unarmed and were attacked about 2 p.m. Sunday in the San Carlos Strait between East Falkland and West Falkland islands. Michael Nicholson of Independent Television News, one of the reporters with the British fleet, said the Rio Carcarana, listed by Lloyd’s Register of Ships as an 8,364-ton general-cargo ship, was attacked with bombs and 30mm cannon in Port King Bay on the east-central shore of East Falk land At the same time, Nicholson said, jets at tacked a vessel tied up to the jetty near Fox Bay Settlement on West Falkland but “the Harrier pilots did not drop their bombs because it was too close to the village." "They came in very close and strafed the ship with their 30mm cannons," he said “The pilots could not see the name of the ship but they have reported that the ship did return fire, hitting one of the Harriers in the tail.” He said the plane made it back safely to the aircraft carrier Hermes and the pilot was not injured. In another communique, Argentine officials said they believed the transport vessel Isla de Los Estados was sunk. The communique said the 3,900-ton ship, reported missing Friday, had a crew of between 30 and 40 and was used by the navy to carry supplies between the Falklands and the Argentine mainland. The fresh attacks came hours after British Defense Secretary John Nott warned that Britain would intensify its military efforts and could invade the Argentine-held islands in the South Atlantic if no breakthrough is made in United Nations peace talks “within the course of the next week.” Nott’s warning came as speculation in creased that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, pressured by impatient Conservatives, will order the RoyaJ Navy war fleet to launch a full-scale invasion. Britain's domestic news agency Press As sociation reported Thatcher met with her "War Cabinet” at her Chequers estate outside London and there “is now a growing feeling that an invasion may not be much longer delayed." In Luxembourg, Britain's nine Common Market partners were discussing whether to renew the one-month economic boycott on Ar gentina that expires today. Britain wants the punitive action extended. U S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig and British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym held a joint news conference after a private meeting in Lux embourg. Haig said the United States "stands ready to make any contribution it can make to bring about a political solution” and Pym said “negotiations are very much alive.” Tuition might be adjusted according to class levels By Ann Portal Of tf» EnwraM Undergraduate University students may not pay equal tui tion in the future, if a proposal discussed Friday by the State Board of Higher Education’s Finance Committee is built into the 1983-85 biennium budget. The finance committee met at the University to review state system staff proposals to be used in preparing the 1983-85 budget, which must be given to the governor by Sept 1. Addi tional budget material will be presented to the entire board at a May 28 meeting. According to a staff report, several presidents of higher education institutions have suggested that undergraduate tuition be determined by whether students take lower division or upper division classes The presidents' suggestion is a response to pressure from sinking enrollment caused partly by lower tuition at public community colleges. Higher education officials worry that high college and university tui tion may channel incoming students to community col leges, where tuition has not in creased as rapidly. But Robert MacVicar, President of Oregon State University, told finance commit tee members a more appro priate solution might be to con vince community colleges to charge students a “fair percen tage” of the cost of instruction. If the tuition structure for re sident undergraduates is changed, tuition for nonres ident undergraduates also should be changed, which couid put nonresident tuition and fees over $4,000 a year, MacVicar said. Nonresident undergraduate tuition and fees at the University this year is $3,768. Resident undergraduate tuition and fees is $1,190 The resident tuition is the highest of 11 Western u niversities, and only the Univer sity of Colorado has higher nonresident tuition. Committee members asked for a more-detailed proposal on the effect of different tuition levels for upper and lower divi sion students. According to instructions from the governor’s office on how to prepare the 1983-85 budget, the $49-per-term tuition “surcharge’’ is — at this time — still included in the budget. The budget guidelines require that higher education's base budget request retain the same proportion of funds as the 1982-83 budget. That means money generated by the sur charge is automatically includ ed, unless at some point higher education is allowed to substi tute state general funds for tui tion money. During a Friday public Friday on the budget proposals, Bob Watrus, Oregon Student Lobby executive director, urged the board to eliminate the tuition surcharge. Watrus also asked that the state system return to an instructional fee policy, such as limiting tuition to a certain percentage of the cost of in struction. That percentage has steadily increased over the past two years, Watrus said. The 1983-85 higher education budget begins with the 1982-83 budget as a foun dation. Packages including both additions and subtractions from that budget will be pre sented to the Legislature as “decision packages.” An early draft of those pack ages discussed Friday places importance on improving facul ty salaries and restoring money for library acquisitions, building maintenance and rehabilitation, instructional equipment, com puting hardware, support staff . and services and supplies.
