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Argentinians distrust press By Richard Burr Of ttw Emerald The Argentine government’s manipulation of the national press during the Falkland Islands war has caused media skepticism among Argenti nians, a former NBC cor respondent says. Scott Logan, who visited the University last week for Foreign Language and Interna tional Studies Day, says Argentinians believed their country was winning the war against Great Britain until the day before their surrender because the national media lied in their reports. Following the war, citizens’ reactions to a “60 Min utes”-type program called “The Hour of Truth” indicated their press mistrust, Logan says. He heard people in bars refer to the program as “The Hour of Bullshit." After Argentina captured the British-held island off the country’s southeastern coast on April 2, 1982, the military government issued war reporting guidelines, he says. The guidelines prohibited disclosing information that would produce a panic or “facilitate through use of out side information the furthering of psychological enemy goals," Logan says. The national press adhered to the rules, but the foreign correspondents ignored such restrictions without being im prisoned, says the 28-year-old 1976 University graduate and freelance journalist. The government did not has sle journalists much as long as world attention centered on the 74-day war, Logan says. But a week after the Argentine surrender, when Israel invaded Lebanon, Logan says he was thrown in jail. Police officials justified the arrest by attempting to coerce him into signing a confession stating he was drunk and stumbling around the Argen tine capital of Buenos Aires, Logan says. He refused, know ing a friend would notify the U.S. Embassy of his disappearance. After the embassy filed a complaint, a police chief, ac ting as judge, heard the case, Logan says. “The police chief/judge said, ‘You're a spy. And what’s worse, you’re a drunken spy.’ Then he released me,” he says. Correspondents who asked government officials to make statements in English often were kidnapped, says Logan, who covered the foreign ministry. Two such British Broadcasting Corp. reporters were stripped and abandoned on the outskirts of the capital, he says. Neopoldo Galtieri, Argenti nian president during the war, granted a rare exclusive inter view to the reporters to com pensate for the incident, Logan says. The ruling junta did not understand that the press was their best friend, Logan says. The U.S. networks offered Galtieri a 15-minute spot on prime-time television to ex plain the government’s posi tion, but the president said he would have to get up too early in the morning. However, not all Argenti nians disliked the presence of the international press. A son of an army intelligence general knew how to make money from the press, Logan says. The son put the concept of checkbook journalism into practice by creating a press agency called Buy Press. The agency sold videotapes of fighting to the highest bid der of the barred cor respondents, Logan says. Net works bought the exclusive, though poor-quality tapes for amounts sometimes ex ceeding $100,000. Voters approve bookstore rules Voters approved bylaw changes and elected five of 13 candidates during the Univer sity Bookstore elections Thursday and Friday. Voters approved a $20 per meeting stipend for student board members, with a ceiling of $180 for a year. They also approved Ballot “B,” which up dates obsolete sections of the bookstore bylaws and mandates at least one teaching faculty member to fill one of two faculty board positions. In the freshman position race, Marie Hitz defeated Francis Mohajerin. Lawrence Teherani-Ami finished third. Tim McCloskey and Andrew Siegel were elected to two sophomore positions. Dean Mc Clausland finished third in front of three other candidates. Henry Jacobson defeated Ricky Lee Smithrud for the graduate student position. English Prof. Richard Stein edged out Con tinuation Center Director Clarence Schminke for the faculty position. All elected candidates serve two-year terms. OSPIRG ordered to clean boards The ASUO Elections Court found the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group guilty of placing too many posters on bulletin boards. Court member Terry Bodwell, who wrote the decision that was released Fri day, ordered OSPIRG to clean weekly five bulletin boards outside the EMU for three weeks. The group violated an election rule that prohibits candidates from plac ing more than one poster on a bulletin board. OSPIRG representatives argued at a previous hearing that one poster was “in formational” and not campaign material and the other was “attention getting." The informational poster, which at tempted to encourage votes, was cam paign material, Bodwell said. OSPIRG representatives also argued that an ASUO-funded group is not a can didate. But Paul Rudinsky, ASUO elec tions director, told the groups the pro gram would be treated as a candidate. Amphibious vehicles compete in race BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Some contestants got wet and a lot of the spectators got sun burned, but it was a day of glory for Al Von Bachmayer, who won the Fourth Annual Kinetic Sculpture Challenge race at Boulder Reservoir. He set a course record of one hour and 10 minutes over Ray Bob's Hill and around Coot Lake in the race for home-made amphibious vehicles Saturday that drew a crowd of 2,000 spectators. The racing machines had to be capable of speed on land or on the water. 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