Churches plan to house 'illegal' refugees
By Paul Ertelt
Of the Emerald
The Interfaith Sanctuary Coali
tion, composed of members of
Eugene churches and other
groups, plans to oppose the U.S.
government by giving sanctuary
and support to refugees from EL
Salvador and Guatemala.
Since the United States refuses
to recognize these people as
political refugees, coalition
members could face conviction
for harboring illegal aliens, which
carries a penalty of five years in
jail and a $2,000 fine for each alien.
On Nov. 5, the Eugene Friends
Meeting, a branch of the Quaker
church, will be the first Oregon
church to offer sanctuary to a
Salvadoran family. The family will
stay in the church under constant
monitoring for two weeks, then
will be released into the com
munity under the care of coalition
members.
But coalition members say the
risk is worthwhile because they
are saving the lives of the
refugees, says church represen
tative Diane Hart.
"Their chances of survival after
returning to their country are not
good," Hart says.
Approximately 1,000 refugees
are deported each month, and an
estimated 30 percent disappear
after their arrival and are presum
ed murdered, adds coalition coor
dinator Marion Malcolm.
Not all members of the coalition
will offer sanctuary. Some will of
fer support through writing let
ters, monitoring and translating
for the family, Malcolm says.
Hart says the reason the United
States has refused the refugees
asylum is political, since the
United States gives military
assistance to the El Salvadoran
government.
"It is viewed as a conflict, since
our dollars are used to kiil these
people," she says.
But the U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Service claims
these people come here for
economic — not political —
reasons and therefore do not
qualify for asylum.
"Their economies are terrible,"
says INS spokesman Vern Jervis.
only 3 percent have been able to
demonstrate this and are being
allowed to stay.”
Jervis says the mere fact their
lives might be endangered is not
enough reason to grant them
asylum.
"Their lives would be en
dangered if they walked through
the South Bronx," he says.
The fact that their lives are endangered is not
enough to grant them asylum, says one im
migration official.
In order to receive political
asylum, people need to show they
will be persecuted for their
religion, nationality, political opi
nions or social group Jervis says.
"The burden is on them to
demonstrate a well-founded fear
of persecution," he says. "So far
But United States law is in viola
tion of international law and the
U.S. Refugee Act of 1980, Malcolm
says. The U.N. Protocol Agree
ment on Refugees says people are
not to be deported back to a coun
try where they fear their lives are
in jeopardy.
"They are in danger of persecu
tion and death by their own
government, and by right-wing
death squads supported by their
government," Malcolm says.
University Speech Prof. William
Cadbury, coalition member* says
there are about 60 sanctuaries in
the United States supported by
600 churches.
So far, the INS has not con
fronted the churches nor
deported any of the people they
harbor. Jervis says the INS has
concentrated on employers and
professional alien smugglers.
"We don't want a controversy,"
he says. "We don't want to give
these churches publicity, which is
what they are after."
The coalition does not deny it is
seeking publicity, but members
say publicity will draw attention to
what they consider a serious
issue.
Photo by Brian trb
Computer artists Richard Hoover and Tim McGovern explained their method of computer magic to 1,300 people at
the Pacific Northwest Computer Graphics Conference.
Computer graphics enliven films
By Michael Doke
Of the Emerald
Pac-Man drinks 7-Up. Robots shuffle off
to "Flashdance." A public schoolhouse
beats Space Invaders. The Clash rock the
subway.
Computer magic makes the unreal
seem alive.
More and more, advertising agencies re
ly on computer graphics in their television
commercials to sell their wares, Richard
Hoover of Robert Abel Associates told a
crowd of 1,300 Monday night at the Hult
Center.
Hoover, a University graduate, creates
new graphics for films and advertisements
using computers.
"We are film makers and advertisers
first, but the computer is our foundation,"
he said.
Using live action, models and computer
graphics, Hoover and his technicial direc
tor, Tim McGovern, have created many
commercials familiar to television
viewers.
For the 1984 Olympics, Hoover and
McGovern enlisted the talents of a digitiz
ed cast of characters for the ABC televi
sion network spot.
They began by inserting figures of both
the ABC and Olympic logos into a com
puter terminal, then manipulating the
logos together to give them depth.
By moving the characters around they
were able to get different perspectives
and new insights into how they could use
the logos.
Through a process known as "matting,”
or combining a variety of digitized
characters, the newly designed logo is ad
ded to flags from nations participating in
the summer games.
A live action footage of a fire, filmed at
half speed, and a computer graphic torch
are added to the video, and ABC has a
spot to announce the Olympic games.
The five-second commerical took weeks
of work, Hoover said.
And besides selling sports events,
Hoover, McGovern and Robert Abel
Associates have developed commericals
for cars, soft drinks, video games and
telephones — all using computer
graphics.
Hoover even developed a rock
videotape for the Styx song “Goodnight
from Paradise."
Like traditional cartoon animation, com
puter graphics must be designed one
frame at a time, Hoover said.
The two hour presentation, shown on
an $85,000 General Electric large screen
video projector, ended with the presenta
tion of 20 computer enhanced film pro
ductions. Most were made entirely with
computer graphics and were from the
United States, Canada and Japan.
Grenada—
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U.S. helicopter gunships circled the St.
George’s Medical College, apparently draw
ing fire from Grenadian snipers, American
student Mark Carpenter reported by ham
radio.
"Every time a gunship goes over, there's
fire all around us," Carpenter said in a
broadcast monitored by The Associated
Press.
The invasion, coming just two days after a
deadly bomb attack on Marines in Lebanon,
stirred new unease about foreign U.S.
military operations among some in
Washington, particularly Democrat
congressmen.
The Soviet Union demanded that U.S.
forces withdraw immediately from
Grenada. The British government express
ed reservations about the attack. And
medical school officials and another
American ham operator on the island in
sisted U.S. citizens had been in no danger
from Grenada's new authorities.
Leftist-led Nicaragua, communist Cuba
and Mexico on Tuesday condemned the
U.S. invasion of Grenada, but most other
Latin American governments reserved com
ment or made cautiously worded
statements of concern.
The resort island has been under Marxist
sway since a coup in 1979. But in a new
government upheaval that began two
weeks ago, a military-led group identified
by Washington as hard-line Marxists took
command, and Prime Minister Maurice
Bishop and some of his Cabinet ministers
were slain.
The new "Revolutionary Military Coun
cil" was headed by Gen. Hudson Austin.
The U.S. administration said the island,
1,500 miles southeast of Miami, posed a
strategic threat to the United States
because Soviet-bloc aircraft might eventual
ly use the airport at Point Salines.
Reagan, appearing at a White House news
conference, listed three reasons for the in
vasion: protecting American lives, "to
forestall further chaos" and to "restore
order and democracy."
Reagan asserted that the island had been
under the control of "a brutal group of lef
tist thugs."
He said the joint operation had been
mounted at the request Sunday of the
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States.
But a senior State Department official in
Washington, who declined to be identified,
said the decision to invade was made in the
"middle of last week."
Troops from the islands of Jamaica, Bar
bados, Dominica, St. Vincent, Antigua and
St. Lucia took part in the assault.
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