Weaver blasts U.S. foreign policy
Calling Pres. Ronald Reagan a "hawk,"
U.S. Rep. Jim Weaver told a University
crowd Tuesday that miltary spending and
jingoism are the issues that will deter
Reagan's plans for re-election in
November.
"I don't often speak on foreign
policy," said the Eugene Democrat, who
sits on the Agriculture and the Interior
and Insular Affairs Committees. "I
generally work on local issues — timber,
energy. But foreign policy is affecting us
in southern Oregon."
He said the Reagan administration's
$300 billion in military expenditures,
which amount to about 45 percent of the
federal budget, add exorbitantly to the
federal deficit, escalate interest rates and
hurt housing and construction — in
dustries on which Northwest timber is
dependent.
"The military buildup... endangers
not only our security, but our economy,"
he said.
Weaver, a guest of the ASUO and the
University Democrats, spoke to about
100 people in the EMU courtyard. He was
in the area while on a Memorial Day
break.
Referring to the 262 Marines killed in
Lebanon last year, Weaver said U.S.
military responses to conflicts in Central
America and the Middle East have only
served to escalate the violence and to in
flate death counts.
"We only compound violence by tak
ing part. More arms, more death," he
said. "I oppose America giving arms to
anyone, anywhere, anytime."
Weaver criticized covert aid to
Nicaraguan contras, which was cut off by
Congress last week, as well as the most
recent military action of the Reagan
administration.
On Monday, without Congressional
approval, the United States sent 400
Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to Saudi
Arabia in response to recent Iranian
aerial attacks on neutral shipping near
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
"Reagan continues to use extra-legal
means to finance his wars," Weaver said.
"He is subverting the Constitution."
Weaver said no amount of U.S. aid
could keep Persian Gulf oil flowing if
fighting escalated in that region. In that
event, "the oil will be cut off, no matter
what," he said.
Supreme Court to hear military-draft case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme
Court agreed Tuesday to judge the validi
ty of the government's former policy of
prosecuting only those young men who
publicized their resistance to military
draft registration.
The justices said they will study the
case of a 23-year-old former Yale
philosophy student who contends that
his free-speech rights were violated by
the government's "selective
prosecution.”
The court's decision sometime next
year in the case of David Alan Wayte of
Pasadena, Calif., probably will afffect
fewer than 20 draft registration resisters.
The government's passive enforce
ment policy of the registration law in ef
fect since 1980 has been scrapped, and
now "persistent non-registrants” are be
ing sought out for prosecution.
Wayte convinced a federal trial judge
to throw out his 1982 indictment, but the
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San
Francisco reinstated the indictment last
July.
The appeals court said the govern
ment's passive enforcement did not
violate Wayte's constitutional rights.
But another federal appeals court —
the 6th Circuit Court based in Cincinnati
— subsequently ruled in a similar case
that the enforcement policy “clearly
violates the First Amendment (protection
of free speech)."
Today's eclipse
could hurt eyes
Early morning sunbathers and out
door bookworms are cautioned to
keep their eyes on their books and
not skyward, as a solar eclipse is ex
pected to occur today.
At about 11 a.m., the moon's
shadow will travel northeastward at
1,400 miles per hour beginning in
Louisiana and reaching the Maryland
shore less than one hour later, accor
ding to a report by the Astronomical
League.
The eclipse will cross directly
through the southeastern states, and
will be in partial view throughout the
rest of the continental United States,
Hawaii and Puerto Rico, the report
states.
A Willamette Institute of Science
and Technology spokesperson says
the ecliDse will be minimally visible in
the Eugene area between 8:26 and 9:45
a.m. and will only last for about 30
seconds.
Unlike the total eclipse of 1979, to
day's eclipse will be partial or "an
nular," and even though the moon
will cross over the sun, a bright outer
ring will be visible at all times.
According to the National Society to
Prevent Blindness, the safest way to
watch the eclipse is through indirect
viewing, on television or at a profes
sionally sponsored eclipse watch.
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