Worker views Nicaragua
By Paul Ertelt
Of the Emerald
Nicaraguans view recent
diplomatic overtures by the
United States with mixed feel
ings, said an American forester
who has worked in that country
for 15 months.
In a recent interview,
Methodist missionary Howard
Heiner said the Nicaraguans are
“skeptical, but this is the only
hope they’ve got in front of
them.” Heiner returned to
Nicaragua Saturday after a short
visit in the United States.
Originally from the Nor
thwest, Heiner now works with
Nicaragua’s natural resource
management agency on projects
such as reforestation, erosion
control and fire control.
The Nicaraguans’ hopes were
raised when Secretary of State
George Shultz made a surprise
visit to Managua on June 1. The
Nicaraguans were deeply im
pressed by the polite and
respectful manner of Shultz,
Heiner said.
“Historically, they’ve been
insulted and treated rudely by
any diplomats coming to the
country,” he said.
Despite Shultz’s good
behavior, however, the
Nicaraguans were distrustful of
him because he insisted that no
third party be present at talks
between the two nations,
Heiner said. The Nicaraguans
felt an observer to the talks
would prevent either side from
using them merely for pro
paganda, Heiner said.
Harry Shauldeman, a U.S.
special envoy, spent two days
last week in confidential talks
with a representative of the
Nicaraguan government. Press
reports did not make clear
whether an observer was pre
sent at the meetings in Man
zanillo, Mexico, Heiner said.
Heiner was in Eugene last
week for a vacation, but he took
some time July 2 to talk about
his work and show slides at the
Eugene Council for Human
Rights in Latin America.
Heiner has spent his whole
life doing forestry work, but
while attending a United
Methodist church in Montana
his consciousness was raised
about the Third World, he said.
In 1969 he left his job as an
executive of the St. Regis Paper
Company to work in the Third
World. Since then, he has done
forestry work in Somalia, Chile
and Bolivia.
Before the Sandinistas attain
ed political power, there was no
forestry management in
Nicaragua, Heiner said, and the
government is now attempting
to bring back forests that have
been cut down or burned.
During the Somoza regime,
which the Sandanistas toppled
in 1979, many Indians were
forced off lowland farms so the
land could be used to raise ex
port crops such as cotton, coffee
and sugar, he said.
The Indians moved into the
forested hills, cleared the land
and attempted to farm on the
steep slopes, but this farming
style caused massive soil ero
sion, Heiner said.
Heiner said he was surprised
when he first arrived in Latin
America by the extent of U.S.
influence there.
“We are the dominant force
within Latin America,” he said.
“We manipulate and cause the
downfall of governments
r
Howard Heiner
there.”
Heiner. a former executive
and an Air Force officer, said he
comes from a conservative
background. He is concerned
about some aspects of the San
dinista government, especially
the press censorship, but he
believes the government is be
ing forced into these measures
because of the state of war
within the country.
“Let’s get the pressure off the
Sandinista government and let
it adjust itself,” he Said.
That pressure has increased
lately, he said. A newly
constructed air base in Hon
duras has enabled the
U.S.-backed “contra” rebels to
increase their military activities
in Nicaragua.
The fact that the Sandinista
government arms its citizens to
defend the country shows that it
is not a totalitarian state, Heiner
said.
Gallery Hosts gala
Eugene’s Opus 5 Gallery is celebrating its
10th anniversary by hosting an exhibit entitled
“10x10” through July 31.
The exhibit will display the works of 10 well
known Eugene artists, each of whom had his or
her first exhibit in Opus 5 10 years ago.
The artists are soft-sculpture artist Mary
Bowman, bookwright Sandra Lopez, glassblower
Bill Lowery, weaver Carol Pratt, jeweler Hanna
Goldrich, and ceramicists Tony Bowman, Sophie
Kirtner, Allan Kluber, Lotte Streisinger and
Joanne Taylor.
Collectively and as individuals these 10 ar
tists have been important in shaping the recent
history of visual arts and crafts activities in
Eugene.
Kluber received a National Endowment for the
Arts grant and won an Oregon Arts Commission
award for handbuilt porcelain lamps and dinner
ware. Goldrich has exhibited works as widely as
Sun River, Idaho and New York City and Streis
inger founded the Saturday Market.
The public is invited to a celebration party
and reception for the artists with woodwind duets
and a no-host bar provided by the Eugene Opera
Friday at 5:30 p.m. The gallery, located at 23 E.
28th Ave., is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mon
day through Saturday.
Museum features arts
from global cultures
The University Museum of Natural
History will display native arts from op
posite sides of the globe and will feature
drawing and storytelling workshops
through the end of the summer.
More than 100 artifacts from cultures of
the Northwest Coast, Alaska and the Col
umbia Plateau are featured in the exhibit
entitled “Raven’s Cousins: Traditional Arts
of the Native Northwest.”
Another special exhibit features
Hungarian costumes, pottery, woodcuts,
embroideries and horn and wood carvings.
The museum also will offer a drawing
workshop, using museum artifacts as sub
jects, every Tuesday and Friday through Ju
ly 27. The workshops begin at 12:30 p.m.
“The Children’s Story Hour,” a reading
and storytelling period, will be held at 1:30
p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays through
July 26.
During July, the museum will be open
Tuesdays through Saturdays from noon un
til 5 p.m.
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