Chaos abounds, Weaver says
»y Andrew LaMar
Of the Emerald
The world is in a “state of chaos” and should
use common sense or face the consequences, Rep.
Jim Weaver said Thursday in the EMU Forum
Room.
Weaver, the Democratic incumbent of
Oregon's 4th District, was elected in 1974 and is
running for his sixth consecutive term in the Nov.
6 election.
Jim Weaver
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time of .Queen Elizabeth, and they got rich,*’
Weaver- said. .“Now,' today, our buccaneers
plunder nature to get rich.”
Weaver said 7 percent of the world's tropical
forests are ‘dying’each- year, yet we keep pouring
chemicals into the air. In the past two years, one
third of the. German forests have also died, he.
added.
In addition, the world’s oil supply is just
about gone, he said. “Perhaps we have 25 years of
it left,” he said. But because there is now a
worldwide glut of oil, the major problem isn’t oil
supply but what to do with oil waste-products,
Weaver added.
“We can't find places to bury the waste of the
products we make from oil, so we use our air,
land and water to dump it, while air, land and
water are the essentials of life,” he said.
1 ask now, when will we come to our
senses? ... if we come to our senses,” he said.
Weaver said that people are willing to
destroy the environment to gain wealth.
What’s to cure all this if common sense
won t? Weaver asked. “Well, you can have your
choice a war, a depression or a police state.
“The world spends $700 billion a year on
weapons, he said. “Right now the world is at
peace. We only have wars in Nicaragua, El
Salvador, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan. Chad, Moroc
co, Vietnam, Cambodia. . .” Weaver said with
sarcasm. “But it’s all right, because we’re
building more nuclear weapons.”
Weaver said that 300 atomic bombs would
easily destroy the world, but the United States
has 10,000 nuclear missiles and is building more.
Our country and the Soviet Union are both going
broke in doing so, he said.
Eighty years ago, Pres. Theodore Roosevelt
could go skinny-dipping in the Potomac River,
Weaver said, but now the White House is an arm
ed camp.
“Our beloved Capitol; once free and open to
everyone, is now surrounded by guards and by
concrete barricades everywhere.”
Weaver spared little effort criticizing Pres.
Ronald Reagan, calling him a president who “ad
mits to being confused." He said Reagan whined
about former Pres. Jimmy Carter’s deficit and
then proceeded to construct the largest federal
deficit in the history of the United States.
“In one more year Reagan's deficit will
amount to the entire deficits- from George'
Washington through Jimmy Carter,” Weaver
■said. He also said the interest on the national'
debt is $53-billion a year, the second largest item
i.ri the U-S.: budget; the military budget is the
largest.
“I .personally find a depression preferable to
a nuclear war,”- Weaver said. “If we are broke, we
won't be able to afford nuclear weapons.
“So, I ask, why not try common sense?’-’
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A workshop covering rape
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held at the Red Lion Inn, Oct.
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The workshop, sponsored by
the University’s department of
human services and the Con
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three guest speakers.
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