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Bitter harvest
There you go again, Mr.
President. You claim the
Soviets are bent on exporting
revolutions throughout the
world and yet you demand we
fund the contra rebels in their
rebellion against the
Nicaraguan government.
You condemn the cowardly
act of state-sponsored terrorism
in Lebanon, yet you insist that
the mining of Nicaragua’s har
bors is acceptable policy.
You cry foul when the San
dinistas refuse to recognize
political parties allied to the
contra rebels, while you ra
tionalize our endless support of
Pinochet in Chile, Botha in
South Africa, Marcos in the
Philippines, and a global litany
of other repressive governments
we support.
Historical blindness seems to
be your most consistent short
coming, sir. It was our handr
picked capitalist-sponsored
Somoza dictatorship which the
Sandinistas overthrew. Still,
they have” requested aid
. .repeatedly from your ad
ministration and • the previous
one,.but all pleas have fallen on
•deaf ears-.
A war-torn nation requires a
willing benefactor. 'If we.refuese
•..to help them,' other nations are
. waiting to supply, the capital.:
•The soil .is fertile for Marxist
revolutions in -Latin America,
due to economic and political
“fertilizer’-’ we. have spread
there-during the. last. 85 years.
The endemic poverty, of most
people in Latin America is a bit-'
ter harvest.-Without the most
basic recognition of these
realities, we are doomed to
. watch the Nicaraguan situation
repeat' itself many times. Un
checked, your very policies may
ultimately create a lasting
Soviet presence in Central
America. . .everyone will be a
loser. Michael Sheehan
Biology
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Who are you?
1 wish to address Jeffrey
Bissonnette’s letter (ODE,
March 14) concerning my arti
cle in the ASUO publication
“Off the Record.” He states I
“grossly misrepresented the
philosophical standpoint that's
held by OSPIRG.” Before I res
pond to him, I must ask: Who
the heck are you? I don’t recall
interviewing you. If I did, you
did a terrific job of imper
sonating the person I did inter
view, Carol Benedick. If my
story caused such a ruckus,
where is she instead of some
“designated hitter?”
In my story, Benedick said
OSPIRG is anti-Reagan in the
area of environment. Not
foreign policy or Medicare, but
only environment, it says. Her
words, not mine. You also say I
contrasted OSPIRG with a “self
admitted partisan student
organization.’’ If you read the
entire article, I wrote about
four, not two organizations. In
journalism, a story must be fair
ly balanced. I believe I gave
each group equal space. The
reason I followed OSPIRG with
a description of the College
Republicans was for a
paragraph transition. Most
readers would detect that. I sure
hope you didn’t mind me men
tioning the College Republicans
— just like OSPIRG, they have a
right to be heard.
Furthermore, I didn’t inten
tionally imply anything about
OSPIRG’s political stance or
any conclusions from
Benedick’s words. If I did, you
win. Like any decent journalist,
I wrote what was said.
I don’t deny what I wrote, Mr.
Bissonnette. I just think your
excited finger should be
pointed at the.person who said '
those words, and not at me*. -. ..
Randy Choy
journalism
Ban gay blood
Imagine this: ;You get intOi
your car to go to work or school, .
then unexpectedly, an oncom
ing car veers into your lane.
You swerve off the road and
luckily avoid .a Head-on, colli-. •'
. sion! But unfortunately, as you.
hit a tree,■ you get a cut on your
head from .the steering wheel:
It's not that bad, but you need to
go to the hospital and the doctor
feels you need a small amount
of blood. But guess what? The
blood doner was gay, had been
exposed to AIDs and now you, a
normal, moral heterosexual
have AIDs and a. life expectancy
of less than two years.
This could happen to anyone.
But there is a way to protect
yourself,, your children, and the
rest of society. Write your con
gressman today and demand
that a law be passed that
homosexuals be barred from
giving-blood. We need to make
it a federal crime or else we take
the chance of hundreds, maybe
thousands, of people dying
from blood transfusions.
Over 3 million people needed
blood last year. It's not fair to
society to. allow AIDs to con
taminate the blood supply when
such a simple prevention is
available. How many must die
of AIDs or from conditions that
require blood operations (some
people will put off medical care
for fear of getting AIDs) before
our representatives act for the
public’s interests?
Lori Parkman
Eugene
Give warnings
We are not perfect drivers.
Each of us at one time has made
a mistake while driving. Thus,
we have a police force to correct
us when we make a traffic error.
Most police organizations
give warnings to people who
make unintentional traffic
violations. But not in Eugene, It
is the Eugene police depart
ment’s policy to issue no traffic
citation warnings. However, the
opposite is true in Springfield;
they do give traffic warnings.
So if your blinker goes out in
Springfield, you’ll get a warn
ing and they’ll tell you to fix it.
In Eugene, you’ll be fined!
What is the purpose of the
law in Eugene, to correct the
driver or make money? If the
police chief were to change this
policy, the city may lose
money, however, they will gain
dignity for a more fair legal
system.
Dean Sidwell
PPPM
Quite absurd
The idea that most women see
abortion, a relatively traumatic
and expensive option, as a con
venient means of contraception
strikes me as patently absurd,
yet this seems to be the position
of most anti-abortionists (whom
I refuse to refer to as “pro-life”).
While I agree that it is the
responsibility of a couple (and
not just the woman) to use some
form of birth control prior to in
tercourse if conception is not
desired, this assumes a volun
tary, healthy situation. What of
rape or incest? Why should a
woman be compelled to suffer
for nine "months., at least, or-a
lifetime at - worst, from the '
results of ah assault" by some
sick person? What . if* the .
'• woihain’s life can only be saved. .
'.through abortion:; must she die.
. in a.-futile attempt to give .birth? ,
Shouldnltshe at" least have a
choice i n the • matter of her own
. life and death? ; O'
These last two' issues are rare- -
ly. addressed by anti
abortionists.who prefer .to blow
the first out of proportion.
True, abortion is a right
which rtiay. be abused by some
but for. that matter,. so is free
speech (pornography), or - the
right to bear arms (Gpetz). The j
fact that a right can be abused '
does not justify its curtailmerit.
It is the task of educators, begin
ning with parents and continu
ing through college, to teach
people: the responsible use of
their rights. The alternative is
no rights at all.
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