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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1986)
Rally to focus on conviction of activists r rom hm<»ralci and wire service reports Thursday's conviction of eight sane tuary movement activists in Arizona, who were found guilty by a federal jury of conspiring to smuggle Salvadoran and Guatemalan aliens into the United States, will be the focus of a lunchtime rally to day at Eugene's Koinonia Center. leaders of the Interfaith Sanctuary Network, which is coordinating today's protest, hope the rally will demonstrate that the Arizona defendants have support in the Pacific Northwest, said Bill Cad bury, a member of the Eugene Friends Meeting and a local leader of the movement, : • • . •. ■ . jt. About 12 Central American ‘refugees" are currently housed in Eugene by the movement, which in eludes the Central Presbyterian Church; the IJnitarian Church of Eugeni? and Cad-, oury's church, yyhich .is a chapter of the •Quaker church. " : . . Rally organizers vyill ask supporters . ; to sign a "statemenCof complicity'’ in- .‘ support/of- the Arizona; defendants and ... tn® nat ion wide movement. The statement «'•' wfll.be presentedtofederal prosecutors at the’EugeheFeiieraI building next week. • . Cadbury said,' * • . ' "(The convictions) come as no sur prise. he said. "The case was essentially over... when the defendants were prevented from entering a description of conditions in Central America into the testimony.” During the trial, which lasted almost six weeks, the prosecution maintained that the defendants violated U.S. im migration laws between late 1981 and the t>eginning of 1985, helping people who came to this country only for economic betterment. ' _ But the defendants contended they lawfully aided people who were fleeing persecution ih their homelands'. .. At the opt&et of the trial, U.S. At . torney Donald.Reno )r. succeeded in hav ing the proceeding’s scope'narrowed'to exclude Such; issues as religion, humanitdriahism.-international law and , political .asylum'/' V .! '•• . ' >.;•. •. • ... ■. .. •The jury deliberated more than. 47! : 'hours during, nine clays’ on a total of 30 felony .and misdemeanor charges'against the- 11’, defendants^ who included a .Presbyterian; - minister, (wo-, Roman. Catholic priests, a.nui).and seven church lay workers.- l; . • ” O . . „ • . . . . o* • . ' In addition to the six found guilty of charges against them, two were convicted of lesser charges and three were acquitted on all counts. Conviction of felony conspiracy can bring as much as five years’ imprison ment and $10,000 fines per defendant, and the other felony counts are punishable by the same prison terms and $2,000 fines. Conviction of misdemeanor con spiracy, as with the other misdemeanor counts, can bring as much as six months and $500 fines. “The convictions will strengthen the movement nationwide because of all the publicity,'’ Cadbury said. Nationally the movement includes 281 churches; six cities, 11 universities arid 17 city councils, Cadbury said. • movement activists will ' continue to house and protect Central Americans, he-said. . ." . “The underground, railway will re inain strong in spite of. the ruling.*’ he added. . . ■ . • *; T.he rally will begin .at noon. The Koinonia.Genter is-located at 1414 Kin-" caid St. . •' . ’ ... * mm New bookstore board announced Winner# of the (‘)«fi University Bookstore Board nt Directors election were announced Thursday Th# candidates who received the* most votes in the competition for various position# on (he board am as follows: •Sophomore position Kathy Cleveland Mika Sawyer •Studoni-at-larg** position C.rant Kimball •Graduate student position Roger Durham •classified *t«H management service personnel position Shelley Carlson •Faculty-at-large position Barbara Edwards The; new lx>ard members take* office immediately Physics professor joins national academy University physics professor Brian VV. Matthews was elected to the National Academy of Sciences Tuesday. Matthews is one of only seven scientists at the l Jniversl tv to Ik; selected for memliership in the prestigious academy. The academy selected 59 new members at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C.. bringing its membership to 1,477. Former University scientist Ira Herskowitz. who now conducts research at the University of California at San Francisco, also gained membership to the academy. "■' John Moseley. University vice presi dent fur research, said Matthews combines the best qualities of a research scientist, teacher and faculty leader. "His research has attracted world-wide attention and places Oregon at the very forefront of research in his field.” Moseley said. Matthews has been a member of the University Institute of Molecular Biology since 1969, where he has analyzed how some of the basic building blocks of life fit together. In 1981 he and his colleagues reported their discovery of the structure of a protein •'switch" molecule called *’cro" that turns on and off the genetic informa tion stored in DNA. Prior to joining the University faculty in 1969. Matthews was a staff-member of the Medical Research Council laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge: England. 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