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.
He was director of the University
molecular biology department from
1980-83 and served on several national and
international committees.
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