Editorial
S. Koreans display
ability to reform
When South Korean voters approved a new constitution
last week, they not only reaffirmed a commitment toward
ending the current military dictatorship, buf also showed a
determination to establish true democracy.
The new constitution establishes direct presidential
elections and other democratic reforms.
Considering the voters' approval rate was 93 percent,
the commitment of South Koreans to reform, has continued,
showing the political gumption of the South Korean people.
Furthermore, the fact that 80 percent of the country’s
25.B million eligible voters cast ballots shows their ability to
act decisively when political change is at stake.
By voting actively and decisively for direct presidential
elections. South Koreans are demanding a complete
presidential change.
In a contrasting political development last week. Kim
Dae-jung. who was previously in solidarity with the opposi
tion Reunification Democratic Party (RDP), formally an
nounced his candidacy for president. Hut since Kim Young
sam. president of the RDP. already announced that he would
seek the presidency. Dae-jung's announcement formally
splits the opposition party. The result is a decrease in the
potency of the opposition party and an increase in the
possibility that government candidate Roh Tae-woo will
succeed the current president. Chun Doo-hwan.
If the opposition party wants to secure the presidency
successfully, however, then it must reconcile the split bet
ween Kim Dae-jung and Kim Young-sam. Otherwise, the op
position's quest for a true end to the current military-backed
government will be sabotaged by their own failure to put
forth a single candidate.
Nevertheless, approval of the new constitution is a big
step toward democracy. The trend hopefully will continue
into the future with a fair and free presidential election.
Incident shows people
must overcome biases
On the morning that Victor Adonri was to appear in
court to testify that a Springfield store owner pointed a real
looking toy gun at him, he encountered damage to his car
and racial slurs from two unidentified white males.
According to Kugene police, one of the suspects yelled
without provocation a degrading and offensive remark at
Adonri. who originally is from Nigeria.
Next, when Adonri returned to his Ford Escort, he
found damage to the license plate and a branch from a fir
tree lying across the top of the car.
This incident raises concern with regard to racial
discrimination in the Eugene and Springfield area.
Moreover, the incident serves as a harsh reminder that racial
biases still exist in what is otherwise known to be a fairly
liberal place.
Each and every individual should consciously reflect to
determine the extent to which certain unfounded prejudices
underlie behavior toward other groups of people.
Such racially motivated behavior should not be
tolerated by the community in any form at any time.
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I would like to express,
through this newspaper, my
thanks to the people of Eugene
for their hospitality and for their
interest in the situation in
Argentina.
I greatly appreciate the par
ticipation of the students who
attended the brown bag lunch
forum organized by the Council
for Human Rights in Latin
America, the Latin America
Support Committee and the
pychology department, which
your paper covered in its Oct
26 issue.
I would also like to make
clear that the journalist who
wrote the story attributed to me
things that I never said when he
spoke of "a well organized and
active leftist guerilla movement
in Argentina."
At no time in my presentation
did I approach the subject of the
guerillas of Argentina In fact. I
believe that to attribute the
repression of the military
government to the existence of
leftist guerillas is the argument
that the military uses to justify
its actions
On the contrary, I have tried
to explain that the military
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repression was indiscriminate
and affected the whole of
Argentinean society — all those
who dared to think in
dependently and wide sectors
of the population who didn't
have any political activities at
all.
Mario Epelman
Doctor
Opposing goals
It is beginning to seem like a
fall ritual — United Way ex
ecutives announce their fun
draising campaign and tell of
the many worthy organizations
funded by their agency. This is
followed closely by letters from
community members (such as
myself) urging people not to
support United Way because it
assists Planned Parenthood.
Our opposition to Planned
Parenthood is neither arbitrary
nor uninformed. Rather, it is a
reasoned response to seeing
Planned Parenthood, whose
stated philosophy, values and
goals are totally at odds with a
large percentage of our country,
given access to public school
children and supported in the
promotion of those values and
goals.
That this particular affiliate of
Planned Parenthood does not
perform abortions does not alter
the fact that it does refer young
women to abortionists and ac
tively advocates abortion as a
moral alternative to giving
birth.
Further, its views on moral
and sexual issues, which are
decidedly controversial and
divisive, are being presented as
an "official” point of view to
children. We feel that such bla
tant. one-sided indoctrination
in our tax-supported school
system is grossly inappropriate.
United Way's inclusion ol
(Manned Parenthood among the
many honorable organizations
that it supports does a disser
vice to those organizations as
well as ensuring that active op
position to United W'ay will
remain.
I urge Univeristy and
business leaders to reconsider
their involvement with United
Way for the above reasons, and
to allow employees to choose to
contribute directly to charitable
causes through payroll deduc
tion. bypassing United Way.
William Moore
Music
The facts
Over and over again I see the
same old arguments come up
opposing U.S. foreign policy
regarding the Contras (ODE,
Oct 26). What I find annoying
is that people are arguing and
making decisions based on bad
information.
As University students, it's
hard to see the big picture of
global politics as an intelligeru e
community can. I would be
more apt to trust our CIA than
some student or non-profit
group's secondhand, hearsay
propaganda-related exploits in
Nicaragua. I realize our in
tervention in Third World coun
tries has a terrible record So
let's either not intervene or do it
better.
The real issue here is what the
facts really are. A large consen
sus doesn't believe Nicaragua is
communist now and believes
Nicaragua is better off at this
date. With human rights viola
tions and reports of unlawful
opposition imprisonment. I find
it hard to see the "better off'
aspect of Nicaragua.
In any event, to think com
munism is a good system pro
viding for freedom, civil liber
ties. human rights violations
and a closed country is naive at
least. While the “us vs. them'
policy is childish, it's also the
present state of affairs with the
Third World at stake.
I'm not going to argue what
we should do regarding
Nicaragua until people start
realizing what is really happen
ing down there.