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-^Oregon Daily- - Emerald Inside: •A second chance, Page 3 •'Raw' Eddie Murphy, Pages 6 & 7 •P.N.B. Invitational, Page 12 Thursday, January 21, 1988 Eugene. Oregon Volume 89, Number 83 Photo by lames Marks Oregon Supreme Court justices (left to right) Edwin Peterson, Hans Linde and Wallace Carson fr., react to evidence presented before law students Wednesday. High court visits Law School By Paula Green Emerald Reporter The Oregon Supreme Court made its an nual visit to Eugene Wednesday as part of the University Law School's legal research and writing program. The I,aw School hosted the high court’s visit, which heard the final four cases of a nine-case session in the Orlando ). Hollis Courtroom of the University Law Center. The first five cases were heard Tuesday at the Supreme Court Building in Salem. Turn to Court, Page 3 Defazio lambasts Contra aid scheme By Mike Drummond Emerald Associate Editor Fourth District Congressman Peter Defazio. D-Eugene, show ed no mercy toward President Reagan’s foreign policy, par ticularly where funtling the Contras was concerned, during a lunch-lime forum Wednesday. Speaking before a standing room only crowd in 110 Fenton Hall. Defazio lambasted Reagan's commitment to fun ding the Contras even against majority opposition, saying that it is illegal under United Na tions charter and morally unjustifiable. Defazio gave a short speech outlining the history of U.S. funding for the Contras and then fielded questions from the audience. Interrupted at times by applause, his remarks came one day after Reagan announc ed his administration will resume arms shipments to thu Nicaraguan insurgents. Defazio explained th.it under a last-minute continuing resolu tion during its final 1987 ses sion. the administration forced Congress to authorize $14.4 million to resume aid to the Contras. If Reagan had vetoed the con tinuing resolution, as he had threatened to do. the federal government ostensibly would have gone bankrupt. In a political exchange for the aid. the Mouse will get the oppor tunity to take a do-or-die vote for continuing that aid Feb. 3. Calling the resolution a sham. Defazio said Reagan "basically blackmailed'' (Congress. "There are a couple of in teresting provisos in (the resolu tion) which the airline industry might lie interested in: We are guaranteeing the safe delivery (of arms), that is we are guaranteeing the cargo planes of the Contras," Defazio said. Me explained this amounted Turn to Defazio, Page 4 Christie Institute director heralds U.S. atrocities By John O'Renick Emerald Contributor If the Christie Institute can prove its lawsuit against 29 past and present members of the LJ.S. intelligence com munity this summer, the revelations just might blow the lid off the foreign policy mechanism and change the way we do covert activities, according Bill Davis. Davis, a Jesuit priest and co-founder and chief investigator for the Christie In stitute, will speak on the Scandal Behind the Iran-Contra Scandal at 7:30 tonight in the KMIJ Ballroom. The Christie Institute is a non-profit. public interest law firm that works in the arena of social justice and human rights. It has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Miami alleging that John Singlauh. Richard Secord, Albert llakim, Theodore Schakley. Thomas Clines. Rafael "Che Che” Quintero, and 22 other "shadow government" figures have run an "ongo ing criminal enterprise" for at least the last 20 years. The Institute is charging these past and present CIA and National Security Council operatives, high military of ficials and private individuals have smuggled drugs, run guns, waged secret wars that have toppled governments and killed millions, defrauded U.S. citizens and foreign nationals, assassinated their political enemies, and stolen from the 11.S. government. They have violated the Neutrality Act. the Arms Export Control Act. banking acts, and the Boland Amendment, according to the Institute. The vehicle for this lawsuit is the federal Racketeer Influenced and Cor rupt Practices Act. that allows victims of organized crime to recover damages. The suit is brought on behalf of American journalists Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey, who were injured in the May 30, H1B4, bombing of a press conference at La Penca, Nicaragua. The bombing was an attempt to assassinate Eden Pastora, at that time a leader of the Nicaraguan Contras, who was targeted for revealing corruption within the Contra leadership s well as CIA pressure on and involve ment with the Contras. Davis said the bombing at La Pence was designed to kill journalists as well as Pastora. The idea. Davis said, was to hi.. the bombing on Nicaragua, to outrage the American people and to in crease support for the Contras. Avirgan and Honey, researching the bombing on their own after Avirgan recovered somewhat from his injuries, began with the premise that the San dinistas were responsible. Instead, they found substantial evidence linking the bombing to the Contras and the CIA. Davis said. Twenty-eight journalists Turn to Institute, Page 4 IFC allocates $12,000; new members chosen The Incidental Fee Commit tee on Tuesday allocated $12,744 to four student pro grams in the second meeting of the budget hearing season. These allocations included: • $1,384 to People and the Oregon Coast. This represents a 217 percent increase from last year: however, the allocation was $895 less than the group had requested. • $6,438 to the Oregon Com mentator as requested. This represents a 10.2 percent in crease from last year's budget. • $449 to the Telecom munications and Film Associa tion. a 97 percent increase from last year. • $4,825 to the Committee for Musical Arts as requested. This represents a .2 percent increase from last year’s budget. All these allocations passed 5-0. In IFC-related news, ASIJO President Kasey Brooks an nounced her selections to fill the two vacant spots on the committee: jerry Rakfeldt and John (Jack) Maynard. They must be confirmed by the Student Senate before they can take of fice. The confirmation is not ex pected to occur until the first of February. Brooks said she doesn't ex pect any problems getting Rakfeldt and Maynard confirm ed by the senate. The two are fairly unknown in student government circles and showed “the ability to be very impar tial” in the budgeting process, she said. National Champions Athletic Director Hill Byrne (left) con gratulates coach Tom Heinonen during halftime ceremony at Saturday's basketball game. Heinonen coached the women's cross country team to a 1987 national championship. (Above) University President Paul Glum honors the harriers at a Wednesday Faculty Club ceremony. Photos by Shu-Shing Chen and Bobbie I.o
