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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