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Protest continued from page 1A the training facility allows for oth er nations to have an adequate and capable military force. According to an article by Louis Caldera, sec retary of the Army, the new institu tion will explicitly work to “solve regional problems, including re solving border conflicts peacefully, fighting drugs and organized crime, responding to natural disasters and supporting peacekeeping efforts.” However, 20-year-old Alder Phillis, a resident of Eugene and a University student, said the institu JLI tion has only changed its name and its primary goals are still the same. She said the Eugene protest was only one of hundreds simultane ously held over the country to protest the reopening of what she says was a terribly corrupt institu tion. “It’s just one way to get protesters to cool off,” she said. Phillis said she was one of a half dozen University students who were arrested by Fort Benning po lice when they refused to leave a demonstration on base grounds last fall. She said she was not comfort able releasing the names of the oth er students arrested with her but did say they all were members of the Survival Center, an on-campus hub for progressive activism. One passer-by, Gary Hiser, a Eu gene resident and retired major in the Marine Corps, said the protest ers needed to understand that the real issue in South America wasn’t U.S. intervention but was instead that most aid shipments never reached the people they were in tended to help. He also questioned the logic of protesting in front of the Federal Building. “This isn’t the federal courthouse anymore; it’s all Bureau of Land Management,” he said. Standing behind a banner read ing “Stop U.S. sponsored Torture, Close the School of the Assassins,” Phillis said she was happy with the turnout for the protest. She said the day’s protest would be her last chance for community actions, because she was leaving to join a women’s health organization in Latin America to work on a the sis project. Many protesters held wooden crosses on which they had painted names of people they said had been killed by soldiers who received training at the U.S. base. A few passing motorists honked in sup port of the crowd. Foster said she did not under stand how the United States could maintain the position that its train ing offered stability when, she said, it most often only produced insta bility. "You may get a totalitarian state stability, but that’s only temporary,” she said. “That will just rupture.” While she understood the need for the United States to play in ac tive role in foreign affairs, she did not see the need for the type of in tervention she said the Army’s training center provided. “We shouldn’t have military an swers to world problems,” she said. “It’s a failing policy. 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Steve Hickok, chief operating of ficer of Bonneville Power Admin istration, argued that price caps could do more harm than good. “We are currently buying in an unregulated market,” Hickok said. “If price caps went into effect in March, when we sell into the mar ket rather than buy, we would be financially toast.” Other states have discussed sell ing off their hydroelectric facilities into the energy market to pay for increased energy prices, something Wyden said won’t happen in Ore gon. Another concern was that such deregulation could result in a situation much like California’s. Energy Secretary-designate Spencer Abraham had previously been in favor of selling off Bon neville Power Administration and the energy industry, but Wyden said Abraham’s feelings have changed. “I’m encouraged by what Abra ham’s indicated: that he will break with the past and not sell off Bon neville,” Wyden said. 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