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Hunt compared Columbus to
Hitler, saying that celebrating a
holiday in his name is the same
as celebrating Hitler’s birthday.
Columbus “is not a great Ameri
can,” he said. “In my opinion, we
should celebrate indigenous people
day, and to hell with Columbus Day. ”
NASU member Hector Cash
Bolanos said Columbus has been
portrayed in a positive light be
cause the history books were writ
ten by white people, and the Na
tive American’s viewpoint has
not been represented.
“People have to understand
and respect the other reality,” he
said.
Norris said most people know
Columbus wasn’t a good man, but
it is still important to educate on
native issues because people are
naive to the native struggle.
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“We want to put our voice out
there and let people know we are
still here and struggling for our
sovereign rights,” she said.
NASU member Bryan Hudson
agrees.
“It is time for people to under
stand the ethics on which this
country is based,” he said.
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Monday, Oct. 8
Group discussion: To kick-off National
Coming Out Day events, local spiritual
leaders will talk about religion and
spirituality in the LG8Tcommunity.
Noon-1 p.m. EMU Rogue Room. Free.
Bake Sale: Oregon Hiilel is
sponsoring a Jewish student
community bake sale, Half of the
donations will be sent to the New York
Emergency Relief Fund. 10 am-3
p.m. University Bookstore, 13th
Avenue and Kincaid Street
Friday, Oct. 12
Oregon Archaeology Celebration
2001: Biological anthropologist and
University Anthropology Professor
John Lukacs presents
“Reconstructing Ancient Ufeways
from Bioarchaeology: Mesolithic
Foragers of North India/’ 5:30 p.m.
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from north to south and east to west,
and thanks be to God that what Amer
ica is tasting now is only a copy of
what we have tasted,” bin Laden said.
“God has blessed a group of van
guard Muslims, the forefront of Islam,
to destroy America. May God bless
them and allot them a supreme place
in heaven,” he said. “I swear to God
that America will not live in peace be
fore peace reigns in Palestine. ”
Bin Laden was not specifically a tar
get in Sunday’s attacks, according to
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
He said the war on terror aims at much
bigger targets than bin Laden alone:
the eradication of terrorist networks.
The U.S.- and British-led cam
paign will be “sustained” and “con
tinuous,” Rumsfeld said, “until we
are convinced that those terrorist
networks are destroyed. ”
In addition, some 37,500 rations
of food and medical supplies were
air-dropped for the suffering Afghan
people. Bush said the move under
scored that the war is not directed
against the Afghan people, but
against the terrorists in their midst
and the regime that shelters them.
The strikes started 26 days after
the most devastating attack on Amer
ican soil since the Civil War. The
Sept. 11 terrorist assaults killed an
estimated 5,600 Americans in New
York, suburban Washington and
Pennsylvania, and blasted the nation
out of an era of peace and confidence
into a state of war and fear.
In London, British Prime Minister
Tony Blair acknowledged that the
new campaign carries risks for
Afghan civilians who might be killed,
and it could ignite new terrorist as
saults. But, Blair said, “the dangers of
inaction are far, far greater — the
threat of further such outrages, the
threat to our economies, the threat to
the stability of the world. ”
Bush warned that Americans face
the possibility of terrorist reprisals
both at home and abroad. As a pre
caution, Vice President Dick Cheney
was moved to an undisclosed loca
tion while Bush remained at the
White House. The State Department
warned Americans abroad to be alert.
National Guard and police security
was beefed up around the nation.
“I know many Americans feel
fear today,” Bush said. “And our
government is taking strong precau
tions. All law enforcement and in
telligence agencies are working ag
gressively around America, around
the world and around the clock.”
The president asked the American
people for patience with the incon
venience that comes with increased
security, with the endurance of what
will be a long campaign, and “all the
sacrifices that may come. ”
The headquarters of Afghanistan’s
hard-line Taliban regime in Kanda
har was destroyed in the first wave of
missile strikes, according to Al
Jazeera television in Qatar. But the
Taliban ambassador to Pakistan said
the regime’s leader and bin Laden
both survived.
“By the grace of God, Mullah Omar
and bin Laden are alive,” Taliban
Ambassador Abdul Salam Zaeef told
reporters in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Independent verification of his
claim was impossible. Rumsfeld
told reporters in mid-afternoon that
it was too soon to know how suc
cessful the strikes were. He said he
did not know of any casualties or
planes being downed.
The Taliban vowed to fight.
“This attack by America is a ter
rorist act,” Zaeef told the Afghan Is
lamic Press agency. “Poor and com
mon Afghans will die, for which
America will be responsible. This is
an attack on an independent coun
try. We will fight to the last breath. ”
In recognition that Muslim reac
tion to the assault on Afghanistan
could be extreme, the State Depart
ment’s alert warned Americans
abroad to beware of “strong anti
American sentiment and retaliatory
actions against U.S. citizens and in
terests throughout the world by ter
rorists and those who are sympathet
ic to or otherwise support terrorism. ”
It urged Americans overseas to moni
tor local news, maintain contact with
the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate
and to limit their movements.
In Rome, aides to deposed
Afghan king Mohammad Zaher
Shah said they were not advised in
advance about Sunday’s military at
tacks, and expressed concern that a
political vacuum could ensue if the
Taliban are quickly routed.
In a statement issued by his secre
tariat, the former king acknowledged
the “legitimate right” of the United
States to “seek justice” against per
petrators of the Sept. 11 attack, but
urged the United States and its allies
to “respect the territorial integrity of
Afghanistan and the safety and the
life of our innocent people. ”
The 86-year-old monarch, ousted
in a coup nearly 30 years ago, was
prepared to return to his country
within a week’s time if needed to
convene a supreme council of na
tional unity to help create a transi
tional government, said Dr. Zalmai
Rassoul, an aide to Zaher.
Bush settled on his military plan
weeks ago, according to a senior ad
ministration official who was in
volved in decision-making. The
president conducted a final run
through of the plan by videoconfer
ence Saturday at the Camp David
presidential retreat in Maryland to
make sure that all military, diplomat
ic and security plans were in place.
With his plans set, Bush called
congressional leaders late Saturday
to alert them.
“We stand united with the presi
dent and with our troops,” Repub
lican and Democratic leaders of the
House and Senate said in a joint
statement issued Sunday after the
attacks were launched.
One U.S. intelligence officer,
speaking on condition of anonymi
ty, said CIA analysts believe that bin
Laden and the Taliban gravely un
derestimated U.S. will.
“Bin Laden certainly believes
what he says about the United
States — it’s weak, corrupt and im
moral, and it would fall over the
minute he hit it hard enough,” the
U.S. intelligence official said.
Sumana Chatterjee, Jackie Koszczuk, War
ren P. Strobe! and Michael Zielenziger in Rome
contributed to this article.
© 2001, Knight Ridder/Tribune Information
Services.