Portland Observer, November 3, 1982 Page 5
Educators charge school facts twisted
Washington Hot Line
by Congressman Ron Wyden
Election night remarks
I l ’s good to be here to celebrate
with so many friends and support
ers. But as we celebrate, le t’s re
member that for many Oregonians,
particularly (hose who are out o f
work or struggling to get by on
small fixed incomes, tonight has a
bittersweet taste.
So before we go any further, I ’d
like to make what might seem like
an unusual election night request.
I'd like to ask each o f you, some
time during the next few days, to go
into your neighborhood or down the
street and offer a helping hand to a
neighbor or friend who has felt the
ravages of tough economic times.
I ’m making this unusual request
tonight not because I believe volun
tarism has replaced a federal re
sponsibility for social needs, but be
cause I think this community, this
state and this country need to create
a new spirit of togetherness to tackle
the tough problems that lie ahead.
A new spirit of togetherness can
bring labor and management to
gether to concentrate on ways to in
crease productivity and protect
jobs.
It can bring consumers, health care
providers and the government to
gether to change a health care sys
tem that rewards inefficiency and
penalizes providers who try to cut
costs.
It can help us preserve the clean
air and clean water that have made
this country
“ America
the
Beautiful,’* yet still attract new in
dustry and new jobs.
For Oregon, this new spirit of
togetherness means the opportunity
to create a whole new generation of
jobs—in trade, shipping and exports
— in housing and in high technology
industries as we build a new partner
ship.
We've already seen the fruits of
what meaningful cooperation can
mean here in the Third Congression
al District.
Just a few days ago, we put on
line a local development corpora
tion that will open up millions of
dollars worth of business opportun
ities for local businesses. And we
can do more. A new spirit of togeth
erness, could, in my opinion, bring
thousands o f jobs to Oregon in
areas such as Rivergate and serve as
an example fo r areas all over the
country.
The greatest need for this new
spirit of togetherness, however, is at
the federal level where we must per
suade the national government to
get its priorities straight— and instill
the dose o f fairness (hat has been
missing the past two years.
We need this spirit o f together
ness, for example, to make sure that
never again does our national gov
ernment use our jobs as the weapon
to combat inflation.
We need it to force defense con
tractors to be as accountable for
government money as the director
of a senior citizen center.
We need it to preserve the dream
of millions of youngsters for a col
lege education.
And we need it to take the to
bacco industry o ff the free lunch
program that’s subsidized by work
ing and retired Americans.
I think we can change the way we
allocate our resources in this coun
try, but only if we join hands in a
new spirit of togetherness. Over the
last few months, we’ve seen a bitter,
divisive campaign. I say it’s time to
put an end to divisiveness— time to
replace the spirit of meanness with
the spirit of togetherness.
Tonight we’ve elected a new Con
gress and with it a new hope for
prosperity and peace.
With your help, we can make cer
tain our children and grandchildren
will enjoy the fruits of jobs and jus
tice.
With a new spirit of togetherness
we can make the difference.
Let’s start tonight.
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and Langston Hughes.
The civil war ended in 1939 with
the victory o f Francisco Franco’s
armies and Franco’s 40-year rule be
gan. Many Socialists fled into exile;
others were imprisoned or executed.
A parallel effect o f (he loss to
Franco was the influence of the
many Spanish writers and artists in
exile on the peopl of Cuba, Puerto
Rico and other Latin American na
tions.
Franco died in 1973 and King
Juan Carlos began a liberalization
of political life. In 1977 the Socialist
Workers Party came in second in
the parliamentary elections, losing
to the newly organized, centrist
Union o f the Democratic Center.
The Democratic Center drew many
of its leaders for the Francoists, and
the SWP continued to call for a de
cisive break with the old order. The
third party— which also gained in
the election— is the far right Popu
lar Alliance which has the support
of the army and the industrial bank
ing oligarchy.
Credit for the SWP victory is giv
en party leader Felipe Gonzalez, 40,
who will become Prime Minister.
Born after the Civil W ar, Gonzalez
took the party leadership in 1974
when it was still outlawed by Fran
co. He is an important figure in the
Socialist In tern atio n al. He has
pledged to eliminate that great dis
parity between Spain’s rich and the
poor.
The United States offered sub
dued congratulations to (he new
governmbne but there is concern
over the future o f U .S . bases in
Spain. State Department officials
predicted “ long, hard bargaining."
During the election campaign Gon
zalez pledged to reconsider member
ship in N A T O , perhaps following
the example o f France which is a
member but docs not take par, in
military planning or exercises.
Gonzalez also promised to rene
gotiate the 5-ycar agreement with
the U.S. which allows bases for jet
fighters and aerial tankers, a navy
base, and involves 8,500 men.
The U .S ., which supported the
Franco regime, acquired the bases in
the 1950s when they were used for
the defense o f Europe. Recently
they have become a vital part of the
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Middle East.
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has already begun efforts to obtain
new bases in Portugal, and to renew
its lease in the Azores, o ff P ortu
gal’s coast, and has obtained access
rights to airfields in Morocco, ac-
cross the M editerranean from
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its demand for the return of Gibral-
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could again place the U.S. squarely
in the middle of a conflict between
two viral allies.
teachers, the implication being that
the rest are administrators. Admin
istrators, say the educators, make
up only 7 percent of Oregon’s public
school staff. The bulk of the staff,
including counselors, librarians,
aides, school bus drivers and cafe
teria workers, work with students.
Further, Measure 3 backers, said
the educators, consistently report
that test scores are down, when in
fact the State Department of Educa
tion reports they are up.
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puted the claim, made to a Lake Os
wego audience, that the School Dis
trict there had added 40 new teach
ers in the past year. The fact was,
claimed the educators, that no new
teaching positions were created; all
“ new" teachers replaced resigning
or retiring teachers. Furthermore,
the district had actually reduced its
total staff by ten positions.
The educators also disputed the
campaign’s frequently-cited figure
that only 53 percent of all people
employed by Oregon schools are
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Socialists win Spain elections
Spain dropped the last vestiges of
fascism last week, electing the So
cialist Workers Party. This could be
the final act o f the Spanish C ivil
War which has served as an inspira
tion to those seeking liberty, espe
cially in the Third World. The vic
tory also threatens U .S . m ilitary
presence in Spain and Spain’s parti
cipation in NATO . For that reason,
U.S. reaction will be watched close
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The Spanish Socialist Workers
Party was founded in 1879. A fter
the proclamation of the Second Re
public in 1931, the party emerged as
the voice of the working class in a
sharply divided country. Many of
the leaders were imprisoned follow
ing an uprising in 1934, but the
party was (he largest in the Popular
Front which won the 1936 election.
The party’s aging leader, Francisco
Largo Cabellero, who called himself
the “ Spanish Lenin,” was elected
Prime Minister. The civil war broke
out that summer.
The civil war—which was viewed
as a struggle between progressive
forces and Nazi-backed fascists—
drew many volunteers and much
public support from the United
States. Many blacks joined the
international Lincoln Brigade and
the front lines were visited by black
intellectuals including Paul Robeson
Three education leaders claimed
last week that statements concerning
education, made in public or in
campaign literature by proponents
of Ballot Measure 3, are either to
tally false or misleading and not
based on facts.
The leaders. Dr James U lum ,
president of the Confederation of
Oregon School Administrators, Ted
Romoser, president of the Oregon
Education Association, and Wayne
Chambers, president of the Oregon
School Boards Association, dis
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