1986_04 The Daily Collegian April 1986

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OPINION    April 2,198*5
Alien acts of aggression staged
A Closer Look
STEVE BRUHN
President Reagan has a rem
ent for manipulating events a
for his own purposes. When th
face. It took the U.S. about a year to leave
the tiny island — hardly a rescue mission.
When Nicaragua was holding its first
elections since the overthrow of the hated
Somoza dictatorship, Reagan and his
planners whipped up the famous "MIG
scare," in which the American people were
supposed to be alarmed by the shipment
of Soviet fighter jets to Nicaragua. This
turned out to be a complete fabrication,
but this didn't stop the Reagan administration for milking it for all it was worth,
o busy looking for the
blera
il  fightd
>s of holding
Both the American provocation of Libya
and the hype concerning the so-called
Nicaraguan "invasion"of Honduras were
engineered the way they were because
Reagan had just lost a major battle with
ists he calls "Freedom Fighters." The president clearly needed to win back some
public support in order to cover for an
This was not the first time he has done
this When well over 200 U.S. Marines
were killed in Lebanon in 1983, public
attention was quickly deflected from this
Grenada   The president took advantage
of pli
icaragua was in the
ie freest elections in the nation's history,
he elections were far more open and fair
st other Central American
! Reagan administration calls
"* and the Sandinistas won
by a landslide 67 percent.
Since Reagan took office his strategy in
Nicaragua has been to create a situation in
val of the Sandinistas from power, even if
it means doing so through the National
Guard that earned its reputation as one of
world's i
llingrr.
vade Grenada (to
U.S.  government)  t
The Sandinistas fought for national
independence (or more accurately, a different kind of dependence, since they
inherited a miserable economy almost
totally dependent on the U.S. and thcre-
justifiably so. The last thing the Sandinistas were asking for was to trade one
superpower dominance for another.
Reagan has created the situation he
needs by forcing the Sandinistas into a
relationship with the Eastern Bloc nations.
Almost immediately after taking office, he
cut off U.S. aid, launched a major CIA
destablization campaign, blocked desperately needed loans (the country's economy
was in ruins after decades of Somoza
robbery), and blocked the Sandinistas
from purchasing arms from the U.S. and
later from France. With vital CIA direction and support, Somoza's ex-guard (now
the contras) began invading Nicaragua
and deliberately terrorizing civilians
through torture, rape and murder.
This has been going on for years, but
now all of a sudden we are expected to
believe Nicaragua's attempts to defend
itself (including its frequent incursions
into Honduras in pursuit of the contras)
such as last week's "invasion" is proof of
"another Cuba!" Ridiculous.
Ronald Reagan wants and needs the
Sandinistas to have lo turn to the East for
help, because this is the necessary condition to justify the Big Lie — that the Nica-
design  to  establish  a  base  in  Central
The
four other Latin American n
the Sandinistas more support than did
Cuba. Reagan has done his best to hide
this from the American people. What hysteria could he drum up by saying the Sandinistas wanted to establish "another Costa
Rica?"
e were to hold a
n,"theNational-
iragua?" Substitute Cuba' for Costa Rica and Communists for Nationalists and you have the
plot for Reagan's latest fictional movie.
After six years of refining the script,
Reagan has now launched his feature
production, "The Holy War Against
Nicaragua," starring the CIA and the dictator's ex-goons, written and directed in
Washington DC and sponsored by the
next few weeks "all roads will lead to
Managua," as Reagan rewrites the script
until he gets what he wants from Congress. Every foreign policy move the president makes needs to be analyzed in terms
of its potential to get support for his illegal
and immoral war against Nicaragua.
The president still has two weeks to do
whatever he can to convince the public
there isa conspiracy to terrorize America,
directed by the Sandinistas. The compromise vote on contra aid is scheduled
for April 16th.
Believe it or not, it's all in the headlines
Styroculture
KIRK BfGLIONE
relieved. Unfortunately, this startling
incident went unnoticed by most of the
free world's more respected news publications. The Weekly World News carried
These tabloids for tl
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(presumably to lessen the impending for a puDiication in
impact one might expect when the world Angeles Times, and t
ends). and the Washington
Needless to say. the world didn't end might potentially ha\
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April 2,1986   OPINION
The Daily Colleqwui   Page 3
Residenchilada — a way of life
By Joseph Wirt It was a light and clear morning, not    |~~1 1 II r 1 it ■ ■ w-—■ a .—, —_
A gurgling sound was what he heard
first, before waking from the fog. It was an
old toilet kind of sound, the welcome
glug-glug at the end of the flush cycle. But
old   b
disqualified that hazy
He saw the genuine polyfiber fake cotton
drapes levitate like high school cheerleader
skirts as he opened an eye to the world.
The surreal gurglingand the breeze through
the window came at him through the prc-
conscious darkness. It was like he was
awake and looking at this phenomenon,
but actually dreaming it.
He thought several terrible, totally unconnected thoughts about the-joker who
turned on the flowerbed irrigators so
early. Yesterday it was the gas weedeater
pilot flying three feet from his ear. He was
foolish enough now to open his eyes and
see the clock, just as he closed the wincjow
qpthe old toilet noise. 8:32 a.m.
i few other Friday
an exceptional Friday, mind you, but
more exceptional than any Monday, or
group of Mondays, put together.
The 8:32 a.m. traffic coursing around
the Chestnut Avenue expressway/demolition track seemed distant for an ear awake
for all of three minutes. Another oops at
the corner yesterday, he foggily recalled.
Toyota truck violently embraced Chevy
The usual officers were called by the
first rubbernecking passerby (the one that'
wanted to enhance the aesthetic worth of
ith a few sirens and cheirytops.)
ong line of motorists, always in
a hurry to stop and gawk at an accident.
"Oh, wow, a wreck! Look at that,
wouldja?"
"Man, look at that. Ooooh, gnarly!"
(yards from
Then th
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Collegian editor
resigns from post
When 1 became editor, there were many things that I set out to
do. Among them, of course, was producing a quality product day
after day with our limited resources. No matter what occurred, I
figured we would continue to come out on a daily basis, for the
show must go on.
Well.'some shows are better than others, and the reviews are
often mixed. The show here at The Daily Collegian certainly has
been controversial, one which has managed to derail this paper
from effectively pursuing its primary mission — covering news.
It becomes very difficult for a small paper to carry out its duties
when it attracts the spotlight and becomes a source
of controversy, since attention is focused away from the real
newsmakers, the ones who should be making the headlines. The
battle over the insertion of the minority publications, the budget,
racism charges and other things has drained my staff and divided
us. As Lincoln once said, "A house divided against itself cannot
While we would continue to stand, shakily, our coverage would
suffer. Morale on this staff, essential to the effective production of
a newspaper such as our's, has been declining in recent weeks
because of the continued controversy. I can let it decline no further.
There is no need to continue this fight when I can no longer
resolve these issues in my capacity as editor of this paper. Most of
the battles are over, and hanging on to the editorship any.longer
would needlessly hinder coverage of important campus issues. This
coverage is of paramount importance. When it suffers, something
must be done. So today 1 step down from my post and hope that the
Collegian can move forward in pursuit of our most important
goals, meanwhile, knowing there will be no more demonstrations,
or sit-ins, or threats of violence, and knowing that the most
important goals can be pursued without any more unnecessary
interference. The battles have been waged, the points made. So
today, like every other decision I've made, I do so in the best
interest of this paper. I resign.
—Erik Pappa
1 getting down and dirty with
metal before he heard the squeal of protesting brakes locking up. Someone was
always yelling at his old lady in the
parking lot or revving up a Chevy Nova
two-door hardtop.
But it was a Friday morning, to return
to reality, and now 8:35 for good measure.
On any given weekday he would not allow
the  luxury of lounging in purposeless   j
bedriddance, thinking continuous nonstop,
ine-in-a-rowevil thoughts, but this Friday
'as a nondescript, unimportant weekday,
'ith nothing to do until some ripe, old
ver-the yardarm hour.
The luxurious feeling of massaging the
rain in halfsleep—with no necessaries to
ontend with, no classes to sleep through,
o nothin'. Pavement whined ecstatically
i passionate embrace with the wrcckdu
iur, same as it ever was.
This is Residenchilada.
We wish to thank ail of
our friends in the Nursing
. andlnd. Tech. departments
for their loving support following the loss of our infant
\daughter Mary. God bless
you all.
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