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real Latin problems
staff photo by David Fisher
Robert White, former ambassador to El Salvador, talks
vith members of the MSC Political Forum committee.
by David Johnson
Battalion Reporter
Since World War II, Amer
ican policy in Central America
has been formed by a fear of
revolution. Robert White, for
mer ambassador to El Salvador,
said Tuesday night in a presen
tation at Rudder Theater that
U.S. policy in the region has cen
tered around the use of military
force to counter revolutions and
has ignored the central issues of
poverty and repression that are
at the root of Latin American
problems.
White spoke before a crowd
of about 200 on the causes of
Latin American problems and
what could be done to solve
them. White has served as a
career diplomat for 25 years and
has seen duty in Nicaragua,
Honduras, the Dominican Re
public, Colombia, Ecuador,
Chile, Uruguay, Barbados and
Grenada. He is presently a
Senior Associate at the Carnegie
Endowment for International
Peace.
White charged that the
Reagan administration’s policy
of backing Central American re
gimes with military aid and
advisers is “simplistic” and said
that such policies do the U.S. a
great disservice in the region.
White said that since World War
II, every President except John
F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter
has “winked” at corruption
and repression in Latin Amer
ica. He said that Kennedy’s
Alliance for Progress and Car
ter’s human rights policies were
effective in achieving real prog
ress towards solving the gras
sroots problems of poverty, mal
nutrition, and human rights
violations.
Change, said White, must be
accomplished by supporting
moderate democrats who refute
the policies of revolutionaries
supported by Fidel Castro, and
the policies of right-wing mili
tary juntas that have ruled
many Central American coun
tries for decades.
The people of Central.Amer-
ica, White said, are desparate for
stability and an end to economic
and social repression. White
blamed economic stagnation in
Central American countries on
the flight of hard currency into
the U.S. from the wealthy land-
owners who invest it in Amer
ican property or keep it in
American banks to save for the
day, he said, when they will be
forced to flee their homelands
because of the wrath of the com
mon people who have revolted
against them.
Attacks on Central American
clergy and lay missionaries re
sulted from the adoption in
1968 by the Catholic Church of a
doctrine of supporting the right
of the poor to share in the wealth
of the country and to participate
in the government. Several
priests, nuns and lay missionar
ies including Americans have
been murdered by right-wing
“death squads” over the past 2
years.
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by-Maureen Carmody
_ Battalion Reporter
first StejnHirhe College Station Parks and
ddle East %aeation Board remained in-
sI||!|l] , tjedsive in a special meeting
Tuesday night to discuss the
placement of the 2.5 acres for a
firaim <wM 0 P osed P ark in the Emerald
, JJprest area. The land is to be
a 1 . e . 1 dedicated by Allen Swoboda,
shenes Sopp
head developer for Emerald
Forest.
Board member Stephen
Beachy said Swoboda is com
plying with the city’s subdivision
ordinance which requires at de
veloper to donate one acre to
every 133 dwelling units de
veloped. Swoboda now has 236
units, Beachy said.
The area being considered is
south of Bee Creek off Highway
6 between Emerald Parkway
and Raintree. There are no pre
sent facilities in this area.
“This is one of the main
reasons we’ve proposed Emer
ald Forest Park,” Beachy said.
Some of the problems with
the area are that it is near flood
ing areas, surrounded by power
lines and has limited road access.
Although nothing was de
cided at the meeting and no
votes were cast, there was a gen
eral consensus to accept land in
this area if road access can be
obtained. The issue will l^e consi
dered again at the Board^s regu
lar meeting next week.
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ire alarm in library
off
by Beverly Hamilton
Battalion Staff
H Heat and smoke in a custodial
the press closet on the Fifth floor of Sterl-
> people. Ig Evans Library was intense
ts were# enou gh Tuesday to set off a lib-
h Leader m y kire alarm -
r i i A tortilla had been left on a
) °_, hot plate to cook inside the
tin. Inet ^ oset sa i f i Thomas R. Parsons,
ment was
director of security and traffic of
the University police. The
smoke from the cooking set off
the alarm.
Charles Smith, a reference
librarian who accompanied
police to the fifth floor, said no
thing was on fire but “something
was getting ready to ignite.”
“The alarm did its work,”
Smith said. “It could have been a
potentially big fire.”
There was no damage to the
closet, Smith said.
Students left the library when
the alarm rang around 12:15
and could not re-enter the build
ing until University police and
library officials gave the OK —
about 15 minutes later.
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