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Friday, October 28,1983/The Battalion/Page 7 n Klansmen claim double standard ethnic c ' United Press International NEW ORLEANS — A former [grand wizard of the Ku Klux ull y with tldKlan broke a four-year silence ; ^vcidlhursday to reveal his role in an program'[abortive 1979 invasion of Gre- sa| d' nada and demand freedom for a * reasidKlansnian who plotted against ,n >s chamr the neighboring isle of Domi- >he saidasUnica. tere arenni t David Duke, who was ques ted in mawtioned by the federal grand jury e Commitiii that indicted Don Black and ers ity has a||nine others, said he put merce- "1 has gone[Jnaries working for deposed ip of three! ! Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy in irott, chainr ;touch with several KKK mem- ver sitv, saic• hers in hopes of launching a lave regut coup. cs the Q renat j a invasion is a vindication of Don Black and the other valiant men who were arrested and prosecuted by overzealous federal agents for ring, daring to fight against commun ism,” Duke told UPI. “I think it’s a gross injustice that Mr. Black is imprisoned for trying to do courageously as a private citizen what President Reagan is trying to do today.” Black, who took over as grand wizard when Duke resigned, is currently serving three years in the federal prison at Big Spring, Texas for violating the seldom- used U.S. Neutrality Act. In the so-called “Bayou of Pigs” case, he and other right- wing activists conspired to in vade Dominica in 1980 after abandoning their Grenada plans as too risky. Duke has served as head of the National Association for White People since leaving the Klan. He said he decided to break his silence on the 1979 ys plot against Marxist leader Maurice Bishop in order to praise Reagan’s action and to seek Black’s release. He delivered a letter Thurs day to U.S. District Judge Lans ing Mitchell in New Orleans, the judge who presided over the Birmingham, Ala., klansman’s trial. “A leatherneck or a Navy cap tain or a CIA operative or even a president has no more right to break the law than any other American,” DUKE SAID. “If the law is not applicable to cur rent political realities, it should be changed.” Black and the others were arrested by federal agents as they prepared to embark from a marina near New Orleans for the 2,000-mile voyage to Domi nica. R.I. HsY } / THOUGHT VJE Mi£7?£ PLAYIKCr 5.M.U.TH\5m£K. AREN'T 1 LOOK. by Paul Dirmeyer No.VlEfiEPUYIAKr SJI.U.R.R.. ...tnt Socially Mic-my ir/^R the. A i C H d- IV0A)'TBEU£VE Th/5. AT THATJ r Couple feared for lives Grenada students return ward serioi ‘placemeni V.J. Estelle, . 7. ard.hesaid next meetinnl anagemeni .S. Hispanics urged Reagan opposition uld be sense deeply inn process uni kind of bam ig to be deal id Gunn. said, ho ‘actively u e" on thei being hel .is bv fora Jan "Red' board cum the auditin; lion piojec ig ot inma he said. promised il Board of ( more opem wiih the It: the news ii bottom line irge," he s; ; very firnn is going ic B United Press International i EDINBURG — A civil rights advocate said Thursday that U.S. Hispanics should take a wider role in opposing the Reagan Administration’s poli cies m Central America. “Many of us do have a great number of connections — not only business connections, but family ties and ancestral ties — with Central America,” Maria Mercado, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ Texas Advisory Committee, told delegates at the opening session )fapational conference on Cen- ral iAmerican policy. ion!whether we will participate in a policy that will make us choose if we will go into Central America and point a rifle at our brothers and sisters,” she said. The three-day conference at Pan American University is sponsored by 16 predominantly Hispanic groups and the univer sity’s Forum for the Study of the Americas and Friday will fea ture talks from representatives of the leftist Sandinista govern ment of Nicaragua and the rebel Democratic Revolutionary Front of El Salvador. Mercado said that Hispanics were in South Texas 300 to 400 years before Anglos arrived and have a vested interest in Central America policy. She said President Ronald Reagan’s approach toward Cen tral America also cannot help but affect civil rights in the Un ited States. She alleged the polich was one of aggression and encouraging “military regimes which have no sympathy for the dignity of hu man life.” The U.S. Government is de nying Central American re fugees political asylum on grounds they are “economic re fugees,” she said, but the econo mic hardships the Central Americans are trying to escape are a direct result of U.S. foreign policy. “We have to honestly review our roles in this policy. We have been silent so long,” she said. United Press International HOUSTON — A medical stu dent attending school in Grena da arrived in Houston with his wife Thursday and said escap ing from the island nation “was like going through hell.” Timothy Mooney, 23, of New Orleans, arrived with his wife Michele, 21, of Houston. They were met by both sets of their parents at Houston Intercon tinental Airport. The Mooney’s said they felt their lives were in danger and were glad to be back in the Un ited States. “We felt very much in dan ger,” Mooney said. “There were lots of loud noises, automatic lAKKVIEW UCB SAT Oct 29 JOIL\\T Bush and The Bandalaroes 84.00 per person 9:00 p.m.-l:00 a.m. for reservations 823-0660 weapon fire, rockets and heavy guns. We laid on the beach, first in the water and then on the beach, (waiting) for the rescue.” The couple escaped the tiny island with only the clothes they were wearing. Mrs. Mooney said they wanted to leave Grenada “after they assassinated Prime Minister Maurice Bishop” last week. “We were terrified. We were confined to camp and they had this ‘shoot to kill’ rule. When they lifted the curfew and asked if we wanted to leave, we were the first to say yes. We were afraid of catching a stray bullet or something. The army there was not as professional or orga nized as our people,” she said. “I will never go back to Gre nada again unless it is a United States state. It is a beautiful place, but the government is too unstable,” she said. “Anyone who says they (U.S. troops) should not have come to Grena da is a fool. It was just a terrible situation. “We were scared for our lives. It was like going through hell,”, he said. Yarbrough out l the underground ^ ^ P ^ Sbisa Basement wfely, White says| §» United Press International AUSTIN — Gov. Mark White Easked Thursday — in all se- ipusness — if he knew of any ^udents who were among f. -if. * * jj e Americans enrolled at St. George’s Medical School on Grenada. MpE ^‘1 was aware of one Texas * m, itudent on the island,” White ■ V ■ pfipped. ‘But we got him saf ely ■ m >utbf there.” ^ ■ White jokingly referred to E ^ former Texas Supreme Court [gstice Donald Yarbrough, who tied to the far-flung Caribbean ®nd nation in 1981 to avoid Ijjp-farbrough was extradited to Texas last March, li j’he 41-year-old Yarbrough, who was enrolled at St. George’s, was arrested while auditing a medical course on nearby St. Vincent. jfnVhile Yarbrough lived and worked on Grenada for 19 months, the Marxist country did not have an extradition treaty with the United States. Yar brough drew an additional seven-year sentence for bail jumping in July. Chicken King Special Monday, Oct. 31- Friday, Nov.4 $2.39 for box of 5 OFFER GOOD TO THE LAST WING The Best Food. The Lowest Price.” Balloons for that Special erson on that Special Day at SPECIALLY FOR YOU!! ASK Us About Decorating for Parties, Dances, & Banquets with Balloons!! 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