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He said that like North, he too was involved in illegal opera tions, but charges were never brought against him. “We were breaking the law,” Stockwell said. “I was twice vindi cated for my actions and received no jail term. If I had, then the present crew on the council would have learned a lesson, and wouldn’t be going through this.” Stockwell said that in the covert operations the CIA runs, the main objective is to destabilize a country. Currendy, there are 50 covert oper ations being conducted within the CIA, he said. “That means that they are destabi lizing one third of the countries in the world right now,” he said. “When there is a government they don’t like, they put pressure on it by ripping apart the social and eco nomic fabric of the country. They make it to where the farmer can’t get his goods to market, or the chidren can’t go to school.” According to a brochure handed out at the program, the CIA seeks to increase global tension by support ing military dictatorships. Stockwell said most destabilizing operations are aimed at Third World countries like Nicaragua, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Laos. How ever, he said, the government hasn’t carried out any destabilizing opera tions in the Soviet Union since 1954. Photo by JayJanoer Ex-CIA agent, John Stockwell, speaks at the MSC Political Forum in Rudder Theater Wednesday night. “In 1954, we realized that they had the power to drop an atomic bomb on us and retaliate,” he said. “It’s in these Third World countries that the governments aren’t strong enough to defend themselves. If there’s any heroism in this, I fail to see it.” Stockwell used the current situa tion in Nicaragua as an example of U.S. dealings in covert operations. After the problems in Nicaragua began in 1981, President Reagan gave $19 million to the CIA to begin aestabilizing the country, he said. “Funding these operations has since then been cominjz in both le- mung i gaily and illegally,” Stockwell said. There are many aspects to desta bilization, such as assassinations, propaganda and creating said. In Nicaragua, assassi’i 1 played an important partir; posal of political leaders ; - religous Figures and otiel CIA has trained the Contra j A US 1 IN ( sination techniques and RtsjCral Jim Mat mitted this in a 1984 dKeJong inquiry Walter Mondale, Stockwellj row inmate Stockwell said creating ' Wednesday su another method used infci was inconclu lion. Terrorists have gone; guilt or innoc< defended villages and t| Mattox sale men, raped women and tib investigation dren, he said. tors and def er "All while other family3 be released to are forced to watch," hesani “Some new The United States also s hut it would r negative propoganda teeb anc l convinci try to gain public support::; brandley’s gu lions in Nicaragua, Stodv- toxsaid. launched a campaign to disc* J Brandley, elections held in Nicaragua capital murd Sandinistas won by a large, death in the A he said. "This was after an intci observance team said than some of the fairest electie ever seen," Stockwell said Stockwell said the I’m also has charged that thtL government censors pubttfbkick, leading pci s. Before U.S. involve:- ers to contem caruaga, he said, there I rn<) ft vate d- II censors hip. and he added| nati onal publi types of censorship thpjtfflnerals offu similar to the ones in dsfcW 11 a ^ ter Iw ° States. Uniom. Throughout his speed ■ ne ^. challenged the audience td tinmty Distir ail the information. He p: small bibliography of read material, cued several rf works throughout the 1 released an address wne material can be obtained. “I encourage you to id! yourselves,” Stockwell ad If take my word for it. Tic abundance of information<? on this subject. “There have been thoaf covert actions over the yss- them are illegal interferes" countries' af fairs, all of the- mockery of democracy as" them raise questions of Ui ’ ness.” strangulation son, 16, a Bel dent. Fergesc High Scnoo worked as a j: Hme. [Fergeson is dered for coi •Jne case. Mattox said jng should be 1 e and mo Rlattox said would be revie ecution and d< for the upcom jiThe attornc offered to reo Handley took 60 parents call to support pediatrician carrying AIDS pc who feared he would be forced from his practice when angry parents re acted to the news he carried the AIDS virus now finds others rallying to his support. Dr. Robert J. Huse of suburban Mesquite said more than 60 parents had called by Wednesday support ing him and his practice in the Dallas suburb. “It makes me feel very good,” he said. “It’s quite a significant num ber.” Pamela Shouse of Mesquite said she took her 9-year-old daughter to see Huse Wednesday morning knowing he carried the AIDS virus. pediatrician was diagnosed as having HIV, a designation given the ac quired immune deficiency syndrome virus in July 1985. Tuesday, Huse said he saw 10 pa tients when he normally treats 25. “That is quite a substantial drop and if this continues I will have to leave my practice,” he said. Some parents said they were an gry that Huse had not told them he carried the virus and talked about forming a group to seek mandatory AIDS tests for doctors and a require ment that doctors must tell their pa tients if they test positive. ‘Dr. Huse has taken us through a W few crises, and I have as much faith in him as I do in my own priest,” she said. “He’s a cut above a regular doc tor.” Martha Wheeler, also of Mesquite, said her two children have been Huse’s patients since he started his practice 12 years ago. “I don’t think he would do any thing to harm any children,” Wheeler said. “If he was a danger to the public, I think he would step out of his practice before he would hurt anyone. “I think he was just treated dirty by this.” News reports in connection with a lawsuit filed by the doctor surfaced late last week that the 44-year-old Jennifer Skinner, whose two chil dren were Huse’s patients, told the Dallas Times Herald, said, “I want him crucified. I really don’t care if it ruins his practice. I don’t want him to go somewhere else to treat other little babies.” Huse published a letter in the Mesquite News asking his patients not to leave him. “I hope that my pa tients and their parents will not be ir rationally fearful of coming back to me for pediatric care,” the letter stated. Huse said he never told his pa tients he carried the virus because he felt he wasn’t a threat to their health. Dr. Charles Ginsburg, Southwes tern Medical School pediatrics de partment chairman, said Wednesday that concern about patients contract ing acquired immune deficiency syn drome in the course of treatment by Huse was unjustified. “This is not the mechanism by which AIDS is transmitted,” said Ginsburg, who also is medical direc tor of Children’s Medical Center in Dallas. “Children are not at risk, and there is no medical justification for testing of children because of this. ‘T his has prompted a gjreat deal of parental anxiety not limited to Dr. Huse’s practice. A number of pedia tricians are being bombarded with calls about this.” Ginsburg said parents should be more concerned about their chil dren in other ways, such as their mo tor skills development, day-care situ ations and quality of education. “I would have no problem what- sover in Dr. Huse taking care of ei ther of my children,” he said. Shouse said she felt the reaction against Huse comes from ignorance. “I feel that they have judged and condemned the man without hear ing all the evidence,” she said. Huse’s three-doctor practice in Mesquite lists between 3,000 and 4,000 patients. While he may have to leave his practice, Huse said, he is considering starting another pediat rics practice in the Dallas area as well as working with AIDS patients. Shouse said, “If he moved his practice anywhere within reasonable distance, I would continue to take my daughter to him.” Take host Sheriff hops COr/: says lawmo assaulted! HOUSTON Pickens said V takeovers mal PECOS (AP) — A jail cf who claims he was assaU Reeves County Sheriff Sf rez is running for the/ job. “I have been consider;/ some time,” Eddy Martin said. “I think it’s timefora^ he said. “The only reas/ have chosen to go a/ make my campaign desiR this will give me an op/, not only to get some ei| but to prepare my campk raise some funds.” Florez was charged w"' meaner assault after claimed he was struck bp^ iff in July while Markhat duty at the Reeves Cou' : Enforcement Center. Warren Heagy, Florflj ney, has said Florez didn the altercation and that i- iff was merely defending Florez was arrested]/ freed on a $500 personal/- zance bond set by Reeve: Court at Law Judge Lee , He is scheduled to go/ next week. If convicted,k maximum penalty of a p and a $2,000 fine. Markham, who was apf| to his job by Florez in lb/ is the controller and opej officer at the Reeves Cot 1 Enforcement Center. . porate A me ne ar large comm claimed they best interests. ■ “I believe t problems than told several hi tending a two overs, acquisiti K“I believe w right now is th .sell of abuses 1 years in corp Pickens, gene Hmited Partnc I But John R. and chief exei Donnelly & S said the curr< managements term, which is interests of the in the internati p, Schwemm a keholders in A was formed l what it claims ing from hostil ) “Obviously, sitions are ba< .■takeovers are the Wednesda Pickens. “Not good. We do managements, changes.” > Pickens am ZEN BUDDHISM A Lecture By: Zen (Son) Master Myo-Bong “Mind is Buddha” Friday, September 18th Rudder Tower Rm. 601 3:00 p.m. Cong to roii f CHUN KING CHINESE RESTAURANT DAILY LUNCH SPECIAL $295 Different Special Each Day. DINNER SPECIAL A la Carte items, served with complimentary egg roll or soup. 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