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Page 12 The Battalion Monday, September 2,1991 WELCOME BACK AGGIES! a Come see me!”-Lou ^ Mobile Technologies 696-2693 VallcyView behind K-mart QUART! SONY* IHiFonics •Jl_ AUDIO. Mobile Technologies in conjunction with the March of Dimes presents the College Station Auto Expo & Central Texas Sound Challenge Sept. 7th & 8th at the Texas World Speedway Faster, Easier Results Choosing a T1 calculator is good thinking because we’ve got the specific models that are right for the courses you’re taking. Scien- tifics for math. science, and engineering. Business models for finance and accounting. © 1990TI Texas Instruments seLOUPOTSsp LOCATED AT: Redmond Terrace Northgate Jersey Street Mother of disabled child subject of talk program Radio show accused of bigotry LOS ANGELES (AP) - Aaron James Lampley was only a few hours old when a local radio sta tion dedicated a second program to the circumstances of his birth. Last week's show on KFI-AM refueled a dispute that pitted the station against activists for the dis abled and raised questions about freedom of speech and society's treatment of the disabled. Aaron was born Wednesday with ectrodactyly, a hereditary condition in which the bones of the feet and hands are fused. His mother, KCBS-TV anchorwoman Bree Walker Lampley, also has the syndrome and knew the child had faced a 50 percent chance of inher iting it. Her other child, a daughter, also has the disability. KFI had outraged Mrs. Walker Lampley and advocates for the disabled with a July 22 call-in show in which host Jane Norris asked if it was fair for the anchor- woman to give birth when the child had a ''very good chance of having a disfiguring disease." Critics of the show said it smacked of bigotry and illustrated societal prejudice and lack of un derstanding toward the disabled. KFI said the matter was handled properly and that radio talk shows are appropriate forums for contro versial issues. In KFI's second visit to the subject, Ms. Norris accused Mrs. Walker Lampley of orchestrating a campaign to discredit her and con tended she had a First Amend ment right to discuss the issue. Mrs. Walker Lampley and her husband, KCBS anchorman Jim Lampley, hired a media consult ing firm, which has sent tapes of the Norris show to disability rights groups and is helping to file a complaint to the Federal Com munications Commission. "I was supportive of Bree's de cision," Ms. Norris said on the show. "All I did, and have done, is voice my opinion of what would be right for me. I thought I han dled the topic sensitively, but all (she has) seen fit to do is slander me." Ms. Norris' statements did nothing to cool the controversy. "They came on the air suppos edly to set the record straight. In our view, she set the record even more crooked," said Lillibeth Navarro of American Disabled for Access Power Today. Town sheds light on grisly secret involving U.S. labor movement CENTRALIA, Wash. (AP) — After seven decades of bitter silence, this "town with a secret" is shining light on one of the American labor movement's dark est days. Schoolchildren are learning and historians are of ficially noting an event that until a few years ago was rarely even whispered about in Centralia, even as it became the stuff of legend and song elsewhere. On Nov. 11, 1919, members of the radical Indus trial Workers of the World shot dead four young vet erans who bolted from an Armistice Day parade to help beat up the "Wobblies" and wreck their union hall in the center of this logging and farming commu nity about 90 miles south of Seattle. That night, after arranging a power outage, a mob of townspeople dragged Wobbly member Wesley Everest from jail and hanged him from a bridge out side town. Everest, who some historians believe was castrat ed before his hanging, had been mistaken for the leader of the I.W.W. local. Eight of his comrades, including the leader, were convicted in 1920 of second-degree murder and sen tenced to 25 years in prison. The lynch mob members never were identified. The violence was stirred by bitter strikes and oth er labor unrest in the Northwest timber industry, and also by growing enmity toward the Wobblies, seen as fellow travelers of the revolutionary Russian Bolshe viks. The "Centralia Armistice Day Riot," also called "the Centralia Massacre," gave the community "a reputation as a city of violence and transformed the community into a town with a secret," historian Robert R. Weyeneth said. "Well into the 1950s, for example, the Centralia Public Library was not allowed to keep books or clip pings" about the riot and aftermath, Weyeneth said. 'The shared silence is as much a part of the story of the Armistice Day Riot as the event itself," he said. "When I was growing up, you couldn't get peo ple to tell you about what happened that day," said Ron Breckenridge, a junior high school teacher in Centralia. "I more or less had to beg grandpa to tell me what happened, and even he wouldn't tell me a lot." Now, Weyeneth and Breckenridge are helping Centralia confront and accept its past. Breckenridge and fellow teacher Joe Flink wrote a textbook and are teaching eighth-graders about the riot. "We started doing it in 1985, and we've had a lot of support from the district and from the town," said Breckenridge, whose grandfather was a Wobbly. Poland wants Kremlin the: power to push progressive economic plan j grams, f "The WARSAW, Poland (AP) - The government said Sunday it will ask parliament for the power to rule by decree to help push through an economic austerity plan blocked in parliament by communists and their allies. Government Spokesman An drzej Zarebski said Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki also thinks constitutional amendments are needed "to strengthen the position of the executive power in the polit ical system of the state." Bielecki convened a special meeting of the Cabinet Sunday af ter winning a vote of confidence Saturday in the Sejm, or lower chamber. The ministers on Sunday de cided decrees were needed to ef fectively regulate the economic said Sen Bush that doc said it w sending aboard i anaid. B etuphea tunity fo tional se toad. Undi pact, sp< iagon, f spendinj been stii to chall policy is fora sigi 1 begin tr\ ' "Thi! eton D< program iicularly Sen. Pel said me break it nothing events. With sphere, Zarebski said. He said the faints, decrees would be valid until a new parliament is elected. The government will submit its proposals to parliament Monday and will ask the Sejm to hold a special session on them Tuesday or Wednesday, Zarebski said. Since assuming office Jan. 4, Bi elecki has moved to accelerate the selloff of state-owned industries and to reform post-Communist Poland's economy to a market-ori ented system. But several deputies have strongly criticized the govern ment's tight fiscal policies and de manded changes in the economic reform plan. The powerful Sejm is dominat ed by former Communists and their allies, who occupy 65 percent of the 460 seats under a 1989 elec tion plan approved by the then- ruling Communists. Voters will choose the first freely elected parliament in Poland since World War II in elec tions Oct. 27. more fr< grams a ideas of such as class — ihrough "Gi\ back," Sc "We a! least said, adi iloned tl ioreign nealthy. 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He left in January after 16 years. The society created by Soviet communism already has made people his age a "lost generation," he said. The air and water are dirty, the shops are empty. The struggle to survive amid industrial squalor often makes people mean-spirited. Before the coup, the Soviets were approaching the 21st century, glued to a 19th century philoso phy. "In 70 years, we've had it up to here with Lenin," Sindrin said. making a slashing motion across his throat. Viktor Telegin, a Supreme So viet deputy and party member from Votkinsk, estimated the par ty would get 2 percent to 3 percent of the vote if elections were held now. Gorbachev's faith in Marx and Lenin remains unshaken, but the coup shocked him out of a lifelong belief that the party could repre sent his ideals. His forward-looking advisers Alexander Yakovlev and Eduard Shevardnadze were among those who gave up earlier. 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