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· · - ·iJie buiiung-· ofth~'n~g: However, -~s former; SUN:Y-Binghaintori · s~qdelit~ ·-- .,·_ ·the R~view·· pointed'-out~- h,e.fajled.to , organ~ed a flag burning ceremony in~. ~"~:', mention ;,·ihai · il1 -' Cu·ba~:. :meiely :~,.-;.:. '; 'staiidingon_ afountai~ -to~:prowsfthe ; ~ ,_·_ ' front 'pf t:he -Fine Arts' Build{ng~ -·_system will get- an- in,dj-yid~aLtq.rown . >· · ~ Accor~iilg ttfJ~ell, the-ceremonial / :, .:: .. ':· · · , in· jail, if-npt ki!lep. ' burning- was ~·a protest expressing . Thebi.unin'g .anit the~co'unter r~ily. .. · religio~s b_e liefs_of : our American ~ .. attracte{l a qrowd . o{ more thap J50 ·-- forefat}lers.. ~ beH,e fs held: by ·, people inciuQing. both-students, ane:t _ . ltonorabie meri. such as'· Thomas '·. mem'b.er~ :~ 9f - the .. surroun_ding ·. · Jefferson:" · ·Joe Goldman, .a Navy '·. -COJnml.,Ulttle$. the pre~edin,g ... --.- In a speech ~vete~an · who servee:t -dQI"ing bW'Iling, Bell stated, "If flag c~ be War II in both the Atlantic and the , desecrate~\ then .,it is a religious · Pac~fic', :was lmpr~ssed with· the -' .· icon .. jt is , then 'impl!i.ed . 'that the . · number of students who protested . , state it represents is ,.ti9Iy~" ,_ He'Bell's ac-ticins and the manner in · further..stated that '' ·to :defend the ·-i· · . flag and ·pot defend -the-fr~doms: it ·. / . 'whiCh dley· d~fended·,the. American · , · ·· flag. · - . ' , · represents is· fascism." Goldman . further stated,."The The Bing_h'amton Review,. alo.ng '·, . Senate and · 'Supn~me · C9~rt.' [in · with the ~college Re:tmblicans. ~ opposiiio~ to] the legislation protesting rally . organfzed a counter protecting the American flag.should _ the actiqns cmd beliefs (Q_eld by BelL . be replaced ... The. flag is not only a . flag the · that .. · ,The Review argued . symbol, but stands for everything .embodies .every ideal. which makes for which the veterans fought America the most free. nation in the . died." world. lt is a unique, symbol whose burning . cannot 'be ju~tified as. ' · "freedom of gpeech." ~ The flag _burning coincided with the Senate vote against legislation ,· · which would ·have P!('}tected ~the:·flag under -th·e -Unifed ·. States · Constitution . . · Bell cited · this as · evidence ofthe freedoms this country . gr:a'lts to its citizens. He argued that J~age· in Cuba, they have laws prohibiting

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On<_Thursday, October 19, 1'~d Bell was going to · t'fascist" . .The first time I was called the name, I ~drmtit bum _a n American flag . .· That got the attent~on of !he ~:_· caused - me s.o me conce-rn. · How .dothey -figure ·I. am a cro'w ds. But what was not so notice~ble'~ was ·his, . fascist? But then I real~zed that the people who·were extremely skillful misuse of language~ _Bell stateq that · calling m.e fascist were simply using !his nebulous tenn ~'Fascism won in· China~ , referring to· the massa:cre:. 9f to. define the yrtemy that~ ~hey needed to create. It must · · Chin~se stu~_ents ·in that country. This drew c!1eers _, be-a horrible'feeling for. thoseself~proclaimed socialis~s · :. from his foolis.h fans who realiZed tharM.r. Bell had , and Marxists to see the· fruits of their theories, _only to ,ju~t.i~en the .re~ponsipility for this ·Il}assacre outof the \- realize that they th~niselves are their own real enemies.· . hands ~o.r . the cot}l,munjst$,~- The purpose . of this · For. all they·ne,~d to·:do 'is·· peek ou~ of t~eir .b~ndets-for - observation is(not to somehow come to the 'defense of :one second and the truth wilL become ~atrto obvious. : · · -~ fascisin, ·for hi~;tory. ;has :~ho'*n itto·.be as r~pulsiye as The .real · probi:e~ here is the _Left's .attempt_-. to ' .• _ communism~ ~;llui.this qU:ote· does 'p rovide spme· insight-.· manipulate -lang\lage · to keep. their ·' ideology ·. .alive. . . . into the unwillingries·~ of tji~ ·L eft:to ad~it th~ failure of . Thus; the statement_that- ':'Fascis.m won "in China~·' ;_ :m akes , . c:ommu~sm an4 ..- ~oc.ia~ism.<·· yYhy, can't ·. th~ .brt:ttal (· only one thing _painfully clear. ~o·day's_ S()Cialis-ts still ·r. commu~st g_ove~nmen,:t~.of _Ch~na ~e held ,t~~pons1~le ·. rejecf the truth. · They ·~till:·:t¢ftis~ _ to"-::b¢lie.ve_·; that the ~; for the 4uwn~w.a..Q S·quarG massacre? _Why can't those . socialist system·is p'e!Veited, . notjustindi viduals:within ·. :. -~aple peo:(>le,~~o}ati4~:<l th~_ ,great ~.'Cult.lJ!.(,ll:R~v()luuo~ '_' · .i~._ Until·they po.realize _. 'it~·: ih~: inas$:~~r~s ~ill i~.onti~fie· , ; ~.: ~ow . recogn~ze_. _tbetr: horre;nd~u~ -.- mtst~e? •. _T h_ts ~ not only' ·in ···cllina; b~t,. in<,. _Ethiopia,_\_-Av.go.Ia .and massac~e .was _ not ctrespl~ of~f~pl_S~ InfiltratlOUI?t(?~O :. lylozambique . People will · cofttinue-· to· flee-- from .·' - oFher:~.vtse,_ pure_. ~~mol~ _ c~~ll:018 t state: !~s · was Nicaragu+t, Cuba, ~past ·.G ermany·, the So'viet Union, · stmply -~or~ P~~o~ ~~~t · .~?ctal~s~,_ M~rxts~ , a~~ Yietnam...shalri go on? ·_ · · · -_ -··. ·... : ... ~ · , commumsma redead. ~. · . -.. · · ·· · - · - ·;·,. · · · <' .. ~- •. It is .not unus.u al 'fof-··a · conservative bt . .even . . · . -.. . K ·D . - ·... - ·- :·., - · Republican student;.<)n this campus .to be referred to as a · · ~ •, ·,' _•.- ·. - ~ ·. . )

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- . . The past two months has been . tiil).e of \; great conflict and cont~ov~rsy within .. the s t-qdent --" Associatron. The· · student . · government has been the victim of'r resignal;ions-·and wide spread rumors that have rendered it' mostly ineffective in . the ~yes .o f many studentS and adminis.trators.". .• The problems l)egin .early this . semester . with· the resfgnatitm of . ·. Kim Blair from _.~he pos~tiQI) of . Academic .Vice President · on 1 September 4tli. and was _heightened · with the resignation of SA President· Cr-aig Siegel on Tuesday Octop~r .. :' lOth. _ J?_u~ tp Si~gel's ·i-e~ignfl#<m · ·Christine : Fecko ·assumed the I' . • ~Pre.sldeilcy and along with the only :· · ·other Executiv.e Board member Mary ; ,Ka~trCU:llen ~:.became the center ,o f · f_.,. •intense .criticism. .. . · - · ' · · . " . .' . ·· One of these criticisms stems 1 _; from Fecko's .handling_ of .$iegers letter of . resignation. · Siegel . ,'·~ originally hilnded in his resignation q-,. ~arly . in._,the - s~mes~er . citing,_"v~ry, :··' very, very . serious disagreements tt :·"'i :_ am·o ng . · the Executive. Board~ ~r However, . after having iime to . rethink _his decision he decided that . he wished ·to ·remain as· SA President. · A week later afte:r' a~ ~xecutive _ '' I'·~ i ,, ~R ,_ Zapata-,' -:last . y.e ar's : '_Stude-n t .'. Board meeting he aske<lldi hi~ letter , . ~ - In an ,attempt to deal with the . Since Kim . Blair resigned the first · · ·- • ' 1 Assoe'i~nimi Presiden·i, srateil ihat the . back. . Fecko refused stating that _if proble~s·: fa~·ing_. ihe~ ' ;~h~den t · ·- week of Classes, according to ·tpe she acquiesced to Seigel's request she ' SA had made a bad decision and if . Assoc.ia,t ion . the residential . constitution, an election should have would be, "destroying a . piece of . ihey were worried about legitimacy -gov~rnments met in; an infor~al· been held in the fourth week of ,- · ~· · •: history." Angus Johnston speaking classes. · However, elections weren't _th~~ - co~ld ~~ave c~e~~~d with ~he-::.~ --(> "~'i'~es_~~o~ -l~t V.:~e~}~.~l~~~~~V!on~ : ,'~ ·-r.::··in F·eeko!s·-defense said-thatit wonltt~ - - . held -uiltif the 'ninth residential commumty councils;·;~ _ a.vatia~ble to r,ect1fymg !Jle pr~en~i of' the be like unilate~ally disarming. No mention was ever made· to the :i" · situatiOn. Among. the. options;:· . semester in clear viotation of the Therefore, S_ieg.el feeling that the . ~onstitrition. stJid,ent assem~ly as to the Executive .' · , . di~cussed was the pos.sible ·· letter · was b~ing· -held _by:~F.ecko -to ·. .-~ · .: . -~ l39~d's ,~~~s!¢n to disregard the SA . impeachment·· of Fecko. At tne··. ,- . · potentially blackfu~ii 'him iost any · ··~ constitution. · assembly meeting on the 17th she hope for compromise and officially Many· students .feel Jl)a.t the repeatedly stated, "I don'i want to be . There -are · also · numerous · ''reason this was done. was so the resigned. u poh his- resigmition . President." Impeachment could· be questfo;ns.' SUJ(TOunding -the role · of " Siegel · stated that' he· felt. ~at there · Boaid's~hand pi~Jced choice of Angus accomplished by-a vote of four fifths Johnston could . run as . the Angus Johnston as acting AVP. _At were certain people [Fecko, Cullen . · or the community governmepts, the · Student Assembly meeting on · ·experienced incumbent. ' Despite · and Johnston] who were preventin-g however no action was taken. .Tuesday · October 17th numerous Siegel's plap;, to hold the:·election - . him from . doing the job he was These only a few of the · -- within the 'constitutiort.a l ·allowed·· .· .~tudent . Association members · elected to do. ·It is no coincidence· critieism which are beleagu~ripg the ti:me limi-t the other two ·members ·· · : question John,ston~s use of authority . that the Fecko, Cullen, and-Johnston . student government. Not only do live together -· and : admit to., on the, .boatd disagreed. ..Pecka " while serving as ac.ting AVP . . · tl)ey have to answers questions · maintained tharthe elec'tions·couldn't -:Siegel stated that, "The position was . discussing SA · matters at ·home · p~rtaining · to their decreasing· , · · be held earlier :because the _student . abused and used in an inappropriate ' without~Siegei's presence: . . '. effectiveness but also ; questions assembly was just forming and there ·. · way t0 affect non-academic issues." _' · . A second criticism ·stems' from.. ., dealing ·with ethical w~ong doings were . contrad~ctions with. the_rules Mapy students -felt -t hat the· ·, . the appointment of.,.Angus-Johnstop · " and their.'blatant disregard for the governing the elections of candidates ' . ~xe€tltive iBoard didn't have the right as acting Vice President for ·· constitution which they ~ere elec~4, , in the ' constitution. Spe sta,ted that · .. ,to. give Jdhn_s~on all the power and Academic ;\ffairs. According to . to uphold. · At the . end .of . the she was also concerned that ·me .· . at,~thority that he exercised such as section 5 of .the SA Constitution, assembly _meeting Fecko suggested election ~Ouid --·not be . . cOnsidefed , · ; making appointments.· When jf position becomes vacan.i to. the representatives that they gQ '• legitimate despite the fact that ·the · questioned on · this by meQJ.bers of before the third week of the -back to their -constituentS and tell SA alr.eady had a .ele~tions _, , th~ . ass·e mbly Fecko s-aid, "The · them that thin-gs. aren't as bad as it semester, an election will be held in commtttee constitution chainnari. ·.·doesn't say anything · r , Raphael seems and not' to believe &lL. the the' fourth .week of. that semester :. about any.thini.'' · · h)rp~.'· I guess the .truth -hurts~ .. y

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they spots on earth and e~trenched with, : . openly operate large drug highly · sophisticated security . The ·plush house . of ·W innie . · smuggling ri~g- in which they ·p lay systems. · Man·dela was ransacked. by ~ her · the tole .of ·middlemen. The ·The Syrians.• who, rieedl~ss to neigh\)prs in s ·oweto.. According to .. · '< • · ' , ' Shining .Path collt~cts a percentage. say, were .highly' ein ba.tr~sed by ~e tbe City Press, South A_frita'(. "· Jroni . the . p _ e asants"coea· ~rop and incident, originally insisted that the 'Iarg~st circulating n~wspaper for ' • · .~ , · - ~ · · · fQree drug .traffickers to.buy directly plane was fo.rced · to · land for · Blacks~ tiles, floors; plumbing-· - ' As municipal ·el~ctiQJlS draw . ·····. . Jro.m theni . . This provides the - . "mechanical reasons\" They latyr .fixtlires, and ceilings we!ie iotn out . :ne~r, , the . AriieriC.'JS. 7.'most' blood . , guerillas with r. as much . as $30 retracted this s~tement, calling ~del of tile house·.. The estirilat~d damage . · ::.thirsty guerilla ~Y has gone on a . . .. millimt annqatly'· and Colombian . "a traitor who sold· himself and 'his was $40,000 . .. Mfs. "Mandela has .. - riew offensive. The· Shining Path·, · · .r . ·.. '. .drug Cartel· with one of its ·major weapon to the enemy." often been criticized by other Black · :{Se-ndero Luminosa In: Spanish) h~s. . J), spurces of cocaine. · .,, 1 · . . The defection was a double South African leaders for. heralteaqynriircder:ed. 123 mayors and ·:r .· .· ~he Shining Path insurgency, . · . ble.s sing for ·i sraeli ·intelligence, ; · ' exiravagani: lffe style. ~he clai~s ·ciVil servants since _the beginniJ!g ,oC~ ...._<which ~Iently.began in 1980, has ··,. bringing valuable information ·about that she plans to live there full time . this year. . The cuirent .t errorist · :: resulted · in the~· death of at least the. plane and· the Syrian Air Force . when Nelson Mandela is released, · campaign is aimed . 'a t disrupting . .14,000 civilia~s: . This. year a~one while at the ·same time exposing · . ~ven though Mr..Mandela has ·been·.· up~oining el~'ctions, esp,eci~lly tfie . . · , <over 1,000..cjvilians 'a nd nearly 300 . sho~comings in Israel's defenses. · r~p_orted as S'\ying he doesn't want to piesidentiat ,el~ti~ns~ in&~pril,1990. ·· •, · ..... ~Peruvian ~oldiers Have h~el! killed. · . The MiG-23, although a . ·uv.e there. ., · The Shining Path holds' sway over ·. The guerillas have built a nationwide:· relatively old jet fighter~ was'updated . approximately o11e-third·· of P~rq, · network whi~h .operates in individu~ · with the most advanced Soviet · . ·mainly in ·the CentraF Andea~ · :terrorist .cel.ls. - This · system allows · "electronic security equipment. Most , re~ions whe~~·many indians liye·. . ,. .. . ·'the Shining , P-ath·. to strike - with _of this information will . inevitably .~ Gorbache,V. fias gotle ~n . anoth~r • j ·: The· Shin.ing Path w~. organized · ·.. impu:o,ity. _'All members are highly . · be shared with the United States. trip, · this ti~eto. Finlap.P,,~ nation 7 in ·1969 as ~· sp1inter group from_the·· indoctrinated and recruits:are mainly An Israeli Arfi:ly inquify found which has IT\an'!ged to 'maintain itS: · Peruvian CbmJ:n!mist Party~ Its ...... ;7 drawn from. rural ·twelve to fifteen that the fighter-bomber was able to inc;lependen~e from the ~oviei Unipn. / . ideology was ~eyel~p·ed]>y ;Manuel - ·;..·: . year olds, . who are molded into . ' .peqetrate Israeli airspace,because "an While iri Finlan4. Gmrb~chev .m ane. · · RulD_e):l Abi~ael , ·auzman, .· (a.k~a~"' • -.;;,,'" highly motiv,ated revolutionaries. , . officer .did nof exercise correct . seyeral proposals which appear as J>J;e~ident Gonzalo), ·a philosophy · · .. ·Th,e Shining ~ath is .estimated to·.be . judgment." The investigation did · little mor.e · than. diplomatic professor: at . the .' u nlv~rsity· of. . . , rio more than '$,000 membets, nQt fmd any fundamental flaws with alld . · chicanery. .. .. 'Hua_niang.~ . in .. Ayacucho. . I.fi~ ·.· .,- yet i~ is. ~ble .to dominate much of : Israel's air defense system. tris first· proniise was to ria th~ p-hilosophy : ··cal'ls ' fot ·. a ,, rur.al ' Peru. , Meanwhile, at a press .conference· · . , , . . . B·altic' ·s ea of .nuclear submarines. -: "'-· insurgency, based .on· neo-Maoist .· ' ; The effec't'. of the"' guerilla · two days 1ater, the 34 year: old Add, ·The .truth is thak these .6 ,i-qbmarines dogma and Qu~chua Indian campaign on the upcoming elections · a ,bach~lor:. stated that the reason for . were going to mothballed anyway withdrawal his defection.·was because he "wanted ' because they 'are .·outdated -and hav.e to live in a democratic coQnt:ry where experiencoo repeated accidents in the pa.St few years. people are free to express. their · yiews. He said he was influenced . Gorbachev's second proposal by . what he read about Israel and called for the end of all-· military alliances. What a surprise! Tlie . . what he saw on· televis.ion. .. .' Warsaw Pact' is in.compiete .Clisarray ·. •. and is almost no use to the Soviet Union anyway. Hungary and Poland have abandoned tommunism-to the trash bin of history. Eist derm·a ny by Hudsa·n Bronh~r is experiencing a major democratic ; This past summer's- video ·of revival. . :~ · ~ . ~~ _ Colonel ' Higgins, ' an American Rumania remains the neo.member of the United Nations ', S talinist king dam of . Nioo{ae. ·p eacekeeping -forces in Lebannon, Ceausescu and·it remains completely '· hanging by a rope cinched around his diSinterested , in · Perestroika. neck, once again brought the topic Czechoslovakia ren)ai_ns feryently of terrorism to the forefront ofi the · anti-revsionist ·because the regime's · / Western media. The media has al~o~ The · hallmark of . the -Shining l(fgitimacy' is based upon the - · of over 400 ·offiCe-seekers. The once again, unwittingly 'playdd into · Path's terroristic activities is the · ilk~gitiinacy of Dubcek's reforms. ' If . ultimate goat oLthis campaign is-to the hands of terrorists, actiilg as their .ritual mutilation. of victims whose they accept Perestroika ; they must · cause an ovetreaction oh the pait of agent iri spreading fear among bodies ~re lett on pul>lic ' d isplay_; . ·. the Perqvian mililflrY. Either a copp .. a~cept the legitimacy of thtr Prague · tnillim'ls of people. :This method :is used not o.niy-. . Spring· of 1968. ' '{his would be a ·'· · d 'etat or a marked iiicreas'e ih human 'The media's appetite for such ~ because· of the -fear it invokes; ptik . rights' violations " would th~eaten dis~ter for the current regime because · · stories - has made terrorism an also because it ·harkens back to the . inter~ational support" ' for the .. it would undermine its author-ity increasingly efficient. and effective _.\ Conquistadors' tre~tme·fit . of . t_he "' , .. : struggling Peruvian democracy. It is · o¥er ·the .nation. This -leaves- the- · means of · influencing Western ind~ans.. .,T he wjite invaders of h • ., , of the utmost importance _that the Soviet · Upion ' witfi--its · slavishly · for~ign policy. To demonstrate this nearly 500 years ago brutalizec,i the . ' ~· iritematiomil community 'support the ally of Brilgru;ia; _ ·· ~point, one need only reflect back Ot;l in~ans and now the Shini)lg Path . · Peruvian · people and their ,·- As .for NATO, it ,is· as ~~ong...a~ President Reagan's attempts at arms does the sam5!. ,to go_ternment ·: ., . gqvernment against . the "Khmer · ever ·a n4 althoJ;Igh there are voice~ on· '" for hostage :swaps· .with. Iran. officials and civil-servants. · , . ··Rouge of the .America8/' both side·s of the Atlantiq cailing for': . · - Although ; wtong for doing so, . The Shining Path se~ms to .be· . . . . . changes in the _relationship, it wilt' .. ' Reagan bowed under ·public pressure 'the . only indigenouS · . guerilla ' .. by- Ephrahn ·' Bernstein ptobably continue .t6 strong. for political reasons--to release movem:ent in-· the- Americas that · qnd Matthew Carr .·With th~ economic integration of th~ . . hostages even though it involv~d receives no support: from the Soviet . mean -.that he·previously denounced. · Union or its regional'-.:lackies, Cuba . 1. . European Cpmmunity occurring -in, 1992, perhaps the role of Nato will . · l'his public pressure was to an . and Nicaragua. In, fact, the Shining .be altered. But any radical changes Free_,~om overwhelming· extent caused by the Path ~ttacked both the Soviet 'Jn{f · in .the 40 year alliance still seepi far media~s sensationalist coverage of Chinese embassies and -· the _;N'orth .., off.' · :f .•• . . .Middle Eastern teuorism, which Korean Commercial Commission in by _Steve· Kaplan · .· · Gorbachev\ also asked the .:w .e st · greatly exaggerated the the threat · ' Lima: .This exemplifies. the reality . . . '·' I )lave FlO harmful intentions,'' ·i6 send him af4 .to helpJtis .program .from..terrorism to Americans. · that the Shin'i ng Path is highly the pilot said jn Arabic to shocked · .of restructuring. ., The question is~ . Terrodst acts should not, nor c~n xenophobic and tloes not hesitate to . ~m:lookers as' he: stepped out of his though, wqy. sliotild the West send .. · be ~g.nored by the media, but th~y .. · . ove,rtly .cspcmse ~his fact. . .· ,. . aitpl~me after' landing ' at a · ~ivilian ~.-·aorbache\r economic aid for ' ~s . · should not be sensationalized or · Since this guerilla army ·receives . · .11irstrlp 'in ·. I~rael on,t0 6tober 11,. reductions£ ·, Shouldn't- there be . given undue significance. Of all the no foreign support, it raises'its funds .1989. · ·. ·· . .. :(reciprocity in th-is relationship? terrorist acts ever reported by the . --- by a var~ety of methods, ·inC!tKli-ng . . . '' j'his was routine flight. The ' .. -Shouldn:t arms cpntroLagr,eements ·· meQ.ia, how many have ~en place ,. · . bank robqety, ~xtortion., a wir::- U1x, ,, . pilot~ Major Mohammed 'Bassem be based on aims? · · :. " . . on .American soil? How many mofe · and drug .trafficking~ The war t:aj( :is ·: - ,p,del; defe:cted ·from·· Syria with a · · .·. . Those in ·the West why think Americans die each year as a result " -~~ soviet-made MiG-23. After a thatthe West ca'n solve the-problems . . extorted from the ·rvtal peasant.rf.., If ·- ~ : routine .' i~ai_iiin'g mission, A del . · of .traffic fatalities, than nave ever of 70 year of mismanagement and · . a v-illage is unwilling to pay the~'· .....- ;-.somehow Iil~aged to cross therten~e ~' ' ',· .• qied a result of terrorist acts? . ' · im~fficency .by giving .the .~oviets' . . ·or d.isli)lays ·resis~ce to .~e 'Shinip.g:. · ,!# ~~ .· ., :.Jsrae~J~Syrian b,order, fly ·over Israel . ::we Americans canhot let OQ:I; , . ~:. · , economic aid -are fooling themselves. · · .t foreign policy which affects millions · · Path's "proteciiori.," :·'the · vHlage ~:- ·~:: ·.·' for about fo'ur .rninutes.aild land near ·~· For Perestroika, t,o · succeed., . leadership is.assassinat;efl. While.the · Qf people, be changed because of an~' r · · '_the tbw.n of Megiddo. · !he border - Gorbachev must make ~the painful · · gueri-lla . mem~bers liv·e . ·by ,a/ overmagnified threat caused by sa Qetween.the.two arch-enemies is one changes which h~ s:tin refuses }O few. · ·· · · · . < ; '· r· of ·tlie- mo~t potentialiy volatile

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revolution and -those who remain! Suffering qnder the Stalinist trtodeled - dictatorship, is reflective of the vast ignorance displayed by the welltraineq pets of t,he Leftist propaganda machine. . · · Castro's sixty-eight prison~,..which hold an estimated 15,000 political prisoners (highest per capita _ in · the world) who suffer torture, .forced labor, and countless other ' . i_ndignities, . are' a testimony to the · wretched legacy of Fidel Castro. The U.S. has been fa:r too lackadaisical in its handling of the Casiro regime: As Armando Valladares, a former victim of Castro's repression, and a prominent spokesman for Cuban human rights ·stated, "Someday · when the whole · . truth is known in detail, mankind will feel the·· revulsion it felt when the of Stalin were brought to . light." .

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The Venceremos Brigade is a · · This·-proved·to be an embarraSsment I their jilngle Journey • .. This daini - · worldwide orgahization ftmried· by- · -' ~o the Cuban -government who were stanas in direct conflict with a recent · .. the Cuban government 'soon· after -· _< trying to cover ·up the outbreak~ · . the -. revolution~- ·T he , Brjgade, · stationed in Caimito Del Guayabal "Ca~s~ro sixty·-~ight _p ,~;ison~$, . region _o f Cuba 'is knoW1l _-also,by the name Qf !'Frie11ds of ~uba"., · .a nd estimated ~ '_- pol-~ti.cal functions as one . the . mo:St .. important, IJlOuthpieces . for Castro : and his government. · Brigade . , .members around .the . world, . travel to Cuba courtesy of Castro and are , . · treated as the el~te. ~They stay in the '- best hotels, dine in. restaurants which ' are 'unavaihible <to the , majority--of Cubaps. The m4;lin role of brigade:mem,bers is to travel the Mr. Hil1son 's poke with , world as Castro~s useful idiots, Cuban Central Committee document great pride· about" racial equality in spewing fortli ' . vintage · Cuban whic,-h reporte<t ,the eX.tremely ·high ·propag~da. · ·-· Cuba. He went on to . e~plain that · desertion rate of Cuban soldiers in · _blacks have been fully integrated More amusing than the speaker Angola as "unacceptable.;' great · into Cuban society. A young black himself, were , the entranced Cuban victories· that Hillso11 spoke man in the audience C3:geHy asked . ,• '· "believers of the ~udience who · of are · nowhere to be found in the hung ori ·his · every· word·. They Hillson to expound on · this Angolan ·conflict -Indeed, the great nodded and smiled as Comrade . statement. In ,the trUe fashion of a losses that the Cuban military Hillson de~cribed · Cuba's spperior propagandist, Hillson ex,plaitied that suffered at the hands of the u.s. eco!lomy,. ·absence of homelessness .·backed UNITA forces was what unlike the U.S., "Cuba has arid unemployment~ and -their role in recently fQrced <the _Cubans to the abolished . institutional racism. ·international peacekeeping. One · bargaining · table. Indeed this leads one to wonder why The one can't _help but . to compare ihe contribution Cuba did make to the in fact, to this day, not one black audience to ··disciples ·.of the " ·war in Angola, was it's introductio~ has ever- served in ' the Castro ' Ayatollah Khomeini, blindly of rierve · gases and phosphorous _· dictatorship. . Perhaps the young · absorbing "ahy ·an.a all propaganda, born bs against UNITA, as was m_an in the -audience would like to · regardless .of fact and historical reported by Dr~ Aubin Heyndrickz, . ask Eldridge Cleaver ·the same record. · senior-United Nations consultant on question. Cleaver is· an ex- Black Conirade :Hillson relishes in the chen:iJcal watfare. Comrade Billson, . Panther, who once -hijacked a·pfane fact that Cuba has made tremendous in discussing ~e Cuban yearning to to Cuba in order to teach a country economic strides since the aid its fellow comrades,. failed to more-in line _with his ideological -revolution "~espite the Uni'ted mention, and seemingly ignored, beliefs. The disenchanted ·.cleaver States-blockade." According to himt 'Ethiopia.. In Et}liopia, thousands of , . soon returned to· the United States, this has resulted in the most modem Cuban troops have been used to stating tliat Cuba was a "miserable, hospital in all .of Latin America, carry out th~ murd~rous nolicies of racist" coun~; · · along with free universal health care and housing, and a high rate of ~·' employment. As is customary, the facts allude Mr. Hillson~ . . The .aomnide conveniently disregarded the $S billion dollars a . year Cuba 'receives from the Soviet' Unibn. Despite the. economic boost, · Cuba's- economy is less diversified than it was prior to .the revolution. _Whil_e sugar rem~ris the-basis of -the , Cuban economy, it's Rrices are still depressed. . Other Latin American countries have increased their expert of manufactUred goods over the past · twenty years~ · Meanwhile'· the I · I percentage of ,nanufactured goods exported by .Cuba remains at 5%, the saine-as in·1960.. · . , · Alorlg 'with low productivity, . unem.ploym~nt . has . emerged as a probiem for Cuba. According to the latest statistics ayailable from the Cubari~go;vem ment; joblessne_ss wh1c!t was 40,000 in 1981, nearly tripled to 100,000 in 1985. This, ~ong with il)~ fact that out qf Cuba's ten. ,million ·people, one-fouftl1. live in· inadequate hous.- iilg, clearly shows tithe great strides hi the Cuban economy" as -a result of the rrevolution. . . The speetacuiai health care that the Cuban government speaks of is · practically non·-existent. Severe . sanitation problems remain · in · Cuba. Hospitals which provide . care: for government Qfficials and ·menibers of the nomenklatura, or the elit~. are closed to the .---people .

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-· In · -1964, President Lyndon. . .· This ._placed · Party . Leader __-: objected to :J(emp's plan and the ··. The -statu~ of Eas~ Gerinany.has · J<?hnson and the Democratic Party -,. . ~ Hon~ker in a pickle..· He had. been··. ACLU is suing.Kemp. On one side changed. over the past year. . There . lauJi~hed the "war . on~ poverty'~ ' ~ . . you have the liberals saying the'poor seriously ill_,ov:er ·the summer, .so · - has been the flight of East Germans, _ campiU.gn. Here we are, twenty five · .,. . through . the- othef',,w arsaw Pact · .much so that he was . near death. ·must. put up with crime, drugs, and · year~ · f_ater and we _can -see ·that this ·· With thy ·. mass exod~~s • . t.~e.. . 90untries; to WestGermany. There filthy living conditions. On the ,_ war has-been~ failure. Between the were--the m'a ssive· demonstrations de_monstrations, and his .age,-. 71, _ other side_is Kemp saying the poor · years· of 1960 · and 1985 the ·U.S. . when East Germap.y clo,sed don't have to endure this.-. If we want ' · there was little doubt a ch~ge had to .· .its · annri~ spending ori .soCial programs - the ·poor ·to -h~ve a· c'hance · ·at borders to · Czechoslovaki a and be made_. .There were, rumors _that · . werit fro_m $29.5 billion to $484.5 . improving their lives, the least we Soviet le':lder ·M ikhail Gorbachev · · Hungary. Finally, there w&s . the ,billion, a more a . 1600% ,' ' - ' can do is .saye them from havjng removal of Erich Honecker as - wanted. the conflicts to be solved incre'ase. When you look at this before he arrived in East .Berlin . .·Comm·unist Party chief. This· has known drug dealers living next door ·· huge;J.ilcrease in spending you would· lead.. to a state of confusion and · and ~estroying . the . very They ~eren't, ·and he placed pressure· . ~s~ume that poverty has·gone down:, ... neighborhoods they ·are trying to .. on· the East German · PolitbUro to disarray. in land .iliat 'has.not been ·.·-· · Qut that has not happened. . In fact; · . save. · . · . · · - · · oust Honecker. True :) kilown ·for· unrest and turmoil over · · not, on between thos~ years · o( increased October 18, during' a meeting of the Urban homesteading is a pl&n_ . . .,__ the last ~everal decades. · spending,~ . the niu;nber-· of people ' which would . allow residents· of · . . East German Politburo, Honecker .. ' · The ·action started in May when living in povyrty has increased. . .. was forced to resign -his position; public housing. (or projects) to· have - · \ ,Past- Germans ·~tarted to' move to ·,. People who are poor are treate<f . In his place, Eron Krenz" was ·- · an Qpportunity to buy their· ·'.West Germanym one oftwo ways. · as though they . c~n't ·t ake ariy apartments . ai low prices. , This _, installed as the number one man. . · They would either stop in the West · responsibility for themselves. This. -~ He . is considered by The New York ··: . . would give them ~e fee~ing of prid( german ernpassy in Prague and 3$k . attitpde m3kes them_feei liice v-i~tmi~ and . responsibility of owning Times to be a hard-liner espousing for asylum, or they would go.across · wno are totally helpless to deal with something.- They would -work harder . neo-stali{\ism. But to the contrary,··. Huri~ary into,Austria and eventually their OW!l problems. They therefore to .take care of the area since they . . he . indicated that new travel end up ~n ·WestGermaily. Ac.cording · bec~orne trapped in a culture of :. own it an4 they would have a feel:ipg regulations would soon be enacted · . to Newsday , "more th'ln 52,000 poverty that lasts for generations. of pride, therefor~ giving therri more , making it easier. for ~ the East. have fled West. " . , · The liberal democrats who believe .. incentive. Once, in a debate on the · Germans to travel abroad. Though . This obviously pu~ the East thai m·o~ey is the o..nly answer to ·floor of the House, ~epresentative Germans in a bad spotlight. · East he lVants to be know~ for a to~gh problems have been proven wrong, • ·Ron Dellums (D-Ca.) and Barney stance, he knows that he wbuld be. Bloc countries are expecied to-have once again. · The United States has·. Frank (D-Ma.) argued that if we the big loser if :demonstrations ~ere · ' . some immigration . due · to the poured billions ·o r dollars down the. allow the residents of public housing - repression of freedom of speech, of to continue and expand like ·his dr~n ' with no·positive results. It ~~ . to buy · apartJ:nents ·they might sell . predecessor allowed. , religion, and other liberties that all · . time .that this ·c ountry had some . . ·them and. make ·a profit. Oh no! should possess. However~ 52,000 in . The Bus)J Administration, which · innovative P-!"Oposals to. give the This .could mean they may no longer · . five months is, without·a doubt, an · . has remained quiet on this situation, poor pride and opportunity instead of be poor. enormous - amount of people to . · · spoke up a notch recently. They.are causing childish dependeiice. . . As a congressman, Kemp applauding the events of the last few · · · leave. If /they were to conti~ue to · The liberal democrats have failed 'sponsored .1egislation wliich gave leave at that rate, East Germany months. The President who referred · miserably in the "war on poverty" : tenants self-management and then would be depleted of all its citizens to the situation as .a "change that is and nQW it is · fime for the ownership. This plan was enacted in too inexorable, " Is currently · wiihin a decade. Thus, the Honecker conservatives, led by Secretary of Kenilworth-~arkside~ a public government did th.e only thing that a reviewing U.S. policy 't o East Housing and Urban Development . housing project in Washington D.C. ..7 Communist country would do: " Germany, and at the same time, (HUD) Jack Kemp to come to the Within six years, renuil income _ adjusting. it to supporL ,the ;:. attempt to stop the-exodus. rescue. Kemp has many .innov&tive raised 77%. · Administrative costs · proposals ·to help '.'empower" the were down 60%. Welfare poor. Among them are urban dependency dropped from 85% in enterprise zones, quick eviction of 1982 to 2% in 1988. . The tenant . . . . drug dealers from public.ltousing and . managers provided more ·-than 100 urban homesteading. new jobs for· residents. What was Urban enterprise zone_s are a once a bleak ~d depressed project proposal to give low tax iqcentives h b d for peop·le . to start hqsinesses ·in · as een turne into a ' thriving community. · depressed areas. 'fhe government · Once again, we see the failure of wilJ provide more jncentives for liberal policieS: The liberals who people io . open · up stores in have long called themselves the economically underdevelopm ent . champion~ of the .poor have spent areas. This will · help bring. bimons of dolhrrs, worsened. the What he did .was to seal off the economic growt]J. flolllishing democracy movement. opportunhy to conditions of the poor and trapped borde.r to Czechoslovakia. This was . , _· these areas. Events are changing day by day - \ them in a culture ~of poverty, crim.e significan~ because that was the .only for those in power, as well. as the · When Kemp became Secretary<of , and filth. Tht! conservatives are_now country an East German could visit ordinary man or woman on the street HUD immediately shortened ~ the . ones c:r eating .irtnovati ve without' a visa. At . the timef there .. in the German Democratic Republic. ' ' HUD's long process for evicting.· > · propo.sals to . give the poor- po:wer, were ·tho_usands of East Germans in It ·appears that the only people -drug dealers from public housing. opportunity and pride. It is a cl_ear \ · ' Prague, hoping ' to ,. go io ·West · . leaving at this moment are doing so .. Instead of waiting six months just to choice between empowerment and ·G(frmany, _who were Jearful 9f · illegally. · However, .the ·get-~o court, ~e cases can aow go entrapment. · · reprisal if they _were forced to go . demonstrations have · continued~ ·· · straigHt to court and drug deal¢rs can back. .After anxiously awaiting, the increasing in size and intensity since · be evicted much more quickly. ·East German government' announced the one that' occurred pn Octob~r 16. Many people who .live in publi~ · they could , go to the West. The demons-trations of ·October 23 housing have told Kemp that if he . However, future attempts .to leave . exploded to 300,000 marchers can get the drug dealers out they can ,.I would not be allowed.. ~ through Leipzig, with sizable ·take_.care of the rest. 'f,Naturatly, the This enchanted the East Germans numbers of people in other partS of ACLU and other liberals . have ~ ' who remained in· the country. They the country. Meanwhile Krenz, started organiZing demonstratioqs for elected as both party and state leader, the · purpo~~ of allowing . their though for the first time not brethren .to . d~cide ,whether they unanimously; is trying to. solidify wanted to leave .or not. The his-base of power. . Krenz may have demonstrations were small at first, been able to tum down ·the flame onbut quickly increased in size. The · the stove, but 'the water is still . one on October 16, 1989~ con~isted . boiling. of 120,000 people itho marched However, tb.e events of the through the str~ets Leipzig. They .. / summer and early fall are bound to _chanted slogans such as "We a;re the. - . flame up again. The best situation ~eople!" and "Democracy. Now or ~ would be for Krenz to allow _som_e · Never!'' " In a demonstration that · immigration to West Germany. At · occurred about the same time in East .. the same time, he should implement . Berlin; . a' man ~as shouting ifOr more reform, like Poland, to appease ·freedom of organi.zation, free · · the citizens of East Germany. The elections-, opposition· access to the U.S. could help by tying reform to~ press, and a public .debat~ on the · monetary aid. Krenz may oppose Communjst's . re-g ime past. This · liberalization, but he. may have no · · statement brought .about shod~, choice. It's time for East Germany although. soon after a. vocif~rous · to have ·.a breath of. fresh ·air and · ..... cheer came _from the crowd. experience the .real world.

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._ Standing,out among the sl$dard less.' unified an.ti-war coalitioii than . Elliot Mask~ o(the class of '72; ' · who .was 'anothe; SlJNy-B anti~waf.' - · fare of --bland and syrupy sweet . · those ·outside of"the movement Saw. saw t~e _anti.activism as· a • activist sharply 4i~agreed with ~e ·, seminars. and lectures offered by the. fie said that m.e,mbers of the · · -. · · ; · · . asseitiop rn~de b}'tii~ mpderator:that': university during Parents' Weeke~d. · panyl agreed-that the war should stQp "con¥ergence.ofpQlitics.and fes~val". the reaso~ why .the campus did no,t , . "American lnvolvement in South. bu(the "why" of it was a -diffe:cent and in mafiy respects he interpreted "blow up" ljk:e many other ca:mpu~s .. east Asia: Reflections/fwenty Years , m·atter. Mr~ Werh did. not share ·· his skill's ~d those of the .other was due to the resp,ohsible·leade:r;:shlp ' Later," offered a fascinating glimpse - 'inost of the goals that Mr. Gellert student leaders ..as . tl!ose of of the· rilem~rs of the panel. , :ae . into a bygone era. Fonner SUNY-:· . ·strived to obtain. . .· "managing a good· rock concert. i• He argued that. the s.iudent movement ' Binghamton anti-Vietnam . V{ar . . :;.'.· Mr. Wetb also strongly -disagreed ·._: .. argued that _.mucb 'of the work of 'was so .. ~trong and': tbat' the swv~,· activists . returned to· .the , Southern ~. . with Mr. Gellert's assertion that as a , many of 't he student leaders was , " . adrilinistratim1 "so capdy assed~ . thati. Tier to reflect on their actions of , . result of the anti:-w~ movement; the ·.· . "t_heater.... H~ W.so asserted · that irt every.. titne push canie::to.sliove, they',_' - nearly two decades ago. The 'panel, : -_ ~' axis 0f discussion -has ' moved .' . many ways if YO '!:I were able to fell .· over.~' · He · said ~e ~dn1ini:- . · composed of eight for~et student . . · · ~onsiderably to the Left,'~, ·Mr. Werb . ,_, . gather large numbers of people . sttation capitulated ·to nearly all (Jf. leaders .from .the late 60'~ and early _. argued that the U.S.'is ')much more - · together you could "claim~ political ·stij(}.eni . demands~·· .no matter ~hew • · ·.. 70's, and' tlfe moderator, former conservative ' today .... in ' ·mariy power that you did or <Ud riot'have." friv<)i~nis they may have been. .WI}9, ;' Harpur College ne·an,--- Peter .. important respects . tban it ·was · This argument, that m~ny students says $at today is:hny different from~·-·. · Vukasin,.,.spoke. about the Jessons· . twenty years ago." · He\ ar.gueq~that . the .60's? · .., · :.' <. · as well a:s student ieaders~were not they had learned, and what they''. '. _the·effects ofth~ movement couJd be '' . motivated 'by the-political, ·concerns ' ·It is· certaiilly:··'unfortunate~}th·a:t ·· .might ttave .done differently dirring ; ,_ s~en most clearly___, in the '6W' of the moyement, ·was denied- by a this :event was not_be.uer publioi.ze(f that turbulent era. 0': , generation. . However, the movefew members ofthe panel and the bec;:u~1)e it gave~:--a ··Qlore realistic.. -:· , Most of these greying ac.tivists · - ,, · ment's ..influence on the federal -audience, although no one rejeeted if - char~~terization ·. a too of.t~n .· have moderated their idealist views - _ government: was much weaker than:-; completely. romanticized movement. The 'real : . · .. . . ~d~~ - ~~doo . ~~~ : ~~.~~;•.:~Mr~·-~:~G~e~ll~M~h~~~-~-~~~-~---~~·-~-~~0-oo.-.m~e•m•b•e-r~.o~_f···th~e• .•~~d•i•e•oc•e•,-~: anti-war movement .and itS student. . endeavors. - However .there was_one :· _, • _leadership was }if~ .with v~1a~tiity, ... graduate ~ ho bucked this trend. and·intemal diviSiveness~ · · .. Peter<Gellert, inember of the class _o f ·, .Mtich ha·s ch~gea in the-:past · 19.71 and currently . a tenan~ . two decades, and the views of most . , organi?-er, extolled the accomplish- .·· of the . pa~lists . ·- have iikewise. . ments of the anti-war movement. ' . eyolved. .Although the majority ·of He proclaim'ed~ the he ·was very,, ' ~e ·member of the: ,panels are still· · very .proud" of the results of the r!lthet liberal, only: cine member; Mr. movement, especially the renamjng · Gellert remains politically petrified · of Saigon to Ho Chi Mihn City. with his antiquated views of 20 . However, ·Mr. Gellert neglected to . years ago. Mr. Gellert said that he .mention whettier or not he was . 'did_ not then and does not -now : "very, very proud" of North .. believe the revolution is aroun(l the Vietnam's brutal occupation of ··~ co:tnet but he asserted that "wha't I South Vietnam, Cambodia and· Laos . · did. thinlc then and do think now, is since its achievement of . that this country 'needs a revolution;" "i.ndeperide.aGe~:. Jn L915," thanks·iifl. u,:... Fortunately-most Americans oo nor · no small part to Mr. Gellert arid his · · favor an · ideology of th.e lunatiC · cohorts. · · 'fringe or the totalitarian nightJ;Dares Mr. Gellert also asserted that as a whiCh · Mr. Gellert so prou,d ly. .consequence ofJhe war, a perrrtarient defends. chasm has emerged between the u.s. government apd the ·citi~ens of the. ~ United ,States. ·For the first ti'me; ,'ir==~r========:;::::;:==;::::;:~:===!:::;~===:::;:;=::::;:::==;==;=====;"'===:===~ ,.=;=, =='====;::::;==-;==;=:::;:=:::::::::====~=====:::f:::==. ·· Mr. Gellert - ~serted that "hundreds of · ' · thousands, perhaps even millions, recognized that their main enemy was_ not ·communism, was riot the .. . . . . I, · \ Vietcon-g, hut was · rather ,_ Washington D.C .. " Mr. Gelleds opinions· did not ' ' meet with the appr,oval o( the other . . mem hers of the panel, although a . few ' members or · the ·sparse,l y ' populate4. au(Jie~ce in Lecture· Hail · · Two applauded his views-. . The · . former student who .disagreed with · Mr. · Gelleri"s comments most · veh~mently was Mitchell Pearlstein, the main organizer of the reunion,, and fountling pres{dent . or' a . conservative think tank . · Miimesota-. , · ··. Alt.bough Mr. Pearlstein .does '~ not repudiate his -opposition tO the . Vietnam.. War, there were certain~ . tacti~s which b_e wish he had not . used. He asserted that the rejection -: : of symbols, .such as the American :.·' Flag and the 'Statue of Liberty~ w'as ·:: - most unfortunate. ·He -illustrated the : · . irony of ~tQis point by comparing the :: use of.these. symbol~, which the :_~, anti-war protestor~ , saw as .~ "irrelevant," with thei~ use aS~itlie· . ·symbols of_freedom and democracy' . . by the courageous Chinese"~tqdents . last spring·before they'wer.e crushed, by the :repressive " Communist · regime. ·' · · . _ ~ ~ .: .. -· Mr,; Pearlstein· was ·riot the'-only:,;. · member the panel to disagree with_.:-·· . ·Mr. Gellen:. ·Stan Werb, from u•t:_"i§i,) IE class of'72, said .thai the ·mrun- thing ~. ·· he rerife·inbe:r$- rtrost ·.clearlx U: i~ ;;~ arguing.. with1 Pet~t Gellert. .Mr~ · ·werb p·~inted :a picture of ~. ~uch

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';J\fifl,tlieRussians,' Stayed Today. ' Mt. Carbonell~ with the . . . ~:·by' Matlhew~:·.;· Car{ skill Qf ~ , surge~m. carefully and . . . _, · .·!'The ComMittees for the Defense methodic-ally -dissects an~ expo~es.. · the -enable ... =:·of.. the · Rev'olut'ion many · of .the ':'auilted ·gains of the ' Ministry of tiie·::fnt~rior . to . watch· _ as ·..nothing more . than ·· FevoJutipri' ~: au 'rrwvements~:;·chec:k all ·visitors, lies. For. · example, ·... outrageous · -:: monitor all . ·sensitive comlmiri..: and their useful idiots Communists :. ~ lc'a~_ion _· .(pru:,t{cqlarly ·opl~ions :on campusY claim· , ·here right ·(some ... · expressed on '{ioliiical: is$ues); track, has ·br.o ught revolution the that .< ·: .reception .of · foreign radio _broadWhat Cuba. to liter-acy universal easts; and evep_: record conspicuousmention is that to neglect · will they .. cohs~mption.'-' < .\:+ .. ' . > .. : _. . Cuba was -ai,ready among the ·. most' · ....B1g Brotherts ai1ve·and well; .he ·, literate nations on-·the~ earth ~t the · ;:iules Cuba; ) lis · . :Q.~me~ i~ ·.fidel time of the. revolution. He takes his · C3$tro. And "Fhe'Russians Stayed ·b-y to marif.:. areas - including scalper . N¢~tor T. Cm:bon~ll chronicles tPe (a· sever~ .shortage),' health ho.usin.g · t:ragjc .story of the ·enslavement of suiCide, class structure sports, cru:e, h·is · · the 'Cuban people··~y Castto, &nd very rigid)," . -stratif1.ect' (highly . . · 6~farious ideology~ · CI,iba~ a islaJld· ·: ·· well be!ng ~~pnomlc rights, hum~n · · ·. ~EJffimense n~tyt~ -b~t!tY andlip~e. from ' drop has jncoine capita (p~r -~ . :· .t6 -~ a _free. spirited ;pebp~e., lias Been. ~ -fifteenth to 1952 in place third: '·· · · .,~'qai;sformed by·Jtre :noiscime·\vinos . p!ac,e·among Latin America.) Suiliriist . j)f~io~litariani~fii~ J:n'to · 3Iso 'is alliance Soviet-Cuban The _ , ,. ba~tiqn in an · ei~ 'o.f reform .in the · dj,s~qss~d i~. the l~ght of gargantuan ; :E;~t. and a demodratic r~swgence in ·-~· th({restofthe - wbrid. ~,: . · . ,... -."~·-: .·:- · •.. ') Fhe author b~gins htfstOcy .a :~ ' painter .Prepare~-·-.ihe e~*«ss _9f;iii~·· ~ · -·,.·. .. mas.t erpiece by<_~stabllii$h}ng ~!ttie•'') ·..:f.Gpd~entals of::'tile:Cu~afi ~Siga;"ihe People:;-- Castro, and :. cu~an : :CompellingcGeo§oaphy; In · succeed- ·~ -.. ·_ing~, c~aptt}ts:'fi:~~e·, -~d.4s . ·cot~( ·a~.d:~.: te,c.ture . to· J:J-iSi•work,.. with~,;broad •. - sttokes of hi,si£.Jb< \Yliich pf~)lid~( ~ . the baclcgroul1fl ,\1 an(3;,':j~e fine;J!e~l..1• (of .personal a~couni{o'f the~Cubari '''· people. The work is concluded with · ··an· analysis ·of c_pntemporary Cuba, · the Cuban-Ame:dcan experiince in . ·-. eXile: and hopes ·foithe.future. .· :r • is style'Wrfting' ~Carbonell Mr. · ';;_·_ ~3.84 page~; .- $22.95. · entrancing anp -enti~ing.)ike ·&-.fFesh . sea breeze on·ahot'summer:day'. He -~ "Mor'row and . I . 'Willtah .s cintillates · the rea~er with his . C.ompany, Inc. ·. command of th~ Englisl:\ language and his choice of words. The reader .i~ .earned off to ·cuba_to experiyrice. ,a:ll .thaf has ·ttanspired · in . the last , .. · c~ntury :, This~ c;·om.b ination_ of ~ historical ·narrative and personal . anecdotes proviq~ .. a , pleasantly\· humanizing -alternative to the booRs · eco'nomic·-.and .'milit~y ~aid which w~ich reco~mt·· the t!.ag~dies of . helps to . maint~in the- Castro human . stupid~ty with · (,ln over dictatorship . in - return . for the reliance on statistics and figures: :. , transforll)ing Cuban into a heavily Perhaps the most p9ignant · armed . unsinkable Soviet<" aircraft · section in the-book is· his .account of carrier. The Soviet Union pours . the" failed Bag <)( ·Pigs invasion ~y ·a day irit6 Cuba millions $16-$18 . in . \ ,, . · ·the form of massjve subsidies for .. Cuban deniQci:ats·ana patriots. Even . though Mt. ,_. C~tbdnell seems , to sugar (bought by the Soviet Union at four times .the world market . . exonerate :~ tile K,enhedy Admini-. price).,. oi~ and natural gas (provided stration for much . ef the .failure of by the Soviet Union .for ..resale onto the :operat!ori;.' one~. c~n~ot help but world market), · and military .the so ·who President a by feel betrayed .weaponry. 'Fht(_dichotomy between . .· staunc]lly support West Berlin, a reformist ' Gorb:ache¥ and : his both rhetorica:Ily_ and ·.militarily, policies ·Of Glasnost and Perestroika . to ,patriots while allowing Cuban are juxta,po-s ed to' Castro's own · be slaughtered by Castfo's army. viiulerit form of neo-Stalinism. This event has thus 'far proven to be The f~a1 chap!e1 is ad<;lr~ss¢d } O ~ S~ates ? United the· nadir 'in th~ · the future. Mr:"'Carbonell calls on ~upport ~or , 9emoGracy in the America to wake ,up, stand. up, an& Americas. 'As.• the author also help put an end , to' the dicta~orship . pointed. out, ~t · ~as t~e Kennedy and ·~the human rights violations: Admit:t~stration which guaranteed terror-_and fear ~rule Cuba .now, Castr(?'s safety l).y 'preventing Cuban_ e .author expressed his hmv,ev~~r~ ,. th_ .. . emigres· ;. (r.om . or ganizing and hope.:'that futtJre g~nerations maybe carrying, out ' a . - democratic able to ;return 'tb '-a liberated Cuba, · ..r · revolution·; . fr~e _f-rom ;. benighted forces .wh~ch tfie . ecounts r ' w ·hen the . author ovcupy : it . now,i Jose Manuel' death the. :repubhc in 1961 py the Cortina; the , ·auth.or's maternal . imposition ., of . the · Communist put it best. · "C.ub.a will ·grandfather, plainiy' ~ it · dfctatorship·, ·he , makes:. be the first Soviet satellite to ~nse · ·, c~ear that mal}y opposed the .comip.g and roll back the Iron Cmtffin·. · And .the first: Latin American t0tali- .· virldicate .the bono~ -of .the \~.tarian regime. The Bati~ta 'reglrp.e republic tar~i'shed by those who· . was an aberration ;' and it was' the today serve as,. legionnaires for Cuban democrats_ who actively . Marxism~Leninisri ; the Cuban the . d a dema" opposed it and ' leaders who ,.emerge will tour the · . ' restoration . of rhe . progre:ss1ve world as .champions of d.em6cracy - / Constitution of 1940. - ·,,._ missionaries freedom. Never and of . section devast;ltin"g '·'fhe most . ·. underestimate the .CUbaflS! I · the oook has to be chapter 16 -.Cuba

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Collegv students across ' the .. country often. wonder .about li{e ·.after graduation. · When it's 'time to ·· put aside thoughts of fiQals and keg ·- ..... · parties and face , the dreaded "real world;" all of us will be hoping to iimd ~atperfect job. But if present national tr(fnds continue; starting a ·career iri the ·1990's may not be all mat 'easy ~ The reason: . diminishing supplies of electticity could ha.Im the economy and, adversely affect . employnie~t~ ' :'Ainerica's growing appetite for _ electrici ty ·- . ~iinply cannot. .be satisfied with current supplies. . While · our - consump tion of · ¢lectricity is expected to soar by more/ than 40 i>ercent by the -year . · ·iooo, construction of new electric · · · powerplaBts is_ata_15-year low. In New Engla;td· alone·, electricity demand since :1984 has risen 3.0 . percent while--g-enerating .capaCity has increas~ by, only 10 per~ent. .. U~ilities . across the country' are ~- .. · already reaching demand'levels that .·. were not projected until the midl990's, ·and .the. entire East Coast's ·: "~ ., .. ' cushion of electtica l teseive ... ~·:' "capacity _is now below what expertS' .' .· .~cons-~er :: a ·saf~ "·level to ,prevent . · -• brownouts.· ... , . ,·

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and oil. While new "clean-coal j,_ technologies ·will alleviate much .of · the concern over, sulfur-dioxide . emissions. a rriajor contributo~ to ;acid rain, they remain expensive, and political realitie~ dictate that we pursue-other energy avenues. An increased ·use. of g&s· seems unwise since adequate suppiy is a question, ·and it w~mfd b~ ctac'k-:-brained to · increase our alrea~y dangerous ~ependence on foreign oil. Oil . .. ,imports now compromise almQst. · 45.% of the trade defiCit and .could · . co~.t .$100 billion _;1nnuaUy 'by the . year, 2000. Nudear · power is ·oiir best solution~ ·- · ...... ~esently . nucl~ar" power is· the . secortd .· ·' largesi ,. ·. supplier . . of · --. el~tricity after.- coal, accounting for ··~ · . ·almost 2()% .o ( our tot31 capacity. .-. .,-~ ·:While _so~e ·are concerned about its safe :Use; nuclear power, with .over 1,3_00 reactor.;years of exp.erieace in the United State.s. · has an unparallele~ : r~cord of safety.•'_ In nearly thirty: years of operation; not a . single 'injury . or .' death .. fr~m .

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. . To think f:bis doesn't affect jobs and state economies- is absurd . . Whife the summer brownouts in Boston made national headlines, few people· heard .about the Greater.· ·Boston Chamber of Commerce - estimate that the §tate's electridty ·s upply problem s cost ·Massachusetts industries almost ' $100 milliGri .. in lo'st revenues. A ' I recent report about ·the Midwest .is even more alarming._ It is. estimated- as a result of inadequate ,electrical . supply, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio · will lose a total .of almost $14 billion in business profits and more t han orie and a .half million jobs in · the 1990's. If good jobs are rare ·today ; they may be even more;scarcb by the time incoming freshrri_en t . begirt their hunt. '· The r~al question, therefore ~ ,is .. ,. , . not . whether .we n-eed more· · electricity ,- but rather what kind of . ··

'power plants we should build. Currently, our· electricity is largely generated from oil, coal, nat:uiW gas, · and nuclear sources, with ·renewable forms · of energy· (wind, solir, 4ydro) making up · a small percentage. ;. ; According ·to _ most · . experts. any solution to the coming ' ~lectric_ity crunch must rely on oil, coal, gas, or nuclear sources since renewable energy technologies wiil not .be capaqle . of deliverin g . sufficient juice for many years to come• .

radiation has been found among the public or utility employees. Even . after the accident at Three Mile Island in 1979, federal and state agency· ·sponsored _health studies . conflimed this p~rfect safety record. . And ~a~ even safer generati9n clf nuclear _power plants is., on the horizon. ·. · In addition lo its impeccable safety record, nuclear pow~r is a friend of the earth and. its wildlife . . . . - '~ ~Nticle~ plants do fiot spew out.· · smoke,- soot, . sulfur fumes, or air · . pollution of any tyPe. Even the · minimal amount · of ·-high-lev el ·· waste is being managed safely and . · · effec;tively by federal agencies with strict regulations. , _· Power plan~s ·are not .built overnight. If our nation is to ensur~ adequate electrical supplies for the- ' . coming decades, we must begin • licensing and const;ructing nuclear . p·ower plants now. ~ u we .fail to · meet our electrical demand, many of ' · will hav,e ample time -to reminisce about our College days as we stand in the unemploymentline.

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. On a rainy Binghamton evening . understand that _Mr. Gorbaehev is Schnier - :hist Saturday; fifty or so dediCated · ;riot undertaking Perestroika lor his . 'Parents' .weekend is a time when for .mid-term preparation: The 1.. .Bioome ·county and SUNY-B . health or hum().nitarian reas0ns. ' parents jeumey to the scenic campus midterm problem swelled over ·the peacenik~- co~ver~ed i_n .on~ (:).f the ~ . Perestroika is . Gorbachev's ofSUNY.Binghamton to spend two entire campus as , st'udents .larger Science I classrooms. They re_spons·e to seventy · years_ of ·• · or three'. days with their children. In frimtically trjed tO Study as .ffi.UGh as· were there .to · hear one of fue high · eeoriomic .· mismanagemeot and _ . fact, mariy : parents as . well . as possible while still, keeping_ the!,r ·foolishness. The crise_s wQichforced -.priests of their movemeJit~ the .right · students Jook forward (o parents . parents . occupied. }4any of the . Perestroika .c annot be solved by aid ReverenQ William Sloane C0fqn. · weekend, when parent and child ate programs that · were provided for .·. front' the West;· they · ~e s~ctural As he entered the room, Mr. once again reunited. · Afthough _· parents were preposterous ·for this Coffi~"' was flanked by ·none other ~ and sy#emic; Givi~g aid to th~ students were indeed able to see event,: leaving students in a greater Soviet Unit>n would be like giving than Estelle Diamond, the exbind. · · · . their parents, ' the weeken·d was Broome County~ legislator; ·who _ . :~; ' erack io a crack addict; it's not going ·poorly publiGized, inappropriately Although the presentations were · · to · get . them . to . gi've up their misrepresented 'the campus and some ' . scheduled, and full of unfit' Kiven by ~ certain knowledg~able · ?"o f the surrounding· community · of. addiction . . Mr, Coffin rambled on a activities. . faculty · members, the t0pics while longer on the · topic; btit yve Vestal. Among her illustrious Who knew about parents' _ discussed were not at all geared to J shall move on. · · deeds,__she attemp~ed· to get _the weekend? · Most students were the· interests of parents.. PareRts did Probably the most reasonable ahd ' legislature ·to . dec~are Broome shocked ·to learn that their ·parents -- interesting proposal he made httd to County a "Nucl~ar .Free Zone;" -n onravel hundreds of miles to hear > were coming ··up to SUNY · do with economic conversion. For . . Linda Forcey, chair of the Peace · a lecture on The !rfiddle East Binghamton. Whether this was the ·the uninitiated, _this simply,. means · Studies program, a mishm().sh of Today, .and this was clearly eyident .fault of an RA; an RD, or ·of Cliff converting/ military industries · into ·. various disciplines and . utopian ~ by the low attendance at several of , : himself, ·who knows? The c,lreanis, introduced Mr. Coffin~ · civilian industries. . _Mr. Coffin · the lec tures. In fa'ct ·the most underlying fact is that many of us With a long background .in ~haracte:rized the miliWY budget ~s current and eontroversial topic, didn't know and didn't know what various ministries . at . Yale.· .·a.ii "eco-nomic welfare agency." · This Fr~m Flags ·to F'ree speech :' The to do once our parents arrived. University apd th~ Riverside· , ~ot~ wjll 'particul:;irly ring true for Supreme Court and the . Bill - of . Obviously many professors didn~t . Church in Manhattilfl, Mr. Coffi_n Rights, was ca:m;elled (could Ted . sttu:ients who-se p_a:rents .· were ·know, or rather didn't cate as they came off as · the quintes·s ential ' · B'ell have been behind this?). It worryi'ng about the layoffs •from ' continued , to administer midterms liberal . mainline protestant would have been . much easier for l::.ink and · Grumman. Economic and colle~t. reports throughout the · "'. minister. He made occasional students if . ther e actually.._ were .·. ··~·onversion is a, senous topic which . week following parents' weekend: reference to th~ Bible, to illustrate - ·- requires the att¢ntion of l~w some more · decent social events makers Thus, many students were left up his opinions, :and annunciated ~he·, ~ which ~parents and st'uderits could . and . businessmen. It is vitally the proverbi~l .. c,r eek ·without _a standard litany of ·. the ratper._ · ~ atterid, so 'that studenls didn't 'have , important that-the~e decision about paddle. _ · . nebulous tenets of · social and . to resort to dragging their parents . conversion are not made by a band of What 'the organizing staff forgof economic justice. Mr. Coffin boasts -:·: to the Oakdale. MalL - ideologues such as Mr. Coffin and is ·that some students. actually want a long history of supporting caus.es his ilk. ~.· Overall, we II)ust admit,. to do well while they attend SUNY ,· · as diverse as civil rights -for · that parents' weekend was a success Perhaps the most interesting part . ---- . Binghamton, and allowing Parents' minorities to giving last rites· to a as parents and children were able to of Mr. Coffin's dialogue was his . . weekend to occur during a ·crucial central committee member of the spend quality time together. But. · 'discusfiion of tactics used by 'time in the academic semester was ' Communist Party;USA. .. the credit for that certainly can't be · ·s ANE/FREEZE activists. He gave ludicrous. As parents' visit for the , . The event was.billed as a dialogue taken by the organizers of Parents' an example of targeting the rural we·e kend, _they must wonder how with Mr. Coffin ~md it was just that· Weekend. Fortunately, even they poor whose concerns are often students ·can get · by at a top except for: -some rather lengthy "· weren't able to s~rew that up. education and health care.- One university, not -needing the weekend response which ate up a _considetable _activist was able to persuade . the amount of time. The questi9ns rural poor outside of Raliegh, ranged from econom_ic conversion, . North Carolina, ·that nuclear to the environment, to Gorbacbev; disarmament went hand and hand to · tactics.· Interestingly enou.gh, . with education and health care. · This even . though Mr. Coffin is the activist w'as able to do this by .first President of SANE,(FREEZE, · a · showing interest in their .goals _and cbnglomeratloH ·of _anti-nuclear then injecting the SANE's agenilil. · · · disan:nament gr~!Jps, there _w~ very _· It would be -a. lfttle ·naive not to ·little · discl!lssion about r.:uclear · ·qu~stion . whether · qr -not 'this . by · Andrew Heintz weapons or for that ·matter a call activist. wasn't just exploiting these · foi: freez~ng .them. · people. · . .· . Obvioqsly, . the world. ~i:.l:-::_ Mr. Coffin fin!shed this story by qramaticaUy {;hanged sine~ the anti· . saying t~·at the _·"wisdom of the -, The Binghamton Review_ would _like to· ·than~" the· nuclear chic~en Iittles . took cover.. ·uneducated is matched by the folly_ -administration . fo.f i its sad re:buttal to the . front ·page . aftet the sky . fell on them i'n Jthe of the-educ&ted:'-' Ifs a good :quote. . .e arly ~'80's, ·when NATO bravely · . After all, anyone who you don't ' article of our last issue -·entitled, "SUNY-B On Dtu)s·." res~sted their demagogic attempts . agree with · - univers~ty faculty, ·The administration's ·response, which appeare~ . in the to preve-nt the modernization of university - administrators, . nuc~ear forces. . Perhaps the .r eason October. 5 · edition _of .·Inside · Binghamton, was -an .-. politicians, writers, and ~everends - . for this silence is ·the fact · · that can be put intg , tha~ category. obvio-us attempt _·on _t~e -. part of ·the administration···to during the . r 1980's, {t was a ·.However, if education is such .a present an ,outiine· of its lame drug policy. Why didn't · consertative_RepQblic~. P{esident waste of time· and.resultS in .the loss Reagan who signed th~_ frrst nuclear · .of wisdon:i', why is Mr. Coffin's. · · ~n- article ~such as this appear i~ an. earlier ·addition of ·arms agreement t,hat 'actually " organization going around trying to .· . Inside Bing hamto'n? Maybe the· · administration ju~t · reduced nuclear weapons. His . educate the already wise_rural poor? doesp't c·a re; ~as -was ~uggested in our article concerning policy of building up 'riuclear arin·s -,. The · apl)e-ararice ·of ·william to b.uild them down, eqtbodied in · S~oane Coffin was quite a catch for · · the .· tack of - any serious anti~-drug· policy at SpNY .the·phrase-"Peace through Str~ngth," , _ the campus aHd it is ~urprising that . ·_Binghamton. , -~ ·· Anyone readin.g .the, SUNY ~:eingham.ton _ was vindicated by the"•INF Treaty~ ' ,. ·' . " Student;; pidn:'t take . the A member of the' audience asked' . drug . policy as outlined- in Inside Bingham.ton · can opportu:n ity to ·come out and 's·e e Mr. Ceffin what _h e thought the· him; ·Among the missing included . easily s-~e that the .policy lacks ·any · sort of sub~.ta~ce. United s:tat~s $hou1d <l,o to help·Mr~ . · ,. most of the campus establishment u 'n til the-. administration sits . down and decides '_ ,_ to . Gorbachey ·and his ~~sti:ucturing of and the ·campus Left. Mr. Coffin · tJte. Soviet UnjQr\. .Being,--a good --~ must be too moderate for.them. formulate .a visible, . strong, ,and- ~ col).erent anti -drug~~ Gorbj~phile, he .said that the U.S. ( ·policy-;, notlling ·_. can be done to .prevent drug abuse at . should :.dQ all it can to help by SUNY·-Bftigham t~n . . o(fe#ng. m<;>-st: favori:t.e·-nati_QI!_ -. { . ... sta~il~· by· repealing ·.the Jackson. Vapilc Amendment. · He based this The current hick of any .serious drug··. policy ,· · be.l1ief ·on-.· some · rather weak · · ·historiCal :ar.g~ment:s->' .. :· ·: - · ----: · lends -· taci,t approval to the pie~ent ·use :of · He ·claimed that reformers come .. ·· ' :. rarely. Well of COUrSe, in the·case'of . il!egal ,drugs . at ~~UNY-BiJ!gh~rnton. the Soviet Union,. the West has only i pe.rcei:ve4 every new Soviet leader as .. a reformer, ·but this doesn't interest ... Mr. ·coffin ..' . .He doesn't seem- to 0

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