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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, January 24, 2000
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Overthrow doesn't faze Ecuador
The Associated Press
QUITO, Ecuador — Political tempests like the bloodless, oddball coup that overthrew President Jamil Mahud, whose vice president then took control, neither cause Ecuadoreans to blink nor give them much hope.
People are accustomed to tumultuous leadership changes that have done nothing to halt Ecuador's precipitous economic slide. The nation is suffering its worst depression since the 1930s, and more than half of its 12 million people live in poverty.
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Thus, the naming of Vice President Gustavo Noboa as Ecuador's sixth president in five years — he was constitutionally next in line — was greeted yesterday with great skepticism.
Ecuador is the siek man of South America, and only bold leadership and well-conceived policy, as mismanagement and corruption have been prevalent, can reverse the country's fortunes.
"Nothing happened at all, and the corrupt are still in charge. Now we're even worse off," said Soyla Laiza, a 50-year-old street vendor.
So far, there is little confidence Noboa can accomplish that.
"Everyone, everyone is poor," said Laiza, who sells music CDs. Like many Ecuadoreans, she isn't sure whether she'll earn enough to feed her two children from day to day.
Few people made purchases at the market. Most simply strolled idly, ignoring vendors like the Indian woman sitting on a curb staring vacantly ahead, with colorful plastic-handled strainers in her hands.
Ecuadorans have seen their purchasing power plummet by more than 300 percent in the past year.
The country has $13 billion in foreign debt — and after defaulting on
interest payments last year, prospects for getting more loans are dim. When the nation's currency, the sucre, lost 30 percent of its value in early January, negotiations with the International Monetary Fund about securing new credit collapsed.
Noboa, an untainted 62-year-old former university president with little political experience, said on his first full day in office Saturday that he would attack corruption, a key source of Ecuador'sills.
The social discontent that exploded Friday — when disgruntled junior military officers joined Indian protesters in seizing the Congress, Supreme Court and presidential palace — still looms large.
But the seven ministers he named — half of the Cabinet — were all from the discredited traditional political class.
"The ruling class has destroyed the country," said Rigoberto
Villareal, a 34-year-old taxi driver. "We've got to kill the entire political class and begin anew."
Columnist Simon Espinosa of the newspaper Hoy saw some faint hope in Noboa's ability to improve things.
"The problems are the same, but the new president's advantage is that he's seen as honest," he said.
Swiss found not responsible for handing Jew to Nazis
The Associated Press
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Switzerland's supreme court on Friday rejected an Auschwitz survivor's claim that the government should be held responsible for handing him to the Nazis, but awarded him $63,000 in damages.
Joseph Spring, then 16, was arrested as he tried to enter neutral Switzerland from Nazi-occupied France in 1943. Spring was given to German guards, an action his lawyers said amounted to complicity with genocide.
The Federal Tribunal ruled Friday that Swiss authorities did nothing illegal in the case. Still, by a 3-2 majority the judges said Spring, now 73, should be awarded the amount of money he had requested on ethical grounds and to cover his court costs.
Spring, who sat impassively with his hands folded in his lap for most of the seven hours of deliberations, said he was disappointed by the judgment.
"I wanted to win. I didn't win." he said.
"But the money will be spent in any case," he added with a laugh. "I'm not bitter and life goes on." He planned to return to his home in Australia.
His lawyer, Paul Rechsteiner, said the court had awarded the money as a sign of a bad conscience. Swiss Finance Ministry spokesman Daniel Eckmann said the ruling was an equitable and just solution.
Surrounded by Germany, Nazi occupied France and Nazi allied Italy, neutral Switzerland took in nearly 30,000 Jews during World War II. But it expelled an equal number.
The unemotional legalistic debate in the majestic oak-paneled courtroom contrasted sharply with the heart-wrenching personal tragedy recounted by the bespectacled, gray-haired Spring.
Schools in Chechen camps give lessons in fear, suffering
SLEPTSOVSKAYA, Russia — Grammar class at the makeshift school for Chechen refugees starts like it does anywhere in Russia: the children stand, say a polite hello to their teachers and promptly sit down.
The Associated Press
Beyond that, little is the same. The class at the Sputnik camp takes place in a large plastic tent where temperatures hover around freezing, children study bundled in winter coats, and the sound of a plane overhead sends some diving under their desks.
Many Chechen refugees are determined to bring some normalcy to their children's lives, creating camp schools and trying to help them cope with memories of bombing and death in breakaway Chechnya. But damp conditions and poor nutrition leave many children sick or weak, while the scars from
years of war leave them cynical.
or war leave them cynical. "The children in these refugee camps are spending their lives in war," says Lamara Umarava, a psychologist who works with the children at the Sputnik camp. "They don't have the experience of life in normal living conditions."
According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, children make up 30-40 percent of the estimated 240,000 refugees who have fled Chechnya, where the Russian military has been fighting militants since September.
Children at the camps do what kids do anywhere: they play tag, tease and, if there's snow, sled down nearby hills or build snowmen.
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Some camps have schools. But many parents don't send their children to school because they don't have winter boots or coats.
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"This class is designed as a condensed version of the class I teach in the Fall semester. This is a spe-
teach in the Fall semester. This is a special opportunity for students to examine issues of sexuality and relationship as a part of their University experience. I appreciate the willingness of several campus minority groups to sponsor this opportunity for any KU students who might be interested and have not taken my regular class because they are leaving the University this May or just haven't been able to fit it into their regular schedules." -Dennis Dailey, Professor of Social Welfare, KU.
Spring semester '00
Thursday 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
at the ECM Center (1204 Oread)
Beginning January 27, 1999
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Human Sexuality in Everyday Life with Dr. Dennis Dailey
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Alternative Spring Breaks 2000
Northern New Mexico
"What I Do I Want My Life to Say?"
A cross-cultural and environmental experience through volunteer service in villages and schools 65 miles northwest of Santa Fe. Director: Thad Holcombe of ECM with Kate Hage as student coordinator.
New York Citv
"Exploring the Core of the Big Apple:
It's Wealth and Poverty"
Volunteer service in soup kitchens and homeless shelters with opportunities for urban exploration. Directors: Joe Alford and Shawn Norris of Canterbury House and Lutheran Campus Ministry.
Marion County, South Carolina "Habitat for Humanity: Volunteer with a Hammer" Volunteer service building homes, coordinated by KU Habitat for Humanity. Director: Brian Tanier as student coordinator.
These Spring Break are sponsored by campus ministries of ECM (Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, Church of the Brethren, Quaker), Canterbury House (Episcopal), Lutheran Campus Ministries (ELCA) and KU Habitat for Humanity.
The first orientation meeting will be on Sunday,
Feb 6, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm at ECM
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