University Daily Kansan
Friday, March 28.1980
KU student assails foreign policy
By DAVID WEED Staff Reporter
The United States needs to end its "political myop" about revolution and independence. The United States is third world countries, according to a KU professor in the same country, recently returned from a month's visit to New York.
Harley Wagler, Partridge graduate student, said this week that the U.S. government needed to look at the individual student in order to do such as Necargura, its notional intellectual label.
Last July, a revolution led by Sandinista guerrillas overthrew the U.S.-supported government of Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza.
A United States senator said after the Nicaraguan revolution that the United States should not send aid to the country
because of its communist government, wacler said.
But Wagler said that socialist and communist governments varied in their political views, and that the United States should not be intimidated by labels.
Nicaragua has been in a fragile situation since its revolution, he said, and its people are uncertain about what direction the social structure of the country will follow.
"It depends on foreign aid," he said, "because they need money to rebuild their country. Much depends on who will help them."
WAGLER SAID that Somoza was one of the most "repressive, brutal dictators of Latin America."
The feeling in Nicaragua is that the United States supported Somoza for four decades and "now they squawk about giving us $75 million to rebuild a decimated
country," Wagler said. "Nicaraguas don't dislike the people of the United States, but they don't want the United States to determine their government."
THE NEW socialist regime has a five-man junta and a nine-man council, Wagler said.
He said the United States should understand self-determination, "because, after all, that's what the American Revolution was about."
Only a few of Somoa's supporters were killed by the new government, he said, and the revolutionaries who executed them were now being tried for murder.
Nicaraigans compare their trials of Sonozna's government to the Nuremberg trials after World War II "without seafolds," Wagler said.
The maximum sentence for a guilty verdict has been set at 30 years, he said.
Report shows smoking hurts non-smokers, too
Non-smokers who complain that breathing someone else's smoke is damaging their lungs may finally have the scientific evidence to support their claims.
By DON MUNDAY Staff Reporter
Researchers at the University of California at San Diego reported in the New England Journal of Medicine this week that they studied 2,700 people and the effects of inhaled smoke coming from their cigarettes, cigares, pipes and cigars.
Their report concluded that the smoke did cause actual damage to the tiny air tubes and sacs that line the interior of the lungs. These small passageways were damaged and irreparably damaged by constant exposure to smoke in the report said.
"For years, people have said that yes, there probably was damage from seismic events. We then needed program director for the Lang Association." "Others have shown that it can make the carbon dioxide level in air rise more quickly at the first to show physiological damage."
BERNDSEN SAID, however, that the
Kansas Lung Association would make no endorsement of the report until it could study the findings in greater detail.
The report did not contend that the lung damage caused by second hand smoke necessarily led to more serious problems, such as emphysema. Serious problems are often preceded by damage of the air tubes, however, researchers said.
"More research has been done on cigarettes as a possible disease-producing agent than on any other subject known to man," Berdsen said. "You can even begin to speculate on the number of research projects that have been done."
A problem with nearly all the previous research, he said, has been the way the studies have been performed.
IN THE recent study's control group, at least 10 percent of the air tubes and were damaged by long-term prolonged smoke. It said that persons around smoke continually, but who did not actually smoke themselves, could still be the same air passage damage as those who smoked up to 10 cigarettes a day.
Athletic Director Bob Marcum sane yesterday that he and other officials would meet Monday with Chancellor Archie R. Keeves next year's athletic department budget.
Dykes to look over 1981 KUAC budget
Marcum said he was not sure who would be at the meeting in addition to himself, Susan Wachter, intern athletic department and Comptroller Craig McCoy.
Student members of the board have criticized Marcum's meeting with Dykes unnecessarily because the board was required to make recommendations to Dykes.
However, Marcum said the meeting was needed to discuss certain parts of the budget for the board meeting and for Dykes to indicate which would like board recommendations on.
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