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Salvadoran trouble linked to business
By PENNICRABTREE
Staff Reporter
American big business is the force behind recent U.S. economic and military intervention in El Salvador, a spokesman for the Frente Democracio Revolutionario, and El Salvadoran documentary organization, said Sunday.
According to FDR spokesman Ramon Cardona, stopping the spread of Communism in Latin America is an excuse used by the United States to protect American business interests abroad.
"Were we really getting arms from the Soviet Union and Cuba, the United States would not hesitate to come in with troops," Cardona said. "The true reason that the U.S. government supports the present regime is to protect their business interests, nothing more."
According to Cardona, such companies as Shell Oil, Folger's Coffee and Texas instruments have participated in instrument oppression in El Salvador.
“Companies like Texas Instruments, which pay their workers 26 cents an hour, have forbidden any type of worker reform,” Cardona said. “Now they fear that they’ll be nationalized when the revolution comes. They have already hired and armed their own private armies.”
The FDR, which claims to have the support of 80 percent of the El Salvadron population, is a coalition of trade unions, political parties and popular fronts. According to Cardona, if the United States stopped sending aid to El Salvador, the FDR would be in power within a year.
"Ours is a grassroots movement that
has gained wide support as government violence and oppression have escalated," Cardona said. "We are priests, workers, peasants and students, all dedicated to bringing about reform."
Cardona, 27, is an ex-high school teacher who was exciled in 1979 for illegal union activities.
Cardona said that many El Salvadoran citizens had tried to bring about reform by legal means, but had been persecuted or killed for their efforts.
"Not one of the estimated 15,000 killed by the rightmost regime ever were prosecuted," Cardona said. "They all found themselves, their bodies found days later."
"After years of promised reform, we still have poverty and social oppression. One-half of our children still die before they reach the age of five; only six percent of our children ever reach the sixth grade; and peasants still freeze to death in cardboard shacks."
CARDONA SAID that the FDR would be willing to negotiate a peace if land and social reforms were made, but that the American people would have the United States refused to negotiate.
"West Germany, Panama, Canada, Mexico and their countries recognize our group as a legitimate representative of the people," Cardona said. "West German Chancellor Willie Brandt offered to mediate, but still the United States and Duarte's party refuse."
Cardina warned that the conditions for another Vietnam were present in El Salvador, and that increased U.S. involvement in the war in American countries into the conflict.
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The University had disposed of toluene on its hazardous waste site in Pennsylvania. Army Armaments Plant 1408, Lawrence. But a Kansas Department of Health and Environment geological survey came to the conclusion last spring that further leaks would threaten area ground water.
Wastes to be stored in Malott
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The campus hazardous waste specialists say that the waste, which consists ofoluene, a flammable and toxic chemical, and some low-level radioactive waste, will present no public. The waste will be stored in a room designed for radioactive and flammable materials.
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waste now at the Sunflower plant did not endanger the water, but that the dump site had run out of room to safely hold more toluene.
A sampling of water near the site showed no traces of toluene, Knoche said.
Memorial Stadium was chosen as the temporary storage site, but was withdrawn from consideration because of complaints from residents near the stadium. The residents opposed the University's store the waste at the stadium without radioactive shielding.
Toluene, mixed with low-level radioactive particles, is used on campus in experiments tracing chemical reactions or following the progress of materials through systems.
Since the Health and Environment decision, toluene has been piling in labs on campus while officials have searched for a place to terminate it as liquid chemical until it could be transferred to a safer state in Washington State.
federal guidelines, the low-level waste mixed with the toluene no longer falls under the government's directive, protective, and therefore, no shield is needed.
Still, several Facilities Operations workers, whose offices are under the east side of the stadium, where the team was to be kept, also were upset.
He said the stadium would have been a safe place, but that public opposition would have been too strong.
"No one here is too happy about it," one worker, and not asked to be idle, said last Tuesday. "What botheres us there’s nothing between it and we."
BUT LATER THAT DAY, Benjamin Friesen, head of radiation safety on campus, decided to store the data in a box, "because of the psychology of it."
The worker said a simple plywood construction was built to house the waste.
Sunflower site for KU's hazardous waste disposal, agreed with Friesen that the move to Malott did not increase safety.
Bearse said the waste would be taken to Malawi within a couple of weeks, after being collected from the labs that use it. The waste will then be shipped to the Washington with a few more weeks, and buried. Waste will continue to be stored in Malawi as it accumulates until the University finds another method of disposal.
"We're fighting a bunch of regulations and a bunch of misconceptions," he said. "This is a non-problem."
BEARSE SAID THAT alternatives to burial were being considered for toluene disposal, but that investigation had not proved safer.
Knoche also expressed interest in alternative methods of disposal. He worked with Sunflower was a "very competent" it could someday create problems.
Rodeo used for fund raising
KU students will have the chance to be an "urban cowboy" or an "urban cowgirl" in a philanthropy rodeo for the National Cowboy Museum, now at the National Guard Armory.
Sponsored by Alpha Gamma Delta sorority and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, the rodeo will feature 10 events, including mechanical bull riding, mud wrestling, pig calling and flapjack eating.
Participants from fraternities, sororites and scholarship halls will compete in seven of 10 events and in ticket sales for a brass boot trophy.
yesterday. "It seemed like there was lot of western stuff out this year."
Two live bands will play country western and country rock music for a campus-wide swing dance after the events. Haves said.
Tickets are $3 in advance. $3.50 at the door, and are available from any AGD or Fiji member or at Keif's Discount Records.
Chairman named
All proceeds go to the March of Dimes to fight birth defects.
Stanley Nelson, professor of pharmacology, has been named chairman of the anatomy department at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Nelson joined the Med Center faculty in 1966 as a professor of pharmacology. He said yesterday he wanted to make the study of anatomy more relative to patient care and would continue to teach and conduct research.
Nelson will succeed Howard Matzke, who served as chairman for the past 19 years, on July 1.
and in expanding research for the department,"he said.
"I hope to be very active in research
Matzke said he wanted to resign as chairman three years ago because the job had become tiresome.
"I'd like to do something else," he said. "Didn't you think 19 years is enough?" He said he didn't know why it had taken three years to find a new committee of Med Center faculty in the field of candidates for the position, he said.
Marvin Dunn, dean of the College of Health Sciences, was out of town and missed
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