University Daily Kansan, April 1, 1981
Page 7
Negative outcry turns policy around
By KIRK TINDALL Staff Reporter
The negative American reaction to the Reagan administration policies in El Salvador has helped to turn that policy around, Robert E. White, former ambassador to El Salvador, said in a KU address yesterday.
White, speaking to over 400 people in Woodruff Auditorium, said that the public's outcry over the sending of military advisers to El Salvador had caused the Reagan administration to modify its approach.
"If the administration had its way, there would be 200 advisers in El Salvador," White said.
WHITE BEGAN by referring to a pamphlet that Latin American Solidarity distributed before his speech.
"This is the first campus I've spoken at where I was preceded by a Latin American Solidarity pamphlet," he said.
White, who was removed from his post in El Salvador for publicly
speaking out against administration policies, read from the pamphlet.
"It says here that I 'have fallen from favor.' That is certainly an accurate statement," he said.
WHITE SAID that the pamphlet asked whether he could be "truly concerned with the rights of the Salvadoran people" when he supported aid to the present government, a policy called "the pamphlet called 'interventionist.'"
White responded that, "Small nations that live in the shadow of the superpowers have to take into account the reaction of the superpowers to the manner in which they change their societies."
White said that for 50 years, the American government had propped up dictatorships and was now obligated to give them more rights and protections and create democratic governments.
"American policy in Latin America for the last 50 years has been to shore up elites and the military establishment," White said.
motif of American foreign policy toward Latin America."
"You can make the argument, and I do, that fear of revolution has been the
WHITE DESCRIBED the present government in El Salvador as a revolutionary one that had attempted to structural changes in El Salvador.
"The present government," he said, "succeeded in bringing change and reform to EL Salvador. It has carried out the reforms, banking reform and export reform."
The proof of the effectiveness of the present government in El Salvador, he said, lies in the fact that the leftist call for a general strike in January failed and its "offensive" that same month also failed.
According to White, the reforms instituted by the present government have isolated the extreme leftists in El Salvador.
White said that the government of El Salvador did not ask for military aid from the United States and that the "delinking of military aid from human rights considerations would make the United States a party to brutal repression and hurt U.S. foreign policy in Latin America and the world."
Spring is in the air. So are the pollen, dust and molds that force many allergy sufferers to visit the Memorial hospital's allergy clinic.
Allergies spring up at KU
Raylene Gerken, clinical head nurse, said that the clinic treated more than 50 people in an active day after spring was the busiest time of year.
"Once all the trees and plants start to bloom, hay fever is rammed," she said. "I guess the only problem is beautiful as this is the pollen problem."
Gerken said spring also brought another allergy problem to the clinic—bee stings.
"Every spring we find out more and more students are allergic to bee stings," she said.
Gerken said the clinic assisted KU students financially as well as medically.
"Students are lucky to have this clinic because some allergies require an injection every week or month," she said. "This treatment would be very expensive if administered by a private physician."
Allergy injections are included in the student health fee.
The allergy clinic is on the first floor of the hospital and is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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