University Daily Kansan, March 21, 1983
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American picture of Belfast violence not accurate, visiting professor says
By KEITH CUTLER Staff Reporter
The American picture of Belfast, Northern Ireland, as a strife-torn city is not completely true. a visiting professor from a Belfast university said recently.
"It is possible to go through a normal life and never be aware of the violence," said Mal McEldowney, a professor of urban planning at Queen's University in Montreal. He is at the University of Kansas this semester on a faculty exchange.
"The violence is isolated to specific areas," he said. "West Belfast, where there is a large Catholic population, they cause the most violence themselves."
"IT IS NOT really dangerous, but more of an unhealthy atmosphere — not the best place to live and bring up children."
McEldowney said killings in Northern Ireland were no more commonplace than murders in the United States. The Irish Republican Army, he said, is not thinking of the welfare of the country.
"It is not my revolution," Me
Eldowney said. "I am a Catholic and
these are the people that are supposed to be forwarding my cause. There is a cause — Irish unity — but most rational people — either Irish or British — see that violence is no answer. It is the dominionaries versus the security forces.
"Most of the victims are policemen or civilian part-time policeman, called the security forces, shot by the IRA, or by members of the IRA, innocent, set up by the IRA as targets.
"A LOT OF THE IRA people don't even know what the politics are, they have no political ambitions."
MelDowney lacked unemployment, poverty and education as big factors in his job search.
"They are all intertwined," McEldowney said. "Ireland's unemployment is at 25 percent, and as high as 50 or more in some areas."
The high unemployment rate leads to violence, he said.
"The education system is segregated religiously. Catholic go to Catholic schools and Protestant go to Protestant schools." Mr. McKleenoy said until it is too late. "McKleenoy said
HE THOUGHT that some American influences had helped to finance the
IRA, which would be poorer without that help.
"There is some money coming from Eastern Europe to support the IRA, but a lot of it must come from the United States," McEidowney said.
He said the supply of money to the IRA was fairly constant, but could give him a boost.
MeEldowney said he was not a revolutionary and that he played little
"A lot of Irish-Americans that think the IRA is fighting for a cause have been totally misled. There is no final justification for the IRA," he said.
"Most of Ireland is less dangerous than the majority of American cities," he said. "It is depressing and a frustration, though.
"IREAND IS a nice country, with the sea on three sides. It is potentially a healthy place. But now, perverted like this, for reasons that are bloody well peripheral. There are no solid justifications for the cause, none but a lot of myths."
"There are a lot of things I like about Ireland. It is a pretty, nice environment and lots of people lead happy, contented lives." We know that we have had dire straits and poverty.
U.S. consults allies about missiles
By United Press International
VILAMOURA, Portugal — Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger arrived in Portugal yesterday to consult allies on controversial NATO plans to deploy U.S. Pershing 2 and cruise nuclear missiles in December.
] Weinberger is facing pressure from European allies to put forward a flexible proposal at the Geneva talks with the Soviet Union on the limitation of intermediate range nuclear weapons in Europe.
WEINBERGER arrived at Faro airport and drove to a tightly guarded hotel in the golf resort at Vilamoura about 20 miles away
The two-day NATO meeting, at which ministers will discuss deployment and disarmament strategy, starts tomorrow. Weiberner will meet
with individual European ministers today.
Other countries in line to receive new missiles are Britain, Italy, Belgium and Holland. Peace activists across the world are mobilizing against the opus of emotional demonstrations.
Weinberger will follow his NATO nuclear planning group meeting at the seaside resort of Vilamoura, Portugal, tomorrow and Wednesday with a visit
There he will talk to Spain's newly elected Socialist leaders who are reconsidering a recent move to join the alliance's military structure.
AT THE NATO meeting Weinberg is expected to take a reaffirmation of the alliance's 1979 decision to accept 108 cruise missiles and 32 other cruise missiles beginning in December.
The deployment would not go forward if any agreement is reached with
the Soviet Union on limiting the number of missiles it keeps aimed at Western Europe.
The NATO ministers are expected to pressure Weinberger to demonstrate new flexibility in dealing with the Soviets through an interim proposal to break the arms bargaining deadlock in Geneva, Switzerland, as recommended by several European leaders including West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
A second round of U.S.-Soviet negotiations on limiting intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe will recase March 28. If no agreement is reached by December, the United States plans to start installing the missiles.
WEINBERGER HAS already indicated he would not be opposed to such an interim proposal as long as it was approved. The proposal option and fulfilled certain conditions.
Greyhound plans route cuts
By United Press International
First the trains quit stopping in rural America, and now the buses are rushing past. Grayhound Lines, no longer restricted by federal regulations, is trying to save money by cutting service to 1,300 points nationwide.
Many of the people who will be left standing by the roadside are those who need bus service the most - students, the rural poor and the unemployed.
"Having that spare part means the plant will run today or it won't run," he said.
Fendley said he was concerned about losing service to his town for another reason. He runs a granite processing firm and - like many small businessmen in rural areas - relies on suppliers for shipping industrial necessities.
"MY CONCERN is that the people affected the most are the ones who can least afford private transportation," said Joe Fendley, mayor of Elberton, Ga., which has been trimmed from three daily bus trips to one."These less fortunate than some of us have to ride the bus. They really need it."
Three Greyhound bus routes run through Lawrance, according to Greyhound officials at Union Bus Depot, 638 Massachusetts St. The station has not been notified of any changes in the Greyhound runs, officials said yesterday.
"We've really got a tremendous highway system here and no public transportation in or out." Mayor Clark Bernhardt said. "What really upsets me hard is that we're in a way hard to get bus service here in the first place. It was quite an ordeal."
IN THE NORTHEAST corner of Colorado, Julesburg, a one-time Pony Express stop with a population of 1,600, will lose the bus service it won only two years ago — more than a decade after passenger trains had stopped serving the town.
Rep. Glenn Anderson, D-Calif, helped get the Bus Regulatory Reform Act of 1962 through Congress and also was a proponent of airline deregulation. He said deregulation would give smaller bus lines the potential for competition and would not result in rural communities' being abandoned.
FRANK L. NAGEOTTE, chairman and chief executive officer of Greyhound, Phoenix, Ariz., said the bus line's 1982 net profits dropped to $7.4 million. The company had profits of $33 million in 1981.
"That's the same fear that was expressed when trucks were deregulated." Anderson aide Bole Freeland said. "If there's enough business, then I can make truckers picking up the little loads and bringing them to big centers."
"Transportation profits are obviously very depressed," he said.
be laid off in a recession. If we were making five times the profit at this time, we still would have cutbacks as a result of deregulation. For years and years ago, when your town is not profitable, but you couldn't do anything about them.
Nageote left a preliminary Greenvound analysis showed that one third of the 1,300 stops being eliminated had no population but were strictly "fare without towns." The average population of the other two-thirds was 1,000.
"Any thoughts that we're trying to get out of every town in the country is ludicrous. The ice cream man doesn't stay away from children, and we're not going to stop going to any town where the passengers are interested."
"WE SERVE 14,000 towns and cities across the nation, and 1,300 is a very small percentage," Nageotte said. "I don't think a person on Podunk township will be a good teacher in mindened about traveling to a center five or 10 miles away to catch a bus."
California is giving Greyhound a tough fight. On Feb. 16, the state Public Utilities Commission rejected the bus line's application to drop 97 routes. It said Greyhound had not provided adequate information on how many riders would be affected and how much they had cost the company.
Salt Lake resort threatened by floods
By United Press International
--normal precipitation, the Great Salt Lake rises about a foot," Silver said. "Last water year, we were 12 inches above normal."
SALT LAKE CITY — Jim Silver wanted to build his Salaitar Resort close to the Great Salt Lake, but he didn't really want to be in it.
Usually wet weather has caused the water to rise in the Great Salt Lake to such a level that Silver has had to build an 1,100-foot-long concrete sea wall to keep Saltair from being flooded.
A parking lot and sun bathing beach have vanished beneath the salty waters Silver and Saltair co-owner in the flooded areas with extra sand.
He said the resort is open and will make use of the unusually high water for boat tours. "I guess we won't be able to have a buggy track this summer," he said.
Silver's problems are shared by property owners elsewhere along the Great Salt Lake's shores, and along the shores of Utah Lake to the south. Water from Utah Lake drains into the Great Lake, but from there, there is no exit.
SILVER IS A great-great grandson of Brigham Young, who led Mormon pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. His two-year-old salt-Aldair Resort is a repika of a resort first built on the south shore of the lake in 1893.
The 1982 water year, which ended Sept. 30, was the wettest on record.
Others are not so lucky as Silver. State officials estimate the lake could cause tens of millions of dollars in damage to roads, sewer systems, wildlife preserves, and companies that salt and other minerals from the lake.
Gov. Scott Matheson obtained $957,000 from the Utah Legislature to protect Interstate 80, which runs past Waukee and intersects Interstate 15, which runs past Lakib Lake.
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