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Mexico merits U.S. notice, speaker says
By JIM LEHNER Staff Reporter
The United States should pay more attention to the actions of the Mexican government in order to understand it better. Mr. Sánchez in Mexican affairs said yesterday.
Tom Sanders, a member of the University's Field Staff International, told a University Forum audience that Mr. Rodriguez had agreed to deported Mexico as not very important.
"The United States has always looked upon Mexico as a Third World country," Sanders said. "It's only been the past four or five years that the United States has even given some thought to the importance of Mexico."
Sanders said Mexico had received little attention because it had been viewed as a very weak country—with its border with Venezuela and other countries for its commodities.
However, some of that thought is
changing because Mexico is now the world's fourth-leading exporter of petroleum, he said.
He said Mexico always associated the United States with an imperialistic nature.
"The school children are taught about how the United States acquired California and Arizona from Mexico," he said.
He said Mexico acknowledged its dependence on the United States but did not like it. The United States, he said, had already agreed to allow Mexico's foreign investments and tourism
A major reason Mexico and the United States are not the best of friends is the differences between their systems of government, Sanders said.
He said Mexico identified with such countries as Cuba, Nicaragua and even El Salvador because of their revolutions.
"The United States doesn't regard these revolutions very fondly," he said.
After the forum, Sanders told about
35 people attending a United Nations Association Student Organization conference that Mexico took an interest in its southern neighbors to prevent them from, to keep its own frontiers stable and to keep the region disuntused.
"It's difficult for Mexico to project north because the United States is there, so when thinking of extending its influence in the world, it tends to look toward the Caribbean and Latin America," he said.
U. S. interventionist policies toward Cubaand the Dominican Republic cause a split between the United States and Mexico, he said.
And Mexican support of Third World issues has further isolated the Central American nations from the United States, he said.
"Mexico is a relatively highly developed country when compared with other countries of the Third World in terms of per capita income and the general complexity of society," Sanders said.
Another source of strain between the two countries is Mexico's supply of natural gas. He said the United States exports to it to sell it at a below-market price.
Sanders said that the two countries for years had not seen eye on the immigration of Mexicans into the United States in search of work.
"Mexico wants to diversity its markets for petroleum sales," Sanders said. "It's concerned with overcoming its dependence on the United States.
The United States, he said, looks upon the threat to American jobs, which are not made by the US government.
Sanders said American officials had recently been studying the illegal immigration problem and had found many of the immigrants were filling jobs that Americans did not want anyway.
"They're not the welfare types that Americans think they are," he said. "They actually pay Social Security taxes, and many are considered respectable people—they just can't find work in Mexico."
U.S. influences cause tension, prof says
By SEEMA SIROHI Staff Reporter
There is tension between the United States and Central American nations because the United States sees the region as its own sphere of influence, Robert Oppenheimer, professor of history, told a United Nations Association Student Organization conference last night.
Oppenheimer spoke on "Is Mexico a Challenge to U.S. Leadership in Latin America" to about 30 people in Blake Hall.
The United States does not recognize native insurrections and instead divides the world into two homogeneous parties in democracy and communism, he said.
"Anyone who is anti-America must be eliminated, and America doesn't have to have economic interests in the United States in other countries." Oppenheimer said.
"It bolls down to a pure ideological issue of being either with them or against them when it comes to the U.S. foreign policy," he said.
"The only viable country the United States should support in the region is Nacaragua from an economic, agricultural and demographic point of view," he didn't support it and Reagan won't support it. "Oppenheimer said."
Openerheme said he had talked to Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's U.N. envoy, about the situation. Nicaragua would prefer to get support from the United States because it did
not want to depend on Russia as Cuba did.
Nicaragua is being forced to lean toward Russia because of the U.S. policy in the country, Oppenheimer said. The United States trained 500 Nicaragua in Florida and they are operating on the Honduran border against the Sandinista government, he said.
While the United States continues to "speak loudly and carry a small mind" according to Oppenheimer, Mexico sees as a potentially stronger nation.
"Mexico supports the Sandinista government because it's the only stable government to support and also oppose the legal reasons." Oppehheimer said.
There is a gulf between Mexican and
He read parts of the White Paper on El Salvador, a U.S. State Department document, to the audience. It was published in February 1861 and it remained in the form of articles in El Salvador from Cuba, Russia, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Bulgaria and Iraq.
U. S. views on the political situation in El Salvador, Robert Tomasek, professor of political science, said at the conference.
"The Communist movement outside has made El Salvador a test case for the U.S. and if America can't stop them, it will be a communism anywhere," Tomasek said.
This view does not have a good balance, Tomasek said, because it disregards the social conditions which are important for insurrection.
School of Journalism to adopt new name
By JIM EVANS Staff Reporter
The new name, if approved by the Board of Regents later this month, will be the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
The KU School of Journalism is changing its name in an effort to better reflect the school's program. Del Reed, dean of the school, said recently.
The change drops the rarely used
phrase "public information" and substitutes "mass communications."
The radio, television and film instructors are being moved to full time appointments in the School of Journalism, Brinkman said.
The name change was proposed, Brinkman said, because there was a question of whether advertising, radio, television and film was journalism.
"The school is more than journalism," he said.
describe all the programs, Lee Young,
professor of journalism, said.
The school's current name does not
"There is a desire for an encorming title. The title, journalism, is held narrowly to mean newspapers," he said.
Brinkman said several journalism schools and organizations have added "mass communication" to their names. "We're keeping with what is going on," he said.
The proposal was approved at the
architect's March 11 faculty meeting.
Brickman staff
The proposal was next approved by the Council of Chief Academic Officers of the University.
It now must be approved by the Council of Presidents and the Academic Committee, both Board of Regents and finally by the Regents on April 16.
"Public information" has since lost its meaning, Brinkman said.
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THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION FILM SERIES will present "I have a Dream: The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.," and "Black History: Stolen, Storied or Strayed" beginning at 7:30 p.m. in 303 Dvche Hall.
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A RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE will be underway all day in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union.
THE UNDERGRADUATE BIOL OGY CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Hotel.
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