University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 24, 1986
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Refugee
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Lopez said the recent discovery of arms shipments to Nicaragua from the Hopano Military Air Base in San Salvador did not surprise him.
"Huge military planes fly out of that airport all the time," he said. "North American soldiers are seen walking around in San Salvador all the time. Nobody really knows why they are there."
López said that since 1981 the United States had sent more than $2 billion worth of military aid to Duarte's government forces.
"It's not true that the Communists are backing most of the guerrillas, either," he said.
"The misconception is that Duarte represents a democracy in El Salvador, and that's not true," Lopez said.
Lopez said Duarte's forces had relocated more than one million people to refuge camps and then declared that whoever remained in the evacuated areas was a guerilla and would be killed.
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because he had nearly normal vision until about six years ago.
Another blind student, Joe Trig,
said he also was disoriented when he
first arrived on campus.
Trig, York, Pa., graduate student, moved to Lawrence in August and is working toward a doctorate in counseling psychology. Trig, 30, lost his vision when he was 23. Before he went blind, he taught high school social studies and psychology in Pennsylvania.
"I know the basic layout of things and I can remember what cars and buildings look like," he said. "I also have the advantage of knowing the beauty of the sunset, flowers, and even insects — I know what a gnat looks like; I can describe even the smallest insect."
Trig came to Lawrence a few days before classes with his parents, who helped him find his way around campus, he said.
His parents left after a few days, but Trig still has a companion and guide — Tristan, a one-year-old black Labrador Retriever who doubles as a seeing-eye dog.
"The only problem with the dog, is that more people notice the dog than notice me," he said. "If I walk into a restaurant with Tristan, people say, 'Oh look, there's a seeing-eye dog,' — they don't even notice me."
He said the converse was true when he used a cane, "When I had the cane, people would say, 'Oh, look, there a blind person.'"
The center doesn't provide readers for non-academic reading, Michel said. But it does provide students with the names of private and volunteer readers.
"A dog is much faster," Trig said. "A dog gives you a lot more independence and a lot more dignity — you don't have to tap along the sidewalk when you have a dog."
Unlike Turner, who said he preferred a cane. Trig said he liked having a guide dog.
Blind people have the responsibility to look as competent as possible in order to avoid becoming dependent upon sighted people, he said.
He said that since the dog helpe him to look competent, fewer people stopped to offer unnecessary help than when he used a cane.
Tristan is Trig's first seeing-eye dog, and he has owned him for only about six months.
Some visually impaired students don't use the center's services but prefer to hire their own readers, she said.
"Both professors and students have been very cooperative in helping out," Michel said.
charge to blind students, read and tape record assigned readings and class notes and take dictations from blind students during exams.
She said blind students solved the problem of taking notes by asking the professor to say everything written on the blackboard out loud and by asking another student in the class to make a duplicate copy of his or her notes.
"I deny, reject and contradict the accusations presented against him," Sotelo said in a statement filed in court yesterday. "My déesse is not a criminal but a worker of a legally formed air company."
Enrique Sotelo Borgen took the opportunity of filing the plea to lambast the People's Tribunal. He denied the charges against his client and argued that the Sandista courttry Hasenfus was incompetent, illegal and partial.
Tape recording lectures is another option, but most students prefer to have notes because listening to the entire lecture again takes too much time, she said.
Hasenfus, captured Oct. 6 after
he parachuted from a cargo plane carrying weapons to the rebels, known as contras, is charged with terrorism, criminal association and violation of Nicaragua's public security and order laws.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua — A lawyer for Eugene Hasenus, the U.S. flier charged with terrorism for supplying arms to U.S.-backed rebels, entered a not guilty plea yesterday and challenged the right of a People's Tribunal to try his client.
He faces Nicaragua's maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, and his conviction is considered inevitable.
An aide to Sotole, Luis Anda Ubeda, read the defense statement to a courtroom packed with appointees. Hasenus was not present.
In brief comments to reporters after he filed the papers, Sotoio demanded an appropriate court be appointed to try Hasenfus other than the People's Tribunal, which is controlled by the Sandinista Party.
United Press International
Hasenfus' lawyer calls court illegal
Sotelo did not deny that Haser fus had made the rebel supply flights.
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