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Lopez said the recent discovery of arms shipments to Nicaragua from the Hopango 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.
"The misconception is that Duarte represents a democracy in El Salvador, and that's not true." Lopez said.
"It's not true that the Communists are backing most of the guerrillas, either," he said.
Llopez 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.
"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."
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.
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.
"A dog is much faster," Trig said. "A dog gives you a lot more information than you do yourself, but 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 helped him to look competent, fewer people stopped to offer unnecessary help than when he used a cane.
"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.'"
Tristan is Trig's first seeing-eye dog, and he has owned him for only about six months.
charge to blind students, read and tape record assigned readings and class notes and take dictations from blind students during exams.
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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.
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.
"Both professors and students have been very cooperative in helping out." Michel said.
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.
Some visually impaired students don't use the center's services but prefer to hire their own readers, she said.
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Hasenfus' lawyer calls court illegal
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — A lawyer for Eugene Hasentus, 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.
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 Sandinista court trying Hasfenus was incompetent, illegal and partial.
"I deny, reject and contradict the accusations presented against him." Sotelo said in a statement filed in court yesterday. "My defendant is not a criminal but a worker for a legally formed air company."
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.
Hasenfus, captured Oct. 6 after
He faces Nicaragua's maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, and his conviction is considered inevitable.
An aide to Sotelo, Luis Andara Ubeda, read the defense statement to a courtroom packed with patients. Hasenwus was not present.
In brief comments to reporters after he filmed the papers, Sotelo demanded an appropriate court be appointed to try Hasfenus other than the People's Tribunal, which controlled by the Sandinista Party.
Sotelo did not deny that Hasenfus had made the rebel supply flights.
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BULATION '86
CONFABULATION '86
By PATRICIA FEENY
Staff writer
He's as flamboyant as pop singer Boy George, as outspoken as comedian Joan Rivers, and as ruthless as a Wall Street broker, but also as sensitive and caring as a Sunday school teacher
"That's just me." Tyler Lyke, Buffalo junior, said with a laugh as he described himself.
Lyke will be one of six featured artists from 6 to 9 p.m. tomorrow at Silver Works, 715 Massachusetts St.
"He does some very sculptural baskets," said Cara Carea, owner of Silver Works. "Tyler has done a lot of things to them, like adding acrylic paint, which makes them different from other basketry.
I couldn't want to ride horses. I wanted to paint," Lyle said. "My father was Mr. Western and I was Mr. Gucci. We were different. He did beautiful leather saddle work, but I wanted to work in the fine arts. Now,
"But I'm moving away from the fiber art," he said. "I now make tapestries and wall pieces. I'm getting serious about my drawing."
"The fiber work he is doing is pretty well advanced, who people are knowledgeable of it find it intricate and fascinating," art work, some people are puzzled.
Lyle began his career as an artist when he was 10 years old, but became serious about his work under the direction of his high school art instructor and later started making fiber art objects, which is what he does now.
When Lyle first began as an artist, his parents were skeptical. His father used to work the professional rodeo and about living clashed with his son's.
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Lyke's work has been displayed in Washington, D.C., and New York City. Recently, his work was on display at the Wichita Art Museum.
I respect what he does and he respects what I do."
Although he is young, 20, and a student, Lyke doesn't think it is unusual to be showing and selling his art.
"It depends on the person," he said. "On his drive. It's a matter of getting out there and doing it."
He said more student artists should display their work. Some are hesitant because they are students. But Lyke's teacher initially pushed him, and then, "I started pushing myself," he said.
On display tomorrow at Silver Works, 715 Massachusetts St., are baskets and artwork by Tyler Lyle, Buffalo junior. The baskets are made from rope coils held together by a split stitch of wool. They are then covered with a coat of black acrylic paint.
Students would gain experience and insight into the dealings of the art world if they showed their pieces professionally, he said.
Lyke said that in the art world there was a big debate over what was art and what was craft. Artists often looked down on craftsmans.
"Their stuff is just as wonderful as other sculptures. They don't get the credit they deserve." Lyke said.
Another area of dispute among artists is artistic sacrifice versus financial gain. Lyke said.
"If you make money from your art work you are not sacrificing the quality of the art," he said. "The idea behind art is that it be appreciated. People who buy my art appreciate what I am doing. Besides, I don't want to starve."
"I don't feel like I'm selling out when I make pieces that people buy. I do the work for myself and sometimes they are of good enough quality that people want to buy them."
"I hate it when people bother me when I'm working because everyone wants to add their two cents," he said. "I don't understand that is when I show it to people."
Alone is how Lyke said he worked best.
"It's sad when people deal with just dollars and cents with no regard for the art itself," Lyke said. "They look at a high price tag and think something is too expensive. They do not appreciate that the creative feelings behind it are more valuable than what's on a price tag. People who patronize the arts appreciate what we do.
But there is more to a work of art than the price tag, he said.
He said he got into the emotional aspect of his work and that his pieces
"Galleries deal with people who are marketable. You never lose money when you buy art."
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When Lyle is feeling stressed out or in a bad mood, his pieces are intertwined and very textural. If he is in a good mood his pieces are smooth. "It is a way to deal with reality and people and a way to enjoy life," he says that is totally mine and no one else's. It's therapy. You can live and die through your work."
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