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TV lounge smoking ends
'Smokers have no rights'
said that of students did WALTER KOVACS Cord Weekly over seventy-five per cent
not smoke He that this When classes resume in January there will be four years ago. imagined is lot When asked if no more smoking in the Student Campus Centre TV figure a higher today. any sur-
been done the Lounge. vey had prior to making original mo- tion At their meeting on Sunday, November 12, the over two weeks ago he admitted that nothing had been done. When the WLUSU Board of Directors voted in favour of ban- motion was presented
still students had ning smoking in the TV lounge. Besides the again on Sunday no been asked
residences, only certain areas of Wilf's and The what they thought of smoking in the TV Lounge. will allow of Turret still smoking on campus as Jan- WLUSU President A 1 Strathdee was in favour
uary 3,1989. of the ban. "As far as I am concerned smokers have
The motion was forth WLUSU Con- brought by no rights," said Strathdee. Chairman of the Board stitutional Operational Development (COD) com- Scott Williams passed the chair to have a say in the Maureen McGuire. mittee chair matter. He agreed with Strathdee. "Smokers don't the second time the motion had been It was pre- have a lot of rights. I chose not to smoke and they
to the board. It the first time sented was defeated do and that infringes on my rights," said Williams.
and tabled back to COD to see about enforcement Director Anastasia Hryciw worried about the of the policy and to get an idea from the students as lingering effects of smoking. She thought steps to how many people would like to see smoking be to the smoke in should taken purge that is the banned. and It that carpet furniture. was decided since it is It was decided that the same system would be the smoke coming from people's lungs that is of- used as the rest of the University. Security will fensive and dangerous to non-smokers that it is patrol regularly, and during the day the games room only important to remove this from the lounge. attendant will monitor the lounge. Another worry was that people had to walk No survey was ever conducted by WLUSU to through the lounge in order to get to the Student see what the student body thought about smoking Union Offices. Many directors said they did not as a whole. like going up to the offices because they would be There were several reasons given to support the assaulted by smoke along the way. They said that ban. There were fears that government legislation they feared that visitors might be put off by this too. would soon prohibit smoking on University proper- There were a few directors adamantly against ty. It was said that it would be good to be able to the motion. Robinson led the show that WLU is smoke-free Mary objections already a campus wondering where under-age people can go to when government officials dictate a universal ban. smoke. Since the only places left to smoke in are Many directors said that they thought that the WilPs now has draught beer, and so Dean Nichols, who enjoyed smokers will TV had turned now liquor-licensed, under-age be the beer both and the lounge into a smoking lounge. first at WilPs Turret, got to perform anoth-
forced to outside. Robinson said this was unfair go er ceremonial We Sardi While this was fine for those who smoke, it was chug. recommend the Dark Ale. (Liza and would lead to litter problems. noted, it perceived to be a nuisance to those who do photo)
hand smoke It not. "Second kills," said Director Cory was mentioned that the number of smokers He Lipovschek. supported the ban on smoking in who would be upset by this were not enough to the TV but that should the who would like the lounge, urged it not be im- overpower many policy. until plemented another area is foundjust for smok- The practice of moving the selling of cigarettes Copier near doom ing. from the games room to the bars is now being
WLUSU Executive Vice-President Jeff Walters looked at.
NORMAN E. WOOD Cord Weekly
A from the photocopier Campus Centre was less than five
meters from hurled to destruction being probable down the un- finished elevator shaft.
On November 2, Thursday, WLU Security received a call at
1 a.m. them to vandalism in alerting progress in the SUB. The
team discovered investigating four men about to throw the
photocopier down the elevator shaft.
The four from suspects, ages ranging 22 to 29, were in relation charged to the incident. Three were University of Waterloo students. It seems they had just left the Turret when they decided to abuse the photocopier.
"They unplugged it and moved it to the door (of the
There's no other elevator). assumption than that they tried to throw it down the shaft," said WLU Security Officer John Baal. The photocopier was relatively undamaged. "They kicked it
a of times," said couple Baal, "but it seems to be working all right now."
The forced suspects apparently open the door to the elevator. It had been closed with wire by the construction com-
in of the The pany charge project. copier was dragged down the in hallway front of Wilf's, past the Niobe Lounge and the Dean of Students' office, and through the doors leading into the
stairs. were about five They meters away from the open shaft when apprehended by Security.
"They were just a couple of intoxicated guys," said Baal.
"We get a few of those and shenanigans once a while. But we catch them." Baal cited always recent incidents of the sign in front of the Athletic Complex being broken and the pillar under the Security Office being "We spray painted. got the ones responsible."
The doors to the elevator will now be equipped with a lock until the project is completed. The doors to the Wilf's corridor
are locked now every night.
"They were just intoxicated," said Baal, "you wouldn't pull that of if sort stunt you were sober." The Cord Weekly
4 Thursday November 16,1989 bill needle
YOUR BIORHYTHM
by billneedle
Shit like cannibalism, incest, nose-picking, masturbation, and various outr6 sexual practices
-- why are people so damned uptight about 'em?
Take for instance. about it but one's cannibalism, Everyone's talking no doing any damned
thing about it. Well, Jonathan Swift was right. We should just eat people who serve no other
purpose.
Yeah, yeah, it isn't very polite -- but hell, we've been eating whales and dolphins for a long
time, and both those species are probably as smart or smarter than us. So quit with all this taboo
shit -- the bad all chuck population problem's over, so why not Uncle Ben and Aunt May into
the stew pot some cold winter's night?
Hell, people are chomping down on each other all the time in the middle of sex, so why not
just carry that to the logical extreme? Campbell's Cream of Caucasian Soup has an awful nice ring to it, I think.
Anyway, most people's lives could be better ended as a nice pot roast than starving to death
in some sodding gutter or desert. Also, this would get all those damned depressing starving kid
ads off TV, so that I can enjoy the bloody late night movies without some bloody E.T.- lookalikes back ad break! those ads off! staring at me during every Boy, piss me
And howzabout incest. What is all this stuff about incest anyway? Hell, the Egyptian royal
families did it for generations, and they still managed to produce Cleopatra towards the end!
And if you go for all that Biblical shit, all the bloody children of Noah committed incest just to
get the old human race pumping again! Golly -- someone sure seems to enjoy it!
So if you've been thinking unclean thoughts about brothers or sisters, don't feel so bad. Just
do it. Genetically speaking, the odds are damned good that the bloody kids won't look like the it Or least the hillbillies of Deliverance, if comes to that. at odds ain't any worse than they are that the fluff-brain in line the Turret won't the DANCE YOUR boffing next you meet at produce same thing. And at least you'll have more things to talk about with old Sis post-coitus than how good the
and Pain" is and how it makes her all red-rubber-wet and Or bloody song "Joy just go dancy! at
- I least I hope so my sister and always have great conversations. Hell, I can hardly get her to it back in! PANTS OFF shut up long enough to stick masturbation. And Why, the way everyone talks about it, you'd think your sodding hand fall off old John twiddled would if you ever pulled on your Thomas or a couple of fingers inside AT THE the old Mountain of Venus. But if that was right the whole bloody population would be nick- TURRET named 'Lefty'! What the hell is going on? Dammit, if Bill wants to gratify himself, Bill'll gratify himself proudly! And he has a sneak-
ing suspicion that the most proficient wankers out there are the ones who do most of the NOV. 18th moralizing against it! Now, I'm not preaching against a healthy sex life here (more on that later), but just reiterat-
ing the philosophy of a damned fine mythologist named Joseph Campbell, who once said to me
while we were skeet shooting on the top of Mount Rushmore "Bill, follow your bliss." And hey,
PRIZES FOR MOST if, after a long night of studying, that bliss happens to be an electric vibrator or the nearest
baseball bat discreetly wrapped in a dish towel, what the hell!
And hell, you'd think with all this AIDS stuff flying around, the government would latch OUTRAGEOUS onto the "Masturbation is Good" campaign! Couldn't you imagine it - Canadian rock stars like Luba (now there's a suggestive name! Luba! I hardly even know her!) dancing around to some
"Just - and hello Mr. catchy rock jingle like "Jerking off is jolly good" or say no say to Ms. or PANTIES Happy mano a mano"\ Imagine the possibilities! Just imagine the bloody possibilities! So loosen And if in the of the bastards hey, up. anyone gets way you having a good time, run
over and squish 'em into street pizza. But be sure to keep the bodies for the barbecue.
- for WEAR THEM AS Or hey anyone necrophilia?
YOU CHOOSE Beyond the
DAVID Beyondo
Seance." SEAN RASMUSSEN News Commentary * WILCOX - in im- $6,000 to examine "erotic themes early So the new nine per cent tax is going to be red This Attic figure pottery." plemented, eh? brings up an important ques- * - And this classic "Mail and female: — study tion Is more government better? Women in the Canadian Union of Postal Workers" The nine General Sales IS COMING new per cent tax seems cost $46,409. to give the government's opinion on this issue.
There are hundreds of other examples, but voters you Every election year Canadian vote for more. the idea from aforementioned articles. sellers can get the 29th Social programs are big and yet people NOV It that no need more Can is obvious there is for wince when they pay their taxes. they see no of What is needed is an eradication connection? government. useless spending and useless pushers. Part of With the national debt so large, many argue that paper the problem is that there is not enough awareness of there is no alternative but to raise taxes. This is a
there are spending programs. However, falsehood. It comes from the inflated, useless government TICKETS ON SALE also other considerations. bureaucrats who are leeching off real Canadian be- Canadians are scared of cutting spending workers and business men. im- cause they don't want to lose Medicare or other MON NOV 27th Here are some examples of government spend- services. That is neither neces- ing, made available by the new Access to Informa- portant government
nor but let's real. If we don't protest tion Act: sary likely, get economic free- * the taxes, we will lose our - $406,700 went to study seaweed in the Phil- spiralling dom which democracy is to allow, and lipines. supposed * which takes for granted. ■ - $13,152 went to study the "Anatomy of private enterprise
■ The Cord Weekly
news 5 Thursday November 16, 1989.
A new Wilf's
MARK HAND Cord Weekly
In a continuing effort to resurrect falling bar sales, WLUSU has
decided to spend $15,000 to renovate Wilf's.
The decision is part of the WLUSU master plan for getting bar
to revenue back up previous levels. There has been a marked decrease
in sales in the Turret and Wilfs over the last few years. Last year
Wilf's lost over $8,000.
The It is planned to make many changes in Wilf's by January.
result will be a "new" Wilf's. The proposed changes are mostly cos-
This metic. The objective is to introduce pub-type atmosphere. will
of the de- mean getting rid current "country kitchen" look, as it was
scribed by a member of the WLUSU Board of Directors during Sun-
day night's meeting.
The wallpaper will be stripped and the walls will be repainted a
wine colour. A new $6,000 grey carpet will replaced the existing
will The the stained ones. The ceiling also be repainted grey. cost of paint will be about $3,500.
The padded bench seating will be removed entirely from the up- middle third of the lower level bench will be removed per level. The WLU. Where Mitchell Remembrance Day ceremonies were held Friday at were you? (Pat photo) to allow for the construction of a set of stairs connecting the levels.
This will improve traffic flow and allow for a better view of stage
acts from the upper level. Students react to VIA cutbacks A shorter partition will replace the removed upper level bench. A proposed brass railing may top the partition. More railings are
mittee either side of the stairs and the in front of the other effects of the on VIA Rail and the North planned to on new stage, JILL CLEAVER Cord Weekly And go Main Line Route Committee. The the women's washroom and the bar. The of the is rail cutbacks — increased cost railings The crunch is on for railroad from
K-W Action Committee is cur- be short time commuter traffic on the major projected to $2,600. users, as only a
to increased air rently sending out petitions and The hanging plants will disappear. This will free over $1,600 remains until sweeping VIA Rail highways pollu- up letters with the basic of in contracted -- which into the of the tion from that added traffic are message annual expenses go cost cutbacks are implemented. With 'Let's the service incalculable. The VIA cut- save here in maintenance for the plants. major cutbacks coming for the as yet backs will affect facets of Kitchener-Waterloo.' The bar that is currently in front of the main bar will be federal railroad service in the new many stand-up But students and students are no dif- won't be the moved underneath the T.V. screen. Tables will be re-arranged in a year, the Cord asked a sample of society,
whether realize it or only ones hurt — the Via Rail cut- less geometric design. students whether the VIA cut- ferent, they
backs will cost over 2,700 Via The coffee station will be with a new coffee sta- backs would affect them, and if not. existing replaced well of in there are two local employee (as as an un- tion. The total cost the changes to be done December is about so, how. Currently
with the specified numbers of CNR em $15,000. Responses varied from one organizations dealing their More for the future. The will VIA cutback — ployees) jobs. changes are planned seat upholstery end of the spectrum to the other. question the sometime in future. to cost Kitchener-Waterloo Action Com- With CUP be changed the According WLUSU, the of They went from students express- sources $70 per chair is too expensive to afford right now. New chairs will ing extreme agitation, to some also be to around the stand bar. with complete ignorance of the purchased go up Wilf's will be increased by the Its situation surrounding the VIA Sales tax capacity slightly changes. legal maximum is 180 and its current is Rail cutbacks, announced during protest capacity persons, seating capacity known 128. It is not yet how more people the changes will the summer by federal transport many make allowances for. minister Benoit Bouchard.
According to WLUSU, Wilf's sales have increased over the Currently, over 200,000 on Parliament Hill past few months due to changes that have already been made. The addi- people use the Kitchener- tion of nachos the food and Waterloo rail terminal to previous menu of chips popcorn were every year. OTTAWA (CUP) -- Almost 1000 people gathered on Parliament Hill deemed a large factor in this. Approximately 80 per cent of October 30 to protest the federal government's proposed Goods and those As music volume has been increased to the "cof- are between the ages of 18 well, discourage Services Tax. and it's the fee crowd" who do not the alcoholic which 25. Nationally, same people buy beverages The "axe-the-tax" attracted who chanted rally angry protesters, sort of About 11 Wilfs menu items. A marketing story. per cent of represent profit-producing strong slogans and listened to an array of speakers encouraging them to form Canadian students campaign a new has also boost sales. post-secondary rid of the and then Brian and including logo helped a national coalition to get tax, Mulroney use the train, to about WLUSU hopes that the addition of beer this week will be compared Michael Wilson. draught three per cent of all Canadians, a profitable venture. The proposed nine per cent federal tax, to replace the existing to a conducted Wilf's will close this term in order according survey 13.5 manufacturer's sales in the will early for the renovations to be per cent tax new year, cover by Campus Plus. done. Construction will begin immediately following the December everything from baby clothes to coffins. A statement by Jennifer Big- 13 closing. Representatives from the Liberal and New Democratic parties gar, a third-year Honours geog- promised to fight the proposed tax. Lome Nystrom, NDP finance crit- raphy student, that "it won't af- ic, said his party is "launching a national campaign to scrap the tax." fect in me any way" was a rela- Various members of Parliament and businessmen said the GST common tively sentiment ex- and will jack up prices, inflation, interest unemployment rates. pressed by the students we talked Students will also see an overall rise in such education costs as to. However, there were also tuition, textbooks, and transportation, said Dave Pimm, a part-time those who said that the cuts - political science student, and member of the Young Liberals at Car- which will greatly affect South- leton. rail western Ontario service - He said he wonderedwhether the student aid programs will be in- would also greatly affect them. creased the to compensate for tax. V Many expressed anger at the "The government hasn't said so," he explained. "They're going to whole situation. Lynne Hill, a shut students out of school." third-year communications stu- Calling the GST "an assault on Canadians," Mac Harb, Liberal noted dent, that "They'll (the cut- MP for Ottawa Centre, encouraged Canadians across the country to backs) affect me, and I'm pissed "say yes to a good investment in the future of Canada, but no to a tax about the whole thing." that will rob Canadians of their dignity." Lynne is among a number of Reverend Dale Soble of the First Baptist Church in Ottawa said students who are unhappy about the GST is a "moral issue" as well. Soble said the tax will the "promote coming cuts, seeing them as a selfishness, alienation, human fear and hardship." great inconvenience at best. As The rally was preceded by an entourage of approximately 150 well, without the train as a mode taxis which were forbidden to drive the Centre Block RCMP of by by transportation, many will have officers. The drivers are worried that the proposed tax will increase to resort to taking the bus. That is their operating costs, drastically reducing their business. not always seen as an enjoyable "This will cause a decrease in the taxi drivers' income. The real experience - as Andrea Nasello effect of the tax will be to and those I "I'll however, put me represent on said, have to take the bus, the unemployment line," explained Mohammad Alsadi, President of and I hate taking the bus." the local union representing Ontario's taxi drivers. Therefore, the VIA cutbacks It took about 30 minutes of between leave students with negotiations officers, Alsadi, a tough deci- and the House of Commons Sergeant-at-Arms Gaston Cloutier before sion to make on how to get home if police allowed 30 cabs to drive by Centre Block. they don't own an automobile. Ron of bus Melcher, the Social Planning Council of Canada, empha- The seems to be the cheapest AI Strathdee says a few word at this Remembrance sized that the year's Day new tax would make Canadians the most taxed people available form of 11 transportation, ceremonies, held at a.m. on Friday. The event was little- in the Western and Hemisphere. the most accessible, but many attended, although lots of people were the "It's crowding Torque time for the government to realize Canadians can't students seem to find it simply far less Room chowing down while a few remembered Canada's war take it anymore. Enough is enough." enjoyable than taking a train ride. dead. (Pat Mitchell photo) The Cord Weekly
6 Thursday November 16,1989. nezvs—
Who were the primitives?
Underwear raiders ignored the potency of ritual
one tradition Editor's Note: This begins a that: moment they ( not different dish out shit, or appear very from we (Buddhists, Jews, atheists, otherwise play empty, the next moment that of other of the ritual (hopefully) regular feature by they universities) ritual Christians or none-of-the-above) clown, then you first
WLU professors about whatever erupt. illiteracy. Evaluated the stan- have to be in by sing: "Great father of glory, pure baptized shit, spill interest Among those who criticize dards of this tradition topics them. Any profes- panty raids father of light....'Tis only the some of your own blood, and be
the raids are who think are for the sors interested out there? Just some par course; they would splendor of light hideth thee." subjected to sustained symbolic
contact Jon them not morally a C, not the F in Stover at 884-2990. If only get they deserve. We're trapped into mouthing lessons humility. Pueblo he's not there, make leave sure to these vacuous masculine meta- ceremonial clowns are initiated in a note. He will back such get to you phors, failing to realize how such just a fashion, but, we im-
ASAP. have to "light" has blinded us to the dark- agine, they nothing teach we're ness masked by patrocentric us; beyond the filthy stuff of rites. And RON GRIMES Talkin pomp. "primitive" our "civ- In the ilized" Professor, Religion and Culture less inflammatory lan- ones are harmless. Besides Besides being unequivocally guage of ritual studies, Laurier being morally
rituals are "infelicitous" reprehensible, the WLU opposed to the recent panty raid rites that panty
do raid was a It or not do what they to do. botched rite. failed any other symbolic means of purport Their rhetoric masks rather than to understand ritual inversion, demeaning women, I chafe at the Tenure business of facilitates their real that dicey turning so- ritual illiteracy of the current dis- purposes. So students cial roles and cussion. And that illiteracy are following fac- statuses upside ulty examples well. They at least down. The raid didn't turn resounds on both sides of the any- know enough to call panty raids thing upside down; it just rein- argument. reprehensible but "senseless," Consider the symbolically laden "ritual." What neither nor forced the those this "not faculty already oppressive Among who support the meaning by term ra- events sprinkled throughout an administrator have them is status those who claim tional" taught quo. raids are it is a or "achieving no real end." academic year: orientation, final that are rituals. But the they lousy is "harmless tradition," "a getting- They use axe of rationality or exams, chapel services, convoca- What we need not just to then how could students know the the wine raids acquainted ritual," as if labelling bludgeon of moralistic prag- tion, and cheese parties, and squash panty with moral difference when we provide them something "tradition" makes it matism to smash a failed rite. But the like. Some of these are pap. outrage. This is only a first step. with no examples to the Their rhetoric contrary. If it is also the last "harmless." "No one takes these the weapons are not com- is pleasant, in- step, we can
student with the An of what Freud called things seriously," a said. mensurate enemy. nocuous; they are designed to interviewer asked one expect "the
does Both of mask the boredom of favourite on return of the A second Obviously, somebody sorts responses are participants my anthropologists repressed."
and to the of if the raid wasn't is that of alterna- now. Rites and traditions are like telling expressions of the Laurier diffuse passion in- campus panty step providing
tellectual She tives. And these must be in engagement into more like a "primitive" initiation. a
medium, not a decorum. said she thought not. Of course symbolic in didac- In aren't tic To take this second the efficacious ones- those not. Those "primitives" as one. step that know will have ! actually transform-power is illiterate as we are. They our moralizing to give GO HOME to STUDENT "j regularly mishandled, and the that "mere" rites, packed to the way dramatic enactment and It will values that are symbolized are not hilt with the black powder of ceremonial creativity. not
those of the blow in do to be satisfied with I CHEAP BECAUSE: participants directly symbols, can up your public of affected. Convocation and final face just when you think you've proclamations our virtues, will few examination rites are efficacious, defused them or got them under hoping they counter so
TUe pß\tx»e AT A vices. ! AJOD/ntwc | but they dragoon participants into control. student at Queen's in- very few,
either or volved in their fiasco, in which pseudo-religiosity Nor will it suffice to co-opt Means pseudo-policing. Our herd style men posted "No Dyke" to the raids by officially sponsoring **©*-»* 1% YooMGER-TUAJ* / AtA»\ I j final examination system parody the "No Means No" them; the administration has al- "I achieves exactly what it presup- campaign, moaned think a lot ready tried that. What is needed is
poses, namely, institutionalized of us are still in shock that it went serious education in symbol- Michael of Waterloo his | Gaylord sent us good reason | mistrust of both students and fac- this far. It was supposed to be a using and worthy examples of
- voucher for for home and we sent him a | | going (Cheap!) one ulty. joke." No taught him that ritual-making. Can the Com- free return If have a anywhere on our system. you a The trip | imagination, skill, and symbols are not toys for grown- mittee to Review the Events of
- send it with address and i reason to us your name, | to tradition with good sensitivity which up boys. September 27-28 or the Gender
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democratic Nicaragua gears up for vote
ERIN FLETCHER their communities to vote. continues lowed to in Nicaragua, As well, donations may be budget to go towards progress the electoral is News Commentary However, pro- the rather than write local MP, or Prime made Tools for Peace, which military, to eco- your to undermined from The Nicaraguan people are cess has been Minister himself, and monies to purchase pen- nomic and social programs where Mulroney giving for their second set of the by U.S. interven- condemn U.S. gearing up beginning it is desperately needed. ask them to inter- cils, newsprint, tally machines
elections on tion. Before the 1979 popular in- for the elec- presidential February But the interference doesn't ference in the elections, and to and other necessities 1990. These elections the the U.S.-backed 25, are against crease Canadian aid to the tions. can be reached at uprising stop here. The Bush Administra- They first test of Nicaraguan dictator Somoza, Nicaragua pro- effort. tion is interfering with the Nicaraguan electoral 745-2529 for further information. in participatory democracy ten vided the U.S. with cheap labour, Nicaraguan electoral process as They are required as beef, coffee years. part land, timber, cotton, well. It has repeatedly denounced in of Nicaragua's participation and a market for U.S. con- ready the elections as a sham. The U.S. Central American Peace Ac- the sumer goods, weapons and is also financing — through a cord -- and they are certainly a advisers.' 'military number of bodies — instructing test for U.S. intervention. Since the revolution, the and promoting those candidates Front for Na- The Sandinista FSLN has worked with the who represent one opposition Liberation the tional (FSLN), people to make major Nicaraguan grouping of 14 political parties governing party of Nicaragua, is reforms in education, land distrib- which make up the far right of the with the business and the working opposition ution, health, The political spectrum. message parties and the Nicaraguan people military. But U.S. administrations being targeted at Nicaragua by to bring about these elections. have been trying to reimpose the U.S. is a simple one - A vote Some of these preparations in- their wishes through military, for the FSLN is a vote for con- clude: economic and political interven- tinued poverty, hardship, war and * - unilateral Declaring a tion. As a result, Nicaragua is isolation. Would such inter- cease in 1988. fire July now faced with $15 billion (U.S.) ference be tolerated during feder- * - the date Moving election in economic damage caused by al elections in Canada? from April 1990. American embargoes and the up On October 31, the FSLN * - unlimited Guaranteeing U.S.-backed contras. And as of ended the unilateral cease fire, access by all parties to foreign August 1989, the contras have ostensibly to guarantee the safety campaign funds (These funds been responsible for 221 deaths. of the Nicaraguan people and the must through Supreme These deaths came despite the as- go their participation in the elec- Electoral Council (CSE) with 50 surances from the U.S. that the tions. The Bush Administration per cent going to the designated $70 million of U.S. 'humanitarian and contra leaders have declared party and 50 per cent towards the and technical' aid to the contras the aborted cease fire is proof that cost of elections} used to dismantle the was being the FSLN is gearing up to cancel *
- that all Guaranteeing rebels as required by the Central the elections. political parties have equal access American Peace Accord. The Nicaraguan presidential to state radio and T.V. To reduce the massive infla- elections are a contest between *
• those members -- Permitting tion - 33,000 cent at times per the Nicaraguan people carrying of the U.S.-backed contra opposi- caused in the toll of U.S. part by out their right to select the tion forces who have disarmed interventionism, the Nicaraguan government of their choice, and and rejoined Nicaraguan society government has had to institute U.S. interests which are to vote and run for office. dramatic austerity measures. Fur- motivated mainly by money and * - the soldiers in Allowing ther problems have been caused for If the desire power. you're in- return the Nicaraguan army to to as 50 cent of the country's per terested in seeing democracy al-
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