Assemblyman Backs Conference, Objects to Liberal Workshop Leaders
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Jr Spartans spike it out in Stockton, page 6 4 'What I say offends people,' page 3 LPAhT ff) II Volume 81, No. 46 Serving the San Jose State University Community Since 1934 Wednesday, November 2, 1983 0 0 0 Reflecting on a rainy :9 Tuesday Psychology major Lora Baxter casts her reflection on Clark Library as a light rain falls. Although Tuesday had a gloomy debut, the National Weather Service predicts that the skies will clear by the end of the week. Tam Chandler State Department Assemblyman backs conference, bans Cuban guests objects to liberal workshop leaders By Jennifer Koss are "an extremely important By Jeff Barbosa "If all these left-wing people are Konnyu said he had no qualms look at the Republican and Demo- Two Cuban women sched- weapon in the hands of people A local assemblyman says that leading the workshops, it's obvious with the scheduled speakers, al- cratic views on urban America, a uled to speak at SJSU were den- who are against intervention or the upcoming SJSU conference they're going to have a pre-ordained though he called Midge Costanza, a speech on equal rights for women by ied entrance to the United States against invasions by the United sponsored by the Department of conclusion." former aide to President Carter who Costanza and a keynote address by However, Bert Muhly, an SJSU is speaking at the conference, a presidential hopeful George McGov- 4 by the State Department. States," he said. Urban and Regional Planning is an The women, scheduled for a "The Pentagon and every- "excellent idea" but he charges that professor of urban planning who is "troublemaker." His main concern ern. organizing the conference, dis- was the workshops. U.S. speaking tour, were denied body else knows this is an ex- the list of elected officials scheduled Muhly said he sent invitations to agreed. He said the workshop lead- "Four of the six workshop lead- visas on grounds the tour was de- tremely powerful weapon and to appear reads like a "who's who in Gov. George Deukmejian, Sen. Pete ers were chosen without consider- ers are from the far left of the Dem- signed to promote the Commu- that's why they are going to try to left-wing Democratic polictics." Wilson, San Diego Republican ation of their political parties. ocratic Party. Republicans would nist Party, said Tom Tomasko, a give us problems." Ernie Konnyu, R-Santa Clara, Mayor Roger Hedgecock and Rep. "My feeling is that we get crit- have been just as qualified to lead representative of the Bay Area- said the conference, which begins Zschau, R-12th District. Because the women were icized by trying to discern the politi- the workshops," Konnyu said. based Cuba Resource Group that Friday morning, is unbalanced. He denied visas the Cuba Resource cal parties of people at the local gov- "I personally called Roger supports the Cuban government. wrote a letter to SJSU President Group found two former Cuban ernmental level and I didn't check However, the workshops are Hedgecock, who I worked with Tony Perkins, who works at Gail Fullerton complaining about residents, Sonja Reverie and the parties of people at the munici- structured so that the participants years ago on coastal legislation. He the State Department in Wash- the officials chosen to attend. Media Benjamin, to speak at Sat- pal level," Muhly said. "Obviously, and not just the leader, can present answered me by phone and said he ington, D.C., stated in a letter urday's reception. their views, Muhly said. that the visas were denied be- "I think the conference is an ex- he's (Konnyu) done his own chart- had to stay in San Diego because he Reveria was born in Cuba, cellent idea, but I don't know if it ing of who people are, where they The conference is a political is involved in a bond issue down cause the U.S. State Department experienced the 1959 revolution has a policy that no member of serves any useful purpose in terms are and has read something into this perspective on the quality of life in there," he said. According to Muhly, and now works with the Women's of the players involved," Konnyu conference that is absolutely untrue urban America. Zschau had two town meetings the Communist Party of Cuba Intervention in Coalition to Stop said in a phone interview yesterday and, I think, unfair." It will include six workshops, a scheduled for this weekend. can enter the United States, nor the Caribbean. can any official of the govern- ment." "I was in the revolution for But neither woman is a mem- the same reason that 98 percent ber of the Communist Party, nor of the Cuban people were," Reve- ria said. for arms, are they government officials, U.S. combs Grenada resisters Tomasko countered. Before the revolution, the "The real reason is that the Cuban government tortured and ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada ( AP) "I don't want to mislead you be allowed to go home. Gen. Austin house on the southeast coast. Willey State Department, the White killed everyone who opposed it, U.S. helicopters buzzed a sniper that the whole island is now secure," has surrendered. The resistance is said. House and the Pentagon want to she said. Cuba was a corrupt on one side of Grenada while search- Willey said. over." Without firing a shot, the par- create a blockade of ideas," he country and economically depen- ers 45 miles away cleared the rubble Vehicles with loudspeakers Gen. Hudson Austin, who led the atroopers seized Austin. along with said. dent on the United States. of a mental hospital where as many fanned out over the roads, blasting Marxist military junta which seized two militia officers and two young Tours from foreign countries continued on page 8 as 20 patients were killed when U.S. this message over and over: "Mem- control and killed Prime Minister men, Willey said. Whether the jets bombed the facility. bers of the People's Revolutionary Maurice Bishop, was taken by U.S. young men were hostages, "I cannot The helicopters swooped in low Army, Cuban defenders. Lay down paratroopers after they were tipped say," Willey said. over the treetops after sniper fire your arms and surrender. You will that the general was hiding in a continued on page 8 Monday sent U.S. soldiers scram- bling for cover. Judge pronounces verdict Despite the sniping, 1,200 Ma- rines were leaving for Lebanon, their original assignment before Grenada vacation of a lifetime? on a murder mystery being diverted to Grenada. U.S. 4 Army soldiers were taking their NEW YORK (AP) Looking for an unspoiled the Marxist military junta which seized control after place yesterday, a week after the Bishop's death. By Karen Woods Commission for six years before he little find in the Caribbean, a communist getaway of the 133-square- The Defense Department says 18 U.S. servicemen Today, a judge will pass sen- was appointed superior court judge U.S.-led invasion whose Marxist government "needn't worry tourists," island. have been killed in the invasion. tence on a best seller. in 1978. mile Caribbean with beaches devoid of camera-toting riff-raff? Deputy Secretary of State Ken- Consider Grenada, urges Glamour magazine in Glamour touts the island as a remote paradise Conrad Rushing, a Santa Clara He said the book was not the November issue. where "only sailboats and cruise ships have an easy County superior court judge will re- usual bestselling mystery. its "This breezy little Windward island, peeking out time reaching Grenada's palm -trimmed shores. view "The Name of the Rose," at a "It's not a quick read," he com- Editorial, page 2 turquoise-blue waters, has heavenly white beaches, university booktalk at 12:30 in Busi- mented. "It is surprising it's a best of "If you add to that a Communist government at small hotels with charm and perhaps the prettiest ness Classroom 4. seller." the helm ( which needn't worry tourists), it's easy to capital in the entire Caribbean, St. George's," the The book is about a murder Most detective novels that get nth Dam said Monday night there see why Grenada is one of the few truly uncrowded reported in a piece on Caribbean vacations mystery set in an Italian monastery on the best seller lists usually read was no timetable yet for U.S. troop magazine and unspoiled getaways left." before the invasion. in 1327, and was written by Umberto like transcribed television plays, he withdrawal because it was not prepared As normalcy returned to the island a week after are cluttered not with Eco, a professor of semiotics (study said. "The bodies pile up toward the known when all the resistance would The capital's streets now the invasion, Jane Belfon, Grenada's director of tou- of signs and symbols) at the Univer- end." end. camera-toting tourists but with gun-toting U.S. sol- rism, agreed with Glamour. diers after a multinational force invaded the island sity of Bologna in Italy. It has been This novel is different Rushing Capt. Barry Willey, an Army "We have to look on the positive on the New York Times best seller said, because it is not just a mystery public affairs officer in Grenada, nation a week ago. side." Ms. Belton is said. "The island is still as list for 19 weeks, and is currently but is also steeped in medieval his- said he knew of no bands of resisters And the non-worrisome communist regime beautiful, the people are still as friendly ranked second.