Eastern Illinois University The Keep September 1985 9-20-1985 Daily Eastern News: September 20, 1985 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1985_sep Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: September 20, 1985" (1985). September. 13. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1985_sep/13 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1985 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in September by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. _Special Pullout Verge Inside . Frlday,september10, t9ss TileDaily ...will be mostly sunny and warm , with highs in the middle or upper 80s. Friday night will be fair , withlows in the 60s. Sa turday , cooler with a 30 Eastern News pe rcent chance of showers and Eastern Ill in ois Univers tyi I Ch arleston , Ill. 61920 I Vol. 71, No. 19 /Th ree Se ctions, 24 Pages thunderstorms , h_ ig h 76to 80. Final Farm Aid preparations w ••• t "''f; ·;w put in place CHAMPAIGN (AP)-As this heartland college town braced Thursday to house and police 80,000 visitors at the star-studded FarmAid benefit concert, a top Ford administration agriculture official questioned the need forit . "There is still a rainbow in agriculture," former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz told about 400 businessmen across the state in Sterling. "There are some bright spots. It's not all gloom." "We're having a FarmAid concert in Champaign to call attention to the farm plight, which is a much publicized event. This is news now," Butz said. "I think we've overdone it," he said. Butz acknowledged agriculture "is in distress. There's no doubt about it.'' photographer PAUL KLATT I Staff But while federal officials say at least 2S percent of Kung Fu fighters American far mers are in serious financialtro uble, he Akarate class takes advantage of unseasonably Lantz Field. estimated "10 (percent) to lS percent are really in a warm weather Th ursday to pr actice leg kicks at tight fix and some won't ma ke it.'' Butz sa id almost hal f the nation's fa rmers don't have any debt and added, "I'm convinced that Man's No. 1 challenge today is to build a peaceful world ome rule could up student tax�s and then to make it a well-fed world." JIM ALLEN body for Northern Illinois tax and a property tax hike met FarmAid, the brainchild of country singer- editor University, might test the bill's fierce opposition by citizens. songwriter Willie Nelson, is aimed at helping farnters Legislation awaiting the constitutionality before it · even Home rule, argued Charleston with financial problems and spreading the word ernor's signature could affect becomes law. Commissioner Wayne Lanman, about their difficulties. tern if the Charleston City NIU and the city of DeKalb are would allow the city to collect The nearly 80,000 tickets for Sunday's 14-hour uncil is successful in gaining cu rrently battling in the sales tax revenues to balance the concert-with a lineup of SO top country, rock , blues me ru le status for the city. Sangamon County. Circuit Court city's budget. and bluegrass performers-were sold out in three Passing unanimously in both over whether the home rule city Eastern political science in- days. ses of the state legislature, the can legally tax receipts on the structor Hugh Brazil said he . Another kind of contribution was announced could provide new taxing student union's book store, food believes DeKalb, and Thursday by a Rome, Ga., disc jockey, who said "vileges to home rule cities with stores, and hotel. hypotheticaUy Charleston, are S,100 radio stations will join the FarmAid effort by blic universities within their city Home rule, a - provision in the perfectly within their rights to simulcasting Merle Haggard's "Amber Waves of its. Illinois constitution, allows cities demand campus retail outfits to Grain." with over 25,000 people the right collect sales taxes. If signed into law, Senate Bill Bob Wolfe of WROM said the broadcast, to levy sales taxes beyond the "I think NIU's going to lose big 59 would provide home rule scheduled for 9:SO a.m. CDT Friday, will be carried ties the right to tax university limits set by the legislature. on �his one. That would be my by the ABC Radio, United States and Mutual ii outfits, such as those located Smaller cities, like Charleston, can guess," Brazil said. "(DeKalb's) Broadcasting networks, with thousands of member the Union, even though they are only gain home rule by voter taxing the consumers, not the stations. ated on state property. approval. state." Champaign, home of the University of Illinois, Both Sen. Max Coffey, R­ Charleston's City Council Brazil said the home rule was expecting Sunday's concert to generate slightly arleston, and Rep. Mike began looking to acquire the home legislation will "definitely clear it more havoc than the IlHni football games that usually caver, R-Charleston, voted for rule status in the face of a · up, but the courts can intervene. crowd Memorial Stadium, where FarmAid is being proj ected $500,000 budget e bill. But the question is whether the staged. But a suit filed against the shortfall by mid-1986 . Attempts courts would uphold such a Every hotel and motel room within a 40-mile ard of Regents, the governing to increase revenue with a utilities (See HOME, page S) radius is booked for Saturday night • . The politics of color: An insider's view of apartheid By MARY HOLLAND But Murray, who will return to felt cut off by racist South African Staff writer South Africa after he completes his policies and wanted to broaden his "Apartheid" is a term most masters degree in educational ad­ perspective. Eastern students know only in the ministration, leaves no doubt as to Although Murray said blacks and abstract. where his allegiance lies. those classsifed as "mixed" were Bu t South Africa and its racist "It is an insult to call ourselves once distrustful of each other, they policies are a living reality for one mixed race," Murray said. "We began to realize they wa nted the same tern student, not only because he regard ourselves as black South thing. was born and raised in the divided Africans.'' "About 10 years ago, our people country, but also because his race Murray, 30, taught in a secondary and the black people realized we puts him in the center of the conflict. school in the South African town of could stand together and a close knit Eastern graduate student William Worcester and came to Eastern la st feeling began to grow," he said. Murray is officially classified by the month with the aid of the Au rora "Being on the same sidebrought the white-ruled South Afr ican govern­ Associates, an agency which helps blacks and the mixed race together.'' ment as "mixed ra ce," which means place foreign students in U.S. Although "mixed" South Africans he is given more privileges than schools. receive more privleges than blacks, blacks but is still not considered a He and his wife, Ingrid, who is also Murray said rigid class distinctions full-scale citizen. a graduate student here, came to are part of a "deliberate" policy "We felt the oppression," Murray Eastern partially because in South designed to keep blacks fromun iting. said, "but not so JllUCh as blacks Af rica they were restricted to a "It's not that we wanted it , but the because we are labeled as mixed "mixed race" university. From a government worked it out very . race." very young age, Murray (See said, he ha s POLITICS, page 8) 1 Will iam Mu rray . • Friday, September .1A' 20, 1985 . The DAiiy EAstem Ne J\ssociatedPress Earthquakeshakes Mexic MEXICO CITY (AP)-A devastating ear­ Michoacan, which lie to the south oof J State/Nation/World thquake struck central Mexico on Thursday along the coast. · morning, toppling buildings, triggering fires and Only minor damage was reported in the ci • Pentagon tests reporting pool trapping hundreds in rubble in the world's most o"fAcapulco and Guadalajara. WASHINGTON-Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger populous capital. Police said at least 170 were In Jalisco, most of the dead were in the to today announced that an exercise testing the Pentagon's dead and thousands injured, but a higher toll was of Guzman and Atentique, Sanchez said plan to cover national military emergencies with a pool of in expected. telephone interview broadcast live by the Bog reporters began this morning. Hours later the army and police patrolled radio station Caracol. Weinberger told a news conference that the pool was ruined streets against looters as fires still "In Atentique a part of a mountain slid activated at 3 a.m. EDT and sent _to Fort Campbell, Ky. aw smoldered in Mexico City, 250 miles northeast of falling on several peasants who were just get · "We expect to learna lot fromthis exercise," Weinberger the quake's center on the Pacific Coast. up to go to work," Sanchez said. said. "I think this went quite well." . President Miguel de la Madrid, declaring a In other Jalisco towns "the streets split o The exercise was a test of a Pentagon system, created m national disaster emergency, toured stricken as people ran in panic ...And many_ people di response to criticisim of the Defense Department's handl�ng neighborhoods and appealed for people to crushed inside churches," he said. of news coverage of the invasion of Grenada, under which remain calm and stay indoors.