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For more information, please contact [email protected]. 16, 1989. 40.14tUdl dnliTi 1 JiAct'Ab2 C;()1,4tM- Hunting season ended Maine loses heart- Women's hoop wins this weekend breaker to SMSU Downeast Classic page 2 page 5 page 6 The Daily Maine us THE U\ VERS' OF VA Monday, November 27, 1989 NE NEWSPAPER SINCE 1875 vol. 105 no. 50 Offensive previews— more - carnage SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP)- The two deadliest weeks of the 10-year-old civil war have served only to set the stage for more bloodletting. The battle of San Salvador is over. The huge rebel offensive that began Nov. 11 failed to achieve its principal objec- tive of persuading the government of make significant concessions in the quest for a negotiated solution. Indeed, with the administration claim- ing victory and demanding what amounts to the rebels' surrender, and the ims of a insurgents promising to finish off "the ge 12. mortally wounded fascist beast," Salvadorans can only expect weeks or months more of warfare of an intensity unseen since early 1981, when the rebels' • first "final offensive" failed. "This battle against ARENA is a bat- photo by Douglas Vandersseicle Dean Smith drives tle that cannot turn back, a battle to the lane for a pair of points in Saturday's men's basketball win over Coppin State. Stoll, and addi- tional photos on sweep fascism once and for all from our page 7. country," the rebel clandestine Radio Venceremos said late last week. ARENA is the rightist Nationalist Republican details internal Alliance, the governing party: Newly released history --**They (the guerrillas) tried, and they lost," President Alfredo Cristiani said, bickering among government spies proclaiming the military defeat of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation WASHINGTON (AP) The State the first CIA document to be declassified and transferred to the Front, or FMLN. Department, FBI and armed services declassified and transferred to the Na- Archives. The government contends its forces hampered the Central Intelligence Agen- tional Archives for release to the public The declassified version of Darling's killed or wounded a third of the rebel ar- cy in its infancy by bickering about under the spy agency's historical review history is accompanied by a note from my, estimated at about 7,000 full-time authority over covert activities and other program. the CIA's history staff cautioning readers combatants. Most foreign journalists operations, according to a long-secret A copy of it was delivered to President that the former Yale history professor, who spent day after day in the combat CIA history of the spy agency's early Bush on Wednesday by William Webster, who was the agency's first historian, had zones doubt the official claim that more years. director of the CIA, and Don W. "a definite and sometimes controversial than 1,000 guerrillas were killed. The 1,000-page narrative, Written in Wilson, archivist of the United States. point of view." The figure appears inconsistent with 1953 by historian Arthur B. Darling, is Webster said other CIA records will be (see SPIES page.4) the relatively few dead guerrillas seen by reporters who daily compared notes on what they saw where and when. Funeral held for Texas boys slain in Maine Cristiani says the decimation suffered Stale police said Abbott entered the by guerrilla forces has been so telling DENTON, Texas(AP) Two boys who After the boys' mother, Maria Abbott, York County Sheriff's Department last that they will be capable from now on were shot to death in Maine, and whose had reported them missing, Denton Monday, told authorities aboitt the "terrorist" actions. father is accused of the killings, were poWe focused their search in New of only shootings and then led them to the The contention is suspect, as the presi- buried side-by-side, each holding a stuff- England, where her ex-husband has bodies. Police said each was shot with dent, the defense minister and every col- ed bear. relatives. a 12-gauge shotgun. onel who went on record in the months Roy Irwin Abbott Jr., 6, and Rooney On Saturday, the boys' caskets remain- The funeral and accompanying costs prior to the spectacular push said the Irwin Abbott, 4, were buried Saturday ed open throughout the service. They were covered by donations. same thing: that insurgent capacity had after a funeral attended by about nearly were dressed identically, in Nintendo T- been reduced to isolated terrorist 200 friends, relatives and school Mrs. Abbott could not afford to have shirts and baggy camoflague pants, and activity. officials. her sons' bodies transported from Maine each held a stuffed bear. acknowledged in an inter- The boys' father, Roy Irwin Abbott to Texas, but USAir flew the bodies to Cristiani The Rev. Jobe Martinez, pastor of view after the fighting waned last week Sr., is in the York County Jail in Maine, Dallas for one-fourth the normal fare, Templo Batista Getsemani in Dallas, that the guerrillas "are doing some where he is to appear before a judge and that was paid by the Goen-Hudgens spoke during the funeral about the in- things that look more like regrouping Wednesday for a bail hearing. Funeral Home in Denton. nocence of children, and he reflected on than withdrawing." Abbott, who took the boys from Den- several Bible passages that speak of a The funeral home also donated $2,400 Radio Vencermos on Friday referred ton during his first visit to his ex-wife parent's responsibility "to take care of to cover all the services. to the 10-day concerted assault on the after their divorce became final in the child, to protect him." Denton County Judge Vic Burgess capital and several provincial cities as September, told police last week that he children," Martinez said he and the county would pay for the "the first period of offensive," imply- had killed the boys because they began "We were all did you harm; that is why children's caskets, which cost $1,000 ing that others are in the offing. crying when he was about to turn said. "Nobody himself in to face kidnapping charges. you are still living." each. (see SALVADOR page 8) 2 The Daily Maine Campus, Monday, November 27, 1989. TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY PROJECT COURSES, SPRING 1990 News Briefs Open to all undergraduate students. Specter won't stand No prerequisites, each counts for 3 credit hours. up Mason at New York political luncheon TSO 198 Thchnology and Society II. WASHINGTON (AP)—Comedian Giuliani's honorary campaign chair- Tuesdays and Thursdays. Jackie Mason is not the shy type, and man after suggesting in an interview 3:10 - 4:00 p.m. on Tuesdays. he is not letting a bad experience with with the Village Voice that Jews were 3:10 - 5:00 p.m. on Thursdays. the New York City mayor's race sour supporting black Democratic can- 336 Boardman Hall, Dean Norman Smith and Prof. Howard Segal. him on politicians. didate David Dinkins because of Study of the development and future of technology in Mason, who starred on ABC-TV's Jewish "dimplexes." the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with emphasis on recently-canceled "Chicken Soup," Mason also called Dinkins "a fan- America and Great Britain. is hosting a lunch at Manhattan's cy shvartze with a mustache, "1 ac- trendy Elaine's Restaurant on Dec. 8 cording to Newsweek. Shvartze is a elm! Ir TS0 251 Transportation and Social Change. in honor of Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. Yiddish word for a black person. Specter insisted that the lunch was Mason later apologized, saying, mea Wednesday, 5:3 0 - 8:00 p.m. "definitely not fund-raising and it's "I'm a comedian, not a politician." 205 Boardman Hall definitely not political." Despite the flap, Mason does not stud Interdisciplinary study of the technological development and The senator was asked whether he —plan -to--curb his interest whic social impacts oi rail, air, and automobile transportation. had considered avoiding Mason, since said. publicist Bobby Zarem. pus, Taught by engineers, social scientists, humanists. Mason was cut loose from the "Probably from a political point of and Boa Includes one or more field trips. mayoral campaign of Republican view, there is a question in peoples' Rudol • h Giuliani in September minds about what Jackie should or A flle— TS0 398 (01) Thchnology and the Environment. use of remarks about blacks and should not be doing in politics," Jews. Zarem said. "But Jackies a smart rese Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 - 10:45 a.m. "Jackie Mason and I have a man. He's interested in what happens It 10 The Maples, Prof. Sherman Hasbrouck deal," Specter replied. "I'm not go- to our country and what happens to orde Seminar on the historical interplay between technology and ing to do any stand-up comedy, and our city." Ii boa both natural and urban environments. he's not going to advise me on arms The lunch at Elaine's is designed so control reduction or budget mat- Specter "can meet people in New TS0 398 (02) Patterns of Invention.