University, both in Guatemala City and provincial capitals, provide legal services to independent trade union and peasant or­ ganisations unable to obtain counsel from "conienTs independent lawyers. They also provide legal assistance to the relatives of individuals detained by security forces, but officially denied to be in custody. Most private THE EXPRESS TERMINATES 4 lawyers refuse to accept such cases. KJAH PERRY looks at the decline of Brisbane's throwaway Amnesty International is a human rights A final factor has been the presence of organisation which campaigns for the release many of the nation's leading political figures DUNSTAN WARNS 5 of political prisoners and for the abolition at the university during their careers. Most After tKcoming involved in the nuclear debate while S,A. Premier, of torture and the death penalty. are paduates of USAC, and many have re­ Dunstan is now firmly opposed to nuclear power turned on a part-time basis to teach. The Between January 1st and August 31st, founder of the moderate opposition party RASTAS n 1980, at least one hundred professors, and former mayor of (Guatemala City, Jamaican WINSTON STEWART reports on the movement lecturers, secondary school teachers and Manuel Colon Argueta, for example, students in Guatemala were detained and taught law at the University of San Carlos MORTE BRISBANE 14 murdered, in many cases after torture. In prior to his murder on 22nd March, 1979. PETER STEINHEUER looks at Australia's most boring city addition, the whereabouts of six teachers In a statement issued in April 1980, KIDS IN SCAW SET UP and fifteen students who have been detained representatives of the University of San 20 for varying periods since April 1980 are still Carios expressed the view that "at this The Kiss hysteria is just a publicity stunt. PETER STEINHEUER reports unknown, and the authorities deny re­ moment everything points to a government policy to totally destroy the University of YULETIDE YUMMIES 26 sponsibility for their detention. San Carlos of Guatemala as a centre of Chef TONY RANDELL offers recipes for Christmas treats Although the national University of San democratic and scientific thought." Carlos of Guatemala is by law autonomous Guatemala, you are urged to write letters ACADEMIC RAPE 27 of central government control, since 1966 or send telegrams expressing concern at the LYN TAYLOR reports on the increasing incidence of lecturers granting hundreds of student leaders and teachers murder of students and teachers and asking grades In exchange from the national university have been for clarification of the whereabouts and detained and have "disappeared" or been situation of those who have been detained killed outright. without explanation, to the following SEMPER is a non profit POETRY EDITOR: Annette articles and graphics provided Evidence suggests almost all the de­ addresses: political and cultural magazine Read Semper and the authors are tentions, tortures and murders were initiated based at the University of PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE: duly acknowledged. The ex­ by the government of Guatemala, Gunmen Queensland, Jenny Wilson, Jeff McLennan ceptions are creative writing and General Fernando Romeo LUCAS GARCIA EDITOR: Tim Low copyrighted graphics which re­ detained by students have been found to Presldente de la Republica Damien Ledwich Palacio t^acional LAYOUT: Matt Mawson Semper Magazine welcomes main the copyright of the carry national police and military Guatemala, Guatemala COVER: Damien Ledwich contributions and letters, but authors and may not be re­ intelligence photo-identification cards, and SECRETARY: Anne Jones does not assume any respon­ produced without their per­ Coronel cremontino CASTILLO mission. automatic weapons issued by the anny. Mlnlstro de Educaclon TYPESETTING; Marie Blanch sibility for unsolicited manu­ Government concern at the independence MInlsterlo de Educaclon PRINTERS: Mirror Newspaper scripts, photographs and illus­ Address all enquiries to:. of the university seems to derive from Guatemala, Guatemala Ltd,, 367-373 Brunswick St„ trations. Semper Magazine several sources. Firstly, the university is, It Is Important that copies of your letters are Fortitude Valley, Semper is copyright, St. University of Old Union sent to at least one of the following: DISTRIBUTORS: Gordon and Lucia, Queensland, 1980, Non St. Lucia. Old. 4067. as the major national higher education Gotch Pty. Ltd,, Brisbane, Ph. 371 1611 or 371 2568. institution, one of the few centres of critical 7 Olas en la USAC (the university newspaper) profit publications may reprint Ciudad Unlverstaria thought in Guatemala. Its scholarly pub­ Cludad de Guatemala lications, as well as its student journals and Guatemala newspapers, provide a platform for political DIarlo Excelsior This is the last issue of Semper for 1980. We thank those who have and economic commentary and criticism Paseo de la Reforma IS which is found nowhere else in Guatemalan Mexico 1 DF, Mexico supported us during the year. public affairs. Secondly, the Bufetes Prensa Libre Semper will resume on about 23 February 1981. 13 Calle 9-31 zona 1 Populares, the legal aid offices of the Guatemala, Guatemala BHAGAVAD GITA Aon€ 52'^Oit AS IT IS aHenfiale 52' FREE DISCUSSIONS ON YOGA AND SUPPER NIGHTLY 6,30 SUNDAYS AT 4.30 PM at the HARI KRISHNA TEMPLE 56 Bellevue Tee St Lucia Ph 370 7478 (come hungry and bring a friend) HFWOFMl Our Muesli ^ •yiEEPlNS^ OAGcX'-RUCKyACKy RAINWE/^R KIM DAE JUNG J'piCiAiUT/ IN ROCKaiMDINGr. CMiNCf. Sentenced to hang is the MOUNVUMIIPIN&: LI&«TW£lGrnT CAMPlMGr^ You can help save this man's life and his country's democracy Breakfast of When the chief of the Korean CIA assassin­ ated President Park Chung-Hee many oteervers Brisbane believed that a major obstacle to democracy had been removed. But In May the country went under martial law and has become more repressive than ever. One of the many democrats jailed and now threatened with the death sentence h Kim Dae Jung, the man who won 46 per cent of the vote Delicious NOW OPEN in South Korea's last free election. Amnesty International is pressing for his rel­ and Situated at the Campus Coffee Shop entrance ease, while the US State Department has des­ cribed the charges against him as "pretty <ar Nourishing fetched". The Australian government is also opposed to his detention. / support the release of Kim Dae Jung and oth­ Top to Bottom Cosuols er jailed opposition members, I urge the military rulers to liold free elections for guys and gals , immediately. Please forward the free briefing kit on South Korea. OPENING SPECIALS ON ALL MENSWEAR Donation $ enclosed. 25% price reduction on Name. LEISURE SUITS DALE SLACKS Address..,. SHIRTS SHORTS etc NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY THOSE XMAS SPECIALS Secretary, Australian Committee for Union Arcade, University of Queensland Democracy in South Korea, Box 2353, GPO SYDNEY, 2001 The Unemployed Workers Union Political Lobby for the Unemployed ne whole wall of the office of the Unemployed Workers' O Union in Trades Hall is covered by an enormous graph. It plots the jagged, but rising level of unemployment. Catherine, a part-time worker who devotes the rest of her time to the UWU explained: ''Tlie graph will go until 1983, the next Federal election. It goes as high as 800,000 unemployed, but we can always extend it." The people at the Union are very pessimistic about Fraser's policies and gloomily predict one million unemployed by the end of the eighties. Unemployment in Australia is almost 500,000. It strikes particularly at women, disabled, the young who have never worked, and tlie mature aged who are considered too old to be worth employing. But there are no sections of Australian society that unemployment doesn't affect. Tlie Unem­ ployed Workers' Union tries to help these people, not as a welfare agency but as a political lobby. One of the major problems of the UWU is that people still do not understand that Workers' Union. They accept employed Queensland Government to allow transport Tlie major event of the campaign so far the unemployed rarely choose to be tliat people and students, also. Andrew concessions for the unemployed. They point was borrowing a Brisbane City Council way. It is difficult to realise how hard it is Neophytou said: "It's important to keep out that a single unemployed person under bus for a day. The bus was used to transport to get a job without actually going through pushing to poUticise people, otherwise 18 taking two 50 cent bus trips a day for 5 unemployed people around to CES offices the process. they'll fall by the wayside. Unemployment days will use 15 per cent of their income .and such. Also it was used to grab media The Unemployed Workers' Union has is fairly demoralising," for the week. The Commonwealth Employ­ attention and publicise the campaign. ten main demands (see box) and the first is The UWU does not involve people as a ment Services expect a devotion to job- Another major campaign the UWU has that jobs be seen as a right, not a privilege. social group, or a drop-in centre. "We've seeking that would require at least that launched is in support of the 35 hour week. To gain a broad understanding of that drawn right away from being welfare," much travel. Besides, the State Government Tlie 35 hour week is supported by several principle is essential in gaining a better deal Catherine said, "there are a lot of other receives grants from the Federal Government unions. It is difficult to forget the Queensland power workers fight for a 35 for the unemployed. organisations that look after welfare and to subsidise public transport. hour week, which led to public hysteria and the needs of unemployed people." Australia has gone through various phases the Essential Services le^slation.