.-------------------------------------------------------------~---- Elections - page 3 VOL XX, NO. 48 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1985 an independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Activist Hoffman parallels college protests of '60s to '80s By MARK PANKOWSKI why the university won't divest its Nicaraguan government, had killed Asststanl News Edttor holdings in companies operating in 11,000 people and had destroyed South Africa," said Hoffman. $400 million worth of crops. Student activism is making a com­ Hoffman, who received a standing If a well-trained guerilla group eback. Abbie Hoffman, the '60s ovation at the end of his speech, also were attacking the United States, political dissident, told a crowded drew a parallel between the past few "How much freedom would the Washington Hall last night. years and the period before (U.S.) government allow?" Hoffman ""lltere's a second wave of student American troops entered Vietnam. asked, addressing criticisms of activism now," the 48-yc:ar-old radi­ There was a "teflon president." Nicaragua's human rights record. cal said. "I've seen now an entire Despite U.S. military presence in decade of campuses being hotbeds 'In Nicaragua we have Central America, the famous mem­ of rest ... but things are changing." ber of the "Chicago Seven" said he "I thought I'd never see students hired mercenaries ••• wasn't certain if President Reagan active again," said lloffman, who was We have printed would order an invasion of leading protests when many of the Nicaragua. SOO in auendance were still in assassination manuals, diapers. just like we did in "I don't know if he's going to Students began protesting in the invade. I can't read his mind," he 1960s "hecOAuse they stopped seeing Vietnam in the said. "It would be like reading themselves as students, but as 'Ulysses' backwards." dtizen.~ of a community" with "the beginning.' Hoffman, a staunch critic ofEI Sal­ right to have a say in decisions," he -Abbie Hoffman yador President jose Napoleon sOlid, adding thilttoday's students are Duarte, said he has visited every '•.·~;{;; p beginning to view themselves as Dwight D. Eisenhower,in office who country in Central America. .. "nothing ever stuck to," he said. .., dtizens. "One ofthe advantages of being a It's not just today's student There was an attempt to censor fugitive is getting to travel a lot," he .. protests that Hoffman sees as run­ rock 'n' roll, there was a communist joked, referring to the six years he ~ ning parallel to the era that made paranoia, and there was "arrogant spent underground after jumping API'boto him famous. flag waving," he added. bail on a drug-related felony. "I Soggy flakes ·- Students are responding "to apar­ And the Vietnam of today, he said, spent three years in Mexico and theid in South Africa in exactly the is Nicaragua. Central America." Two workers at a supermarket in Pbillipi, W. Va., suroey tbe same way we responded to segrega­ "In Nicaragua we have hired mer­ damage done by flood waters early this week. Tbe floods, wbicb tion in the South," he said, noting cenaries. We have mined the har­ Hoffman, who has visited killed at least 35 people in tbe mid-Atlantic states, also stranded that students are singing "We Are bors. We have printed assassination Nicaragua four times in the last 14 hundreds ofpeople in Ibis and other towns. the World" in the same way white manuals, just like we did in Vietnam months, said there is no reason for students in the South sang "We Shall in the heginning," said Hoffman, the United States to continue its sup­ Overcome." who also discussed the situation in pon for the contras fighting the Students once again are demand­ Nicaragua at the Center for Social governm«_:nt. Reagan redefines goals ing action, he said. Concerns earlier in the day. "(Nicaragua) does not want to be "(Students) don't want to hear the He noted that the contras, the a Russian puppet," he said. "They presi<knt of the university saying CIA-backed rebel group fighting the don't even like Russians." for 'Star Wars' system Associated Press news agencies that if the U.S. research program he calls the CLC meeting sets tone for the year WASHINGTON President Strategic Defense Initiative were to Reagan redefined his goals for the come up with an effective: system to By MARY HEILMANN each issue can receive more atten­ and blatantly unnuanced in its inten­ proposed "Star Wars" missile defend against nuclear attack, the Msstslatll Neu1s Editor tion and the meetings themselves tions." defense system yesterday, saying he United States would call a meeting of can be utilized for presentations." The administration cancelled one would deploy the space shield uni­ all nuclear powers to "see if we: can­ The Campus Ufe Council, in its Since this wa.'i the first meeting of of Dillon Hall's SYRs and said hall laterally if other nuclear powers can not use that weapon to bring about .. first meeting of the year yesterday, the year, business consisted residents had to do a community not agree on a worldwide nuclear the elimination of nuclear announced its goals and established primarily of establishing commit­ service project after some Dillon defense and disarmament program. weapons." tl\e mechanisms by which, accord- tees which will investigate residents sponsored a tailgater in "If we had a defensive system and If that conference failed to gain an ing to Student Body President Bill prominent campus issues and form­ Ann Arbor, Mich. before Notre we could not get agreement on their agreement for mutual use of the: llealy, "students can bring their ulate proposals. Dame's football game against the part to eliminate the nuclear defensive system, Reagan said, "we business to the CLC and have it One such committee_will address University of Michigan. weapons, we would have done our would go ahead with deployment." acted upon." Student Senate Resolution N.B. I, "I think there are legitimate issues best and we would go ahead with Earlier yesterday, when asked if "One of the visions I have for this the senate's response to ad­ as to questions of how the Dillon deployment, even though, as I say, he meant to give the Soviets veto body is that it will be a committee ministrative policy concerning the tailgater incident was handled," said that would then open us up to the power, in effect, over deployment of body, where the bulk of the work Dillon Hall tailgater incident, Lardner, rector of Grace H lll and charge of achieving the capacity for the proposed defensive: weapons will be done outside of the criticized by CLC member Father a first strike," Reagan said In an inter­ system, Reagan replied, "Hell no." meeting," Healy said. "This way, Gerald Lardner as "insulting in tone see CLC, page 4 view less than two weeks before he Reagan also said in the: wide­ --------------~~------------------------~ meets Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbac­ ranging discussion that he suspects hev in Geneva. but cannot prove the: defection and The president's comments ap­ subsequent return of Soviet mas­ Oxfam Fast approaches; sign-ups continue peared to negate the terms he laid terspy Vltaly Yurchenko and two ot­ out in an Interview with Soviet jour­ her Soviet citizens were: part of "a By DAN JANICK directions, but added that she tinues until 9 p.m. Thursday when nalists last week in which he said he deliberate ploy" by the Kremlin In News Staff believes money is not the impor­ a closing Mass wlll be said at the would not deploy a defensive sys­ the days leading up to the Nov. 19- tant issue. Clubhouse, followed by a simple tem until offensive missiles had been 20 Geneva summit. Saint Mary's students will fight She said the fast is strictly an meal. dismantled. But Reagan denied The: president said he was hunger pangs when they par­ awareness campaign "intended to Other events during the day in­ there was any Inconsistency in his perplexed by the three cases, but ticipate in the 24-hour Oxfam Fast allow us to experience the hunger clude morning, midday and separate descriptions of his policy. "we just have to live with It because: Nov. 21. of others." evening prayers in Stapleton "The terms for our own deploy­ there's no way we can prove or dis­ According to Mary Turgi, direc­ Oxfam America is a non-profit, Lounge in lc:Mans Hall at 9:10a.m., ment would be the elimination of prove" that the cases were or­ tor of the fast, SAGA will donate a international agency which 11 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Films on the offensive weapons," Reagan said chestrated. set amount of money per par­ promotes self-help and develop­ world hunger also will be shown to the Soviets. "We won't put this Contrary to recent reports from ticipant to the cause. Turgi said she ment programs in Africa, Asia and throughout the day in Stapteton weapon - this system - in place, this intelligence sources, Reagan said the hopes this year's number will be Latin America. This is the 12th year Lounge. defensive system, until we do away information Yurchenko provided more than the 1,000 participants for the nationwide fa.o;t which tries The Oxfam Fast is the culmina­ with our nuclear missiles, our of­ "was not anything new or sensa­ of 19H4. to feed the hungry and raise aware­ tion of South African Awareness fensive missiles ... And if the Soviet tional. It was pretty much Informa­ l.ast year, S I, SOO was donated to ness of the world hunger problem.