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Just a quick question : Is it possible to have senioritls and spring fever
at the same time? If the answer is yes which I am convinced It is there
are several afflicted students including myself on this very campus.
Yes as hard as it is for many people to believe there are those of us
who don't want to do anything don't feel like doing anything and
couldn't be forced to do anything.
Some people always look on the bright side and say "Well gosh at
least you're a senior" or "There's only six more weeks left in the
semester." That's fine and good but they forgot one thing... April '85 is
going to be the longest month on recorded history. I know it will.
Just when I start thinking graduation is just around the corner old
father time reaches into his bag of tricks and pulls out the time warp.
Sure he realizes what he's doing. He loves it. So saying graduation is In
47 days really means very little.
Meanwhile everything in life has turned into a chore. Oh the glories
of spring. Somehow just getting out of bed In the morning has turned
Into a traumatic experience. I think it all has to do with the old saying:
"So close and yet so far away." Oh well at least I don't suffer alone.
What comfort.
I've been thinking for some time now about something I could reco-
mend to dual sufferers a cure of sorts that would relieve the pain
discomfort and daily agony each is enduring... drop out of school and
come back in the fall at least you won't suffer from spring fever.
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By Emilie Trautmann
Amnesty International USA
Atrocities committed by Peru-
vian government forces in the
country's remote highland pro-
vinces have reached un-
precedented levels in the
country's modern history accor-
ding to a report released by
Amnesty International in January.
Hundreds of Peruvians have been
tortured and killed during the last
two years and more than 1000
have "disappeared" after govern-
ment agents seized them without
warrant from their homes. Many
of the victims are students and
teachers killed because of their
alleged association with the Shin-
ing Path armed opposition group.
An army patrol abducted Pedro
Gomez a university student
when he returned from Lima to
his parent's rural home 18 months
ago. He has not been seen since
the abduction. Arguimedes Ascar-
za an 18-year-old student from
the Ayachcho highlands also re-
mains among the "disappeared."
Hooded men dressed in army
uniforms abducted him from his
home in July 1983.
Massive human rights violations
began to occur in Peru in
December 1982 when the
government of President Fernan-
do Belaunde Terry placed nine
western provinces under military
rule. Shining Path guerrillas have
been especially active in these
provinces targeting government
security personnel and local com-
munity leaders for execution-style
killings. Last summer the govern-
ment extended the Emergency
Zone to 13 provinces.
Students and teachers in the
Emergency Zone have suffered
brutal treatment In part because
young people have been recruited
into the guerrilla movement.
Evidence complied by Amnesty
International suggests that military
agents saspect young people
sin. 1; because of their age of
pii impaling ui gueiuUa activity.
Victims of government agents
also include farmers lawyers
journalists and leaders of peasant
organizations and trade unions.
Security forces have dumped or
buried hunderds of bodies at
several sites in the Emergency
Zone. Fifty bodies were found in
seven shallow graves at one site
last summer. At other sites military
authorities have obstructed ex-
humation or Identification of corp-
ses which often bear clear marks
of torture and a single gunshot
wound in the head. Removal of
clothing severing of fingers and
the mutilation of facial features
render identification difficult. A
Peruvian woman testified that she
and her daughter had searched
for her missing son "at the place
where the dead bodies appear.
But we have only found the collar
of his shirt which the marines us-
ed as a blindfold on another per-
son." Numerous victims of "disap-
pearance" were last seen alive at "
one of two government detention"
centers. The Huanta Stadium a
concrete structure built in 1974 for
sporting events serves as a pro-
vincial naval command head-
quarters. Authorities have denied
detaining many of the prisoners
held under the grandstand and In
open areas of the stadium. Los
Cabitos Barracks a regional army
headquarters reportedly serves as .
the Emergency Zone's main inter-
rogation and detention center.
Prisoners released from the bar-
racks have testified that they saw m
people held there whom
authorities denied detaining.
These testimonies support
evidence that guards in the bar- -racks
systematically torture de-'
talnees. Norma Cordero Mar
traza a 12 year-old schoolgirl
taken from her home at midnight
last year is among those last seen
at the barracks.
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MONDAY. March 11 1985
JACK ANDERSON AND JOSEPH SPEAR
WEEKLY SPECIAL
DOE squanders oil payback funds
By Jack Anderson
and Joseph Spear
WASHINGTON - The big oil
companies are currently paying
back billions of dollars they over-
charged for oil and gas during the
1970s. But thanks to sloppy thinking
and even sloppier supervision by
the federal bureaucrats entrusted
with dispensing the money the con-
sumer b getting bilked again.
Here's the story:
In the 1970s several oil compa-
nies were found to have violated oil
and gas price controls then in
effect. After years of negotiations
and red tape the oil companies
have begun paying back the illegal
overcharges.
It would be impossible to give the
money back to all the individuals
who were actually overcharged
several years ago. So the billions of
dollars are being put in a kitty con-
trolled by the Department of Ener-
gy which then dispenses it to vari-
ous states according to the best
estimate of fair sharing.
The trouble according to an
unreleased General Accounting Off-
ice report obtained by our associate
Tony Capaccio is that the DOE has
allowed payments to institutions ...
that were not actually injured by
overcharges."
GAO auditors studied consent
orders totaling $36 million entered
into by DOE and four oil compa-
nies: Chevron Standard Oil of Ohio
Imperial Refineries and Site Oil
Company of Missouri.
They found that DOE hadn't both-
ered to consult the overcharged
consumers utilities airlines
schools small businesses towns
and indivduals. This was improper
GAO concluded.
But what really burned the GAO
sleuths and Rep. John Dingell D-
Mich. was that DOE "agreed to set-
tlement terms which may not pro-
vide for restitution." For example
DOE allowed these uses of the over-
charge repayments:
Repairs and maintenance of
highways bridges and airports.
"Hardly akin to restitution for oil
overcharges" Dingell complained
toDOE Secretary John Herrington.
;v Georgia is being allowed to
spend $250380 of its reimburse-
ment to buy 642 breathalyzers for
fu drunk-driver testing program.
"The connection to overcharged
consumers is remote" Dingell
wrote.
' Nebraska won DOE approval
for spending $100000 of its over-
charge windfall on a project intend-
ed to demonstrate that trees used
for shade and windbreaks can help
reduce heating and cooling costs.
The project would also "instill in
students an enthusiasm for tree
planting" the GAO report notes.
Most outrageous of all
ferhaps was Texas's plan to use its
798858 share of overcharge resti-
tution money for projects at the
state university's bureau of eco-
nomic geology. In Texas geology
means searching for oil as the GAO
auditors were quick to note. The
projects funded by the overcharge
refunds the report explains "would
directly benefit energy producers"
the very culprits who over-
charged their customers in the first
place.
It's almost as if a mugger were
even the little old lady's purse
ick after he was found guilty.
STRICTLY PERSONAL; A Wash-
ington D.C. businessman recently
received a fancy "Information
packet from the U.S. Treasury
announcing that new multicolored
supposedly counterfeit-proof gov-
ernment checks will soon replace
the familiar green punch cards.
The businessman asked us to find
out why the government was spend-
ing so much to publicize the new
checks.
We learned that the packets were
mailed to some 15000 businesses
across the country mostly liquor
stores and others that cash govern-
ment checks for customers. The
packages of glossy posters and fly-
ers cost "about $5 apiece" accord-
ing to a Treasury official.
But the packets were only a
small part of the Treasury Depart-
ment's campaign to tell the public
about its new checks. The total
price tag for the public-relations
effort will come to $500000 the
official said. He explained "If
you're using a certain check for 40
years it takes a public awareness
campaign" to make a change.
Our businessman friend insisted
however that he could have been
sufficiently informed with a simple
letter.
We've also been hearing many
complaints about the latest postal
rate hike to 22 cents for a first-class
letter. But Earle Stillwell of
Bethesda Md. has a gripe that
transcends a mere 2 -cents increase.
Stillwell sent off payment of a
fuel bill to his oil company but
postal employees couldn't read the
address. He had neglected to put a
return address on the envelope so
the post office opened it to deter-
mine the sender. The letter was
then returned to Stillwell at a
charge of 70 cents. By the time he
mailed a new check to the oil
company it was overdue and he
had to pay a finance charge of 85
cents.
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