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presidential selection being no student input in the presiaen- ficials completed their ballot recount, initiatives on the PBB problem. Fit- changes in style, but little change in expressed his clear support for Catholic
tial search at all. C. William Colburn pulled ahead of zgerald is a state Senator and former substance. Church dogma on priestly celebacy,
process under fire Meanwhile, faculty officials said they Trowbridge. majority leader in that body. In his 34-day tenure, the pope contraception and abortion.
were generally satisfied with their role Yesterday, Trowbridge announced established an informal, folksy at- These positions have been respon-
Who picks the next University in the selection process. The Senate that he was resigning his council post Pope John Paul I dies mosphere in a post traditionally sible for the sharp decline in those en-
That was the questi Advisory Committee on University Af- and his job at Eastern Michigan surrounded by pomp and solemnity. In tering the priesthood and large scale
Thatihans thuen stiAssembly ( ) efairsd(SACUA) will hear from MSA University to head the lecture program Pope John Paul's month in office this, he made a clear break from his defiance of church doctrine by many of
c s kande t e (MSA) president Eric Arnson about student at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Mich. scarcely gave him the chance to put his predecessor, Pope Paul VI the world's 700 million Catholics.
gall ast e participations a gSACUAovent re onsntmonday- On council, Trowbridge touted him- mark on the papacy. In the area of doctrine, however,
hal forgatdecisiont n A Cs A... is conte among alter- self as an independent Republican. His reign, the shortest of any pope in John Paul stuck to the conservative Soon, a new man will confront the
When Robben Fleming announced his proceeding prosad SACUwayCh imae Although he usually voted with the GOP nearly 400 years, was noted by marked path of his immediate predecessor. He same questions.
plans to retire in January after 11 years Shaw Livermore a professor of history. bloc on City Council, he often expressed
as the University's chief administrator, his own reasons for dog so.
the Board of Regents quickly announ- Colburn, meanwhile, faces a tough
ced plans for choosing his successor. uphill battle against Democrat Ed
The Regents' system involved Pierce, who has proven himself a T
separate faculty, student and alumni popular vote getter in the Ann Arbor z _,4.
committees to consider candidates for area in his two unsuccessful races for
the office. The three goups would ex- Congress.
change names and information, but Colburn, however, is no newcomer to
each would forward its own list of local politics. The University speech ..
nominees to the Regents. professor served as a Fourth Ward City .
The Regents would make the final Councilman for several years and (,4 +
sel'ection. Although individual regents is-not surprisingly-an effective
have said that their ultimate choice publi speaker.
would probably be someone from one of We all have it-PBB
the committee lists, the board reserved The PBB contamination scandal sur- ; >
the right to name someone completely faced again last week as new medical
different. ,r& findings showed that 90 per cent of state
This was the same system used in a s residents have the poison in their
Fleming's selection. bodies.
To MSA members, however, the PBB entered the Michigan food sup-
process did not seem to provide ply when the flame retardant was ac-
adequate voice. In a meeting Monday cidentally mixed with cattle feed and A
between four regents and several MSA 3 S . widely distributed across the state.
leaders, the students expressed their Democrats have charged that Gover-
reservations, but no concessions were nor William Milliken acted too slowly in
forthcoming. COlburn dealing with the contamination ,
As a result, when the presidential pralem. inhthelc tion ear
serc ise am p t SAsreulrTrowbridge bows out problem. In this election year, ~ ~
search issue came up at MSA's regularbDemocratic gubernatorial challenger
Tuesday night meeting, the assembly Ann Arbor City Councilman Ronald William Fitzgerald has continually r
unanimously voted to boycott the selec- Trowbridge (R-Fourth Ward) suffered raised the PBB issue, and attempted to
tion process until students are assured a sharp reversal of fortune last week, pin the blame on the Milliken ad-
a greater say. He had been declared winner of the ministration.
The ultimate result is far from clear. August Republican state Senate Milliken has countered by charging
If both Regents and student gover- primary race by a razor-thin one vote the Democratic-controlled state RF,./
nment remain firm, there could end up margin. However, when election of- Legislature with failure to act on his Mourners carry the body of John Paul in Vatican funeral services yesterday. AP Photo

Eighty-Nine Years ofJEditorial Freedom

"Tlatelolco 1968-1978:
Tenth Anniversary of a Massacre"

Vol. LIX, No. 22

News Phone: 764-0552

Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan


Endangered SpeciesAct:
An extension is necessary

OR THREE YEARS the Endan-
gered Species Act has protected
animals and plants that would other-
wise have been seen only in books or
museums. The federal office that in-
terceded on behalf of the imperiled
flora and fauna, had developed a list of
more than 700 species, and was con-
sidering about 2,000 more. They were
doing a good job protecting those on
the list, but no more-the Endangered
Species Act expired Saturday.
The act and the 200 full and part-time
federal employees who administer it
had only three years to live. They did
their job well and as a result made few.
friends in Congress and in big
business. It seems there are two basic
problems that prevented Congress
from granting the act an extension.
To some congresspersons it was a
question of style-whether and how
much protection should be given to
species that are of little value to
mankind. But the second argument is
possibly the most telling. Many mem-
bers of Congress fear the act would be
used increasingly to stop federal public
works projects in their localities which
would destroy endangered species
protected by the act. That fear was
founded in the Supreme Court decision
that the Tennessee Valley Authority
proceded illegally in its plans to build
the $116 million Tellico Dam project by
Inot considering the nearly extinct
snail darter, a miniscule fish in-
digenous to that area.

There have been thousands of public
works projects, but Tellico is the only
one to be halted as a result of the act.
However, the Tellico decision was ren-
dered in June when Congress was con-
sidering an extension. The Senate
passed an extension but under much
pressure watered the act down by in-
cluding a review process which could
result in overruling the Interior Depar-
tment when there was a serious con-
flict between projects and species.
The House Merchant Marine and
Fisheries Committee, however, has
developed an extension bill, after
much haggling, which would also
provide for a review board, similar to
the Senate proposal. The review board
is a sell out. The expiration of the En-
dangered Species Act as it stands is in-
deed unfortunate. It demonstrates that
this country's leaders have not accep-
ted the fact that man cannot conquer
nature or that in attempting this
irresponsible deed will enjoy nothing
less than self destruction. In a time
when leading international scientists,
philosophers, and statespersons are
espousing theories about and concern
for the world's limits to growth, this at-
titude in Congress is dangerous. It ap-
pears that Congresspersons are more
concerned with superficial ploys which
increase their chances for re-election
than providing the country with sound
leadership toward a better way of life
here and around the world.

Ten years after the Mexican
government murdered hundreds
of its own citizens in the Square of
the Three cultures in the
Tlatelolco district of Mexico City,
the plight of the Mexican people
remains basically unchanged.
The demands for which the
students, workers and people
were demonstrating continue to
be ignored by the PRI (the
Revolutionary Institutional
Party, the ruling party of
Mexico), and the violent
repression of legal and peaceful
dissent has become more
sophisticated and efficient.
Inspite of repression, dissent
cannot be eliminated, and will
surely lead to the eventual
liberation of the Mexican people.
Events leading to
the massacre
The incident which initiated the
sequence of events leading to the
bloody evening of October 2, 1968,
was the over-zealous use of force
by the police, on July 22, in
breaking up an alleged
confrontation between two
groups of high school students.
This was followed by a
demonstration against police
brutality, which was in turn met
with more police brutality. Under
the assumption that any
demonstration must be
communist-inspired, the police
then invaded the Communist
Party headquarters and
inprisoned several members of
the party.
On July 26, student
representatives of the National
AutonomousNUniversity of
Mexico (UNAM) and the
National Polytechnical Institute
(IPN) met to plan a student
strike, and subsequently issued
the following demands:
" Release of all political
prisoners,
" Disbanding of the
Granaderos, the riot police,
" The dismissal of the police
chief,
" The repeal of Article 15 of the
penal ode, which gives the
government unlimited autority in
arresting dissidents,
* Compensation to the wounded
and the families of the dead,
" The arrest and trial of public
officials guilty of atrocities.

By Memo Torres

L -I

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of a gun.
On September 7, 25,000 people
attended a meeting called by the
enh in Tlatelolco. a few days
later, September 18, the army
occupied the city campus of
UNAM, leading to the rector's
resignation the next day. On
September 24, the army invaded
the Santo Tomas campus in the
face of student resisitance; many
students were killed and
wounded.
The CNH refused to. end the
student strike, and called for an.
important meeting on October 2
in Tlatelolco. On that evening,
Secretary of Interior Luis
Echevarria ordered the army,,
Granaderos, and
plainclothes-men to attack the
peaceful gathering. The army
used helicopters, armored cars
and heavy calibre automatic
weapons against the unarmed.;
crowd. As is typical of dictatorial
regimes in Third World countries
where the populations are on the.
verge of starvation, the Mexican
repressive apparatus is more
than adequately developed, not
for the defense against forign
enemies, but for use against its
own people.
Meaning of the
movement
The 1968 student movement
marled the political re-
awakening of a significant sector
of the Mexican population, What
began as a limited student
protest evolved into a full-blown
popular struggle for human
rights and for fundamental
changes in the system of political
decision making. From the
tragedy of Tlatelolco has
developed a much more realistic
perception of Mexican political
reality, and a clearer analysis of
the options available for the
future.
For people in the U.S., the
lessons should be no less
important. Awareness of events
in Latin America, and the role of
the U.S. government in
supporting repressive regimes, is
essential if a repetition of
Tlatelolco is to be avoided. Such
an awareness could also be
crucial in assuring that, indeed,
"it could never happen here."
0
Memo Torres is a member
of the Ann Arbor Committee
for Human Rights in Latin
America. The views expressed
in this article do not
necessarily reflect those of the
Committee as a whole. The

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This is a reproduction of a National Strike Committee (CNH) poster
protesting government repression in 1968, the year Mexico hosted the
Olympic games.

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attack against the -school and
then conducted mass arrests. The
Secretary of Interior, Luis
Echevarria (later to become
president), told a news
conference, "The, extreme
measures that have been taken
have been aimed at preserving
the autonomy of the
University ... " He went on to
claim that, "Mexico is
endeavoring to maintain a rule of
freedom that it almost without
parallel in any other
country . . . " By "freedom" he
was evidently referring to the
freedom of the government to
trample on the huan rights of its
own people.
On August 1, President Diaz
Ordaz gave his "outstretched
hand" speech, in which he said,
"Peace and calm must be
restored in out country. A hand
has been extended; it is up to
Mexican citizens to decide
whether to grasp this

student demands, to which they
added: "No further invasion of
educational institutions by the
army or police."
On August 8, students from
UNAM, IPN, the normal s'chools,
the College of Mexico, the
Chapingo School of Agriculture,
the Iberoamerican University,
LaSalle University, and the state
university formed the National
Strike Committee (CNH). A few
days later, the University Council
at UNAM voted to support the
student demands.
On August 27, 300,000 marched'
peacefully to the Zocalo (main
square). This wa's to be the
largest demonstration - a clear
message to the ruling party that
the movement enjoyed immense
popular support. Undoubtedly, it
also helped increase the party's
paranoia, which relealed itself
most clearly on October 2.
ATTEMPTS WERE made by
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