I Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, December 5, 1988 Panel: End U.S. aid to El Salvador BY JONATHAN SCOTT The $550 million in military and pMpnomic aid the United States gives to El Salvador annually goes to sopport a regime responsible for the death of over 70,000 Salvadorans in the past five years, a panel of four told reporters at a press conference Friday. Although the Reagan administra- tion refers to El Salvador as a "fledgling democracy," the country is in reality a "terror state" where the indigenous population fears for its life on a daily basis, Latin America Solidarity Committee (LAS C) "member Dean Baker said. LASC member Kathy Savoie criticized both the U.S. government and mainstream media for pretending to be concerned with human rights violations in the world - evidenced by the focus on Nicaragua - while at the same time "ignoring human rights abuses in El Salvador." "In the last nine years our gov- ernment has sent $3.6 billion to El Salvador; this in order to prop up a government that can't stand on its own, that remains dependent on the United States for its survival," she said. The other two members of the panel, Don Coleman from Guild House and Shirley McRae, a mem- ber of the Refugee Rights Advocacy Movement, joined Baker and Savoie in urging Americans to press for an end to "U.S. sponsorship of El Sal- vador's death-squad government." The press conference, sponsored by LASC, was intended, in part, to remember the rape and murder of four U.S. church members - three Maryknoll nuns and a lay mission- ary - who were murdered in El Salvador on Dec. 2, 1980 by ele- ments the panel members said are clearly linked to the government. McRae said that five members of the national guard were charged with the crimes and brought to trial. But she insisted that the entire case should be reinvestigated due to new evidence that indicates the five were acting on direct orders from govern- ment officials. She noted that the government in El Salvador is responsible for 91 political assassinations this year Perez headed for victory in Venezuelan elections alone. "The situation is deteriorating every day. We are seeing the same kind of repressive terror, the same climate of terror that we saw in '81 and '82." Coleman said those victimized by government-linked death squads are most often people who support the right of Salvadorans to "empower their own lives." "They are killed because of their siding with the poor and the power- less," he said. Shanty Continued from Page 1 structures, Hope believes that the wooden school bus, the shanty, and the board are "effective ways of swaying public opinion." Whether or not people know the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, every time someone walks by the Diag, he said, that person is re- minded that, "Oh yeah, there are ter- rorisms going on in Israel." WEEKEND MAGAZINE Fridays in The Daily CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Former President Carlos Perez was declared winner of the presidential election yesterday, defeating a conservative rival and returning to the office he held a decade ago. The Supreme Electoral Council declared that Perez, based on early returns, would win the election over main opponent Eduardo Fernandez of the Social Christian Party. A victory by Perez would give his left-of-center Democratic Action party two consecutive victories dur- ing the nation's worst economic crisis in decades. Official returns were not immedi- ately available. But the Venevision and Radio Caracas television net- works projected Perez, 66, would beat Fernandez by at least 54 percent to 32 percent, based on polls of vo- ters. 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University i Linu~~r - - - - -expires: 12/31/88 1 i..- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I1N BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports NASA still mute on Atlantis SPACE CENTER, Houston - The military mission of space shuttle Atlantis continued under a shroud of official silence yesterday, although there were indications the orbiter would not return to Earth before tomor- row. Atlantis is under the command of the Air Force, which has said it would give 24-hour notice of landing but otherwise maintain silence un- less there is an emergency. No word was heard from either NASA or the Air Force yesterday, the shuttle's third day in flight, indicating the earliest day the orbiter would land at Edwards Air Force Base in Califrnia would be tomorrow. The Air Force gave no information on whether the five-person military crew accomplished its main goal: deployment of a powerful radar satellite designed to gather extremely sharp images of East Bloc military facilities in all weather. Military threatens to use force in Soviet Azerbaijan MOSCOW - The military commander of Baku warned yesterday that force may be used to contain unrest in the Azerbaijani capital, where au- thorities have banned protests and meetings in efforts to impose order. In another development, a newspaper said guards armed with sub- machine guns were protecting Armenian and Azerbaijani refugees as they streamed across the border dividing the two republics. Official news reports have placed the total number of refugees from both sides at about 150,000 and said they are living in tents at summer resorts, vacant apartments and with relatives and friends. The refugee problem is "standing like a black cloud over everybody's head," said Col Gen. Tyagunov. "Force will be used in case of any failure to abide by regulations established by law." Bhutto selects new cabinet ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto installed her Cabinet yesterday, holding the defense and finance portfolios for her- self and naming a foreign minister who served under the late President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. The moves followed her orders Saturday to free political prisoners con- victed under martial law and commute all death sentences. Those orders are expected to be acted on by President Ghulam Ishad Khan. In a news conference, Ms. Bhutto said the appointment of Sahabzada Yaqub Khan to head the Foreign Ministry is a signal of continuity in Pakistan's stand on the war in neighboring Afghanistan. Pakistan, with help from the United States, supports Moslem anti- communist guerrillas fighting the Soviet-backed Kabul government and shelters more than 3 million Afghan war refugees. Hijackers returned to USSR JERUSALEM - Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said yesterday that the Soviet Union's enthusiastic response to Israel's help in the return of four hijackers has given "new significance" to relations with Moscow. Peres also noted in a radio interview that Israel agreed to the speedy return of the hijackers to the Soviet Union Saturday after receiving written assurances they wouldn't face the death penalty. The return of the hijackers ended a drama that began Thursday, when four armed Soviets seized a busload of school-children in southern Russia, then traded them for a plane out of the country and a $3.3 million ransom. The hijackers surrendered shortly after arriving in Israel Friday evening. EXTRAS School soups up for a van CHAMBERLAIN, S. D. - Here's an education that students at St. Joseph's Indian School understand: One 15-passenger Dodge van equals 975,000 Campbell's soup labels. They collected and bundled the labels and shipped them off to the soup company. The van, with air conditioning and an AM-FM stereo, should arrive any day. The school's 186 students took about a year to collect the labels as part of the Campbell Soup Co.'s Labels for Education program, which for years has offered free equipment to schools and libraries for labels from company products. The school has participated for four years and has received $47,000 in equipment during that time, said the Rev. Tom Westhoven, director of development at the Catholic school for Indian children from troubled families. The van will help transport students from their homes to the school about 120 miles west of Sioux Falls. The program did not offer a van as a prize until school officials re- quested it, Westhoven said. "I askd the company to consider offering a van, and they finally did after a year." When Campbell set the price at 975,000 labels, "My God, we almost died," he said. 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