The Michigan Daiy-Thursday May 6, 1982-'Page 5 Salvadoran prof evaluates future of country By FANNIE WEINSTEIN "Moderate" is only a relative term and cannot be used to accurately describe El Salvador's provisional President Alzaro Magana, a former professor of education at Catholic University of El Salvador told an audience of about 30 last night at the Michigan Union. Joaquim Samayoa, who left El Salvador in 1980, claimed Magana is only a puppet for the military and rightist factions in El Salvador during a lecture sponsored by the Latin American Solidarity Committee and Faculty Concerned with Human Rights in El Salvador. PRESIDENT Magana was selected by the 60-member Constituent Assem- bly, elteted by the El Salvadoran people in the general elections held late last March. "The power in El Salvador lies with the Constituent Assembly established since the elections," Samayoa said. "The naming of Magana is a manifestation of how the Constituent Assembly works." Salayoa claimed the accuracy of the election was not ac- curate and and the Assembly does not represent the majority of the citizens. According to Samayoa, who spoke through an interpreter, the Assembly has the power to create a constitution, establish new laws, determine the power of the president and veto any decisions made by the president. THE UNITED States was forced to back Magana as provisional president, Samayoa said, wen it realized it could no longer support the Christian g Democrats who failed to obtain a majority in the elections. "The State Department pressured the military in El Salvador and See FUTURE, Page 11 Daily Photo by JACKIE E JOAQUIM SAMAYOA, former Salvadoran professor, assesses his country's current political situation during a lecture last night at the Union. High court examines redistricting LANSING (UPI) - State Democrats pleaded yesterday with the Michigan Supreme Court for extra time to write a bipartisan legislative redistricting plan, but Republicans asked for adoption of the court's plan from which they appear to benefit. During both a morning court session and a two-and- a-half hour public hearing Democrats charged that the proposal written by former elections director Bernard Apol was both unconstitutional and ex- tremely unfair to their party and legislative incum- bents. "THE BOTTOM line of your plea for relief is give us another chance," observed Justice John Fit- zgerald. There is less than a month left until candidates must file to run in the August primary. The public hearing drew more than four dozen lawmakers, many of whom could be unemployed if the Apol plan is adopted. p Officers chosen All is not quiet at the chambers of the M Michigan Student Assembly. While the N rest of us were relaxing after exams, the newly elected assembly was choosing the vice-presidents and of- ficers of the various MSA committees. The decisions are: Administrative Coordinator, Janny Huisman; Academic Affairs, Julia Gittleman; Budget Priorities, Martha Parker; Communications, Sandy Frcka; Course Evaluations, Dave Kuehn; Housing, Shawn Fields; International Students, Michael Hayashi; Legislative Relations, Jono Soglin; Michigan League, Kathy Hartrick; Minority Z Affairs, Clarence Stone; Personnel, p Cynthia Reaves; Security, Cindy . Phillips; Special Projects, Rick Jones; Student Organizations, Mark Klein; y Treasurer,Jumsmy lmlmn THE ARGUMENTS came less than a day after the Legislature failed to meet the court's deadline for devising its own plan. The House had adopted a so- called bipartisan proposal, but compromise efforts bogged down in the Senate where a Democratic upper chamber plan was adopted. Although final action on the measure is still pen- ding in the House, a vote is unlikely since Gov. William Milliken almost certainly would veto the plan. "I submit the court was wrong," said attorney Theordore Sachs, who represented the Michigan Democratic Party. "DESPITE THE efforts by the court to avoid in- trusion, the court is more deeply in the (political process) than ever and has created an unjust situation." The justices ruled in March that Michigan's 19-year- old reapportionment process was unconstitutional. It gave non-partisan Apol the job of drawing the maps based on 1980 census data, but said it would take a legislative plan signed by Milliken. Sachs suggested that the court give lawmakers more time, perhaps less than a week, to compromise and also ask Apol to rework his own plan. Democrats charged the 16.4 percent population variance in the Apol districts violates the "one man, one vote" doc- trine and said they may file a federal court suit on that and other issues. 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