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2The Daily Tar HeelFriday. September 13. 1985 Cooiiwas attttackninis dvilnaiin): By DEVI SEN Staff Writer The contras are not fighting a war against the Sandinistas, but are fighting a war of terror against Nicaraguan civilians, said Reed Brody, former assistant attorney general for the state of New York. Brody led a group of lawyers and other volunteers to Nicaragua in September 1984. By January 1985, they had collected 145 sworn affidavits which verified 40 separate terrorist attacks by the contras on rural civilians. . "For each attack that we documented, there were five that we heard about," he said in an interview Thursday. "But we couldn't do anything about it because there was no way to get there, or it was just too dangerous, or there was no surviving eyewitness." Brody said he first got involved when he visited Nicaragua in May 1984. "When I was in Nicaragua, I talked to victims and it was very hard for them to talk about the atrocities they were subjected to," he said. "But very few people declined to talk to me. They believed that if the American people knew of the crimes committed, they would put a stop to it. "The White House has never tried to deny any of the accounts in my report," said Brody. He said that the Reagan administration publicly criticized Brody and denounced him as a supporter of the current Nicaraguan government. Upon returning to the United States, Brody was invited by the House Subcommittee of Western Hemisphere Affairs to speak about the conditions in Nicaragua. WI presented my evidence against the contras," said Brody. "There wasn't much time for a questions and answers session, so I really don't know how much it affected them." He said the Nicaraguan-Democratic Force was the largest of the contra forces. v "Forty-six of the 48 people involved at the top were officers in the National Guard at one time," said Brody. "They received almost all of the U.S. funds that were given to the contras." Nicaragua has sued the United States for a billion dollars in the World Court of Justice, charging the Reagan administratipn with interfering with the Nicaraguan government by supporting the contras and mining the nation's harbors, said Brody. Brody said the World Court ordered the United States jto leave Nicaragua but the U.S. refused. The final decision will be announced in the next few months. Brody will be speaking on Saturday at 4 p.m. in Room 205 in the Student Union, and at 7:30 p.m. at the Carrboro First Baptist Church. By TODD GOSSETT Staff Writer A UNC professor recently spent ten days in Hungary helping the Hungarian government in the planned decentral ization of the nation's industry. Professor Barry Moriarty, of the UNC department of geography, was part of a six-man team sent to discuss moving the nation's industry, central ized in Budapest, out into the rest of the country. The U.S. representatives met with representatives of Hungarian industry. Moriarty said that although there was near zero percent unemployment in Hungary, most of the jobs were low paying and unskilled. Because of the low wages, about 70 percent of the Hungarian work force had two jobs. Moriarty said that Hungary's biggest problem was that industry was centralized around the nation's capital, Budapest, and the rural areas had little or no industry as a result. Moriarty said the economic condi tion of Hungary could improve if the rural areas were industrialized. The team discussed theories on how coun tries decentralize industrially and methodologies for analyzing regional change with Hungarian representatives. He said that the Hungarian represen tatives were responsible for the planning stages of the decentralization process. Although the ten day conference had some success, Moriarty said, it was not yet evident how much. "We were just beginning to work like a team when it came time to leave," he said. "If communications between us and . the Hungarians continue to be good, there may be another meeting between the two teams in the United States in about year." Moriarty discussed a paper, written by one of his colleagues, about a possible reunion between Hungary and Austria. A reunion would theoretically heln u.iri onA economic condition by combining Austria's quickly growing economy with Hungary's retarded economic growth. "Hungary is the freest of the Soviet Block countries, but the Soviets would never allow a reunion of Austria and Hungary," Moriarty said. "Hungary drifted away from the Soviet model country in 1968 in search of a more capitalistic mode, but are still under the Soviet sphere of influence." allmarEc executive to lecture S. African firo JQSiOE'Q citizQ From wire reports BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa The South African government is prepared to take steps to restore the citizenship rights of nearly 10 million blacks, according to Presi dent P. W. Botha. Blacks lost their citizenship rights when their tribal homelands became independent. Botha's proposal was a major departure from the apartheid policy, which said ultimately there would be no South African black citizens. It is considered a further step in Botha's limited changes in racial policies. The statement did not specify what rights would be protected under the plan, leaving the status of South African citizenship unclear for the black majority. It is certain that the government would probably not offer blacks the right to vote, said some political commentators. Debris cleared after rioting BIRMINGHAM,, England Handsworth returned to normal Wednesday as cleaning crews cleared debris and families returned home after two nights of rioting. Controversy continued over why Handsworth had exploded because it is considered by many as a model possl would Ip Figi news in brief of good policing. "There is no one starving in Handsworth," Douglas Hurd, the home secretary, said. He quoted an Asian community leader he met: "There is no one in des pair." Residents complained about reports focusing on black looters, under newspaper headlines pro claiming war in the streets. The residents said whites and Asians joined the looting, too. s Structure off cold virus found WASHINGTON Researchers have determined the three dimensional structure of a common cold virus in small detail, opening the way to fight one of the most elusive disease-causing viruses known. The scientists said their achieve ment was the first time anyone had mapped the structure of a human or animal virus in such detail. The researchers, from Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin, said their work might eventually permit development of new agents to combat viruses that have eluded them before. Irvine Hockaday Jr., executive vice president of Hallmark Cards, will give the first executive lecture at the UNC fpnnrr " wrrriTi n r5- Tr7 " UlyJ U U UJUUJJLril u u '1T7W 7ta fP KhLJII JkWmri si"Lu!,0-j - School of Business today at 3:30 p.m. in Carroll Hall's downstairs auditorium. Hockaday will speak on maintaining individuality within a large organization. The lecture, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the UNC School of Business Administration's under graduate program. Heritage week scheduled The N.C. Commission of Indian Affairs has announced Indian Heritage Week, Sept. 15-21, in cooperation with the Carolina Indian Circle. A statewide pow-pow has been planned for Saturday in Jamestown at the Unwharrie Boy Scout Campgrounds. BAGLl TO SCHOOL AL 5300 'J' SHIRTS!!! Premium Weight & Beefy T's Printed with our Stock Designs reacTN luffer Sillc-screen Comer Henderson & Rosemary An Indian Heritage Festival is sche duled for Sunday at the Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site. Next Tuesday through Thursday the CIC will sponsor an information booth in the Pit. For more information, call CIC President Alicia Hardin at 929-8743. for the record If the GIANT petition has signatures from 10 percent of the student body, it does not need Campus Governing Council approval or a 20 percent turnout for the campuswide voting, as stated in "Quote sparks group against 'DTH' funding (Sept. 12)." The DTH regrets the error. In the same story, the statement that the quote not only presented the idea that "God is dead" but also the idea that God is alive and that "you can see from the protest it has sparked, that the guotewas a su'ccessweresaid by Dave Schmidt, not "Arne 'Ric&criZ The I)TH regrets the editing 'error.'' T 25" TV Console s349Smo. 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