2The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, March 24, 1987
Speaker decries contra poicy
Dy F.'ITRA LOTFI
Staff Writer
The mistakes the U.S. government
is making in Nicaragua are nearly
identical to those made in Cuba and
Vietnam by past administrations.
Dr. Wayne S. Smith told about 85
people Monday night in Howell
Hall.
Smith, adjunct professor of Latin
American Studies at the Johns
Hopkins University's School of
Advanced International Studies in
Washington, spoke about "U.S.
Policy in Cuba and Nicaragua:
Errors ef the Past and Present. The
lecture was sponsored by the Insti
tute of Latin American Studies.
"We seem strangely unable to deal
with revolutionary situations in
Third World emerging nations," said
Smith, who served as director of
Cuban affairs in the State Depart
ment and worked in U.S. embassies
in the Soviet Union and Cuba. He
left foreign service in 1982 because
of disagreements with the Reagan
Legislator
By LAURIE DUNCAN
Staff Writer
For four years North Carolina's
victims compensation program has
gone unfunded. Victims of violent
crimes have not received money for
personal injuries or property losses
because the state has not had
available funds.
But last week, legislators intro
duced a way by which convicted
criminals on probation or parole
supervision would pay the state an
annual sum of $1.3 million, more
than enough to fund the compen
sation program's proposed annual
budget of $ I million.
The idea, introduced by Rep. Bob
Hunter, D-McDowell. would raise
the monthly probation parole
supervision fee, which convicted
criminals must pay, from $10 to $15.
The extra money would go into the
state's general revenue fund, and
victims rights activists hope to tie it
to their program, said Rep. Anne
Barnes, D-Orange.
A similar proposal was passed
three years ago, which raised the cost
of marriage licenses and earmarked
the revenues to fund educational
programs in child abuse prevention,
she said.
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administration over its policies in
Cuba and Central America.
One of the biggest mistakes made
by the United States has been
hesitation in disassociating itself
from a government once it has lost
the popular support of its people,
he said.
"When the time came for us to
tell (Anastasio) Somoza (former
president of Nicaragua before the
Sandinista revolution in 1979) he no
longer had our support, we didn't,"
he said. "Somoza took this as a signal
that the pressures were off."
Smith said it was "utterly absurd"
for the Kennedy administration to
imagine U.S. military forces could
help instigate a popular uprising to
overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba in
the late 1950s.
This is the same mistake being
made in Nicaragua, he said.
"We have again turned to this
surrogate exile force organized by
the CIA," Smith said. "It hasnt a
proposes
Thursday to examine two bills that
update the 1983 Victims Compen
sation Act, said Alan Briggs, spokes
man for the state attorney general's
office.
He said there was a broad con
sensus among legislators to fund the
program before the session is over.
"There has been a growing feeling
that the criminal justice system, both
on the state and national levels,
doesn't pay enough attention to the
interests and concerns of the vic
tims," Briggs said. "Victims feel like
they're victimized by the crime, then
by the courts."
Victims of violent crimes who go
to court have to take time off from
work, often get "torn apart" by the
defense attorneys and get no com
pensation for personal injury or
property loss, said Jim Hugerich of
the Chapel Hill Police Social Work
Unit.
He said the system was particu
larly unfair to victims with personal
injuries who cooperate with the
police, but have to pay $200 to $300
in hospital bills.
Barnes said that she and Rep. Joe
Hackney, D-Orange, would support
Hunter's bills.
The bills include changes in the
1983 act, such as a federal fund to
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shred of a chance of receiving
popular support in Nicaragua."
This force, the contras, will "fail
and fail miserably," he said.
The contras allow the administra
tion to deceive themselves into
thinking that it can get rid of the
Sandinista government without
involving the United States directly,'
he said.
"We can deal with them (the
Sandinistas)," Smith said. "They are
willing to sign an agreement that
addresses our security concerns."
Such a compromise should not be
based on trust but on verifiable
agreements that both sides agree on,
he said.
Before intervening in another
country, the administration must
give more thought to the risks
:nvolved in relation to the magnitude
of the problem, he said.
"We are no longer living in a world
where we can alter governments
simply by landing the marine attach
ment off the USS Marblehead,"
fending for victims
subsidize the program if it runs out
of money, Briggs said.
The committee will decide if
compensation for property losses
should be included. Such claims
could quickly deplete the program's
UNC volunteer program
By LEE ANN NECESSARY
Staff Writer
Expectant mothers in Chatham
and Lee counties may face a smaller
risk of delivering infants with low
birthweights with help from a UNC
volunteer program which will supply
them with extra social support.
The UNC Department of Mater
nal and Child Health, sponsor of the
Helping Mothers program, con
ducted the first of seven training
sessions for volunteers in these
counties this past weekend.
"In our training sessions we have
been looking at social support as an
intervention of lower birthweight
and at how these volunteers can aid
these pregnant mothers in providing
the extra social support they may be
lacking," said Ethel Jackson, health
educator with the School of Public
Health in the Department of Mat
ernal and Child Health and co-
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Smith said.
Smith said many people thought
that once Vietnam fell, communism
would then spread throughout
southeastern Asia and to India. The
domino theory did not hold there
and will not hold in South America,
he said.
fund, but Briggs said some legislators
supported a limit of $ 1 ,000 to $2,000,
while others opposed any compen
sation for property losses.
A limit of $20,000 for individual
victims is included in the proposal.
Health & Science
coordinator of the program.
The program, funded by the Kate
B. Reynolds charitable trust fund at
the Health Promotion Disease Pre
vention Center, is based on the
theory that counseling and friend
ship may lessen the stress on preg
nant women, reducing the risk of low
birthweights among infants.
In the past the extended family
provided this additional support, but
changing family structures have
isolated people, Jackson said.
"Our goal is to put back that
feeling of importance and feeling of
caring," Jackson said.
The counties' health departments,
health clinics, churches and support
groups for young mothers recom
mended the volunteers. Jackson and
Dr. Jean Chapman, of the Heatlh
Promotion and Disease Prevention
Center and co-coordinator for the
program, made the final choice.
Speaker
audience applauded.
The United States is allowing its
fear of communism to distort its
foreign policy, Robinson said.
"George McGovern once told me
that if the Soviet Union was against
cancer, we would support it
(cancer)," he said.
"The world knows us better than
we know ourselves. Because we are
so poorly informed (about other
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Moslem kidnappers offer
to trade hostage
From Associated Press reports
BEIRUT, Lebanon Moslem
kidnappers said Monday that an
American hostage is so ill he may
die soon and offered to trade him
for 100 Arab prisoners held in
Israel.
A handwritten statement in
Arabic delivered to the Beirut
newspaper An-Nahar said that
Alann Steen, 47, of Boston "may
die within 10 days" and
demanded that the United States
persuade Israel to make the
exchange.
Explosion at British base
RHEINDAHLEM, West Ger
many A car bomb exploded
late Monday at the British army
and air force headquarters in
West Germany, and an undeter
mined number of people were
injured, West German police said.
The bomb exploded in a car
parked outside an officers' mess
at the British Army of the Rhine
and Royal Air Force headquar
ters in Rheindahlem, a police
spokesman in the neighboring
city of Moenchengladbach said.
Haig considers entering race
NEW YORK Alexander M.
Haig Jr., who once declared "I
to aid expectant mothers
The expectant mothers participat
ing will range in race, marital status,
and income, with no mother being
turned down, Jackson said.
After the training sessions, Chap
man and Jackson will match the
volunteers and other hired coordi
nators with the expectant mothers.
Jackson said when the babies are
born their birthweights will be
compared with babies born in the
area two years ago and with babies
born in similiar communities.
Questionnaires and reporting
done in the homes of participants
will be used in evaluating the
program's effectiveness, she said.
The effects of social support on
birthweights have been studied in the
past. Nutrition, smoking, drinking
and pre-natal care have also been
part of the studies, Jackson said.
In 1985 Chatham County had a
7.3 percent rate of low birthweight,
and in Lee County the rate stood
at 8.1 percent, Jackson said. Both
are high percentages in North Carol
ina, she said.
nations in the world), we don't make
our policies what they ought to be.'"
Whenever black Americans raise
an issue it is immediately character
ized as a civil rights issue, Robinson
said. "But apartheid is not a civil
rights issue," he said. "It is a foreign
policy issue."
Because the United States is 15
percent black and more than half
female, with large numbers of
Hispanics and millions of poor,
Robinson said he found it disturbing
that the nation's foreign policy is
created by a Senate -composed
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am in control here in the White
House," is attempting to validate
that claim with a bid for the 1988
Republican presidential
nomination. t
Like other Republican hope
fuls, Haig has campaigned in
Iowa and New Hampshire, the
states that traditionally lead off
the primary and caucus season.
His entry into the race would
make Haig the second declared
candidate for the GOP nomina
tion. Former Gov. Peter du Pont
of Delaware entered the race last
September.
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Bakker discusses resignation
FORT MILL, S.C. Resign
ing from the PTL cable television
ministry was the only way to
thwart a "diabolical plot" to
overthrow it, evangelist Jim
Bakker said Monday as he and
his wife, Tammy Faye, appeared
on television for the first time
since they stepped down.
Bakker revealed Thursday that
he had been blackmailed over a
sexual encounter seven years ago.
Jackson said North Carolina is
one of the nine southern states that
ranks high in low infant birthweight
rates.
Ford to speak
in Carmichael
Former President Gerald Ford
will speak at 8 p.m. today in Car
michael Auditorium. The topic has
not been announced but it will be
business-related. The lecture will be
followed by a 20-minute question
and answer period.
The speech is sponsored by the
Carolina Union Forum Committee,
the Archie K. Davis Lecture in
Management and the Institute for
Private Enterprise. It is free and open
to the public. ;
Ford, who became the 38th pres
ident in August 1974, is the only
United States chief executive not
elected to either the vice presidency
or the presidency. 1
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mostly of white males over 50 years
old.
"The policy that we put out always
reflects the views of those who make
the policy," he said. "Because we
remain a country still bothered by
racism, our policy has elements of
racism about it."
It is sad and shocking that Africa,
the poorest continent on earth, a
continent scarcely out of the colonial
era, was the only continent to be cut
from U.S. foreign aid by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings
bill, Robinson
said.
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