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ticular, disagreements arose overthat Domestic Couple - socialsecurity and taxes. And, onceagain, as in the Des Moines Re-gister's Iowa caucus debate twoweeks ago, Vice President GeorgeBush had to defend himselfagainst questions about his rolein the Iran-contra affair.

At the same time, Sen. RobertDole (R-KS), leading Bush in the

Noam Chomsky,Martin Diskin analyzethe US' role in CentralAmerican policy. Page 2.

Robin Williams managesto make Vietnamfunny. Page 7.

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By Thomas T. Huangand Harold A. Stern

A Cambridge District Courtjudge last Friday found four de-fendants in the Tent City trial notguilty - three for lack of evi-dence - and said she will dismisscharges against the remaining fivedefendants if they each complete16 hours of community serviceby mid-February.

This continuance "is an unusu-al thing to do," said Judge Wen-dy Gershengorn. ""But, hearingthe facts of the case, [I deter-mined thatl the interests of MIT,the defendants and the communi-ty would best be served this way."

Eight of the defendants hadbeen charged with trespass andone had been charged with disor-derly conduct. Carlos Gonzalez,

a tenth protester arrested at TentCity, is being tried separately.

The-trial will continue on Feb.12 should the defendants fail tocomplete community work to beverified by a court-appointed pro-bation' officer. Otherwise, theircase will be dismissed without averdict and without admissionthat there were sufficient facts tofind the defendants guilty or notguilty.

The judge's "community ser-vice" proposal follo)wed twodays' worth of testimony by MITCampus Police officers, adminis-tration officials, and supporters

of the homeless. It cut short thedefense's case and, in essence,came as a behind-the-scenes com-promise between the prosecution

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Thomas T. Huang/The TechThe Tent City defendants and their lawyers and supporters celebrate after a Cambridgejudge found four not guilty The judge will dismiss charges against the remaining five afterthey each complete 16 hours of community work.

Faculty taMk d cutting frosl papalSailfail would increase the "pace andpressure" of the first term, shrinkthe applicant pool and lend em--phasis to grades rather thanlearning.- "It should be considered thatMIT students are assured andshould be assumed to be inteli-gent and responsible -' theymust be trusted to use pass/failwisely, said Elliot Schwartz '89.

Students at the meeting con-cluded that the two-term pass/fail system is an easy scapegoatfor faculty b-ut is, overall, astrong point of the MIT fresh-man year.

SCEP talksBy Irene Kuo

Presenting freshmen with dif-ferent "flavors" of core classesfrom which they can choose wasone of several ideas proposed at"Fix the Freshman Year," an on-going IAP activity.

Participants at the activity,sponsored by the Student Com-mittee on Educational Policy, areresearching and discussing ways

a reeaarChfunding based on their qualifica-tions, Farber said.

MIT has been successful in at-tracting defense dollars to its re-search programs. In part, this isas a result of MLT officials usingtheir close ties to governmentagencies in order to attractweapons-related research to theInstitute, according to Cowan.

Cowan said that Provost JohnM. Deutch '61 has been on anumber of Department of De-fense panels, including the De-fense Science Board Panel on theSmall Intercontinental BallisticMissile ("Midgetman Panel") and

that second term pass/fail shouldremain in place. The present sys-tem gives students a chance to ex-plore subjects that they wouldnot take on grades, and it ulti-mately gives freshmen a clear op-portunity to explore potentialmajors, the group felt.

The two semesters of pass/failalso serve as an adjustment peri-od for students with poorer highschool backgrounds, and theyprovide a chance for students to~~~~explore ~ extrac~curular activitiesthat they were too busy to ex-plore in the first term.

The students admitted that twoterms of pass/fail has weak-nesses: it allows freshmen to ne-glect their academic responsibil-ities, particularly in the coreclasses, and it fosters bad studyhabits.

Marya Lieberman '89, howev-er, asserted that people are notabusing pass/fail; they are justusing it for classes they are moreinterested in.

On the whole, the group feltelimination of second term pass/

By Irene KuoSeveral facultyrmembers on the

Committee on the UndergraduateProgram have been arguingagainst second-term freshmanpass/fail, according to statementsmade at last Thursday's "Fix theFreshman Year" discussion.

Undergraduate AssociationVice President Alan B. Davidson'89 said some of the faculty at anunspecified "meeting" had ex-pressed a-desire to limit pass/failto fhe first term. Seth Brown '88,_vice chairman of the StudentCommittee on Educaticnal Poli-cy, later confirmed that this waslast Wednesday's CUP meeting.

UA President Manuel Rodri-guez '89 acknowledged that a"large proportion" of the facultyopposes second-term pass/fail.

As a result, students used thediscussion period to take a hardlook at what MIT would be likewithout second-term freshmanpass-fail and examine reasons forand against the current system.

The students participating inthe discussion generally agreed

to improve the freshman year. Atthe end of their deliberations,they will compile a report to dis-tribute to the facralty.

The topics participants haveaddressed and will address in-clude the core classes, quality ofinstruction, choosing a major,quality of student life, the pass/fail system, faculty-student inter-action and the advising program.

Core classes

Flavors in the physics corewould -ange from project-orient-ed to theoretical classes. Makingsuch a variety available would en-able, students to learn in smallerlectures, according to proponentsof the idea.

M/arya Lieberman '89 present-ed several proposals for changingthe core classes in her report tothe group, entitled 'The CoreClasses I: Size, Selection, Struc-ture."

Among the other ideas was do-ing away with -the current classformat in which students attendthree lectures'taught-by a profes-sor, and two recitations - usual-

ly led by a graduate student -per week. As an alternative, afew participants suggested havinga professor or seasoned graduatestudent teach all five sessions perweek.

This plan drew criticism fromother participants. "You're talk-ing about a logistical nightmare.I'm not convinced that there areenough professors, let alone goodprofessors, at this institute," saidAlan Davidson '89, vice presidentof the Undergraduate Associ-ation.

Seth N. Brown '88 lamentedthat few students realize that theyare not required to fulfill the coreclasses in their freshman year. Infact, according to Brown, somestudents may even benefit fromspreading their core classes overmore than two semesters.

Referring to statistics compiledby the Admissions Office that in-dicate many students who do wellin Physics 1 (8.01) had calculus inhigh school, Brown recommend-ed that students with no calculusbackground take Calculus I

scientists to build on each other'swork, according to SACC.

If weapons-related research isallowed to hurt the funding ofother types of research, SACCmembers fear that graduate stu-dents will "follow the money,"emptying the talent pool for oth-er fields like medicine or non-military computer science.

MIT defense researchis substantial

Under the current funding pro-cess, federal agencies ask forfairly specific research projects.Researchers submit proposals forthe research and are then granted

By Morlie WaxngAcademia's dependence on the

military for research funding isexcessive and affects universities'academic and institutional free-dom, according to material col-lected by the Science Action Co-ordinating Committee. SACCpresented its findings at a talk onJan. 12 entitled "Overview: Howdoes the Pentagon affect Univer-sities? "

"Engineering research on cam-puses now receives an average of37 percent of its federal supportfrom the Pentagon; in specializedfields such as astronautical engi-neering, electrical engineeringand aeronautical engineering thepercentages are substantiallyhigher, at 82 percent, 56 percent,and 54 percent, respectively," ac-cording to a pamphlet distributedat the discussion, which was ledby S4CC members Rich CowanG and Steven A. Farber G.

Two major concerns of criticsof weapons-related research arethat university research financedby the government may be classi-fied and that federal grant dollarsare being drained from otherfields to support weapons-relatedresearch.

By classifying academic re-search, the government couldprevent its publication. Thiswould impinge on academic free-dom and inhibit the exchange ofinformation necessary to allow

Iowa polls and gaining ground inNew Hampshire, took an aggres-sive tack - involving acerbic witand, at times, passionate exhor-tations - in targeting the front-runner. He claimed he had aschairman of the -Senate FinanceCommittee helped save the socialsecurity system in 1983 andplayed a leading role in cuttingtaxes in 1981.

"I thought I fixed [social secur-ityl," he said. But Bush "says hefixed it here in his little circular. Idon't recall George being in theloop then, either. I don't think heattended a single meeting....He takes credit for a lot of

By Thomas T. HuangHANOVER, NH - Half-way

through the, Republican primarydebate last, Saturday here at Dart-mouth College, the slightly tus-sled but amused moderator, JohnChancellor of NBC, gazed, like aboxing referee wary of the nextrabbit punch, at the six men seat-ed next to him on-stage.

Turning to the audience of 900people, he asked: "Did you comehere expecting to see Rebecca ofSunnybrook Farm?"

Well, no. By then, the presi-dential candidates had poked ateach other - sometimes playful-ly, sometimes angrily - and re-opened a few old sores. In par-

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MIT statement on "Tent City" trial(Editor's note.- Walter L. Milne, assistant to the chairman of

the MIIT Corporation, released this statement to the mediafol-lowing the verdict in the "xtent City" trial.)

MIT shares with the broader community a natural concernfor the plight of the homeless. That concern was also the statedpurpose of the defendants and others who trespassed on MIT'sproperty.

MIT regrets that the defendants failed to leave the premiseswith the others when they and the others were given the oppor-tunity to do so, and tiat, as a result, arrests were necessary tomaintain order.

While MIT did not and cannot condone the illegal occupationof its property, it believes Judge lWendyl Gershengorn's disposi-tion was a fair resolution of the matter.

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"dedicated terrorist superpower,"Institute professor Noam A.Chomsky attacked US foreignpolicy in Latin America andAmerican media coverage of theregion in a forum on Jan. 12.

Chomsky claimed that since1954 or before, the United Stateshas tried to create "favorable in-vestment climates" in CentralAmerica - nations- with localgovernments that direct develop-ment in a manner favorable to in-vestment and offer little interfer-ence to foreign business. He saidthat "recently declassified" docu-ments, such as the National Secu-rity Council paper NSC5432,propounded this policy;

The US government, accordingto Chomsky, feels itself threat-ened by "nationalistic regimes"that are responsive to popularpressure to raise low standards ofliving. To overcome the threatposed by such governments, theUnited States has sought alli-ances with Central Americanbusinesses, oligarchs, and land-owners, Chomsky said.

Furthermore, American policyhas always been to assume con-trol of Latin American nationsby the military, Chomsky said."The role of the Latin Americanmilitary is to overthrow civiliangovernments," he claimed.

Chomsky characterized thetwin features of US Latin Ameri-can policy as the acceptance ofthe need to maintain good invest-ment climates in Central Ameri-can nations and the simultaneousdenial that such policies exist.Every presidential administrationsince Eisenhower has recognizedthese principles, he said.

Historically, the United Stateshas relied upon either a "softline" of economic pressure or a"hard line" of military action toachieve these objectives,Chomsky said. Since the UnitedStates is politically weak whilemilitarily strong, it has usuallychosen to shift confrontations

In more recent times, both ElSalvador and Nicaragua serve asexamples of the "hard line" poli-cy, Chomsky said. In El Salva-dor, "democracy is terminating"and the army is traumatizing thepopulation, he explained. Nicara-gua, on the other hand, was ini-tially the recipient of the "softline" after the fall of dictatorAnastasio Somoza, he continued.When it became clear that Somo-za's National Guard could not besustained, the US governmentflew Guardsmen to the Honduranborder in planes disguised as RedCross vehicles, which was a viola-tion of international law,Chomsky continued.

The United States maintainsboth a supply network for theNicaraguan contra rebels andsurveillance flights- over Nicara-gua in an attempt to underminethe Arias Peace Plan, Chomskyclaimed. These actions indicatethe American turn to the "hardline."

The American media is guiltyof tacitly supporting the basicplanks of the government's LatinAmerica policy, Chomskycharged. Focusing his attacks onJames Lemoyne and StevenKinzer of The New York Times,whom he accused of "masquer-ading as journalists," he outlineda "shared consensus" among re-porters and columnists concern-ing Nicaragua:

g The United States must con-tain Nicaragua and return it tothe Central American standard of"misery, starvation, androbbery." Containment is neces-sary to stop a "revolution with-out borders."

e Nicaragua has no right toself-defense, as witnessed by, pub-lic outrage in response to the De-cember revelations of Nicaraguandefector Major R6ger MirandaBengoechea, who carried thenews that the Sandinista govern-ment planned to obtain SovietMiG-21 jet fighters and build the

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country, the cessation of-hostil-ities within each signatory, thedemocratization of the CentralAmerican region, the cessation ofassistance for "irregular forces"in each country, and the organi-zation of free elections.

In addition to these condition-al sections, the treaty called forthe organization of a verificationcommittee whose purpose was totravel through Central Americaand verify compliance to thetreaty.

This 15-member committeedoes not include a representativeof the United States.

"This is cause for anxiety forthe US and it indicates that thehistoric way the US has sought todetermine the future of LatinAmerica in general is less and lessacceptable everyday," Diskinsaid.

The White House has said afew nice words about the treaty,but has sent envoys to the regionto stop the plan, Diskin said.

"The treaty does not supportUS security interests and Wash-ington does not want a solutionthat is out of its control. [Withthese envoysj] the US is really try-ing to squelch the impulse to se-cure a peace," he charged.

Diskin found it ironic thatPresident Reagan may have hadsomething to do with the signingof the peace treaty. Immediatelybefore the Arias plan was madepublic, Reagan and HouseSpeaker James Wright (D-TX)formulated their own plan forpeace in Central America.

"The Reagan-Wright plan wasa plan for presenting conditionsunder which the US would nolonger support the contras. How-ever, these were impossible forthe Sandinistas to observe, andthe Central American countriesimmediately disposed of thatplan in favor of Esquipulas II,"Diskin said.

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anel debQuality of life

Discussion of the quality ofstudent life centered on livinggroup isolation - the tendencynot to associate with people out-side one's living group. Thegroup generally agreed that sucha tendency fosters closer friend-ships and helps to break down in-hibitions to ask upperclassmenfor help.

But at the same time, theyagreed that it fosters fragmenta-tion of the student body and re-moval from campus activities.

Davidson said that more cam-pus events and lounge areas areneeded to encourage people to

By Christina K. Liu"There is a feeling in Latin

America that ... the US is be-coming increasingly irrelevant,"said Professor of AnthropologyMartin Diskin at a Jan. 15 talksponsored by the Committee onCentral America.

"The peace plan has stimulateda negotiatory stance in CentralAmerica and is a legitimate solu-tion that is not the United States'solution," said Diskin, speakingof the Central American peacetreaty which earned Costa RicanPresident Oscar Arias Sanchezthe 1987 Nobel Peace Prize.

The United States did not par-ticipate in the creation of theplan and was prominently absentfrom meetings of Latin Americancountries - most notably one inAcapulco in which member coun-tries considered discussions withCuba, Diskin said.

"The Central American coun-tries are looking toward the fu-ture of an independent, self-de-termined Central America, whilethe US still holds its traditionalview toward the region. Thefunding of the contras is theprime manifestation of this USview," Diskin said.

"For absolutely self-interested,pragmatic reasons, the UnitedStates must now begin to talkabout Latin American self-deter-mination, creativity and genius,"Diskin asserted. "Otherwise, itwill lead to the US being seen asthe agent of backwardness andrepression. For the very shortterm, Washington simply has toabandon its fear of peace."

Treaty a legitimate solutionThe treaty, sometimes referred

to as the Esquipulas II Agree-ment, was signed last August bythe presidents of five CentralAmerican countries: Costa Rica,El Salvador, Guatemala, Hondu-ras and Nicaragua. The main sec-tions of the agreement concernthe formation of national recon-ciliation commissions in each

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(18.01) during the first term,Physics I (8.01) and Calculus II(18.02) the second term, andPrinciples of Chemical Science(5.11) and Physics II (8.02) later.Currently, most of these fresh-men take all five subjects in thefirst year.

By cramming the core classesinto one year, however, the aver-age freshman, who takes fourcourses per term, restricts himselfto three courses in which to ex-plore areas that interest him, ac-cording to Browrn. Many forummembers felt this underminedone of the purposes of the pass/fail system.

Prof. Noam A. Chomsky

ued.Chomlsky offered Guatemala as

an example of the "hard line" ap-proach, claiming that the UnitedStates induced a military coupwhich toppled a democratic gov-ernment in 1954. Later the John-son administration helped Guate-mala maintain a counter-insurgency campaign againstrebel forces. In the 1970s, theCarter administration continuedto supply arms to the governmentthrough the "mercenary states"of Israel and Taiwan, whichmade the actual arms shipments,Chomsky continued.

On the other hand, the UnitedStates used the "soft line' indealing with Bolivia during thesame time period, Chomsky said.The Eisenhower administration'spolicy put forward by officialssuch as Secretary of State John F.Dulles, was to support the "leastradical element" in the country,resulting in a military coup in1964, Chomsky charged. As a re-sult, Bolivia now has the highestper capita birth rate and the low-est growth rate of any nation inLatin America, he continued.

The United States is "officiallysupporting terrorism" by actionssuch as those taken in Guatema-la, Chomsky claimed: He saidthat the US State Departmentdefinition of "low intensity con-flict" sounds "a lot like terrorism,

emerge from this isolatioother participant suggestethe 24-hour Student ICoffeehouse and the archidepartment coffeehouse semodels.

Anthia Chen '91, whsearched the topic before tcussion, mentioned recitaintramural sports and paways to meet people outsidliving group. Almost evagreed that recitations cudo not serve this end, bthey should and easily couvidson added that improvirtations would greatly improverall environment at MI

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n. An- many recitation classrooms re- quirements. ed that strict one's ability to meet other These courses might be Center people. "You can't turn around project-oriented, Lieberman sug-itecture in the chairs so that you never get gested, to allow MIT students toerve as to listen to what your fellow stu- break out of the exam and prob-

dents have to say and just assume lem set mode. Such classes mightho re- that it's not important," she ex- also be student-run so that ficul-the dis- plained. ty do not lose time to do re-ations, search. I

Choosing a majorlrties as Chosing major The group discussed allowingde one's In his report "Choosing a hMa- students to keep their freshmanteryone jor," Joseph C. Wang '91 recom- advisors in the first-term of theurrently mended that departments offer 6- sophomore year, fostering closerGut that 9 unit "taste-of-major" classes relationships between advisor and ,Id. Da- that would give both freshmen advisee. Several people felt thatng reci- and upperclassmen a feel of ma- this proposal might also relieveove the jors without placing a burden on the pressure on students to de-IT. their course load. These classes clare their majors by the end ofit that would not be departmental re- their freshman year.

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President Paul E. Gray '54"uses his position on the WhiteHouse Science Council to lobbyfor increased federal funding formilitary research, Cowancharged.

Lincoln Laboratory, which isoperated by MIT but funded bythe federal government, special-izes in radar research. It has beendoing work aimed at improvingthe accuracy of MX missiles,Cowan said. Lincoln Laboratoryalso has a facility in Hawaii forStar Wars-related testing, he said.

Application of researchis a key issue

MIT, according to Cowan. "It'snot technology itself that's theproblem, but its application."

Critics of defense research havefaced many obstacles in investi-gatirng those applications.

The DOD funds military re-search through four differentchannels, making it difficult todiscover for what applications re-search is being used. The Strate-gic Defense Initiative Organiza-tion directs part of its SDIresearch to corporations so thatdiscovering the nature of the re-search is equally difficult, Cowansaid.

Even people directly involvedwith such research do not alwaysknow what is going on. Profes-sors may not know the main ap-plication of their work; they mayjust be working on a minor areain the whole production, Farbersaid.

Some defenders of militsearch have argued that sors merely do the researethey want to do. The fatsuch work is funded- by thtary, they argue, is only a tcality and not a sign of ninfluence.

But Farber argued that into judge military researchone must look at the polithind the funding and fromthe money is coming.

Some scientists see thenas victims of the bureaucrasay that it is wrong for tltake the blame, Cowan sai

SACC has proposed thapons-related funds be coninto other non-military areaa period of time, accordFarber.

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Soviets may leave Afghanistan in MayA UN mediator says that Soviet troops could start pull-

ing out of Afghanistan on May 1. Undersecretary-GeneralDiego Cordovez said Monday that the Soviets will beginwithdrawing two months after a settlement is reached.Cordovez said he is optimistic about reaching an agree-ment in the next round of talks between Pakistan andAfghanistan.

CIA to resume.contra shipmentsPresident Reagan has authorized the Central Intelli-

gence Agency to deliver more weapons to the contras inNicaragua. Reagan said yesterday that helping the rebelskeep pressure on the Nicaraguan government will lead topeace in Central America. The airdrops had been sus-pended for a week while Central American leaders re-viewed the peace process. The White House is expected tolaunch a lobbying blitz for renewal of contra aid later thismonth.

Haitian election invalid,opponents say

Opposition leaders in Haiti said that Sunday's electionresults should be tossed out because of low voter turnout.The opposition leaders had called for a boycott of thejunta-run elections. They said the turnout is so low thatthe results don't reflect the will of the people. Many peo-.ple stayed away from the polls Sunday out of fear ofviolence.

A Houston lawyer said yesterday the parents of two as-tronauts who died in the Challenger explosion have settledwrongful death claims against rocketmaker Morton Thio-kol. Attorney Ronald Krist isn't disclosing the amount ofthe settlements with the mother of Judith Resnick and thefather of Gregory Jarvis. A faulty booster rocket made byMartin Thiokol was blamed for the disaster.

Astronauts want more shuttle testsSome of the astronauts think the space shuttle solid

rocket boosters need more testing before they are used.Last month's tests of the rocket boosters found flaws.Chief of the Astronaut Office Daniel Brandenstein says heand others feel Morton Thiokol's December test showsmore testing is needed.

Bush, Hart lead in South-A new poll shows Vice President George Bush leadinj

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fell swoop.

The argument that "pornogra-

phy exploits those who are de-

.picted in it" is often used by

those who would deny American

citizens their freedom of expres-

sion in this area, but it is an ar-

gument which does not stand up

to the facts. Those who partici-

pate in the production of pornog-

raphy do so voluntarily. When

such participation is not volun-

tary, or when the participants are

not old enough to give their vo-

luntary consent, then a crime has

indeed been committed, but it is

ridiculous to say that all pornog-

raphy is produced against the will

of those who are depicted in it.

Peterson continues, "Pornog-

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suicide last term. W-ile this in it-

self was disturbing, the absence

of shock at this, even the absence

of reaction, was just as discon-certing.

While it is true that a non-

denominational, even non-

religious memorial service was

held, only 100 people out of a

community of over 10,000 at-tended the service. The MIT ad-

ministration reacted to the sui-

cides by sending out a discreetly

worded, easily ignored circular,

merely reiterating the presence of

resources on campus to help with

the problem.

Yes, there are resources. Butthere are also three dead stu-

dents, and this is the most incon-

trovertible and most painful evi-dence that the resources did not

work. Perhaps these three stul-

dents did not even attempt to usethese resources. Perhaps they didnot even know about them.

An integral part of a counsel-

ing facility is letting people know

that it exists when they need it.

This is where Nightline works -

its publicity is widespread enough

that students know about it, and

I Istudents use it on an average of

ten times a night. A twelve-hour-

a-day telephone manned by stu-

dents only goes so far, though.We have trained counselors to

talk to, both in the Dean's Officeand in the medical center. Unfor-

tunately, the only easy way tofind out about them is in Howto-Gamit.

While this is an excellent

source of information, I doubt

that a seriously disturbed person

is going to dash to the nearest

HowtoGamit to find a person totalk to. The facilities that MIT

has need to consciously advertise

themselves, so that people think

of these places and people when

they need them. It should not bea source of shame to need to talk

to somebody, and students

should know this and also know

to whom they can talk.

That's not enough, though.

Counseling deals with the effects

of stress and all the other prob-

lems that young people in a high-

strung community face. Three

suicides should somehow shake

the foundations of MIT. It is easy

to get buried in rhetoric, sympa-

thy and euphemisms; behind the

surface lies the fact that three

members of our community took

their lives.

Perhaps behind the surfacethere also lies a fundamental

problem with the way MIT edu-

cates us. This is not an assertion,

just a proposition that should be

questioned. The questioning hap-

pens in a formal sense throughvarious committees of which in-

terested students are members.

But we also need informal ques-

tioning to make people who

make changes feel that students

want them. Too often at MIT,"academic"' interaction takes the

form of commiseration - "Oh,

I'm sorry you've got a 100 page

paper due tomorrow, yeah, thatclass is mean." We need to com-

miserate because sympathy is

useful and reassuring, but wealso need to stop and search

through the commiseration.

Why is it that everyone herefeels an undue amount of stress?

Why have many MIT students

never ventured into Boston? Why

is it that very few people sleep

enough, and why is caffeine the

drug of choice? MIT will not

start asking Itself questions now.

But perhaps the next time there

is a suicide, we should stop for awhile and talk to each other, stopfor a while and feel the loss. This

is not something MIT officialdom

can do for us; instead, we need

to start asking questions instinc-

tively. A liberal education is an

education not just in the art of

questioning abstruse academic

problems, something with which

MIT students are notably good.

It also demands that we question

our human values, and the valuesof the society of which we are a

part.

When a friend of the German

poet, Rainer Maria Filke, died,

he wrote "Requiem." It starts, "I

have my dead, and I have let

them go." Perhaps we should notlet go so quickly, so easily.

the imnporlTo the Editor:

If it is true, as Edmund Burke

believed, that "he that wrestles

with us strengthens our nerves

and sharpens our skill," Kevin J.

Saeger G could not have wished

for a more fitting Christmas pre-

sent than upstart freshman Allon

G. Percus '91. By assuming the

role of Soviet apologist, Percushas offered himself up to the

maw of Saeger's anti-Soviet fury.

It is too early to see whether

each will find himself the worthy

opponent Burke described. Sae-ger's vicious condemnation of ev-erything left-liberal, from Gary

Hart to the Afghan puppet-gov-ernment, contrasts sharply with

Percus' careful defense of "cur-

rent" Soviet human rights

abuses.But although they would be

loath to- admit it, Percus andSaeger are more alike than differ-ent. They are ideological oppo-sites, but opposites that spring

from the same source, from ha-

tred and anger. The only things,

in fact, more irritating than theextremism of their positions are

the unswerving certitude with

which they hold them, and the

contempt they feel for any opin-ions but their own.

This contempt manifested itself

most obviously in Percus' recent

column, ["Columnist should ana-

lyze assertions," Jan. 131. In thesame breath in which he berates

Saeger for his arrogance and

poor reasoning, Percus launchesinto his own rambling stream ofsarcasm and invective.

Seeming to forget how to use

any adjective outside its pejora-

tive sense, Percus rakes Saeger

over the coals for his 'Charming

opinion," his "laughable arro-

gance,"' and his "scholarly depic-

tion [of Soviet, life]."

Yet not a single fact appears to

back up this barrage of sarcasm.

(Please turn to page 5)

Ravi Desai '91 is a contributorto The Tech's opinion depart-ment.

To the Editor:

Although I was impressed by

Barbara A. Peterson's recent let-ter ["Pornography is exploita-

tion," Jan. 6], it was not because

of the validity of her claims. In-stead, I was impressed by how ef-

fectively Peterson seems to be

able to ignore the truth in her

pursuit of "individual rights."

Peterson says, "Men have been

setting the criteria for 6accept-

able' activities for many genera-

tions and then protecting those

activities, such as pornography,

with ideas such as 'right to free

speech' or 'freedom from censor-

ship.' "

She seems to imply that por-

nography is something desired

only by men and that the rights

to free speech and freedom from

censorship are not adequate to

defend the legitimacy of pornog-

raphy.

The first implication is com-

pletely false. Any video store

owner who rents and sells X-

rated films will tell you that themajority of films are rented and

sold to women and couples. The

second implication has no basisin fact, since the United States

Supreme Court and other lower

courts have repeatedly ruled that

pornography is protected by theConstitution because of the

already-stated rights.

I am bewildered by Peterson's

comment, "pornography is ex-

ploitation and abuse, in its pro-

duction, sale, rental andviewing." I fail to see how all

pornography can be classified as

with rationalizations such as 'oh,

boys will be boys' or .'you don't

have to watch if you don't want

to' or 'they're only having a goodtime.' "

The production and distribu-

tion of pornography has never

been "rationalized" by advocates

of free speech with arguments

such as these. Instead, it is justi-

fied by the US Constitution itself,which guarantees to all US citi-

zens the right to express them-

selves as they see fit, so long as

that expression does not violate

the constitutional rights of oth-ers.

I fail to see how pornography

violates anyone's constitutional

rights by virtue merely of its exis-tence.

Jonathan I. Kamens '91

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than the others, no evidence wasgiven of specific unlawful acts.

Two of the defendants werenever even mentioned in the testi-mony and one defendant was noteven arrested on MIT propertyThe Campus Police have no juris-diction off MlT land.

For the others, it is not enoughto show that they were on MITproperty. Campus Police ChiefAnne P. Glavin, the officer incharge of the arrests, claimed shetried to give people time to packtheir belongings. Thus the casehinges on whether the defendantswere trying to comply, negotiate,or do something else.

All the CPs called to the stand

To the Editor:The Tech's article on the Tent

City trial [" 'Tent City' protestersgo to court," Jan. 131 left out akey development: the defendingattorney's request for dismissal ofthe case.

To my understanding, any le-gal case must be made throughthe testimony of the witnesses.The prosecution has called all ofits witnesses to the stand. Forthere to have been a valid case,these witnesses have to have givenevidence that crimes were com-mitted by the defendants.

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He dismisses Afghanistan as asmall country, discounts Saeger'sopinion of the Soviet system be-cause he has not personally vis-ited it, and with a wave of hishand pardons Soviet atrocitiesbecause other countries violatehuman rights too. As an exampleof a country that is more evilthan the Soviet Union, Percusdares to list Syria, kussia's mainsqueeze in the Middle East.

When Percus angrily accusesSaeger of being a "[serious] ob-stacle" in the way of "those whowork incessantly to fight barba-rous cruelties worldwide," he ir-revocably turns what could havebeen a political debate into a per-sonal thrashing, perhaps confus-ing The Tech with the RowmanColosseulm.

Not surprisingly, both Saegerand Percus are wrong, but the ir-rational ideologies they bothcling to so tenaciously will not al-low them -to admit that. Saeger'sjust appraisal of the Soviet sys-tem as oppressive and tyrranicalprevents him from seeing that itsgovernment rules as such over anessentially peaceful and long-suffering people. It prevents himfrom appreciating, as Percus cor-rectly charges, the rich and var-ied cultures of the Russian andother Soviet peoples. The valueof this cultural history is not inany way lessened by the officiallysanctioned "literature" and "art"the Soviet regime thrusts down itspeoples' throats so as to bettercontrol them.

But it completely escapes me

recounted trying to help otherCPs arrest Penn, Fernandez andParks. No CP said what these de-ferndants were doing immediatelyprior to arrest. Glavin said thatall hell broke loose, but that isnot enough to convict specificpeople of crimes.

in her summation, the pros-ecuting attorney was reduced toarguing that the defendants wereobviously committing crimes,otherwise they wouldn't havebeen arrested.

At this, the judge smiled.How did The Tech let all this

slip by?Barry Klinger G

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how Percus can say Soviet humanrights violations "pale in com-parison" with what we can expectfrom South Africa in light of thebloody Sovietexpansion into Af-ghanistan that has resulted in theloss of a million -ives and hascreated over four million refu-gees, the largest refugee problemin the world. Over one hundredthousand children have beenmaimed and killed by a policyPercus claims does not reflect onthe Soviet system.

Meanwhile Percus seems tothink that no empire is "evil" un-til it has killed more people thanNazi Germany. How does he ex-plain the ten million Ukrainiansstarved to death under Stalin'sreign? Were they not as impor-tant as the six million Jews whodied in the Holocaust? What isthe basis for this apology for So-viet totalitarianism?

Enough of it!History itself is testament to

the horrible evils that have result-ed from the Soviet system. Andwhile the United States has not

always acted honorably in worldaffairs, I firmly believe that thereis a fundamental difference be-tween our mistakes and theirpolicy. But even if I wrote oneword in proof of that history foreach of the 200,00 who protest-ed Soviet human rights duringthe Washington summit, I wouldaccomplish no more than theydid.

Honest, open debate is con-structive. There are many ques-tions worth considering'iin US-Soviet relations. Gorbachev'simage as a reformer opens manyhearts to the prayer that this is fi-nally it. A year from now, thosehearts may be crying, but nowthey are hoping, as they havehoped many times before, andmay yet hope many times again.But we should approach that de-bate and approach those ques-tions with clear heads and soundminds. There is no place for bit-ter, sarcastic attacks here. Let usrather save our hatred for thosewho would do us harm.

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GOOD MIORNING, VIETNAMDirected by Barry Levinson.Written by Mitch Markowitz.Starring Robin Williams.

Robin Williams' performance is admira- . E _ble - maybe it's because the Cronauer de-picted in the movie is so like Williams. Aparticularly interesting character is Trinh,the Vietnamese girl. Her relationship withCronauer helps to offset the "male locker t room' talk in the movie. Twenty-threeyear-old actress CIhintara Sukapatana,who plays Trinh, was chosen from manyapplicants by the director and producer,who were unaware that she was'Thailand's r av~rv~v , b As

Filmed in Thailand, Good Morning,Cay_Vietnam's comedy and realistic approach__rXX= _to Vietnam greatly outweigh its dramatic XS=1113i1Emediocrity. Robin Williams fan or not, Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer, a disc-jockey shipped toyou should see this~ film. prove troop morale during the Vietnam war in Good Mtornint

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ny, and sometimes he's not. InGood Mborning, Vietnam, Wil-S liams is absolutely hilarious. He

plays Adrian Cronauer, a disc jockeywhose job is to increase morale through ashow on Armed Forces Radio. ThroughCronauer's experiences, this movie gives ataste of the situation in Vietnam beforethe escalation of the war.

The most interesting aspect of the mov-ie, appropriately, is Cronauer's radio shov.From the moment Cronauer utters (orscreams) his first words into the mike, it'snonstop; rapid-fire laughter. But it is notthe relatively conservative humor ofM*A *S*H. On the contrary, it's the outra-geous, raucous type of humor that onlyRobin Williams can deliver.

Joking about Vietnam is certainly aquestionable practice, but what gives thismovie the license to do so is an air ofgenuine concern and respect for those whofought and died in the war. In an environ-ment of heat, disease, and suffering,laughter becomes an important way ofmaintaining everyone's san~ity. And themore tense the situation becomes, themore blatant the humor needs to be. Thecomparative uselessness of "Three Stoo-ges" type Comedy is realistically shown inthe film.

Dramatically, Good Mdorning, Vietnamoffers nothing new: it focuses on the effectof the war onl the Vietnamese people, anldthe fine line between right and wrong. Ad-mittedly, the subject matter is handledhonorably, but it nonetheless qualifies asrerun material. The single item worth not-ing is the fact that the drama is "introdu-ced" with literal and figurative explosive-ness.

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Mozart's Piatio Concerto Nc. 21 wasgiven a nimble but penetrating pef~or-mance by Jarrett. HIis playing was lightand airy, his tone capable of ranging fromchildlike chirpiness to soulful introspec-tion. While Jarrett's output was clearly vir-tuoso, his technique was never ostenta-tious, but rather trarnsparent, allowing themusic to speak for itself.

Hogwood's forces maintained a close,organic relationship with the soloist, fo-cusing on him while supplying the richcontext in which he was to weave. Theheartbeat pizzicato opening the Andantecreated an atmosphere of serenity andJarrett, playing with eloquent simplicity,was at home there.

The Jarrett improvisation which fol-lowed suggested classical themes. This wasnot the most daring of music, but it pro-vided an unusual interlude, while main-taining a scale which blended well with therest of the concert.

If the Haydn music with which Hog-wood began anticipated the great sym-phonic developments which were to follow,

Prokofiev's Classical Symphony,the concert, provided a fond lookthe roots of symphonic form.brought off with sparkle and wit.

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sticking within the ambit of the Handel &Haydn Society's mission, but his invitationto Keith Jarrett to play Mozart and to alsoimprovise jazz as the centerpiece of theconcert turned out to be a phenomenalsuccess.

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The opener, H~aydns's Symphony No. 4,was breezily done: free-flowing, and ele-tgant, too, it made-for a delicious appetiz-er.

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Opera by Guiseppe Verdi.At the Metropolitan Opera, Nlew York.Kkazimierz Kord conducting.January 23 at 2 pm, January 27, 30, Feb-

urary 4, 8, 11, 15 at 8pm.To be broadcast on "Saturday Afternoonat the Met" on WCRB 102.5 EM- at 2 pmon January 23.

speaking audience; we are too familiarwith the play, and we notice when Shake-speare's dramatic moments have been sac-rificed to the conventions of opera.

True, Verdi was more faithful than hiscontemporaries to his original, and sawthe drama, rather than the music, as hisparamount concern. But given the perfectconstruction of Shakespeare's drama, onewonders whether his scruples were carriedfar enough.

John Bury's sets, now five years old, arestanding the test of time. They attempt todo nothing more than to capture the lookof the definitive castle, the definitive wit-ches' lair, and so forth, but-at this theysucceed remarkably well. It is the littletouches which command our attention: ablood-red sun which slowly sinks belowthe horizon, a roomful of realistic candleslighting the banquet, a cauldron enormousenough for three witches to dance on.

The witches, provided by the Metropoli-tan Opera Chorus and Ballet, live up totheir billing as weird sisters, sometimeslooking more like renegade fairies from AMidsummer Night's Dream than the men-acing apparitions we have come to expect.

None of this need bother someone sim-ply listening to the music, which has manymoments worth hearing, and is solidly ren-dered under the -direction of KazimierzKord. The opera will be this week's selec-tion in the Met's regular Saturday after-noon broadcast series.

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ACBETH" is not the4 \ / greatest of Verdi's op-eratic works. The mu-sic is frequently won-

derful; but it is sometimes unremarkableand sometimes completely out of place:the witches dance to music that is neithermysterious nor threatening; Duncanmarches in and w~e are straight back to anineteenth century court, no matter howrugged the castle, or how blasted the heathoutside.

Nevertheless, there is enough of sub-stance in the opera to provide for somegood performances, and in this case onegreat one. Samuel Ramey was outstandingas Banquo, particularly when singing tohis son just before they are surprised byMacbeth's assassins. Ramey's powerfulvoice pulled the full emotional value outof the aria.

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Elizabeth Connell as Lady MacbethVerdts "Mlacbeth."

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* * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * *Tal Farlow, jazz guitar great, per-forms at 8:00 and 10:30 at Night-stage, 823 Main Street, Cambridge.Tickets: 510. Telephone: 497-8200.

Richard Lloyd, with The Ex-Girlfriends.performs at Axis, 13 Lansdowne Street,just across the street from the entranceto thre bleachers at Fenway Park. Tele-phone: 262-2437.

Battlezone, with guests Obsession JIronRage, and Verniscaliper, perform in an18 + ages Heavy Metal show at the

Channel, 25 Necco Street near SouthStation in downtown Boston. Tickets:56.50 advance/57.50 at the door. Tele-phonle: 45 1-1905.

Didi Stewart & Friends. Push Push, andKnoltts & Crosses perform at T.T. theBear's, 10 Brookline Street, Cambridge.Telephone: 492-0082.

Runaway Dan, Spiro GeltS, InsideStraight, and Llamas perform at the Rat,528 Commonwealth Avenue in KenmoreSquare. Telephone: 536-94-38.

FILM & VIDEOThe Brattle Theatre begins ils Thursdayseries World Cinema: Itav/ with Vittoriode Sica's, Bicycle Thief (1948) at 4:00 &7:45 and Roberto Rosselini's Open City(1945) at 5:45 & 9:30. Located at 40Brattle Street, Cambridge in HarvardSquare. Admission. $4.75 (good for-thedouble bill). Telephone: 876-6837.

The Somerville Theatre presents BlazingSaddles (19?4, Mel Brooks) at 6:00 &9:45 and Dr. Strangelove (1964, StanleyKubrick) at 8:00. Located at 55 DavisSquare in Somerville. iust by the DavisSquare T-stop on the red line. Tele-phone: 625-1081.

* * * CRITIC'S CHOIC E * * *Les MIWrmbles, the Tony-award win-ning musical adaptation of VictorHugo's classic, continues throughApril 23 at the Shubert Theatre, 265Tremont Street, Boston. Perfor-mances are Mon-Sat at 8 pm, Wed &Sat matinees at 2 pm. Tickets: $27.50to $45, $16 special student tickets forsome performances. Tel: 426-4520.

ON CAMPUS1986 Wildlife Photography Exhibition,50 prize-wirming photographs from in-ternational competition, continuesthrough January 30 at the MIT Museum,265 Massachusetts Avenue (552-2ndfloor). Gallery hours are Tues-Fri 9-5,Sat-Sun 12-4. No admission charge. Tele-phone: 253 4444.

Puzzles Old and New, the largest andmost diverse collection of puzzles everassembled for public exhibition, contin-ues through February 21 at the MIT Mu-seum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue. Gal-lery hours are Tues-Fri 9-5, Sat-Sun 124.Admission: $2 requested donation. Tele-phone: 253 4444.

Ellswortb Kelly: Small Sculpture 1958-87continues through March 27 at the MITList Visual Arts Center, Weisner Build-ing, 20 Ames Street. Gallry hours areweekdays 12-6, weekends 1-5. No admis-sion charge. Telephone: 253 4400.

LA Hot and Cool: The Eighftes, drawingtogether painting, sculpture, photogra-phy, and installations by 23 of LA's mostprovocative young artists, continuesthrough February 7 at the MIT List Vi-sual Arts Center, Weisner Btiiilding, 20Ames Street. Gallery hours are weekdays12-6, weekends 1-5. No admissioncharge. Telephone: 253-40.

OFF CAMPUSNew Works, an exhibition of recentpaintings by Cambridge artist ElizabethMarran Hull, continues through Janu-ary 29 at the Cambridge Arts Council,57 Inman Street, Cambridge. Exhibitionhours are 9 am to 8 pm. Tel: 498-9033.

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Resfponses and The Human Wall, instal-lations by minimalist artist Jo Sandmanand figurative sculptor Heidi Tobler.-con-tinue through January 30 at Mobius, 354Congress Street, Boston. Gallery hoursare Wed-Sat 12-5. Telephone: 542-7416.

Tuscany Series, expressionist paintingsby Leslie Abrahams Barham, continuesthrough January 30 at the a.k.a. SkylightGallery, 43 Charles Street, Boston. Gal-lery hours are Mon-Sat 10-6. Telephone:720-2855.

Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper andEllsworth K~elly: Seven Paintings, pre-sented in conjunction with the exhibit atthe MIT List Visual Arts Center, contin-ue through January 31 at the Museum of-Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Bos-ton. Telephone: 267-9300.

Italian Renaissance Mpiolica from theWilliam A. Clark Collection continuesthrough February 6 at the Museumn ofFine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Bos-ton. Telephone: 267-9300.

* * * CRITICS CHOICE * * *What the Butler Saw, Joe Orton'swild comic melee of disappearances,disguises, and discoveries in a lunaticasylum, continues through Febru-ary 14 at the Lyric Stage, 54 CharlesStreet. Boston. Performances areWed-Fri at 8:00, Sat at 5:00 & 8:30,and Sun at 3:00. Tickets: S10 to $13.Telephone- 742-8703.

* * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * i.The Piano lasson, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson,continues through January 31 at theHuntington Theatre, 264 HuntingtonAvenue, Boston. Performances areTues-Sat at 8 pm, with Wed, Sat, &Sun matinees at 2 pm. Tickets: $12 to$27. Telephone: 266-3913.

* * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * *The Museum of Fine Arts begins itsseries The Cinema of .Surrealism: TheBeginnings Through the Thirties withDough and Dynamile (1914, CharlesChaplin), Entr'acte (1924, ReP6Clair), Histoire du Soldae lnconnu(1932, Henri Storck), and UIn ChienAndalou (1929, Luis Bunuel) at 5:30and Illusions Funambulesques (1903,George MCliis). Les Yampires (1915,Louis Feuillade), Le Retour i la Rai-son (1923, Man Ray), and Les Mys-0eres du CNibcau do Ik (1929, ManRay) at R pm. Located at 465 Hun-tington Avenue, Boston. Tickets:$3.50 general, $3 MFA members, sen-iors, and students. Tel: Z67-9300.

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Contemporary Insanity. a collection ofsatirical songs and sketches portraying asophisticated and offbeat look at modemlife, continues at the Boston Baked The-atre, 255 Elm Street, Davis Square inSomerville. Performances are Thurs at8 pm, and Fri-Sat at 8 prn and 10:30 pm.Tickets: S8 Thurs, $9.50 Fri-Sat. Tele-phone: 628-9575.

Forbidden Broadway 1987, the musicalcomedy revue with parodies of variousfamous personalities, continues indefi-nitely at the Boston Park Plaza HotelTerrace Room, Park Square. Perfor-mances are Tues-Fri at 8 pm, Sat at 7and 10 pm, Sun at 3 and 6 pm. Tickets:$16 to $22.50. 1elephone: 357-8384.

Gillette, William Hauptman's play aboutthe adventures of two drifters who arrivein the modern-day boom town of Gil-lette, continues through January 22 atthe American Repertory Theatre, LoebDrama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cam-bridge. Performances are Tues-Fri at8 pm, Sat at 2 pm and 8 pm, and Sun at2pm and 7 pm. Tickets: $13 to $26.Telephone: 547-8300.

Hard Times, Charles Dickens' tale re-creatmg the teeming world of Victorianindustrial England, continues throughFebruary 7 at the New Repertory The-atle, 61 Washington Park, Ncwtonville.Performances are Friday 8 pm, Saturday5 pm and 9 pm, and Sunday 2 pm. Tick-ets: 59 and $12, $2 discount for seniorsand students. Telephone: 332-1646.

Murder at the Rutherford House, lamystery in five courses," continuesthrough January 27 at Club Cabaret, 209Columbus Avenue, Boston. Perfor-mances are Tues-Wed at 7:30 and Sun at1:00. Tickets: S45 Tucs-Wed, $25 Sun(includes meal, show, tax, and graluitics.Telephone: 536-0966.

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Marsha Hewitt: Recent Sculpture contin-ties through February 8 at the CambridgeMulticultural Arts Center, 41 SecondStreet, East Cambridge. Gallery hoursare Mon-Fri 12-4. Telephone: 577-1400.

The Boom and the Busl, graphic visionsof American life in the 1920s and 1930s,continues through February 21 at theBoston University Art Gallery, 855 Com-monwealth Avenue. Boston. Galleryhours are Mon-Fri 10-4, Fri evening 7-9,and Sat-Sun 1-5. Telephone: 353-3329.

Tribal Traditions of Kenya, a multimediaexhibit highlighting the infinite culturalvariety of this East African country, con-tinues through February 28 at the Muse-um of Science Stearns Gallery, SciencePark, Boston. Telephone: 589-0250 or589-0253.

Massachusetts Masters: Afro-Ameri2ntArtists, with the works of 25 contempo-rary black artists on view In the FosterGallery, continues through March 6 atthe Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Hunting-ton Avenue, Boston. Tel: 267-9300.

Dutch Landscape on Paper: Rembrandtlo Mondrian, tracing changing concep-tioas and continuities in the Dutch visionof landscape from around 1600 to theearly twentieth century, continuesthrough mi'd-April at the Museum ofFine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Bos-ton. Telephone: 267-9300.

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C:LAtSSICAL MUJSIC:A Concert by the Math Department &Friends is presented as part of the MITIA P Music Library Series at 2 pm in K il-lian Halal, Building 14. No admissioncharge. Telephone:- 253-2')06.

Carol Lewis. viola da gamba, and Fran-ces Conover Fitch, harpsichord, performworks by de Visee,. Couperin, Marais,and Bach in a Nsews England Conserva-tory Faculty Recital at 8 pmn in JordanHall. 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston.NEC Extension Division Oapers Scenesare also presented at 8 pm in BrownHall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston.No admission charge for either concert.Telephone: 262-1 120.

FILM 8 VIDEOThe MsIT Lecture Series Committee pre-sents Rollerball, starring James Caan. at7 pm and 10 pm in 26-100. Admission:$1.50.

The Somerville Theatre presents MiontyP,~thon's Life of Brian (1979) at 8:00 andRepo Man (1984) at 6:15 & 9:45. Locat-ed at 55 Davis Square in Somerville, justby the Davis Square T-stop on the redline. Telephone: 625-1081.

The Brattle Theatre begins its Wednesdayseries Films by the Score with Hitch-cock's North by Northwest (1959), star-ring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, at2:45 & 7:40 and Journey to the Center ofthe Earth (1959, Henry Levin) at 5:X0 &10:00. Located at 40 Brattle Street, Cam-bridge in Harvard Square. Admission:$4.75 (good for the double bill). Tele-phone: 876-6837.

CLASSICAL MUSICRichard Given, trumpet, Ellen Given,flute, and George Kient, organ, performsolos and trio sonatas as part of the MITThursday Noon Chapel Series at 12:05 inthe MIT Chapel. No admission charge.Telephone: 253-2906.

A Concert by the Physics Department &Friiends is presented as part of the MITIAP Music Library Series at 2 pm in Kil-lian Hall. Building 14. No admissioncharge. Telephone: 253-2906.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting, performsworks by Dukas, Haydn, and Sibelius at8 pm in Symphony Hall, corner of Hun-tington and Massachusetts Avenues, Bos-ton. Also presented January 22 at 2 pmand January 23 & 26 at 8 pm. Tickets:SI5.50 to S41. Telephone: 266 i492.

The Longy Chamaber Singers performworks by Mozart and Stravinsky at 8 pmin the Edward Pickman Concert Hall.Longy School of Music, corner of Follenand Garden Strems, Cambridge. No ad-mission charge. Telephone: 876 0956.

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Nina, It's Different, Michel Vinaver'savant-garde French play, continuesthrough January23 at ThcatreS., St.Peter's Church, 838 Massachusetts Ave-nue, Central Square, Cambridge. Perfor-mances are Friday at 8 pm and Saturdayat 8 pm & 10 pm. Tickets: S10 general,$6.50 students, $5 Saturday late shows.Telephone: 625-6087.

Right You Are (If You Think You Are),Luigi Pirandello's satire exploring thedifficulty and undesirability of probinginto other peoples' lives, continuesthrough January 31 at the AmericanRepertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center,64 Brattle Street, Cambridge. Perfor-mances are Tues-Fri at 8 pm, Sat at 2 pmand 8 pm, and Sun at 2 pm and 7 pm.Tickets: $13 to S26. Tel: 547-8300.

The Water Engine, David Mamet's storyof what happens when a brilliant but na-ive inventor tries to patent an engine thatruns on distilled water, continuesthrough February 27 at the Alley The-atre, 1253 Cambridge Street, InmanSquare, -Cambridge. Performances areThurs-Sun at 8 pm. Tickets: S12 general,S10 seniors and students. Telephone:491-8166.

Yes To Everything!, an improvisationalmovement-theater piece with actress/dancer Daena Giardelta, continuesthrough January 24 at the New EhrlichTheatre, 539 Tremont Street, Boston.Performances are Thurs-Sat at 8 pm andSun at 2 pm. Tickets: $10 general, S$seniors and student rush. Telephone:482-6316.

Shear Madness, the long-running comicmurder mystery, continues indefinitely atthe Charles Playhouse, 74 WarrentonStreet, Boston. Performances are Tues-Fri at 8 pm, Sat at 6.30 and 9:30 pm,Sun at 3 and 7:30 pm. Tickets: S16 and$19. Telephone: 426-6912.

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POPULAR MUSICWorld-renowned singer Deia Reese per-forms at 7:30 and 9 pm at Club Cabaret,209 Columbus Avenue, Boston. Perfor-mances continue through January 24.Tickets: $25 and 530. Tel: 536 0972.

POPULAR MUSICRoy Buchanan, soulful master of theelectric guitar, with special guests DrivingSideways, performs at 8:00 and 10:30 atNightstage, 823 Main Street, Cambridge.Tickets: $10. Telephone: 497-8200.

The Pixies and Rash of Stabbings per-form at Axis, 13 Lansdowne Street, justacross the street from the entrance to thebleachers at Fenway Park. Telephone:262-2437.

Exodus and M.O.D. perform in an 18+ages Heavy Metal show at -the Paradise,967 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.Telephone: 254-2052.

The Hardtops, G.G. Turner, DopplerEffect, Say When, Delusions of Cran-deur, and Notite perform at the Chan-nel, 25 Necco Street near South Stationin downtown Boston. Tickets: 53. Tele-phone: 451-1905.

Judge Mentril, Raging Lemmings, andEx-1S perform at ST.T. the Bear's, 10Brookline Street, Cambridge. Telephone:492-0082.

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POPULAR MUSICAlice Cooper,.with special guests Motor-head, performs at 8 pm at the WorcesterCentrum, I Highland Street, Worcester.Tickets: $15.50. Telephone: 720-3434 or497-1118.

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Joe Satriani, with guests Nervous Eaters,Nova Mob, and The Threats, perform atthe Channel, 25 Neeco Street near SouthStation in downtown Boston. Tickets:$5.50 advance/S6.50 at the door. Tele-phone: 451-1905.

Mercy Seat and Class Action perform atT.T. the Bear's, 10 Brookline Street,Cambridge. Telephone: 492-0082.

CLASSICAL MUSICAn IAP Chamber Music Concert, featur-ing Copland's Appalachian Spring andother works, is presented at 7:30 in Kil-lian Hall, Building 14. No admissioncharge. Telephone: 253-2906.

POPULAR MUSICJimmy Johnson Band and 'Harmonica"Phil Wiggins & John Cephas perform at8 pm and 11 pm at Nightstage, 823 MainStreet, Cambridge. Also presented Janu-ary 23. Tickets: $10. Tel: 497-8200.

POPULAR MUSICO Positive, with guests Tribe, performbeginning at 9 pm at Nightstage, 823Main Street, Cambridge. Tickets: $7.Telephone: 497-8200.

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. . . CRITIC'S CHOICE * . *The Performing Arts Ensemble, pre-sented by Dance Umbrella, performsthe world premiere of Surrender, aswell as Your Eyes, and M.A.D. toN.U.T.S. at 8 pm in the FitzgeraldAuditorium, Cambridge Rindge &Latin School. Tickets: $10 general,$8.50 Dance Umbrella members. Tele-phone: 492-7578.

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Bruckner's Symphony No. 7. Symphony Hall,January 29 at 8pm. MIT price: $5.

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* * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * *The French Library in Boston contin-ues its series Films of Alain Resnaiswith Nuit at Brouillard (Night andFog, 1956) and La Jetle (The Pier,1962) at 8 pmr. Also presented Janu-ary 23 and 24. Located at 53 Marl-borough Street, near Arlington T-stopon the green line. Admission: $3.50general, $2.50 members. Telephone:266-4351.

* * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * */The Parley of Instruments, presentedby Charles River Cbncerts as part ofthe International Early Music Series,performs at 8 pm at the First BaptistChurch, 110 Commonwealth Avenue,Boston. Tickets: $9 to $15 [$6 studenttickets available at the door]. Tele-phone: 262-0650.

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c RFITC'S CHOICE * *The Opera Company of Boston opensits new season with a spectacular newproduction of Medke by Cherubini atthe Opera House, Boston. Also pre-scmnted January 24, 27, and 31. Tick-ets: $25 to $55 [see also reduced-pricetickets offered through The Tech Per-forming Arts Series). Tel: 426-2786.

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THEATERBaby Steps, Deborah Fortson's uniquemime-performance piece,' opens today asa presentation of TheatreXVorks at ThePerformance Place, 277 Broadway,Somerville. Continues through Janu-ary 30 with performances Thurs-Sat at8 pm. Tickets: $10. Telephone: 623-5510.

LECTURESPainter and Potter in Renaissance Italy,a lecture by Wendy M. Watson, curator,Mount Holyoke Art Museum, is present-ed at 8 pm in the Mabel Louise RileySeminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts,465 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Tick-ets: $7.50 general, $6.50 MFA members,seniors, and students. Telephone: 267-9300 ext. 306.

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"A Midsummer Night's Dream," and Dvorak's SymphonyNo. 7. Sanders Theatre, January 31 at 3pm. MIT ptice: $6.

Dumptruck, with guests Cavedogs,Blood Oranges, and Pat on the Back,perform at the Channel, 25 Necco Streetnear South Station in downtown Boston.Tickets: $4.50 advance/$5o50 at thedoor. Telephone: 451-1905.

Down Avenue and Look One Look per-form at the Paradise, 967 Common-wealth Avenue, Boston. Tel: 254-2052.

Treat Her Right, with guests Bee VaughnCombo and Luddites, perform at T.T.the Bear's, 10 Brookline Street, Cam-bridge. Telephone: 492-0082.

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Twenty (1988), a five-hour, independent-ly-made video featuring a completely lo-cal production crew and cast, today andtomorrow at 8 pm. Parts 1-3 on Fridaynight, parts 4-5 on Saturday night. Lo-cated at 55 Davis Square in Somerville,just by the Davis Square T-stop on thered line. Telephone: 625-1081.

The Cambridge Center for Adult Educa-tion continues its film series The Wagesof Sin with Eric Von Stroheim's Greed(1926) at 7 pm and 9 pm. Located at 56Brattle Street, Cambridge in HarvardSquare. Admission: 53.50. Telephone:547-6789.

The Museum of Fine Arts begins its filmseries Costa-Gavras: The Political Thrill-er and Beyond with ie ComparlimatTuenrs (The Sleeping Car Murders, 1965)at 5:30 and Un Homme de Trop (ShockTroops, 1967) at 7:30. Located at 465Huntington Avenue, Boston. Tickets:$3.50 general, $3 MFA members, seniors,and students. Telephone: 267-9300.

Thomas Stacy, English horn and oboea'amore, performs works by Telemann,Yvon, Melby, and Berg at 8 pm in theEdward Pickman Concert Hall, LongySchool of Music, corner of Follen andGarden Streets, Cambridge. Tickets: $7general, $5 seniors and students. Tele-phone: 876-0956.

FILM St VIDEOThe MIT Lecture Series Committee pre-sents a Cartoon Film Festival at 7 pmand 10 pm in 26-100. Admission: $1.50.

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The Cautata Siagers and Ensemble per-form works by J.S. Bach at 8 pm in Jor-dan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Bos-ton. Tickets: S5 to S16. Tdel: 267-6502.- II

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The Brattle Theatre presents two filmversions of Crime and Punishment, byPierre Chenal (1935) at 4:00 & 7:55 andby Joseph Von Sternberg (1935) at 6:05 &9:55. Also presented January 23. Locat-ed at 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge inHarvard Square. Admission: $4.75 (goodfor the double bill). Telephone: 876-6837.

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CLASSICAL MUSICA Beethoven Piano Sonasta Festival, fea-turing students of the New England Con-servatory Piano Department, is presentedat 8 pm in Williams Hall, 290 Hunting-ton Avenue, Boston. No admissioncharge. Telephone: 262-1120 ext. 257.

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FILM & VIDEO* * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * *The Brattle Theatre continues itsMonday series of Film Noir with aJohn Huston/Humphrey Bogan dou-ble bill, Malitese Falcon (1941) at 4:00& 7:55 and Key Largo (1948) at 5:55& 9:50. Located at 40 Brattle Street,Cambridge in Harvard Square. Ad-mission: S4.75 (good for the doublebill). Telephone: 876-6837.

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Jazz compositions, written and per-formed by New England Conservatorystudents, are presented at 8 pm in BrownHa;l, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston.No admission charge. Telephone: 262-1120 ext. 257.

CLASSICAL MUSICOmnibus: Music of the Twentieth Cen-tury presents works by Theodore Anton-iou, John Goodman, Ezra Simns. andDaniel Kastner at 8 pm in the BostonUniversity Concert Hall, 855 Common-wealth Avenue, Boston. No admissioncharge. Telephone: 353-3345.

FiLM & VIDEOThe Bratt!e Theatre begins its Tuesdayseries The Cutting Edge: New Filmns byInternational Filmmakers with Life Is aDream (1986, Raul Ruiz, France) at 7 pmand Suburban Angels (1987, Carlos Rei-chenbach, Brazil) at 9 pm. Located at 40Brattle Street, Cambridge in HarvardSquare. Admission: $5 (sitnge admis-sion). Telephone: 876-6837.

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Chicago pianist Pinetop Perkins, guitar-ist Hubert Sumlin, and Ltfle Mike &The Tornado's perform beginning at9 pm at Nightstage, 823 Main Street,Cambridge. Tickets: S9. Tel: 497-8200.

Les Rita Mitsouke performs in an 18+ages show at Axis, 13 Lansdowne Street,just across the street from the entranceto the bleachers at Fenway Park. Tele-phone: 262-2437.

CLASSICAL MUSICThe Boston University Chamber Playersperform works by Brahms and Prokofievat 8 pm in the BU Concert Hall. 855Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. No ad-mission charge. Telephone: 353-3345.

Gary Joynes, saxophone, performs in aNew England Conservatory Faculty Re-cital at 8 pm in Jordan Hall, 30 Gains-borough Street, Boston. No admissioncharge. Telephone: 262-1120 ext. 257.

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A Faculty Recital with works by Schu-bert, Strauss, and Ramsoe is presented at4 pm at the All Newton Music School,321 Chestnut Street, West Newton, Noadmission charge. Telephone: 527-4553.

FILM & VIDEOThe MIT Lecture Series Committee pre-sents Alan Parker's Famne it 7 pm and10 pm in 26-100. Admission: $1.50.

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The Brattle Theatre continues its Sundayseries Vintage Hollywood with a Kathar-ine Hepburn double bill, Woman of theYear (1942, George Stevens), also star-ring Spencer Tracy at 3:50 & 7:50 andHoliday (1938, George Cukor), also star-ring Cary Grant, at 2:00, 6:00, & 9:55.Located at 40 Brattle Street, Cambridgein Harvard Square. Admission: 54.75(good for the double bill). Telephone:876-6837.

The Somerville Theatre presents Some-thing Wild (1986, Jonathan Demme) at5:30 & 10:00 and Blue Velvet (1986, Da-vid Lynch) at 7:45. Also presented Janu-ary 25 and 26. Located at 55 DavisSquare in Somerville, just by the DavisSquare T-stop on the red line. Tele-phone: 625-1081.

The Harvard-Epworth Church presentsThe Iron Crown (1941, Alessandro Bla-setti) at 8 pm. Located at 1555 Massa-chusetts Avenue, Cambridge just northof Harvard Square. Admission: $3 con-tribution. Telephone: 354-0837.

* * * CRITIC'S CHOICE * * *The Brattle Theatre continues itsWednesday series Fihlms By Tie Scorewith a James Dean double bill, Eastof Eden (1955, Elia Kazan) al 3:40 &7:55 and Rebel Without a Cause(1955, Nlcholas Ray) at 5:50 & 10:00.Located at 40 Brattille Street, Cam-bridge Ir Harvard Square. Admission:$4.75 (good for the double bill). Tele-phone: 876-6837.

The Somerville Theatre presents a doub-le-bill of Alex Co, films, Sid & Nanc(1986) at 7:45 and Straight to Hell (1987)at 6:00 & 9:50. Located at 55 DavisSquare in Somerville, Just by the DavisSquare T-stop on the red line. Tele-phone: 625-1081,

LECTURESIn the Spirit of Dubois: Black AtlanticVisual Tradition Since Coltrane, a lec-ture by Robert Farris Thompson, profe-sor of art history, Yale Univeristy, is pre-sented at 8 pm in Remis Auditorium,Museum o! Fine Arts, 465 HuntingtonAvenue, Boston. Tickets: $7.50 general,$6.50 MFA members, seniors, and stu-dents. Telephone: 267-9300 ext. 306.Humphrey Bogart can be seen in John Huston's The

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pare Nicaragua and E1 Salvadorin the context of the Arias plan.El Salvador seeks a free marketsolution to its economic troubles,he said.

The private sector of thatcountry claims that it needs agovernment that will give it freereign to use the country's re-sources so productively that itwill be able to produce wealththat will benefit the rest of thepopulation, Diskin said.

"After forty years, [the privatesector has] not been able to pro-

duce this and they blame it onnever having had a real govern-ment they can be happy about.They're looking for a far-rightpresident so they will be en-gorged with wealth and encour-aged to start trickle-down,". Dis-kin said.

The government of Nicaragua,however, sees its role as the up-lifter of the poorest members ofsociety and it designs projectsthat begin with them in mind,Diskin claimed. The govern-ment's track record shows that inthe first three years of the revolu-tion, some changes benefittedeven the poorest of the popula-tion: infant mortality decreased,while countries like Honduraseven experienced a rise; andNicaragua implemented an edu-

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A tale of two countries:Nicaragua and El Salvador

In a report issued by the plan'sverification committee last No-vember, Nicaragua was said tohave taken "many steps towardcompliance," according to Dis-kin. The Sandinistas reopenedthe opposition newspaper LaPrenza, admitted exiled priestsand formed its four-person rec-onciliation commission immedi-ately, naming one of the coun-

try's most prominent anti-Sandinistas, Miguel CardinalObando y Bravo, as a member.

El Salvador, in comparison,also formed its reconciliationcommission, but that commissionwas eventually dissolved after theresignations of opposition repre-sentatives, Diskin said. The situa-tion "deteriorated into the politi-cal accusation slinging socommon in El Salvadoran poli-tics between the right and the farright," he reported.

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cation program that lowered theilliteracy rate.

Diskin also criticized US pressdepictions of the treaty.

"The press continually de-scribes the treaty as a plan thatwill 'bring democracy to Nicara-gua' or one that only affectsNicaragua, where actually it isnot," he said.

"In the case of human rights,the image is that only Nicaraguahas non-compliance," Diskinsaid. "However, in Nicaragua,the accusations only concern vio-lations of due process of the law,while -in El Salvador and Hondu-ras, the governments there areanswering to accusationris of mur-ders, mutilations, and disappear-ances of innocent citizens."

(Continued from page 2)army up to a force of 600,00men. Humberto Ortega, Nicara-gua's defense minister, verifiedMiranda's claims in the sameweek.

The media failed to report theactual text of Ortega's speech,Chomsky claimed. Instead, theyquoted it selectively and built afalse interpretation. The Sandin-istas actually intend to reducetheir army once the contras areovercome, Chomsky said. He at-tacked the attitude that Nicara-gua's military buildup was un-justified, saying "[I]t's scandalousto defend against US invasion,because we have the right of ag-gression; that's the logic."

Chomsky also defended Nicar-agua's attempts to buy jet fight-

ers, explaining that they would beused to stop illegal contra supplyflights. An earlier attempt to buyFrench Mirage fighters wasblocked by the United States, hesaid, adding that the'"loyalpress" suppressed this informa-tion.

American claims of Nicara-guan "aggression" are similar to- and as valid as - those madeagainst Poland by Nazi Germany,Chomsky said. Nicaragua is actu-ally "an astonishingly open coun-try," he said, since it allowsAmerican journalists within itsborders. "Would Israel allow Syr-ian or PLO journalists within therefugee camps?" he asked.

Despite American public opin-

ion, which generally has been op-posed to the "hard line," thepolicy has been successful in ter-minating social reform, Chomskyadmitted. Evidence of Nicara-gua's weakness lies in its ruinedeconomy and its acceptance ofMiguel Cardinal Obando y Bra-vo, an opposition figure, as medi-ator with the contras, he said.

Yet the domestic American de-bate seems to be shifting awayfrom the "hard line" in Nicara-gua, mostly because the declinein the American economy has ledto a cutback in "internationalaggression," Chomsky said. Twoimpediments to the use of the'"soft line" remain, he said, sincethe military is not controlled bythe United States and nationalmorale is "surprisingly" high.

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prosecution also lacked testimonyabout the specific actions of Fer-nandez and Penn immediatelyprior to their arrests.

Nancy Rtyan, director of theWomeres Commission for theCity of Cambridge, who was onthe site but who was not arrested,claimed she never heard any offi-cial say: "Now you must leave oryou'll be arrested."

She testified for the defensethat Parks had asked her to helppack Parks' belongings. Ryansaid that she, Ansara and Ansar-a's daughter began to stuff Parks'belongings into plastic bags. Shesaid that Parks - "concernedand distressed about other peopleon the site" - would tell Ryanwhich items to pack and then re-turn to the center of activity.

But Special Assistant for Gov-ernmenta} Relations and Commu-nity Affairs Ronald P. Suduiko,subpoenaed by the defense, testi-fied that he had not seen anybodymaking any effort to pack up hisor her belongings.

The Tent City protest beganwhen homeless people pitchedtents on a parcel of Simplex landas part of an Oct. 17 Simplex

Steering Committee demonstra-tion for affordable housing. Thedemonstration was to last twodays, but the street people stayed.The one-month standoff came toa head on Nov. 20, when theCampus Police arrested ten pro-testers who allegedly refused toleave the site. One of the protest-ers, Carlos Gonzalez, is beingtried separately.

Thle defense focused its ques-tioning on three issues; whetherMIT was aware that the SimplexSteering Committee intended tocamp out on the Simplex sitedurng its Oct. 17 demonstration;whether the SSC had receivedpermission to use the Simplexproperty; and whether the TentCity residents had been given suf-ficient warning to vacate theproperty.

Milne, who was subpoenaed bythe defense, testified that Chris-topher Weller, an SSC member,had indeed notified him of theOct. 17 demonstration in ad-vance. Weller corroborated, say-ing he had several conversationswith Milne before the event "tomake him aware of what wewould be doing, and make sureMIT would not react with sur-prise." Weller claimed he "de-scribed exactly what was going tohappen.'

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and the defense.Some defendants plan to work

for St. Paul's Rectory meal pro-gram, for the Salvation Armyand for the Central AmericanSolidarity Association, accordingto defendant Steven D. Penn G.He said he will work with t.cChurch of the Covenant to watchover the apartments in which theTent City homeless are now livingtemporarily.

Donna Crosby, the assistantdistrict attorney prosecuting thecase, called the result "fair andbeneficial to the community,"while Kurt Pressman, one of thedefense attorneys, called it a"victory for the defendants." Thedefense lawyers worked withoutfees, and the defendants will nothave to pay court fees, either,Penn said.

Walter L. Milne, assistant tothe chairman of the MIT Corpo-ration, said, "While MIT- did notand cannot condone the illegaloccupation of its property, it be-lieves Judge Gershengorn's dispo-sition was a fair resolution of thematter."

Gershengorn had earlier grant-ed a motion by the defense tofind Susan Durkee, Bruce Green-holtz and ft. Stewart Guernseynot guilty because the prosecu-tion had failed to produce suffi-cient evidence showing the defen-

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The other candidates at the de-bate included: former DelawareGov. Pierre S. DuPont, Gen.Alexander Haig, Rep. Jack Kemp(R-NY), Rev. Pat Robertson.

Dole himself was not free fromattack. A number of candidates- particularly Kemp - por-trayed Dole as a legislator all-too-ready to raise taxes. "Why isit, Bob, that every response to ev-ery budget problem from Sen.Dole is to raise taxes?" Kempasked. Dole was criticized for hissupport of an oil import fee andfarm subsidies: stands that holdup well in the bread-basket-landof Iowa, but not in freezing NewHampshire.

k Ionically, all of this joustingoccurred as the candidates triedto explain to the public that Re-publicans - oft condemned ashard-headed and hard-hearted -could be compassionate and sen-sitive folk when it came to socialissues such as poverty and hun-ger. Dole, sometimes soundinglike the most liberal of the six,said that federal governmentshould take respon'sibility forlong-term health care and daycare if no one else did.

"Replacing the welfare checkwith the pay check: that is com-passion," said DuPont. DuPontalso said that the United Statesmust prepare itself for a future inwhich there will not be enoughsocial security benefits for retir-ees, as the pool of retirees is cur-rently growing faster than thepool of workers putting moneyinto social security. This is due tothe so-called "baby-boomers,"

DuPont said.But both Bush and Dole said

that the current surplus in socialsecurity payments is being invest-ed in a "trust fund' of treasurybonds, which can be used in thefuture in the case of a shortfall.Candidates aiso belittled Du-Pont's proposal to fight drugabuse among teenagers by revok-ing the driver's licenses of thosewho fail drug tests.

Last week, the press raisedquestions about Bush's role in theIran-contra affair - specifically,about how he could not knowabodut the arms-for-hostages dealand the subsequent funds divert-44joe.X. contras if he had at-tendjed", s Utin gs.

for their roles in a whistlesblowing protest which occurredduring last June's commencementexercises. Fernandez said he be-lieved her action was related tothe Tent City affair. Glavin de-nied this and said she had filedcharges in June.

The defendants appeared jubi-lant at trial's end, although, ac-cording to Robert Johnson, an-other defense attorney, some hadhad reservations about the pro-posal. Penn said that he, Fernan-dez and Parks wanted to contin-ue with their case in order to getthe court to record testimony ontheir behalf "We didn't even geta chance to present our cage,"Penn said.

These defendants asked thejudge if they could split theircase. But Gershengorn offeredthe defendants an all-or-nothingdeal: she would withdraw theproposal if the defendants didnot accept it unanimously, ac-cording to Johnson1.

Police testimony lacking

Glavin had identified earlier inthe trial all nine defendants ashaving been on the Simplex landwhen she warned protesters theywould be arrested if they did notleave the premises. But in subse-quent testimony" no police officerconfirmed seeing Durkee, Green-holtz, and Guernsey at the mo-

dants had actually trespassed o:MIT property.

The judge also-granted a defense motion to finld Miriam AnSara - who was arrested for disorderly conduct - not guilt -because the MIT Campus Policdepartment acted outside of itjurisdiction. Ansara was off MI'property when she was arreste,for allegedly interfering with other arrests, according to police testimony. Campuls Police ChieAnne P. Glavin confirmed thacampus patrolmen do not havsheriff powers which would allotthem to make arrests off MI'property.

"My arrest," Ansara said'showed MlT's disrespect t.

community members who wante,to play a role in negotiatingsuccessful resolution [to the TenCity standoff].'

Guernsey said he and otherare considering suing the CampuPolice for false arrest. The remaining defendants includedPenn, Beret Anderson, StepheiFernandez, Charlene Gilbert an,Evelyn Parks.

MIT has decided not to filcharges with the Committee oiDiscipline against student protesters Ff,-rnandez and Penn, according .o Milne.

But Tenm said that on Jan.Glavin filed charges with th,COD) against him and Fernande

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When Chancellor raised a simi-lar question, Bush retorted: "Letme tell you something: You andthe media have a fascination withIran that I don't think the Ameri-can people are interested in thatmuch." At this, some members ofthe audience booede

In their campaigns, the Repub-lican candidates have held thatNicaragua's Sandinista governm-ment poses a threat to US securi-ty. They have favored continuedUS aid to the contra rebels. Mostoppose the Arias peace plan -an accord signed by the presi-dents of Costa Rica, El Salvador,Guatemala, Honduras, Nicara-gua, calling for ceasefires, demo-cratic reforms and amnesties -because that plan does not ad-dress Soviet and Cuban influencein Nicaragua.

The candidates addressed ten-sions in the Middle East, as well.Palestinian riots have beset Israelin the occupied territories - theWest Bank and the Gaza Strip -for almost a month.

In the past, tensions-have de-veloped because Israel consideredthe territories vital to iis security,while Arab countries wanted to-tal relinquishment of these lands,according to Haig. He said thecurrent tension was aggravatedby Islamic fundamentalists whobelieve the Arabs are leavingthem.

Robertson said that the UnitedStates should invite Israel, Egypt,Syria and Jordan to a peace con-ference in Washington, with the

' president playing broker. Dolesaid that, although "radicals inthe Gaza have been taunting Is-rael," he sees "srael using excess

sive force." He criticized the Rea-gan administration for its lack offorming any visible policy for thearea.

On another front, calling theSoviet Union an "economic bas-ketcase' which "needs us morethan we need it," Kemp said theUnited States must condition thenext summit conference onwhether or not the Soviets arewilling to discuss violations ofpast arms and anti-ballistic mis-sile agreements.

Bush qualified this: "Sure,they've cheated. But we've got toweigh what they've done againsta progress for peace."

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The third period showed thatno matter how big a hole the JEn-gineers had dug for themselves,they were still willing to try topull themselves out of it.

The hole was just a little toodeep. With MIT driving deep andforechecking deep, they managedto pull within two goals of theRams, but that was the best theycould do before the game was fi-nally put out of reach.

The Engineers notched theirthird goal at the 11 :02 markwhen Mike Foley G scored on arebound off a Jessiman blastfrom the right point. MIT'sfourth goal, bringing the score to6-4 just more than a minute later;resulted from excellent forwardpassing up the ice, eventually.leading to a Bates breakawaygoal.

With these two quick goals itlooked like the MIT squad might-pull off the impossible, that thedream might come true. But thedream turned to nightmare as asoft lob from the right point tooka freakish deflection off Gaspa-rini's pad into the net. The scorenow at 7X4, with the MIT spiritsdemoralized, it would stand assuch until game's end. The Engi-neers would have to be satisfiedwith the consolation game inL-stead of a shot at the champion-ship.

ning, beating Bowdoin Collegefor the first time in the team'shistory. It was a closely foughtbattle that remained tied for themajority of the game, and itlooked like Bowdoin might pulloff a tie in the final minutes ofplay.

Katie Hope scored MIT's firstgoal on a fluke shot from behindM4IT's blue line and the first peri-od ended in a 1-1 tie. MichelleBonugli '88 made a patenteddrive up the left wing for the En-gineers' second goal, ending thesecond period at a 2-2 stalemate.

The score remained tied untilseven minutes were left in thegame, when Sandy Linde '87

drove up through the Bowdoindefense for the go-ahead goal.

Offsetting penalties with lessthan two minutes left brought thenumber of skaters on each teamto four. Bowdoin pulled its goal-tender to try for the tying goalwith the 5-on-4 advantage. Then,with 20 seconds left, RachaelBerman '88 '- notorious forpicking up penalties with her rug-ged style of play - took a seaton the bench to give Bowdoin the5-on-3 advantage. These last fewminutes saw tense play as Bow-doin got several good scoring op-portunities, but the Engineersstood their ground for thevictory.

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By Peter Dlunn minutes left in the period all hellExcise 27 seconds from the broke loose.

l· first period of last Saturday's With 1:41 left, a Suffolk defen-game between the MIT men's seman slapped a shot from thehockey team and the Suffolk blue line off a faceoffin the MITUniversity Rams and take away a zone to beat netrninder Peterfreak goal at the end of the third Gasparini '88 past his gloveperiod, and it would be MIT hand. Five seconds later, a Ramsquaring off against the Tufts beat the entire MIT squad off theiJumbos in a rematch of last faceoff at center ice to give Suf-year's championship game of the folk the 2-1 lead. Flustered, the

· ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ P~~~en Martin TTournamrent. M~IT defense continued to loseTfThe Engineers instead suffered composure and allowed a third

another frustrating loss where the goal 22 seconds later: a passc > ~ breaks just wouldn't fall their from the right boards found a

way and will be facing the Uni- Ram breaking up center ice and_,~~"e~88~a~a~pa~·18B·~~a A d~ versity of Rhode Island Rams in he beat Gasparini to end the peri-

the consolation match tonight. od at 3-1.The game against Suffolk be- The Engineers seemed to settle

gan with a slow start, much down after the disorganizationslower than the fast paced Tufts- and confusion of the last two

2,eA~tg[ URI match played earlier the minutes of the first period, butW sane day, but more intelligently Suffolk continued applying pres-

ayaged and with cleaner passing. sure and extended its lead to 4-1The Engineers were playing their at the 2:39 mark with a strong

- :1 usual physicil game, slowing the drive up theleft wing from centerRams in the neutral zone, but ice. The MIT defense stoodperhaps not applying as much strong over the next five minutespressure in the Suffolk zone as as the Enginthrs played short-they could have with more handed on high sticking and in-fcorechecking. terfe~rence calls.

The EngiIleers put themselves Halfway through the period,on the scoreboard first- convert- the w Engineerse ut the lead to 4-2ing a 5-on-3 powerplay oppor_,- on a power play. Alec ,essiman

~I~I %nity at-the 13:35 mark. The play '88 puta the pucek on the creasestarted with good passing be- from behind the Suff'olk net andtween the men at the point, then Henry IDotterer '91 lifed it over

~~~iK~~~~~h ~~defenseman Rick RussellG the sprawled netmiuder for theslipped forward into'a hole in the goal. This goal seemed to fire upSuffolkdefensetoput a lowshot the MIT team, especially thepast the R~ams' goaltender. It Jrfont line of IDotterer, Jeff Bates

Victor iau/Thelooked as if the Engineers would '90 andl John Santotro '89 whoDarlene6e~ild '88 ges fora lay-p durig lastnightsgame aainst uffolk head to the lockers with a one were playing with added gusto.won the gambile 55-35.sfrala-pdrngls igt aeagis ufok goal lead, but with less than two (Please turn to parge 15)

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IBy Peter Dunn

The MIlT women's hockey teampaid a visit to Boston Universitylast Friday and left the BU Terri-ers in their dust as, by evening'send, they rode off with a 2-0 vic-tory. Despite missing several keyplayers, the Engineers dominatedthe entire game and, if not for,some excellent BU goaltending,would have tallied a more lopsid-ed score.

The -Engineers dominated thefirst 1S minutes of play withstrong forechecking and hardplay along the boards in the BUzone. This pressure resulted inseveral good scoring opportuni-ties as MIT was able to set upplays from behind the BU goaland from along the boards. Un-fortunately, the BU goalterdirngkept MIT scoreless during thefirst period despite these manyscoring chances.

The key to MIT's game, how-ever, was more their defense thantheir offense. In an ostensibly no-check game, the Engineer defenseapplied a healthy dose of bodycontact to their opponents, timeand again stopping the Terrier of-fensive drives in the neutral zone.This intimidating, physical atti-tude set the tone for the gameand assured MIT's dominationover the Terriers.

The second period continued

much as the first but with theTerriers forechecking better, thusslowing down the MIT offense.Even so, the Engineers managedto break through, as they scoredtheir first goal just past thegame's halfway mark.

Liz Stock '90, open at the rightof the BU crease, scored on acentering pass from Katie Hope.And even as the MIT offenseslowed a bit, the defense hungtight, not even allowing a shot ongoal during BU's lone power playof the period. The BU goaltend-ing continued to excel, denyingMIT any further goals.

It looked as if the Terriersmight pull out a tie as they putseveral shots on net during theopening minutes of the third pe-riod, but this short burst was tobe their final gasp. At the 4:00minute mark the Engineers againscored as Julie Ask '90 swipedthe puck under the BU goal-tender on a slow shot fromSandy Linde '87 from a passfrom Tanya Jegeris '89. The 2-0score did not seem like an over-whelming victory for the Engi-neers, but MIT had dominatedthe game from start to finish.

The Engineers skated to a 3-2home victory on Monday eve-

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