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TORONTO (CUP) - Nicar- agua’s Sandinista govern- ment declared a national state of emergency March 14, ‘‘to counter imminent aggression coming from the U.S.’’, according to Carlos- Fernando Chamorro, editor of Barricada.

Chamorro, in Canada to publicize the current status of Nicaragua, said the U- nited States administration is pouring funds into out- side efforts to destabilize the leftist Sandinista gov- ernment. He was a guest speaker March 29 at a Toronto conference, ‘‘Social Movement, Social Change: The Remaking of Latin A- merica’’. .

“Since the moment. the Sandinistas took power, they h ave been engaged in the important process of agrarian reforms and of constructing a system of pluralism and democracy,’’ Chamorro said.

But the Nicaraguans face opposition, he said. There are 2,000 National Guards, loyal to deposed dictator Anastazio Samoza, concen- trated on the northern bor- der of neighbouring Hon- duras.

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are believed to be support- ed by the sympathetic Hon- duran Armed Forces, said Chamorro. There are also 22 Argentinian army of- ficers in Honduras, active in training the guerillas.

Chamorro claimed that $19 million has been pump- ed into destabilizing op- erations by the United States National Security Council since last Novem- ber.

The U.S. operations, he told a press conference, have included attacks a- gainst some ‘‘crucial cen- tres of Nicaragua’s econo- mic .infrastructure.’’ He said some bridges in the country have been destroy- ed by the Samoza guerillas, and cement plants have been blown up.

‘There are great U.S. military activities taking place all over the Carrib- bean and Central America, proposing hostile action in Nicaragua,’’ said Chamor- ro.

Chamorro is the founding editor of Barricada, one of the daily newspapers in Nicaragua and the official voice of the Sandinista Na- tional Liberation Front (FSLN).

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RBS oN Pert ome ALE en

by lan Hunter

‘‘The students of Douglas College are willing to pay a price for their education,’’ said outgoing Student So- ciety President Kevin Hall- gate to the College Board April 1st. Hallgate was recommending raising tui-

tion fees for part time.

students in order to save summer school.

The board accepted Hall- gate’s proposal. Earlier that week, the college manage- ment discussed raising tui- tion fees and shutting summer school in order to curb an expected half mil- lion dollar deficit in the college budget next year.

Management was to re-

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commend the College Board increase tuition from $12 per credit to $14 per credit, with a maximum tuition of $196 for full time students. This would keep tuition at 5%% of the total college budget. Chopping an al- ready depleated summer school would save about $60,000.

The board instead took Hallgate’s recommendation of raising tuition to $15 per credit while keeping the ‘maximum at $195, thus affecting the part time stu- dents more. This would raise the $60,000 needed to keep summer school! going.

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Enrolment for summer school this year is expected to be around a thousand students.

‘People figure we -(stu- dents) are out for a free ride,’ said Hallgate, ‘‘but we’ve tried to show by our recommendation that our education means more to us than money.’’

Mike Miller, a Canadian Federation of Students fieldworker, said of the decision, ‘‘its just another example of students making ‘up for government cut- backs.’’

Douglas College given computer

by lan Hunter

Obsolecence sometimes has its rewards... at least for Douglas College it does. Douglas has just acquired, for free, an IBM computer that originally cost around $350,000 dollars in 1974 when the machine was bought by Weldwood, a logging company.

Dave Reed, Operations Manager at Weldwood said,

the machine has no. mar- ket value, its obsolete. If we were to sell it we would be practically giving it away. By giving it to an educational institution -we can at least get some tax writeoff and the students

get to use it, so it is to our mutual benefit,’’ said Reed.

Reed says the machine was costing too much to maintain. ‘‘For roughly the same price (of the original computer) we get the new IBM which has about 8 times the capacity of the old machine, with four mil- lion bits of information in its memory as well as being more efficient and cheaper to run.”’

Marsh Price, a computer specialist at Douglas who made the deal with Reed said it will aid the students greatly in understanding computers. ‘‘Some of the

circuits in the machine that Weldwood gave us are the size of dinner plates and because of miniturization,’’ says Reed, ‘‘those same circuits are the size of postage stamps.’’ The larg- er sized circuits will allow the students to see what is in the circuit.

“It was very good of Weldwood to give it to us,’’ said Price.

The computer is now in storage at the Winslow campus of Douglas College. It will be moved into the new campus in New West

which is scheduled to open |*--; in September. :

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