Ex-President
Dr. Fernando Belaunde Terry,
distinguished architect, regional plan
ner, and the last constitutional
president of Peru, serving from 1963 to
1968, will speak at a Regional Planning
Program conference of architects and
planners Friday at 1:15 pm in the
Gallery Lounge at Penn State's Capitol
Campus. His topic will be "New
Habitats for South Americans."
l3elaunde will shortly return to
Peru to prepare his Popular Action
Party for the promised constitutional
assembly and general elections. He has
spent the last nine years in exile in the
United States.
He formed the first middle-class
civilian government in Peruvian
history.
Having received his bachelor's
Balloons With
A Message
The colored ballons made a
charming picture as they drifted across
the hot Colorado sky, but they carried
a terrifying message: "...if you have
found this ballon, you live downwind
from the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons
Plant, which has...released radioactive
materials into the atmosphere several
times in the past 20 years. Radiation
that is spread by the same wind
currents that brought this ballon to
your area."
The balloons were released in July,
1976 by a group of demonstrators
standing on the grounds of the Rocky
Flats plant sixteen miles from Denver,
Colorado. This spring, on the 29th and
30th of April there will be another
larger demonstration at the plant.
Times have changed in the last two
years. There is a nation-wide wave of
concern over nuclear weapons and
nuclear energy, and it is expected that
the 1978 demonstration will draw
students and anti-nuclear activists
from across the country.
The Rocky Flats Nuclear Plant is
known as the "nuclear crossroads" of
the nation because it receives
plutonium produced by nuclear
reactors and turns it into "triggers"
(explosive devices) for all U.S. hydrogen
bombs. To its critics, it thus provides
the perfect example of the dangerous
relationship between nuclear energy
and nuclear weapons. During the last
20 years, Rocky Flats has been the site
of more than 200 fires and other
accidents, some of which have released
plutonium and other radioactive
Of Peru
To Speak
Dr. Belaunde also will discuss "The
Prospects of Democracy in Latin
America", tonight, at the meeting of
the Foreign Policy Association of
Harrisburg at 8 p.m. at Schindler's
Restaurant, Camp Hill.
degree in architecture at the
University of Texas in 1935, he
eventually became Professor of City
and Regional Planning and of Public
Housing, and Dean of Architecture at
the National University of
Engineering, Lima.
While in the United States he has
served as professor at Harvard,
American University, John Hopkins
University, Columbia University and
since 1973, visiting professor of urban
and regional planning, George
Washington University. •
material into the soil, water and air of
the Denver metropolitan area. These
accidents have motivated protests by
citizens' groups, a law suit by local
farmers who seek to stop further
contamination of their land, and a
formal recommendation from Colorado
Governor, Richard Lamm, that the
plant be phased out of operation.
The April 29-30 demonstration is
being planned by the Rocky Flats
Action Group and two national
organizations, the Fellowship of
Reconciliation and the American
Friends Service Committee. It will
take place on the first anniversary of
the Seabrook anti-nuclear occupation
and is endorsed by the Clamshell
Alliance. Many of the groups involved
in the Rocky Flats action are members
of the Mobilization for Survival, a
national coalition of peace, social
justice and environmental groups,
which has been organizing- and
encouraging similiar demonstrations
across the country in preparation for
the United Nations Special Session on
Disarmament, May 23-June 26, in New
York City.
On Saturday, May 27, the
mobilization plans a massive interna
tional demonstration in Dag
Hammarskjold Plaza to support world
disarmament. Earlier in the same
week, the Fellowship of Reconciliation
will open the Plowshare, a discussion
center and coffee house, in the Church
Center for the United Nations directly
across the street from the U.N.
Ambassador Andrew Young has
accepted an invitation to make the
opening address at the Plowshare.
During the five-week U.N. session, the
Plowshare will provide a meeting place
for U.N. delegates and members of the
public and a forum for lectures,
discussions and workshops on disarm
ament and related subjects. Through
out the Special Session, the F.O.R. will
Candidate Hager
Comes To Campus
By Jeff Stout
Gubernatorial candidate, Senator
Henry Hager will speak on Tuesday,
April 4 from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in
Room 216 at Penn State--Capitol
Campus.
For all of you who have been
keeping up with coverage of the
candidates for governor by Frank
Lynch here is a chance to answer the
question of "Henry Who?" The senator
will be available to answer any
questions that students have concern
ing the issues of the upcoming primary
in May.
Dr. Fernando Belaunde Terry
also sponsor a disarmament vigil which
will include music, street theater,
disarmament petition signing.
The F.O.R. will be glad to furnish
further information on Rocky Flats, the
Plowshare, and Mobilization programs.
Write to Endangered Human Species
Program, Box 271, Nyack, N.Y. 10960.
Hager is expected to speak on
topics that will be of primary concern
to voters in the gubernatorial race.
These topics will probably include the
Pennsylvania budget crisis and the
Penn State tuition increases due to the
funds cut off from the state. One of
Hager's platforms is to open the state
budget and allow the legislature to
participate in planning as well as
accepting the budget. The budget for
next year is currently being planned by
Governor Shapp but the legislature is
not directly involved in the planning.