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n, Nicaragua and Philippines hav s"mi arifes, experts say ~/iy Beth Welner Marcos fam; ly and their !'!use when large se?ments_of a population force and caused.a chain of events S1m:e 1979 three countries vital to friends becar 1e mult1-rnill10na1 res are angry with their government leading to more v10lence and death. she said. Under the pressure, the Shah's forces disintegrated. assassination only increased the anger of the demonstrators, causing Marcos to flee. A 1er1can interests have had revolu- at the expense of the lo ·er clns es. leaders/' Otto c_ontinued. "In Ir~n, "A riot started in a large Muslim hon . Dr. Le Ann Otto, assistant When all three nallons exper, 1 · the leftists and liberals worked with city, and there were numerous profe or of Political Science at the ed economic troubles, their polill• al the radical clergy to overthrow the deaths," Otto said. "Several weeks Um 1t of San~, discussed positions becam~ "shaky." Form~r ~~?l. . . later the~e was a m~morial service the uml ·r ymg cause leading to the supporters were angered by mfla- . Moderates ~n_N1caragua worked f~r the v~;tuns and 1t caused more overthrow of th' leaders of Iran, tion, the government's in- with the Sa_nd1mstas ~o topple t~e v10lence. . . 1 ar ua, and the Philippine . An competence, and the loss of Somoza regune. And m the Ph1Hp- Months later a rehg1ous rally was th ro num rous articles on inter- revenues from falling export prices. pmes, a small group of commurusts held m Tehran, and after the pro- In Nicaragua, a nat10nwide strike was triggered after the death of the publisher of the government's main opposllion newspaper. Many Nicaraguans Llamed Somoza nd "The results of the Iraman and Nicaraguan revolutions were un- favorable to the United States, '01to concluded. ''The United S :.tls learned its lesson from mistake, made in Nicaragua and Iran.

riots broke out throughout the c.:oun- try. The Nationa Guard was unable to keep the anti- 1 overnment pro- testors in check, and eventually its crackdown fail '1. the Philippines were sparked by the death of opposition leader Benigno Aquino. An attemp- ted government cover-up of the Riots in

"In addition to talking to Marcos during the last days of his regime, the United States also contacted the country's moderates and business leaders. For that reason, the United States is doing fine in the Philip- pines."

n t11 n I v1olenc , Otto has also ht nt th University of British Columb1a and Michigan State

Although the poor were the chief victims of authotitarian rulers, Otto noted a revolution needs the backing of middle and uwer mcome groups

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testors refused to leave, the Shah's forces opened fire, killing and woun- ding many people. This incident the demonstrators and former spordiac violence turned into a "mass revolutionary movement," united

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lcara ua, ,md the Philippines each nau n had a penod or modernization and "rt In , e pectations," Otto h economic advances w r made, only a small segment of the population hen ·fited from the in- ustn liz.ttlon process Whll th p or r ved little - far I than wt, t h •y w re led to pcct the rn ddle and upper cla s pro pered The gap between th cl s widened. "TI1 •re ar far more parallels in th s1tuat10n of Iran, Nicaragua, and th Phrhppines than most people realize,'' Otto said. She discussed how the Shah or Iran tr formed his nation into an i 1- rlal tc dunng h 19GO by us! 011 revenue·. Iran's so-called 'White R volution" enabled steel nd petrochemical companies to ex- pand, making millions for ockholdcrs. Modern1zat1on helped a handful or Ira man pea. ants who were able to b come landowners for the first time in their lives, Otto said. But the vast majority of farmers were forc- ed off their land by the technology of the agro-indu Ines. These peasants could not compete and made their way to large city slums in Iran. "Watching other groups prosper made the d1 placed peasants angry and frustrated." Otto said. "Later their feehn s surfaced in violence." During the 19~0s and 1960s, .segments of :-.licaragua's population pro pered There was a rise in the p ce or the country's major exports, enablmg 1caragua to have the third fa test cc normc growth rate among Latrn American countries. Nicaragua also received aid from th Unit d States under the Alliance for Pro ress program. For a time, the nnt10n was considered a "sh wplace of Lat.in America." '"l'hi.s rapid industrialization did little to improve the way of life for the loy,er classes," Otto continued. ' Wages were kept low. In addition many pea nts lost the1r farms b cause they could not keep up with the ro Ing number of mechanized farm proutmg up around them. D1 tator Somoza and his family nd friends received the greatest bend t from the modernization of 'he country." e Pluhppines had an excellent growth rate during the 1970s, she aid, and the Marcos government modernized light industry and agriculture. Yet the average F1hpmo experienced little change in his standard of living. Otto said the 1d tho

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SAN DIEGO-For Hank Egan, U!J.1Ymi1Y of San Diego basketball coach, 1t was great having four senior starters and two more sen- iors playing key roles off the bench when the 1986-87 college basket- ball season began last November. Now that USD's season has end- ed-its last game was two weeks ago, a 62-61 Joss to Auburn in the first round of the NCAA tourna- ment-it's not so great. Scott Thompson, Nils Madden, Paul Leonard, Mark Manor, Steve Krallman and Eric Musselman all played key roles in the TorerDs' most successful season m school history. Thompson, lJSIYs 7-foot center. is expecting to be drafted in late in the first or early in the second round by the National Basketball Assn. this June. Thompson Jed USO in scoring and was named the West Coast Athletic Conference's play,~r of the year after leading the T re- ros to a 13-1 conference record and the regular-season championship. Madden, a strong 6-9 forward; Manor, a deadly three-point shoot- er, and Leonard, a nifty point guard, formed the hub of an experi enced team that won a cha l re cord 14 consecutive game, ave ne second half of the seasor> "It was the best group ot pld I've ever been associated with, Egan said. The Toreros won six of seven

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time per game. Mike Haupt, a backup guard who will be a junior next season, was used sparingly because of various miur1es. "Next year is definitely going to be challenging," Egan said, "be- cause there are so many of the pieces of the puzzle that need to be put back together." In November, Egan signed two front-line high schooi players to letters of intent-John Sayers, a 6-7 forward from Bellerman High School in San Jose, and Keith Coleman, a 6-8 forward from Chico High School in Chico. Egan also said he has received oral commitments from two other players, both from Southern Cali- fornia Because of NCAA rules, Egan was not able to name the 11ewcomers. "We have inked two and we have received verbal commitments from two," Egan said. "Now we need to find two others." Egan has received some criticism for his recruiting, as USD's confer- ence championship team this sea- son was made up mostly of players recruited by former USO Coach 1m Brovelh Thompson Madden . 11,,a( a1,a Musselmar v11ere eu·uneo by Brovelh m 1984 However, Egan, in his three years at USO, has brought in players such as Means, Manor and Pete Murphy, an all-conference

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field-goal percen ge defense. "This team ca n any group I've ever had,'' Egan aid. "The players understood then strengths and weaknesses, and they understood they had to work hard. ''All of the te· s I have in the future will now be compared with this team" Starting with next year's team. Since USD is osmg six players, many are expect mg it to fall back in the WCAC .pack next season. Of those returnmg, only Danny Means, a guard who will be a Junior next season , and Marty Munn, a reserve for"Wa·a played a signifi- cant number of mmutes for the Toreros •his seasc "It was g eat ha mg a lot of expenem:ed play~i·s until the sea- son was over," Egan said. 'Now. it's not so great. Hopefully, the younger kids who were a part of the team this year but didn't play much saw what it took and will help establish a tradition of success at this university. • · ~.gan'; 1~t of eturnmg players '1 i, . r VI ; ,et 6 ,dtK~~ ~uaro !Jld ~a tn JU~( ,3 ~dlllt'ti lh!S season. ano Jim Pelton, a reserve forward, played in only 12. Neither averaged more than eight minutes of playing closer to reach- ing its potential t

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"We've recru1tej so!Tle good ones," Egan said · Sure next year can be described a. a rebu11Jing year, but we're gomg to have ome good recruiting years. especially this year." Egan conceded that it is unlikely that USD wtll enjoy the success next season that it had this.one, but he'~ looking forward to the chal- lenge ·r can see why people would say there's going to be some slippage next season," Egan 3aid. "My job is to make sure that we don't shp too far." /.

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tean, ot Dav1d Stewart tridge defeated Jeff James Savarese 6-1 1 6-3 to lead the Toreros past visiting Dartmouth, 6-2, in the first round of the USO Inter- collegiate Inv1tat1onal In other first- round matches Brown defeated owa, 6-2 and ebraska blanked W hing- t'J>a- i s and

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legiate Invitationa , e eating visit- ing Nebraska, 5-1. Scott Patridge, playing No. 1 singles, and John McNamee at No. 3 led USD.

doubles and three RBI to l~ USD's baseball team past visiting Point Loma Nazarene, 6-1, in a non-confer- ence game yesterday. Dav_e !Jonastero (2-0) pitched seven mmngs against the Crusaders. The Torreros (21-10-1) face visiting UC-Irvine this afternoon at 2:30.