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Volume C, Number 55
University of Southern California
Tuesday, April 8, 1986
Ethnic clubs unite International Night features entertainment
By Jennifer Lewis
Staff Writer
"There's so much that we share, that it's time we're aware, it's a small world after all. . .
Fourteen clubs representing countries from all over the world will come together to perform on one stage this evening, in the university's fifth annual International Night.
The theme of the two-hour spectacle is "It's A Small World." The festivities will begin at 7 p.m., with a catered reception following the performances.
Produced by the International Student Assembly (ISA), the show is one of the events of this week's Trojanfest, sponsored by the Program Board.
The show is designed to introduce university students and faculty to different cultures by featuring a variety of folk songs, dances and music that are representative of major regions of the world — Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
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Police seek suspects in student killing
Composite photos released by LAPD detectives
By Matthew Gaven
Staff Writer
Daniel Boyer, a part-time university student, was shot and killed during the robbery of a local Safeway supermarket on March 24. Police released composite photos Thursday of two men believed responsible for the robbery and his death.
The robbery occured at about
8	p.m. that evening, at the Safeway on the comer of Vermont Avenue and 3rd Street.
Detective John Murphy of the Los Angeles Police Department, Rampart division, said, "These are composite sketches constructed from eyewitness accounts of the incident."
Murphy explained that police have received several calls about the photos but have no concrete leads.
"We're trying to match the photos up to particular subjects, but it is very difficult, " he said. "At this point, we are still investigating."
Murphy said he could not confirm the rumor that this incident is connected with several supermarket robberies within the area in recent weeks.
"There have been several oth-
er supermarket robberies, but we haven't been able to determine if there is any kind of connection between them," he said.
Murphy was able to provide a synopsis of the incident but would not reveal all the details because of the ongoing investigation.
"The two men approached the first cashier at gunpoint and ordered all the money in the register to be handed over," he said. "They proceeded down the line of cashiers until they got to Boyer's station."
"Apparently he didn't know that the store was being robbed, or possibly he reacted slowly because of his handicap," Murphy added.
Martin Duran, Boyer's broth-er-in-law, explained that Boyer suffered a stroke when he was ten years old. The’stroke left him slightly paralyzed and resulted in a limp and slightly reduced mobility in one of his arms.
"He might have been confused by what was happening, or he might not have heard the
demands of the robbers," Duran said.
Murphy said, "He was shot
Abandoned infant found in car trunk in front of Kappa Alpha Theta house
By Richard Hatem
Assistant City Editor
An infant was found early Monday morning locked in the trunk of a car parked on the Row.
Sgt. Douglas Dreyer of the Los Angeles Police Department said that at approximately 1:30 a.m., two students walking down 28th Street "heard cries coming from the front end of a car."
The students alerted a night security guard at the Pi Beta Phi house who then contacted the
LAPD, he said.
According to the police report, a white male infant, believed to be one or two-days-old, was removed from the locked trunk of a white Volkswagen by responding police officers and taken into protective custody.
The child was later transported to California Hospital, where he is in "good condition," Dreyer said.
The car was parked in front of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house, and police confirmed
that the registered owner is a resident of the house. However, Dreyer said, at this time they have no reason to believe the car's owner is also the parent of the child.
Detectives are currently trying to identify the child's parents but have no leads at this time, Dreyer said.
Hospital officials could not be reached for updates concerning the child's condition and residents at the Kappa Alpha Theta house refused to comment on the incident.
These two men are believed to be responsible for the robbery of a Safeway supermarket during which a part-time university student was shot and killed.
once. . . (and) later proun-ounced dead at the scene.
He speculated, based on the location of the shot, that the gunmen intended to kill Boyer but he would not say where the gunshot struck Boyer.
Boyer came to the university as a journalism student, before changing his major to communications.
"He just had a few more classes to go before he graduated," Duran said. "He had quite a few student loans" for which he tried to raise money by working at Safeway.
Duran added that after graduation Boyer had wanted to attend law school.
"He had an aviator's license and wanted to pursue some type of (aeronautics) law," he said.
In addition to the composite photos, police released a description of the vehicle used by the gunmen, in the hopes that someone might have seen the vehicle flee the scene.
They are looking for a 1978 to 1982 Chevy Camaro, or Pontiac Trans Am, two-door, black with a gold design on the hood.
RALPH R. CALVO DAILY TROJAN
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. The International Society for Krishna Consciousness held a festival on campus Monday, featuring free food and song.
Human rights to be discussed
Nobel laureate to talk about U.S. role in Latin America
By Sigal Rose Kletzky
Staff Writer
Adolfo Perez Esquivel, a 1980 Nobel Peace Prize winner, will be discussing the U.S. role in the Latin American crisis this afternoon.
Seeking to increase public awareness of the Latin American situation as well as non-violent methods of implementing change, Perez Esquivel will focus his lecture on the foreign debt crisis, human rights and democracy in his speech at Bovard Auditorium.
In 1971, Perez Esquivel, a sculptor and art professor, joined the Argentine Service for Peace and Justice, an organization dedicated to the Gandhian principle of "militant non-violence."
Two years later he founded Paz y Justicia, the organization's monthly magazine, and in 1974 he was named director of the group.
Jailed by the Argentinian government in 1977 for 15 months, held on no formal charge, Perez Esquivel was severely tortured and abused.
Jailed by the Argentinian government i%1977 for 15 months, held on no formal charge, Perez Esquivel #as severely tortured and abused. He was finally freed when the government succumbed to international demands for his release.
Awarding Perez Esquivel the Nobel Peace Prize on Oct. 13,
1980,	the Nobel Committee stated in its citation: "The prizewinner is an Argentinian, but the views he represents carry a vital message to many other countries, not the least in Latin America, where social and political problems as yet unresolved have resulted in an escalation of the use of violence."
In Esquivel's view, the vast majority of impoverished and uneducated Latinos represent a threatening economic problem in Central America, Mexico and South America.
"You cannot talk solely of human rights in terms of torture and imprisonment and killing. True, this is the gravest aspect. But we must also look at the case of the peasant who has no land and is dying of hunger," Perez Esquivel said in an interview after winning the Nobel award.
Critical of the U.S. policy because of its addiction to violence, Perez Esquivel opposes military and financial aid to the Nicaraguan rebels, known as the contras, said Einar Eisner, co-chair of Policy Alternatives for Central America.
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