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# STUDENT NEWS SHEETGUATEMALA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS START A "LITERACY DRIVE". The Association of University Students of Guatemala has pledged itself to undertake an alphabetization campaign on a national scale. It is expected that a good number of students from the two universities in the country will cooperate in this effort to reach the illiterate.CHILE. The Federation of Students of the Catholic University (FEUC) held its Sixth Ordinary Convention of Students from September 30th. to October 3th. Among the topics discussed were: "The Idea of a University", "the nature and the Problems of Today's University", "The Development and actual Position, of Latin American Universities". These discussions culminated in a series of proposals which open the way for a effective, modem University Reform. The basic documentation has been condensed in book from under the title, "The University, Our Task" this book, edited by the Federation, is unique in its kind in Latin America.ONE HUNDRED PANAMANIAN STUDENTS TO MOSCOW: According to Cesar Brugiarti, a student at Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University and President of the Association of Panamanian Students in mat capital, there are thirty young men from Panama studying there but the number will soon be raised to one hundred. These students go to Moscow by way Mexico, Havana, Prague.IN PROSPECT: AN UNION OF CENTRAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: Student leaders from the Universities of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Panama are working-both locally and collectively - on plans to establish an Union of Central American University Students. Although the idea is not a new one it seems to have found a particularly favorable atmosphere at this time and it is highly probable that it will be carried out to completion.THE PROGRAM OF POPULAR COOPERATION: A SOURCE OF DISCORD IN PERU. The opposition parties in Peru, while accepting as necessary the Popular Cooperation Program technical asistance for communal projects promulgated by President-80-launde and backed in a mayor pare by the students, are opposed to the centralization of its control entirely into the hands of the President.The opposition coalition headed by the APRA asts that the Program be "municipalized" that is that each locality receive the necessary funds and administer them as it deems convenient. The APRA alleges that this would prevent communist infiltration to the program.TO VISIT EAST GERMANY, ONE PREREQUISIT: AGE. In East Germany elderly people are allowed to visit their relatives in West Germany but young people are not permitted to make the trip. The ascuse given by the government: "It is more likely that repressive measures will be taken in the West against the young". Then it adds, somewhat in the manner of a patch: "No ane must think we do not trust our youth..."A "NEW ROAD" FOR THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF CHILE In a recent meeting, the students of the Catholic University analized "the necessity of adapting their studies and the University to the social demands of today's world".Among the decisions approved: that the University act "with greater independence with regard to the ecclesiastical hierarchy" upon impressing that institution "the renovation spirit of the Church of John XXIII and Poul VI contained in the present Ecumenical Council".![photo of Juanin Pereira Varela]Juanin Pereira VarelaMen who have attained a true understanding of the reason for their existence cannot be satisfied with mere subsistence. Their lives find meaning only in service. Service to God and to man. These words embody, to a large extent, the greatness of those men whom history bas claimed for itself and whom huminity holds in admiration for the fruitful results of their endeavors. Their eagerness to service led to acheive for their fellows new horizons of material comfort, of intellectual satisfaction of spirtual attainment. These same words are perhaps also the ely ones which could make youths throughout the world usżalize the profound meaning of the sacrifice of hundreds of Cuban Students and in particular of Juanin Pereira Varela..His life contemplated no ideal but to serve. To serve God, to serve his Land, to serve his countrymen by Kining them an opportunity to live in a free and just land. His life from the moment the establishment of a dictatorial govern-nent in Cuba became an unquestionable reality, was dedicated to battle and to toil. From the tanks of the D.R.E., he struggled against the evil that had reduced to angry impotence the longigs for permanent peace and freedom in the hearts of our people. He fought the enemy that impeded the establishment of a Christian system and drowned the jor in the hearts of his countrymen. He toiled to ascertain that in the future that system, that joy, and ther justice could exist.His would not be the joy however of seing tas labors bear fruit. It was his lot to die and by his death achieve what his hands could not.His blood would reawaken in his countrymen de fervor of patriotism and he would stand as an example to the "Continent of Hopes" which more and more demands to be a continent of human realizations.That was the life of Juanin Pereira. It was tecutat to an end by militiament's bullets given by the Serges Union to strike down all who oppose the empire they seek to establish. But the bullet that struck him down on that Ce-tober day of 1961 brought forth. A seed that now quietis germinates in every corner of his land, that cries oct to the world that Cuba does not give up, does not super does not die. Inspite of some faithless sons, of forei coops that tramp through our land, of opportunistic Western governments, the seed watered by Juanin Pereira's blood will bear fruit, it now grows and the land that holds it vibrates with its growth and the skies above it echo more loud each day:LONG LIVE CUBA!LONG LIVE CHRIST THE KING!