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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1978
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SALT talks to proceed
despite actions in Africa
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Defense Sec
retary Harold Brown says unless the
'activities of the Soviet Union and
Cuba in Africa are checked, there
will be a “real risk of another Cold
War.
But Brown, interviewed Sunday
on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” reiter
ated the United States has no inten
tion of sending combat troops to Af
rica in an attempt to halt Soviet-
ICuban involvement.
“I think if the Russians and the
Cubans are not checked in Africa it
will create a very serious situation,
and 1 think its effects will not be lim
ited to Africa,” Brown said. “I think
ithere would be a real risk of a return
jto the Cold War.”
i Asked if that meant American mil
itary action in Africa or anywhere
else in the world, he replied: “I ve
said, and I repeat, we have no inten
tions of engaging U.S. military
forces in combat in Africa.”
Brown said although U S.Soviet
relations have not been favorable
recently, “there has not been, and
this administration does not intend
to have, a return to the Cold War.
For that reason, we hope that the
Soviets will not carry out actions
that might push the world in that
direction.”
Brown also said the United States
would not hold up progress on the
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
with the Soviets “in order to dem
onstrate unhappiness with Soviet
actions in Africa.”
But he said the reaction from
Congress could be a different mat
ter.
“I think inevitably African adven
turism on the part of the Soviet
Union would make it harder to get a
SALT agreement approved by the
Congress,” he warned.
Soviets expel
American guides
United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union
Sunday ordered the expulsion of
two American guides at the travel
ing agriculture show in the U.S. ex
hibition on grounds that they slan
dered the Soviet state and social sys
tem.
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U.S. Embassy spokesmen con
firmed that the Soviet Foreign
Ministry had protested what it
called the “impermissible activities”
of the guides and ordered them ex
pelled.
The guides were identified as
Walter Lupan of Washington, D.C.,
and Anthony Mashiocci of Boston.
Lupan, the only Ukrainian
speaker among the 23 guides, left
the Soviet Union last week when
the show ended its stay in Kiev, the
Ukrainian capital.
Mashiocci was scheduled to re
main with the show for the rest of
the tour to Tselinograd, Dushanbe,
Kishinev, Moscow and Rostov-on-
Don .
Diplomatic sources said they
could not recall a previous expulsion
of a guide at a U.S. exhibition in the
Soviet Union although veterans of
the shows said the Soviets fre
quently complain about answers
given by guides, usually in response
to heckling.
Ambassador views display
Iranian ambassador Dr. Ardeshir Zahedi, left, examii
passive solar energy system models while Texas A&M
toral student Mo Hourmanesh explains them. Texas AM
seeking $290,000 from Iran to conduct architectural reseaul
into passive systems. Hourmanesh, an Iranian, woulddin|
the experiment.
Age-old curse lingers
Drinking still a problem
for people in Soviet Unio
United Press International
MOSCOW — More than 1,000
years ago, as the story is told, St.
Vladimir offered an assessment of a
problem that has been an age-old
curse for Russia.
“It is Russia’s joy to drink. We
cannot do without it, he reportedly
said.
It is February in Tyumen, the
biggest town in the Soviet Union’s
vast Western Siberian oil producing
region. At 10:30 p.m., it is so cold
that the wind cuts through four
layers of clothing.
Four teenagers stand on a street
corner across from a park, their wool
coats opened to the wind and cold.
The weather doesn’t seem to bother
them, and the reason for their in
visible insulation becomes apparent
to a passing Western reporter.
“Say, what region are you from?”
one of the boys calls to the reporter.
He and his friends are swaying like
saplings in a changing wind. They
are sharing what is left of a clear
glass bottle of vodka.
It is a scene often repeated across
the Soviet Union.
The government long ago recog
nized it faced a national drinking
problem. Hardly a year has passed
that has not included another attack
against the age old devil recognized
by St. Vladimir centuries ago.
The Soviet' Council of Ministers
opened the latest offensive in April,
approving a series of measures de
signed to educate Soviet society
about alcoholism, and failing that, to
scare drunks back into line.
Gorky which showed that
half of the city’s heavy drii S
family incomes of less than! L e * riev
month.
The Soviet press isoneoll
indicators of the extent
f a Du
art of
ing problem. Cases of alo
that reach the publicity st ^ II . ’
generally intended to serve! msi s
ings to the general public.
Six of the 11 measures against al
cohol fall into the educational cate
gory. The remainder fall into the
legal category, and they indicate
Soviet police will be cracking down
on public drunks.
It is difficult to pinpoint the ex
tent of the problem in modern
Soviet society because the govern
ment keeps secret its figures on
hospitalization and treatment for al
coholism.
It also denies there are sociologi
cal causes for alcoholism in the
Soviet Union — at one point offer
ing the explanation that there were
more alcoholics because people had
more free time to drink and more
money to spend on vodka.
Western analysts reject that ar
gument, pointing to a study in
iy at le
e for h
I'h i le t
nbers
sity b;
Mexico City has annual housing
because of migration from rural areas
The magazine Young Coi
reported in 1975 that alcohol
more than half of the suicii
dental deaths and crimestnlgrams,
place in the Soviet Union. )ul balls,
, i i W’ sun f
It cpioted research shov|J. co ar
in one rural region of centni!IL[ )a ]] ((
the average child first dran»] le ^. r
at the age of 11 and one-halMmond
ken ness was cited as theraJL) p 0 j s
percent of all divorces in thf® ta ] <e
Nationally, the data is H U' woir
ficult to pinpoint. TheSo«fWop-n e<
stopped publishing the aniijj,-^ an
sumption figures jn theearlILp 0 f
However, Harvard f^heerleadi
Russian Research Centere 1 Andy p
the average Russian drinl| ailU g er
6.3 quarts of alcohol ayOarling ai
pared to 4.75 quarts for iky ca t t .h,
American. chen she
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United Press International
MEXICO CITY — Mexico City
has an annual housing deficit of
805,600 dwellings because of in
creasing migration from rural areas,
according to a study by the city gov
ernment’s Immigration Commis
sion.
Only 110,000 new housing units
are built in Mexico City every year,
while the population increases by
1.5 million, the study said.
In addition, there are 240,000
marriages in the Mexican capital
each year, and newlyweds have a
difficult time finding a a
The growing influx from'!
tryside has made the m"
ment situation in Mexico
the study said. Two milk
are out of work and eigt'
more are underemployed.
THE DECISION
It was a hot day in August on
the Texas Gulf coast. I was
working on a construction job
then and it was at this time that
I made the decision.
I decided, almost for no rea
son, to quit my job and return
to college. At first it seemed
like an insignificant decision. It
was just a decision to go back to
school, to get a better job, and
to somehow broaden my hori
zons. But this decision actually
was the turning point and cul
mination of a young life already
disillusioned.
At twenty years old I really
had not tried a lot of things, but
the few things I had tried just
didn’t fit me. They were like
trying on an ill-fitting suit
which, after having been worn
a moment, is taken off with dis
gust while still looking for the
suit with the proper fit. I had
already tried college on before,
but at that time it just didn’t fit.
Working and making money
also wasn’t quite the fit I was
looking for. I even tried on the
hippie philosophy, as that
movement was waning, and
again the suit didn’t fit.
So the decision on that day in
Texas was really a milestone in
my life. It really meant I had
tried everything I could — and
still I had nothing. So, almost in
disgust, I returned to school.
After a few weeks back with
my friends and a fresh start in
school, the turning over of the
proverbial new leaf began to
lose its greenness and started to
dry up like all the other
ventures I had tried.
At this point in my life a mar
velous experience took place. I
was sitting in a Christian meet
ing, a meeting similar to the
hundreds I had been in as a
youth. But this time something
was different. The words that
were spoken that night pierced
every part of my being. They
were words, but words that
conveyed the Lord Jesus to me.
It was then that I realized that
He was what I needed. He was
the suit with the proper fit. The
more I listened that night, the
more I was drawn to Him. The
decision I had made earlier that
summer was for the decision I
was facing that night,
had to make the decision
cisions. That night I c* 11
longer resist Him, so
the decision to receive
take Him as my veryli
that moment os decisii
whole life was revoluti'
Instead of disillusionffl 0
disgust, I was full ancM
in every way. This wasf
thing for me — the suit*
fectly. 1 gave myself wfo
the Lord Jesus. All w’
sions became decisions'
low Him. Since then the"
never been any decisi*
disgust, just decisions of
follow the Lord Jesus
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