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Castro rejects charges
United Press International
HAVANA — “We call it a
training center and our right
cannot be questioned. That is the
end of it.”
With those words at the start
of a news conference in the pres
idential palace Friday, Cuban
President Fidel Castro flatly re
jected charges that Soviet troops
were stationed in Cuba and ac
cused President Carter of being
“dishonest, insincere, immoral.
In Washington, Carter said he
watched Castro’s speech on tele
vision and added with a smile, “I
will comment Monday night ’
when he makes a television ad
dress to the nation.
Castro answered questions for
70 minutes from eight American
journalists invited to Cuba osten
sibly to hear him announce the
release of a new group of Cuban
prisoners.
He said, almost in passing,
that he would soon “release hun
dreds more” including his former
comrade-in-arms Huber Matos,
who has almost finished a 20-year
prison term that started in Oc
tober 1959.
Castro, however, wanted to
talk about the Soviet troops,
which he identified for the first
time as “military training center
number 12.”
He insisted that the number
and function of those troops is es
sentially unchanged since 1962.
U.S. intelligence has put the
number of Soviet troops at 2,800.
Castro also wanted to talk
about President Carter, who he
said “has created an artificial
crisis” because of his political
crisis and whose motives may
have been “to disrupt the
nonaligned conference and the
process boomeranged.”
Castro also rejected the idea of
a face-to-face meeting with Car
ter to settle the issue -— “because
I have an elemental feeling of
dignity” and Carter is “insin
cere.”
Castro, dressed in his usual
outfit of neatly pressed olive drab
fatigues and shiny black boots,
smoked small cigars almost con
stantly, gesturing with both
hands as the battery of television
cameras captured each move.
Although Castro claimed the
number of Soviet troops has re
mained constant, he said their
equipment has been updated.
But he declined to give details
because “that is a military se
cret.”
He rejected a proposal that a
group of American reporters ex
amine the training center to take
a first-hand look at the situation.
Castro said he would do so only if
the United States would permit
Cuban journalists to examine
U.S. military installations —
“beginning with the nuclear in
stallations and the command sta
tion.”
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ANOTHER LIFE
For as long as I can remember,
I’ve always had a desire to be
close to God and really know
Him. My problem, however,
was that I was never quite sure
just exactly how He fit into my
life. My parents took me to
church every Sunday, so I fig
ured I was at least doing my
“duty” to God by attending. Al
though I felt I was probably good
enough to squeeze into Heaven,
I was continually plagued with
nagging doubts and fears. Was
this what it meant to know God?
Would I really go to Heaven if I
died? There had to be more —
something I was missing.
Because ot my insecurity and
need to be loved, I clung tightly
to my family and a few close
friends during my high school
years. Although I enjoyed this, I
looked forward with great expec
tation to going away to college
and at last becoming my own
person. Upon graduation I
entered a small university in cen
tral Texas. Much to my surprise,
it wasn’t anything like I had ex
pected. I found it difficult to
break ties with family and friends
and many of my hidden in
adequacies and needs began to
surface. My so-called “indepen
dence” was the pits. I always
thought it was what I wanted but
quickly discovered that I was
much too insecure to be inde
pendent. Even though I made a
few new friends, the relation
ships seemed shallow. I felt an
absence of genuine love and that
no one was honestly concerned
for me as an individual.
I began to hate school and
traveled the seventy miles home
each weekend to seek the shelter
of my family, yet I knew I didn’t
really belong there either. I
sought to escape into a make-
believe world of kikker dancing
and drinking as a means of over
coming my inhibitions and inse
curity. Although it helped a lit
tle, it always left me wanting. I
knew there had to be something
more — something that would
last longer than an evening or a
night.
Late in the spring of my
freshman year, I decided to
transfer to Texas A&M. Since I
had always been a loyal Aggie
fan, I was excited about the
change. I just knew that this
would be the answer to all my
problems. I would at last be able
to make something of myself and
acquire the independence and
security I so desperately longed
for. Boy, was I wrong! I suddenly
found myself with all the same
problems, but this time too far
away to go home every weekend.
The roommate I was counting on
to help me survive moved out
during the first week. I was
lonely, homesick, and often de
pressed. I longed for deep and
meaningful relationships but
didn’t know where to look.
Then I got an idea. Why not
join a sorority? Surely I could
find security and love among the
“sisterhood”. I quickly pledged
into one, only to find out that it
was another great disappoint
ment. Relationships were shal
low and selfish. Even dating was
superficial and meaningless.
Once again, I retreated into my
shell of loneliness and depres
sion. What was the problem?
Why was I always so miserable?
One night as I was pondering
my hopeless situation, it sud
denly dawned on me that my real
need was to know God and be
close to Him. I had tried so many
things to find fulfillment, but all
had eluded me. I quickly picked
up the telephone and called an
elderly lady I had known for
some years. As I poured out my
frustration to her, she shared
with me how Jesus Christ loved
me so much tbat He died to pay
the penalty for the sin that stood
between Him and me. He
wanted to fill the void in my life
if I would only let Him. As she
continued to talk, I realized for
the first time that although I had
always gone to church, I’d never
personally given my life to Jesus.
It was something I wanted and
knew I needed.
I felt pretty good for the next
few weeks following our conver
sation but then things gradually
began to sour. I dropped out of
the sorority and sought love and
security through a relationship
with a guy. At first things
seemed so perfect; we loved one
another and felt secure in having
someone who really cared. But
soon what we called love turned
into a nightmare. Jealousy and
selfishness crept in, and I felt
trapped on a meaningless dead
end street. Eventually it ended
as I knew it would and I was
hurled into depression and lonel
iness once again.
It was at this time that I cried
out in desperation to the God I
had been rejecting for years. I
asked Him to forgive me of my
sin and rebellion and to take con
trol of my life. I simply told Him
that I now belonged to Him.
Since that time, I’ve learned
the total fulfillment and security
that comes from letting Christ
rule my life. His unconditional
love for me has made it possible
for the first time to have the
meaningful relationships with
others I so desired. Although
there have been difficult times,
they don’t even begin to com
pare with the emptiness I had
before coming to know Jesus
personally. He’s filled the void of
love and meaningness in my life
that I tried for so many years to
fill with people and things. Now
I am secure in His love and know
that He will never leave me or
let me down.
Gail Berry ’78
Food Science & Technology
846-6904
. I retreated into my shell of loneliness and
depression. .
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Defection crackdown starts
United Press International
MOSCOW — Despite defec
tions, and the resulting embarass-
ment to the Kremlin, Soviet troupes
and groups are still flying to the
United States in force.
The musicians, dancers and
athletes visiting the United States in
coming weeks also must convince
KGB agents traveling with them in a
variety of guises that they will hap
pily return to the motherland.
Example: one day after canceling
the Soviet State Symphony’s
month-long tour, apparently be
cause of the risks of new defections,
the Soviets applied to the U.S. Em
bassy for 35 visas for their European
Cup Boxing team to compete at
Madison Square Garden in Oc
tober.
Only 11 members of the group
are boxers. Six more were described
as masseurs, physicians and inter-
preters.
And the other 18?
“Well, they call them trainers,
said one Western source.
Could they be security agents,
possibly with the KGB, sent along
to prevent any defections?
“Let’s just say that the boxers are
the skinny ones.”
Members of the Soviet State
Television and Radio Symphony ar
rived in the United States last week
for a brief tour.
Why was their tour permitted
when the Soviet Symphony’s tour
was scratched?
“Because,” said one source famil
iar with the Moscow music world,
“there are more Jewish musicians in
the Soviet Symphony than in the TV
and Radio group.”
It is clear that the Soviets regard
Jews as a much greater defection
risk. The 120-member Bolshoi Or
chestra left for Japan last week at the
invitation of the New Artists Associ
ation of Japan, but only after a few
personnel changes one day before
their departure.
Visa applications for two mem
bers — director general M.K.
Davydov and musician U.G.
Loevsky — were canceled for
“health reasons.” Their places were
taken by two others. Both those
kept back were Jewish, one source
said.
The real degree of Soviet concern
with defections was seen in the can
cellation of the Soviet Symphony’s
October tour of 24 cities in the East
and South.
The first performance was to have
been Monday at Carnegie Hall in
New York, under the baton of
Maxim Shostakovich, son of the
Russian composer Dmitry Shos
takovich.
Rumors began circulating early
Thursday that the tour had been
canceled because officials feared
more defections.
The Ministry of Culture said only
that negotiations for the tour were
“still under way” — three days be
fore the group was to have left.
The definitive word came not
from the Culture Ministry but from
the State Concert Enterprise, Gos-
koncert. The tour was off, Goskon-
cert said, because the “American
representative had failed to fulfill
several conditions of agreement.”
The unfulfilled condition was re
portedly a guarantee from Columbia
that no defections would take place.
Other rumors, nearly impossible
to substantiate, said authorities
were conducting a “purge” of artists
and athletes to weed out possible
defectors before they were allowed
to travel abroad.
The Russians obviously did not
want to endure another month like
the one that began Aug. 22, when
Bolshoi ballet superstar Alexander
Godunov defected in New York.
His ballerina wife, Ludmila Vla
sova, returned to Moscow a
tense three-day standoff with
Department officials at Keni
airport, but the Soviets were noli
be spared further humiliation.
On Sept. 16, Godunovs Bi
colleagues, Leonid and Valeti
Kozlov asked for and receii
asylum in Los Angeles. They
their post-defection debut Oct
in New Orleans.
A week later, it was learned
two former Olympic ice ski
champions — Oleg Protopopov
his wife Ludmila Belousova -
fected in Switzerland Sept. 17.
As one Russian remarked un;
“Now you know why they wai
the games held in Moscow
the only place they knew where
one would defect.”
Energy agency urges
even higher fuel prices
United Press International
PARIS — A study released Friday
by the International Energy Agency
urged even higher prices for
gasoline and other fuels in the
United States and Canada to curtail
consumption to meet energy con
servation goals set for 1985.
“There is a growing risk of a seri
ous imbalance between energy sup
ply and energy demand in the 1980s
unless strong action is taken now,”
the study said.
It urged higher energy prices in
the United States and Canada in
order to dampen demand and
thereby increase supplies.
Japan was also cited as needing to
conserve more but through incen
tives rather than price and, if neces
sary, “mandatory measures.”
The two-year study compared
energy consumption and conserva
tion efforts among the 19 members
of the IEA, set up to help monitor
oil use and cooperative energy ef
forts in the wake of the Arab oil
boycott and price increases of 1973.
In addition to the United States,
Canada and Japan, the agency in
cludes all major West European
countries except France.
The IEA said it was encouraged
by increases in U.S. gas prices to a
$1 a gallon in the past year.
But it noted gasoline prices in
North America were still “generally
less than half that in other coun
tries,” mainly because of “relatively
small” taxes. In Italy, highest of the
IEA countries and among the
heaviest taxed, gasoline costs three
times as much as in the United
States.
International
Meditation Society
There will be a free introductory lecture on the
Transcendental Meditation Program on Tuesday
the 2nd of October at 7:30 P.M. in Room 140 MSC.
This lecture is for those just interested in the
general knowledge or in learning the technique
for expanding awareness and increasing enjoy
ment of all aspects of life.
Note: There will be an organizational meeting held at
6:30 p.m. the same evening for those who are already TM
practitioners.
World briefs
Town ruins found at bottom of Latvian lake
United Press International
MOSCOW — Out of the waters of the Latvian lake of Arayshuks
emerged the almost completely preserved ancient fortress of Latgak,
the Tass news agency reported.
The fortified settlement, home of the ancestors of modern-day Lat
vians, was discovered by aqualung divers who spotted strangetmveis
and battlements on the lake floor.
At the request of archaeologists of the Latvian Academy of Sci
ences, the lake was drained and the fortress emerged with articles
made of wood, leather, birch bark, and even foodstuffs preserved^
the centuries of layers of silt, Tass said Thursday.
According to specialists, the so-called “Lake Temple” is the oldest
and best-preserved settlement ever discovered in Eastern Europe
Traffic law aimed to protect Colosseum
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the Colosseum to protect it from corrosive automobile fumes
vibration, authorities said Sunday.
They said studies of the Colosseum’s walls made after the SeptJ
earthquake revealed serious new fissures in the first-century at
phitheater.
Aftershocks from the quake chipped small pieces from the Colos
seum, the Arch of Constantine and several temples in the Romai
Forum.
Traffic superintendent Tullio De Felice said the city was study®
plans to build a sloping embankment running beside the Colosseum
to keep cars and buses away from the main walls.
“The earthquake was just the last straw, said Adriano La Reggina.
superintendent of antiquities.
Man commits suicide in shredding machine
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A man apparently committed
suicide by jumping into a giant shredding machine at a sewage treat
ment plant, police said.
The unidentified man was found asleep on the plant’s grounds
Sunday by a watchman.
He managed to break away and then, as the watchman looked on,
jumped into a massive bacteria cleaning unit which has four shred
ders.
The machines were immediately switched off but police wereun
able to find his body.
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DUBLIN, Ireland — Pope John
Paul II carried his historic peace
pilgrimage to Ireland Saturday,
begging Catholics and Protestants
“on my knees’ to end their murder
and bloodshed.
Massive crowds chanting “John
Paul, John Paul!” — perhaps 2 mil
lion people in all — surged to the
pope’s side throughout his first day
in Ireland.
The Irish Republican Army gave a
guarded but positive answer to the
pope’s plea for peace and nation Mosley
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leader from Northern Ireland saidi
was “nonsense.” The British
ernment said the pope’s condemn*
tion of violence “will be widely®
genuinely welcomed.”
The pope’s message, deliveredin
a stirring speech at Drogheda, n»
the Northern Ireland border,®
aimed not only at the bombers aid
the snipers but at all the 5
people of the two Irelands,
he begged to “walk the pathofu
conciliation and peace.”
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the pontiffs exuberant respond
lengthened his schedule by
2Vi hours, and it was nearly mid
night when the 59-year-old leaden'!
the world’s Roman Catholics if
tired, ending an 18-hour day.
More than half the nation turned
out Saturday. Throngs filled even
place the pope appeared —airport!
parks and city streets — waving
flags of the Vatican, Poland and Irf'
land, shouting greetings,
small children aloft to see the firs 1
pope ever to visit Ireland.
The pope’s tour rapidly fell 1
hind schedule.
John Paul’s dramatic message
Ireland came near the northed
border, at the ancient walled city®
Drogheda, where he said, “On®!
knees I beg you to turn away fro®
the paths of violence and to retu®
to the ways of peace.”
Answers came within hours!
Belfast, but they were sharply
vergent.
First there was the Rev. Ian Pa®
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who condemned the pope’s words®
“nonsense” and said the Drogfredi
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