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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1980
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A&M tour of Russia to go as scheduled
By JON HEIDTKE
Campus Reporter
An Afghanistan invasion and a
possible Olympics boycott by the
United States have not deterred Dr.
Michal Barszap from planning a
summer tour of Russia that will be
one of the most extensive student
tours the continent has ever seen.
Barszap’s itinerary, scheduled
May 14-June 14, includes the usual
tourist sites of Moscow, Kiev and
Leningrad; but will also include
first hand visits to Siberia, where no
tourist has ever been; Moslem areas
of Russia; and the Black Sea resort of
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Sochi, which is the summer
playground of top Russian officials
including Leonid Brexhnev.
“It is my dream come true,” said
Barszap, a professor of modern
language at Texas A&M University.
“This is the one I have wanted to do
since I began leading tours five years
ago.”
For $2,150 a student will spend 31
days in first class hotels and cover
more that 8,400 miles of the
communist country. “It is a lot of
money,” said Barszap, “but when
you think in terms of what you pay
for, it is a bargain.”
Barszap, who led a tour of Russia
last summer with Texas A&M
students, said that his tour offers
much more than a standardized tour
a travel agency would.
“I plan the itinerary and what we
see in each town, ” said Barszap, who
spent his first 16 years living in
Russia and Poland,” and the Soviet
officials usually approve it.” Barszap
was able to schedule at least one free
day in each city, where as standard
tours tend to keep the participants in
the move all the time. Barszap also
conducts most of the tours himself,
rather than Soviet officials, because
he knows the cities and the
language.
Barszap also said students should
have the chance to interact with the
Russian people, so he scheduled a
three-day trip on the Trans-Siberian
railroad. “By staying in hotels,” said
Barszap, “you only see other
tourists, but by living and traveling
on a train with the Russian people
you can really get to know some of
them.”
In fact, one student on a former
tour became such good friends with a
Russian girl that he wanted to marry
her.
The tour will also take in
performances of the world famous
Bolshoi Ballet and Moscow Circus,
along with a visit to the world’s
deepest lake. Lake Baikal, in
Irkutsk.
Barszap, who will be embarking
on his tenth trip to Russia in the past
five years, said the Soviets seem
more eager for his group to come this
year, than they have in the past.
He said the Olympic troubles
might have something to do with
that. If the United States boycotts
the Olympics, the Russians will have
to find another way to bring in Amer
ican dollars. But what ever happens
to the Olympics, it will not affect the
trip, he said.
He also said that the Russians will
separate politics and human
relations. “They lost image in a
political sense when they invaded
Afghanistan,” he said. “Maybe they
will show us they are not the war
mongers we think they are, but that
they are still friendly.
Barszap is eager to be leading a
tour during what he calls a “hot”
time. “I think it ill be very
interesting for the students to hear
what the Russian people have to say
about Iran and Afghanis^
Barszap. “We will have a comu;
topic to talk about. It will maletj
tour that much more interesting,h
said.”
As of now, 32 students are si|
up including 20-25 Aggies. The
ginal deadline date to signupn
Feb. 1, but the Soviets havea
tended that to March 1, sou
students could sign up.
Anyone interested shouldcontu
Dr. Barszap at 845-2124 or
home 693-3754 or the MSCTmt
Committee 845-1515.
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AUSTIN — John Duncan, state
director of the American Civil Liber
ties Union, has told a group of Uni
versity of Texas students that a “real
public outcry” is needed to oppose
registration of 18-26 year-olds for
possible military draft.
Duncan told an anti-draft rally
attended by about 250 people that
persons opposed to the draft must
make their sentiments known to
defeat a congressional bill calling for
registration — a move initiated by
President Carter in response to the
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
“We need a real public outcry
against any registration. It is
imperative that we defeat the
registration bill, he told the mostly
subdued students who were fighting
35 degree temperatures on the
campus’ West Mall.
“It is totally unlike an embargo of
grain or an Olympic boycott,”
Duncan said. “(The draft) is a direct
interference in the lives of millions of
young Americans'. ”
The rally was sponsored by
Students Against the Draft, a
coalition of several campus
organizations.
Ken Carpenter, representing the
American Friends Service
Committee, said the draft
movement could be stopped if the
American public petitioned
Congress.
“There is no concensus in
Congress and no concensus in this
country for war or registration,” he
said. “The best thing people could
do is to refuse to register. There is no
way the draft can work if people
refuse to register.”
Carpenter said thousands
draft-age men during the Vietim
War were never found or proseculii
because they simply refused li
register on their 18th birthdays.
Dm Thompson, head of Ik
Women Take Back The Nigl
organization, said America
fighting the draft are those whoa!
drawing on their experiences b
the anti-war era of the late 1960sa>:
early 1970s. She said the Midi
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SAN ANTONIO — A former
member of the Bandidos Motorcycle
Club, serving time for a federal
firearms violation, has been ordered
to testify in a grand jury ’s continuing
investigation into the ambush of a
federal prosecutor. ’ *
Timothy Kenneth "Larson, also
known as “Timken,” received a
subpoena to appear before a federal
grand jury session scheduled for
Wednesday.
The heavily tatooed Larson,
described by the FBI as a prime
suspect in the attempted
assassination of former assistant U. S.
attorney James Kerr, will be
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Texarkana, federal authorities sail
Larson is serving a three-yei
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U.S. District Judge John H. Wool
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