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Wednesday, January 9, 1985/The Battalion/Page 11
World & Nation
U.S.-Soviets begin talks on trade
United Press International
MOSCOW — U.S. and Soviet ne
gotiators in Moscow quietly began
the highest level trade talks oetween
the superpowers in six years Tues
day while world attention focused on
superpower arms talks in Geneva.
Commerce Undersecretary Lionel
Olmer and Soviet Deputy Minister
of Foreign Trade Vladimir Sushkov
met in the posh Western-style Inter
national 1 rade Center to discuss
ways to increase bilateral trade,
which has dropped off sharply since
the 1979 Soviet invasion of Af ghani
stan.
Officials declined to comment on
the substance of the talks, but U.S.
Embassy spokesman Jaroslav Verner
said the “working meeting would ex
plore various problems in the area of
... trade in non-strategic areas.”
Another diplomat who declined
to be identified said the two-day
meeting was aimed at finding ways
to extend commerce as part of a gen
eral thaw in superpower relations.
Like the Geneva arms talks be
tween Secretary of State George
Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko, one of the aims of
the Moscow negotiations is to open
up avenues for future contacts.
The last meeting of the Cabinet-
level U.S.-U.S.S.R commercial com
mission met in December 1978.
Since then, all trade talks between
the superpowers have been at a
lower level.
The official Soviet news agency
Tass said that in the 1980s the
United States has dropped from sec
ond to the seventh place among the
Soviet Union’s Western trading part
ners.
Bilateral trade peaked at $3.6 bil
lion in 1979 but dropped off sharply
to $1.5 billion the next year alter
then-President Jimmy Carter de
clared a grain embargo to protest
the invasion of Afghanistan.
President Reagan lifted the em
bargo in 1981 but relations between
the superpowers remained strained
over a number of issues, including
Reagan’s attempt to block shipment
of equipment for the Soviet-£uro-
pean natural gas pipeline in 1982.
Grain comprises the majority of
resent U.S. exports to the Soviet
nion.
Tass welcomed the meeting fol
lowing “a long break after the U.S.
side unilaterally suspended official
contacts with the Soviet side on ques- ■
tions of trade.”
In wording similar to that used in
its discussion of the Geneva talks,
Tass said the results of the trade
meeting “depend on how construc
tive the approach of the U.S. side
will be in a search for ways to resume
mutually beneficial trade relations.”
Ad for entertainers
riles union leaders
WASHING TON — I^abor leaders
cried foul — and the While House
winced a bit — Tuesday over an ad
seeking 200 “clean-cut, all-Ameri
can” non-union singers and dancers
to work without pay cl .iring the 50th
inaugural festivities.
“There’s a minimum wage of
S3.35 an hour,” Murray Seeger,
spokesman for the AFL-CIO, said.
“You get it for frying hamburgers
at McDonald's and you ought to at
least get that much tor dancing tor
the president.”
A spokesman for the Reagan in
augural committee blamed the con
troversy on a Los Angeles consultant
who placed a quarter-page ad in the
trade publication Backstage seeking
“attractive, clean-cut, all-American”
entertainers to work free during in
augural events.
The ad also said that the inaugu
ral committee was "seeking NON
UNION musical theatre perform
ers." It continued, “A FEE WILL
NOT lie paid for your partici
pation.”
The ad was not cleared by the in
augural committee, spokesman John
Buckley said, adding, “We are politi
cally a little smarter than to take out
an ad phrased” that way.
President Reagan would not talk
about the controversy, but deputy
press secretary Larry Speakes said
later, “In our opinion, the ad should
have been phrased differently.”
Sanford Wolf f, national executive
secretary of the American Feder
ation of Television and Radio Art
ists, said the ad is "the clearest evi
dence yet that this administration is
completely anti-union."
But Speakes declared Reagan “is
proud of his union membership and
nis work as president of the Screen
Actors Guild,” the union he headed
from 1949 to 1960.
The ad said the entertainers
would be paid travel and meal ex
penses and given lodging in “a gov
ernment facility or hotel” during the
nine-dav engagement.
Buckley said about 100 people ap
peared at an audition in New York
on Saturday in response to the ad.
He said there were no plans to
cancel scheduled performances by
the non-union entertainers.
At the White House, Speakes said
there will be more union performers
involved in the inauguration than
ever before and “thousands of vol
unteers from across the country ....
“What the ad sought was non-pro
fessional performers to work in a
similar capacity, such as the youth
pageant at the Jefferson Memorial,
t he president wants a cross-section
of the American people — everyone saw
—-represented-’’ ^ ;■*,
Elvis fans gather
for 50th birthday
United Press International
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Some
smiling and some weeping, 500
fans gathered in the chill outside
Graceland Mansion Tuesday and
sang “Happy Birthday” to Elvis
Presley on what would have been
his 50th birthday.
T hey came from as far away as
Japan for the chance to offer
birthday wishes to the rock ’n’ roll
king born in Tupelo, Miss., Jan.
8, 1935. Presley died in his Mem
phis mansion Aug. 16, 1977, of a
suspected drug overdose.
“I love him,” said Kiyoshi Ito,
of Tokyo, Japan, who performs
as an Elvis impersonator. “When
he died, I thought about suicide.
He was an original. His heart has
got communication with the audi
ence, and that’s why he’s loved by
so many people.”
Fans lined .ip as early as 6 a.m.
despite temperatures in the 30s to
hear proclamations read declar
ing Jan. 8 Elvis Presley Day in
Tennessee.
Fans from Australia, England
and Germany were among the
crowd who pushed forward to
take pictures of a white birthday
cake dec oniied wirti royal blue ic
ing and inscribed, “Elvis Presley,
Birthday Tribute 1985.”
The cake was part of a 15-min
ute birthday celebration, which
included brief speeches by the
Memphis and Shelby County
mayors.
“There will never be another
50th and we had to be here,” said
Carol Ann Der, who was among
43 people who made an 18-hour
bus ride from Baltimore for the
celebration. “I come here twice a
year, and this is the biggest crowd
I’ve seen in January.”
Elizabeth Woznick, 74, said her
first visit to Graceland was the
culmination of a dream.
“It means a lot to me because I
liked him very much,” she said. “I
liked the way he was sweet and
friendly, and his music. I always
wanted to come, and my family
told me I could go on his 50th
birthday.”
The winding driveway leading
to the white-columned home was
still lined with blue lights Presley
used at Christmas time. A life-
sized nativity scene remained in
place in honor of the singer’s tra
dition of displaying it from
Thanksgiving until his birthday.
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