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By ROD RICHARDSON
Reporter
■ The principle of self-reliance
largely has been abandoned by the
Chinese as they have become more
receptive to western ideas, a Har
vard professor said Thursday.
■ Dr. Ross Terrill discussed “Chi
na’s Domestic Policies” during the
Memorial Student Center’s Student
Conference on National Affairs.
■ “China is holding out its hand for
a period of give and take,” Terrill
said.
■ The cultural sphere in China al
most has a cosmopolitan touch —
with more modern music and cloth
ing, Terrill said. The attitudes of the
Chinese people have become more
pro-western, he said, and China is
now willing to listen to other ideas
concerning government and eco
nomic policy.
“ The role of ideology has declined
as more and more realms of Chinese
life proceed without evidence of
Marxism and Leninism,” Terrill
said. Billboards which used to dis
play ideological messages now show
truer forms of advertising, he said.
Higher priority has been given to
economic development and reduced
control of economic policy, he said.
This has created a mood of great
materialism among the people which
has increased the numbers of people
studying practical subjects in an at
tempt to improve their economic po
sitions.
The new watchwords in China are
competition, accountability and ini
tiative, Terrill said. This approach
Dr. Ross Terrill
has helped raise the standard of liv
ing as competition increases.
Terrill said China is doing better,
but it still has a long way to go in its
economic development. He said the
lack of motivation, the poor manage
ment and the weaknesses in scien
tific innovation are contributing fac
tors to China’s fundamental
problems.
“China’s ef fort to reform econom
ically will not fail, but it will not be
successful enough to satisfy the long-
suffering Chinese people,” Terrill
said.
Austin makes another offer
to settle lawsuit over STNP
Associated Press
H AUSTIN — Mayor Ron Mullen says he is optimistic
that Austin’s three partners will agree to the city’s new
proposal to settle a lawsuit over the South Texas Nu
clear Project.
■ As part of the settlement, Austin is trying to get out
of the project that is under construction near Bay City.
I Details of the latest proposal are being kept secret.
But Mullen acknowledged Austin had offered the pro
posal after another partner, San Antonio, blocked an
earlier one.
H “San Antonio’s decision forced us to start all over
again, but we went back with ti new idea and are waiting
to see what happens,” Mullen said. “I’m still very opti
mistic.”
I§ Mullen said he spent eight hours in negotiations last
week and expected f urther discussions this week.
II Austin now has $570 million invested in the project,
not counting the interest paid. Total cost of the project,
not including interest, is estimated at $5.5 billion —
more than five times the first estimate made 12 years
ago.
V Under the first proposal, Brown 8c Root Inc., the
former engineer and buildei of the project, reportedly
would have paid Austin about $150 million for its 16
percent share and divided it among the other partners
— San Antonio, the Central Power & Light Co. of Cor
pus Christi, and Houston Lighting 8c Power Co. In re
turn, the lawsuit by the partners against Brown & Root
and its parent firm, the Halliburton Co., would have
been dropped.
But a majority of the San Antonio City Council op
posed the deal, saying that they would rather take cash.
In a statement reporting its 1984 earnings this week,
Halliburton acknowledged the negotiations, but said it
could not predict whether a settlement would be
reached.
The partners sued Brown 8c Root and Halliburton in
late 1981 after Brown & Root quit as builder. They are
seeking more than $6 billion in damages under a state
deceptive trade practices law.
Meanwhile, one opponent of the project said Austin
is being “strung along” by promises of a settlement that
is not going to materialize.
“When this ‘deaf falls through like the previous
ones, Austin should act immediately to negotiate
cancellation of STNP,” said Dan Harrison of the South
Texas Cancellation Campaign.
Another critic, Michael Twombly, urged Austin to
press on with the lawsuit.
“Only by sustaining our legal efforts will we be able
to recoup our losses and bring to light the fraud and
mismanagenient which we believe to be the cause of the
tremendous overruns and delays at STNP,” said
T wombly, the Texas director of Public Citizen, a Ralph
Nader organization.
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Peace is
important
to China
By KIRSTEN DIETZ
Staff Writer
Upholding peace has been and
will remain a fundamental part of
China’s foreign policy, Ling
Qing, China’s United Nations
ambassador, said Thursday.
Ling was at Texas A&M as part
of the Memorial Student Center’s
Student Conference on National
Affairs, “The Emerging China.”
Ling has been ambassador for 4‘/a
years.
Ling said China has em
phasized peaceful coexistence for
30 years, since it initiated five
principles of coexistence with In
dia and Burma.
“These principles have stood
the test of time and have been
widely accepted by the interna
tional community as they are in
full conformity with the practices
and principles of the United Na
tions’ charter,” Ling said.
Because his country em
phasizes peace and peaceful ne
gotiations, he said China is dis
turbed by foreign aggression. For
example, he pointed to the for
eign troops refusing to withdraw
from Cambodia and Afghanistan.
Ling also said the nuclear arms
race is reaching alarming propor
tions. He said if peace is to be pre
served, countries must check the
trend of nuclear development.
China has pledged not to use or
threaten to use nuclear weapons
from .the time it exploded its first
atomic bomb, he said.
In relations between the
United States and China, Ling
said great progress had been
made in scientific, technological,
cultural, political and economic
fields since formal diplomatic re
lations were established in 1979.
However, he said the single stum
bling block in the countries’
relationship has been the U.S. po
sition on Taiwan.
Ling said the Taiwan problem
falls within the domestic affairs of
China, and the Chinese people
“long for the early end to the na
tional division so as to realize
family reunions and national reu
nification.”
White calls flat tax
trouble for Texas,
U.S. security threat
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Challenging the Rea
gan administration’s fiat tax plan as
“nearsighted,” Gov. Mark White said
Thursday that eliminating tax
breaks for oilmen would harm na
tional security and wreak havoc on
the Texas economy.
“It’s not just a question of com
fort,” White said. “It’s not just a
question of convenience. It’s a ques
tion of national security.
“World War II was won on a sea
of Texas oil. A piesident who has
devoted so much of the nation’s re
sources to protection of national se
curity cannot turn his back blindly
on the obvious need to protect our
oil and gas resources.”
Three months after then-Trea-
sury Secretary Donald Regan pro
posed the fiat tax, White sent a letter
to the White House asking the presi
dent to meet with him and Okla
homa Gov. George Nigh to talk over
oil-related tax exemptions.
White said the exemptions are le
gitimate and underwrite many of the
risks associated with energy explora
tion.
Without the oil depletion allow
ance that allows independent pro
ducers to recover capital expenses
and deduc tions for intangible dril
ling costs, many investors would
choose safer places for their money,
White said.
“There’s no sense in running off
the cliff committing national suicide
in an effort to be simple,” White
said, although he supports the idea
of simplifying federal income taxes.
The flat tax constitutes a near
sighted attempt to eliminate these
incentives at a time when the admin
istration should be taking a lead
ership role to achieve more national
energy independence and to en
courage domestic energy produc
tion, he said.
White noted that 12 years ago, in
the depths of the Arab oil embargo,
the nation was reminded of the dan-
.gers of depending on foreign oil.
“It is a lesson we cannot afford to
ignore today,” he said.
The flat tax plan’s effect on
Texas, White said, would be disas
trous.
English mini-courses
focus on writing skills
By ELIZABETH MICKEY
Reporter
The Department of English this
semester is sponsoring mini-courses
designed to offer assistance to stm
dents wishing to improve their writ
ing skills.
“Writing Outreach” is open to stu
dents, faculty and staff at no charge.
Students do not have to be enrolled
in writing classes to participate.
The program is composed of in
dependent sessions focusing on top
ics such as punctuating correctly,
writing resumes, using quoted
material, persuading effectively and
writing a critical review.
The courses are taught by English
professors and graduate assistants at
several campus locations.
David Stewart, head of the En
glish department, said the main rea
son the courses were organized was
because the community needs some
instruction and some detail in com
munication.
Half of the people who attend the
courses are non-students, Stewart
said. Since the courses are special
ized, they also Eire profitable for tea
chers.
“Writing Outreach” is not a one-
to-one tutoring service and is not a
course for credit.
No registration is necessary. For
more information call the English
department at 845-3452, or go
227 Blocker.
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