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Thursday, April 17, 1986Arhe Battalion/Page 3 State and Local Ginzburg’s life in Soviet Union ‘torture’ By Jeanne Isenberg Sniff Writer Alexander Ginzburg, a former oviet dissident, said Wednesday light in Rudder Auditorium that viilg in the Soviet Union is total nd continuous psychological tor- ure for a man like him — a sup- ioiter ol human rights. (inzburg, who made his speech utli the aid of a translator, said a ' ountry with a system of oppression iira reign of terror” like the one in /helSoviet Union always has the ante goals and the same pattern. The most important of these, he |(aid. is to put enough fear of the tate into the people to insure that io I counter-revolution can take jlale. i I A second goal, he said, is to erase ny recollection of alternatives rom the minds of the people, who an|be allowed to grasp the idea of hylbetter option to the way the ate works. Tlie first step, Ginzburg said, is to destrov the church and thus ar rest the soul of the people. And sure enough, he said the first major oppressive legal proc esses were against the priests and the clergy. The intellectuals must be the next to go, he said, “the people in whose hands rest the reasoning power of the people.” And bv the 1920s in the Soviet Union; he said, few individuals from this part of society remained. Through the collectivization of farms, the free peasants were the last to go, Ginzburg said, as this process destroyed the most creative elements of the peasants, the pro moters of culture. The Soviet Union also went through a genocide phase, he said, which ended with the death of its organizer, Joseph Stalin. The beginning of Ginzburg’s and the people’s fight for rights came when Nikita Kruschev exposed a small number of Stalin’s “crimes.” / Alexander Ginzburg Kruschev released a significant number of people in 1956 f rom la bor camps that Stalin had placed them in, and they began to tell their stories to others. Ginzburg became a journalist in 1956, but after becoming fed up with censorship in Soviet newspa- pers, he began publishing a mag azine of poetry. This led to his first arrest in 1960 and a two-year sentence in a forced labor camp. Upon his return to Moscow, he spent several years working odd jobs and wrote as a hobby. When a “show trial — Soviet sty le" sent two colleagues to labor camps, Ginzburg obtained an offi cial transcript of the trial and threatened to publish a comparison with the trial’s newspaper reports. He was again arrested and sen tenced to five years. Out in 1972, he again began his fight to return to the Soviet Union a sense of compassion. In 1977, he was arrested a third time, labeled an “especially danger ous enemv of the state,” and sent to the harshest labor camp for eight years. By this time, Ginzburg’s had be come an internationally-supported case and in 1979, he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship and ex changed to the West for two con victed Soviet spies. tine Texans selected ‘reporter in space’ semifinalists on at WASHINGTON (AP) — Reactions from the me Texans among 100 semifinalists competing ^ Atraplace in history as the first reporter in space jViried Wednesday from “nervous” to “delighted” 1 wait.” The semifinalists, culled from 1,703 applica- ons and announced at a NASA news confer ee. include CBS special correspondent Walter ironkite and Pulitzer prize-winning science riter John Noble Wilford of the New York imes. The nine Texans are among 20 regional semi- eat A nalists who will be interviewed May 1-2 at the Inivcrsity of Kansas at Lawrence. NASA will ; yentually select one journalist and an alternate. The Texas finalists are: Associated Press aero- jace writer Paul Recer of Houston; James Asker fthe Houston Post; Stephen Gauvain, KTRK- jyiHouston; Robert “Chip” Moody II, KHOU- ty, Houston; Daniel O’Rourke, KPRC-TV, louston; Scott Pelley, WFAA-TV, Dallas; Katie lackgr to act ictira “I’ve always been interested in the space program. When I was 10 years old I had a subscription to Missiles and Rockets magazine. ” — Chris Marrou, reporter in space semifinalist. Sherrod of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram; Lace- tis R. Oberg, a freelance writer from Dickinson; and Chris Marrou, KENS-TV, San Antonio. “I’m honored and nervous and not necessarily in that order,” Marrou said. “I’ve always been in terested in the space program. When I was 10 years old I had a subscription to Missiles and Rockets magazine. I didn’t become a scientist be cause I couldn’t handle calculus.” Asker said, “It would be a fantastic opportu nity for a reporter to add another dimension to what we’ve learned about space travel. It would be a big challenge to explain it in a way that would be comprehensive to the average person but still put a little personality into it.” Sherrod said she was always sure she would go into space. “I grew up in West Texas,” she said. “Have you ever seen a West Texas night sky? I used to go out and lie on the grass and look at all the stars, and I knew.” She said she was not afraid, despite the loss of the space shuttle Challenger. Pelley said, “I was there the day of the Chal lenger accident. I was there a couple of weeks af ter that and that was quite disturbing. The acci dent really proves the point that there is a need for a specialty in this area.” “This is the closest I’ve ever been to being an astronaut,” he said. Newborn twin filly at Horse Center dies after 2 weeks By Alice Allison Reporter Two weeks after the mirac ulous foaling of twins at the Texas A&M Horse Center, the first born has died. The twins were born March 23 at 5 a.m. to Hyleo’s Bimbo, a mare involved in a research pro ject conducted by Jim Kubiak, a graduate student. He said it’s very unusual for a mare to have twins. Only 1 to 2 percent of all mares will have twins, Kubiak said, and only 1 out of 10 twins survives. Kubiak said both foals were very weak at birth and he was sur prised both survived the first two weeks. Vet students tried a 24-hour nursing program. “The foal that died had weak legs and couldn’t stand up to nurse, so 20 to 30 students took turns bottle feeding her,” Kubiak said. Finally, the foal became so weak she just gave up, Kubiak said. There was also a possibility the foal had some lung problems and a cracked rib, he said. The remaining foal seems to be doing all right, Kubiak said. “Her legs are crooked and still weak but we think she’ll make it,” he said. Twinning is caused by double ovulation on the ovary, Kubiak said. Sheep and cattle multiple ovu late regularly, but horses only double ovulate 15 percent of the time, he said. Contrary to what most people would think, Kubiak said, horse owners don’t want two foals from one mare because the strain on the mare is too great. Kubiak said a mare’s term of pregnancy is 340 days and a foal usually weighs 80 to 110 pounds when born. Kubiak said both of these foals were about the same size, which also is very unusual. “You normally end up with one being big and the other pre tty small, or both small,” he said. Normally an ultrasound ma chine is used a few days after breeding to detect pregnancy, he said. Kubiak said either an ultra sound wasn’t used on this mare or a mistake was made in the read ing. “When she went into labor, I could tell she was having prob lems, but it looked like the back feet were trying to come first,” he said. “Then I palpated her and found she had two foals.” Kubiak said they have no idea why both foals lived past birth or why they were both the same size, but it could possibly have some thing to do with the research the mare was involved in. Kubiak is working on a project that compares foaling and re breeding difficulty of obese mares to mares of normal weight, he said. This mare is in the obese group, he said. “There are no indications, but it could have been possible that the extra nutrition the mare was getting to fatten her up helped to maintain both foals,” Kubiak said. — Corrections Tuesday’s story on the pas- of the core curriculum by : Faculty Senate, The Battalion rrectly identified Sen. Gary professor of soil and crop 1 as saying, “The core is cutting into the meat of our engi neering program.” , yji In fact. Sen, Ron Hart, profes- sor of nuclear engineering, made the statement, according to the 5 ; Faculty Senate minutes, .x iigbla i the April 11 issue. The But- J incorrectly reported that »cai support group for par- of children with cancer tld meet April24. group’s next meeting ac tually will be May 8, The group meets the second Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at Peace Lu theran Church on II00 FM Rd, *2818 in College Station. The Battalion regrets the er rors. White: Austin shouldn’t harbor immigrants AUSTIN (AP) — With the Austin City Council scheduled to hear more testimony on a plan to declare the city a sanctuary for Central Ameri can refugees, Gov. Mark White said Wednesday that Texas cities should keep out of immigration policy. The City Council’s hearing T hursday night will be the second on a proposed resolution that would declare Austin a sanctuary for politi cal refugees. If approved, Austin would become the first city in Texas to take such action. But White said the decision isn’t up to cities since immigration policy is a matter for the federal govern ment. “For cities or states to interject themselves in this area is counter productive,” White said in an inter view. “For us to set up a ‘mini-immigra tion service’ in every city, I think, is not appropriate.” The City Council last week heard four hours of public testimony on the resolution that is backed by Mayor Frank Cooksey. The council postponed a decision on the plan, but a majority of council members have indicated they support it. Some 18 cities nationwide have declared themselves sanctuaries for political refugees. Cooksey’s propo sal says that Austin police will not help federal officials pursue immi gration law violators. A U.S. Immigration and Naturali zation Service official said the reso lution calls for law-breaking. Richard Casillas, INS district di rector, “They are illegal aliens. Transporting illegal aliens is a fed eral crime.” But a sanctuary supporter said Wednesday that Casillas has en gaged in a massive disinformation campaign. “Our nation has always welcomed immigrants, especially those who flee persecution. Our nation consists of these immigrants, and we have al ways been enriched by these groups,” said Rob Cogswell, spokes man for the Austin Religious Com munity for Central America. “Racism and jingoism, xenopho bia in all its forms, has proven wrong over and over aarain.” ;ricansl will fif .gardte losoplf* ink of.' 11 ■ople^ eniot t forTK nasnJ oninieci' tflfand! lie isn 01 let us ROCK you this we ekend. \AGGIE ndayn't .-erytr •“3 1 noth isrta ■nagrf otsay" 1 iretur 11 ! 1 ] myl ROCKY IV Friday, April 18,1986 only 7:30 & 9:45 p.m., Rudder Theater, $2.00 THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY APRIL 17,18 & 19,1986 12 MIDNIGHT THE GROVE, $1.50 COME EARLY, AVOID TICKET LINE, AND GET POPCORN & DRINKS