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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.”
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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.”
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