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Page 4/The Battalion/Wednesday, November 19,1986
A&M historian denies U.S.
tried to overthrow Soviets
By Scott Redepenning
Reporter
During World War I, soon after
the Bolshevik Revolution started a
civil war to replace czarist Russia
with the Soviet Union, President
Woodrow Wilson sent thousands of
U.S. troops into the area in what
seems to have been an attempt to
choke the government in its birth.
Dr. Betty Unterberger, a Texas
A&M historian, said Tuesday night
in Rudder Tower that this charge is
simply untrue.
In her University Lecture Series
presentation, “Intervention Against
Communism: Did the United States
Try to Overthrow the Soviet Gov
ernment?” Unterberger, a specialist
in Soviet-American relations in Asia,
said that Wilson never tried to stifle
the fledgling Soviet government.
In fact, she said, he encouraged its
development and growth.
forced by war allies England, France
and Japan into involvement.
Unterberger supported this claim
with a detailed account of the events
surrounding the turbulent period
that gave birth to the Soviet Union.
She said Wilson adamantly re
frained from entering Russia until
Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky in
vited U.S. troops to help protect the
nation’s arctic ports.
This presented Wilson with a dif
ficult dilemma, Unterberger said.
If he decided to leave the troops,
he would risk further involvement in
the budding nation’s affairs, a direct
contradiction to his policy of non-in
tervention, she said.
If he pulled out, however, eastern
Russia would be left completely un
der the control of Japan, a nation in
which he had little trust.
She explained that Wilson had de
clared a strict policy of non-interven
tion in Russia, but was ultimately
Under pressures of the allies, she
said, Wilson later reluctantly ex
panded his troop’s duties to include
helping evacuate Czechoslovakian
soldiers who had been fighting on
the eastern front before it was dis
solved.
Troops also helped protect the
Trans-Siberian Railroad.
England and France used this
need for protection as an excuse to
get the United States further in
volved, she said, when it was really a
facade for their intentions to reopen
the eastern front against the Ger
mans.
Japan, she said, was simply seek
ing a foothold in eastern Russia.
Wilson chose to let his troops re
main, and in protecting the railroad,
they incidently came into conflict
with Bolshevik forces. This is what
has become widely known to Soviets
as the United States trying to crush
the Soviet Union in its infancy, she
said.
Unterberger said that while Wil
son’s intentions had always been to
let the Bolshevik Revolution take its
own course, the Soviet Union contin
ues to use the event as a propaganda
tool to warn its people about the
threat of capitalist containment. She
said that no Soviet child grows up
without learning of the event.
Police B<
The following were n
to the University Police Del
ment through Monday: T
MISDEMEANOR THEFI
• Eight bicycles were reT
stolen.
• Five wallets were rep
stolen.
FELONY THEFT:
• A videocassette recorde
reported stolen from a cow
eiu e room in the Ocean Dri
Building.
GRIM INAL TRESPASS:
• Two students were ant*
and jailed at the Brazos Col
Sherif f’s Of fice for trespassi:
the Gain Bool area. Thert:|
said an officer spotted the
students as they were climiL
the ladder to the divingplatf.l
• A professor reported',
someone damaged eight ctJ
tiles and broke a paper t|:
holder off the wall in a r|
bathroom in the AcademicILI
ing.
IIARASSMENT:
• Some employees at the
moii.il Student Center snad®
reported that they have bean
< ri\ ing harassing phonecalhdL
ing peak business hours.
B-CS trying to stop drunken drivers
Off-duty police will patrol for DWIs
By Robert Morris
Reporter
They are there. Whether watch
ing from the parking lot of the
Zephyr Club or following their sus
pects along a winding path from the
Dixie Chicken back to campus, they
know their target — the drunken
driver.
“They” are off-duty police offi
cers who soon will be patrolling the
streets of Bryan-College Station with
the sole intention of bringing
drunken driving to a stop.
It is not a surprise attack.
have adopted a policy of response
instead of prevention — which in
other words means unless an acci
dent occurs, the likelihood of getting
caught is minimal.
The city councils of Bryan and
College Station both recently ap
proved the program.
The Texas A&M University Police
Department followed suit earlier this
week.
Kristi Matthews, coordinator of
the Brazos County anti-DWI pro
gram, said the focus of the campaign
is to let people know that getting
caught is a real possibility.
However, he said he supports the
new program and hopes it will have
some effect in reducing the number
of drunken drivers in the county.
Matthews said the program,
which has been in planning since last
October, will involve the police de
partments of College Station, Bryan
and Texas A&M.
Up to four off-duty officers will
patrol each city.
Two officers from A&M and pos
sibly two officers from the sheriffs
department will patrol the campus,
Matthews said.
She said the program began a
year ago in 10 Texas counties as a
general attack on the DWI problem.
Brazos County was selected for
funding because of the large num
ber of young people in the area,
Matthews said.
the National Highway Trans
lion Safety Association.
However, she said, there was not a
disproportionate amount of DWIs in
the area; the problem is simply the
large number of drivers on the road
in such a small geographical region.
T he money, $.‘100,000 ton
l>e spent in several areas, inrii
added patrols ■ $25,000) and
ing to cover the new strains •
added prosecution will cause:
personnel of t he judicial syslec
College Station Police Maj. Ed
Feldman said the most important
factor of the program is the atten
tion it will put on drunken driving.
Kirk Brown, president of the Bra
zos County chapter of Mothers
Against Drunk Drivers, said the de
terrence factor leaves much to be de
sired.
Brown, who has held his position
for the past four years, said he
thinks the task force is a great idea.
He said, however, he hopes the
College Station police will not view it
as the complete solution to the
drunken driving problem.
He said College Station police
The police officers will be em
ployed for “dedicated enforcement
patrol.”
Their specific assignment —find
drunken drivers.
Feldman said the officers will not
answer ordinary dispatch calls.
Instead, they will cover areas that
they feel warrant special attention,
depending on the situation.
Matthews said the goal is to make
at least one arrest for every four
hours on duty.
As coordinator of the effort, Mat
thews was allowed to set her own
agenda and attack the problem as
she saw fit, she said.
Funding for the program comes
from the traffic safety section of the
State Department of Highways, but
the money the state distributes origi
nates from a general fund set up by
One manifestation of this‘
the use of a full-time warrant of
Matthews said.
A public information air.:
also will t>egin later this year
further research, Matthewssaid
Mattl lews added that shewn
convince people it’s not jusi
other poor
caught.”
lamn fools tfc:
The city will provide the vehicle
and pay for the cost of fuel as well as
for maintenance and repair of
equipment while the program funds
will cover the overtime costs of the
officers.
The patrols will be used one week
end every month, with the Thanks
giving holiday targeted as the proba
ble starting date, Matthews said.
Homosexual rights group
calls slaying ‘gay bashint
KYLE (AP) — A national ho
mosexual rights group says the
slaying of an Austin businessman,
whose body was found in a burn
ing auto, may be an extreme ex
ample of “gay bashing.”
But a police investigator said
the motive is only one possibility
in the murder of Edward Schif-
fers.
Schiffers, 39, was found dead
in the front seat of his burning
car at an Interstate Highway 35
rest stop in Kyle last week. His
hands were tied behind his baa
he was partially clothed andi:
had been struck in the head,p|
lice said. A preliminary autop
gave the cause of death assraoi
inhalation.
Jeff Gutierrez, a spokesnu
for the Cay and Lesbian Sens
Center of Los Angeles, said iK
rest stop where Schiffers w
killed may have drawn peopleiij
tent on attacking homosexuai
because it had a reputation aii
meeting place for gays.
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