Tuesday, March 31,1987AThe Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
mbassador: U.S., Soviets should compromise
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Salt II treaty author says relations need work
I By Melanie Perkins
Staff Writer
‘Right now we are in the posture
BBh the Soviets of two gunmen sit-
across the table from each
Other, each one of them with a .45
(caliber) pistol witli a round in the
chamber, cocked, with a hair trig
ger. ’ said Ambassador Ralph Earle
* II, author and chief U.S. negotiator
, of the Salt II treaty.
■Earle spoke to a group of about 50
Hople at an MSC Political Forum
program on United States-Soviet re
lations Monday in Rudder Tower.
■“Neither one of us is going to pull
the trigger, because we know in the
■ath spasm of the other we will be
Bled,” Earle continued.
■This idea is destabilizing and
qtuses both sides to build up their
defenses, he said.
^“As long as we maintain our posi
tion that we are going to go forward
wiih Star Wars, we are not going to
have reductions,” Earle said. “In
fad, we are going to have increases
■strategic weapons.”
■This is why the Star Wars pro
gram, which was introduced by Pres
ident Reagan in 1983 and advocates
going forward with a defensive sys
tem, isn’t going to work, Earle said.
For every anti-missile system we de
ploy that can work, the Soviets are
going to deploy at least two missies,
just as we would do if things were
the other way around, he said.
A review of the recent history of
United States-Soviet relations gives a
much better understanding of
where we are today and where we
will be in the future, Earle said.
“We become far too interested in
and obsessed by our own perspective
of the issues and pay far too little —
and in many instances, no attention
— to the other guy’s perception,”
Earle said.
He gave an example of the U.S.
invasion of the Soviet Union in an
effort to overthrow the Soviet gov
ernment in 1918-1919.
We were unsuccessful, and since
human nature dictates remembering
victories rather than defeats, not
many Americans' remember the
event, Earle said.
“But every Soviet child who is now
Ambassador Ralph Earle II
an adult has been taught in school
accurately, although probably in a
distorted and exaggerated way, that
the United States invaded the Soviet
Union — sent armed forces both
into the eastern and the western part
of the Soviet Union — to overthrow
the newly formed communist gov
ernment,” Earle said.
That colors their thinking of us
somewhat, he said.
Then from 1918 to 1933 the
United States did not recognize the
Soviet Union as an established gov
ernment.
There was a brief period during
World War II when the communistic
side of the Soviet government was
put aside because we were on the
same side in the war.
Then the Cold War began and all
these historical differences came
back to the surface to color the
relationship between the two coun
tries for the last 40 years, Earle said.
“It is clearly an adversarial
relationship — I think it will be for a
very long time,” Earle said.
He said he does think the United
States and the Soviet Union have
something in common.
“I think the common ground we
have with the Soviet Union is that
none of us want to be incinerated by
a nuclear bomb,” Earle said. “And to
the the extent that we both agree on
that and try to find some form of
agreement between us by not sacri
ficing anything that is important to
us or to them, the more progress we
will make.”
In the broader context of rela
tions between the United States and
the Soviet Union, Earle said, Mikhail
Gorbachev is the key.
He said he has a strong feeling
that Gorbachev has made domestic
problems his first priority.
“And, boy, does he have them
(domestic problems),” Earle said.
“The Soviet Union to my knowledge
is the only country in the world
where the life expectancy of adult
males decreased in the last 10 years.”
Earle said there are two risks —
that Gorbachev’s reforms could
work and the Soviet Union would
become stronger and more compet
itive, or that his reforms may not
work and he would be replaced by
the “Old Guard,” which would be
worse.
“Do I trust the Soviets?” Earle
asked. “Of course not. You
shouldn’t. They don’t trust us — they
shouldn’t.”
Woman wired
with bomb
in robbery try
LUBBOCK (AP) — A 62-year-
old woman told police she was ab
ducted from her home, wired
with a fake Ixmib and forced to
go to a bank to withdraw funds in
a robbery attempt on Monday.
Joyce Heald said a gunman
went to her home in southwest
Lubbock about 11:30 a.m. and
forced her to go with him to the
Bank of the West at South Plains
Mall, police said.
“He put an electronic device on
her that he said was an explosive
device, that he said he could deto
nate from a remote location,” |x)-
lice Sgt. Bill Hubbard said.
Af ter she went inside the bank,
jx»lice and the federal Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
were notified, he said.
“They were able to remove the
device from her,” he said. “It
turned out not to be an explosive
device, just a real gcx>d-looking
fake.”
After questioning, |x>lice ar
rested a 20-year-old man.
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dential candidates verbally battled it out in
an informal debate at the La mixta Sigma
Fountain Forum Monday afternoon.
I A crowd of alxnil 25 gathered as the de-
^bile began, and the ensuing question-and-
hjnswer session was sometimes quite heated
as audience members pinpointed certain is
sues, including Student Senate attendance
Bid campaign spending.
■ Jose Castro increased the temperature
early in the debate by lashing out at thecur-
Tent Senate executives about the Senate Re-
fprm Bill that failed earlier in the semester,
which would have cut the 87-member Sen
ate in half.
■ “That’s not the purpose of Student Gov
ernment, to cut itself in half,” Castro said.
Blow are we going to get anything done
when we have a Student Government that’s
playing games and having four vice presi
dents and two judicial board chairmen in
one year?”
Mason Hogan then ccxiled things off by
waxing nostalgic about the A&M Student
Government of years past.
“I’d like to see Student Government go
back to the way it was back in 1945 — serv
ing students,” Hogan said. “That means
representing the students and standing up
to the Faculty Senate in certain situations.”
Hogan then was sked by an audience
member about his reasons for voting for
the Senate Reform bill earlier in the semes
ter which would have cut the Senate in half.
He defended himself by saying he had
studied the issue caref ully as a senator and
had decided such a move would make the
Senate more productive and make the sen
ators feel more comfortable about their
jobs.
“A smaller, tighter group of 45 or 50
Senators would get a whole lot more done,”
Hogan said.
Jaime Galvan then spoke against the Re
form Bill, saying he thought it was a p<x>r
idea which would have wounded the Senate
by making its members less available to
their constituents and responsible for too
many people to legislate effectively.
“Personally, I think cutting the Senate is
a ridiculous idea, because if we cut it each
senator will lx: covering t<x> much area,”
Galvan said. He also blamed the current ad
ministration, saying, “I think the reason this
idea came up at all is because Senate leaders
found it difficult to get people to attend the
meetings, and this is the wrong way to go
about it.”
J<xly Kay Manley t(x>k the opportunity to
challenge another candidate. Miles
Bradshaw, for his record, saying, “Miles
Bradshaw was quoted as saying the Senate is
an ineffective Ixxly because they had trou
ble getting a quorum,” Manley said. “I don’t
think you need to cut a body because they
can’t get a quorum.”
Because he was attending the f uneral of
a family member of one of his campaign
workers, Bradshaw was unable to attend
the debate.
The group then was asked why senators
don’t attend meetings, and most blamed the
Student Government leadership.
Galvan blamed the leaders, and Gastro
specifically blamed the Senate speaker —
Bradshaw — for not making the meetings
more interesting.
One audience member asked why the
candidates were running if everybody else
is so apathetic.
Spence McClung, who is currently a sen
ator and committee chairman, answered,
“Because Student Government can make a
difference. We can represent the students
and defend their interests.”
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the candidates about their election spend
ing, and asked if they were all under the
$300 spending limit. All claimed they were.
Galvan said he’d spent $284, while Gas
tro said $221. Manley claimed $283, and
McGlung said he’d spent $252.
The audience member asked who se
lected the election commissioners, and Gal
van answered, saying the positions were ap
pointed by the student Ixxly president.
“They’re handpicked by the student
Ixxly president, and that’s something I’d
like to change,” Galvan said.
Richard de Gaslongrene then stepped in,
saying he felt there should be no spending
limit Ixxause, “if people want to spend
$4,000 for a position that means nothing,
they should lx: able to.”
Perry Eichor defended the spending
limit, saying it was important to keep |x:o-
ple from buying their way into office.
“I’ve spent about $280 so far — I
couldn’t spend more if I wanted to, lx:cause
I simply haven’t got it,” Eichor said. He said
he took out a loan for most of his money.
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CBA Fellows Program Reception
Recreation and Parks Golf Tournament
Federation of Aggie Mothers’ Club Boutique
Baptist Student Union Second Annual Fun Run for
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Federation of Aggie Mothers’ Club Meeting
RHA Parents' Day Coffee
Sigma Chi Open House
Student Government Information Table
Sterling C. Evans Library Tours
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