Wednesday, February 3, 1988/The Battalion/Page 3
State and Local
Editor: Europe will help
U.S. economic recovery
By Mary-Lynne Rice
Stuff Writer
Even as the world’s largest debtor
Ination, the United States will recover
from its economic slump, with the
[help of Western European nations,
[Dudley Fishburn, executive editor of
[the Economist, said Tuesday night.
Fishburn, a Harvard graduate
land regular broadcaster for the
[BBC, spoke to about 150 people at
|the MSC Great Issues Economic
symposium.
As the United States directed Eu-
irope toward economic recovery with
Ithe Marshall Plan after World War
III, Fishburn said. Western Europe
[will provide the economic and politi-
[cal support necessary to bring the
[United States a new era of prosper-
|ity.
“1 hat lesson you gave us in how to
[conduct ourselves (the Marshall
[Plan) is one I hope we ll never be
[forgetting,” he said. "And as in |a-
Jpan, rather than behaving like other
[conquerors, you stooped and helped
Japan to its feet and set it on its way
Ito its present prosperity."
The United States mav lament |a-
Ipan’s economic prosperity now. and
[it probablv will continue to do so —
[Fishburn said he does not see any
[immediate evidence that the balance
[oftrade may tip toward equilibrium.
“More American »rade is now
[crossing the Pacific than the Atlan
tic,” he said. “That shift in trade is
|fairly irreversible."
Although Japan's import restric
tions put eastern-bound trade at a
[disadvantage, Fishburn said, West-
[ern Europe remains receptive to
[trade and w illing to support the U.S.
[economy. Yet Americans often do
not recognize their Western Euro-
[pean economic allies, he said.
"The United States seems to pre-
|fer to hear about people kicking
them in the shins than about those
giving silent, positive support," he
said. “When thev look at the world,
they see competitors instead of
Ifriends."
What the United States overlooks,
[lie said, are the massive amounts of
Photo by Roy D. Parsons
Dudley Fishburn, editor of the Economist, speaks about the world
economy Tuesday night.
financial support flowing from
Western European nations. He cited
West Germany 's buving of U.S. trea
sury bonds, especiallv, as an exam
ple. With a recently balanced na
tional budget, he said. West
Germans are f inding investment op
portunities in the United States gov
ernment.
“They're putting their money
where their faith is," he said. "And
imagine when the dollar starts to rise
. . . that will be counterbalanced
when the United States again invests
in Europe."
However, since the dollar has not
vet regained its strength, the United
States must examine the shortcom
ings that led to its loss of economic
power, he said.
Fishburn attributed part of the
United States’ economic decline to
its own crippling mistakes.
“The United States is losing some
of its self-confidence," he said. “ That
comes mostly from self-inflicted
wounds — Vietnam, Watergate,
Irangate, Jimmy Carter, you name
it."
Still, Western Europe remembers
the titles the United States once un
conditionally held, Fishburn said —
wealthiest, most powerful — and
recognizes its dependence on the na
tion even in its international decline.
“We Europeans laugh when Un
cle Sam stumbles, but oh, how we
would cry if he fell," he said. “(Eco
nomic relations) is a two-way street.
That should be cause For optimism.
It’s a way oi life coming together.
“With all this interchange, the
world is coming together — not as a
bland mix, but as a place where peo
ple have common views about trade,
about what’s interesting, and about
what’s good.”
Meanwhile, nations must realize
their interdependence, he said, and
work to maintain trade relations de
spite imbalance and disadvantage.
“The reaction is not to stop tra
de,” he said. “That way is not the so
lution; that way is toward poverty.”
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Cadet charges racism
in handling of incident
By Janet Goode
Assistant City Editor
A sophomore regiment clerk in
the Corps of Cadets claimed prej
udice played a role in charges
that he violated the Aggie Code
of Honor.
Tim Bailey, charged with vio
lating the Aggie Code as a result
of phone theft from University
Communications, was found “not
guilty” Tuesday evening by the
Cadet Court.
Although Bailey admitted to
stealing and using a number from
the phone company, he said he
was also a paying customer of
University Communications and
had his own phone number.
Bailey said there were calls
charged to him on his phone bill
that had been made by someone
who had stolen his number.
Bailey paid the company for
his illegal calls in addition to the
calls that he hadn’t made,
amounting to over $300.
Mike Jumper, judge advocate
general, said the court didn’t ob
tain enough evidence or reach a
“moral certainty” to find Bailey
guilty.
He said this means that the
case now will be dropped from
his record.
Bailey said he feels since he
made restitution with the phone
company that he shouldn’t have
been taken to court.
Bailey said he was a victim of
prejudice.
“I’m a black regiment clerk,”
he said, “and there are people
that don’t like that.”
Bailey said it was Sam Thomp
son, his commanding officer, that
discriminated against him by tak
ing him to court.
However, Thompson said Uni
versity Communications con
tacted him about the theft in or
der for the. Corps of Cadets to
take action against him.
Bailey said he feels discrimi
nated against because of numer
ous incidents of a more serious
nature in which other Corps
members were not brought to
court.
Bailey cited an incident in
which a Corps member took a
girl’s car without her permission.
“The girl called the campus
cops and they called our company
in,” he said. “The guy had taken
the car and gone to San Antonio.”
Bailey said it’s illegal for a Ca
det to leave within a 15 mile ra
dius of Texas A&M.
“This guy was 200 miles away
and at a concert,” Bailey said.
“This was serious,” he said.
“And it was overlooked.”
In another incident, Bailey said
that during “call-to-quarters” (a
mandatory three hour study pe
riod for Corps members), two of
his friends went to the movies on
an honor pass rather than to the
library.
“My commanding officer was
there when they walked in, and
nothing was done,” Bailey said.
“That may not sound serious,
but it’s also a violation of the Ag
gie Code Honor,” he said.
Bailey said the case should’ve
been handled within the Corps
company, as were most of these
other cases.
Thompson said it’s “utterly ri
diculous” that Bailey feels dis
criminated against since Thomp
son’s interest in the case was not a
personal one.
Thompson said he was only in
terested in upholding the Aggie
Code of Honor.
“It really irritates the hell out
of me that he thinks I’m prejudi
ce,” Thompson said. “I have
three adopted brothers from El
Salvador. I went to a high school
that was 30 percent black and I
had several black friends.”
Thompson said he has two
other cadets in his unit that are
black, along with some Vietnam
ese and Hispanics.
“I treat them all the same,” he
said.
Mexican farmers free killer bees from traps
HOUSTON (AP) — Mexican
farmers frantic for money are taking
the so-called killer bees from traps
and putting them in hives for their
honey, researchers say.
But trying to snatch the African
ized bees can be dangerous. One
farmer already has been hospitalized
from stings he received when he dis
turbed a hive of killer bees he had
set near his home.
The farmer’s chickens, ducks and
turkeys were killed by bee stings,
and his pigs ran away to escape the
bees, the Houston Chronicle re
ported Monday. Gerald Loper of the
Carl Hayden Bee Research Center
in Tucson, Ariz., said he saw a video
tape of the aftermath during a visit
to the area.
Africanized bees, released by acci
dent in Brazil in 1956, have spread
over much of South America and
are moving steadily north. The bees
are expected to reach the Texas bor
der near Brownsville in late 1989,
said Orley “Chip” Taylor of the Uni
versity of Kansas, who has studied
the bees for years.
Correction
The man in the page-one pho
tograph on Tuesday, Feb. 2 was
identified as Mike Barrett. The
name should have read Mark
Barrett.
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Political
Forum
Saigon
The Tet Offensive
Viet Minh
Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh
Gulf of Tonkin
Diem
Vietnamization
Vietnam
Today
Dr. Terry Anderson
A Lecture and Slide
Presentation
February 3
7:30 p.m.
Rudder Theater
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