Thursday, February 4, 1988/The Battalion/Page 5
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^Soviets write story for newspaper
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By Mark Gee
Staf f Writer
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Texas A&M history professor
rry Anderson said an article writ
ten about him in the Soviet Union
la Foods*B ws P a P er I zves tia was accurate ex-
Ramada ■ icept f° r a misquotes, and that it
gives Texas A&M world exposure.
7 Pm.inflBAnderson, a Vietnam veteran, re-
Brned to Vietnam in October 1987
3t| onalWe?|tq look at the country as a historian.
In 1966, he was a gunfire-control
UrsociC: terlinician in the U.S. Navy.
glthgn^H Anderson was interviewed by Igor
^Bidrevev, a spetial correspondent
p.m.|n§|foi' lives tin, during Anderson’s two-
«ek tour of Vietnam.
in 402R a :HThe Soviet headline “Tourist
from the U.S.A. No. 77,” the story
about Anderson and a picture of
him and his traveling companion,
JRose Eder, appeared on Page 5 of
He Dec. 15 issue of Izvesda.
■ Anderson was suprised and eager
‘-iH get a translation of the article
when he found it in his mailbox.
■ “Most of the article was accurate
Hid entertaining,” Anderson said,
lied “but there were some mistakes. I was
HHcited about having a story in a So
ught alf'Het newspaper and the international
'^tposure it gave A&M.”
■ The article was translated by
■arie Godfrey, who has a degree in
[ussian studies from T exas A&M.
“The interview was very good,”
[odfrey said. “There is some misqu-
ing as Terry (Anderson) said, but
herwise, the interview is above
use to’T bo n d. I consider it a very positive
h^vtide. It’s not anti-American.”
10 Paving The Russian journalist Andreyev,
^Hho did not speak English, came
‘nd^Hross Anderson’s story b\ chance,
vMnderson said. Anderson and Eder
Het Andreyev through Vladimir
Haslov, a professor of economics at
Hie Soviet Academy of Science.
AfcftmiH Anderson spoke to Andreyev
n/yP^Hrough Maslov, who was an inter-
Id ■refer in the trial of Matthias Rust,
^^JJHie West German teen-ager who
Hnded a plane on Red Square.
■ “It was one of the best interviews
Tchad,” Anderson said. “It was en-
1 livable. The two Russians were great
Imversationalists. We talked about
f Joviet-American relations and Gor-
< lachev’s glasnost and its impact on
* Soviet academia and journalism.”
IH Anderson said he likes the article
jHecause it has the potential to im-
jHrove. American-Soviet relations.
Anderson said a Vietnam veter-
li’s views are important to Soviet cit-
^ens because the SovietUnion is in-
rolved in a similar
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Students see Vietnam of ’80s
By Mark Gee
Staff Writer
From Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, an associate professor of history on
Wednesday gave 500 A&M students a slide-by-slide look at his October
1987 tour of Vietnam.
Terry Anderson, who toured Vietnam last year, presented “Vietnam
Today,” a look at the country two decades after the war from a historian’s
perspective.
“I’m here to talk about the reconstruction and present conditions in
Vietnam, not the war,” Anderson told the audience at Rudder Theater.
Anderson said even though the Soviet Union supplies the Socialist Re
public of Vietnam with almost $1 billion a year, the country still lacks basic
consumer goods and industry.
Even with the extreme poverty, Anderson said there was very little
crime because the citizens fear re-education camp.
In Hanoi, he said, electricity is rationed to homes at night from 6 p.m.
to 6 a.m. so factories can have electricty during the day.
He said the city is dark at night, with only a single light bulb hanging at
street corners.
Anderson said the vice director at a 1,200-family agricultural cooper
ative near Hanoi told him proudly that 40 percent of the homes had a tele
vision. Anderson said there were two television stations in Hanoi. “One sta
tion played Russian sit-coms; the other played test bars,” he said.
He said free enterprise is developing in Vietnam. “After cooperatives
have filled their quotas,” Anderson said, “they are allowed to sell their sur
plus on the free market and make a profit.”
Anderson said he hopes to return to Vietnam with a group of Viet-
namese-Americans and write a book about the return.
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war i n
Ifghanistan.
“It relates to the Soviet occupation
of Afghanistan and issues that their
future veterans will face,” Anderson
said.
Godfrey said the lead of the arti
cle — which calls the 41 -year-old An
derson a “pink-cheeked youth” —
puts the professor in a good light.
“The youthfulness of Americans
is always suprising,” the Izvestia arti
cle began. “It often catches people
off guard and creates awkward situ
ations. Such an occurance happened
on a hot and humid evening in Da
Nang ...”
Godfrey said Soviets often portray
Americans as youthful.
“It is impossible to get into some
one’s mind,” Godfrey said, “but most
Soviets will take it (Anderson de
scribed as youthful) as cute, but oth
ers will look at it and think the rea
son Americans look youthful is
because they have an easy life and all
they do is watch MTV.”
Anderson said the Soviet journal
ist asked him, “How old are you, you
pink-cheeked youth?”
After the journalist tells the
reader about his suprise that Ander
son is 41, has his Ph.D and has
fought in the Vietnam War, he puts
Anderson’s 1966 military duty in a
Vietnam perspective.
“In the memorable year of 1966,
in the spring of which the first mas
sive bombardments of the D.R.V.
was made by B-52s . . . the people
(Viet Cong) who manned the anti
aircraft guns of the D.R.V. shot
down the one-thousandth American
Thunder Chief (fighter plane),” An
dreyev wrote.
Anderson said that claims of
1,000 planes being shot down in
1966 is an exaggeration. He said less
than 1,000 planes were shot down
during the 10-year war.
“The Soviet journalist must have
been using Vietnamese statistics,”
Anderson said. He said while in Ha
noi, he was told the North Vietnam
ese claimed to have shot down 3,500
American planes.
“I don’t want to use the word
propaganda, because it happens on
both sides and does nothing to im
prove American-Soviet relations,”
Anderson said.
Anderson also says there is a po
tential fabrication in the article.
Anderson says that he told the So
viet journalist that Thailand’s econ
omy was better than Vietnam’s.
But the article directly quotes An
derson as saying, “For example, in
Thailand, as in many other coun
tries, one is surrounded by sick peo
ple, the majority being children.
There is nothing like this in Viet
nam. Therefore, the government
has been able to eliminate this im
portant problem.”
Anderson said this statement is in
correct.
“Unless there was a problem in
translation about Vietnam’s being
better than Thailand’s, then that was
fabricated,” he said. “No one who
has visited Bangkok and Saigon
would ever think the economy in
Vietnam is better than Thailand’s.”
Anderson has been to Bangkok
four times and has traveled to 25
countries.
“I’d like to give them (the Soviet
journalist and translator) the benefit
of the doubt,” Anderson said. “Em
thankful he put it in there because
I’d love to give them a slide show. It
woi dd be a blast.”
Anderson has more than 500 pic
tures of Vietnam, some of which he
showed to A&M students during a
Political Forum program in Rudder
Theater.
“Many of my slides,” Anderson
said, “show the poverty, hunger and
need for medical and humananita-
rian aid.”
Immediately after the statement
comparing Vietnam and Thailand,
the article quotes Anderson as say
ing, “Of course, there are still many
E roblems and I would like to know
ow the government intends to solve
them.”
Anderson said he never made that
statement.
“That is a typical question of a
Russian, but he quotes me as saying
it,” he says. “The point is that the So
viets want to know why there are so
many problems — why they spend
so much money and why the com
munist government has not solved
them.”
Since 1975, the Soviet Union has
given massive amounts of aid to reb
uild Vietnam, he said.
Anderson said the men who inter
viewed him were engaging and talk
ative. Anderson, Eder, Andreyev
and Maslov talked for four hours
and drank Heineken beer for 50
cents a bottle.
“They really got a kick when I told
them, ‘Well, we had our Vietnam
and you have your Afghanistan. The
only difference is that our men spent
time in the tropics and your men are
on some cold mountain,’ ” Ander
son said.
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Checkpoint
really scam
for tourists
EL PASO (AP) — A federal
| Mexican official was in Juarez,
[ Mexico, this week to investigate a
phony highway checkpoint set up
by immigration agents who ille
gally confiscated travelers’ prop
erty, authorities said.
Six Mexican immigration
agents were arrested Saturday at
the checkpoint at the intersection
of two highways in Janos, 130
miles southwest of Juarez.
The agents had illegally confis
cated two trucks, jewelry, fire
arms and about $8,300 cash, Juan
Aguilar Garcia, Mexico’s deputy
director of immigration, said
Tuesday. About $7,000 of the
money was U.S. currency, but
Aguilar said the agents preyed
mostly on a nearby Mennonite
community.
The seven agents are likely to
face charges of extortion, rob
bery, unauthorized use of arms
and conspiracy, authorities said.
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that sexual gratification was acquired
and in this case it was not.
“Unless someone files a criminal
complaint no one can be arrested
and names do not have to be revea
led,” Wiatt said. “However, if some
one does file a complaint then the
case becomes public knowledge and
the person so charged can be identi
fied.”
According to Wiatt, some ot the
men were turned over to the resi
dent official in Cain Hall, Dr. Steve
Attack
Crews. Wiatt added that the athletic
department is conducting its own in
vestigation.
“We are seeing if anyone of
fended by the incident would want
to file appropriate charges and as of
now, no one has,” Wiatt said.
Holly Becka, a sophomore journa
lism major from Killeen, said she
saw three naked men and three
clothed men running through the
Commons lounge area.
One of the clothed men said the
three naked men were freshmen
going through a football initiation,
she said.
An athlete who asked not to be
identified said on the first cold night
of February upper classmen on the
football team round up the new re
cruits, mainly underclassmen and
transfer students, and have them
strip.
The new recruits are taken to
Rudder Fountain where they sing
“The Spirit of Aggieland.” The
source said this makes the new play
ers’ first year easier because they
don’t get harassed as much as they
would otherwise.
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threw him into the rear bumper of
his car, knocking him unconscious
and breaking his collarbone.
The attacker then turned to
Voigtman and asked him if he
wanted “some of this too,” the report
says.
The man then threw Voigtman
into the open passenger door of the
car he had just exited, the report
says.
Voigtman sustained bruises to his
chest, ribs and lungs, according to
the report.
Mary Barclay said she approached
the man asking, “What are you
doing?” and he responded by grab
bing her blouse and hitting her in
the face with his fist, the report says.
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Barclay said she was unconscious for
a few seconds and when she re
gained consciousness she saw the
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