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of Americans, Soviets about glasnost
By Deborah L. West
Stuff Writer
Glasnost and perestroika were the
{topics of the opening address for the
|33rd Student Conference On Na-
{tional Affairs on Wednesday night.
“Tales of glasnost are eagerly re
ported by press and Mikhail S. Gor
bachev is the smiling master of pub-
[lic relations just like any American
[politician,” Frank E. Vandiver, pres
ident of Texas A&M University,
[said.
Although an unabashed admirer
[of Gorbachev, Dimitri K. Simes, Se
nior Associate and Director of the
Carnegie Endowment for Interna
tional Peace’s Project on U.S.-Soviet
Relations, said the General Secretary
I should not be seen as American.
“Gorbachev is an admirable ad
versary,” Simes said, “but he has his
own heritage, a Russian one.
‘The real problem in Soviet-
American relations is not that we
misunderstand each other. It is that
we understand each other too well
— and we don’t like what we see,” he
said.
These nations are not at each
other throats because of similar po
litical and social systems but because
of conflicting interests, he said.
Glasnost translates to public dis
closure. Its purpose is to promote
perestroika, or restructuring a set of
reforms to loosen totalitarian control
over economic, social and private
life.
Simes said Americans either be
lieve glasnost is a charade, or it is the
beginning of a democracy.
"Glasnost is not a creation to lull
I the west into a false sense of security,
it is a real Soviet policy,” he said.
“The slogan was used by Russian
dissidents for several centuries,” he
said. “Gorbachev was not born yes
terday. He knew the message glas-
nosf would send and the fact that he
chose it is remarkable.”
The Soviets felt they had no alter
native to glasnost, he said.
“The economic growth rate was
down, the mortality rate was up, al-
cohal consumption was rising and
patriotic enthusiasm was down,” he
said. “The people were cynical and
the ruling class was deteriorating.
They knew things had to be turned
around.
“The Soviet people want a leader
to succeed. Unless he makes gross
mistakes, the people won’t turn
against him.”
Some Americans predict that
when glasnost takes effect, it will
make the Soviet Union a more plu
ralistic, economically advanced
country that will not have time to
worry about exterminating others,
he said.
Americans want to think of glas
nost in familiar terms, but they need
to understand it on Russian terms,
Simes said.
“The Soviet Union will not turn
into the United States,” he said.
“People are trying to compare
apples and oranges. Glasnost means
more socialism. The people can only
express opinions that express social
ism and that won’t change.”
When Gorbachev addresses the
media he tells them to be coura
geous, bold and entrepreneurial, but
he also wants them to follow a gov
ernment agenda. There is no west
ern freedom of the press, he said.
“The media is being manipulated
for a purpose — but not for free
dom,” he said.
Glasnost is not without Soviet crit
ics. Party officials don’t like criticism
and many of the people aren’t com
fortable with it, he said.
Glasnost hasn’t affected lives yet.
It hasn’t changed living conditions.
It is exciting to intellectuals, but Gor
bachev must capture the imagina
tion of the common people. Until
then, glasnost is just a slogan, he
said.
“The Soviet people have a social
contract with their government,” he
said. “The Soviet Union is a welfare
state. People are taken care of and
are not bothered with the responsi
bility of government.”
Photo by Beth Murray
Dr. Dimitri Simes, director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Project on U.S.-Soviet
relations, discusses glasnost Wednesday night.
tudent conference examines attitudes
Professionals:
AIDS funding
not enough
LUBBOCK (AP) — Health
care professionals who work with
AIDS patients told members of a
legislative task force Tuesday that
more funding is needed to care
for patients.
In the second of eight public
hearings around the state, the
task force heard testimony from
more than a dozen doctors, pub
lic health officials and others
about the economic burden of
Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome and existing programs
for patient care.
Charged with developing rec
ommendations for state AIDS
policies, the task force is sched
uled to give its report to the next
legislature.
Although specific figures were
not cited, most witnesses agreed
that AIDS is not confined to
Texas’ urban areas.
“While, admittedly, the AIDS
problem is greater in the larger
urban areas, in no way does the
rural habitat discriminate against
that terrible organism,” Dr. Bern-
hard Mittemeyer, executive vice
president of the Texas Tech Uni
versity Health Sciences Center,
said.
Dr. Anthony Way of the Lub
bock Health Department said leg
islative help is needed to protect
AIDS patients from job and hous
ing discrimination. State funding
also is needed to fund health care
because hospitals are not re
imbursed for their costs, he said.
“Unreimbursed caxe right now
merely increases the costs to
other sick people,” Way said.
The St. Anthony’s Hospice in
Amarillo has treated nine AIDS
patients since June 1985, six of
whom were indigent, Dr. Gerald
Holman, the Amarillo in-patient
facility’s executive and medical
director, said.
“We will take any and all pa
tients for as long as we can keep
our doors open,” he said.
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