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espite recent economic reforms
c , Bthe Soviet Union, three Texas
' ^nernll students have concluded in
>er Road, Parffljlications that the reforms have
falls outof(a;H significantly improved the Soviet
(Otilevard or economy or the availability of con-
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Hbhelia Amin and David Park, both
robably appjBnomic students, produced “Quo
lions of camBdis, Comrade Mikhail?,” a docu-
rn could be P? nt d 63 ** 11 !? "'ith economic reforms
.. n[ Biposed by the Soviet Union’s pre-
, . ’ Mikhail Gorbachev and ratified
;d in cnarje« t he Plenum of the Central Com
et Brooks ®I||tee of the Communist Party,
h writing. Hknita van Tilburg, a graduate stu-
■ll Bt- te if s what it is like to live in the
it, SherrillUnion in, “An American at a
eplacetheebiBiiet University: A Personal Expe-
d be out of a B 106 - Tfm booklet details van Til-
t good planrBs’ s experiences while she studied
Bhe Leningrad State University in
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tenioragricij Purlin, an A&M graduate, and
nd editorofllark, a senior, reviewed magazine
■journal articles that analyzed the
Biet economy and political reform.
Bey con tpded a few with their anal
ysis to create “Quo Vadis.”
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Bkinin and Park concluded from
th$ir research that Gorbachev’s re-
fetins could not radically improve
fhl Soviet economy.
■min said Gorbachev would have
tol-eorganize the Communist party
B c hieve results.
Bfor him to get the results he
Graphic by Taani Baier
wanted he was going to have to gain
complete party control and then de
centralize the party,” Amin said. “He
has to change the whole system and
he can’t. To change the system
would be to change what the Soviet
Union is.”
But the reforms could help Gor
bachev secure needed changes in
East-West relations.
“The Soviet economy is in shamb
les,” Park said. “He wants the West
to think he’s making progress eco
nomically — he needs to cut military
spending substantially and expand
production of consumer goods.”
Amin agrees that defense spend
ing should be cut.
“Gorbachev needs to make a posi
tive attempt (at economic reform)
before we’ll (United States) go to a
summit and agree to cut our defense
spending,” Amin said. “It’s in his
best interests to cut defense spend
ing because their economy is going
down the tubes.”
Supply and demand in the Soviet
economy is determined by state
planning rather than the consumer.
Priority is given to the production of
military goods often at the expense
of consumer goods.
“The Soviet economy is a centrally
planned military-industrial complex
with total lack of concern for con
sumer goods,” Park said. “This eco
nomic system doesn’t work.”
Van Tilburg, in her publication,
said consumer goods were difficult
to get when she visited the Soviet
Union in 1984, 1985 and 1986.
“One of my chapters is entitled
‘The Workers’ Paradise is the Con
sumers’ Nightmare,’ ” she said. “If
you’re not one of the privileged peo
ple, life there is very hard.”
She said that living in the Soviet
Union gave her an appreciation of
capitalism — of being an American.
“The real reason I wanted to write
about my experiences was to encour
age people to learn to speak Russian
and to go to the Soviet Union and
find out what it is really like there,”
she said. “You get an extremely false
image of what it’s like there from the
media. You see either the absolute
worst of the Soviet Union or you see
what the Russians really want you to
see.
“It’s only when you can speak the
language, go out on the streets, meet
books
Union
people and live like a Russian that
you really see what it’s like — to be a
Russian and stand in line four or five
hours a day for the basic necessities
of life. You see how unfair it is.
“Russia isn’t the evil empire in
terms of everything there is bad, but
it also is not the workers’ paradise.”
Van Tilburg has a bachelor’s de
gree in physiology from the Univer
sity of California-Davis. She is a mas
ter’s degree candidate at Middlebury
College and has taken undergrad
uate courses in economics at A&M.
The students published their
work with A&M’s Center for Educa
tion and Research in Free Enter
prise.
Van Tilburg met Steve Pejovich,
director of the center, while taking
his Marxism class last fall.
“I mentioned I had been to the
Soviet Union and Dr. Pejovich asked
if I would be interested in writing
about my experiences,” Van Tilburg
said.
Amin and Park were already
working for the center’s newsletter,
Pathfinder, when Pejovich delegated
“Quo Vadis, Comrade Mikhail” to
them.
The center was created to pro
mote understanding of the Ameri
can free enterprise system and the
ideology that supports it.
Amin said that the center’s publi
cations are targeted for the Texas
secondary school system in an at
tempt to expand economic thought
in the high schools.
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Staff Writer
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High school student
admits to forgeries
for Du Pont petition
lenate okays $221.5 million for Texas
■VASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate ap
proved Wednesday a $221.5 million spending
package for military construction projects in
Ifxas, including $23 million for a full-sized re
placement to Brooke Army Medical Center and
$31.85 million for the Ingleside Homeport near
■pus Christi.
B‘This bill provides the down payments on the
full-sized 450-bed replacement hospital for
Brooke Army Medical Center,” Sen. Lloyd Bent-
sen, D-Texas, said. “It’s a relief to have the con-
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“Today’s Senate action guarantees initial con
struction of the Central Distribution Center at
the Red River Army Depot without any more de
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Homeport construction at Ingleside and Galves
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should begin sometime that year on the Brooke
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lion spending package approved by the Senate
93-2.
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veston Homeport and $31.85 million for Ingle
side Homeport.
Of the $10.4 million appropriation for the Red
River Army Depot, $10 million will be used for
the second phase of moderization efforts at the
military distribution center — only one of three
in the nation.
SAN MARCOS (AP) — A high
school student testified Wednesday
he knew the law was being broken
when a political consultant gave him
beer and told him to forge names on
a political petition.
But Jay Harmening, 18, said the
consultant, Rocky Mountain of
Houston, told him it was all right to
sign the names on the petition that
put former Delaware Gov. Pete Du
Pont on the Texas Republican pri
mary ballot last March.
“Don’t worry about it,” Harmen
ing said Mountain had told him.
“You won’t get caught. Drink up and
start signing.”
Mountain, 27, is on trial for 64
misdemeanor counts of forgery
stemming from a “forgery party”
prosecutors say he staged on Dec.
19, 1987 after temporary workers
hired by his firm failed to collect
enough signatures on the Du Pont
petitions.
The company, Southern Political
Consulting, Inc., also is on trial on
64 counts of forgery. Southern Polit
ical Consulting was paid $5,000 by
the Du Pont campaign to handle the
petitions. Du Pont has denied any
knowledge of the forgeries, and no
one associated with him has been
charged in the case.
Each count against the firm car
ries a maximum penalty of $10,000.
Mountain could be sent to county jail
for one year and fined up to $2,000
on each count if convicted.
Defense lawyers have said Moun
tain may be guilty of “poor
judgment and stupidity,” but has
broken no laws.
The trial was moved here because
of extensive publicity about the case
in Houston.
News reports also have said the
firm had phony signatures placed on
ballot petitions for Republican presi
dential candidates Alexander Haig
and Robert Dole, but the misdemea
nor indictments refer only to the Du
Pont petitions.
Harmening, a student at San Mar
cos Academy, was the second stu
dent to testify about the purported
forgery party.
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