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Policeman
enters plea
for assault
AUSTIN (AP) — An Austin police of
ficer who was videotaped punching a
prisoner three times has pleaded no con
test to a misdemeanor assault charge.
Gaylon Dunkin, 34, earlier had been
tried on a civil rights violation charge.
The trial ended with a hung jury.
Police Chief Jim Everett fired Dunkin
for using excessive force, but he was re
instated after an arbitration hearing.
Dunkin entered his plea to a Class C
misdemeanor assault charge Monday be
fore Justice of the Peace David Crain,
and State District Judge Jon Wisser dis
missed the civil rights violation.
Crain ordered judgment in the assault
case deferred for six months.
If Dunkin does not break any laws dur
ing that time period, there will be no fi
nal record of a conviction.
Dunkin said he had no comment about
the plea. His lawyer, Bill McQuillen,
said his client’s plea should not be con
sidered an admission of guilt.
“We could fight it again, and win,”
McQuillen said.
“The only reason we entered into this
agreement is to avoid another trial, to put
the agony of the past year behind us,” he
said.
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12. CONSECUTIVE
COMMERCIALS (N A ROW)
Researcher: Gorbachev gets credit
for reforms designed by predecessors
By Scot Walker
Staff Writer
Mikhail S. Gorbachev is receiving
credit for instigating reforms in the So
viet Union that are actually the work of
one of his predecessors, a Texas A&M
researcher says.
Dr. Richard E. Thomas, director of
the Center for Strategic Technology,
says that Yuri Andropov, who led the
Soviet Union for a short period before
his death in 1983, was the first Soviet
leader to work to fix problems in the
structure of the nation’s economy.
“Andropov hand-picked Gorbachev as
his successor,” Thomas says. “Even
while Konstantin Chernenko was presi
dent (after Andropov and before Gorba
chev), Gorbachev was really running the
country.”
Thomas says that the reason Andro
pov, and now Gorbachev, wanted to try
to instigate change is that they saw the
Soviet Union losing to the United States
in the competition for new technology.
“Technology is what the world is all
about,” Thomas says. “If you keep ahead
in technology, your economy stays
strong and your national defense is
strong and the whole country is better
off.”
Thomas, who has been studying the
Soviet Union since 1964, says that in or
der for the Soviet Union to keep its su
perpower status, it has to catch up with
the United States within 25 years. He
says that even many Soviets see that goal
as unattainable.
“I’ve talked to Soviet researchers who
say that 25 years is out of the question,”
Thomas says. “One of them told me that
it would take closer to 60. So they are
begging the United States to help them,
and knowing us, we probably will.”
Thomas says that the prospect of the
Soviet Union’s becoming a non-super
power should not necessarily be comfort
ing to Americans.
“The reason they are a superpower
now is technology, namely their weap
ons systems and their space program,”
he says. “Without those, they are just an
other third-rate country. If they now see
themselves as falling behind in those
areas, and if they think that the gap in the
future will be significantly wider than it
is now, perhaps they will decide that
now is a better time for drastic action.”
He says that Gorbachev sees a need to
galvanize the Soviet citizenry behind the
drive for new technology.
“Without the input of the private sec
tor the Soviets will never catch us,”
Thomas says. “The idea behind glasnost,
which is often translated as meaning
openness but more correctly refers to de
bate, is to make the people believe that
the Soviet system is something worth im
proving.
He says that many Soviets are disillu
sioned because extortion and bribery run
rampant throughout all levels of the sys
tem. He says that is why there is so much
publicity given to uncovering corrupt of
ficials.
“The citizens are urged to turn in any
one who is abusing their position,”
Thomas says. “However, glasnost and
perestroika (the restructuring of the
economy) are designed as economic re
forms, not political reforms, and there is
no validity to the assertion of some ob
servers that there will be changes in the
role of the Communist party as the sole
power in the country.”
He says that he did not think that Gor
bachev would succeed in carrying
through with his reforms. He predicted
that within two years, Gorbachev would
be ousted and replaced with a caretaker-
type leader, who would stay in charge
until the country was ready for another
round of reforms.
Thomas says that the Soviet Union has
in the past faced crises similar to those it
confronts it now.
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