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The Battalion
Wednesday, October^
Soviet Union covets technologi
from West, says A&M official
By Todd Swearingen
Of The Battalion Staff
The Soviet Union is falling behind
as a world power and desperately
desires Western technology to keep
up, said Dr. Richard Thomas, head
of ti
The Soviets are severely hand
icapped by bureaucratic obstacles
when it comes to developing new
technology because the various
agencies responsible for scientific
development and production do not
work together, Thomas said.
ng
the Center for Strategic Techno
logies, located on Texas A&M’s cam
pus.
Thomas said that the policies be
ing put into effect by Soviet General
Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev origi
nated in 1982 with his predecessor,
Yuri Andropov. Thomas said that
Andropov realized that the U.S.S.R.
was rapidly falling behind in tech
nology and could not compete in the
world marketplace without changing
the system.
Gorbachev’s efforts have centered
on presenting a new image to the
world by removing the barriers be
tween the U.S.S.R. and Europe and
encouraging the necessary changes,
he said.
“They recognize that change has
to occur,” Thomas said. “On the
other hand, most of them have very
E rivileged positions. They live in the
est houses and shop in the best
places — they live in the lap of lux
ury, to the extent that the Soviet
Union can provide it.”
“There is no commonality of in
terest among them,” Thomas said.
“The system is really a non-system.
“As far as their research is con
cerned, they suffer from the pub-
lish-or-perish syndrome — badly.
“They end up doing a heck of a
lot of things that are just meaning
less in terms of providing any sort of
breakthrough or any sort of useful
device that could be designed into a
product they could sell in the world
marketplace.”
As an example of the difference
in the quality of technology, Thomas
said that Western electronic control
lers can typically run for 10,000
hours before needing repair, while
Soviet controllers last only 170
hours.
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Thomas said that Soviet actions in
Europe should be taken in context
— while reducing arms in Europe,
they continue to build three times as
many modern tanks as the U.S. Both
glasnost and perestroika are specif
ically designed to bring the U.S.S.R.
into the European community and
to acquire Western technology,
Thomas said.
“And of course, we see evidence
of that in the literature — they now
freely admit the lousy quality,” he
said.
The Center for Strategic Techno
logies is not an exclusively military
research organization, but is best
known for its Soviet studies, Thomas
said. Much of the Soviet research
conducted by the GST is not related
to the military. T hese include energy
resources, scientific research and
Warsaw Pact relations, Thomas said.
“If we want to do a pieceo‘
search, we’ve got to convince,
body to give us money," Tluj
said. “We’re independent,to!
tent that nobody buys us. We
like it is, and if that means tel
sponsor something he doesni
to hear — that’s too bad, wenf
him.
“If we’re doing a study for
vate sector firm, like General
namics for example, natural
would be using our studies! «I b,k :
to make some judgements
what future weapons are going
required for the U.S. military."
Much of the information
vided by the GST is usedbytht
government to formulate
policy, Thomas said. The
nist Party adopts an economit
military plan every five yean
will next meet in 1990, but TI? can
said that no major changes an" *
peeled until 1995.
Thomas said that it is unlikel,
the Soviets would return to Slat
if Gorbachev were thrown oit
power, because a majority
younger generation recognize
need for change. He said it is®
likely that changes would [
over a long period of time,
country would continue to
hind as a world power.
“As we pull away from them®
nologically, they will become®
dangerous and we have to n®
that situation very adroitly.”
search by studying Soviet literature
“Let’s face it, in today’s world you
can talk about economic success, but
you’re talking technology; you can
talk about world power, but you’re
talking technology; you can talk
about military power, but you’re
sure as hell talking about technolo
gy,” Thomas said.
to provide information and plan
ning assitance to the U.S. govern
ment and private organizations,
Thomas said.
“Among university groups doing
Soviet studies, we are the only one
headed by an engineer — and the
only one that focuses on Soviet sci
ence engineering and technology,”
Thomas said.
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may be topic
of TV movie
Texas fugitive named
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man accused of being a kingpin in a
multimillion-dollar drug ring that
operated in four states was named
Tuesday to the U.S. Marshals Serv
ice’s list of its “15 Most-Wanted” fu
gitives.
The service said Emmett Franklin
McSwain escaped from the Federal
Prison Camp in Texarkana on Jan.
20, 1986, shortly after learning he
had been named in a 31-count in
dictment accusing him of running a
continuing criminal enterprise and
other drug-related crimes.
McSwain, 50, was serving a 10-
year sentence for possession with in
tent to distribute narcotics at the
time of his escape. His criminal re
cord, dating to 1958, includes a 1970
conviction for killing a fellow inmate
in the Texas State Penitentiary while
he was serving a two- to 10-year sen
tence for burglary, the Marshals
Service said.
According to U.S. Marshal Stuart
Earnest in Oklahoma City, the 31-
count indictment out of the Western
District of Oklahoma accuses Mc
Swain of running a PGP operation.
PGP, Earnest said, is a “cooked
drug” and is considered a “halluci-
nagenic upper.”
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a woman who won a $1 rail
verdict from four men who
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