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College Station, Texas
Monday, February 5,1990
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biniid streets of the capital Sunday to de-
'pstei* a nd that the Communists surrender their
â– ranglehold on power, perhaps the biggest
—> Jotest in Moscow since the Bolshevik Rev-
i ; - Mution.
The huge gathering came on the eve of a
â– Marty Central Committee meeting during
|fRiich President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is ex-
â– cuecl to propose that other parties be al-
j^jfcwed to compete for power, a move likely
tv spur an intense struggle between hard-
Riers and reformers.
â–  The crowd waved huge white-red-and-
â– ue flags of pre-revolutionary Russia and
te ^Held signs warning party officials to “Re-
"H^lljicmber Romania,” where a bloody revolt
â– dt year toppled the Stalinist regime of Nic-
oi e Ceausescu.
1 The masses stopped next to Red Square
lira gigantic rally that was meant to influ-
|0nce the pivotal Communist Party plenary
meeting that opens Monday,
fan*! “This plenum is the party’s last chance,”
â– Bedared Boris N. V'eltsm, a populist Com-
munist leader who promised to place the
crowd’s demands before the 251-member
Central Committee.
Others, harkening to the revolution that
overthrew the czar in February 1917 before
being swept away by Lenin eight months
later, said a new revolution was under way.
Some demonstrators at the head of the
rally chanted “Politburo resign!” Others
whistled in derision when they passed the
Moscow city council headquarters on Gorky
Street.
Trucks blocked Moscow’s Garden Ring
Road for the marchers who linked arms
next to Gorky Park and completely filled
eight lanes of traffic, stretching back more
than half a mile. Cordons of uniformed po
lice blocked cars elsewhere, turning the
center of Moscow into a virtual pedestrian
mall.
In all, the march and rally lasted for
about five hours before participants began
to disperse. Police observed the peaceful
proceedings in the historic heart of the cap
ital, but there were no reports of any distur
bances.
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SCONA examines foreign policy
ixperts direct political discussions with student delegates
3y JULIE MYERS
Df The Battalion Staff
Experts on U.S. military and agricultural foreign aid and stu-
lents and faculty from around the nation and abroad will meet at
Texas A&M this week to debate the United States’ foreign aid pol-
cy.
The 35th annual MSC Student Conference on National Affairs
will begin Wednesday at 8 p.m. and end Saturday.
Since its inception in 1955, SCONA has been planned, orga-
lized and presented by A&M students. Three other programs like
it exist in the United States.
Topics for this year’s SCONA program include an overview of
U S. foreign aid, its efficiency, the convergence of foreign invest
ment and foreign policy and the goals of the United States from a
global perspective.
In addition, visiting discussion leaders, many of them scholars
or firsthand observers of foreign aid policy-making, will lead 10
•fltmdmtftle discussions fdr the student delegates in Rudder Tower
and the MSC. This is the focal point of each SCONA conference.
As a year-long project, the preparation for the conference is di
vided into three major subcommittees: finance, planning and oper
ations. The tasks facing the SCONA committee in developing an
educational conference include: selecting and refining a topic, re
searching and obtaining the speakers, inviting discussion leaders,
raising the annual budget and notifying colleges and universities
about the upcoming conference.
SCONA does not receive any fryids from the University to sup
port its estimated $100,000 budget. Consequently, SCONA chair
man and senior marketing major Kellye Bowman said the confer
ence is trying to secure an endowment similar to those which
finance other MSC programs like the Jordan Fellows.
President Lyndon B. Johnson, Nobel Prize Winner Milton
Friedman and Vice President Walter Mondale have been featured
SCONA speakers in the past.
All speeches and panel discussions are free to the public.
• John Maxwell Hamilton, senior public affairs adviser for the
UNITED STATES FOREIGN AID
purpose, players & politics
MSC SCONA XXXV
World Bank, will discuss the origin, history and purpose of foreign
aid Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Rudder Theater.
• The formulation of U.S. foreign aid will be debated Thurs
day at 10 a.m. by Col. Charles R. Weaver, former U.S. military co
operation chief in Beirut, Lebanon; Patrick Breslin of the Inter-
American Foundation Office of Learning and Dissemination; and
Dr. James T. Goodwin, coordinator of International Agricultural
Programs at A&M.
• David Black of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation
on Agriculture will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday on execution of
foreign aid.
• Paul Coverdell, director of the Peace Corps, will speak at
10:30 a.m. Friday on evaluating foreign aid.
• Dr. Betty Unterberger, A&M history professor and foreign
affairs specialist, will speak on the future of foreign aid at the clos
ing address Saturday at 10 a.m.
Mandela’s wife calls for
pressure on government
PAARL, South Africa (AP) — Serious
obstacles still block the release of Nelson
Mandela and more pressure must be put on
the white-led government before he can be
freed from nearly three decades in prison,
his wife said Sunday.
The government, meanwhile, warned
Mandela’s newly legalized African National
Congress that the world would turn against
the group if it continued to wage a guerrilla
war.
Mandela met with his wife, Winnie, on
Sunday, two days after the government
lifted numerous restrictions on the anti
apartheid movement. After the meeting,
she appealed for renewed pressure on the
government to force the lifting of remain
ing emergency restrictions.
“Unfortunately, the obstacles that were
in the way, which prevented his release on
Friday, still exist,” Mrs. Mandela said after
the four-hour visit at the Victor Verster
prison farm.
“It ... doesn’t depend on him when he
will be released,” she said. But in answer to
repeated questions about the obstacles, she
said Mandela still demands the complete
lifting of the 3.5-year-old state of emer
gency.
President F.W. de Klerk partially lifted
the emergency in a historic speech Friday in
which he legalized the African National
Congress, placed a moratorium on execu
tions and lifted restrictions on hundreds of
individuals and scores of anti-apartheid or
ganizations.
De Klerk’s actions met many, but not all,
of the conditions the ANC and Mandela
had set for the start of negotiations to end
apartheid and give the voteless black major
ity a voice in the government.
Under the emergency regulations that
remain in effect, the government can de
tain anyone for up to six months without
charge, police have wide powers to ban
Unfortunately, the obstacles
that were in the way, which
prevented his release on Friday,
still exist.”
— Winnie Mandela,
wife of imprisoned
anti-apartheid leader
meetings or speeches and restrict television
or photo coverage of their own actions in
dealing with political unrest.
De Klerk issued a statement through
government-run radio Sunday night re
sponding to comments from ANC officials
that the guerrilla campaign would con
tinue. If that happened, de Klerk was
quoted as saying, “The world would turn
against them.”
‘The democratic movement is the trend of the world’
IlChinese students talk about changes
By KEVIN HAMM
Of The Battalion Staff
To Ke Zhou, the relationship between
China and the United States is crystal
led in a political cartoon he saw: the
picture is of President George Bush
holding Chinese students in one hand,
with his other arm around the shoulders
of Chinese leaders. “Now we can really
negotiate,” the caption says.
nut fot the 33-year-old Texas A&M
graduate student. understanding Bush’s
efforts to assuage China’s government is
not the same as agreeing with them.
Like many of the 40,000 Chinese stu
dents in the United States, Zhou was
frustrated when legislation to protect
Them from deportation died in the Sen
ate last week, four votes short of overrid
ing the president’s veto.
“1 think in the long run he made the
wrong choice, because this generation
wilt he hack sooner or later,” Zhou said.
“The democratic movement is the trend
of the world. Eventually China will go in
this direction, and then the leaders will
ho from the generation here. This will
harm their relationship in the future.
•. T don’t think (the president) antic
ipated the democratic system would be
established in China in the short term —
he’s just trying to improve the dictator
ship,” Zhou said. “In that case he made
the wise choice. But, if we are going to
have a democratic system in the near fu-
ture, everyone will remember what
George Bush did.”
Bush had to choose between signing
the legislation into law. or vetoing it ana
issuing an executive order accomplish
ing the same objectives, He chose the lat
ter after expressing the need to exercise
caution when dealing with China.
‘ This is not the time for an emotional
response hut for a reasoned, careful ac-
h ( m that takes into account both our
long-term interests and recognition of a
complex internal situation m China,”
Bush said during a June 5 news confer*
China’s government had threatened
to cut all student exchange programs
and cultural relations with the United
States if the bill became law, but they
haven’t expressed concern over the ex
ecutive order.
Zhou said this is because the Chinese
government trusts Bush.
Bush won that trust between 1974 and
1975 when he was the head of the
United States Liaison Mission to China.
“I think they know, most of them in
Congress, that 1 have not only a keen po-
liticaf interest in China, but that I under
stand it reasonably well,” Bush said.
^ When we go back, we will
disappear. Thaf s why stub
dents really need protection.
They need protection des
perately.”
— Xun Ge,
Chinese graduate student
Zhou agreed that Bush knows how the
Chinese government works, with per
sonal relationships between leaders be
ing very important, he said. But he said
Bush was in contact with only the older
leaders while he was in China, not with
the people. Bush had a standing invita
tion every weekend to lunch with Deng
Xiaoping, who is currently China’s se
nior leader, Zhou said,
Chinese students also are confused by
the president’s seemingly inconsistent
foreign policy.
Xun Ge, a 30-year-old graduate stu
dent at A&M, said, “When you look at
the whole issue, when you look around
the world, your policy has to be consis
tent.” Citing the United States’ support
of democratic changes in Eastern Eu
rope, he said, “It’s hard to understand
why you have double standards in the
human rights.” : ' J
Zhou said, “The United Stales should
stand for human rights, for freedom
and democracy, not for the dictator-
ship-’ 1 ( .
Ge said he is afraid for Chinese stu
dents, like himself and Zhou, who have
spoken but in support of the democratic
movement, if they are forced to return
to China. The Chinese government
keeps a “black list” with names of stu
dents who are actively involved in pro
testing the government, he said.
: “When we go back, we wilt disappear,”
Ge said. “That’s why students really
need protection. They need protection
desperately.”
Zhou agreed that they will be pun
ished eventually.
“When we go home, they can catch us
whenever they want,” Zhou said,
“Sooner or later you will be caught.
“if something happened to me, they
could say ’He is in China, we have our
own law.’ In their opinion, that’s r ight,”
Although students aren’t in danger
while in the United States, Zhou said the
Chinese Consulate in Houston has tried
to coerce students over the phone, warn
ing them not to get involved in the
movement or demonstrations. Zhou has
received two phone calls.
“They probably know it’s no use to in
timidate me,” Zhou said. “They just want
to persuade me to trust the govern
ment.”
Ge is not worried about being de
ported any time soon. However, he won
ders what will happen in the future
when the Tiananmen Square massacre
begins to fade from people’s minds,
“Right now (Bush) says, Tru going to
protect all these Chinese students by ex
ecutive order.*,” Ge said. “But who
See China/Page 8
Visiting lecturer named
communications head
for economic summit
By STACY E. ALLEN
Of The Battalion Staff
A Texas A&M visiting lecturer has been
appointed communications director for the
1990 Houston Economic Summit Host
Committee.
Peter Roussel, who teaches JOUR 440,
Media and the Presidency, has served in the
White House as a media staff assistant un
der President Ford and President Reagan.
“I’m excited about doing this because it
will present Houston to the global news me
dia and to the leaders that will attend the
event,” Roussel said. “I am a native Housto
nian and have a 20-year personal and pro
fessional association with President Bush,
and I want the summit to be a success for
him. I have discussed this with the presi
dent and received his encouragement.”
Roussel was special assistant and deputy
press secretary to Reagan from 1981 to
1987, staff assistant to Ford from 1974 to
1976 and press secretary/personal press of
ficer to Bush from 1969 to 1974. As a
spokesman for Reagan, Roussel helped
plan the U.S. media participation for six
economic summits.
Roussel said his job will include keeping
the ongoing economic summit media fo
cused on three things: the activities of the
seven leaders that will be in attendance at
the summit; the city of Houston and its pos
itive aspects; and the role of President Bush
as the host of the event in his hometown.
Roussel will commute between Houston
and College Station throughout the semes
ter to honor his commitment to A&M.
In addition to teaching, Roussel is serv
ing as a public relations consultant for
A&M to advance the University’s reputa
tion in the national media. He is working
with President Mobley to improve A&M’s
chances of securing the Bush library.
“In taking this position,” Roussel said, “I
told Lay (co-chairman of the Summit Host
Committee) that I had a commitment to
Texas A&M and President Mobley, and if
doing this would hurt A&M or get in the
way of my commitment, I wouldn’t take it.”
Battalion File Photo
Peter Roussel