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Friday, February 9,1990
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MOSCOW (AP) — Communist maverick
Rudy [Moris N. Yeltsin and progressive activists
Fa ^JMid Thursday the party’s decision to re-
don’t |^■ounce its legal claim on power is not
bl^m se ei ough to end Soviet political repression
centralized control.
I “It is necessary to eliminate (Communist)
ily itjtjBiirty organizations in the army, the police,
'Active-® 6 KGB, the courts, in all the state institu-
Ro wildj 0118 ’ sa * f ^ Yuri Mityunov, a spokesman for
IgHie would-be opposition party, the Demo-
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^miHpP ose ^ ie P°li t ' ca l reforms Wednesday.
n| illion ■H esaid they failed to go far enough.
c %ittH "I h a d grounds to vote against,” he said
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artgy a ,jBn. “But I think, however, that the platform
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the (party) Congress.”
He recommended the formation of a sec
ond party if the Communist Party fails to
excise conservatives at the Congress to be
held in early summer.
Yeltsin was a keynote speaker at the larg
est pro-democracy rally in decades at the
foot of Red Square last Sunday. Several
hundred thousand people rallied and de
manded the party abandon its guaranteed
leading role in Soviet society.
At the Central Committee meeting that
ended Wednesday, the party did just that,
approving President Mikhail S. Gorba
chev’s party platform that calls for revoking
the party’s constitutional guarantee in favor
of a multiparty system wnere Communists
would have to compete for power.
“The discussion was very hot,” Yeltsin
said, gesturing .expansively before depart
ing to take the political temperature among
activists in Leningrad. “The proposals were
diametrically opposed. It was not easy.”
Mityunov said pressure for reform is
now moving to the streets and pointed to
the growing number of incidents of angry
crowds across the Soviet Union demanding
the ouster of hard-line local Communist
leaders.
Party secretaries in Volgograd, Tyumen,
Chernigov and Sverdlovsk were removed in
recent weeks, and activists said 6,000 peo
ple gathered in front of the party headquar
ters in Donetsk on Wednesday with a simi
lar demand.
Reformers in Saratov plan to rally Sun
day to demand removal of their party lepd-
ers.
Voter registration
will end Monday
The last day to register to vote in the
March 13 primary election is Monday.
To register, a voter registration must
be completed and received by the tax as-
essor’s office by 5 p.m.
Applications are available at the tax
assessor's office in the county court
house on Texas Avenue and E- 26th
(o^ Street in Bryan, the Democratic Party of
Brazos County headquarters in Green-
jT| ltsl( field Plaza in Bryan, and the Republican
Party of Brazos Count
Harvey Road in the 1
ping Center in College Station.
Applications also are available from a
College Republicans table in the Com
mons today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and
atSbisa Monday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
On the application, a Brazos County
address must go in the space for the per
manent residence address. This address
must be an actual residence, not a post
office box. Other information needed
for the application includes a Social Se
curity number, hirthdate and birthplace.
Absentee polling will be available
from Feb. 21 to March 9 at the Brazos
County Courthouse. Additional absen
tee voting that may he available will be
announced next week.
In the March 13 primary election, the
offices that will be chosen include gover
nor, lieutenant governor, attorney gen
eral, comptroller and treasurer.
Speaker: Eastern Europe
needs course in capitalism
By JULIE MYERS
Of The Battalion Staff
The new non-communist governments
in Eastern Europe must do in months what
it took the West centuries to accomplish if
they want to ride the train of global capital
ism and prosperity into the 21st century.
Dr. Morgan Reynolds made that obser
vation Thursday night at the Wiley Lecture
Series-sponsored program, “The Phoenix
Reborn: Will Free Market Economics Reju
venate Eastern Europe?”.
Reynolds said there is no semi-socialist
route to a rational, consumer-responsive,
efficient economic system.
“Eastern Europe needs shock therapy,”
Reynolds said. “They should institute pri
vate property, individual rights, sound
money, the rule of law, and limited govern
ment. In a word, capitalism.”
Some of Reynolds’ specific policy sugges
tions include:
• privatizing state enterprises, housing,
land, all farm assets, banking and credit.
• legalizing underground economic
transactions.
• adopting an independent judiciary.
• reducing taxes to low uniform rates on
production and consumption of national
income.
• adopting a sound monetary policy us
ing convertible money.
• attracting western investment with no
restrictions.
“In sum, trust the people,” Reynolds
said. “The economy must be completely lib
eralized quickly. This will proauce ‘eco
nomic miracles’ on the scale of the 1948
‘German economic miracle’ following
World War II.
There is a substantial history of free in
terprise and liberty in central and eastern
Europe, Reynolds said.
Prior to World War II, Czechoslovakia
was as vibrant, prosperous, sophisticated
and productive as anywhere on the conti
nent, Reynolds said. Forty years of social
See Reynolds/Page 10
Moving mountainf
Photo by Phelan M. Ehen hack
Health and Physical Education Department employees Matt Shea and
Johnnie Townsend, Jr. begin tearing down Mt. Aggie Thursday to make
room for a new parking garage across from Rudder Tower.
Eastern markets attract U.S. interest
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■Out for blood’ challenge
Iraws to end today
By CHRIS VAUGHN
Of The Battalion Staff
Today is the last day to donate blood for
die Texas A&rM-University of Arkansas
I lllood drive challenge sponsored by the
American Red Cross.
I Two bloodmobiles will be in front of
■udder l ower from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and
[eds are set up for donors at the Commons
Tom 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The winner of the Arkansas-A&M blood
Jliallenge will be determined on a percent-
|ge basis of the populations at the campuses
since A&M has 25,000 more students than
Arkansas.
■ Arkansas was leading the contest as of 5
p.m. Thursday.
■ Men’s and women’s residence halls at
■&M, as well as on-campus organizations,
)rps of Cadets dormitories and Greek or
ganizations are vying to see which will do-
Tate the most blood. The winner from each
iategory will receive a plaque from the Red
Cross.
5S3; — J Donors can receive Domino’s Pizza and
____J|ee cups designed with OT Sarge and the
words, “Aggies are out for blood for the
led Cross.”
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With the sweeping reforms going on in the Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe, an expert on foreign aid believes the United States
will forget about Latin America.
David Black, a representative of the Inter-American Institute
for Cooperation on Agriculture, said America will turn its eco
nomic power to the recently opened markets in Eastern Europe in
stead of helping its neighbors to the south.
“The U.S. is going to forget about Latin America for probably
10 years,” Black said Wednesday after his speech to tne MSC
SCONA XXXV convention. “Latin America will be on the back
burner until there is a major war or something drastic happens.”
Black, who has worked with the World Bank, the Inter-Ameri
can Development Bank and in the 21-nation Organization of
American States, delivered his speech about foreign aid to the Stu
dent Council on National Affairs.
The dismantling of the Communist party monopoly in Czecho
slovakia, Poland, East Germany, Romania, and most recently, the
Soviet Union has prompted the Defense Department to begin trim
ming its budget.
Black said more economic aid to Eastern bloc countries is possi
ble now since the United States and other Western nations have a
new market of skilled laborers, Black said.
The amount of money earmarked for foreign assistance to
Latin American countries in Congress’ 1990 fiscal budget, how
ever, is not very much, Black said.
Congress has appropriated $3.2 billion for foreign economic
assistance out of the $14 billion allocated for foreign affairs, little of
which will reach Latin America, he said.
“El Salvador receives the lion’s share of that money for Latin
America, too,” he said.
Black said rebuilding must occur very soon in Panama or the
Panamanians support for the invasion, however necessary, will
sour.
President George Bush said last month that the United States
will provide Panama with $ 1 billion in assistance to rebuild its shat
tered economy as a result of the invasion. Conservative figures,
however, estimate the damage to be $2.2 billion.
Black said the United States is likely to ignore Latin America
until the countries lower their huge debts to other nations.
Black said foreign economic assistance is important to the
United States, even though he said it is unpopular with most Amer
icans.
“For every dollar we send to Latin America, the public sees that
as a dollar less that we’re spending on our own social programs,” he
said. “But, fortunately, our congressmen know that foreign assis
tance ultimately helps us.”
When Latin American countries receive assistance, they are
more willing to buy U.S. goods and more willing to support the pol
icies of the United States government, Black said.
Black said the American government will have to form a long-
range foreign policy plan in order for its foreign aid programs to
work correctly.
“Foreign aid is a function of foreign policy,” he said. “Unfortu
nately, our country does not have a coherent long-range foreign
policy plan. It is long past time the U.S. developed one instead of
reacting to events as they happen.”
Off-campus dorm
offers alternative
in student housing
By NADJA SABAWALA
Of The Battalion Staff
PART 3 OF A 3-PART SERIES
For A&M students wanting an alterna
tive to dormitory and apartment living,
University Tower could be the answer.
At the corner of University Drive and
Texas Avenue, University Tower is a pri
vately owned building serving as a resi
dence tower, hotel and conference center.
Owner Leonard Ross said he believes stu
dents choose to live at the tower because
services and amenities offered there are un
available in either dormitories or apart
ments.
“We help the University with their hous
ing shortage and we give the students an al
ternative,” Ross said.
Jeff Simmons, a freshman economics
See Tower/Page 10
xpert: ‘Killer bees’ will swarm into Texas, misconceptions
y BILL HETHCOCK
Df The Battalion Staff
The sky is full of deadly insects that block
xit the summer sun. The flying attackers
earch for unsuspecting prey, descending
swarming, stinging assaults of victims
>vho struggle, shriek and swat at the lethal
3ests.
As the scene ends, a victim sinks to the
round, another casualty of “killer bees.”
Fortunately for Texans, the arrival of the
\fricanized honey bee, popularly known as
he “killer bee,” will not be as dramatic as
lorror movies depict, Dr. John Thomas,
Texas Agricultural Extension Service ento-
lologist, said.
“They’re not going to cause the kind of
problems that a lot of people perceive, be-
ause they’ve seen too much TV or too
any films about the killer bees,” Thomas
aid. “They visualize these things as coming
n in great swarms and stinging anything
hat moves. That just doesn’t happen.”
The Africanized honey bees, expected to
nter South Texas in 1990 or 1991, do not
ieserve the name “killer bees,” Thomas
aid. However, behavioral studies of the in-
ects show that when Africanized honey
'ees are disturbed at their hive, they will
sting 10 times as much as do
mestic honey bees, he said.
“These honey bees defend
their colonies, so defensive is the
more accurate adjective to de
scribe the Africanized honey
bee,” he said. “It very actively de
fends its colony. If a predator or
man appears to threaten that col
ony you’ll have more of the bees
attack and sting, and the bees will
respond more quickly.”
When Africanized bees are not
protecting the hive, they are no
more likely to sting than the do
mesticated European bees that
are common in Texas now, Thomas said.
Even if the Africanized bee does sting, a
single sting from this bee is no more harm
ful than a common honey bee sting, he said.
“The venom of the Africanized honey
bee is chemically identical to the European
bee,” Thomas said. “The Africanized bee is
a wild tropical bee with a personality prob
lem compared to the gentle, domestic Euro
pean bee.”
Thomas said he expects the number of
deaths in Texas due to honey bee stings to
increase to two or three people a year when
Illustration by Doug LaRue
the Africanized honey bees arrive. Texas
now averages one bee-related death a year,
he said.
The exact date of the bees’ arrival in
Texas depends on weather conditions and
wildflower growth, which will attract the
bees into South Texas, Thomas said.
Experts in the field have predicted the
bees will reach the Rio Grande Valley in
March 1990 at the earliest. Thomas said
this is a conservative estimate of the arrival
date.
“My bet is that we’ll pick up the first
swarms in March, April or May
of 1991, based on movement and
knowledge of terrain in that
area,” he said.
The bees are expected to mi
grate north at a rate of 200 to 300
miles a year after crossing the
Texas border, Thomas said.
Their ability to adapt to different
climates will determine how far
north they will travel, he said.
Most problems with the Afri
canized bees will occur in urban
areas, Thomas said. This is be
cause there is a wider variety of
flowers and plants from which
bees collect pollen and nectar, and there are
more places to set up colonies in cities, he
said.
“Bees in a city have more resources and
more places to set up housekeeping in all
the human structures,” he said. “Of course
we don’t like to think about this, because
that’s where there’s a greater probability of
the bees running into people. But that’s
where we’re going to nave most of our
problems.”
Thomas said a Texas Africanized honey
bee management plan has been developed
to minimize the negative impacts of the
bees, and to provide the public with accu
rate information.
“If you do encounter a swarm, and they
perceive you to be a threat, get out of the
re,” Thomas said. “You can outrun a bee.
Get in* a car, get in a house or zig zag
through brush.
“Don’t stand there and swat at them be
cause they will recruit more bees from the
colony. Africanized bees respond very
quickly and in large numbers, and you can’t
win that battle.”
Africanized honey bees are a cross be
tween European and African races of the
honey bee, Thomas said.
The bees were first crossed during
breeding studies in Brazil in 1957, and have
since spread throughout South and Central
America and into Mexico.
The leading swarm of Africanized bees is
now 150 miles south of Brownsville,
Thomas said.