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10 WORLD and NATION
The Battalion
Wednesday, February 27,195
Gorbachev blasts Yeltsi
MOSCOW (AP) — President Mik
hail S. Gorbachev fired back at Boris
Yeltsin on Tuesday, saying his politi
cal rival is not working toward “the
goals of perestroika,” Tass reported.
Gorbachev, speaking to tractor
factory workers in Minsk, made his
first public comments about Yeltsin
since the Russian federation presi
dent called for the Soviet leader’s
resignation a week ago.
Gorbachev got an earful of com
plaints about the economy from
workers at the Minsk Tractor Works
in the Byelorussia capital. He also
said he would spend two of his three
days in the republic, visiting areas
contaminated by the 1986 Cherno
byl nuclear power plant accident.
At the factory, Gorbachev was
asked about a Feb. 12 interview on
national television in which Yeltsin
accused Gorbachev of abandoning
perestroika, his economic restruc
turing policies, for personal political
power.
Gorbachev replied that Yeltsin’s
own objectives “are at odds with the
goals of perestroika,” the official
Tass news agency reported.
“It would be very simple if every
thing boiled down to our personal
relationship. What is at issue is two
political lines and associated strate
gic goals,” he said. “That’s where the
difference is.”
Since Yeltsin’s harshly critical
The nation's political
crisis "threatens to push
us off the road of reforms
onto the path of confrontation, right
up to a civil war."
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speech, he has been condemned by
Communist Party hard-liners and
the Communist media. But more
than 100,000 people also rallied on
his behalf Sunday in central Mos
cow, and radical newspapers have
been filled with letters of support.
Gorbachev lashed out at radical
reformers such as Yeltsin and Mos
cow Mayor Gavriil Popov in a speech
to Byelorussian intellectuals later
Tuesday, saying they want to dis
member the Soviet Union.
“There is no need to wonder that
these ‘democrats’ enter a political al
liance with separatists and national
ist groups,” Gorbachev said. “They
have one common goal: to weaken
and, if possible, dismantle the
union.”
“Recently the so-called democrats
have embarked on a frankly anti-
Communist road, calling for pro
claiming the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union a criminal organization
and staging a trial,” he added. “This
supercilious mocking hides the de
sire to lead the people astray. ... If
Boris Yeltsin and Gavriil Pop®
claim themselves democrats,
of Communists have by
reasons to call themselves such
Gorbachev said the mtm\
cal crisis intensified the past 12to
months and “threatens to pus* WASHI
off the road of reforms onto on Wedne
path of confrontation, right upt| tary force
civil war.”
Gorbachev also told the fan:
workers work on a draft agree®;
with the 15 republics on setting
prices was completed Tuesday,
The date of the price increg;
will be set after the agreement the capital
signed by leaders of the repi Bush said
this week, he said.
The Soviet television news
gram “Vremya” showed ass®
line workers amid shiny red tract
arguing about the economic
with the fur-hatted Gorbachev
wagged his finger back at them,
“I don’t even have boots!"
one worker.
“ There is no food, no goo<
woman told Gorbachev. “1 tot
booklet of shopping coupons j
there is not a single coupon thaii;
lx*en clipped out. I can’t buys
thing after work. The
bare!”
Gorbachev responded by sain
he has issued decrees trying tost
economic salxitage and speculate
who he blamed in part forshomi
He said
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women in the Middle East. This is
a support-the-troops effort.”
Students interested in partici
pating can contact John Ansbach
at 847-6657 or Student Govern
ment at 845-3051.
Garrett says volunteers will use
yellow survey tape to tie the re
cord ribbon around both cities
and the A&M main campus.
“The survey tape will be laid
down at hazardous intersections
before the event begins,” Garrett
says. “Volunteers will form a hu
man link at non-hazardous loca-
mayors of Bryan and College Sta
tion also will attend the cere-
tions.”
The ends of the ribbon will be
connected to a huge yellow bow
during a ceremomy at 10:30 a.m.
Saturday at Post Oak Mall. The
mony.
“We wanted to hold the cere
mony this weekend because Sat
urday is Texas Independence
Day,” Garrett says. “Ann Rich
ards has declared the day Yellow
Ribbon Day to honor the event.”
Garrett says he hopes the rest
of the United States and the
troops in the Middle East will be
helped by this “Texan message.”
Thirty-one miles of ribbon can
be expensive, he says. Organizers
commissioned a Texas manufac
turing company to provide the
ribbon, which cost more than
$1,000.
“It is a Texan statement, so we
wanted to use a Texan company,"
Garrett says.
Kelley Durham, marketing di
rector at Post Oak Mall, says activ
ities at the mall will coincide with
the ribbon-tying ceremony.
“At the moment we have a pic
ture display of the soldiers,” Dur
ham says. “Pictures will also be
taken of events at the mall. These
pictures and parts of the ribbon
will be sent overseas to the units.
“We have invited mem ers of
the Chamber of Commerce to
join in the activities,” Durham
says.
Volunteers will come from all
areas of the community to help
with the day’s activities, Durham
says.
Dr. Bruce Prevatt, director of
A&M's employees assistance pro
gram, is the spokesman foralocal
support group called Aggieland
Family Support.
"The Aggieland Family Sup
port is the largest group in the
area and our members will be
definitely taking part,” Prevatt
says.
Garrett says volunteers also will
come from the Corps of Cadets,
churches. Boy Scouts of America
and individuals.
A volunteer hotline has been
set up for people who want to
participate. Those interested can
call 776-4753 and leave a name
and address where they can be
reached.
Energy
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The panel said violence in a dat
ing relationship is not a “one-way
street.” Men usually are thought to
initiate violence, but almost 50 per
cent of the women involved in a vio
lent dating relationship are the ag
gressors.
Carlson said the reasons for initia
tion are different between women
and men. Women are more likely to
hanced oil recovery, I expect do
mestic production could be in
creased at most by one to 1.5 million
barrels a day,” Moroney said.
An energy strategy method of re
ducing domestic oil consumption is
to explore alternative energy
sources.
The plan calls for increased use of
natural gas and nuclear power, and
deregulation of oil and gas pipelines
where a competitive market exists.
Bentsen and Moroney said alter
native fuel sources must be explored
more intensively than the “meager
efforts” outlined in the energy plan.
Bentsen said the United States has
a 400-year supply of coal and the
“know-how” to make it burn cleaner.
He said the nation has abundant
stocks of natural gas and should get
serious about finding new ways to
use it.
Moroney said clean-burning
methanol could be used as a fuel,
even though it burns twice as fast as
gasoline.
Both said energy consumption in
the United States is extravagant,
more than twice as much as the next-
highest energy consuming country.
Both agreed conservation is a big
part of the answer to the energy
question.
The energy strategy does not call
for new taxes on gasoline or oil.
Moroney said a federal exciseil
on gasoline would contribute tocf®
servation by raising the priceoffo
“The National Energy Strati
falls short in my view by lacking,
ficient price incentives to
consumption of oil and oil-bail
products,” Moroney said. “The:
has no teeth.”
He added that gasoline taxes:
successful in reducing oil coronet
tion in other countries.
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Carlson said traditional roles of
men and women in society and fears
about being alone “make it more
scary to leave than to stay in a
relationship where getting hurt is a
sure thing.”
become violent in sen-defense than
in anger.
Carlson said men traditionally are
in control in this society, but now
women are expected to share in de
cision-making. This sets the stage for
violent conflicts.
The panel said different factors
cause violence to start.
Hurst said stress is frequently a
cause, especially in college. For some
people, violence is the only way they
know to relieve stress.
Carlson said jealousy is another
cause. But drugs and alcohol can ex-
aggerate the problem. A study done
at Towson State University showed
that of the 12,000 responses, those
who initiate violence reported a
greater use of drugs or alcohol.
courages men to talk to
about their feelings so they*t
able to deal with them non-vi
The panel offered several warn
ing signs that might signal the need
to end the relationship: poor com
munication, constant arguing, jeal
ousy or possessiveness, excessive use
of alcohol or drugs, a low sense of
self-esteem, withdrawal from friends
and family or increased dependence
by your partner.
Chickering said colleges and uni
versities need to have explicit poli
cies against violent behavior to solve
the problem. Another strategy en-
Carlson said correcting “|»
imbalance” in a relationship is
other strategy. She said in most'I
violent relationships, [
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and woman.
Hurst said colleges and i®
tions need to take a clear stands:
what kind of behavior is andi:
acceptable. But he said if victim
not have the courage to take asm
it will be difficult to solve f
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accepted all the mandates of ^
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of remorse for Iraq’s aggress
or any indication that Saddam
prepared to accept the respot
bility for the awful consequent'
of that aggression,” Bush said
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struction of Kuwait.
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