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The demonstrators on Bloody Sunday were not seeking con frontation either. Liberal and conservative fac tions within the Soviet Union have been moving toward a showdown for some time. The rapid sweeping aside in 1989 of communist governments and privileged bureaucracies in Eastern Europe shocked their Soviet counterparts. It appears mat the conserva tives became convinced that there can be no co-existence with liberals, no peaceful competition within a pluralistic political sys tem. Since mid-1990, the conserva tives — Communist party loy alists, privileged bureaucrats, the senior military leadership, the KGB and the Ministry of In terior security forces — have mounted an all-out drive to elim inate liberal elements from power positions within the So viet political arena. The surprise resignation by Foreign Minister Eduard She vardnadze during a public speech to the Congress of Peo ple's Deputies on Dec. 20 was the most visible departure by a high-ranking liberal, but She vardnadze has had plenty of company. Other key liberal officials who have been forced out of govern ment jobs within the last six to eight months include: □ Alexandr Yakolev, a former Politburo member, who along with Shevardnadze and Mikhail Gorbachev, was one of the origi nal architects of perestroika; □ and key Boris Yeltsin sup porters like Grigori Yavlinsky, former Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Republic, and Rusla Khazbulatov, former deputy leader of the Russian Parliament. Today, Boris Yeltsin is the last liberal politician holding a politi cal office of national influence. Conservatives like Marshal Sergi Akhromeyev, the former Soviet armed forces chief of staff, say Yeltsin is an "anti-socialist separatist" who must be re moved from office. □ Nikolai Petrakov and Sta nislav Shatalin, the man who de veloped the plan to introduce a market economy in the Soviet Union; □ Vadim Bakatin, former head of the Ministry of Interior who opposed the use of security forces to quell public demonstra tion; Yeltsin in return "declared war" on Gorbachev and the con servatives in a nationally tele vised speech Feb. 18, calling for Gorbachev's immediate resigna tion. Yeltsin's call was echoed by more than 200,000 demonstators who took to the streets March 10. Athletes helping troubled youth in B-CS Continued from page 1 Athletes Involved. He and Kent Petty, a quarterback for the Ag gies, spoke to the young men. "It was amazing," Moore said. "The boys' attention spans are usually about five minutes, and when (Petty and Smith) started talking it was kind of awkward," Moore said. "But then they started asking just real basic questions like 'What do you do if someone asks you to go to the movies and you're studying?"' Smith said he and Petty just tried to relate some of their past experiences in high school. "We started off by talking about sports," Smith said. "Then we were soon talking about school, drug and alcohol abuse, and other things." Moore said the boys look up to athletes because many aspire to be athletes themselves. 'They idolize these guys/ Moore said. "You have a bunch of adolescent boys who don't want to show it, and these guys were just great. It was the power of who they were and getting the message across." Hoffman said Aggie Athletes Involved began because there was no community service orga nization on campus in which athletes could become involved that would be sensitive to their varying and sometimes restric tive schedules. "They could get involved in organizations already estab lished, but these organizations are not really understanding to the responsiblities and commit ments althletes have," Hoffman said. "Athletes are definitely under time constraints that an average student would not be," she said. "That is why this organization was created." Cain Council, a part of the Resident Hall Association, is the only community service organi zation recognized by the Univer sity which is composed mainly of athletes, Hoffman said. nly the that live in the dorms," Hoffman said. Hoffman said Aggie Athletes Involved is made up of athletes from men's and women's sports. She said although the mem bership is small —about 14 or 15 members — Aggie Athletes In volved hopes to eventually have athletes from every sport be come involved. Smith said the organization is talking to principals of elemen tary and seconaary schools to possibly set up activities be tween the students and athletes. One program the group is hoping to set up is called "Break fast with Champions," where students can dine and talk with athletes. Hoffman said Aggie Athletes Involved is still in its intial stages of development, and is in the process or obtaining official rec ognition from the University. Smith said because of the ath letes' busy schedules, off-season egins in athletes will be more active in the program during given times, in order to ease the pressure other members. Jason Marshall, a shortstop for the A&M baseball team, will take over the position of presided when football season the fall. Hoffman said a positive mes sage for school-age children is more effective when it comes from people the children look to as role models. "I would compare it to a movie star giving a message," Hoffman said. "Athletes have status or prestige because of how society glorifies sports. "The message coming from any ordinary person would be the same," she said. ‘ somehow hearing it from some one with status — such as an athlete — gives the message bet ter reception." Persons interested in contact ing Aggie Athletes Involved can call Hoffman at 845-0280 Thursday, I Sc] Busin DALLAS rejection of i adds more c pect of tax r< ness leaders "It leaves tainty as to 1 what's goinj Allaway, e> dent of the Texas Assoc I don't kno’ sess what's next." The Texas dered a sch plan from April 1. The 113.9 billion but it was n House Wed into question meet the coui Texas bus; bracing for a the costs of mblic educat 15 billion defi get. Student wins trip to Japan by winning contest Continued from page 3 ment will have its first tenure- track of a Japanese faculty mem ber who will be in charge of de veloping the program, he said. "With the development of the Koriyama campus and this new program, there is definitely a fu ture for the development of Japa nese, Chinese and other lan guages," Arizpe said. Arizpe said the modem lan guages departments, along with business and engineering, is of fering intense language courses. "With the intemationality of the campus, the Department of Modem Languages is destined to play a major role," Arizpe said. 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