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BRIEFLY
■ UNIVERSITY
Prokasy elected as chairman of CSSP. William F Prokasy,
vice president for Academic Affairs, was elected in early January as
chairman of the Executive Board of the Council of Scientific Society
Presidents in 1990. As chairman, he will oversee the planning of all
council programs. Prokasy became a member of the council in 1983
when he was elected president of the Federation of Behavioral,
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences The CSSP is a Washington,
D C. based federation of more than 1 million people Prokasy said the
council fosters wise public policy' in science, promotes science
education and encourages free flow of scientific information.
Public forum held to discuss Bush s 1990 budget.The
Athens Peace Coalition will hold a public forum Thursday at 5 p.m. in
Room 144 of the Tate Student Center to respond to President Bush’s
State of the Union address. Kathryn Kyker, member of APC steering
comm.itee, said there will be two speakers, Ray Tripp, Jr., director of
Student Affairs and Student Financial Aid, and Ed Ralph, pastor of
The Lutheran Chapel. The speakers will discuss if the 1990 federal
budget is responsive to recent peaceful worldwide events, and how to
allccate military expenditures to other federal programs, she said.
Publisher of Atlanta paper speaks to students. The
publisher of The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, spoke to
journalism students in a publication management class Tuesdav In
his .ecture, Jay Smith said the greatest issue facing The Atlanta
Journal and Constitution is that of readership and circulation. He
said, Within the next two decades, unless we (newspapers; f.nd a
way to reconnect with our readers, we will not be the great medium
we have been " However, Smith said he believes the Atlanta papers
have reconnected with the Atlanta audience with a blend of quality
news which appeals to its readers. Smith, who has been in the
newspaper business since the age of 17, was named publisher in Mav
1986
ATLANTA (AP): Coke reports record earnings. The Coca-
Cola Co. sa:d Tuesday that record earnings made 1989 the best year
for shareholders in 54 years and predicted more growth in the 1990s
because of growing international business. In reporting record
earrings for the last three months of 1989, the soft-drink compar.\
said net income for the fourth quarter was $757.2 million, up 222"
percent from $235.5 million in the same period a year earlier. Net
income per common share was $2.22, up 242 percent from 65 cents a
year earlier. Coke said its global soft drink gallon sales rose 8 percent
in 1989. Outside the United States, the sales were boosted by
expanded distribution in France and the introduction of Sprite in
Great Britain
ATLANTA (AP): Judge says suit should be in Georgia. A
paternity suit against former major league baseball player Steve
Garvey should be heard in Georgia because that’s where’ the “wooing
ar.d bedding” took place, a Superior Court judge ruled Monday. But
Judge Leah Sears-Collms said she would welcome an appeal because
Georg.a law is murky on jurisdiction in such cases. The lawsuit was
filed by Rebecka Mendenhall, an editor with Cable News Network,
who said she scheduled an April 1, 1989, wedding in Sandy Springs
after Garvey asked her to marry him. The wedding never took place,
and the lawsuit portrays the former San Diego and Los Angeles
player as a juggler of relationships with several women. Daniel
Reinhardt, Garvey’ lawyer, said the paternity suit and a breach of
promise complaint should be tried in California because Garvey lives
there and Ms. Mendenhall was visiting there when she became
impregnated and when she accepted Garvey’s marriage proposal.
MELVILLE, N.Y. (AP): Jet fuel shortage was relayed.
Avianca Flight 52’s declaration of a fuel shortage was relayed from
regional traffic controllers to controllers handling its approach, but
the urgency of the warning wasn’t clear, authorities said Monday.
The controllers were not told by the pilot that there was an
emergency, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Fred Farrar
said from Washington. Farrar said the word used was “priority,”
which “has no particular meaning in air traffic control. If there is an
emergency, you use the word ‘emergency.’” The FAA report conflicts
with information provided Sunday night by the National
Transportation Safety Board, which said the regional controllers had
not relayed word of the fuel shortage to the local controllers.
■ WORLD
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP): Elephants a problem.
The government has built more than 600 miles of electrically charged
fences to keep wild elephants from destroying crops, a newspaper said
Tuesday. The fences are not designed to kill the animals but only to
scare them away from the plantations, said Mohamed Khan Momin
Khan, director-general of the National Parks Department. The
problem is a result of Malaysia’s expanding crops, which have forced
the country’s 1,000 or so wild elephants off the jungle lands they once
roamed. As the land is cleared for oil palm, rubber and other crops,
the elephants return in search of food and eat the crops, Mohamed
told the New Straits Times. Since 1969, elephants have caused more
than $111 million in damage to crops, he said. Mohamed said his
department has begun rounding up the elephants and trucking them
to areas far from the plantations, but up to 500 of the animals have
yet to be caught.
UGA TODAY
Meetings
• UGA College Republicans will
meet tonight at 7 in Room 142 of
the Tate Student Center. Greeley
Ellis, republican candidate for
governor, will speak. Everyone is
invited.
• Alpha Epsilon Delta
Premedical Honor Society will
meet tonight at 6:30 in Room 328
of Boyd Graduate Studies. Dr.
Fred Young will speak on the
advantages and disadvantages of
being a non-science
undergraduate major before
going to medical school.
• The Society of Professional
Journalists is having its second
general meeting tonight at 7 in
Room 412 of the journalism
building. Mary Kay Mitchell,
producer of WUGA-FM
“Centerlines," will be the
speaker. Elections will be held to
fill vacant officer positions.
Initiates should bring
applications and dues to the
meeting.
• Students interested in a budget
tour of Europe should attend a
meeting sponsored by the UGA
Student Travel Club tonight at 7
.m. in Room 143 of the Tate
tudent Center.
• IABC will meet tonight at 7 in
Room 141 of the Tate Student
Center. Faith Peppers, editor of
employee relations at the
Atlanta Journal and
Constitution, will speak on how
papers communicate with top
management. All majors are
welcome.
Announcements
• Students of the American Red
Cross will offer a first aid and
CPR course Feb. 7 and 8 from 6
to 10 p.m. The cost will be $7.50.
Anyone interested, call 548-1374.
• Volunteer trail guides are
i needed to help with the
elementary field trip program.
1 Experience is not necessary and
| training is provided. For more
information, call Sandy Creek
Nature Center at 354-2930.
• A Lunch and Learn Series will
be today from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in
| Room 143 of the Tate Student
j Center. The program will
present several principals
! designed to help people
understand ana enhance levels
| of happiness. No preregistration
! necessary.
I • Presbyterian Campus Minister
Dr. Alex Williams will speak
tonight at 7 at the Presbyterian
Center, 1250 S. Lumpkin. The
topic will be “Beliefs About Hell.”
A social will follow at 8.
• There will be a Law School
Financial Aid Workshop today
from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Room C
of the law school. All student*
interested in attending law
school are invited.
Items for UGA Today must be
submitted in writing at least two
days before the date to be printed.
Include specific meeting location,
speaker’s title and topic, and a
contact person’s day and evening
phone number. Items are printed
on a space-available basis.
Eastern Europeans at U.Ga. excited;
Yet don’t see democratic guarantees
By HAL GREENWALD
Contributing Wnter
For most University students
the changes in Eastern Europe are
the heroic rumblings of freedom in
a foreign land. But for certain
Eastern European students and
faculty these changes, while ex
citing, don’t guarantee democracy
as Americans know it.
Lena Tymczyna, a graduate stu
dent in English education, was last
in her native Poland four years
ago. When she left, people were
talking about the price of milk, not
the possibility of a multi-party
democratic system.
“I’m shocked by the speed. I
didn’t know history could go that
fast," said Tymczyna.
Before Soviet Premier Mikhail
Gorbachev, few of her countrymen
would have dreamt of challenging
the status quo of restriction and
oppression, she said. However, she
warns that economic factors, not
political dreams, will determine
the success of democracy in
Eastern Europe.
Due to belt-tightening measures
installed by the new government in
order to cure an ailing economy,
lines for food and other products
are longer than ever, said Tymc
zyna.
"You have to have a full belly be
fore you can call a political rally,"
she said.
Dragana Davidovic, a visiting
professor from Yugoslavia, echoes
these concerns. Though Davidovic
said she hopes the Communists
will give up, she sees no need for
Walesa critical of
new Polish party
The Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland — Former Com
munists on Monday elected a 35-
year-old sports official to lead a
new party in its quest for popu
larity in trie East bloc’s first democ
racy.
But one day after its founding,
the new Social Democracy of the
Republic of Poland was accused of
“political arrogance" by Solidarity
leader Lech Walesa for taking over
the holdings amassed by the Com
munists during their rule.
It also contended that a brea
kaway group of reformers, whose
members were organizing a rival
Social-Democratic Union would
have nothing to do with the old
party’s leadership or assets.
Parliamentarians for the Com
munist Party, which was officially
disbanded early Monday, reflected
the confusion among the remnants
of their party.
Twenty Communist deputies
lined up behind the Social Democ
racy Party, 25 joined the Social -
Democratic Union, and the re
maining 125 members — including
caucus leader Marian Orzechowski
— withheld support from either
side, state TV reported.
In lopsided votes, Aleksander
Kwasniewski became the Social
Democracy Party’s chairman and
Leszek Miller, a 43-year-old former
Communist Party secretary, its
general secretary.
Kwasniewski, who has close ties
to the former Communist lead
ership, will lead the new party’s
Supreme Council, while Miller will
be the administrator overseeing
party bureaucracy.
Kwasniewski received 1,049
votes for chairman and Miller 926
votes for general secretary out of
about 1,200 votes cast.
The two men immediately were
embraced and congratulated by
Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski, the first
secretary of the dissolved Commu
nist Party.
“We feel very moved by this elec
tion, and also terrified, because we
are aware of the immense tasks,”
Kwasniewski told the delegates.
Kwasniewski, who leads the
state sports and youth committee,
said he wanted a party capable of
rallying leftist opinions and win
ning popular backing after the de
mise of the Communist Party.
TV reported that red flags were
removed from party buildings na
tionwide.
The most important thing is
votes, not members. The better
party is one with 100,000 members
and (capable of getting) 1 million
votes, than a party with 1 million
members and only 100,000 votes,”
he said.
He said the latter case described
the old Communist Party, which
was in disarray after ceding power
to a Solidarity-led government in
August.
her countrymen to follow the trend
and rebel against the government.
The most important thing is
economic growth," she said. “Once
the economy is fixed, there will be
no national problems."
Gary Bertsch, co-director of the
University’s East-West Trade
Policy Center and an expert on
Communist governments, takes a
slightly more upbeat view on de
mocracy’s chances in Eastern Eu
rope.
While he admits that “there will
be austerity and hardship along
the way," he gives demoocracy a
better-than-even shot at success.
He sees no possibility of a peaceful
return of communism.
The Communists won’t be able
to compete effectively in the multi
party system," said Bertsch.
His party, in a resolution
adopted Monday, called for “fur
ther strengthening of ties” with the
emerging democracies in Eastern
Europe.
In Gdansk, Walesa criticized the
party for taking over the Commu
nist holdings, which he said belong
to the “whole society.”
Taking the property would be
“an act of political arrogance,” Wa-
‘You have to have a full
belly before you can
call a political rally.’
— Lena Tymczyna
Testifying recently before the
House Committee on Foreign Af
fairs, Bertsch suggested that the
U.S could play a role in bolstering
these struggling democracies. He
advocated a cautious but sup
portive economic policy.
“We cannot simply sit back and
wait,” he said. “We must recognize
the current economic and political
realities.*
lesa said. “In the conditions of re
vised political pluralism, none of
the parties can start from a priv
ileged position."
There has been a public clamor
for the state to confiscate the prop
erty acquired by the Communists,
and Walesa said he hoped a special
government commission reviewing
the issue would “not disappoint so
cial expectations.”
Baker puts
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Secretary
of State James A. Baker III is re
scheduling talks in Moscow with
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard
A. Shevardnadze to avoid inter
fering with a meeting of the Com-
munist Party Central
Committee, Baker’s
spokeswoman said Tuesday.
The postponement coincided
with a report by the Cable News
Network that Soviet President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev had spent
the past eight days at his country
home, considering his resigna
tion as head of the Soviet Com
munist Party.
Bush administration officials
and intelligence sources told The
Associated Press that there has
been speculation for weeks that
Gorbachev would yield his party
post — while retaining the presi
dency — but that they had no in
formation he would take the step.
Asked about the CNN report,
White House spokesman Marlin
Fitzwater said: “I have no idea.
We’ve never heard of it before. I
have no information."
off talks
He said of the Baker trip to
Moscow: “It was just delayed one
day."
Baker and Shevardnadze will
meet Feb. 8-9 in the Soviet cap
ital, a day delay at the suggestion
of the U.S. government, said
Margaret D. Tutwiler, the State
Department spokeswoman.
Issues to be discussed include
arms control and the war in Af
ghanistan between the Soviet-
backed government and U.S.-
armed rebels.
“It simply makes more sense to
have the Soviets complete their
plenum before beginning this im
portant ministerial,” Sis. Tut
wiler said.
Baker also is expected to make
a brief visit to Czechoslovakia, al
though there has been no an
nouncement on that.
CNN, quoting a “well-informed
and usually reliable” party
source, said from Moscow that
the re-emergence of Gorbachev
on television on Tuesday did not
rule out a dramatic resignation
when the policy-setting Central
Committee meets next Monday
and Tuesday.
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