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The Red and Black • Friday, February 9, 1990 • 3
German student sees
Berlin Wall collapse
By HAL QREENWALD
Contributing Writer
So your father was at Woods
tock. Or you were there for the
Inst show at the Uptown or even
for an Atlanta Falcons victory.
We all cherish those rare mo
ments when our lives collide with
history.
However, Olaf Honerkamp, a
German exchange student, may
have these claims to fame beaten
hands down. He was there when
the Berlin Wall came tumbling
down.
Honerkamp witnessed the de
struction of the Berlin Wall on a
visit to his homeland over the
winter break. He compared the
scene to a carnival. Germans now
comically refer to the wall as the
“Berlin speed bump,” he said.
“It was outrageous — wild. A
very special party,” he said.
On New Years Eve throngs of
people filled the streets as
speakers blasted music from
cars, he said. East and West Ger
mans with beer mugs in hand sat
atop the wall and ripped away
hunks of cement.
Honerkamp said later that
evening he and his friends
crossed over and mixed with East
Germans in an East Berlin bar.
Honerkamp notes that the be
havior of the Germans at the wall
that night was uncharacteristi
cally spirited and uninhibited.
“I’d never seen Germans 'high-
five’ before," said Honerkamp.
When he returned to the Uni
versity, Honerkamp distributed
pieces of the wall. He said the de
struction of the wall and the
opening of the border between
East and West Germany was a
positive step for all Germans.
“East Germans lived in a big
prison,” he said. “Really, I
thought the Wall was a pain.”
On the subject of German reu
nification, most German ex
change students at the
University are enthusiastic and
supportive of efforts to bring the
two Germanies together.
Klaus Wiener, a graduate eco
nomics student, disagrees with
those who say that a reunified
Germany would mean a return of
German militarism and expan
sionism.
“Germany is a different state
now,” he said. “Nobody wants
war anymore."
Wiener said that Germans
born in the post-World War II pe
riod have been educated with re
spect to the futility of war. He
added that Germany now has a
strong peace movement and a
highly motivated and involved
electorate, citing a 90 percent
turnout for the last election.
“We are very educated politi
cally," he said. “We have a new
willingness to fight for things we
believe in.”
‘Tree Babies’ gather to commemorate
date when willow oaks were planted
Mayor Dwain Chambers addresses ‘Tree Babies' at ceremony Wednesday
By LANCE HELMS
Contributing Writer
In the early 80s, when environ
mental awareness wasn’t as preva
lent as today, what was there for
preservation-minded Athenians to
do? Plant trees — lots of them.
In the fall of 1980, the Athens
Tree Commission formed and pre
sented the idea to Mayor Lauren
Coile with a proposal for a TVee
Day, according to its chairwoman,
Mary Anne Hodgson.
Coile approved the proposal, and
the festivities were held on Oct. 9,
under the tree that owns itself on
Finley Street.
Hodgson’s next project invited
the charity of Athenians, and was
called the ‘Tree Babies,” after the
Athens children in whose names 38
willow oaks were planted along
Dougherty and Thomas streets and
College Avenue on April 2, 1981.
Ten years later, Mayor Dwain
Chambers applauded the efforts of
the commission from the back
porch of the Church-Brumby
House downtown during a cere
mony commemorating the Tree Ba
bies.
He said the donors of the trees
expressed love when they ded
icated the trees to their children
and grundchildren — love to the
ones that they remembered, and to
their community as well.
He said he intends to make
Athens a Tree City USA, as desig
nated by the National Arbor Day
Foundation.
“I’m awful proud of what has
been done — I do look forward to
being a Tree City USA,” he said.
James Smith x>f Athens pre
sented a donation for two trees to
Waters at the ceremony. Waters
said, This is for Tree Babies
number two."
The first tree planted, at the
comer of Thomas and Washington
Streets, was donated by Robert
Nicholls, environmental design
professor, in the name of his then
six-year-old son, Peter. Now Peter
is 15, and in the eighth grade at
Athens Christian School.
Peter said all the Tree Babies re
ceived a small pine tree of their
own, but he got four because his
was the first tree dedicated. He
planted them on either side of his
driveway at home.
TheyYe growing like rockets, ”
he said.
Roger Cauthen, superintendent
of grounds maintenance for
Athens, said that the city needs to
prove that it spends $1 per capita
on trees and pass a tree protection
ordinance to be designated a Tree
City USA.
Superpowers discuss joint condemnation of Israeli policy
The Associated Press
MOSCOW— The United States
and the Soviet Union made
headway Thursday toward new
arms control agreements, officials
on both sides said. The Soviets said
there also was talk of a joint con
demnation of Israel’s resettlement
of Jewish immigrants on the West
Bank.
“It is quite possible that as a re
sult of the Soviet-American talks a
common viewpoint will be ex-
f ressed on this issue, condemning
srael’s attempt to resettle immi
grants on someone else’s occupied
territory,” Gennady I. Gerasimov,
the Soviet Foreign Ministry
spokesman, said.
There are no differences be
tween the United States and us on
this issue," he said.
A half-dozen senior U.S. officials
made no mention of the Jewish set
tlers in a separate briefing sum
ming up more than seven hours of
talks between Secretary of State
James A. Baker III and Soviet For
eign Minister Eduard A. Shevard
nadze.
The U.S. officials, speaking only
on condition of anonymity, said
Baker and Shevardnadze made
progress toward treaties to curb
long-range nuclear weapons,
ground troops, tanks and combat
aircraft in Europe, and to ban pro
duction of chemical weapons.
Both Shevardnadze and Deputy
Foreign Minister Alexander
Bessmertnykh echoed the positive
U.S. appraisal. The discussion of
the disarmament problem is pro
ceeding very well, Shevardnadze
told Tass, the Soviet news agency.
Bessmertnykh, who specializes
in U.S. relations, was quoted by
Tass as saying both sides had pre
sented new ideas, narrowing the
gap between their positions.
Gerasimov called the discussion
“very technical” and said it would
keep U.S. and Soviet experts busy
through the night sorting the pro
posals out.
Baker offered at least one con
cession that would permit the So
viets to exclude from a projected
ceiling some of the combat aircraft
they contend are defensive.
The Soviets, meanwhile,
dropped their demand for a provi
sion that would allow them to
scrap a long-range missile-reduc
tion agreement if they determined
U.S. antimissile defenses in space
were illegal.
But the U.S. official who re
ported the concession acknowl
edged that the treaty, which
President Bush and Soviet Presi
dent Mikhail S. Gorbachev intend
to sign at their Washington
summit meeting in June, would in
clude a common escape clause. Ei
ther side could abandon the
restrictions if it concluded the
treaty did not serve its national in
terest.
The separate briefings produced
evidence of discord, too.
Gerasimov said the United
States still refuses to consider re
ducing naval forces. He said the
Soviets would not sign the treaty if
a dispute over sea-launched cruise
missiles was not resolved.
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