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The Red and Black • Friday, May 11, 1990 • 3
University center for trade
to help sponsor conference
By PATRICK FLANIGAN
Contributing Writer
The University’s Center for
East-West Trade will co-sponsor a
four-part conference on the expor
tation of telecommunications and
computer materials to Eastern bloc
countries at the Carnegie Endow
ment in Washington, D.C.,
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Currently such exports are re
stricted by the 17 nations rep
resented by the Coordinating
Communities for Export Controls,
an appendix of the United Nations
that has attempted to keep ad
vanced technology out of the hands
of Soviet bloc countries since 1949,
Steve Elliot-Gower of the center
said.
The center will joint-sponsor the
conference with the University of
Nebraska’s Center for Telecommu
nications Management and the
Telecommunications Industry As
sociation. Together they will in
form affected companies such as
IBM, Siemens and Motorola of re
cent changes in export control poli
cies.
Gary Bertsch, co-founder of the
center, said, “We have gathered
lending names from business, gov
ernment and universities to ad
dress an important issue on the
national agenda."
Along with Elliott-Gower and
Richard Cupitt, a research asso
ciate on leave from the University
of Texas, Bertsch has utilized the
center’s resources to bring CO-
COM’s academic research to the
conference.
“We want to provide a broad per
spective for businessmen who are
interested in a short-term gain,"
said Elliott-Gower, who has been a
logistical coordinator and liaison in
preparation for the conference.
Traditionally, COCOM has
viewed Warsaw Pact countries as a
threat and the export of high-tech
materials has been restricted be
cause their uses can be applied to
both military and industrial pur
poses, he said.
But the political changes in
Eastern Europe have caused
member-nations to reassess these
restrictions.
Businesses and Western govern
ments are in favor of reducing
trade restrictions because of the
market opportunity of increased
export to Eastern Europe.
However, national security is
still a consideration and busi
nesses are aware of this, Cupitt
said.
In June, COCOM will meet in
Paris to raise alternatives to
existing policies.
Elliott-Gower said the center
has conducted research to predict
what will happen and what should
happen in COCOM’s future.
“In the past, COCOM has been
based on East-West conflict, but in
the future it will be based on East-
West cooperation," he said.
The conference will consist of
four panel discussions, which will
raise issues on how far and how
fast liberalization should go, con
gressional ammendments to export
administration and the security is
sues of satellite technology.
A broad range of viewpoints will
be represented. Panelists include:
Paul FVeedenberg, Undersecretary
of Commerce to the Reagen admin
istration; Stefan Rosiny of the
German Electronics Industry Asso-
File
Gary Bertsch: Co-founded
the Center for East-West
Trade in 1987
ciation; and Yuri Gulyaev, director
of the Engineering and Electronics
Institute of the Soviet Union.
The Center for East-West Trade
was founded in 1987 by Bertsch
and Martin Hillenbrand in an ef
fort to provide scholarly research
on subjects of trade to Eastern Eu
ropean nations.
Hillenbrand said they merely
wanted to use their resources to fill
a gap in a relatively unresearched
area, but due to the revolutionary
changes in Eastern Europe the
center now enjoys an international
reputation for providing pertinent
information.
Students go south with e.a.r.t.h.
By CAROL ANN CAUSEY
Contributing Writer
So you’ve divided your garbage
into three tidy piles, you’ve
bought the official Northeast
Georgia Earth Day 1990 t-shirt,
you’ve stopped buying Exxon,
and you still don’t feel like you’ve
contributed enough to the envi
ronmental campaign.
All that’s left is to hunt exotic
mosquitoes and plant trees in
sunny Mexico for the e.a.r.t.h.
fund.
The purpose of e.a.r.t.h. is to
re-educate and reforest the
Americas. The reforestation cam
paigns, to begin in January 1991,
will send workers to Mexico and
Guatemala to reforest dilapi
dated lands and promote a better
understanding between the
United States and its Southern
neighbors.
E.a.r.t.h. founder Ken Norman
said there are no age, language or
experience requirements for the
Mexican campaign, although
many shots will be required to
guard against malaria, dysentery
and other tropical ailments. The
Guatemalan campaign calls for
participants with advanced skills
in Spanish and the environment.
Students will work with native
students in rebuilding the land
and will share lifestyles as the
participants live and eat in local
farmers’ houses.
“A lot of our problems are
based on the nine-to-five, big
business mentality that the rest
of the world is opposed to,”
Norman said. He hopes the
e.a.r.t.h. fund will dispel the neg
ative image that many Central
and South Americans hold of the
United States.
Norman predicts the reforesta
tion campaign will cost the stu
dent about the same as one
quarter's tuition at the Univer
sity. He hopes to distribute schol
arships based on need and, in
some instances, expertise.
“Actually, you can live in Cen
tral America for very little
money. I went there with $350
and lived quite well for seven
weeks," Norman said. The length
of the campaigns will correspond
with the University’s quarter
system and Norman is working
with the University to allow par
ticipants to receive course credit
for their participation.
Norman has already found stu
dents interested in campaigns.
Students for e.a.r.t.h. is a Univer
sity group that meets Mondays at
7:30 p.m. at The Downstairs Cafe
to recruit college students.
Norman said that at the moment
there isn’t a lot of work for the
group to do, but this fall it will be
busy with activity in preparation
for the campaigns.
Danny Allen, a junior adver
tising major and a member of stu
dents for e.a.r.t.h., said, “I don’t
know if I'll be going with the first
group, but I'll definitely be
going.” Presently, Allen is
working on an e.a.r.t.h. benefit in
Peachtree City with Atlanta’s
Holly Faith and local band, State
of the Union.
The e.a.r.t.h. fund was estab
lished in October, 1988 by
Norman, a Los Angeles lawyer-
tumed-environmentalist. In No
vember 1989, e.a.r.t.h. was offi
cially chartered in Athens.
The southern United States
represents the laid-back temper
ament of South America’s trop
ical belt,” Norman said of his
decision to locate in the Athens.
The University's School of Forest
Resources and Ecology Institute
made Athens the most viable
lace for the e.a.r.t.h. fund’s
eadquarters.
Norman recently returned from a
seven-week fact-finding tour of
Central America where he
started an e.a.r.t.h. network.
Three grass-roots organizations
have joined the network and are
planningrious projects.
One effort, involving GEMA,
an environmental group based in
Quintana Roo, Mexico, is an at
tempt to stop Vulcan Materials
Co. of Alabama from building a
limestone, open-pit mining pro
ject in South America that would
destroy reefs, rain forests, and
the coast. The e.a.r.t.h. fund
handed out protest letters at the
Earth Day 1990 celebration and
will continue to work with GEMA
on the project, Norman said.
Though most of the e.a.r.t.h.
fund’s projects are still in their
planning stages, Norman said
the group is well ahead of
schedule.
“In six months, the e.a.r.t.h. fund
should have an office in Athens
with three full-time employees,”
said Norman.
For now, the e.a.r.t.h. fund is
still researching and raising
funds for the actual campaigns.
Norman is working on a 60-page
statement-of-purpose report
which he plans to send to various
corporations and individuals in
hope of financial assistance.
UGA student driver injures German visitor
Green is the issue for Young
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — He’s leading in a
statewide poll, but there are those
who continue to insist Andrew
Young cannot do in Georgia what
L. Douglas Wilder did in Virginia
last year when he was elected the
nation’s first black governor.
So what makes the Young camp
think it can win?
Hobby Stripling, former mayor
of the small South Georgia town of
Vienna and Young’s campaign
manager, says Young is building a
biracial coalition anchored in eco
nomic prosperity.
The reason I’m in the campaign
is my four grandchildren,” said
Stripling, who is white. “If they
want to stay here in Vienna, some
thing has got to develop down here.
There’s got to be economic devel
opment, better educational oppor
tunities. Andy Young is the only
candidate who offers that.”
‘Green is a neutral color in the
state of Georgia,” said Stripling.
Young, a veteran of the civil
rights struggle, former con
gressman from Atlanta, ex-United
Nations ambassador and ordained
minister, is preaching the same
doctrine of economic development
he emphasized during eight years
as mayor of Atlanta.
He says the message is well re
ceived.
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professor of political science at At
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Since kicking off the campaign
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and campaigning at plant gates,
said press aide Nehl Horton.
But there have been many out-
of-state trips, too, necessitated by
what the campaign has called a dif
ficulty raising funds from Atlanta
businessmen. Out-of-state fund
raisers have included two each in
New York and Chicago.
A German visitor to campus suf
fered a broken hand Wednesday
when he was hit by a car driven by
a University student.
Christian Guhl, from Balingen,
Germany, said he was in the cross
walk at Lumpkin and Wray streets
when a car nit him and knocked
him over, causing him to break his
right hand.
Guhl also received bruises and
cuts on his arms and shoulders.
Guhl said he spent three to four
hours at St. Mary’s Hospital after
the accident.
Melissa Meagher, a freshman
business major, was driving the car
that hit Guhl, according to the
Athens police reports. As Meagher
was turning left onto Lumpriin
Street from Wray Street, she
turned into the path of a car driven
by David Pittman, a pre-journa
lism major.
“I didn’t see the car coming,”
Meagher said.
Pittman’s car collided with
Meagher’s and caused it to slide
around and hit Guhl.
Her car continued to travel and
hit another car owned by Athens
resident Virginia Turner, the re
port read.
Meagher was cited for failure to
yield right-of-way on a left turn,
according to the report.
Guhl said he is visiting the Uni
versity and may attend in the fall.
He is staying with a friend in Ogle
thorpe House until June. He said
the accident hasn’t discouraged
him from possibly attending the
University.
— Michael W. McLeod
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