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The Red and Black • Friday, May 18, 1990 • 3
Group to clean Milledge Saturday
By DAVID TWIDDY
Contributing Writer
The UGA Clean and Beautiful
Committee, a new student organi
zation, is challenging all other stu
dent organizations to join in a
community cleanup service project
Saturday.
The group will pick up trash
along sections of Milledge Avenue
from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., said Deron
Davis, public relations chairperson
for the committee.
The committee will meet at its
office at 1188 E. Broad St. at 9:30
a.m.
"We chose Milledge Avenue be
cause it runs the fine line between
campus and city, thereby setting a
g<x)d example all around," Davis, a
senior marketing major, said.
A cleaning crew from the Athens
Recreation and Parks Department
working the same day will handle
city roads, so the committee is
working on state-owned Milledge
Avenue to help as much as pos
sible, Davis said.
This is the committee’s last
service project until fall, but it will
continue working with on-going
programs with fraternities and so
rorities over the summer.
The committee’s model frater
nity and sorority program is
helping start recycling and anti-lit
tering programs in one fraternity
and sorority a quarter, said Mary
Kathryn Todd, fraternity and so
rority chairperson for the com
mittee.
This quarter the committee
worked with Kappa Alpha and
Kappa Alpha Theta, and it has
worked with Sigma Phi Epsilon
and Delta Zeta in the past.
Shane Todd, the committee’s
liaison to Kappa Alpha, said the
fraternity has been collecting nnd
recycling bottles and will give the
money to local charities.
Todd, a sophomore public rela
tions major, said his fraternity is
participating to "help others out."
JefT Bishop, the committee’s
liaison with Sigma Phi Epsilon,
said his fraternity worked with the
program to “give something back to
the community and improve the
image of the Greek system."
The committee was started in
January by student members of
the Athens/Clarke County Clean &
Beautiful Commission to involve
students in programs emphasizing
the importance of recycling and not
littering, said Davis.
Since then, the group has partic
ipated in several other projects,
such as a cleanup of the Parkview
Homes Community in March and
running a booth during Earth Day
festivities.
Despite this activity, Davis said
most students aren’t aware of the
organization or its purpose.
For this reason, the committee is
concentrating on educating
campus residents about recycling
and fostering new membership,
said Andrea Wilson, the commit
tee’s residence hall chairperson.
Greenpeace can ‘get things done,’
spokesman tells SEA members
By ANNE-MARIE FANGUY
Staff Writer
The success of Greenpeace lies
in its peaceful demonstrations,
according to one Atlanta
spokesman.
Daniel Williams of Greenpeace
told Students for Environmental
Awareness members Wednesday
that the demonstrations are a
powerful and economic way to get
their message across.
“We don’t have a lot of money
and it’s a cheap way to get things
done," he said.
"People say it’s radical. I think
it’s radical for people to poison us
for profit."
He said a May 7 action by two
Atlanta Greenpeace members —
who climbed the side of the
Georgia Pacific building and
hung a banner — was aimed at
focusing media attention on the
hazards of chlorine bleach.
The banner’s message, "Get
the Poison Out of Pulp," referred
to the use of chlorine bleach to
whiten paper.
Williams said more than 800
chemical compounds can be pro
duced when paper is bleached
An alternative . oxygen bleach,
which is less harmful to the envi
ronment.
Although the action received
national attention, he said
Georgia Pacific authorities didn’t
come down very hard.
He said both demonstrators
were charged only with misde
meanors, criminal trespassing
and mischevious conduct.
‘The last thing they want is
another article about a trial," he
said.
Williams urged SEA members
to take a stand on the Savannah
River Plant by attending hear
ings on the re-opening of two re
actors which produce tritium gas,
used to build nuclear missiles.
The plant has come under fire
by environmentalists for possible
contamination of the Tuscaloosa
aquifer underneath the state
Georgia is ranked sixth in water
pollution in the nation.
Meetings will be held in Sa
vannah, Ga., May 31 and in
Aiken, S.C., June 8.
Local Action: SEA will
sponsor a cleanup of the Oconee
River Saturday at 10 a.m. Mem
bers will meet at the Athens
Boys’ Club on Oconee Street.
SEA Secretary Tony Abbott said
the group will canoe down the
river, picking up trash and depos
iting it in bags to be collected by
volunteers on the riverbank.
Romania holds first free elections after 53 years of Communist power
The Associated Press
BUCHAREST, Romania - The
main question in Romania’s first
free elections in 53 years is not who
will win but what the victors will
do to unite their land.
Will they embrace democracy
and capitalism? Or will they, as op
ponents allege, find ways to block
progress by maintaining the cor
rupt nnd oflen sinister “nomenkla
tura” that ruled for decades?
The National Salvation Front
and its leader, Ion Hiescu, are ex
pected to emerge victorious from
Sunday’s elections. Polls of uncer
tain accuracy show Iliescu winning
up to 70 percent of the vote for
president and the Front an abso
lute majority in parliament.
The Front, a loose coalition of in
tellectuals and former Commu
nists, assumed power in the heady
December revolution that toppled
dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. It has
dominated the interim government
and makeshift parliament.
Iliescu is a charismatic, 60-year-
old former minister who was de
moted in the Communist hierarchy
after falling out with Ceausescu in
1971. He quickly won popularity
and was named interim president
after the revolution.
His standing nnd the Front’s
popular identification with the rev
olution that nominally ousted the
Communists lend them a certain
legitimacy lacked by reformed
Communist parties losing elections
elsewhere in Eastern Europe.
Unlike Poland, Hungary or
Czechoslovakia, Romania had no
organized dissent under commu
nism.
The main challenge to the Front
has come from two reconstituted
pre-World War II parties: the Na
tional Peasants Party and the Na
tional Liberal Party. They claim a
total of 1.4 million members.
Eighty-two parties are vying for
the votes of 16.8 million registered
voters. But only six — the Front,
the Peasants Party, the Liberals,
the Ecological Party, the Demo
cratic Agrarian Party and the So
cial Democrats — are actually
expected to win any of the 506
seats up for grabs in the bicameral
Parliament.
Because all parties back democ
racy and a free market to rescue
Romania’s backward economy, the
election campaign centered around
one issue: pro- or anti-Front.
Massing tens of thousands of
supporters chanting slogans sim
ilar to praises once sung of Ceau
sescu, the Front presented itself as
the party of revolution and
guardian of poor people who might
be hurt by a quick dash to capi
talism. The Front urges a slower
approach to a free market.
Its challengers labored to con
vince voters that the Front consists
of neo-Communists who usurped
the revolution. But the opposition
failed to agree on an opponent to
Iliescu.
Both of its candidates — the Lib
erals’ Radu Campeanu and the
Peasants’ Ion Ratiu — are elderly,
returned exiles vulnerable to Front
charges they don’t know today’s
Romania.
Whatever the result, the violent
election campaign has divided Ro
mania, where tensions with the
ethnic Hungarian minority already
had exploded in March, leaving at
least six dead.
Those who powered the revolu
tion — the western city of Timi
soara, students and intellectuals
elsewhere — have largely aban
doned the Front and have become a
beleaguered minority.
Cries of “death to the intellec
tuals!" have been heard at rallies.
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