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The Red and Black » Wednesday, September 26, 1990 • 3
Center advises on East-West relations
By STACEY MclNTOSH
Staff Writer
^nsion tightens in the
Middle East, Iraqi threats of using
chemical weapons come closer to
being realized. But now the world
has more to fear.
Nuclear technology is rapidly be
coming accessible to all countries,
and international political leaders,
along with University researchers^
are struggling to contain it.
Since the thawing of the Cold
War era, new security threats have
surfaced, focusing international at
tention on East-West cooperation
instead of conflict, said Steve El-
liott-Gower, assistant director of
the University’s Center for East-
West Trade Policy.
The center has launched a new
study on how export policies can be
used to slow the transfer of mili
tary technology to Third World
countries, Elliott-Gower said.
“Proliferation of weapons of
mass destruction, like nuclear or
chemical ones, is the greatest
threat to our national security in
the 1990s,” he said.
Many chemicals used to make
weapons can also be used in in
dustry, making it difficult to regu
late the export of chemicals and
other technology with legitimate
business or industrial uses.
During the Cold War era, he
said, the United States concen
trated on controlling the export of
high-technology items like com
puters and telecommunications
systems to Soviet-bloc countries.
“The whole rationale of this
policy has been undermined by the
end of the Cold War,” he said.
“Now there is greater cooper-
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Steve Elliott-Gower: Assistant director of the University’s
Center for East-West Trade Policy.
ation between the East and the
West since the breakdown of com
munism, so the possibility of con
trolling the export of dangerous
technologies is greater.”
However, Elliott-Gower said
there are no guarantees that coun
tries on the verge of having nuclear
weapons won’t succeed — despite
efforts to control exports.
Center Research Associate Rick
Cupitt said the United States had
emphasized sharing missile tech
nology in the past, but now wants
to prevent its spread.
“It’s only a matter of time before
others will get nuclear weapons,
but it’s a matter of politics whether
someone like Saddam Hussein
fires weapons at the United
States,” Cupitt said. “Nothing is in
evitable.”
Cupitt said nine countries have
nuclear technology and five others
have demonstrated potential nu
clear ability.
‘This is something for people to
fear if certain countries who have
nuclear weapons see the United
States as a threat,” he said.
The center’s research is a four-
year project partly funded by Pew
Charitable Trust. Their work in
volves in-depth interviews with
policy-makers and the interpreta
tion of international trade data
compiled by graduate students.
Sam Watson, a political science
doctoral student, assists center Di
rector Gary Bertsch in researching
export control policies.
‘The current project looks at dif
ferent alternatives to export policy
and possible nuclear threats to the
environment,” Watson said. “In the
future, more attention will be paid
to preventing people like Saddam
Hussein from obtaining nuclear
technology.”
Founded in 1987, the center is
the only one in the world that ex
clusively studies East-West trade
and technology issues and their
implications, Elliott-Gower said.
Its researchers make recommen
dations to legislators based on the
findings of U.S. and foreign
scholars and academic, business
and government experts.
Elliott-Gower testified before
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee in April 1989. Co-directors
Bertsch and former U.S. ambas
sador Martin Hillenbrand testified
before the House International
Trade Subcommittee in January.
Soviet visit ‘fruitful’ for
University professor
DRIVER
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Carney said the University police
conducted a very thorough and pro
fessional investigation.
Roberts said Dawn faces a lonely
period in her life.
“She’s looking at a lonely time —
and a lonely world,” he said. “She
enjoys reading letters and cards —
it keeps her in touch with the out
side world.”
Roberts said cards and letters
for his daughter can be addressed
to 4302 Harding Place, Nashville,
Tenn.37205.
Schlottman couldn’t be reached
for comment.
UNIFIED
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to offer suggestions to the new gov
ernment and research options con
cerning laws and ordinances.
University students should un
derstand the purpose of the tran-
sition team because the
suggestions made by the team will
affect the outcome of possible revi
sions in local ordinances, McBee
said.
Mirsky said the open container
ordinance and other ordinances
will be issues for the new govern
ment to address.
It will take about a year for any
real action to take place concerning
any of the ordinances, he said.
By AL DIXON
Staff Writer
One of the University’s leading
scientists recently visited the or
chards of the Soviet Union to look
at what is being done in the Soviet
fruit industry.
J.G. Woodroof, who has been in
volved with the University’s Food
Sciences Division since 1938, was
the only Georgian on an interna
tional committee of 41 horticultur
ists who traveled to the Soviet
Union to review the fruit tree in
dustry there.
The visit was made in connec
tion with the Citizen’s Ambassador
Program.
The group went as guests of the
Soviet Institute of Horticulture to
visit Soviet orchards and talk
“grower to grower” about what is
being done in the Soviet fruit in
dustry, Woodroof said.
“Right now the Soviet Union’s
fruit industry is where ours was
before World War II,” he said. “We
went to take a look at what they
are doing and see what im
provements we thought could be
made.”
Woodroof said that after visiting
numerous groves in five Soviet
states and talking to many horti
culturists, the committee was fa
miliar enough with the aspects of
the industry in the Soviet Union to
make a few recommendations.
The Soviet fruit-grading system,
which helps to control quality by
inspecting and assigning the fruit
grades in quality, isn’t very well-
organized, Woodroof said.
In addition, he said, much of the
farm machinery is outdated and
very few fruit by-products, such as
applesauce or fruit preserves, are
being produced.
‘They have a lot to teach us as
well,” he said. ‘Tor example, the
Soviets make extensive use of
dwarf fruit trees in order to create
a higher yield per acre of land.”
“Overall, it was a very fruitful
trip,” Woodroof said.
Woodroof is a nationally known
pioneer in food technology. His re
search efforts helped revolutionize
the food-processing industry in the
United States.
He headed the University’s Food
Processing (now Food Science and
Technology) experiment station in
Griffin, Ga. from 1938 to 1958. He
also served as chairman of the Uni
versity’s Food Science division
from 1950 until 1967, when he re
turned to Griffin.
He is currently serving as the
chairman of the Griffin food sci
ences experiment station.
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Bomb threat handled
By LYNN BARFIELD
Staff Writer
After a bogus bomb threat
forced the evacuation of Baldwin
Hall Monday morning, Univer
sity security administrators sav
they’re not taking chances with
the safety of University students
and faculty.
Asa Boynton, director of the
University’s Public Safety Divi
sion, said the bomb scare at
Baldwin Hall is one of many that
will occur during the school year.
Records of the number of prank
bomb threats received
throughout the year aren’t kept,
he said.
But prank or no prank,
Boynton said Public Safety and
the University Police Depart
ment are prepared to handle any
potentially dangerous situation.
“University police are trained
to go into a building and find any
thing strange that indicates a
dangerous situation — and that
may risk the safety of many
people,” he said.
University police don’t have a
bomb squad, but do have a plan
for evacuating buildings and
searching for a bomb, Boynton
said.
If a device looks especially so
phisticated, police then alert out
side sources for help, he said.
He said the size of the Univer
sity police department and the
cost of special equipment don’t
allow the department to have a
specialized bomb squad.
“It would be a lot of money for
a lot of equipment,” Boynton
said.
In addition to the help of a spe
cialized army unit at Fort Gillem
in Atlanta, University police can
request the help of the Clarke
County Sheriffs Department’s
Special Response Team, said
Chief Deputy Kenny Kilgore.
Kilgore said the group is made
up of 10 to 12 members trained to
detect bombs.
“If the University requests any
special assistance, we would defi
nitely work with them to handle
any problem that may occur,”
said Kilgore.
Boynton said most bomb
threats are targeted at facilities,
such as classrooms or audito
riums — much like the series of
threats on Caldwell Hall and the
Journalism building that oc
curred during fall quarter of
1985.
‘The person who makes the
threat usually gives enough time
for the building to be evacuated
or for a lot of people not to be
around,” Boynton said.
Peter McFarland, special
agent of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation in Atlanta, said
most bomb threats on college
campuses are pranks, but police
should treat each threat legiti
mately.
McFarland said on a campus
with a big population like the
University’s, determining a
number of injuries if a bomb oc
curred would be impossible.
“It would depend on the size of
the bomb device, but evacuation
is the best method to prevent any
injuries or death,” said McFar
land.
Even if a threat is a hoax,
Boynton said, the danger of it is
that ‘copycat’ occurrences are dis
ruptive.
“If we got enough calls that are
pranks, it would totally disrupt
the system here,” said Boynton.
Boynton advises students or
anyone that is involved in a bomb
threat situation to remain calm
University police are trained to
handle such an event so that
panic doesn’t occur.
A person could be injured or
trampled to death, he said.
Do it
out of respect
for the dead.
And the living.
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