Plan 'Unacceptable'

ETHEWhere you read it first TUFTSThursday, February 16,1989 DAILY]Vol XWI, Number 23 Soviets Complete Ladd Finds Payment Afghan Withdrawal Plan ‘Unacceptable’ us $32,000 plus whatever inter- TERMEZ, U.S.S.R. (AP) -- will fall in a matter of weeks, if by SCOTT DAMELIN est they are currently earning,” The Red Army commander for not days. Dean of Administration and Ladd said. Afghanistan today led the last Soviet media have reported Finance Larry Ladd yesterday He said that the third option contingent of his troops across a looting by troops of the 30,000- termed the Tufts Community would be to stop providing border bridge, ending for the member Afghan army -- and mass Union Senate’s payback sched- Administration funds to student Soviets a nine-year war that desertions as the U.S.-supplied ule approved last week for the programming. He added that the claimed the lives of 15,000 of guerrillas gain ground. 9 computer equipment currently option of “confiscating the equip their countrymen. Soviet officials estimate 30,000 k being used by The Tufts Daily ment and redistributing it to ur- “That is it -- this war has come guerrillas are massed around the 8 “unacceptable” and said that gent academic needs would be to an end,” a Moscow Radio cold, hungry capital of Kabul, R another solution must be found irresponsible” and would not be correspondent said from the scene. which has been blockaded for 2 or the Administration will take done. About 200 cheering, months. &an of Administration and stronger action. “The action that would be taken windburned soldiers, clutching Finance Larry Ladd. The conflict is a result of a if the situation is not resolved automatic rifles and riding mud- see AFGHAN, page 16 $32,500 purchase of a desktop would involve one of these op- spattered armored personnel publishing system for The Daily, tions or a combination of the carriers, roared across the steel BRC Formed which was financed by the three,” Ladd said. bridge spanning the Amu Darya Administration at the end of A meeting has been sched- River just 40 minutes before the summer, 1988. A bylaw of the uled for Friday between Ladd, noon withdrawal deadline set by to Assist Students TCU prohibits any student or- Senate President Alex Schwartz an accord signed in April. Some students have problems ganization from owning any of and SenateTreasurer Ian Balfour “I wasn’t looking back,” said by ANNA GEORGE with not knowing what forms are its own equipment, so the Senate in order to work out an accept- Lt. Gen. Boris Gromov, the What began as a student idea necessary for financial aid, or was pressured by the Admini- able payment schedule. commander, after the Red Army stemming from frustration with programs abroad, and other stu- stration to purchase the equip- Balfour said that he realized officially leftAfghanistan’s army confusing and lengthy Univer- dents have the forms but don’t ment. At last week’s meeting, the that Ladd was not very happy alone to face Moslem guemllas sity forms has resulted in the how to fill them out or which Senate passed a motion to reim- about the final payment plan. “I in a 10-year-old civil war. creation of the Bureaumtic Relief offices to submit them to, burse the Administration over a will be meeting with Dean Ladd He rode in the last armored Center, a new Tufts Community Sinnreich said. two year period for the comput- personnel carrier and was met Union-funded student organiza- She and Senate President Alex ers. halfway across the bridge by his tion, which will help students Schwartz first discussed the idea “The Senate decided it would 14-year-old son, Maxim, who find, fill out, and file Tufts pa- with Academic Vice President pay $16,000 on July 1,1989 and carried a bouquet of flowers. perwork. Robert Rotberg. Later, Dean of $16,000 on July 1, 1990. They Together, they walked the final Starting March 1, there will Undergraduate Studies David would not pay it all at once and yards to Termez. be an office open in the Campus Maxwell arranged a meeting for that’s not acceptable. They’re The 45-year-old general, at Center staffed by trained student Sinnreich with people from the really taking advantage of the times appearing near tears, was volunteers ready to help those Registrar’s, Bursar’s, and Finan- Administration’s generosity for kissed by a soldier, then climbed frustrated with bureaucracy with cial Aid offices, who agreed that having bought the equipment in atop an armored personnel car- their questions about forms. the problem could be best dealt the first place,” Ladd said. rier to be taken to adusty hillside According to Becky Sinnreich, with by a student organization. According to Ladd, the Ad- for the official welcoming cere- a senior and the BRC coordina- Senate Assistant Treasurer Matt ministration will have to take mony. tor, the office, which the Inter- Freedman, who described him- action if the $32,500 is not paid Some at the ceremony said Greek Council has agreed to share self as the “de facto treasurer” of back this year. ‘TThe situation could getting involved in a neighbor’s with them, will be open from the BRC, explained that the leave us with some unpalatable ~~ civil war was a mistake. five to seven p.m., Sundays Administration was hesitant to options,” he said. Senate Treasurer Ian Balfour. “It was a clear error, so many through Thursdays. officially and economically en- “Payment of the full amount on Friday because he doesn’t think died,” said senior Sgt. Asgat Sinnreich said that last semes- dorse the group because if the will have to be within the next the TCU is in the position of Husayinov, 22. He said Afghani- ter she noticed many friends BRC were to make a mistake in several weeks or something else fiscal risk in the short term, but I stan was “a hell after which you having trouble with understand- advising students, the Admini- will have to be done,”Ladd said. disagree with that. I will go over fear nothing, except maybe your- ing and filing add-drop forms stration could be held respon- Oneof hisoptions wouldbe to the figures on Friday and one of self.” The soldiers at the cere- and decided to approach the sible. escrow the first $32,500 of the us will have t6changeour mind,” mony received watches sent on Administration to discuss ways Instead, it was decided that student activities fee revenue that he said. the orders of Defense Minister of helping students with all Uni- the BRC would go to the Senate is received from the fall semester Balfour citedg Senate surplus Dmitri T. Yazov. versity forms. for funding. Freedman helped charges, he said. of $67,000 when presenting the Lt. Col. Igor Azarenok of the People were “stressing out” Sinnreich to draft a budget for Another option is to charge payment plan to the full Senate Defense Ministry said Gromov’s about formsandsosheconceived the group, and with the help of the Senate interest on the money on Sunday night, but said that the group was the last to leave, end- of the idea for a “general infor- Senator Danielle Shields, it was the Senate is earning from hav- figure is difficult to calculate until ing what many Soviets have come mation center” to aid students in ing the funds in a money market to view as their Vietnam. dealing with paperwork, Sinnreich see BRC, page 2 amunt ‘We would say they owe see COMPUTER, page 17 In Moscow, the Communist said.__ - Party daily Pravda said Leonid Brezhnev’s decision in 1979 to send troops to Afghanistan may Kerry,- Musto to Keynote Drug Sympo$um “opium warlord” in infamous have been an error. It suggested reau of International Narcotic ease: Origins OfNircotic Con- by DAVID SPIELMAN “Golden Triangle,” and Edith future commitments of Soviet Matters, and Jon Wiant, the di- trol, and Kerry, who is the chair and SCOTT DAMELIN rector of intelligence policy for forces abroad should be sanc- Mirante, an artist, writer and of the Subcommittee on Terror- tioned by Parliament. Massachusetts Senator John the National Security Council. director of Project Maje, an inde- ism, ti^ and International It called the withdrawal “the Kerry and Dr. David F. Must0 Joseph Nellis, former chief pendent information project on Communications of the Senate first step” toward peace in Af- Will keynote the Upcoming sym- counsel of the House of Repre- Burmese politics will speak as Committee on Forei Relations. ghanistan. posium “Drugs, International sentatives Select Committee on well. Following the--@!le keyno address With Gromov and his troops Security and U.S. Public Pol- NarcoticsAbuseandControland Thekeynoteaddresseswill be will be the “National Security, gone, guerrilla leaders have pre- icy.” The symposium will fea- producer of a documentary on given by Musto, a Professor at Drugs and U.S. Foreign Policy” dicted that major cities held by ~IRpresentations and discussions the annual opium harvest in the the Yale School of Medicine and pane.. Participants include the Soviet-backed government by government officials, acade- domain of Khun Sa, a Burmese the author of The American Dis+ Stephen Engelberg, the national micians, authors, correspondents security correspondent for The and experts on the subject. New York Times and co-editor The weekend portion of the OnTheTimes’editionof thebook symposium will be held on March on the Iran-Contra hearings, as 3 and 4, following a number of OP-ED: ThU One They Got Free- well as Lawrence Lifschultz, a On Israel .......................

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