The Chronicle 78Th Year, No

The Chronicle 78th Year, No. 54 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Friday, November 12, 1982 Candidates outnumber the audience at debate By Larry Kaplow advertising for the debate whereby students are admitted The candidates outnumbered began Tuesday. regardless of their financial- the audience in a debate "A lot of it [the low turnout] need, is not being carried out as between prospective ASDU did have to do with publicity," well as it should be due to a lack officers held at Gilbert-Addoms said Chappell. "I have a feeling of communications between the dormitory Thursday night. Trent and the Rathskeller will school and prospective The debate, which only three have a much better turnout." freshmen. of the five candidates for Chappell also said a similar "'They aren't letting people president attended, was one of debate held at Gilbert-Addoms know when they apply that we three planned by the election last year only attracted about will get the money for them," committee. Other debates are 20 people which he said was not Bruton said. scheduled for Trent Hall, well publicized and was held on Presidential hopeful B.G. Sunday evening at 7:00, and the the night of an ASDU meeting Cutright, a Trinity junior and Rathskeller, Monday evening dealing with housing changes former ASDU parliamentarian, at 7:00. which may have drawn people also stressed financial aid in his According to Doug Chappell, away from the dormitory. platform. PHOTO BY DAVE SHREFFLER ASDU legislator and member of During the debate candidates "I believe a major emphasis Jeffrey Porro speaks during Thursday's convocation. the ASDU elections committee, outlined their stands on major and problem we have now is the issues at Duke. discouraging of outside Speaker of the ASDU scholarships by the financial Nuclear convocation held Legislature Bill Bruton, a aid office," Cutright said. Trinity junior running for adding that the current policy is By Michael Sayko said Jeffrey Porro, also a former issue: nuclear witnessing, president, stressed the need for to subtract the funds given by Nuclear weapons should be member of the State Depart nuclear war fighting and change in the advising system outside scholarships from the limited in number and used only ment and the Strategic Arms nuclear deterring. and the admissions program. financial aid given by Duke. as a deterrent to nuclear war, Limitation Talks task force. "Nuclear witnesses get out of "The advising system is very Cutright also said he wants to according to the editor oi Arms Porro spoke last night before the problem by wishing them messed up," said Bruton. He increase the role of students in Control Today, the keynote more than 100 students, faculty away," he said, adding that advocated more programs to handling judicial matters. He speaker during Thursday's day and area residents in Gross these people view nuclear train professors who advise said a system where students long convocation entitled Chemical Auditorium. The weapons as immoral in and of students and involving would handle all undergraduate "Solutions to the Nuclear Arms convocation was sponsored themselves and call for undergraduates "teamed with judicial plans autonomous of Race." locally by the North Carolina immediate disarmament. It is the faculty to guide as a group," the administration would make "It is time to discuss what Public Interest Research Group. an unrealistic approach to the with freshman advisees. the administration respect should be the role of nuclear He said there are three ways nuclear arms race, he said. Bruton said the admissions students more. weapons in preserving peace," to deal with the nuclear arms See NUCLEAR on page 4 policy of blind admissions, See DEBATE on page 4 Brezhnev's death spurs caution, analysis Reagan has great opportunity Duke experts forsee no change ' 1982 N.Y. Times News Service At a news conference later last night, By David Sorensen Chernenko, former KGB chief Yuri V. WASHINGTON - The death of Reagan said, "Our two nations bear a The death of Soviet leader Leonid Andropov, Defense Minister Dmitri F. Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev tremendous responsibility for peace in a Brezhnev will not cause any immediate Ustinov and Foreign Ministrer Andrei could give President Reagan an historic dangerous time, a responsibility we changes in U.S.-Soviet relations, Gromyko. opportunity to slow down the spiraling don't take lightly." although it will pave the way for the None of these men likely will hold world arms race through negotiations Then, citing the American initiatives emergence of a new generation of Brezhnev's dual position as party chief with the new man in the Kremlin. for reductions in nuclear forces, Reagan leaders within the Kremlin, according to and the largely ceremonial role of Soviet Just as hardliner Richard Nixon added, "I want to reconfirm that we will several Moscow observers at Duke. president, Holsti said. Since many of reopened relations with China 10 years continue to pursue every avenue for No single successor to Brezhnev — these men and other contenders for the ago, hardliner Ronald Reagan could be progress in this area." Soviet president and Communist Party top spot in the Soviet power structure are the American president who succeeds in But Reagan also reiterated his chief for 18 years who died Wednesday at nearly 70 or older, Holsti said they may ending, or at least slowing down, the 30- position in favor of building up age 75 — will emerge for several years, constitute an "interim" leadship until a year-old arms race. American armed forces. He repeated according to Ole Holsti, George V. Allen generation of men in their 50s assumes In his condolence message to Vasily past criticisms of the concept of detente, professor and chairman of the political control of the Communist Party. Kuznetsov, first deputy chairman of the saying that for 10 years the United | science department. Warren Lerner, professor and director Soviet Presidium, Reagan indicated States had eased up on its military "I don't foresee many changes in U.S.- of graduate students in the department that he wants to be in a position to take buildup but the Soviets had not. i Soviet relations in the short run. The of history, said the upcoming power advantage of any opportunities that "It takes two to tango," the president ; changes will most likely occur in the struggle will probably be similar to the may arise. said, adding that the Soviets had yet to : long run. The Soviet leaders stress way Brezhnev's predecessor, Nikita "I would . like to convey through signal "that they want to tango also." continuity and not rocking the boat," Khrushchev, finally emerged as the top you to the Soviet government and people Holsti said. "They will try to keep any Soviet leader after the death of Josef the strong desire of the United States to No one yet knows who will emerge as power struggle under wraps. Stalin. work toward an improved relationship the new leader of the Eastern bloc "It will probably be a number of years vith the Soviet Union," Reagan wrote. superpower following the death of the before one person succeeeds him. Until After the top Soviet leader dies or is Reagan said he looks forward "to 75-year-old Brezhnev, who had ruled the then, they will try to project a united ousted, a period of internal politicking conducting relations with the new Soviet Union for the past 18 years. leadership." with an emphasis on a show of collective leadership in the Soviet Union with the If Reagan is able to reach even some Holsti said the possible members of leadship takes place, with one man aim of expanding the areas where our preliminary understandings with the this united leadship include many older eventually claiming the top spot, Lerner two nations can cooperate to mutual new Kremlin leadership, it could take Soviet leaders — including long-time said. See SOVIETS on page 2 Brezhnev associate Konstantin See BREZHNEV on page 4 Page Two The Chronicle Friday, November 12, 1982 . Soviets may be approached by U.S. SOVIETS from page 1 Congress will want to trim the the remainder of this decade. for as long as two to three years, with no some domestic political pressure off his Pentagon's budget when it receives the Though Reagan and Brezhnev never clear successor to Brezhnev. administration. White House fiscal 1984 proposal in met as leaders of their respective Whether the new leadership is a single Three years of huge increases in January. Even staunch Reagan countries, a transcontinental war of man or committee of men, there will be a Pentagon spending, beginning with the supporters in the House and Senate words between them had continued to period during which both sides will be final year of the Carter administration, have been talking openly about the need escalate until days before Brezhnev's feeling out and testing each other. have sailed through Congress virtually to cut defense spending in order to death 12:30 a.m. EST Tuesday. The signals each side sends the other as submitted by the White House. reduce the deficit. Just last week, Brezhnev lashed out at will be watched closely in the opposing But these defense spending increases Arms negotiations between the "hot-headed" Western leaders and capitals. have contributed billions of dollars to United States and the Soviet Union that accused Reagan of "adventurism, Meanwhile, though the two nations the federal deficit, which Reagan had could lead to elimination of just two rudeness and undisguised egoism." regard each other as adversaries at best, promised to eliminate during his 1980 proposed strategic weapon systems — Reagan and other senior administra they are involved in a series of presidential campaign.

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