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Communism By The Associated Press Long after communism is forgotten, its legacy will linger in the poisoned bodies and environment of the vast region it once ruled. "No other great industrial civilization so systematically and so long poisoned its land, air, water and people," write the authors of "Ecocide in the USSR," a book detailing the environmental degrada uon or tne soviet union. Among the findings: In 1990, the life expectancy of Moscow residents was 10 years below what it was in 1970. Nearly three-fourths of surface water in the former Soviet Union is classified as polluted, and onethird of that total is untreated. The Soviet government banned use of the pesticide DDT in 1970, two years before the United States acted. But use of DDT in Soviet agriculture continued secretly until the late 1980s. Because of the intense use of pesticides in rice growing areas of the Caucasus "in some farming vil- 1 lages of that district, cancer is the 1 & ^ *& mi 51H Jife The Tri?service field meet h Force last Thursday. The Naval r~^~~ Winthrop Un more than 5,000 studen programs through the C Business, Education, an J 1 TT C \T iCCUgillZ,CU Uy LJ.3. 1WUJ universities in the South nation in safety and nati beautiful 422 acre camp just 20 minutes south of This summer, Win 400 undergraduate and , si Ma June Jun July For a complete coi contac (800) or i hurt Soviet env only cause of death." dies i Co-authors of the book are Mur- ven p ray Feshbach, a Georgetown Uni- their versity demographer recognized as 1990 the leading Western authority on than ' Soviet demographics, and journal- ease t ist Alfred Friendly Jr. They de- cans 2 scribe a health care system beset by ill-trained doctors and shortages ^ov of such basic materials as aspirin stnkin and disposable hypodermic u? ^01 needles. v'els "Two out of flvp vmincr crraHn- UntUtO ales of medical schools entered cnemi( service unable to read an electro- ^ cardiogram," wrote Feshbach and banne< Friendly. They also noted that in a ^ m' group of 400 pediatricians in Ka- sti11 ox zakhstan, half "proved completely No ignorant about the properties of 16 Sovie widely used drugs." dwide Even well trained physicians and fi must cope with shortages beyond power the comprehension of their Ameri- ^ can counterparts. claim; "A few physicians were forced , , . . died a on occasion to substitute safety radent 3. zors for scalpels in performing ap- nu peiiueciomies, mey wrote, "hear the ul af infection from unsterilized nee- for de ESp IJ wMUt m' _ 9 f : t||B ield between the ROTC units of the Is ROTC unit was the winner of this y viverstty, founded in 1886, ts in 56 undergraduate and 44 College of Arts and Sciences, ai d Visual and Performing Arts. s and World Report as one of 1 l, Winthrop also ranks among ionally accredited degree prc>? us is located in the historic se Charlotte, N.C. throp will be offering four ses , j ^ _ f i i grauuaie courses in :>i acaaen JMMER SESSIONS Session A y 18, - June 5, * Session B 8, - August 14, 19i Session C ?? 15, - July 15, 199> Session D 16, - August 14, ! urse listing and admissions :t the Office of Admissions ; 763-0230, in South Carolina (803)323-2191 elsewhere. ironment ind unsafe vaccines has dri- > arents to put off immunizing children. One result was a outbreak in Moscow of more '00 cases of diphtheria, a dis- | hat strikes one or two Ameri- fcr j| it most a year." p iet farming techniques were PL***8*1 gly inefficient and to make hl mm it, wrote the authors, "So- K JlMF ?resorted to the massive but red use of toxic agricultural cals. They even spread tons fr M^P-\ )T long after other nations < J it, so much for so long that ? | llion acres of cropland are '/ * ;; ferloaded with the poison." 1 . environmental disaster in the * ** t Union received the worl- . > attention of the explosion ire at the Chernobyl nuclear ,* station April 26, 1986. 5 Russian government still 5 that only 32 people have s a result of the nuclear acci- ' ' t Chernobyl. Feshbach thinks imber is in the thousands and USC studen timafe foil won't hp. known park Sunday. cades. J Granl A : g*. k; p} fs robot. 0$\ ^ spring of 1998 aft Budgi courses had to be ,JB fered less often, Ho HHfcf Wk . V 1 ally need but can ( Wesley H. Latchford/The Gamecock look at things like tfavy, Army and Air year's competition. <*** M " i. } *" / ' ' *T OFl currently enrolls graduate degree Accounting id the Schools of Administrat Recently Anthropoloj :he top 15 Art K^?cf J r-> tU*> I . . _ ? Art naucatio ;rams. The Biology tting of Rock Hill, Chemistry Classics sions with nearly Computer S< lie areas. Counseling j Dance Economics Education 2 Educational Elementary] English ^ Food and Nu Finance 2 French German 2 Geology Health ? information, Health Admi at History , Interior Desi ^celebrated their annual "Rites of Spring" party This weekend's hot spring weather allowed them \ t Continued from page 1 ing the kinds of things that we're nticipated in the doing at USC," Byrd said, er a final phase Dawson agrees, signed machine. "Each group of researchers collaboration of brings something different into the ities a perfect project. The two schools compliment each other's reseach ability," he said. g the kind of releagues at Clem- Sais specializes in development they aren't do- of radiation-tolerant electronics. at Ls Is Continued from page 1 lit major prog- our classrooms open next year." iooIs, but some According to an article in The dropped or of- New York Times, the S.C. Legilley said. slative Audit Council has recomit things we re- mended a study to investigate how io without. We hard and how efficiently the state's trying to keep higher education faculty members wtisc-FM i-r* - ACADEMIC AREAS BERING COURSES INCLUDE: Management ion and Supervision Marketing ?y Mass Communic Mathematics ?n Music Philosophy Physical Educate c rupitiu Jticutc :ience Physics and Development Political Science Psychology Quantitative Met] Reading Media Religion Education Science Secondary Educa itrition Sociology Social Work Spanish Special Educatioi Speech Theatre nistration Vocational Educa Writing ign l Virginia Marshall/The Gamecock at Martin Luther King, Jr. :o eat outside. Schalkoff works with vision systems and Dawson works with manipulation tasks. Byrd and Pettus will work to integrate the specialties of the three Clemson professors into the robot's overall computer software and hardware operating system. "Professor Byrd is the father of this project. It was his dream," Pettus said. are working. "You'll cpp. hitrhf.r prlnr-Qtion run more like a business. I don't think we'll lose a certain sensitivity or academic institutions, but business concepts just by necessity have to be incorporated," Hoi ley said. |__1 hods tion wmmmmt