4The Daily Tar HeelThursday, January 19, 1989 : X ft fi 1 s - r! r4$y - - - Zrx-zr"" " -r -r- .-.-.v.:: . . -: : - . . " : V. ; : : ' ' . . .. ' 1 1 o. -s ; ; . ..w:v'v: ,..w;-:-r v.-: :-:wyv.v.-...:.:-: : :-:-:tv-'. . v. v.v.vw.v.1 Bible beat Major Mclntyre performs a Christian rap song in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Mclntyre, a representative of the Maranatha Campus Ministry, visits colleges nationwide. Students to in U.S.-Sovi swap cultures, ideas et exchange program By JAMES BENTON Staff Writer A group of Soviet college students will trade universities with a group of UNC students later this semester as part of a U.S.-Soviet student exchange program. The program is co-sponsored by the Citizen Exchange Committee of New York and the Soviet Committee of Youth Organizations. UNC and nine other American universities will exchange students with 10 Soviet universities as part of the program. Other American universities partic ipating in the program include Harvard, Stanford, the Universities of Maine and Texas at Austin and Williams College. Thirteen Soviet students and two faculty members from Rostov State University in Rostov-on-Don will visit the United States from Feb. 26 to March 7. While in Chapel Hill, the Soviets will stay with UNC students and faculty members. The Soviet delegation will also visit Washington, D.C., and New York City. While at UNC, the Soviets will participate in a public conference focusing on issues such as peres troika, disarmament, the treatment of minorities, women's rights and envir onmental concerns. The conference is scheduled as part of the exchange. Richard Ulin, international studies Officials to probe Libya, company link From Associated Press reports FRANKFURT, West Germany Prosecutors on Wednesday announced criminal probes of a key company in the Libyan chemical weapons plant dispute and a Bavarian company that reportedly delivered sophisticated equipment to Libya's air force. The new probes constitute the third criminal investigation in the widening scandal, and in each case authorities acknowledged they were checking allegations made by West German news reports. Since the first allegations of West German involvement were published earlier this month, the nation's news media have been particularly aggres sive about pursuing the story. Politicians, meanwhile, have had to retract their earlier denials of West German involvement with the plant in Rabta, 60 miles south of the Libyan capital of Tripoli. Washington offi cials say it was built to make chemical armsT while the Libyan government of Col. Moammar Gadhafi says it will make pharmaceuticals. In Bonn on Wednesday, Chancel lor Helmut Kohl sat with other lawmakers as his chief aide, Wolfgang Schaeuble, addressed an acrimonious session of Parliament about when the government in Bonn first learned of the charges. Schaeuble said the U.S. govern ment in May passed on tips about West German involvement in the suspected Libyan chemical weapons plant. He said the tips also involved the alleged German help in providing Gadhafi's air force with midair refueling capability. The Frankfurt prosecutor's office said Wednesday it has opened a criminal investigation of the now defunct I.B.I. Engineering company, which U.S. officials have accused of providing equipment for the plant. "Our authorities opened the probe against I.B.I, on Friday because of suspicion of reported violations of export laws," Frankfurt prosecutor Jochen Schroers told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. He declined to provide further information about I.B.I., which allegedly provided the contracts to the West German companies to build the plant. West Germany's ARD television network reported that about 50 companies just in the greater Frank furt area are suspected of having taken part. Federal customs officials are also investigating. In Munich, chief prosecutor Heinz Stocker said he was looking into a report in this week's Der Spiegel magazine that says the Intec Tech nical Trade and Logistik company has been helping Libya develop the ability to refuel its warplanes while in flight. The prosecutor said he had already planned to investigate Intec, but added authorities want to know whether the report in Spiegel is correct. "That is a point of the investiga tion," Stocker told the AP in a telephone interview late Wednesday afternoon. associate professor, said plans for the conference have not yet been final ized, but the conference will take place. "There will be events open to the public and there will be discus sions on topics of interest concerning American and Soviet students," he said. About $30,000 in cash contribu tions and in-kind gifts has been raised for the exchange. Another $7,000 needs to be raised for the exchange, Ulin said. Contributions have come from organizations including UNC's College of Arts and Sciences, the UNC Educational Foundation, the Citizen Exchange Council and the Triangle University Security Seminar in Research Triangle Park. UNC students said Wednesday that they were looking forward to traveling to the Soviet Union. Sophomore Steven Haase said he first became involved in the program by helping raise funds for the exchange, but did not intend to apply for a place on the delegation because he had never taken a course in Russian language or history. But because the exchange is open to students in all disciplines and does not require students to speak Rus sian, he did apply after being encour aged to do so and obtained a position on the delegation. "Iwas on cloud nine for about two weeks," Haase said. "I (still) try to picture myself in Moscow and can't do it." Haase said the program would probably not be in existence today if someone like the late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev were still in power. While reading information about the Soviet Union, Haase found that the country was stagnant under Brezhnev. But relations between the United States and the Soviets have improved greatly in recent years, he said. "Five or six years ago, President Reagan was calling the Soviet Union 'The Evil Empire,' " Haase said. Now, relations have improved to the point that Soviet newspapers are less hostile toward the United States, he said. Graduate student Sylvia Rogers said the exchange will be interesting because the delegation will visit an area different from Moscow. "It's going to be a completely different area geographically," she said. Rogers said she was also curious about how cold the weather would be in the Soviet Union. The exchange was originally sche duled for last October, but a Soyiet government shake-up prevented the exchange from taking place, Rogers said. Ulin said changes have taken place in the Soviet Union in the past year and a half under the leadership! of President Mikhail Gorbachev. "Everyone (who studies the Soviet Union) reports changes under Gor bachev," he said. The press has become more critical of national issues like government, education, minority policies and the Soviets' involvement in Afghanistan, Ulin said. The Soviet press has also denounced former Soviet leaders such as Josef Stalin and Brezhnev, he said. And in some parts of the Soviet Union, candidates are competing in elections for political offices. This does not resemble the American political system at all, but "that's a very striking difference," Ulin said. But Ulin said he did not jsee evidence of Soviet economic reform. Soviet store shelves are still empty and an active economic system has not yet developed, he said. I The UNC delegation, which includes faculty members Ulin and history professor Samuel Baron, will visit Rostov State University March 9-23. The delegation will also spend time in Moscow and Leningrad while in the Soviet Union. : King's daughter to speak at celebratioi By SARAH CAGLE Staff Writer Bernice King, the youngest child of Martin Luther King Jr., will deliver the keynote lecture of the Eighth Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall. Ms. King, 25, is a theology and law student at Emory University in Atlanta. Her oratorical style has been compared to that of her father. "She is a symbolic, representation of the legacy of Martin Luther King," said Tracy Taft, president of the Carolina Union and a member of the speaker selection committee. Her lecture, entitled "The Dream Still Lives," will address the legacy of Rev. King from her perspective and the relevance of his dream to the present, said Archie Ervin, chairman of the speaker selection committee. "That the dream is not over . . . is the message I would like her to convey," Taft said. The committee invited Ms. King to speak not only because of her family relationship to Rev. King, but also because of her own work with civil rights, Ervin said. "She is veryci3mmitted to her father's work," said Margo Crawford, director of the Black Cultural Center. Ms. King' plans to contribute to society in her own way as well, Ervin said. "She would like to make her contribution from the vantage points of law and theology," Ervin said. "She has publicly pronounced a desire to make an impact on society. "The keynote speaker causes peo ple to stop and reflect on themselves as individuals and on their social surroundings," he said. The committee chose Ms. King over several other candidates because they felt she would be most able to do this as well as to inform people about Martin Luther King Jr., Taft said. ."Most of our young people don't . know a lot about Martin Luther King," Ervin said. The committee expects Ms. King's lecture to draw the most participation of all the week's events, Taft said. I "Having her as the keynote speaker is a great way to make this week successful," Taft said. "Hopefully she will inspire whites and blacks to ido more for civil rights." The Martin Luther King Jr. Scho larship will also be presented at the lecture. This scholarship is awarded annuallyjLQa UKC .students who exemplifies a commitment to the quality of Jife: at UNC and to the legacy of Rev. King, said Ervin. 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