European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday october 2, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 19 uproar Over by Tom Decola associated press he Deal is As Complex As the chunk of equip ment at its heart a Tough Multi faced Oil Drill bit that Russia industries based in Dallas tex., is eager to sell the soviet Union a Plant to make the bits and president Carter has other High officials Are fighting the Deal and in Washington a Senate subcommittee has told Dresser to produce a wide Range of documents this week so the matter can get a new the stage is set for two big questions to be asked will this Deal help the russians at the Cost of american Security even if it does to should the United states use such Trade deals As a lever to pressure the russians into such policies As better treatment of dissidents in the larger scale of Dresser industries $3 billion annual sales figures the proposal to sell $145 million Worth of the Drill bits to the soviet Union Over three years does t seem very big. But . Luter senior vice president of Dresser Indus tries who has assumed the role of company spokesman in the matter can recite from memory the events that have brought it to the Senate committee six years ago he says the russians approached dres ser about building a Plant to produce the Rock Drill bits. Plant at Kui Bashev is already manufacturing bits but this one would increase production there by some 100,000 bits of differences in drilling technique the soviet bits rotate much faster and Wear out faster. Dresser bit has the advantage of being particularly Tough and fall the Commerce department issued a favor Able report and Dresser got two Export licenses. But then the problems of them focus on a computerized Electron beam welding machine used in the manufacturing process. It s the same technique used in making television Pic Ture tubes Luter says. It s about As sophisticated As the control Mecha Nishi on an automatic but others disagree among them sen. Henry m. Jackson d-wash., who says the technology can reused to make Armor piercing shells. A the Dresser Oil drilling bit. Luter scoffs at that and says the real problem involves diplomacy. Zbigniew Brzezinski Carter s National Security adviser and Energy Secretary James Schlesinger who oppose the Sale want to use Trade with the russians As diplomatic lever. Luter says the first hint of trouble came from a Brzezinski aide Sam Huntington who wanted the Deal with held to press for better treatment of soviet dissidents. Luter also says it was Only after the Export License were approved by the departments of state Commerce defense and Energy that Jackson entered the picture by recommending the licenses be revoked. Eventually even though Carter had approved the licenses the defense department obtained another review an unfavourable report by j. Fred Bucy for the defens science Board of the Pentagon. Bucy who is president of Texas instruments has declined comment. Luter said his firm has not seen the report but believe sit warns that the technology and makeup of the bits some of the Teeth would be of Tungsten Carbide could be used for military purposes. On the other hand Eugene Fubini a Texas instruments director who is chairman of the defense science Board s task Force says the report addressed an Overall question of exportation of sees no incompatibility. He stresses Juth arguments first should we give them this High Grade technology which will substantially improve their Oil production at a time when they Are arresting Amer ican newsmen and businessmen second this technology has certain military implications. It will enable them to manufacture a certain Type of Armor piercing Shell which they would not otherwise be capable of , however Calls the suggestion that the Sale has military implications ridiculous on two counts. The rus sians Are already producing Tungsten Carbide it was used in world War ii but it s no longer used. There s a much More effective Alloy called Hev Imet made up of Tungsten Nickel and Copper. Anyone who thinks the rus sians Don t have Armor piercing shells should have been in also says the computer made by Sciaky Bros of Chicago is available in France where the Sciaky Bros started their business and in Japan Britain and West and East , despite the Bucy report and Jackson s objections. Carter again upheld the Day after that Luter said we got a Call from the Jackson staff saying they d issued a subpoena for Allour records on the the subpoena from Jack son s permanent subcommittee on investigations Call for records that include those relating to negotiations with the user and to actual or potential military use of the technology. The subcommittee has absolutely no authority to do anything about the Sale Luter objects. They can t revoke it so Why was the subpoena issued Why indeed one theory now heard in Washington is that the Deal is a Pawn in a complicated Power struggle inthe administration one pitting opponents of it against Secretary of state Cyrus Vance Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps and businessmen who believe that trying to pressure russians through Trade will is that it is an attempt to Embarrass the administration which has okayed the Deal. In any Case. Luter says Dresser won t give know he said with a wan smile on his face. In a Way it s kind of the smile of the olympics by Nikki Finke associated press y 1980, Misha will be the Best known Bear in Moscow. Already he s almost As common a sight there As the fuzzy Bright eyed Mascot of the 1980 Moscow summer olympics has an even More important Mission however to help soften Russia image in the face of repeated Calls for a Western Boycott of the games because of the recent crackdown on dissidents. The idea of a Mascot is not new to olympic cities. Munich had Waldi the Dachshund and Montreal had a Beaver. But the Canadian Mascot had one serious flaw it shard to depict a Happy Beaver wrote Vasily Peskov a prominent soviet writer in a recent article for the new Magazine olympic artists efforts the Mascot did not bring a smile to people s it came time for Moscow to select its animal the organizers of the Moscow games went on the soviet Tele vision program animal world and asked viewers to Send in suggestions. Up Misha the olympic Mascot. More than 40,000 letters arrived from All parts of the country. Often the envelopes contained a drawing of a Bird or animal As Well As toys made of fur paper Glass or carved Wood. What the organizers discovered they said was that there simply Are no unloved or uninteresting animals Birds or the Wood grouse Bee Hare Fox and even the rooster were All recommended. The Polar Bear was another Choice and two votes were cast in favor of a baby Donkey for its animals most named were the Elk the Brown Bear the Sable and the Deer. But the overwhelming Choice turned out to be the Bear a popular figure in russian Folk tales poems and songs. Soviet zoologists e estimate there Are about 100,000bears in the user living throughout the country As close As North and West of Moscow extending East All the Way to the Kamchatka Peninsula. The olympic Bear has a full name Mikhail Pota Pych top Gin but Misha for Short. Artist Victor Chizhikova was selected to create Mish since he is a widely acclaimed Illustrator of children s books. His drawings took six months to Complete and involved about 100 variations. For example i tried putting a Cap on him but he looked too Devil May care the artist said. I dressed him in pants but then he seemed half naked because his Chest was stuck an Olive Branch and Flowers in his Paw to try to make him More olympian but this variant too had to be rejected because it would have been too hard to when i had the idea of girding him with a five ringed Belt did it hit me that this was is As cute As the lovable Teddy Bear that Ameri can children take to bed at night. Around Misha s pot belly is the five ring olympic Symbol so people won t forget who he is. Already Misha s face graces key rings shop win Dows even bumper stickers on cars. He s also slated to Star on billboards to shirts kerchiefs and even souvenir stuffed animals. Everywhere Misha is to us the personification of Kindheart Edness strength and fairness Peskov wrote a Bear cub will be the smile of the
