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Wednesday, August 26, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Soviets court U.S. firms
Wall Street Journal advertisement pushes trade
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The Soviet Union made its case for business ties with the United States in a nine-page advertising supplement Monday in one of the best-known chronicles of capitalism, The Wall Street Journal.
The advertisement appeared on the same day that a Washington-based group, the Atlantic Council, released a report saying West European nations may be quicker than America to respond to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's bid for Western companies to enter joint ventures in the Soviet Union.
The newspaper charged about $300,000 for the ad spread, which appeared in its eastern U.S., European and Asian editions, said Daniel Cates, managing director for Dow Jones International Marketing Services. The three editions have a combined circulation of about 900,000, he said.
The Soviet Legislature has passed laws allowing Western companies to own 49 percent of any joint ventures based in the Soviet Union. No firm agreements have been reached yet
with U.S. companies.
with U.S. companies
in Moscow, Yuri A. Pashin, deputy director of the ministry's advertising section, said the ad supplement was part of a yearlong series appearing in Western business publications to help develop Soviet export trade and promote sale of Soviet goods.
The supplement in the Journal, published by Dow Jones & Co., contained more than a dozen stories supplied by the Soviet Union on changes in the Soviet economy and opportunities for foreign ventures, as well as ads for Soviet-made musical instruments, Baltic Sea jewels and Soviet furs.
A Soviet foreign trade official, V. Malkevich, wrote in the ad that he hopes it "will help Americans get a better understanding of the Soviet economy and of the untapped opportunities for expanding Soviet-U.S. trade."
Cates said the Soviets wanted the ad section to appear on the eve of the U.S. tour of a Soviet-sponsored cultural-industrial exhibit, which opened yesterday in New Orleans.
He said his staff had been trying for years to persuade the Soviet
Union to buy an ad section in the Journal, Brazil, Turkey and Italy have done so. The Soviet Union replied late last year, when the Soviet Foreign Trade Advertising Agency requested details, he said.
Cates said he and Jim Numvar, a Dow Jones executive in Frankfurt, West Germany, visited Moscow in December and were asked to return in April to speak to about 100 Soviet officials.
Cates, in preparing ad sections for other countries, generally hires freelance writers from the country being discussed. But he said the Soviets wanted to produce the stories themselves.
"All we did was some light editing." he said.
Cates said he saw little chance that Wall Street Journal readers would mistake the ad supplement for the Journal's news columns.
Each page in the supplement is marked twice at the top "Special Advertising Section." The ad supplement also carried photos (The Journal news section does not), and it was laid in eight columns instead of the Journal's six-column format.
WASHINGTON — An animal rights group calling itself a "Band of Mercy" claimed responsibility Monday for taking 25 cats from an Agriculture Department research laboratory in Bellville, Md.
The Associated Press
Burglars take research cats
Three buildings at the Animal Paristisology Institute were broken into between 3:30 p.m. EDT Saturday and 9:15 a.m. Monday, said Hubert W. Kelley, spokesman for the Agricultural Research Service.
He said slogans spray-painted on walls included "Animals are not machines," "Animal liberation" and "Stop the slaughter."
in another building, which was open, intruders took seven African miniature pigs that were not infected. Nothing was taken from the third building. Kelley said.
Intruders cut an 8-foot chain-link security fence, drove a vehicle through the fence and broke into two of the three buildings, taking 25 cats, including 11 infected with microscopic parasites, he said.
A Washington-based group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said the animal rights group claimed responsibility Monday for the break-in and said the cats and pigs were taken because the animal $ ^{14} $
were subjected to abuse with no clinical significance.
"We did not do it. The Band of Mercy did it. We are spokesman for them," said PETA spokeswoman Ingrid Newkirk, adding she did not know who were members of the Band of Mercy.
Veterinarian J.P. Dubey, a USDA researcher, said the disease for which the cats were being tested, toxoplasmosis, was responsible for 25 percent of deaths from AIDS-related complications. Toxoplasmosis is a single-cell organism that can cause pregnant women and cause birth defects. Dubey said.
"About 40 percent of adult people in the United States have it, and it's well tolerated," he said. "But AIDS patients can die. Their brains have been destroyed by this parasite."
Cats' fecal matter, which gets in litter boxes, flower beds, sand piles and other everyday items, is almost always the source of the parasites' transmission to humans, he said.
"The cat usually transmits the parasite only for about two weeks." Dubey said. "The parasite usually does not harm the cat."
Toxoplasmosis also causes abortion in livestock, Dubey said.
He said scientists were trying to
learn whether cats would retransmit the parasite after six months or a year.
Dubey said the parasite rarely caused any symptoms in cats, despite a claim that experimenters planned to let the cats suffer untreated.
"Experimenters simply record their dehydration, diarrhea, high fever, weakness, inflammation of heart and liver and pneumonia before killing them," according to a statement from PETA.
The cats that were stolen appeared healthy, the researcher said. The stolen pigs were part of a separate experiment, Dubey said.
Newkirk said the cats were being force-fed contaminated mouse brains through a stomach tube.
"We feed them mouse brains through a syringe so you will not spill it everywhere. Cats eat mice in nature anyway," Dubey said.
U. S. Park Police officer Kevin Duckworth said no one had been arrested in the case. Anyone arrested would face charges of trespassing, theft of government property and damage to government property, he said.
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