UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, November 18, 1993
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Free market perplexes East Europeans
The Associated Press
"How much does a bicycle cost in America anyway?" he asked.
NEW YORK — Alexander Nozdrachev came from Russia to sell bicycles, but he hadn't done his homework.
Like Nozdrachey, many of the hundreds of exhibitors at the East Central Europe Trade Expo this week showed the inexperience that comes with entering the free market for the first time.
Eager for buyers or investors with hard currency, they set up stands
inside a cavernous convention center to promote everything from embroidered Romanian blouses to lasers.
Madyarova never seemed to understand that the New Yorkers were interested in skins but wrote down $3,000 as the price of a mink coat on display.
president," said Burmakan Madiyarova from Kyrgyzstan, vice president of the Almeh fur company.
Exhibitors at the trade show came from former Soviet republics and East European countries. Proof of their new independence, many were eager to prove they could compete with the West.
A cosmonaut was promoting private airplanes, a young man from Belarus who spoke no English stood shyly by a rack of sweaters he designed, and a Russian coal executive begged for U.S. investment.
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Isaac Yadgarof of New York said,
"You can buy that here for $1,200.
They don't know the market."
"We have our own flag, our own
are adjusting under public or private ownership. Some of their representatives seemed suspicious of U.S. businesspeople with their probing questions and acted as if production capacity and cost were state secrets.
American businesspeople, naturally, were looking for deals and hoping to benefit from low labor costs.
Despite the difficulties, U.S. importers and manufacturers came prepared to do business. Some went home with contracts or samples of products for testing.
Show Manager Stephen Cox said about 3,000 U.S. and Canadian businesspeople had registered to attend the expo, which started Monday at Jacob K. Javis Convention Center.
Many of the companies at the trade show once state owned and still
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Senate cuts Chinese bill; event may be canceled
By Donella Hearne
Kansan staff writer
The KU Chinese New Year celebration, originally planned for February, may be canceled because of lack of sponsorship.
The Student Senate cut out more than half of the bill for the event before passing it and said that the Chinese student organizations would have to charge more for admission to cover the expenses themselves.
The students requested $3,389 based on the cost of holding their banquet and cultural show in the Lied Center, which was the only place that was large enough for the 800 to 1,000 students who usually attend and available on the dates they preferred. Senate voted to allocate $1,604 for the event.
"This process is wrong," said Lynn Hui, Hong Kong senior and one of the organizers. "They come here, and they don't know anything about it." He said the organizer now has no idea how much
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Hui said that senators also had no idea how much
planning the Chinese student organizations had done.
In other actions:
Two minority engineering groups were allocated $785 for office expenses and for projects for the Engineering Expo to be held next semester.
The groups presented a bill together to avoid questions of duplication of services, which have been used to kill many minority-group bills in Senate recently.
- He said that Senate gave less for the well-attended speech by Noam Chomsky.
John Shoemaker, student body president, has suggested that similar groups come to Senate together.
An umbrella organization is a group that receives money from Senate to be distributed among the groups under that umbrella.
Chad Browning, administrative assistant to the treasurer, said that he did not think there was enough interest in the symposium outside the law school. The group is expecting about 700 people.
Senate passed a bill to give the Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy $5,000 to pay speakers to attend a symposium on the working poor. Twelve speakers, including gubernatorial candidate, Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., and Kansas City mayor Emanuel Cleaver are being invited to the symposium.
Eric Mersmann, architecture senator, said that he was frustrated that minority professional organizations from the School of Engineering had been facing so much scrutiny in the Senate.
"They should play fair," he said. "All the law school minority organizations have been funded by Senate. They just all came in under an umbrella organization."
"All I have to say is this," Browning said. "Chomsky $2,000 — 900 plus people attend. Law symposium $5,000 — 700 people attend."
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