Regional
Soviet President looking to West for economic help
SAN IRANI A S( ( ) (AI ’ J Soviet President Mikhail
(airbiii hev mav be eager lo play "Lets Makt* A Deal'
when In* marts with Wast Coast exer utives next week
hut lie's likely to he confronted hv plenty of skepti
cism
Gorbachev, beleaguered at home by rising prices
and bare shelves, is going west in sean h of high tr< h
prodm ts. entrepreneurial expertise and long term
business relations after his summit talks with I’resi
dent Hush
Gorbachev's June 4 luncheon with executives of lad
businesses based in California. Oregon and Washing
ton is "more than a publii relations gesture." said Hill
Johnston. I’alo Alto based Hew left Packard Co sdirec
tor of international planning and administration
"lie is clearly wooing the West and certainly this
area He's try mg to get his economy squared away and
attract ICS manufacturing expertise to the Soviet
t fnion
Hewlett Par kard has had an offu e m Mosc ow for 1H
years, and hist week joined four otliei C S companies
in a consortium with three Soviet health and medical
researc h ministries
There are a lot of problems." Johnston said The
i urreiu y is a major issue There is still considerable
political and economic uncertainty, and tin* two are
interior ked They have a mess on their hands
Despite worries about doing business in the Soviet
I'nion. Gorbachevs visit lo San Francisco and Stan
ford Cnivcrsits has r barged the Hav anM with ,i Super
Howl atmosphere (Corporate exec utives are sr rambling
lor .1 chance to dine with him some willing to pas
thousands of dollars for a In ket
I ifteen < ompames i o sponsoring the event are pay
mg Si!.OOd for two seats ear h. and up to $r>0() for addi
tiunal se.tls Labor leaders are complaining thev mas
he left out
Phone lines are jammed .it the Soviet consulate.
Stanford, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
and Cits Hall T-shirts ssith Corhat lies s image and
tackier souvenirs a 'Communist Parts Animal" I
shirt alreads are ori sale, and billboards are planned
to welcome the Soviet leader in the (its and on the
high wavs
"This mas even exceed the Super Bosvi predicted
Stanford spokesman |oel Shurkm. who said the uni
versits had been bombarded svith requests hs li.OOO re
porteis to i ovei Gorbachev's speei h at the 1.701) .seat
Memorial Auditorium
\ hitters is planned to determine who gets to go.
svith preleieni e to Stanford lac ultv and students
Silicon Valiev is experiencing a "Gorbasm." said
Mark Muchnik. president of Clobal I levelopment
Corp ss ho has organized a Soviet Silicon Summit to
fin outage high let h trade betsseen the countries
Kaisa Gorbachev's planned \isit to an Oakland
based program that helps Soviet r hildren doomed hs
heart defr*cts and the possibilits that she'll visit some
of fhi" area's big tourist attractions, has sparked more
e\< demerit
"hots of people have invited tier institutions, hos
pitals homes," said Charlotte Mailliard Swig, San
Pram 1 si o's < hief of protocol
Armenians, I-atvians. Pstunians, 1 ithuanians,
Pritreans and Soviet lews are planning protests, some
coming from hundreds ot miles awav to register com
plaints about Soviet polii ies
At Gorbachev s request, the companies at the busi
ness him heon util represent a variety of industries
telecommunications, computers, agribusiness, food
processing, construction, oil, banking, hotels and
tourism
Gorbachev's aides chose the companies from a list
submitted In the Chamber of Commerce, which is co
host ol the him heon with Mayor Art Agnos and Cali
fornia Gov George Deukmejian
"The Soviets have an interest in positioning the
Asian p.irt of their country as a Pacific Kim player,"
said Carol Piasente. spokeswoman for the Chamber of
Commerce "The purpose of this luncheon is to build
a relationship between the West Coast companies and
the f ar Pastern part of the Soviet I 'nion
In addition to Hewlett-Pai kard, other companies
with long standing lies to the Soviet Union that will
be represented at the lum heon are AT&T. BankAmer
u ,i and ( dievron
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Man lit VYittink ,1 freshman psvcholo
gs iii,i)iu pierced her nose during the
year -.he spent in India. However she
removed i! when she got to tin- I'nivei
sits1
I wanted somi'thing that ! could
keep with me ill America nii it seemed
like ,1 re,ills good ss.is to open up .i eon
versation Wittink said "I thought
people would also mid it !>e,iuti!ul hut .1
lot ol people found it offensive \ lot of
people came right out and said teal,
that's tigl\ whs do \ou have that in
vour nose '
She ended up taking it out Ixnause it
wasn't i|Utte the image she was looking
lor
It hurt a little " ( aiodstein said It s
the same pain as when v 01, pieri e \ 0111
ear. e\( opt It lasts longer
llierma pierc es w ith an ear gun ami it
takes tour to 1(1 weeks to tulh IumI
1’ien ing is her with thi' pun hast' of .1
So to $H stui! \11 <‘cirring is usualh
used. siiinrlimi's with a b.K h and some
times with the post bent at a ‘10 degree
angle she said
Hirmia said her average nose piert mg
( ustomer is a woman between in and 2ri
years old although the number of men
who pirn e their nose is also rising One
iii.il: had Ins nose pitm rd six times,
three on eat h side she said
merina lias bean piercing noses lor
three vears .mil lias had some nursing
experience
'! would rather they let me do it pro
fessionally in a sterile wav than let them
go home and do themselves in an unste
rile wav. ’ Hierma said.
She is introducing a new hollow
needle method of piert mg that allows
a hoop to he put in right a wax
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