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Show Soviets compare U.S. culture to homeland I i f' ) f if ! - , I J I ph! :; 1 - !:: 1 J By EDMUND E. HANSEN Senior Inspector Vladimer Orek-. Orek-. hovsky and Inspector Andre Gera-simoy Gera-simoy are Soviet government officials offi-cials on duty at the Hercules plant in Magna in accordance with provisions prov-isions in the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty between the United States and USSR. Thursday morning they spoke to the Center-ville-Farmington Rotary Club, giving giv-ing their impressions of the USA, their homeland, and the relations i between the two countries. ; i In a similar speaking engagement 1 a week prior. Lt. Commander Jim Szatkowski, USN, spoke to , the same club about the INF Treaty and his experiences . and impressions while on duty at Votkinsk, the intermediate in-termediate range nuclear missile plant in the Soviet Union. r? -The INF. Treaty covers a 13-year period during which the missiles of both nations will be counted, destroyed, des-troyed, their production eliminated, and a number of verification inspections in-spections made. Commander Szatkowski Szat-kowski stated that One problem in carrying out the treaty was agreement agree-ment as to how to count the missiles. miss-iles. Do you count the missile or the number of warheads contained within a missile? And what of the spares that are produced to support themissiles? Vladimer Orekhovsky, USSR inspector and Rocket Fuel . Scientist Andre Garasimov, addressed the the Centerville-: : Farmington Rotary Club last week to share their impressions impres-sions of the United States. . Chances there have been misuses of - - - freedoms. Changes have occurred in the USSR's , foreign policy." Qrekhovski, whose ba9kground is -with the Soviet diplomatic corps, : said that there is less of a tendency . to view foreign proposals nega-, nega-, 'tiyely and as threats to Soviet secinv ity but more of a movement toward ' understanding the other nation's concerns. - One of the larger disparities is seen in the living standards of the . two countries. Both the US and Soviet So-viet srere cbnfinned that a major problem facing - the Soviet - Republic is the need for consumer goods and. better housing. State-dictated State-dictated quotas have not met the needs of the citizens of the USSR. The lack of competition has been cited as a cause, and though difficult diffi-cult to develop, competition has ; been introduced. Senior Inspector . Orekhovsky jaid competition ; brings its own set of problems. In . .some cases it has simply led to do-' do-' ing less work for more money. With a population of 280 million people, change comes slow.; - . Despite our differences, said the Soviet, we are both people very , close in our sense of humor and in our ways of thinking. For world peace we must all seek the positive - in each other, he concluded. ' . - Current intelligence estimates of . the missile count give the Soviets a. 2.5:1 superiority in numbers of missiles in comparison to ht United States. There Is also the 1 problem of the wide distribution of the missile sites. Although a large -' number of missile sites are located ' near Moscow, there are many sites spread, throughout the USSR, a country 2.4 times the size of the USA...;;;: -'-c B :::! The contrasts and comparisons of our two countries presented the Ro-. tarians and their guests with in-' sights into the world, of interna-'! ; tional diplomacy and security concerns con-cerns as, Well as, a view into a so- ciety that is as much alike as it is different from our own. The USSR, ' like the USA, is a country of many nationalities and diverse ethnic and religious groups. Russia . realizes that it needs' change. Many laws ha been changed, and with the |