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By Paul Rally w ' ':: It ' ' ' ' i--4 !t t :: ' 7 : t !': - 01 'o V4 I Om 1 okir' 4 ' r - : ' liked The need to summon Mr Peterson's services at the last minute was the culmination of the frustrations the governor experienced on the trip - After traveling to Hungary ' I ' 4 4 ' i :1 4 00- - 3 i i f-wr-- 0t r i ti i ra-- ii4i 4-- r J ' iasee ' ' t 4'T ' ' '' 3 ' ' ' ' ' " rl:f ' ' 4 I- ' ' rel : - 4 i 14 r ''''11 1lit LI 1 - - )I i -- i fi' - 7 I -- " ' t 71' '14 3:! ts Itt i"(7- i !y (0: j 75 t i IN 4 :- 4 i 44' 0 A :f ' - -- tl 11 3 7 - ' s-- ' : 101 ik - i A irei" " -- - -- 4 4 ' i -- v I 1 'j 01 tlft 1 i oir't L ''' C 4 ''''' 4 '' ' 7 7 )el '' ' - If l 4 '1 ' : ti -- ef-- 0 ' 7 ' ' - i :4 ' ? k 4 '''' t I i ‘f ! - ' :4 lris:7:L' ' v lit - 4 I -' LI 3 A: '4' :' - t7 : ' ''' Gov Norm Bangerter stands In front of a Russian tank tipped over by Czech protest- - t 41 - ' By Paul I many visiting dignitaries to their own to devices The governor had the advantage of Utah industrialist Jon Huntsman's influence Mr Huntsman who has built a plastics plant near Moscow arranged for a young woman and two drivers to escort the governor and his entourage around Moscow But the guides were plugged into the government bureaucracy making the tour quite rigid and restrictive "There may be opportunities for investment in the Soviet Union" the governor said during his stay in Moscow "But those who invest must have deep pockets and a lot of patience Because there are a lot of frustrations one will have to en- Roily Tribune Staff Writer When Highway Patrol Trooper Dan Catlin Gov Norm Bangerter's security officer was told by a Russian tour guide that "you cannot leave the hotel" he responded "I haven't been grounded since I was 8 years old" The exchange during the governor's visit to Moscow two weeks ago was illustrative of the gully of under- between the western way of life and the Soviet Union where citizens have marched to a certain tune for three generations If Bangerter learned Gov any- thing from his stay in Moscow it is that westerners hoping to invest in the Soviet Union must untangle a thick bureaucratic web and endure a stubborn mentality toward at the top of the social struc- dure" John Blaney minister for economic affairs for the US Embassy in Moscow met with the governor for about an hour in his hotel and told him the breakdown of the current robot mentality toward the bureaucra- rule-followi- ture Once that top layer of maze is penetrated one finds a mass of westward looking people who want in the worst way to enjoy the lifestyles of western Europe and the United States but have no idea how to go about it The Soviet visit was the least productive of the governor's efforts durk economic developing a ment tour of Europe but most of the reasons for that were beyond the control of the governor and his staff A summit between President Bush and President Mikhail Gorbachev over the Persian Gulf d crisis confused all other events in Moscow and left cy and replacement by innovative competition-oriente- d thinking will probably take at least a generation "There is a desire here to move from a communist system to a market economy" Mr Blaney said "But there is very little that has been put in place to even begin to achieve that And there are very few people in the country who have the basic understanding of things like market two-wee- him" last-minu- - pricing" Even Gorbachev whose presidency has created revolutionary thinking in all of eastern Europe has little state-sponsore- ': - wawt! musrialla2e1 r J4 i-ers in downtown Prague during the height of the recent political revolt and coup 41 -- -- Old Bureaucracy Continues to Work Bangerter Finds in Tour of Soviet "I rope for development of 'exchange programs among students and professors as well as for joint research projects Continued From B-- 1 ern Europe And officials of the institute are talking about holding the next one in Budapest --- the first time such a capitalistic forum would be conducted in an Eastern Block country Robert Rogers director of the institute also discussed holding meetings and to better line up needs nwoabilities between business representatives and entrepreneurs from the various countries About 300 attended the symposium in Brussels Past symposium-shav- e been held in Salt Lake City Minnesota Australia and the United Kingdom While the opportunities for business investment remain unclear because of the dearth of capital and the lack of infrastructure in Eastern Europe the academic opportunities are endless the Utahns learned The common theme among the representatives of Eastern European countries was that they need people to teach them how to be capitalists There i s a huge cry for executives and teachers to go to the East and teach business management and marketing Dr Janeen Costa a University of Gov Bangerter also germinated an idea on the trip for a program sending retired Utah executives to Eastern Europe to train business managI ers and marketers The State Department of Community and Economic Development is now following up on that idea said Greg Gullet of the department's International Development Office Meanwhile efforts are growing in the west particularly with the opening of a Utah economic development office in Brussels the center of the European Economic Community The office with an annual budget of $240000 is the fourth economic development office for Utah that is operating overseas The state has similar operations in Tokyo Seoul and Taiwan And Stan Parrish director of the Department of Community and Economic Development says those three office have returned to the state four times the amount in tax revenue that they have cost "During the past five years" he said "we have spent about $13 million on the international offices The return in terms of tax revenue through business and tourism international marketing Utah ! brought to the state has been about professor made numerous contacts with academicians in Eastern Eu- - million" $5 CI i't:i f i44 - understanding of the economic principles needed to absorb the Soviet Union into the western economy Mr Blaney said "I told the minister of finance that to begin to have change the country must have price reform" Mr Blaney said "I told him that prices should no longer be set by a committee that they should be set by the market "He came back a week later and proudly told me they had initiated price reform" Mr Blaney said "He beamed and said the committee voted to raise the prices of most of the commodities "They just do not understand" he said "And they are the leaders" Beneath the bureaucratic roof of the Soviet structure there are those of the wood and concrete and plaster who want to work with the west to learn to do as the west does And those people are experiencing more freedom to seek their desires because of the Gorbachev presiden- -- :A ' ' ! 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Gov Bangerter visited Berlin economic Sept during his y development jaunt through Europe and Asia a visit deemed mandatory by a number of US governors this year because of the perception of vast economic opportunities in a new improved eastern Europe Massachusetts Gov and 1988 5-- 7 23-da- 1 SiNtetnilit U411" C 0 It 0 ' N 0 velr— ' I t By Paul Roily Tribune Staff Writer Laszlo Ftajk spent many nights jail for his part in a rebel underground newspaper for 10 years before he became a member of the Hungarian parliament this year n Heinz Struwing was a for nearly 40 years in the East German social structure before the realization this year he can think and teach as he pleases without government retribution n Petre was allowed to travel from eastern Europe because of his role as a scientist and scholar despite his part in the underground but he forsook opportunities to defect and always returned because "I Sorin-Catali- - - '''-- i - i - ! t C'erl - 1 —I - - 4-'-4s t1 0 zSK9xlysAti :iii love Romania" They are three of the millions who - I - 1 ' rulti 1: ' ( 1 i 16: ' no 4 t f'1 t ' k ito 0 - 1 - ermnent "We intend now to follow up with :Utah businesses" he said "both '" 4 '' ''' V ' '' - ' : t ' t ‘: ' t'''' i t: t "!!' 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''!!' tr -- — - A 1 - 4 ‘ A 1 - - ' - - ' - - - ''''! -- ' - - ' ' -- 4 -- k - scurried underneath the thumb of Soviet repression for more than four decades with a view toward the freedom they believe is evolving into d countries their Their stories can be repeated countless times on behalf of the living and the dead who tried to find a way out of the darkness They are among the relatively few of all the repressed who may live to see the light "We had a system where the writers did not know the distributors and the distributors did not know the editors" Mr Rajk said of the underground Hungarian newspaper that eluded communist expulsion for 10 years -That way they could capture one of us or some of us and put us in jail But they couldn't destroy the newspaper because they couldn't capture all of us" Mr Rajk who first tasted confine much-besiege- 1 $ Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis was in Berlin at the same time of Gov Bangerter although the two didn't meet and Gov Dukakis had to rush back to the states because of a threatened coup by his lieutenant governor What Gov Bangerter heard however is that while a plethora of future opportunities await in East Berlin they will be difficult to sort out for a few years as the newly unified city figures out how to marry its different systems and turn the marriage outward to the rest of the world for e non-perso- aose —14A The memorial represents the One-Tim- 11 tik geared for half of them Rebels Become Heroes in a New Europe --4 t i 14 ff104"44 t I " 41 I t''1' f 1'3 cl"7411rP tli 40' ' ar s 54 ' es with seminars and individual meetIngs and to pass on the contacts to those businesses that are interested "Now is the time for Utah compaflies to be making contacts and developing relationships" Mr Gullett :said citing the most promising areas for development are in agriculture transportation energy and !‘'i f -4 t - - tl ''" - 7 ' 3 - - t - t:: 1 41t'i40nP "I i i ' ' 7 :: Lit 1:?!''!"filt7r:: i i' i 'fri:: !'i'i ti' 0 L ' '' r! iI itlf ' r) ti ' 1A' 1 yt :1'''' 't f g: Parr- 4""' - -- 0 042 4 '4' " w A ii ' ' t t' I Czech- Mr Peterson had done some freelance work for Dr Blake's department and had developed some contacts through his past trips to the Soviet Union His goal is to produce a documentary film on Siberia "I was sending faxes to my contacts Saturday night Sunday night and Monday night" he said "I had no idea if I was getting through" - The meetings however were productive The governor met with the economic attache of the US Embassy in Moscow although the meeting had to take place in Gov Bangerter's hotel room with the embassy official sitting on a chair and the governor sitting on the edge of his bed He also met with some up and coming Soviet entrepreneurs who the governor believes will be in a position to do productive business with the United States someday had some important events scheduled" said Community and 'Economic Development Director Sian Parrish in defense of the department's planning of the trip The governor originally was set to 'attend a state dinner with top officials of the Soviet Union and the 3Juited States But those plans were schedulmuddled by the Ing of a summit in Helsinki between Presidents Bush and Gorbachev and )he follow-u- p visit to Moscow of Seceetary of State James Baker to deal :with the Persian Gulf crisis be said Mr Parrish noted that dealing :with Eastern Europe can be iffy at 'best and Eastern Europeans them-Delvcould not always be counted Eon to maintain schedules But the Economic Development :Department changed the trip itinerary several times during the final ''days before the governor's ached- Ailed departure and it was changed -again while the governor was in Eu'rope to accommodate a desired visit in Holland with officials of Philips Corp parent company of Orem°based Signetics Even then the governor was dis:traught after the Philips officials presented him with a gift during an elaborate dinner and he had nothing !to give in return 7 But Greg Gullett of the International Development Office said the :trip with an estimated cost of 470000 netted contacts with be:tween 30 and 50 important Europe-ra- n officials in business and in gov- 1 ff: l' '0 '4' 4 14-- - -- - 44 4 4"t 4i4 ' 21 s4) -- - A i ' '4" 4'1 I 1 ' I 'I Vc 0- " ' s1:!?' ill 'Ilk ) f : t ':- ''' --4 11t!--- 4"":1" xl - T 144 41 (4 ' ' ! 7 : :4 sir:rr" ' it'''in4 ' 1 -- t I P ' '!!! i - 40 4 t? : : ri4f±a1tt--:' s461'' f' ' 4 ii T(w ct - t 4 ' i' t 0 P‘: ' ' LSI yi 4 I 4 A L 4f 411- - 1 - ' oslovakia Austria Germany Be! and The Netherlands from Auum 29 through Sept 1011 the goverand 12 in nor was to spend Sept Moscow before flying to Japan As of Saturday Sept 8 everything had fallen through No meetings had been scheduled was contacted by Lynn Blake (of the Department of Business and Economic Development on Saturday and asked if I could do something' Mr Peterson said "He said the governor was about to go to Moscow and they had no meetings scheduled for :- i :d k about the planning and he said the number of meetings he ultimately had were less than he would have -- 1 044 - - ?t p : 1k 1:s X 4- iilrfb ?ttt - 7 " :1 4 ---( "" e t I -:- :-- --of t ! 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The trip he believes was a success and dozens of important contacts were made with European leaders in business government and education r - - ' Tribune Staff Writer :Allan Peterson sat at a telephone and a fax machine in Salt Lake City hoping to arrange meaningful meet- - - Governor Finds Care Patience Key to European Investment ' f' ":' ' '' - Data Came Through Jj 30 1990 ! "Iiiroaa A Mary Maughan of the Utah International Business Development Office stands near a pillar in Prague showing support for Solidarity the country's revolutionary labor union ! ment when he was 7 is now a member of parliament in Hungary He is becoming as famous as his late father who was executed by the communists in 1949 when Mr Rajk was a baby "I tried to teach market economics" said Mr Struwing" a native Berliner who holds two doctorate degrees and speaks five languages "But because I taught such wickedness I was expelled from the university I have spent the last 36 years n as a working a job in a government-owne- d engineering firm" Now in his 70s he can teach and lecture as he likes and he is looking for opportunities "If you want I can come to Utah and lecture on economics" he said "I once was near Utah" He was a German prisoner of war in Colorado during World War II He was then in the army that fought for Hitler "It is incredible to have been on the outside of government trying to bring about change and now finding myself part of the government and expected to bring change" said Mr Petre who is now an undersecretary of state for Romania Speaking at an international symposium in Linz Austria Mr Petre was asked if his comments may not endanger him in a country that still lives under a communist repressive regime "I do fear retribution for what I say" he said But if I don't speak freely if I do not exercise that freedom all of our efforts will have been wasted "And the revolution will be doomed to failure" non-perso- low-lev- economic development purposes "Now is the time to invest" said Helmut F Wolf of Berlin's Economic Development Corporation "The Japanese are coming here looking for opportunities European businesses are coming here for opportunities American businesses are coming here for opportunities "Those who wait will be left out" said Mr Wolf "Those who go to the station now will catch the train" But officials of the US Embassy in Berlin warned that caution may be the best policy although opportunities could lie ahead in a unified Germany West Berlin must go through the growing pains of absorbing 13 million people into a city that is used to serving 21 million and with that is suffering a fairly high unemployment rate Germany must also come up with a permanent resolution to the property question before outsiders can feel comfortable investing in business in the country said ID Bindenagel deputy chief of mission for the embassy With East Germany trying to figure out how to taste freedom the state must grapple with the seizure of private property by the communist government after World War A temporary solution has been to allow the heirs of the original private property owners to reclaim the property under certain circumstances prescribed by a new law Other property cannot be reclaimed and can be available for sale But those details still must be worked out "But there is confidence that whoever invests in east Germany now could see a windfall in a few years" said James Elegante a Salt Lake City attorney who accompanied the governor on his trip to develop reciprocal relationships with attorneys in eastern block countries as they slowly drift toward capitalism "There will be some suffering as the East is integrated into the West" said Mr Elegante "There will be period of high unemployment and they will have to raise taxes to deal with the social problems that come with that But the investment opportunities are their and the people I talk to believe they will pay off in a huge way in a few years" East Germany also has an advantage over other Eastern Block countries looking westward because it will receive automatic membership into the European Economic Community upon its unification with West Germany MtWAPloo |
