39 



tered in last week stand on its own, but with one regret. I'm sorry 

 that Chairman de la Garza did not have the opportunity to proof- 

 read it for me. There is one error that he would have caught. 



Over on page 3, in the top line of the last paragraph, I talk about 

 day care centers and I say "deutsche sad," and they're really 

 "detsche sad." "Deutsche sad" is kindergarten. But the chairman, 

 with his proficiency and love for languages — which is terribly im- 

 portant, I think, these days in our trying to deal with the former 

 Soviet Union. We need people who are sensitive. We need people 

 who understand that Russia, the countries there, they are not 

 America. They are not America. 



It concerns me a great deal when I hear, like was said in the 

 paper the other day, 'The Russians don't understand the word," 

 and the word referred to there was "democracy." It's been said here 

 this morning that we really don't understand them, either. I don't 

 know what the term "private" means. The way I would define that 

 is simply that it is not state; therefore, if it's not state, we'll say 

 that it's private. 



Another term that concerns me a great deal is the term "farmer." 

 When we use the term "farmer," we visualize someone in our coun- 

 try who makes decisions, implements the decisions, and then lives 

 with the results of those decisions. They are just only beginning to 

 be able to do that in Russia. Let's be sensitive. 



This is terribly important, too, when we send people there. If 

 they're not experienced — and certainly we've got a great paucity in 

 inexperienced people to go there, no one really as richly endowed 

 as I nor nearly fortunate as I — but at least let's get sensitive people 

 who go there, and if people go there to deal with agriculture, let's 

 hope that these people have an idea a little bit about what agri- 

 culture is. Agriculture is a biological science. It's not a pushbutton 

 affair. If you miss a planting season by 10 days, you've got to wait 

 luitil the next planting season comes around. Timeliness is terribly 

 important, and sometimes the next planting seasons doesn't hap- 

 pen until the next year. 



Well, many, many things have happened since I submitted my 

 testimony last week. We're very much aware of this. One of the 

 things that I wish that more people were aware of is the fact that 

 we keep referring to Moscow, we keep referring to Russia, but 

 they're almost sjnionymous in the way we speak. But they are not 

 synonymous. They are not synonymous. The people on the other 

 side of the Urals don't care a whole lot for the people who live in 

 Moscow. Some of the people out in Siberia are there because of the 

 people in Moscow. So there's not a great deal of love lost there. 



Regionalism is building. We need to be represented in every re- 

 gion of Russia and the former Soviet Union. We have a public pol- 

 icy advisor in Moscow. That's good, terribly needed, but at the 

 same time — and I witnessed this last August when I was traveling 

 with former Secretary L)mg — we witnessed in Novosibirsk how 

 painfully needed a public policy advisor is. We need to put people 

 there, and at the same time we need to bring people here. 



I was very fortunate in being able to bring the Lieutenant Gov- 

 ernor of Ulyanovsk over here, along with a group from Virginia 

 Tech. He had the opportunity not only to go to the land-grant uni- 

 versity to see how that operates, including the Extension system, 



