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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25, 1976
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A group of
Pentagon officials is busily planning
for something most Americans
would rather not think about: a nuc
lear attack some day on the United
States.
The scenario goes like this: The
President goes on national television
and radio to tell the nation it is
threatened with nuclear attack. He
tells the American people to flee the
cities.
The city dwellers go to previ
ously designated rural areas, then
wait and hope that negotiators can
avoid a nuclear holocaust.
The Defense Civil Preparedness
Agency, fighting to justify its exis
tence, says planning for such a mass
exodus from the cities is necessary.
Agency officials say someone should
“think the unthinkable.”
In this era of detente, some others
think such planning is a waste of
monev.
Rep. Les Aspin, a consistent critic
of the Pentagon, says it is unsuitable
for a nation that has renounced the
option to attack first to plan for a
nuclear war. Aspin, D-Wis., calls
such planning “provocative. ”
State and local Civil Defense offi
cials don’t like the agency’s plan to
curtail assistance for grass-roots
planning for natural disasters such as
floods, hurricanes and tornadoes.
These cutbacks in money for state
Civil Defense plans “will be the de
mise of a lot of Civil Defense plans
that help people in real emergen
cies, ’ said Ronald S. San Felipno.
administrator of Wisconsin s prog-
“Instead, they want us to spend
the money on some doomsday plan
ning,” he said.
The agency, a part of the Penta
gon, also has its problems within the
Ford administration. The agency re
quested $123 million for fiscal 1977,
but administration budget experts
cut that to $71 million before Presi
dent Ford’s budget was presented to
Congress. The agency received $85
million for the current fiscal year. A
spokesman said it cannot be deter
mined exactly how much is spent on
evacuation plans.
Despite the over-all cuts, the
agency hopes to increase the amount T 7
of money spent on crisis relocation.
The relocation program is based
on the premise that there will be a
period of crisis before any nuclear
attack. If the cities were evacuated,
then the casualties from a nuclear
attack would be lessened.
Plans for a relocation would give
the President another option in a war
of nerves during a period of de
teriorating international relations,
said John E. Davis, director of the
agency since 1969.
Ex-cons get money to go straight
Associated Press
AMARILLO — The government
is giving away a small fortune in tax
payer dollars to ex-convicts to see if
the money will keep them from re
turning to a life of crime.
Hundreds of former Texas prison
inmates are being paroled and then
regularly handed money in an exper
iment termed Transitional Aid Re-
I search Project for Ex-Offenders.
The Amarillo Sunday News-Globe
said the project involves 1,800 ex-
j convicts in Texas and expenditure of
more than $500,000 from LhS. De
partment of Labor funds.
Aim of the program is to see
whether a steady paycheck-
regardless of whether a man is
working-will keep him from resort
ing again to crime.
Researcher Joe Reed of the Texas
Department of Corrections TDC
told the News-Globe, “This is a pro
ject we are trying to keep low-key
because it is experimental. We have
nothing to hide, however. ”
A Texas Employment Commis
sion memo states that convicts re
leased during the four months be
ginning last Jan. 1 “will relocate to 31
counties in the state. The level of
compensation they receive is de
pendent on their employment
status.
For example, they will be com
pensated only when unemployed,
and they are encouraged to find
employment. One group will be
compensated on a sliding scale, con
tinued partially even upon employ
ment. The remainder will receive no
compensation upon employment
and they are required to seek jobs.
WEDNESDAY
Andre Kole, illusionist, will per
form at 8 p.m. in Rudder Au
ditorium.
Dr. Jeff D. Bronson will discuss
“The Computer as a Research Tool”
at 5 p.m. in the Chemistry Building
221.
The A&M chapter of the College
Republicans will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
Rudder 410.
Omega Phi Alpha will meet at6:30
p.m. in Rudder 501.
THURSDAY
J. B. Denur will talk about “Fluc
tuations and the Kelvin Statement of
This is a pure research project to de
termine if a level of compensation
upon release from prison will divert
the incidence of re-arrest. ”
A similar experiment is being con
ducted in Georgia.
The experimental groups will be
broken down this way, the News-
Globe said:
• 150 ex-convicts will receive $63
a week for 26 weeks.
• 125 will receive the same
amount for 13 weeks.
• 125 will receive $63 a week for
13 weeks but, if employed, will re
ceive the assistance on a sliding scale
adjusted to their earned income.
• 200 will receive special job
placement assistance, not financial
help.
• 200 will be assigned to a project
control group and xeceive a token
$10 a week.
• 1,000 will not be contacted di
rectly but will be monitored through
arrest reports from around the state.
NEEIfiNE!
SCHEDULED
of
Ther-
n the
the Second Law
modynamics” at 4 p
Chemistry Building 231.
Freshman Agricultural Society at
7:30 p.m. in Rudder Tower 301.
Mechanical Engineers’ Wives at
7:30 p.m. at Star Furniture Com
pany. Bring your husbands.
Finance Association at 7:30 p.m.
in the Treehouse Apartments party
room.
Senior Honor Society for the Ad
vancement of Women who will be
seniors in the fall of ’76 and are in
terested in membership at 8 p.m. in
MSG 206.
Brazos Ornithological Society at
7:30 p.m. in the Oceanography-
Mpteorology Bldg. 112.
FRIDAY
A biochemistry seminar will fea
ture Dr. Chan Benedict of the Plant
Sciences Department. He will speak
at 4 p.m. in Heep Building 114.
SATURDAY
Eckanker Total Awareness will
meet at 7:30 in Harrington 100.
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