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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1977
TUESDAY
Brazos County A&M Club, "Bellard
Night,” Ramada Inn, 6:30 p.m.
campus
activities
Physics colloquium, 4 p. m. in room 146
of the Physics Building. Dr. George Bas-
bas, from North Texas State University,
will discuss "Innershell Processes.
WEDNESDAY
STUDY BREAK, sponsored by Aggie
Cinema and Basement Committee. Car
toons and short films will be shown from 10
p.m. to3a.m. in the Basement. Admission
is free.
FRIDAY
End of Final Exams, 5 p.m.
THURSDAY
Transportation Conference, sponsored
by Texas Transportation Institute. “Criti
cal Transportation Issues" will be the
topic.
SATURDAY
Brazos County Volunteer Fire De
partment garage sale from 9a.m. to6p.m.
at the Fire Station, located at Steep Hol
low Road and FM 1179 in east Brazos
County. Proceeds from the sale will fur
nish equipment for the volunteer fire
department.
New Russian weapon threatens arms race
The era since World War II may
turn out to be the “golden years” of
U.S.-Soviet relations if the newly
publicized ion-beam weapons be
come a reality.
After last week’s announcement
that the U.S. and Russia are hard at
work on energy-beam weapons to
neutralize nuclear missiles, Texas
A&M University military historian
Dr. Roger Beaumont said that the
development might make future
generations look back nostalgically
at the “relative stability of the ther
monuclear age.” The reason is that
such a beam could end the nuclear
deterrent, the core of the U.S.-
Soviet strategic balance since 1950.
Foreseeing the development of
such weapons almost a decade ago,
Beaumont wrote in a 1969 “Military
Review” that while the Soviets had
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improved on a WW II military in
terms of manpower and design.
Western military planners moved
away from large manpower
organizations—assuming that the
Red Army was negated by the
bomb.
Looking at current develop
ments, Beaumont said the major
powers might resort to “superar
mies, fleets and air armadas of Sec
ond World War proportions.”
Such massive concentrations of
men and machines, if they clash,”
Beaumont said, “could lay half a
world in waste with conventional
weapons, leaving survivors in chains
or perpetually armed as nervous
victors.
“The jargon of nuclear theoretics
leaked into the language and nu
clear fear became big box office in
the West, battering the sensitized
public with the fear of the bomb and
reinforcing the image of perpetual
thermonuclear stalemate,” Beau
mont said.
“Yet all the while, he continued,
“the Soviets maintained their large
conventional ground, submarine
and air forces, undertook a surface
fleet construction program and allo
cated what was regarded by some as
proportionally small nuclear deliv
ery and defense forces. And, they
shielded their population from
psychological wear-and-tear of
clear confrontation.”
Beaumont said that a bomk
world would give disproportion
power to the Soviet Union
Europe and to China in Asia.
“If tensions should produces!
sort to military strength, theNAl
countries would be in a tight sp
because since 1945 they have
lied, in general, on elitism. This
eludes submariners, aviators, con
mandos and special forces as wel
the Strategic Air Command and*;
borne and airmobile forces.”
He added that many of the NA1(
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“The end of the bomb’s role as
slaughterer of civilians would he
step forward in the sense of rem# gradua
ing the mortgage from millions"”
people’s lives,” he said,
world would once again
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the darker side of technology, ssf
as chemical-biological warfare,
“The resulting instability
balance of power might createanos
talgia for the relative stability of ^
thermonuclear age,
said.
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WASHINGTON — The Federal
Energy Administration has notified
56 heating fuel users in 25 states —
ranging from giants of the chemical
business to a college — that they
may be forced to switch from oil or
natural gas to coal.
The notices launched the FEA’s
first effort to make industrial heat
ing plants, rather than electrical
power generating plants, switch
fuels.
An FEA spokesman said yester
day that his agency plans public
hearings on its new proposal in
seven cities this month before its
power to order fuel conversions ex
pires June 30.
Based on information from those
hearings and other sources, orders
to some or all of the plants could be
issued by early summer.
FEA chief John O’Leary said the
industrial conversion drive “marks
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another significant step in thePii
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dence on oil and natural gas anil
increase the use of coal, our m
abundant energy resource.”
Earlier FEA notices were sent
105 existing electrical power pb
at 50 sites and to 143 plannedpo»
plants at 97 sites.
Federal officials have saidnoa
conversions will be carried out
they degrade the environmel
Local officials where power pin
are located, however, have void
doubt the environmental goals a
be obtained.
The FEA orders Monday coven
24 industrial plants in 17 stateslly
already are in operation and
other plants in 17 states that
now in the early planning staga.
Agency analysts said the 24eii
ing plants — mostly paper a
chemical company complexes
can be converted to coal heat fix
total $276.8 million.
They estimated the conversM
would reduce plant fuel costs $51
million a year, produce $1.7 ml
a year in operating cost savings,o
U.S. oil consumption by 12.3m
lion barrels a year and save 232li
lion cubic feet of natural gasayei
Coal demand would be increaf
4 million tons a year, they said.
Forcing the 32 plants nowon
drawing hoard to burn nothing
coal would save an additional 20
lion barrels of oil a year and ini
coal demand by 5.3 million
year, the analysts calculated.
The 32 installations range fronii
refineries to the Dartmouth
heating plant in New Hampshii
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