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mmmmiiEiHiBiininiiB] Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1978 Byrd wants fewer social programs United Press International WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd says Congress is changing emphasis from four decades of social welfare legislation and is now turning its attention to the “great middle class” which carried the burden. “Congress, in recent decades, the last two, three, four decades, has enacted a great deal of social welfare programs,” Byrd told reporters Monday. “There comes a time when there is not much to add. “And it’s quite right to turn to incentives for the great middle class which has carried the load, which has carried the burden, which needs relief,” Byrd added. “It’s the backbone of our country.” Byrd, who said he will seek re-election as Democratic leader in January, said the “varying of the compass” was visible in the $18.7 billion tax bill passed on the last day of the 95th Congress. Its indi vidual income tax cuts were geared to those in the $15,000-$50,000 income bracket. Looking ahead to the 96th Congress, however, Byrd listed a na tional health insurance program — deemed by some to be social welfare — as probably the top priority domestic legislation. He said if the administration signs a SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union and sends it to the Senate, ratification “will undoubt edly be the most important foreign international matter of all.” “There probably has never been a treaty of more interest to us and to our allies,” Byrd said. “It’s the kind that lends itself to taking a look at the grandchildren on the mantel there and wondering what effect it will have on them when they are in their prime.” Byrd said any SALT II agreement will be “carefully and thoroughly” examined and the treaty is so important the Senate does not want to “make a mistake on it.” He said trade exchanges with the Soviet Union, efforts to strengthen ties with NATO and NATO itself would be “matters of great interest,” and he called for efforts to normalize relations with China. In addition to national health insurance, top domestic items men tioned by the Democratic leader included energy — partly in the area of increasing production — coping with inflation, acting if neces sary on jobs and a continued move toward a balanced budget. (John Silver’s SEAFOOD SHOPPES In Recognition of a Fine Institution // Long John Silver’s Proudly Announces the Aggie Special // 1 GOLDEN FISH FILLET 1 TENDER CHICKEN PLANK WITH SAVORY COLE SLAW, CRISPY FRYES, 2 HUSHPUPPIES, AND A SCHOONER OF YOUR FAVORITE DRINK ALL For *1’" TAX INCLUDED JUST ASK FOR THE AGGIE SPECIAL (NO COUPON NECESSARY) what’s up? Wednesday GUEST LECTURE SERIES: Hugh Hardy, an architect from New York, will discuss design architecture at 2 p.m. in Room 601, Rudder Tower. Everyone is invited to attend. SAN ANTONIO HOMETOWN CLUB: Will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 137, MSC. TAMU ROAD RUNNERS: Will meet at 6 p.m. at G. Rollie White Coliseum. SAN ANGELO-WEST TEXAS HOMETOWN CLUB: Will meet at 7 p.m. in Room 109, Military Science Building. SOCIAL DANCE CLUB: Will have a regular club meeting from 7-8:15 p.m. in room 266, G. Rollie White Coliseum and will have exhibition group practice from 8:30-10 p.m. ACT: Will meet at 6:45 p.m. in Zachry for pictures for the Aggieland. A program will follow in Room 002, Reed McDonald Bldg. Thursday POLITICAL FORUM: Gen. William Westmoreland speak on “Trouble Spots Around the Globe” at 8 p.m. in Rudder Au ditorium. Westmoreland was commander of the U.S. armed forces in Vietnam and later chief of staff, the highest position in the Army. He will speak about military and political situations in the world today. Admission is 25 cents for students and 50 cents for non-students. OFF-CAMPUS STUDENT ASSOCIATION: All off-campus girls are invited to dine with the Corps of Cadets in Duncan Dining Hall on Wednesday, Oct.25, at 6:30 p.m. Those who are interested should sign up today in Room 216, OSA cubicle. TAMU MICRO COMPUTER CLUB: Bob Weir will speak on “How to Write and Be Published,” and there will be a demonstration of the complete club system at 7 p.m. in Room 203, Zachary. WATER SKI CLUB: Will meet at 7 p.m. in Room 510, Rudder Tower. BAHAT CLUB: Welcomes everyone to a public meeting on “Har mony of Science and Religion,” at 7:30 p.m. in the All Faiths Chapel. CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: Will meet at 7 p.m. in Room 302, Rudder Tower. HANG GLIDERS: The Robbins Aero Squadron Hang Gliders Club will meet at 8 p.m. in Room 704AB, Rudder Tower. CROSS COUNTRY: The men’s team will run in Austin at 4 p.m. MSC RADIO COMMITTEE: Will discuss Bonfire communications and have a presentation on message handling at 7:30 p.m. in Room 401, Rudder Tower. CEPHEID VARIABLE: Presents “Omega Man,” a terrifying look 1 into a future where the world’s population has been decimated by bacteriological warfare. Charlton Heston is pursued by a group of black-robed fanatics bent on destroying all traces of the technology that ruined the world. This movie will be shown at 8 and 10:30 p.m. in Room 601, Rudder Tower. MSC OUTDOOR RECREATION: Will have a seminar on fishing in Room 401, Rudder Tower, at 7:30 p.m. EE WIVES CLUB: La Maz Natural Childbirth will be discussed at 7:30 p.m. in Room 104B, Zachry. New members are welcome. For more information, call 693-6286. Friday DEADLINE: Student organizations may still renew their recognition in the Student Finance Center. All organizations must renew their recognition each year. Organizations may renew past the Sep tember 30 deadline. The Student Finance Center is located in Room 217, MSC and is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. VOLLEYBALL: The women’s team will play in the Southwest Missouri Tournament in Springfield, Mo. PINK PANTHER FESTIVAL: Aggie Cinema will show “The Pink Panther,” the first pink panther film in which Inspector Clouseau of the Paris police encounters the Pink Panther. This movie, star ring Peter Sellers, David Niven and Robert Wagner will be shown at 8 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium. “A Shot In the Dark,” starring Peter Sellers and Elke Sommer in which inspector Clousea at tempts to capture an accused murderer will be shown at 10 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium. 2 from C7.S-, 1 Russian 3 share physics Nobel United Press International STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson of the United States and Piotr Leon- tevitch Kapitsa of the Soviet Union won the 1978 Nobel Prize for physics, the Swedish Academy an nounced Tuesday. The Nobel prize for chemistry also was awarded Tuesday to Dr. Peter Mitchell of Cornwall, En gland, for “his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer. ” Kapitsa was awarded half the $165,000 prize, with the two Ameri cans sharing the other half. Kapitsa was cited for his “basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low temperature physics” and the Americans were cited “for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation.” Kapitsa, 82, is director of the In stitute of Physcial Problems at the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Penzias, 45, born in Munich, Germany, is head of the Radio Physics Research Department at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey, and Wilson, 42, is a member of the technical staff at the same laboratories. Kapitsa in 1934 constructed a new device for producing liquid helium which cooled the gas by periodic expansions. It was the first time a machine could produce liquid helium in large quantities without previous cooling with liquid hy drogen. “This heralded a new epoch in the field of low temperature physics,” the Academy said. Penzias and Wilson were the fifth and sixth Americans to win the prizes this year. Professor Herbert A. Simon of the Camegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, a specialist in business decision-making, won the eco nomics prize Monday “for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within business organizations.” Last Thursday, U.S. Drs. Daniel Nathans and Hamilton Smith shared the medicine prize with Swiss Dr. Werner Arber for their discovery and practical application of restric tion enzymes — which could lead to the prevention and cure of anemia, other inherited diseases and cancer. Polish-born Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, a U.S. citizen since 1943, received the literature prize for “his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life.” A date for the announcement of the peace prize has not been set. The Nobel prizes are named after Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemical engineer and inventor of dynamite who died in 1896. Penzias and Wilson, radio as tronomers, used a very sensitive re ceiver for the study of microwave background radiation at the Bell Laboratories, discovering that the Samson ft m 693-1772 Get acquainted with the Staff of Sampson and Delilah 1510 Holleman universe is filled uniformly with mi crowave radiation. “The discovery of Penzias and Wilson was a fundamental one: it has made it possible to obtain in formation about cosmic processes that took place a very long time ago, at the time of the creation of the universe,” the Academy said. The Academy said that the two Americans’ discovery opened the way toward defining absolute mo tion in space. Their discovery marked an important stage in the science of cosmology — the science of the origin of universe. In citing Kapitsa, the Academy said he had shown an amazing abil ity to organize and lead work. He had established laboratories for the study of low temperatures at Cam bridge University in England and also in Moscow. One of his associates was Lev D. Landau who received the 1962 Nobel Physics Prize for theoretical studies on liquid helium. “Kapitsa’s discoveries, ideas and new techniques have been basic to the modern expansion of the science of low temperature physics,” the Academy said. Penzias and Wilson, using the re ceiver for background radiation studies, discovered cosmic mi crowave radiation but were unsure of its origin. “They suspected at first that this radiation must originate either in the instrument or in the atmo sphere,” the academy said. “How ever, by painstaking testing, they showed that it came from outer space and that its intensity was the same in all directions.” This microwave radiation,, last remnant of the creation! universe, said Profe SSOr Johansson of the Academy “The work of Wilson andp fd supports the ‘big-bans’ tW American George Gamov ? the universe was created i n . explosion,” Johansson said ' “Their work opened u p ’ new horizon in cosmology. “The discovery gives us an, lute system of measurj movements of the earth andji heavenly bodies,” Johanssons! Professor Lars Erik HultenJ Academy said Kapitsa won tW late — “but better late than ne Kapitsa is the father ofU perature physics. He openedm low temperature physics for] cal use in modern computers! to produce a generation 0 f| energy computer and control! terns, ” Professor Per Olov La the Academy said. “Another technical appli^ just around the corner, isthesj of liquid helium to produce raiM running on super-conductivity,] Kapitsa’s discovery to abolistj trie resistance in the power-led metals,” Lovdin said. Lovdin said Kapitsa’s world “enormous bearing on the steel industry. “He developed liquid air used cooling in the steel industry. “Between 1946 and 1955, Ki|j had a difficult period. He did work but lived at a summeri outside Moscow,” Lovdin said. This was the ninth time Academy has split the award tween two unrelated discoveriet APO MUMS MADE BY PROFESSIONALS Five styles to choose from. Free campus delivery Saturday morning. On sale before each home football game in the MSC, dorms, Commons & Sbisa. Tues. thru Thurs. and Friday in the MSC ONLY. Book publicizes Betty’s addiction United Press International NEW YORK — Betty Ford says she was forced to seek treatmeol for alcoholism and pill addiction by her family in a dramatic confron tation after she angrily rejected an earlier plea to give up all media tion and liquor. Mrs. Ford’s sensitive account of the family intervention, heraddid tion to prescription drugs and alcohol and her rehabilitation, is eonj tained in a excerpt from her book, “The Times of My Life,” publishei in the November issue of Ladies Home Journal. The former first lady also recounts the “very emotional momeil when she rose to her feet at a group therapy session to declare fortl first time: “I’m Betty, and I’m an alcoholic, and I know my dnnjtiii has hurt my family.” The family confrontation occurred last April 1 in the living roomi the Ford home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. As Mrs. Ford sat “in shock her children and her husband, former President Gerald Ford, con fronted her about her slurred speech, falling asleep in chairs, failii to come to dinner and not being available when needed. “All of them hurt me. I collapsed into tears. But I still had enoiij sense to realize they hadn’t come around just to make me cry; fop were there because they loved me and wanted to help me, Mrs Ford said. Also at the faily meeting April 1 was Capt. Joe Pursch, directoro the Alcohol and Drug and Rehabilitation service at the Long Beadj Naval Hospital, and a navy nurse. Mrs. Ford said she “continued to resist any suggestion that liquoj had contributed to my illness; all I would confess to was over medication.” Two days after her 60th birthday, Mrs. Ford entered the Lot Beach rehabilitation center and released a public statement savin; she was intent upon ridding herself of the “damaging effects of Iran quilizers and pain-killers. On April 12, Mrs. Ford met with Pursch, her husband, sevei doctors and her Navy counselor in Pursch s office. Up until that point, I had been talking about medications, 'vl)i| everyone nodded respectfully,” Mrs. Ford said. “Now these doctofi; wanted me to admit that I was also an alcoholic. ” I started to cry, and Jerry took my hand. ‘There will be no eWW rassment to me. You go ahead and say what should be said. With that, my crying got worse. When Jerry took me backtofflS room, I was still sobbing so hard I couldn’t get my breath My m and ears were closed off, everything was closed off, my head felt UN balloon. I was gasping, my mouth wide open, sure my air was goi 11 ? to be cut off. I hope I never have to cry like that again. It wasscatyl but once it was over, I felt a great relief.” t. while “Jerry loungedM chair and read the newspaper,” Mrs. Ford wrote another peel statement, this time saying she not only was addicted to psychoacti'^ medication, but also to alcohol. 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