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Report discloses
Korean scandals
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Even as officials investigated the Korean brib
ery scandal in Congress, key Korean figure Tongsun Park explored
the possibility of quietly selling U.S. arms on the world market,
without explicit approval of the U.S. government.
This revelation involving the Korean rice merchant, indicted last
year on 36 counts of illegal influence peddling, emerged as one of
several startling findings in a 447-page congressional report on
U.S.-Korean relations released Wednesday by the House subcom
mittee on international organizations.
“Tongsun Park was not a timid figure,” said a staff member of the
subcommittee, which has been studying the uneven course of
Korean-Amer/can relations for nearly two years. “We think our inves
tigation has raised a number of very serious issues.”
The report disclosed that at the same time the Justice Department
and the House Ethics Committee were investigating allegations of
Park’s involvement in the scandal, Park was dickering through inter
mediaries with a Virginia-based firm, Interarms, for the sale of Ko
rean “surplus weapons’ and American military equipment produced
in Korea under U.S. license.
Among items on a confidential list were PT boats, M79 rocket
launchers, howitzers, anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, and vari
ous munitions.
’"flie proposed joint venture was to export the 37 items contained
on the list. A great many of those items required prior approval of the
United States for export, although that was noted only in the case of
five,’ the report said.
The subcommittee concluded the Korean government has been
pursuing a secret arms policy and “appeared to question U.S. efforts
to regulate international traffic in arms.”
“The subcommittee expects that if illegal exports occur the United
States will take steps to deter recurrence,” the report said.
Other disclosures in the report:
—South Korea secretly decided to design and build nuclear
weapons in the early 1970s, hut cancelled the program by 1975.
—The Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung Moon had secret
links to the Korean government. It promoted Korean policies in the
United States, sought to enhance Korean influence among U.S. legis
lators and influential personalities, and wanted to create a worldwide
government “in which the separation of church and state would he
abolished.’’
—The Moon organization is an important defense contractor in
Korea, “involved in the production of M-16 rifles, anti-aircraft guns,
and other weapons”
—A number of American companies paid several million dollars in
kickbacks, contributions and other questionable payments in Korea,
which enhanced the standing of the ruling Democratic Republican
Party.
—The Justice Department knew of Korean efforts at illegal influ
ence buying as early as 1971 hut made little effort to investigate until
President Ford ordered action in 1975.
Society ‘robhecU
by technology
United Press International
PHILADELPHIA — Digital
vatch wearers beware. A Temple
University professor says those elec-
onic timepieces could he a had in-
lluence.
To Dr. Miles Orvell, the digital
vatch is another example of un-
hinking technology thrust upon the
American people, pushing them fur-
herdown the road to becoming just
[another progammable chip in a
plug-in, tum-on society.
“The digital watch is turning
ople, accustomed to using these
pevices, into quasiautomatons
ather than people who have mas-
Bery over the workings of
nachines,” said Orvell, who, as
hairmen of Temple’s Department
bf American Studies, lectures on
I'The Impact of Technology on
American Culture.
The digital watch, by fragmenting
pme into moments, robs man of the
elationship of time that he got from
he round clock with two hands and
|12numbers, he said in an interview.
By looking at the dial we were
able to conceive mentally of the
entire 12-hour cycle displayed on
he dial and to relate to that cycle
personally by the position of the
pands. It gave us a sense of con-
nuity
Changing from a simple “on-off”
switch to 20 labeled switches requir
ing no thought, from gauges which
told you what was wrong to flashing
lights that only tell you something is
wrong, said Orvell, “makes us plug
into machines in a way that turns us
into respondents.”
And this love affair with technol
ogy may not be leading to the most
practical future, he said. What is
needed is a more down-to-earth ap
proach.
“It is debatable whether we can
take in all the technology,” he said.
The answer, he said, is in more
concern for pragmatic future plan
ning at all levels, but especially at
the political level.
“It is essential that society engage
in social planning and not be suscep
tible to whatever technology hap
pens to arise,” he said.
For example, he cited what he
said is an almost religious devotion
to the idea of space colonization.
“The optimism about space col
onization is,” he said, “another form
of pessimism about living on Earth.
“Realistically we are going to be
living on Earth and we have to start
thinking more intelligently about
how we will be living on Earth and
not rely on space colonies to solve
our problems.”
Pinchas Zukerman
— VIOLINIST —
“Pinchas Zukerman has a luxuriant
talent. His command of the violin
is so natural and so inborn that
the most difficult passages appear
one after the other — each with an
easy ‘hello’ — a succession of
conquests.”
The New York Post
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1978
8:15 Rudder Auditorium
Ticket Prices:
General Public—$5.90, $4.75, $3.90
A&M Student/Date—$4.85, $3.95, $3.25
Tickets and Information-
MSC Box Office at 845-291 6
THE BATTALION Page 3
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1978
what’s up?
Thursday
MSC OUTDOOR RECREATION: Will have a seminar on
“Backpacking: Techniques and Equipment” at 7:30 p.m. in Room
401, Rudder Tower.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: Will meet at 7 p.m. in Room
350, MSC.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT: Is now accepting applications for any
position that might become vacant on University committees.
Please go by the Student Government Office, Room 216, MSC,
for applications. All applications must be turned in by 5 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 13.
AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY Ernest Simmons from the
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will speak at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 104, Nagle Hall.
LECTURE Department of Geography presents Ben R. Finney, who
will talk on “Three Thousand Miles Without a Compass: The
Voyage of Hokuk’A” at 4 p.m. in Room 340, Rudder Tower.
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM: Will be held with John Linsley speaking
at 4 p.m. in Room 146, Physics Building.
PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM: Will be held with Pete Gunter
speaking at 4:30 p.m. in Room 502, Rudder Tower.
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS: There will be a
panel discussion featuring four former students concerning careers
after graduation at 8 p.m. in Room 607, Rudder Tower.
COTTON BOWL REPRESENTATIVE: Applications for the 1979
Cotton Bowl representative from Texas A&M are available in
Room 221, MSC. Any female student who has completed one
semester at Texas A&M and has at least a 2.25 GPR is invited to
apply. The deadline for applications is 5 p.m., Friday, Nov. 17, in
the Student Activities Office. The selected applicant will repre
sent the University at the Cotton Bowl parade and post-season
football game in Dallas on New Year’s Day.
TENNIS: The women’s team will play the University of Houston
here.
Friday
GRADUATING SENIORS: Caps and gowns are now available at the
MSC Bookstore for $8.
VOLLEYBALL: The women’s team will play in TAIAW State Tour
nament in Houston today and Saturday.
AGGIE CINEMA: “The Turning Point,” a story of two women, one
of whom gave up a promising career as a ballerina, the other her
best friend who went on to become a grest star, will be shown at 8
p.m. in Rudder Theater.
Saturday
FOOTBALL: The Texas Aggies will play SMU in the Cotton Bowl in
Dallas at 3.T0 p.m. The game will be televised.
TAMU PARACHUTE CLUB: Will have a “Halloween Meet” at 8
a.m. at the American Parachute Center at Hearne Airport. There
will be fun jumps, free food, beer and three classes on accuracy.
Everyone is invited.
CROSS COUNTRY: The women’s team will run in the SWAIAW
Regional Meet in Stillwater, Okla.
AGGIE CINEMA: “The Turning Point,” starring Shirley MacLaine
and Anne Bancroft, will be shown at 8 p.m. in Rudder Theater.
MIDNIGHT MOVIE: “Catch 22,” a witty black comedy about an Air
Force unit stationed in North African During World War II, star
ring Alan Arkin, Richard Benjamin and Jon Voight, will be shown
in Rudder Theater.
Sunday
INDIA ASSOCIATION: Will have a “Diwali Banquet” at 7 p.m. in
Room 231, MSC. Admission is by reservation for members and
their guests only.
AGGIE CINEMA: “The Bad News Bears,” takes an hilarious
sidelong look at the institution of Little League baseball and the
adults who victimize their kids under e guise of teaching them
sportsmanship, starring Walter Matthau and Tatum O’Neal, will
be shown at 2 p.m. in Rudder Theater.
Killer whale born in captivity
United Press International
RANCHO PALOS VERDES,
Calif. — Corky the killer whale gave
birth Tuesday to the second killer
whale ever horn in captivity. Corky
also was the mother of the first,
which died shortly after birth in
19 I 6 -
“This calf is very frisky and we
think it is going to survive,” said
Tom Otten, curator of mammals at
Marineland, where the 7-foot, 300-
pound baby was born.
Within minutes after birth the in
fant whale was swimming with its
mother and father, Orky, around
their saltwater tank.
Orky is the star attraction of the
amusement aquarium south of Los
Angeles on the Pacific Ocean.
Corky’s pregnancy, which lasted
about 13 months, was obvious for
some time, the curator said.
“She was getting very large, even
for a killer whale,” he said.
Corky’s regular weight is slightly
less than 4 tons and she is about 13
years old. Orky, who is 18 to 20
years old, weighs 7 tons.
The sex of the calf was not im
mediately determined. Killer
whales will not allow other creatures
near their young.
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