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ws China ready for U.S. education THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1979 Page 3 nr as rily cut I United Press International With normalization of relations tetween the United States and f nainland China, American colleges md professional schools should get Trxas Ai<\| eady for a deluge of requests to local traffic rain Chinese students in science major from md medicine, says a Texas A6cM “traditional Jniversity researcher just returned t, instead of roin the Orient, fother uni- “We will see a flood of Chinese ef family of tudents who want us to train them enoic year, n Western science, technology and nedicine, predicted Texas A&M iiologist Michael Kemp, a member if a scientific delegation that spent 5 days in China, during the He said the People’s Republic of will include ^hina seems ready to begin Boone said Vestern-style scientific research, er. The 62- mt the majority of scientists there I in Lufldn s re older and few others have been mes during rained in the years since the Cul- a t the Texas urtl l Revolution first made its influ- gin Dallas nee felt. Now, the Chinese are intimating ||msitors such as the 22-member unerican research delegation that here are real lapses in solving prob- sms because of that training gap. ' “They are hungry' for what we ajre in the realm of science, Idicine, computer and petroleum ^search technology,” Kemp said. The Texas A&M scientist, who fent to evaluate Chinese abilities to esearch and combat snail fever in. selective schistosomiasis), came back im- ower for the nplies to the > n the Dallas [j^ nnes remain ■aled to resi-1 an adequali ir the power j ■ north Texas " unless the - said its gas By STEVE GERSTEL weather and United Press International n Ray Ward WASHINGTON — The last of 20 me boat. All e P art ’ n g senators will be relin- iblic appeals their $57,500 salaries to- aL but none of them has to worry fj&ut joining the unemployment nes. As always, the job market is wide ien for a former senator and almost y f them can pick and choose from I valanche of offers. »w, if any, want to go into full- § i retirement. Yen Sen. John Sparkman — the st of the group at 79 — disdains idea and plans to practice law his son back home in Alabama, though Congress does not con- i until Jan. 15, the terms of the ew senators start Jan. 3, as re- jd by the Constitution. number of the outgoing tors already have resigned, ing the way for their successors ;t a slight edge in seniority by ^ g office a few weeks ahead of newcomers. K jrmer Sen. Paul Hatfield, j)“[ont., who was defeated in the ary election, is already hard at ^ at a new job. atfield was appointed to the y created post of staff attorney ae Montana Supreme Court, ically, Hatfield was chief justice lat court when he was named / this year to fill out the term of late Sen. Lee Metcalf. pressed with progress made in that field. The Chinese are using varied methods of control from chemotherapy to massive snail kills involving thousands of people. The rest of the team, half of whom were physicians, were also im pressed with conditions in that country, Kemp added. Viral infections such as encephalitis and parasitic problems from drug-resistant malaria seem to be supplanting snail fever as the major item of health concern in China, he indicated. The Americans’ tour included a visit with U.S. Liaison Chief Leonard Woodcock and American military and economic advisers at tached to the liaison office in Pek ing. Besides inspecting science and medical labs and facilities, the dele gation was guided through schools, communes and factories and al lowed almost complete freedom to wander about and ask questions. Kemp said the team was able to see acupuncture surgery and viewed the “barefoot doctor” system of health care which puts most cases in the hands of moderately trained folk curists and paramedics. Reports from the group will be sent to the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene for public dissemination. x-senators can afford o pick among jobs ay al counties in ;h winds flip- it the Califor- ling from the ally closed at lers and nine r gusts along Department roughout the some of the < itor sit down and rmed sources Rep. Thomas ; made in re us t President svan and nor- the Chinese s on banking, siting China, duled official any Chinese l were driven Communist Hatfield’s job is expected to be temporary. He has put in for a va cancy' on the federal bench and there also has been speculation he will become dean of the University of Montana’s law school. Many others have settled into their new jobs. After being a part-time overseer of his Mississippi plantation for 35 years. Sen. James Eastland, D-Miss., is going to watch the cot ton grow and cattle graze full time. Sens. James Ahourezk, D-S.D., Wendell Anderson, D-S.D., Carl Curtis, R-Neb., Keneaster Hodges, D-Ark., William Scott, R-Va., and probably Floyd Haskell, D-Colo., plan to practice law — most of them in their home states and in Wash ington. Haskell i.s going! to. get ..married Feb. 3 to reporter Nina Tottenherg. Others have not decided what they will do. Sen. Dick Clark, D-Iowa, is mul ling a dozen offers; Sen. Thomas McIntyre, D-N.H., wants to stay in public life; Sen. William Hathaway, DMaine, has made no announce ment; Sen. Edward Brooke, R-Mass., has not announced future plans but will chair the National Low Income Housing Coalition without pay; Sen. Hewey Bartlett, R-Okla., is battling cancer. Hathaway, Clark, and McIntyre may well join the administration. >old weather freezes lood bank’s reserve United Press International VN ANTONIO — Freezing leratures have prompted the Region Blood Bank to ask -ed the 11105 Bzens to give up something warm - some of their blood — to restore . I mergency supplies that had to he TCll estroyed. Director Dr. James Langley modem-da) uesday said the facility’s entire re- ■e sometimes e rve of about 120 units had to be zment. Polte.irown out because a circuit switch arrested hinh the facility’s electrical unit froze to his aparl- i record low temperatures, and their blood-pekup generators failed to operate “inal arraign - he refrigeration unit, na and other The temperature in San Antonio dried blood-juesday plunged to 15, lowest on ecord for a Jan. 2. Langley said each of the 55 hospi- als in a 35-county region relying on he blood bank should have a supply f blood on hand, “hut when that’s * ill the mid one there will he a serious problem D% chance -ecause their backup — that’s us — toes not have a supply of blood.” He said local military blood banks ""^tere expected to donate some blood a help build up the civilian bank’s eserves and the hank asked for mergency donations. He said the iank would stay open from 8 a.m. to m. throughout the week to ac cept donations. “We’ve asked other blood banks to help us, hut they have the same holiday shortage problem we antici pated,” Langley said. “We might be able to get one or two units from them, but not nearly enough to build up the reserves we need.” He said the blood bank needed to collect at least 300 units of blood to build up backup reserves before hospital supplies reached the critical level. Tuesday s 15-degree reading broke the previous Jan. 2 record of 17 established in 1928. A slow warming trend was expected today. BER association ism Congress Kim - - . . .. /. .Liz? 1 tor . Andy \Vi| David F Jamie A Stevf; . . .Debbie Ps' ■n Karen Rogers. Scott Pendli Michelle Sen , Lee Roy Les< Stone .... .DougG: Ed Cun! ALLEN Oldsmobile Cadillac SALES - SERVICE "Where satisfaction is standard equipment'' 2401 Texas Ave. 823-8002 Wasteful worke are given United Press International AUSTIN —Agriculture Commis sioner Reagan Brown is out to streamline his agency to save money and rid it of wasteful, “playboy” type employees. At a news conference Tuesday Brown said his reorganizations and cutbacks had saved $1,046,211 in the past two years. He also claimed to have purged the Agriculture De partment of workers who did not meet his specifications. “We don’t play a lot of golf,” Brown said. “We wear white shirts and everybody over there works. If a person wants to wear shower shoes he can, hut he can’t do it and work for me. “We’ve cut out six high level ad ministrators who were wandering up and down the halls doing no thing,” he said. “The people we have now are working. It’s a differ ent ball game; people are working over there now. Brown also said he had fired three employees for illegal or unethical actions. One worker was dismissed fin- keeping a $10 licensing fee from a nursery, another whom Brown de scribed as a playboy ior running up a $158 hill for hotels, m cals and liquor and charging it on a state credit card, and a third fin - writing letters to legislators critical of his super visor. He said the man dismissed for running up the $158 bill during an unauthorized trip from Austin to Dallas had been with tin. depart ment only about six months. “He was a playboy and we re get ting rid of the playboys in this agency. All agencies should do that,” Brown said. Brown, who took office in March 1977, refused to criticize his pre decessor, John O. White, hut said he and White had different philosophies on how the depart ment should he operated. Oldest known printing Rare volumes donated The majesty of times past Marble columns form a pathway to discover part of Texas A&M’s architectural past. The Administration Building, at the front entrance to the campus, is one of the oldest buildings on campus, and its ornate columns and balconies contrast the cubic style of some of the more recently built buildings. Battalion photo by Karen Cornelison Texas A&M University got a spe cial holiday gift recently when a rare book collector from Salt Lake City presented the university with a set of volumes that includes two of the oldest examples of printing known to be in existence. The 85-volume donation to Texas A&M’s library includes the world’s only volume of “Jun Mun Gyo,” a 1439 Korean book that proves moveable metal type was in use at least 16 years before the famed Gutenberg Bible was printed. The rare book collector, Loran L. Laughlin, also presented library of ficials with a -1,200-year-old slip of paper that is the world’s earliest known piece of printing. Described as a Chinese translation of Buddhist Sanskrit, the diminutive roll of paper is stored in a miniature wooden pagoda and was printed in 770 A.D., he said. Laughlin, a 1926 Texas A&M graduate and Salt Lake City busi nessman for the past 22 years, do nated a page from a Gutenberg Bible and scores of books printed before the 1500s. The Lauren L. Laughlin Collec tion of Rare Antiquarian Rooks, as the gift will he known, will be housed in the Special Collections Division of the Sterling C. Evans Library, said Dr. Irene Hoadley, the university s dire ctor of libraries. A special di.spla> will he arranged for the rarest of the gifts when (hes top floors of the new library addition open next semester. “This is perhaps the most signi ( i cant gift ever to come to the Texas A&M Universities libraries, said the director of the million volume library system. Laughlin said he obtained the col lection of rare Ixooks over a period of four decades and that he thought of his alma mater when trying to de cide where to store it permanently. fupfnamha Eddie Dominguez 66 Joe Arciniega ’74 Women playing bigger role in defense United Press International WASHINGTON — Women are playing an increasingly important role in the government’s effort to fill slots in the all-volunteer Army, and their ranks are expected to double by 1984, the Pentagon says. A recent Defense Department report said women are now getting better military jobs, but it also showed that many still wind up with traditional work as secretaries, clerks and medical assistants. It said the number of women in the military has increased three-fold since the draft ended, rising from less than 2 percent of the total in the 1973 fiscal year to nearly 6 percent in 1977. The study said the number of women is expected to double to nearly 12 percent of all U.S. military personnel by the 1984 fiscal year and to reach almost 20 percent in the Air Force. “As the number of women in the military increases, women are be ginning to enter, in greater num bers, job fields that have been tra ditionally held only by men,” the report said. “Many of these are in the combat environment.” It said the Army does not assign women to close combat jobs on a regular basis, but allows them to serve in combat-related posts such as operating Hawk missiles, flying Blackhawk helicopters and jumping with airborne units. The study called for repealing legal restrictions that prevent women from serving in combat- related jobs in the Air Force and Navy. 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