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THE BATTALION MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1979 page o Eisenhower told AEC to ‘confuse’ Utah residents about A— blasts filters, S ted early > the aii, 'Vild-wel watckei tcMo&i o control ' burning crewmen warning ■ Battalion photo by Lynn Blanco Frisbee frolicking lonte enjoys some rare rays of sunshine Frisbee at the Rudder Fountain. Monte’s coach and Frisbee launcher junior Diane Campbell. Public administration degree Master’s program begun Temple ^alifomii ent, Tie iey were iperation persons, aestown, eo Ryan, 'Ut 200 of lay rea. Tie cArtkr, entifieJ, ; will lei es yon tie i a U.S, e missile said. An ' way to re of tie entagon ns ators of By STANTON RAY Battalion Reporter The Texas A&M University polit- Rscience department is offering a new interdisciplinary program lead ing to a master’s degree in public fnistration. The purpose of the am is to provide preparation for management in public service on state and federal levels, according to Dr. Paul Van Riper, the director new program’s director. The 36-hour, non-thesis program will be offered jointly by the politi cal science department and the col lege of business administration. The program, which will commence June 1 when Van Riper officially as sumes the directorship, was ap proved in January by the Coordinat ing Board of the Texas College and University System. The emphasis is going to be on providing a base training in the pub lic sector with certain specializa tions, such as city management, de fense policy, personnel and natural resources. Van Riper said. “One sixth of all jobs are in the public sector and this does not in clude contractors or the military,” he said. Only two or three new courses have been created for the new pro gram, according to Van Riper. “The bulk of the matter is to incorporate existing courses and put them to gether so that it makes sense. “We hope that students who are doing other degrees will come to get courses in government and public administration so that they will have a broader base to work from,” Van Riper said. By starting this program, Texas A&M will become one of nine schools in the state offering similar degrees. Dr. Samuel Kirkpatrick, head of the political science department, said the degree has a history of al most TOO percent job placement in Texas. United Press International SALT LAKE CITY — Recently declassified records show that Pres ident Dwight D. Eisenhower told the Atomic Energy Commission to “confuse” the public about the size of a 1953 atomic bomb test he au thorized shortly after another blast drenched St. George, Utah, with unsafe levels of radiation. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., released the AEC records at a Salt Lake City hearing on the health ef fects of fallout from atmospheric nu clear testing in the Nevada desert between 1951 and 1962. The documents, including the of ficial diary of AEC Chairman Gor don Dean, indicated that members of the commission were concerned about continuing with the 11th in a series of atomic bomb tests. Previous blasts in the series had sent large amounts of fallout over Utah, and the 10th blast — on May 19 — dumped six roentgens of radioactivity on St. George, forcing the AEC to warn residents to stay indoors. The basic AEC safety guide used during those years was maximum exposure to 3.9 roentgens in any consecutive 13-week period. The commissioners debated mov ing the final experiment to the South Pacific, according to the documents, but decided the cost was excessive and sought presiden tial approval for another Nevada test. Eisenhower gave his permission on May 27 and, according to Dean’s diary, told the AEC to play down the size of the blast. “The President says ‘keep them confused as to fission and fusion.’” Fusion weapons, or hydrogen bombs, are much more powerful than fission, or atomic bombs, like those dropped on Japan. The minutes of a May 21 meeting said although the fallout levels reached as high as six roentgens in St. George the day of the May 19 blast, “townspeople were advised to remain indoors from 9 a. m. until noon on that day, and as a result of these precautionary measures, it was highly probable that no one ex ceeded the maximum permissible thirteen-week dose of 3.9 R.” But St. George residents testified at the hearing that the only warning they got was a radio announcement, and that not everyone listened to the radio. Several other documents released by Kennedy indicated that numer ous populated areas in southern Nevada and Utah received excessive doses of radiation from the 1953 test series and that some horses and cat tle were killed. , They also t indicated that the Nevada site was originally con ceived as a location for low-yield atomic weapons tests and that gov ernment scientists had concerns about the safety of large blasts, par ticularly about what would happen if weather conditions changed rapidly. In the May 21 meeting Commis sioners Henry D. Smyth and Eugene M. Zuckert said that the down heavy amounts of radiation fact that rain had not caused a seri- “was due in some part to good for- ous fallout problem by bringing tune.” Virginia Supreme Court says cohabitation is not basis to deny woman practice of law rectives nd Wil- The sii :y, were Jd ski m, eaclJI person- ! events ' water, , loss of 1 water- ir north is were beach, rs were nilitary md ly next assador far this t coun- Friday i given e next e basic rted to ted on lifying omatic nition, p only r side gsent sorted ions of United Press International RICHMOND, Va. — Attorney Bonnie C. Cord lives with a man who is not her husband, but the Virginia Supreme Court says that is not enough to make her morally unfit to practice law. The court Friday overturned a Warren County circuit judicial re fusal to grant Cord a “certificate of honest demeanor or good moral character,” which is required to take Hexams. Judge Duncan C. Gibb refused to issue the necessary certificate to the 34-year-old woman, an attorney for the Energy Department in Wash ington, after learning she lived with Jeffrey Blue in rural Warren County, Va. The Virginia Supreme Court said in a four-page opinion that while Cord’s “living arrangement may be unorthodox and unacceptable to some segments of society, this con duct bears no rational connection to her fitness to practice law.” Gibb said Cord was otherwise qualified but that he withheld the certificate “on grounds that the liv ing arrangement of applicant would lower the public’s opinion of the bar as a whole.” He resisted efforts to change his mind or rehear the case. 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