THE BATTALION
MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1979
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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-
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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.
The court said the U.S. Supreme
Court has held that states may re
quire good moral character or profi
ciency in law before admitting ap
plicants to the bar, but the qualifica
tions must have a “rational connec
tion with the applicant’s fitness or
capacity to practice law.”
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