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Page 6 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1979 1 Network will warn cities, states BATTALION CLASSIFIED PULLS! Call 845-2611 Civil defense to give Skylab alerts* 11 ^ ^ ^BLCKlco' RESTAURANT 3109 Texas Avenue Bryan, Texas 77801 presents Happy Hour 4-6 (7 days a week) 2 for 1 per person 10% discount for all A&M students with current I.D. Mon.-Thurs. only. United Press International The nation’s civil defense com munications network will be used to alert state and municipal authorities if it appears debris from Skylab might fall in the United States within the next couple of weeks. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to oper ate a special Skylab coordination center around the clock, starting 24 hours before the abandoned space station is expected to drop out of or bit. North American Air Defense Com mand is that Skylab will re-enter the atmosphere within a six-day period centered around Thursday, July 12. About 500 pieces are likely to sur vive, landing in a 400,000 square mile area anywhere between 50 de grees north latitude and 50 degrees south latitude. A nationwide UPI survey found that some local civil defense com mand centers also will be activated in the final hours before Skylab’s fall. Because the chance is slight the space junk will fall in any specific state, and even more remote it will cause any injury or damage, prepa rations have been limited largely to establishing communications be tween federal Skylab watchers and local authorities. The latest estimate from the The Defense Department’s civil defense warning system, which links 2,300 local dispatch centers, will be used as an alerting and re porting network. The NASA coordination center, a windowless room in the agency’s headquarters building in Washing ton, will be manned during the final 24 hours of Skylab’s orbital life by representatives of the White House, State Department, Federal Pre paredness Agency, Federal Aviation Administration and Defense De partment as well as NASA. Some states and municipalities have established warning proce dures to be followed if it appears Skylab pieces may fall in their areas, but other areas are taking no special action. “As we see it now, it is a reporting procedure after the fact,” said Capt. Donald Foxen, head of the Lo Atlanta’s rapid transit wins praise from riders, officials United Press International ATLANTA — The first segment of Atlanta’s new rapid transit system began operation during the weekend, winning praise from thousands of riders including U.S. Transportation Secretaty Brock Adams. An estimated 16,000 people rode the Metropolitan Atlanta Transit Authority (MABTA) railway Satur day and thousands more Sunday. Adams, on hand for the system’s official opening Saturday, called the system “class transportation.” MABTA said the 6.7-mile line from the fashionable suburb of Av ondale Estates to downtown Geor gia State University would be open for business Monday. Serving Luncheon Buffet Sunday through Friday 1 1.00 A M. to 1:30 P M. $3..50 Top Floor of Tower Dining Room Sandwich & Soup Mon. thru Fri. $1.75 plus drink extra Open to the Public '\SK ONE CENT SHOE “It’s much smoother than the ones in New York,” he said. At By noon, the four-car train was carrying about 1,000 passengers per run. FIRST PAIR...ORIGINAL PRICE SECOND PAIR OF EQUAL VALUE OR LESS...ONE CENT Garolini. Ralston. Cherokee, Jean Rimbaud. Baretraps. Caressa. S.R.O., Miramonte. 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It WAS HI NC North Carolina and Kentuch (^ u rt Monch open emergency operations cr-jjnstitutiona] 12 hours before Skylab is eip re quiring uni to fall and Delaware, Ind . . jg to obtain c Arizona, Dade County (Misjudge befor Florida, Virginia, Idaho, and a The justic Jersey are among the areas that^ourt ruling to activate command cente jjdated the 1< hours before impact. The fare is 25 cents. The $200 million system will be opened in segments into the 1980’s. Dennis Degan, a visitor from New York, said he liked the new system better than his hometown subway. MARTA General Manager Alan Kiepper said the train, which won’t be run on another weekend for at least three months, was such a big attraction that on Sunday, “people had been standing in line since about 7 a.m. when we opened up at 8.” Airline employees Cc say DC-10 s are safe for their passengen u WAS I United IVe»j International ICourt Monc TULSA, Okla. — Employees at American Airlines maintenance' and engineering center say they make planes safe enough for ^ e - :ma g az i ne ’ s p own families and friends — and the public, too, should fe e l sa l e ®iS v to build them. ;®jrhe story, A group of more than l.OOO employees took out a full-page advq-IjjCrpt h tisement in Sunday’s Tulsa World to express unhappiness wit: ^ e ’ re jgijj suggestions that plane maintenance and inspections might have brnL^ iq arc h responsible for the crash of a DC-10 May 25 at Chicago’s O’HarcLjygj b v Airport, killing 273 people. Hubert Warr National Transportation Safety Board investigators say they anfpjflje judge almost finished with their investigation. An unofficial report saysik j une 10-inch crack in a pylon, suffered in maintenance, as well as a poss- mat ,. na | ( ble design flaw, may have contributed to the crash. contended w “We are your friends, your neighlsors, members of your schooML n acc j,Iei churches and your clubs. We bank in your banks, shop in your stores, Jr available attend your sporting events and live in your community,” said theai p written to “the people of Tulsa and surrounding communities d “We do not perform careless maintenance or inspection airplanes, and safety is always our No. 1 one prior ity , it said JLGvy ' We know that our friends, our neighbors and our own familiesiy: on our airplanes; therefore, it logically follows (and is true) that we j would not put anyone on a flight that is in any way unsafe, said! TY"! 1 1 ^ The ad also claimed the news media wrongfully accused Americas ■ ^ of guilt in the crash. : ||j “We had a terrible tragedy occur in Chicago that we all regret, bat we also have a tragedy of a different type occurring daily here and nationwide. We are being misrepresented by some of the news media and being maligned by two so-called American Airlines employee! who wish to remain anonymous,” it said. United WASHINi Kennedy leading in Democratic po and other fro: individual i jiandwiches, list of ingrec ■ tapper, the 1 nfn/stration < Kiepper said there were a few “escalator problems” at the stations but the trains operated smoothly. United Press International PRINCETON, N.J. — The over whelming choice of Democrats sur veyed about the party’s presidential nomination in 1980 is Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, the latest Gallup Poll shows. The survey asked Democratic voters to choose among nine candi dates. Fifty-two percent of those polled gave Kennedy their vote, 23 percent picked President Carter and 7 percent went for California Gov. Jerry Brown. But the poll, completed last Monday, also showed Brown gave Carter a “suprisingly” strong show ing when Kennedy’s name is excluded from the ballot. When the Massachusetts Demo crat’s name was kept off the ballot, 23 percent of the voters chose Car ter, just 2 points ahead of Brown who pulled 21 percent and Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota and Vice President Walter Mondale with 11 percent each. The other potential nominees listed were senators Frank Church of Idaho, Henry Jackson of Wash ington, Daniel P. Moynihan of New York and Morris Udall of Arizona. “Only twice before in the 47-year history of the Gallup Poll has a po tential presidential nominee led an incumbent president in these tests of nomination strength — and never to the extent Kennedy leads Car ter,” George Gallup said. jld in inters now be carry tion. The regula issued in pr The other occasions were in wen * in when Kennedy’s brother, $wr nc y sa *“- Robert Kennedy, led Presidi Lyndon Johnson 43 percent to| percent among Democrats and in 1975 when Ronald Rad held a 40 percent to 32 percent! , e in 8 ri over President Gerald Ford. S °PP ers 0 among vario and will helj I clients wh ctions or conditions,’ Nancy Click. Bathers h gather fc ; The ingred f Jjscending o tan conUT™*™' United Press Intematjonil L Cer ^‘ RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif -® a L nufacture her listing lly — sud milk and bu the term‘mil the agency si wasn’t being the fairest intheii that counted this weekend. 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