Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1980)
Ho,a Page 8 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, APRIL 25. I960 February lift-off likely for delayed shuttle nation United Press International WASHINGTON — February appears the most likely time for the oft-delayed maiden flight of the space shuttle Columbia, the head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration told a Senate sub committee Thursday. Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., reminded NASA administrator Robert Frosch that in March 1979 he was saying December 1979 was the most likely launch date. And last October Frosch told the appropria tions subcommittee that July 1980 was the best date. “I think this is a better estimate because we are an awful lot closer in completing the things we have to do,” Frosch said. The first orbital test flight from Cape Canaveral, Fla., is two years behind the original schedule. The mission has been delayed by a Sun Theatres 333 University 846-1 The only movie in town Double-Feature Every Week 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Sun.-Thurs. 10 a.m.*3 p.m. l*ri.*Sat. No one under 18 Ladies Discount With This Coupon BOOK STORE & 25c PEEP SHOWS 846-9808 variety of problems with the latest one centering on the ceramic tiles that will shield the ship from the heat of re-entry into the atmosphere. Frosch said modification and re- installation of thousands of the tiles is now expected to be completed this summer with the Columbia moving from its testing hangar to the Ken nedy Space Center vehicle assembly building in early fall. The shuttle’s main hydrogen- oxygen engines also have encoun tered a number of developmental troubles, but Frosch said ground tests should be completed on the en gines in time to proceed with the launch. Astronauts John W. Young and Robert Crippen will pilot the Col umbia on its initial orbital flight which is to last 54 hours with the Columbia scheduled to land at Ed wards Air Force Base in California’s Mojave Desert. Refugees find Big Macs, cigarettes, Penthouse, Oui United Press International KEY WEST, Fla. — For some of the Cuban refugees who had just left the crowded squalor of the Peruvian Embassy in Havana, the first taste of their new homeland was an Amer ican cigarette or a Big Mac. A group of men who arrived Wednesday aboard the Big Babv waited for processing on the dock outside the Truman Annex on the Key West Naval Base, thumbing avidly through copies of Penthouse and Oui magazines furnished by helpful Americans. Nothing like that in Cuba, they said. Another group smoked American cigarettes and noted that cigarettes cost $1.60 a pack in Cuba. “There aren’t any entertainments in Cuba,” said Victor Cosst, 23, a hairdresser at the Havana’s famed Want To Get HERE IS YOUR CHANCE! Join a University Committee — For the whole scoop, see the UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES INFORMATION GUIDE Check with your Resident Advisor Off Campus Representative Corps Outfit Commander Tropicana nightclub, whose lavish, glittery shows have been tamed con siderably since pre-Castro days. When the boat arrived late Wednesday night with 80 refugees aboard — bringing to over 500 the number who arrived in the United States Wednesday — the crew im mediately sent out for McDonald s hamburgers and handed them out. The lx>at is part of a flotilla put together by Cuban exiles to pick up the refugees. Vilified as “degenerates” and wished good riddance by the official communist press while they waited in the embassy for exit from their country, the refugees were receiving warm welcomes in the United States. Crowds of Miami Cubans lined up outside a chain-link fence in a pro cessing area set up by immigration officials in Miami. As refugees were processed, their names were called out over a loudspeaker and friends and relatives rushed to embrace them. Many refugees said their arrival in the United States seemed like a dream after the treatment they re ceived when they left the embassy. Elias Moreno, 23, a construction worker and secondary school teacher, said after he returned home from the embassy on a safe conduct pass April 12, “insulting” post cards began appearing on his door and the walls of his house. “Counterrevolutionary, gusano (worm), he sells out his homeland,” they read. “They (pro-Castro Cubans) tried to beat me, but I hid in my house. It was like living as a prisoner in my own house,” said Moreno. Imelfadel Hernandez de Mori who arrived with her husband young son, said people insulted U on the street when she retunwl home on a pass. “They called J prostitute and lots of worse thin*’ she said. Their entry into the United Stats I was not painless. Hardpressed [Tl migration officials lined them up»I side the annex and gave them Ll to fill out by flashlight. cials abandoned processing in fc. 1 West altogether and bused the arm. I als directly to Miami. For Hugo Landa, 27, a tecUa, translator, the red tape was worth 1 “I think this country is so lara 1 there are so many opportunities,"U said. “Perhaps I will clean the toilets I or be a millionaire. I just don’t knot but I’m full of hope.” Re-introduction bill calls for greater handgun control Applications and Information In "21BC'MSC United Press International WASHINGTON — Peter W. Rodino, D-N.J., has re-introduced his 1979 handgun control bill in the House of Representatives — this time with 42 co-sponsors and more determination to get it passed. In first introducing the measure last November, Rodino said his goal was to reduce handgun slaughter without setting up expensive federal ’75 rice sold United Press International WASHINGTON — The Agricul ture Department has sold $2.3 mil lion worth of government rice stocks as part of an effort to get rid of stocks left over from the 1975 crop, officials said Thursday. The department’s Commodity Credit Corp. sold 209,592 hundred weight of rice for a weighted pric$ of about $11.07. TheCCC announced a month ago that it wanted to sell 5.5 million hundredweight of 1975 rice. The rice came from warehouses in Louisiana and Texas. enforcement and regulatory machinery. “I want to stress that this bill will not interfere with Americans’ right to bear arms, ” Rodino said. “Instead, it seeks to protect the fundamental right of every American to live in a peaceful society without the threat of personal harm.” After re-introducing the bill, Rodino took part in a brief ceremony staged on the Capitol steps by Hand gun Control Inc. — a lobby formed by victims of handgun violence. Board Chairman Pete Shields — whose son Nick was slain by a hand gun during the 1974 Zebra killings in San Francisco — presented Rodino with a scroll listing 8,124 victims of fatal handgun shootings in 1979. During the Vietnam War years, in which 40,000 American soldiers were killed in combat, Shields said, 50,000 civilians were killed by hand gun violence. Rodino’s bill would ban outright the manufacture, importation, assembly and sale of easily concealed handguns and would tighten controls over other handguns. The measure calls for creation of a federal commission that would de cide which weapons are to be de clared easily concealed. Other major provisions include: — A 21-day waiting period for handgun purchases to enable dealers to verify the buyer is 21-years-old, HAVE LUNCH ON US ... FREE! A&M Apartment Placement is once again giving away free ’unch to ev,»ryo K e who leases thru us. Apartments • Duplexes • All Types Of Housing Call for appointment or come ny A&M APT. PLACEMENT SERVICE 693-3777 >1j#l 2339 S. Texas, C.S. TmI “Next to the Dairy Queen" - T: and has no record of criminality, i mental illness or drug abuse. — A dealer would be allowed to sell a person no more than three handguns a year unless he is a collec tor or obtains a federal waiver. — Victims of criminal use om handgun would have a right to re ceive compensation from the perpet- ] rator upon his conviction. — Importers, manufacturers i dealers would have to keep records for 10 years to help police trace stolen weapons. — There would be a civil penalty for failing to report the theft or dis appearance of a handgun, and acri-, minal penalty for the second offense Goodyear Finals. A 26-page thesis. Speeches. More speeches. Now we bust loose with Cuervo & Schnapps. WHY BOTHER WITH ELECTRICITY BILLS? At the VIKING.... One check pays all your housing expenses, including top maintenance service, all electric kitchens, pool and lighted tennis courts. Compare our summer rates today As low as $200 BILLS PAID 1601 Holleman, College Station, Texas 713/693-6716 United Press International AKRON, Ohio — Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. announced Thursday production cutbacks at seven plants, including the layoffs of 750 em ployees at its Topeka, Kan., plant and 200 workers at its Lawton, Okla., facility. The nation’s largest tiremaker said the layoffs were necessary due to the auto industry slump. The Topeka and Lawton layoSs, which the company said will begin “over the next several weeks, bring the total number of Goodyear em ployees on layoff to some 4,700. In addition, Goodyear will close its Jackson, Mich., plant for one week beginning Monday and will have short work weeks in effect at tire plants in Gadsden, Ala.; Danvil le, Va.; Union City, Tenn., and Madisonville, Ky. The giant tiremaker reported Wednesday first-quarter P r0 ^ “ $50.7 million, down from $54 miUwa for the same period a year ago. ED BLOESE! Memorial 8-Ball Tournament Women’s Men’s Divisions Divisions 3 out of 5 Double Elimination Starts Thursday April 24, 1980 6 p.m. Starts Friday April 25, 1980 6 p.m. Registration and Tournament at MSC Bowling and Games Area Entry Fee $3 (Prizes awarded for 1st and 2nd, both divisions) Battalion Classifieds Call 845-2611