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Reagan blasts ‘stealth’ unveiling THE BATTALION FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1980 Page 7 nies United Press International NEW ORLEANS — Ronald Reagan invaded Jimmy Car ter's southern political base Thursday and charged the presi dent with playing a “dangerous game” with the national secur ity for political benefit. I Reagan charged Carter has jeopardized national security bd aided the Russian KGB by revealing development of the Istealth” aircraft system that cannot be detected by radar. J Saying Carter gave away the biggest military secret since the ;om bomb, the Republican nominee said, “Mr. Carter must ike full responsibility for playing a dangerous game with our itional security policy. ” Reagan stopped in Jacksonville, Fla., and New Orleans on J d a $20 In ^ irst Southern campaign swing. New Orleans rain forced his Carter re |f ver ^ ront ra ^V * nto a l ar g e riverboat and demonstrators chant ing “E-R-A” interrupted his speech briefly before being y a . Rwned out by supporters’ chants of “Reagan. ” x | ln / u •H All day Reagan hammered away at the Carter administration " for letting the world know the Defense Department was de- ()ut S | m ' 0 ”' Ijeloping the aircraft invisible to enemy radar, ite " 3 B The law provides severe penalty for anyone violating milit- on tt Rb' wea P ons secrets of this magnitude,” Reagan said, it I" 1 T“ H ^is'case, because the breach of security was blessed and ( h'i V J 5 || intt ' onet l by the Carter administration — clearly for the sole ^actuait) 'Star Wars’ around the corner for kis — ;a l regime Oj B political purpose of aiding Mr. Carter’s troubled campaign — there will be no such penalty,” he said. But when asked if he thought Defense Secretary Harold Brown should be prosecuted for giving away military secrets, Reagan said: I don t see how he could be — the secretary of defense has the power to declassify classified material.” The Reagan campaign hopes to break Carter’s lock on the South, and the 17 electoral votes in Florida and 10 in Louisiana are key targets. Reagan got an enthusiastic reception in Jacksonville, a city with a heavy Democratic enrollment. Businessmen greeted him at lunch with cheers and rebel yells and a later outdoor rally crowd of about 2,000 frequently interrupted his speech with applause. He attacked the administration sharply for last week’s announcement by Secretary of Defense Harold Brown that he was revealing “stealth” because of leaks to the news media. The motivation behind the release, Reagan said, was an attempt by Carter to counter his charges the administration has allowed Russia to achieve military superiority over the United States. “Since the stealth aircraft would not have been ready for use until the 1990s, the Carter administration’s action has now given the Kremlin a 10-year headstart on developing ways to counter this type of ultra-sophisticated weapons system,” Reagan said. “The KGB no doubt gleefully celebrated this unearned triumph,” he said. Reagan called Carter’s political use of the Defense Depart ment “a cynical misuse of power and a clear abuse of the public trust,” and he claimed Carter was willing “to actually com promise our long-term national security for a two-day head line. “Military officials who have served this nation in the very highest capacities tell me they cannot recall such a serious breach of national security secrets,” Reagan said. Reagan aides would not say what military officials he was quoting. Reagan also criticized Edmund Muskie for being a “politic al” secretary of state, “not at all reluctant to do the Carter campaign’s bidding. ” “Under the Carter administration, American’s foreign and defense policies have been politicized as never before,” he said. ‘ to use I •ward Libya, I lased in tbis | he would be >cd about bi ’nfirmedtle ces. r- irm Soviet space boom worries U. S. United Press International MOSCOW — Just what are the ussians doing in space these days? Everyone agrees they’re laun- ing a lot of rockets. The question is whether they’re st catching up with technology the United States has had for 15 years, or rfecting a weapon that could vapo rize other nations spaceships and usher in what one scientist calls a “Battlestar Galactica” era of space hts International 4 — Barring: In terms of manned flights, the ' Soviets dominate the skies right |ow. In the last six months they have nt eight men in four separate mis- ions into space. Two of them are most certain to set a new space en trance record, ice by the SJLi The 1980 space scoreboard shows ■ American t|Bie United States with a goose-egg. ue to haveet|. Still, Western space watchers in hts to Arann Moscow are less than impressed with firm is non the concrete results produced by the Arabia. flights of Soyuz-35, 36, the T-2 and, nment gaind last month, Soyuz-37. :he ArabianIsh “They repeat the same functions nesday toeiK over and over again,” said one ex- ownership ii pert. “They go up, dock, transfer Supplies and come back. Big deal. ” i Taher, govtnt The flights have all centered r’etromin natr around the Salyut-6 space lab, a 20- i interview it ton docking bay that will celebrate its Saudi Report third birthday in space Sept. 29. ought out thp its four Amu-. *Tgy Woman pays ico oihcialstfl 1- v ;eoverwasiiw : of five yean I jrt said theS| merican p: Texaco and Si a — was i« 1.5 bill alue. ves Saudi fej ship of the® its, refining £ sofAramcoinl most of tbe 1 •ude oil prodti ibia, the m faulty bills for 33 years United Press International DALLAS — It took Lula Swimm 33 years to confirm her suspicions her sewage and garbage bills were a bit steep. “But then it isn’t every day you go around comparing your garbage bill with your neighbors’,” she said. The over-billing began in 1946 when she took possession of a duplex in the exclusive University Park area and promptly converted it into a The Salyuts appear to be the way the Soviets plan to travel to other planets. The United States has de cided on a space shuttle. The first flight of the first shuttle, the Col umbia, probably will come early next year. By all accounts, the U.S. program is less expensive, more flexible in its potential uses and of greater com mercial value. “The Soviets would love to have a space shuttle like ours, but they don’t have the technology,” says an American who has compared the programs. “The Soviets have prop osed a joint Soyuz-Shuttle project. But we’d get nothing out of that.” But the Soviets are clearly ahead in one area that makes most analysts shudder — the development of mis- sile-to-missile and Earth-to-missile directed energy weapons.” “Call them whatever you want: death rays, vaporizers. They’re weapons intended to destroy space vehicles,” says one wary watcher. The idea was born with the so- called hunter-killer satellites: pairs of unmanned sputniks. One chased the other, locked onto its course, and then destroyed it. The Soviets claim that their re search only brings them even with existing American capabilities for destruction in orbit. “They say the shuttle has the abil ity to capture a smaller satellite and disarm it mechanically,” says the analyst. “Technically it’s true, but I know of no intention to use the shut tle in that way.” The latest refinement in the Soviet space arsenal, however, puts them in a league of their own. DEW—directed energy weapons — send concentrated beams of ener gy at the speed of light. Like lasers, they destroy anything in their path by breaking down its molecular structure. “It’s ‘Battlestar Gallactica,’ no less. It’s terrifying,” says the scien tist, who is not given to hyperbole. He believes the Soviets are develop ing such weapons to be used either from orbiting spaceships or from Earth. A member of the House Armed Services Committee seems to take the threat seriously, too. We may be a lot closer to Buck Rogers’ or ‘Star Wars’ than most folks realize,” said Rep. William Dick inson. /f' INQUIRY CLASSES IN THE ’’ CATHOLIC FAITH Monday evenings at 7:30 P.M., St. Mary’s Student Center, 103 Nagle Street, College Station. I For further information call 846- 5717. Shooting down another nation’s space satellites would not break any laws, as long as they are out of the Earth’s atmosphere. The SALT 1 treaty protects satellites only until they reach “outer space”. “There’s a need for some kind of international legislation to prevent a shoot-em-out in space,” says the Western analyst. But so far the Rus sians aren’t interested in talking, de spite informal overtures from the United States. r Countryside Stables ^ Stable Rental — Horse Boarding — Riding Arena — 45 ac. Riding Area — Swimming Pool AUTO INSURANCE ’ FOR AGGIES: Call: George Webb Farmers Insurance Group I 3400 S. 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