THE BATTALION
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1980
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United Press International
A’hitC |)oii. WASHINGTON — Robots and
computers with micro-electronic
thcKuR brains will increase productivity in
■perican factories but also threaten
ard city] to replace hundreds of thousands of
lalflin workers, a Worldwatch Institute re-
if th port said Saturday.
■The report said the industry that
s tw has shrunk room-sized computers to
postage stamp dimensions is expand-
thrn ing so rapidly it soon will have a ma
rk! on $! jor impact on American jobs.
R‘It is clear that there will be se-
|(!, | rious upheavals in industries where
m-M m > jobs are automated and workers face
r mart! redundancy,” the report concluded,
ade jEt was written by Colin Norman, a
mlnienj fBseareher for Worldwatch, an inde
hall u pendent organization that analyzes
world problems.
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Planet is
cooling off
United Press International
RIOS ANGELES — The earth is
heading into one of its periodic cool
ing periods, called “little ice ages.”
. The result in years to come could be
| I (amine on a world scale, a UCLA
scientist says.
Dr. Leona Marshall Libby, a pro
fessor of environmental science and
engineering, recently reported her
views before the American Chemical
Society.
in Italy ;Plt doesn’t have to cool off very
much. A drop of two degrees on an
e hi > average can cause a “little ice age.”
issingfn»Bshe said her conclusions were
Ifagur. based on exhaustive studies of ox-
liad it yg‘!n and hydrogen isotopes within
i (1)], to molecules in tree rings and earth
core samples.
wn who0*1 It has long been known that tree
phy but rings reflect either abundant rain
njav a|d mild temperatures during a
, a r hoot' jglven year or little rain and cool tem-
d in the peratures.
rarsuntilfp We measure the isotope ratios of
r h u t Hi oxygen and hydrogen ring by ring, ”
;r|1|L . m a she said, “and that comes directly
uscriptst fr° m the rain that is distilled from the
ocean.
mv ';had(B"Th e amount of isotopes gives the
IMS heli: temperatures of the oceans and the
tl jv climates of continents. ”
j| lc# P;She said that she and her co
researcher, Dr. Louis J. Pandolfi of
Global Geochemistry Corp., found
same signs in tree rings as in
i-bottom earth core samples.
1‘Tt’s getting colder. It’s been cool
ing off for 2,000 years. During the
Rjxt 10 years the earth will continue
rocool and then it will warm up a bit,
|Sit not as much as currently.
■“And by 1995, it will really cool off
||r about 30 years. Beyond tbat time,
We don’t trust the predictions until
we get more data. ”
y; Dr. Libby said the economies of
&st periods reflect climatic changes,
■here were two times of great disas
ter, first the little ice age of 1650 to
& 1700, and then from 1750 to 1820.
■Tm really worried about what
will happen in the world,” Libby
said.
Ij “Clearly there will be more wars,
Hoting caused by hunger and failed
crops.”
3ow to make
- television
- run longer
United Press International
NEW YORK — Tend to take your
set for granted, assuming it will
in forever?
At least until you have to call a
lairman — and pay his bill.
;George Meyer, product manager
for US JVC Corp., maker of color
television sets, has eight simple tips
on how to treat your TV set kindly to
help it run longer and safer.
H Meyer’s tips:
■—Always turn off the television
||hen leaving the room for more than
a few minutes. Never leave a set on
when leaving the house.
||—Don’t operate the television if
water or liquids have been spilled on
it. Pull the plug and have a service
technician inspect it before further
use.
||—Protect your TV set during a
lightning storm or when it will be
unattended for a long time by un
plugging it from the wall outlet and
disconnecting the antenna.
; —Turn off the receiver before
^leaning the face of the picture tube.
Use a slightly damp cloth. Do not use
an aerosol directly on the picture
tube since it may overspray and
cause electrical shock.
H—Advise children not to drop or
push objects into television cabinet
Kenings. Some internal parts carry
Hazardous voltages.
||j —Do not rest anything on the
power cord or place the television
where the cord can be stepped on.
m —Never place a television set on
|or near a radiator.
-Don’t try to fix a TV yourself.
Take the set to a properly trained
service technician.
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may displace workers
tages of raising productivity with
new technologies, but if those advan
tages are won at the expense of dis
placed workers, the fruits of tech
nological change will be bitter in
deed,” he said.
Norman said government and in
dustry should consider ideas on how
to share jobs in an economy based on
highly productive machines that can
do the work of humans by using mic
ro-electronic processors.
“Proposals to reduce the number
of work hours through shorter work
weeks, longer vacations, sabbaticals,
and similar steps should now be firm
ly on the political agenda,” he said.
The Worldwatch study found that
while some jobs will be created in
industries manufacaturing and prog
ramming computers and other elec
tronic goods, jobs are likely to dis
appear in others able to take advan
tage of computer-based automation.
This includes both factories and
offices.
Norman said, for example, that
most new car plants have robot
welding and paint-spraying systems.
New machines are being developed
to do everything from inserting light
bulbs into car dashboards to assemb
ling home appliances.
The study found that automation
of textile manufacturing is proceed
ing rapidly in the United States. As a
result, Norman said as many as
300,000 relatively low-paid jobs in
textile plants could disappear by
1990.
Jobs also will be lost in firms that
switch from the manufacture of
mechanical goods to products based
on electronics because electronic de
vices have far fewer parts to produce
and assemble. The Swiss watch in
dustry, for example, lost 46,000 jobs
in the mid 1970s because of electro
nic timepieces.
Norman said that in this decade,
the electronics industry will rival the
automobile, steel and chemical in
dustries in sales. There is intense
competition among industrial na
tions for a share of this rapidly grow
ing market.
He concluded that more jobs will
be lost in those countries that do not
pursue the technology vigorously
than in those that do.
CIA director urges restraint
in reporting spy activities
United Press International
FAIRFAX, Va. — Deputy CIA Director Frank Car-
lucci says the spy agency is preoccupied trying to protect
the identity of its agents and sources because the United
States is becoming known as a nation that can’t keep
secrets.
“Our country is becoming known throughout the
world as a country that can’t keep secrets, ” Carlucci told
the annual convention of the Association of Former
Intelligence Officers. “We have picked up enough infor
mation to know this is a problem” among U.S. allies.
The association, which now numbers 2,500 former
members of the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, the
National Security Agency, the FBI and members of the
intelligence branches of the armed services, was formed
in 1975 at the height of investigations and journalistic
exposes of past misdeeds.
Carlucci said his chief concern now is the “protection
of our sources and methods. ”
The United States began developing a reputation as a
nation that could not keep secrets in the 1970s, because
of information released under the Freedom of Informa
tion Act and through books by former intelligence
agents, he said.
“There are no friendly books” about U.S. intelli
gence, he said. “The best-intentioned book raises a lot of
eyebrows” among U.S. allies.
Carlucci said CIA Director Stansfield Turner urged
him to tell the intelligence veterans “not to talk to
journalists.”
“We see no reason why a group of misguided Amer
icans should be allowed to reveal identities of our people
overseas and disrupt their activities,” Carlucci said.
Among resolutions approved Friday night by the
association, which has had a significant impact on con
gressional committees involved with intelligence mat
ters, were those urging Congress to:
—Enact legislation which would make it a criminal
offense for any person to identify U.S. intelligence oper
atives.
—Investigate the “deplorable misuse of public funds”
through the Public Broadcasting System because of a
“highly inaccurate and biased three-part program on
American intelligence. The resolution asked for checks
“which will preclude future use of public monies to
present misleading material designed to undermine the
national security.”
— ’Consider and pass legislation making it a crime for
anyone to make unauthorized disclosures of intelligence
sources and methods.”
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Director of Personnel
El Paso Electric Company
Post Office Box 982
El Paso, Texas 79960
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