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DENVER — A college student
attributes her experiences as a
draftee in the Air Force to military
red tape.
Cathy Moyer, 22, a student at
the University of Colorado at De
nver, was ordered to report ot
Lackland Air Force Base in San
Antonio on Aug. 18.
Moyer admits she made a mis
take, but didn’t think she should
be made to pay for it by being
irdered to active duty.
Moyer’s story began in the
summer of 1979, when she trans
ferred from Northeastern Junior
College in her hometown of Sterl
ing to the University of Colorado
at Boulder.
She had wanted to go to medic
al school but couldn’t afford it until
she discovered the Air Force
offered scholarships for qualified
students.
“The Air Force would pay two
years of my tuition as an undergra
duate and all of my medical
school,’’ Moyer said. “I was look
ing at $16,000 in debt. It seemed
like a good deal.”
The Air Force, of course,
wanted something for its money
— a commitment to serve when
the student completed school.
She took the test, passed with
high marks and was awarded the
scholarship.
Moyer signed a contract with
the Air Force, agreeing to serve
once she graduated. A clause in
the contract stipulated she could
be called to active duty if she dis
continued school or otherwise
violated its provisions.
Her grades fell that spring and
she lost her scholarship. She says
Air Force ROTC officials con
tacted her and told her she could
enter the Air Force if she desired,
or she could leave the ROTC with
out any obligation.
dition might qualify her for a
medical disenrollment.
“I was told about the clause in
the contract, but they also told me
I didn’t have to worry about it
being enforced,’’ she said.
Moyer started school at Boulder
in the fall of 1979, but changed her
mind about attending medical
school.
Moyer, who says she opted to
leave, says she didn’t hear any
thing definite from the Air Force
until she received a phone call on
Jan. 14 from a ROTC officer.
“He told me I would be called to
active duty when I graduated,”
she said.
Moyer also thought a knee con-
Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-
Colo., wrote a letter to the Air
Force, offering to have Moyer
take a physical in Denver to prove
that her knee condition would dis
qualify her. Moyer also offered to
pay back the $1,800 in tuition and
fees the scholarship had paid.
At Lackland, Moyer’s knees be
came so painful she could barely
walk, and she was placed in the
base hospital. She was given a
medical discharge and left the
base after being there just eight
days.
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WASHINGTON — Republican
National Chairman Richard
Richards says three or four more
Democratic congressman are
negotiating to change parties in
the wake of the decision by Rep.
Eugene Atkinson to join the GOP.
Atkinson, in his second term
representing a steel-mill district
outside Pittsburgh carried by Jim
my Carter last year, announced
Wednesday his party switch in the
White House Rose Garden with
President Reagan at his side.
Atkinson consistently backed
Reagan’s budget and tax cuts and
reportedly pegged his decision on
hopes of winning a favorable reap
portionment ruling from the
GOP-dominated Pennsylvania
Legislature next month.
Atkinson said: “The modern
Democratic Party bears no re
semblance to the one I proudly
joined many years ago.”
As Republicans downed roast
beef, clams and oysters on Capitol
Hill, Richards predicted more
Democratic conversions.
“We have several people talk
ing to different (Democratic)
members,” Richards said in an in
terview.
“There are three or four more,”
he said. But he said announce
ments of other conversions would
not be soon.
Richards declined to identify
the potential converts, but the
Washington Post quoted White
House and GOP political strateg
ists Thursday as saying the most
likely candidates are Reps. Larry
McDonald of Georgia, Richard
Shelby of Alabama and Ronald
Mottl of Ohio.
Mottl denied he was consider
ing a switch, saying in a House
speech cheered by his Democratic
colleagues: “I’m very proud to be a
Democrat and will remain a
Democrat.”
Atkinson told the crowd his
conversion was “a new beginning
for me, and I hope what is a new
beginning under the policies of
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Coun
try music singer Willie Nelson,
cancelled his concert tour last
month after his lung collapsed, to
let his pigtails grow long again and
to resume the tour.
While in Nashville attending
the annual country music awards
week, Nelson said he cut his pig
tails while recuperating from the
collapsed lung he suffered during
a vacation in Hawaii.
T had a lot of tubes running
into me and the pigtails kept get
ting in the way of the tubes so I cut
cm off,” Nelson said.
About his Hawaiian vacation,
Nelson said: “I went there for
some relaxation but I guess I must
have overdone it. I feel just great
now.
“I’ll be playing some Texas
dates starting Nov. 11 — places
such as San Antonio, Corpus
Christi, Amarillo, Lubbock — and
then head to Las Vegas for a two-
week engagement at Caesar’s
Palace,” he said.
Nelson said he’s also planning
two movie projects during 1982.
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President Reagan.”
While Atkinson was at the
White House, the House voted to
defeat Reagan’s $8.5 billion Saudi
Arabian arms package. He co
sponsored the proposal, but an
aide said he was not able to make it
back to Capitol Hill in time to cast
his first vote as a Republican —
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Rep. Tony Coelho, D-Calif.,
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said of Atkinson: “Anyone who
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Reagan obviously has a case of
political schizophrenia. ”
Counting Atkinson’s switch,
the breakdown in the House is 242
Democrats and 192 Republicans.
House Speaker Thomas P.
O’Neill, D-Mass., belittled the
turn of events.
“Gene who?” he asked with a
wry smile. “You can see he’s made
quite a mark around here.”
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