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t > v. THE BATTALION MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1981 Page 7 National £ is Person, ’atients : *c and ; atment tumors g fever iptoms, be re lent, he ts dis- >atients treat- vpes of ie body ent test : found erferon on the Gutter- irties of t serves body’s ist dis- r from promp ronged unched st puz- 1 these •ules in , nature with it ie said. :er ea. ;rewupis ningcoai' ole land, amn.’lie ut was tht It’sjusti ie farind 1 to mow .ise wale iture wj s on tit oin a holt th e •nst , • througi ill vegcta- between hafts d nade tht xide. lies fortl s pashm of simt area-i turns tht able red de, vents ne water, lath as it $ t Columbia’s bionic arm functions as planned United Press International HOUSTON — The space shuttle’s mechanical arm work ed so well during its first orbital test that engineers say it is ready to grapple with a hefty payload on the Columbia’s third mission. It s a remarkable machine and it’s doing exactly as we hoped and expected, astronaut Dick Truly said after putting the SKX)million Remote Manipula tor System through a limited series of tests Friday. Truly, lead test pilot on the ami, used one of two television cameras mounted on the 50-foot bionie arm to show the world a Hi Mom! sign he flashed through a flight deck window. "This will allow us to use the arm on STS-3 (the next mis sion), ' said Cl ay McCullough, manager of pay load deploy m en t and retrieval at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. McCullough said plans for the third shuttle mission, tenta tively scheduled for March, call forthearm to grab and maneuv er two environment monitoring units — one weighing 1,000 pounds and the other 500 pounds while on the ground. The arm was financed by the National Research Council of Canada, built in Toronto by Spar Aerospace Ltd. and don ated to the space agency in ex change for a $75 million purch ase of three more like it. Truly raised the arm from its cradle, flexed it, bent it, moved it along preplanned paths to measure its accuracy, then re cradled it. Afterward, he told mission controllers it worked “really smooth. Because the mission was shortened due to a power prob lem, Truly and astronaut Joe Engle were able to conduct only 4'/2 of the planned 13 hours of testing on the arm. But Karl Doetseh, assistant project manager of the National Research Council of Canada, said it worked “perfectly.” “The really important thing is to show that the arm can oper ate properly in each of its con trol modes and each of those has been tested by now, Doetseh said. “We ll he down to one- third in terms of time, but they got in two-thirds of the work in terms of importance. The arm, which weighs only 900 pounds and cannot lift itself outside the weightless environ ment of space, is designed to load and unload shuttle payloads that would weigh up to 65,000 pounds on Earth. It is a key to the future of the space shuttle program. Truly looked through the flight deck’s rear windows and used hand controls to maneuver the arm, which has brushless electric motors in each of its joints. He also tested the arm’s grappler without a load and proved it could grip a payload. Television pictures of the arm Friday showed it arching away from the spacecraft, bent almost 90 degrees at the elbow and wrist joints. At one point, it looked like a giant sky hook, backgrounded by space and cot ton-like clouds over Earth. ‘Obstructive bargaining’ is charge AFL-CIO may boycott firm United Press International NEW YORK — AFL-CIO lead ers Saturday called for a nation wide boycott of Proctor & Gamble soap products, charging the cor poration with “obstructive bar gaining” tactics. The action could ignite the largest boycott by organized labor since the successful action brought against the J.P. Stevens textile firm that eventually led to an agreement. The boycott includes Tide, Cheer, Oxydol and Bold powder detergents; Camay, Zest, and Iv ory bar soaps, and Ivory, Joy and Dawn liquid detergents. The federation’s Executive Council, which will meet before the biennial convention of the 15 million-member AFL-CIO Mon day, also adopted a resolution reiterating its call to President Ronald Reagan to rehire air traffic controllers who went on strike against the government. “It is time for the president’s demeaning vendetta against the air controllers to stop, the resolu tion said. AFL-CIO President Lane Kirk land refused to discuss any of the council action with reporters. He will open the convention with a keynote address expected to touch on major issues facing the labor movement. The federation refused to invite Reagan or any other administra tion official to address the conven tion, but several leading Demo crats, including former Vice Presi dent Walter Mondale and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., will speak. The Procter & Gamble boycott involves alleged tactics by the company that have led to the fai lure of the Steelworkers union to obtain an initial contract at its Kansas City, Kan. soap plant. The union was certified on Nov. 6, 1980 by the National Labor Rela tions Board as the bargaining agent at the plant. “Today, a year later, the work ers are still without a contract be cause of employer delaying tactics and obstructive bargaining de signed not to reach fair agree ment, but to wear down the work ers and their union, the council said in a formal statement. AUTO«FIRE»LIFE •COMMERCIAL RON ALLEN, AGENT 707 TEXAS AVENUE SUITE 110-A 696-9351 NORTON/CHRISTENSEN RECRUITERS want to hire TEXAS A&M Graduates CHRISTENSEN Jobs' NORTON Jobs •Regional Engineers •Industrial Sales •Sales & Service Reps (Abrasive Products) *Oil rig experience preferred Interviewing on campus November 17 & 24,1981 Sign up now at the Placement Office. Learn more about NORTON/CHRISTENSEN opportunities at our Hospitality Suite, Rudder Conference Center,Room 308 7 to 9PM on Monday, November 16, 1981. If you read the reminder in the upper right hand corner of page 5 about your greatest chance for a trimmer and more energetic you discussed in the upper right hand corner of page 3 and still haven’t re sponded, you've made a whale of a third mistake!!! Call now!!! If the phone’s busy, call back shortly. Someone else is leav ing a name and number, and that doesn't take very long! Baby switching surprises mom United Press International ; GREEN BAY, Wis. — Cindy Bliisiu had a surprise awaiting her when she returned home from the %>ma Memorial Hospital and opraed the diaper of her newborn lahy hoy, the new mother said Saturday. The baby was a girl. The baby was not Ryan Robert Blaster.but Jessica Ann Holland, ike daughter of David and Judy Holland of Maplewood. Cindy and her husband, Terrs', of nearby Brussels, bundled the lialiyback into the ear and took it back to the hospital. And sure enough, there in the crib of Jessica Ann Holland was Ryan Robert Blaster. We thought something like this could only happen on TV or in a big city,” Blasier said. Tom Thomas, a spokesman for Algoma Memorial Hosptial, said the switch apparently took place when a nurse hurriedly put the two babies hack into the nursery after they spent time with their mothers. Holland, a high school class mate of Blasier, was not due to check his wife and baby out of the hospital Wednesday for several hours, so the Hollands took the correct baby home, officials said. The Blasiers said there were no hard feelings and they held no grudge against the hospital. 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