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national Battalion/Page 12 January 20, 1982 Lech Walesa’s bodyguard proud of his work, employer United Press International WARSAW, Poland — On Saturday, Dec. 12, Lech Wale sa’s personal bodyguard sat down for an interview describ ing himself and his relations with his boss. “If things go according to Lech’s scheme,” he said, “every thing will be peacefully re solved.” A few hours later martial law cracked down brutally on the Solidarity trade union and Walesa was under house arrest. Henryk Mazur is a rugged, 58-year-old sailor who was at Walesa’s side from the early days of the strike at Gdansk’s Lenin shipyard in August 1980. He was one of the inner circle around Walesa and devoted 18 months to protecting the mus tachioed union chief. “All the union is, for me, is to protect Lech,” Mazur said. “This is my task, and I’m not con cerned about anything else. I am not interested in politics.” Walesa has been under house arrest in or near Warsaw since he was flown from Gdansk in a special plane before dawn on Dec. 13. Before then, even with in Solidarity, Walesa had ene mies, Mazur said. “He must have them. It’s a game of struggle. “There are those who were pulled down (from power in the union),” he said. “They are not especially numerous, but there are foes. But the grassroots are for him, especially the working people. “Yes, they threaten they’ll shoot him and me. I don’t pay any attention to that. I am ready at all times.” Mazur said there were two in stances when Walesa needed protecting — incidents in Bytom in the south and Bydgoszcz in the north when there had been attempts at physical attack. He described Walesa as “a man after one’s own heart” and said he was like part of his family. “When he has finished we’ll go fishing together,” Mazur said. “He must be cool, I tell him. When he says that the Russians will come, I calm him down saying that they wouldn’t. I say, ‘Nobody will come, don’t you worry. Do you think they will come to this mess and pay our debts?”’ Mazur, a craggy man who sel dom left Walesa’s side, said he was not paid for his bodyguard work. “I don’t care about any hon ors,” he said that day. “I don’t care about being with a famous man. It’s Walesa’s honesty which makes me stay with him.” Remember rand’s Western 3808 TEXAS AVE. Wo RLD I sj ^ ^ ^ ' I > = ^ 1 s IS ■ ^ IN i s IS Our Netr Manager says come on by! Fall & Winter Outer Wear 40% off All Levis & Wranglers Denim’s $ 18 95 Justin Ropers (Men & Ladies) s 99 95 We have Silver Letters and Tack I s = N i S I s Is 1 Reporters rate senators characteristics listed United Press International WASHINGTON — At the end of the year, reporters are tempted to list things — best movies, best dressed, top news events. A favorite year-round game among congressional reporters is listing the best and worst senators. There are 100 senators, and all are not considered well-known or particularly effective. But all of them are the supreme commanders of their own offices and usually rank very high in their state’s political hierarchy. A senator who shuns the limelight, introduces few bills and often fashions legislation through quiet compromise is often considered less effective than one who sponsors a lot of bills, makes a lot of floor speeches and has a position on every issue from abortion to zip codes. It is the proverbial difference between a work horse and a showhorse. Their public images aside, senators most often are consi dered successful by how much attention they pay to consti tuent services and by how well they divert shrinking federal funds to their states. Drawing up a list of 10 best and 10 worst senators is too broad an effort when ability and incompetence do not fol low the shape of a bell curve. Narrower categories, however, might be useful: The best known to the pub lic would include: Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., Daniel Moynihan, D-N.Y., John Glenn, D-Ohio, Robert Dole, R-Kan., Strom Thurmond, R- S.C., Howard Baker, R- Tenn., Henry Jackson, D- Wash., S.I. Hayakawa, R- Calif., and William Proxmire, D-Wis. Not including those elected in 1980, the least known, in descending order of anonym ity: Malcolm Wallop, R-Wyo., Edward Zorinsky, D-Neb., John Melcher, D-Mont., Carl Levin, D-Mich., Max Baucus, D-Mont., Howard Cannon, D- Nev., Robert Stafford, R-Vt., Spark Matsunaga, D-Hawaii, Quentin Burdick, D-N.D., and George Mitchell, D- Maine. The most entertaining floor debaters: Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., Daniel Moynihan, D- N.Y., Joseph Biden, D-Del., Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., Charles Mathias, R-Md., Ed ward Kennedy, D-Mass., Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, Howatf Baker, R-Tenn., and Rober Byrd, D-W.Va. The nicest people wouldb l elude: Alan Simpson, R-Wyo,’ Paul Laxak, R-Nev., Howard Baker, R-Tenn., Patrkl Leahy, D-Vt., Strom Thut mond, R-S.C., Howell Helfi D-Ala., Pete Domenici, N.M., William Proxmire, & Wis., Nancy Kassebaum, H Kan., and Lawton Chiles,!! Fla. A list of those who crani out the most press releases® eludes: Kennedy, Dole, Pro* mire and Roth. Kennedy ant Dole together are known as; “quick reaction team.” The best in terms of com bined intelligence, statesman' ship, backroom dealing and parliamentary tactics: Bab, the majority leader, Alar, Simpson, R-Wyo., Richard Lugar, R-Ind., Alan Gran ston, D-Calif., assistant minor' ity leader, J. 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College 846-6635 Cessna gives Learjet run for the money United Press International WICHITA, Kan. — Cessna Aircraft Co. has high hopes of grabbing a large chunk of the private business jet market away from Learjet with its Citation III. With a $5 million pricetag, 150 Citation Ills are already on order although the plane is still a few months away from Federal Aviation Administration certifi cation. The first delivery should be around December. “It’s just one hell of an air plane,” said J. Derek Vaughan, Cessna senior vice president- general manager. “There’s no thing around that really com petes with it.” But the buyers will decide whether they want to plunk down their money for a Citation III or its principle competitor, the Learjet Longhorn 55. Lear jet has delivered 20 of its Lon ghorn 55 models already and has orders for 150 more. The Longhorn 55 is also priced at about $5 million. Cessna has already overtaken Learjet in total numbers of busi ness jets. 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' But after years of producing small prop-propelled planes, Cessna still is working against the name recognition that Lear jet possesses. “We’re still associated with small, little airplanes, and it’s been damn hard for us to outlive that,” said Ted Farid, Cessna technical sales support man ager. “The process has been a leng thy one, getting the name ‘Cita tion’ associated with business jets,” Vaughan said. “But we have a good product here. Once the Citation III comes out, and is in the air and in use, it’s going to get a goodly share of the market. When you have 15 or 20 of them flying, that’s when it’ll strike home to people it’s quite an air plane.” Touted by Cessna as the first real “new” business jet in the U.S. the past decade, the Cita tion III has been five years and over $200 million in the making. The plane will fly 10 passen gers and a crew of two at speeds of up to about 550 mph for 2,320 miles. With a span of 53'/2 feet for the sweptback wings, the Citation III will climb to 41,000 feet within 16 minutes and then eventually cruise at 51,000 feet. When it first hit the drawing board in 1976, Cessna decided to use some unconventional aerodynamic ideas, such as us ing a new “supercritical” wing design and using composite materials for some structures. But perhaps the most daring of the ideas was to substitute most of the riveting with adhe sive bonding — essentially glue — to hold the skin to the metal substructure. He isn’t Zimmerma at: Cessna official’s say die technique cuts weight makes the outer skin moil aerodynamically “slippei], while making the structi stronger by distributing sirs over an entire surface insteadii just at the rivets. Cessna also claims the Ci» don Ill’s light weight makes! the world’s most fuel effidel business jet, getting 35 “passe: ger-miles” per gallon. The Citation III has soiK other design innovations, eluding a “full reverse thnis capability for its two Gan TFE-731 turbofan engii mounted on the rear fuselagt which helps in stopping quid! 1 while landing on short runwaji Such innovations did i» come cheaply. We; U.S i: In fact, the cost of designing! new jet — as with research ait: development in other fields- has escalated sharply because« inflation and more stringer; FAA regulations. And that’stti reason, Vaughan said, wk 1 there haven’t been any otlu new jets designed in the lastdf cade. “There isn’t another pany with the money availablel develop a new jet. It takesalolf money to develop a new af plane nowadays. We’re the on! ones who have made the final cial commitment to build anal new' business jet,” Vaughan sail lose more tha “Unless the competition comf e in nation if up with new products, they’llfl co nimunist r along the wayside.” But Learjet spokesman Higdon said he’s not worried^ the “healthy competition” fro: the Citation III. United Pre PARIS — V all major > assembled Tu secret con fere U.S. request tl trade with the: test martial la’ Diplomats biggest meetir the Gold War. of the two-day the Control Trade with C tries was to ce ton’s push for The meetir pens from !• an d Japan fa task of reconc °f Washingtoi tant to sever t East. West Germ the strongest a me nts, both economic rea Helmut Schm to impede his bk,” which is ■ ' n g relations ' W «t German West Gern du cts 6.5 per Wh the Fas back. Trance is n For your photographs m The Battalion The Battalion is taking applications for pho tographers for the spring semester. If you have some spare time, camera equipment and knowl edge of darkroom procedures, apply in person in Room 216 Reed McDonald. Ask for Ange Copeland. it Join Days, 6S fc class