The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 25, 1982, Image 10

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

    The Co-op Student Association & the Cooperative Education
Department Present
THE CO-OP FAIR
Monday, March 1, 1982
Lobby of ZACHRY ENGINEERING CENTER
9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Representatives from the following companies will be looking for prospective co-op
students and full-time employees:
DOW CHEMICAL USA
AMF TUBOSCOPE
UNION CARBIDE CORP.
TRW OPTRON
TXT/TEXSTEAM
LONE STAR STEEL CO.
MONSANTO
NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
H. B. ZACHRY
CONSTRUCTION CO.
DROP BY AND CHAT WITH THE COMPANY REP S ON AN INFORMAL BASIS.
national
February 25, in
Senator says he will fight R;
to cut carriers, MX, B-l
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A Demo
crat on the Senate Armed Ser
vices Committee said Wednes
day he will press for $14 billion
in defense spending cuts by eli
minating funds for the B-l bom
ber, MX missile and two nuclear
aircraft carriers.
But Michigan Sen. Carl Levin
told reporters at a breakfast
meeting he may be able to cut
only $5-$10 billion out of the
Defense Department’s prop
osed $215.9 billion in outlays for
Fiscal 1983.
The total Pentagon budget is
$258 billion, but it includes
money for such big ticket items
as those mentioned that would
not be spent immediately. Out
lays only for 1983 are budgeted
at $215.9 billion.
Levin said a consensus is
growing in Congress, among
both conservative Democrats
and Republicans, that the Penta
gon will not be sacrosanct, as it
was last year, because of the
need to reduce the federal de
ficit and curb the recession.
“The people who are
strongest for defense are
opposed to such a big deficit,”
Levin said.
President Reagan has said he
opposes reducing defense
spending or raising taxes to help
cut the deficit, which he esti
mates will be $91.5 billion.
Levin said support is dis
appearing in Congress for
Reagan’s economic program,
and that will lead to some cuts in
defense spending.
“The underpinning is gone,
it’s cracking before your eyes,”
he said.
Levin said to save $14 billion
in outlays he would propose cut
ting out funds for the B-l,
budgeted at $20 billion over five
years; the MX missile; and the
$6.8 billion proposed for build
ing two Nimitz class carriers.
A cutback of $14 billion in
outlays would mean reducing
total budget authority by about
$40 billion — the money that
would be spent in later years to
pay for thebig weapons systems.
For example, the full $3.5 billion
it takes to produce a carrier
would be spent over the eight
years needed to build one.
“The odds are good at elimi
nating one and, maybe, both
carriers,” he said, but added
odds are 2-to-l against eliminat
ing the B-l and the MX.
“It’s anti-defense loin
B-l bomber,” Levin all
the damnedest wasteol|;[
lion that I've seed it|
time.”
As for the MX,hesii|
don’t build thedaranili
out knowing whereyoiij
to base it.”
The Pentagon seek I
the first 40 of 100 misM
isting Minuteman siloiEj
not nave a permanei.1
plan until 1984. ltp|
building the B-l whiles:’
tinues on producing >
anced, radar-elusive |
bomber.
Shuttle mechanisii
fixed, preparatioi
continue for test
Unite
WATE
1 Rath Pa
pleaded
I pay cuts
■foresaw f
I only to be
imeat pad
■afterward
But as
Sited Foe
■Workers'
Ivowed his
lexploiteel
I take o ver
|their jobs
Tayloi
■out 2,Of
Iployees.
■the most
Ipany tha
iin five ye
lof the w<
Icome a te
Iployee o’
Icommun
■port it.
B Rati
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
A replacement steering
mechanism in one of the space
shuttle’s rocket boosters has
tested out well and preparations
are continuing for this week’s
tanking test, officials said
Wednesday.
The mechanism, a gyro pro
viding steering guidance after
the shuttle’s liftoff, failed during
a launch dress rehearsal Friday
and was replaced during the
weekend. The defective device
was on the left booster rocket.
All remaining work on the
Columbia’s heat protection tiles
is set to be completed later this
week, Kennedy Space Center
spokesman Mark Hess said.
Only 449 of the rocketplane’s
light silicon tiles were replaced
between the second aii|
flights as opposed to I
placed after the first n
2,000 at i
' 1.000 in
agreed it
Icommon
had nev
change f<
ty paych<
[year, wo
Dion shat
The trial loading t
than a half million g“
uuid hydrogen andoxiJ
tne 154-foot-tall extenl
tank is set for Friday. 1
will be loaded andlm
with each of the twofiie
FL
into separate storagett
the pad.
This will be carried a
ing another simulated |
down that is scheduled^
about noon today.
Technicians have n(i|
mined what to do:
broken light switch onl
strument panel in 1
cockpit, Hess said.
Offshore gas wel
puts out own fire
United Press International
MORGAN CITY, La. — A
natural gas well that blew out in
the Gulf of Mexico collapsed
under the surface Wednesday,
smothering a fire that had
burned wildly for 19 hours.
Thirteen workers aboard the
Texaco Oil Co. drilling rig
escaped onto nearby tugboats
after the explosion Tuesday.
Two suffered minor injuries
and were treated at hospitals
and released.
“The well put itself out this
morning,” Texaco spokesman
Max Hebert said. “Tl
gas flowing from thewel ;
means the well is dead
“The sides of the«
caved in sufficiently to
flow of gas to the surfisj
Texaco officials,
well Firefighters from!]
Coots Inc. of Houston,
to cool the rig, then pus:!
mud into the well to tel
led, Hebert said.
The cause of the bloc
under investigation.
The rig apparently
troyed by the firf.
HiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiininiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiimiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiii ^
| Non-credit Physical Coni
| tioning class open to all Texi
| A&M students. Class to be he
| Monday through Friday begi
| February 24th. Class will sli
| promptly at 5:15 p.m. at
| Field. You will be required tosi
| ply your own equipment. Allinte
| ested students contact Dave
1 liams at 845-3193 for more 4
tails.
miiiiiiiiiniiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Special
“One More Time 1 .
PEARL &
PEARL LITI
12 Packs
(Special Good Through Wed., March 3)
3611 S. College
f
nil
*