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Wednesday, April 21, 1982
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Itudents who forgot to take an umbrella with them were
trouble Tuesday as thunderstorms brought heavy rains
and winds to the Bryan-College Station area all day and
into the night. These relatively dry students were
walking by the Reed McDonald Building in-between
classes.
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — The United
States is concerned the Organization
of American States, which is closing
ranks behind Argentina, may hurt
efforts by Secretary of State Alexan
der Haig to peacefully resolve the
Falklands crisis.
Over U.S. objections Tuesday, the
OAS set a foreign ministers meeting
for next week to consider collective
security measures against Great Bri
tain.
Argentina asked the OAS to in
voke the Rio Treaty for hemispheric
mutual defense because Britain’s
“grave and imminent threat of the use
of force jeopardizes the peace and
security of the hemisphere.”
The United States called the OAS
action particularly inappropriate and
warned it could interfere with Haig's
mediation efforts.
Haig returned from Buenos Aires
Tuesday morning and is to confer
Thursday in Washington with British
Foreign Secretary Francis Pym.
The OAS Council voted, 18-0, to
convene a meeting Monday under the
1947 Rio Treaty for mutual assist
ance. The United States, Colombia
and Trinidad-Tobago abstained.
“The U.S. delegation is deeply dis
turbed by the implications of the
proposed action,” said U.S. Ambassa
dor J. William Middendorf.
“At a time when Secretary Haig is
engaged in an ongoing effort to
promote a peaceful settlement it
seems to my government particularly
inappropriate to seek consideration
of this matter with the Rio Treaty.”
At least 14 of the treaty’s 21 mem
bers must approve any measures
against a nation considered an
aggressor. Those measures range
from breaking diplomatic relations to
using armed force.
After the OAS vote Tuesday,
Reagan told a news conf erence he be
lieves it would be advantageous for
the OAS to delay invoking the Rio
Treaty while delicate, behind-the-
scenes negotiations continue.
Argentine Ambassador Raul Qui-
jano said his nation’s OAS request
should not and cannot be interpreted
as a sign of rejection to continue nego
tiations or as a sign Haig has failed.
At the same time, he did not seek
specific sanctions against Britain but
said his nation is prepared to go to
war if British ships pierce Argentina's
200-mile territorial waters.
Grossman explains the
dangers of nuclear energy
reporters during a press
onference before his
iresentation Tuesday night.
by John P. Lopez
Battalion Reporter
The nuclear accident at Three Mile
Island was only a warning of things to
come in the future, an author and
journalist said Tuesday.
Karl Grossman spoke at Rudder
Forum on his new book, “COVER
UP: What You Are Not Supposed To
Know About Nuclear Power.”
Grossman said: “My book is an ex
pose that could have been written
years ago. What upsets me is that peo
ple were never told what the consequ
ences of nuclear power were.”
Grossman said an update done in
1964 at Brookhaven National Labor
atories by the Atomic Energy Com
mission warned people of the con
sequences of nuclear energy,
although no one was told.
“In the update is the famous line,
‘an accident at a nuclear reactor can
devastate an area the size of Pennsyl
vania,”’ Grossman said. “Most people
are familiar with that line from the
movie ‘The China Syndrome,’ when
in fact it was written 15 years before
the accident at Three Mile Island
occurred. I’m afraid Three Mile Is
land was not the catastrophe that we
will one day face.”
Nuclear physicist Richard Webb,
who assisted Grossman in writing his
book, said one million people would
someday die at a nuclear power plant
accident, Grossman said.
“If it were the nuclear plants that
circled Chicago, 200,000 to 300,000
pounds of radioactive material would
be released — and there is no way that
(that) many people can be evacuated,”
he said.
Grossman said the public has also
been misled into thinking that the
China Syndrome meltdown is the
worst kind of nuclear accident.
“The worst power plant accident,”
Grossman said, “is when a nuclear
power plant blows up. Now we’ve
been told for years that nuclear power
plants can’t blow up.”
Nuclear power plants that explode,
Grossman said, are called “Nuclear
Runaways,” and he said that such an
accident has occurred.
“I obtained a report from the U.S.
Atomic Energy Commission of the SL
1 accident which was a nuclear run
away at a testing site in which three
men were killed,” Grossman said.
“The heads and the hands of these
three guys were so hot with radioac
tivity that they had to be buried with
high level radioactive waste and the
bodies were buried in lead-lined cof
fins”
Grossman said nuclear runaways
are more dangerous than China Syn
drome meltdown because in a run
away situation, radioactive material
gets in the atmosphere in a matter of
seconds — while in a meltdown situa
tion it takes up to four hours to get
into the atmosphere.
“If a runaway occurs at the Indian
Point reactor near New York, in a
matter of seconds millions of people
will be in tremendous danger,” he
said.
After Grossman’s speech, about 20
people met in the lobby of Rudder
Forum and planned a meeting to dis
cuss nuclear limitations Sunday night
at 7:30 in the MSC main lounge.
Co-op program adds
experience to degree
hv Pam Barta 1 came a more formal proffram in
tudent arrested for drug possession;
rimestoppers phone tip aids police
by Daniel Puckett
Battalion Staff
I >- ,:&|^tudent was arrested in his dorm
p 0171 Tuesday and charged with
-S' felony possession of marijuana.
■ Hector Saldana, a freshman aeros-
ottOH in bl/J? P aCeen g' neei 'ingmajor from Mexico,
U ^ Bsarrested about 3 p.m. in his room
n Wide cut in Hotard Hall, Deputy Sheriff
and two Clark said. Clark is assigned to
i heavy weight
softer with
Department of Public Safety’s
Narcotics Service.
Five other people were in the room
at the time, but Saldana was the only
one arrested, the narcotics agent said.
The police found approximately
one pound of marijuana in Saldana’s
room, Clark said.
He said four DPS officers and an
officer of the University Police made
the arrest. A University Police officer
usually accompanies DPS troopers
when they make an arrest on campus,
Clark said.
University Police Chief Russ
McDonald said Wednesday morning
that he had not yet received a report
on the arrest and therefore could
make no comment.
Saldana was charged with felony
possession of marijuana, and Justice
of the Peace Carolyn Hensarling set
his bond at $10,000. The charge is a
third degree felony, carrying a possi
ble two to 10-year prison sentence.
Saldana was held in Brazos County
Jail until he posted bond Tuesday.
A spokeswoman for Brazos County
Crimestoppers said the arrest was
made because of a tip Crimestoppers
received. She said an anonymous
phone caller had given the group a
tip, which it passed on to local law
enforcement agencies.
by Pam Barta
Battalion Reporter
In today’s highly competitive
world, a college degree is no longer a
guarantee for success. Students also
need practical experience. But, how
can the two be combined? The Texas
A&M Cooperative Education Prog
ram might be the answer.
Co-oping is a planned learning
process that integrates classroom stu
dies with supervised work experi
ences. Undergraduate students are
employed by industry, business and
government organizations in posi
tions related to their major field of
study or career choice.
The program, which begins dur
ing the sophomore or junior year, is
designed to give a student increasing
job responsibilty and to be propor
tionate with a student’s increased
academic skills and experience
gained from previous school and
work terms.
Alternating periods of work and
study assignments generally coincide
with the University semester sche
dule.
The co-op prpgram was estab
lished in the U.S. higher education
system in the early 1900s. Originally,
co-op programs were created to aid
engineering students in combining
cjassroom theory with professional
field problem-solving.
In 1959, the Texas A&M Coopera
tive Education Program informally
began in the College of Engineering,
said Steve Yates, the Cooperative
Education Program director. It be
came a more formal program in 1963,
he said.
The co-op program was expanded
University-wide with the first of five
yearly federal grants for the 1977-78
school year. Nine colleges participate
in the co-op program.
“Federal money has really played
an important part in expanding our
program,” Yates said.
Twenty-four percent of the co-op
money comes from federal funding;
the University provides the rest, Yates
said.
The central co-op office, in 107
Harrington Tower, coordinates co
op programs for students in the col
leges of agriculture, business admi
nistration, engineering and science.
The colleges of architecture, edu
cation, geosciences, liberal arts and
veterinary medicine all have separate
offices, but report through and coor
dinate with the central co-op office.
Students interested in joining the
co-op program must complete a co-op
degree plan. T his outlines their plan
ned work sequence and study
periods. It also shows how co-oping
will affect their graduation date. The
co-op degree plan is checked and
approved by the faculty co-op adviser
in the student’s academic depart
ment.
Students then check out potential
employers by reading job descrip
tions from employers, former co-op
student reports, and by talking to stu
dents who have co-oped with a certain
See CO-OP page 14
I Pre-registration gets
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by Joe Tindel Jr.
Battalion Reporter
People passing by registration
headquarters at Rudder Exhibit Hall
fbn Monday and Tuesday probably
Tioticed fewer long lines than in the
past.
The registrar’s office expected ab-
[>ut 6,000 students to pre-register
Monday, but only 5,300 had regis-
:red by the end of the day, said asso-
registrar Donald Carter.
However, Carter said the regis-
Irar’s office was not displeased with
[he figure because the lack of a first-
lay rush kept students from having to
wait in long lines.
Carter said one reason for the low
er turnout might have been a story in
The Battalion that said seniors would
be given priority no matter what day
they pre-register.
But, Carter said registration for
students who will be sophomores or
juniors next fall is processed on a first
come, first served basis.
He said another reason for the low
turnout may be that some depart
ments are not allowing students to
pre-register until later in the week.
About 3,025 students braved the
bad weather Tuesday to pre-register.
Less sunshine, colder winter?
United Press International
WASHINGTON —An Earth satel
lite detected a slight decrease in sun
shine between February 1980 and last
August, possibly contributing to this
past winter’s severe conditions, the
space agency says.
If so, the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration said Tuesday,
it would be the first direct observation
“of a cause and effect relationship be
tween the sun’s energy output and
changes in Earth’s weather and cli
mate.”
NASA said Dr. Richard Willson, a
physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulson
Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., found a
persistent decrease of a 10th of 1 per
cent in the total amount of the sun’s
energy reaching Earth.
“This is a small change in the total
energy output of the sun, but has
great potential significance for the
Earth’s fragile ecosystem,” Willson
said.
NASA said it is believed a 1 percent
decrease in radiation from the sun
reaching the Earth could lower
Earth’s global mean temperature by
more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit.
The information came from
NASA’s Solar Maximum Satellite,
launched in February 1980 to moni
tor solar radiation during the peak of
the solar output that occurs every 11
years.
The satellite suffered a control sys
tem problem for 10 months which
kept some of its instruments from
operating as planned.
The satellite, however, is designed
to be retrieved and repaired by space
shuttle astronauts and NASA is tenta
tively planning to carry out such a
space repair mission on a shuttle
flight late next year.
“The rejuventated satellite would
allow scientists to observe a wide
range of solar phenomena in a diffe
rent part of the solar activity cycle and
sustain solar irradiance monitoring
with the precision required for cli
mate studies,” NASA said.
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National 11
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Sports 14
State 4
What’s Up 7
forecast
Today’s Forecast: Windy, cloudy
and cool with a 30 percent chance
of rain; high today in the upper
60s; low tonight near 50. There is a
20 percent chance of rain tonight.
Thursday’s forecast calls for cloudy
skies with a high in the near 70.