etc.
Hydrogen
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about 200 times more expensive
than silicon. That’s the point of
our work.”
Despite Bockris’ modesty about
the discovery, media reaction to
the announcement was swift. Two
separate press conferences had to
be held Thursday to accommodate
press representatives, who arrived
from all over the world.
United Press International and
the Associated Press had represen
tatives on campus — as did News
week and the London Times.
ABC, CBS and NBC covered
the story as well as television sta
tions in Houston, Dallas, Fort
Worth and Austin.
The University’s Office of Pub
lic Information was in telephone
contact with the Wall Street Jour
nal, the New York Times, the Brit
ish Broadcasting Corp., Reuters,
USA Today, Science Magazine,
Popular Science, the Australian
News Service and radio stations
from across the country.
The daily routine in the Che
mistry Building laboratory, where
the discovery was made, was dis
rupted as Szklarczyk and Contrac
tor were besieged by reporters and
photographers throughout the
day.
Contractor jokingly told one re
porter that he was going to give up
research and go to Hollywood.
Contractor recieved his under
graduate and doctoral degrees
from the Indian Institute of Tech
nology and did post-doctoral work
at Carleton University of Canada.
He is married and has one child.
Szklarczyk received his docto
rate from the University of
Warsaw.
Bockris, 59, is a native of South
Africa. He recieved his undergra
duate degree from Brighton
Technical College and his doctoral
degree from the British Imperial
College of Science and Tech
nology.
Bockris came to Texas A&M in
1978 as a professor of chemistry.
He is the director of the Universi
ty’s Hydrogen Research Center.
He has taught and conducted
research at various foreign univer
sities, including the University of
Witwatersrand in South Africa
and the University of South Au
stralia. He was the director of the
Electrochemistry Laboratory of
the University of Pennsylvania for
10 years.
He has been a leading advocate
of hydrogen power for several
years. In 1980, he wrote: “The
most essential point is for people to
realize there is an alternate to ato
mic power.
Bockris has been an American
citizen since 1962.
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Critics claim U.N.
ineffective, impotent
United Press International
NEW YORK — The United
Nations is anything but united.
Its two main bodies — the
General Assembly and the
Security Council — are roundly
disrespected and universally
ignored.
Critics say the United Nations
is nothing more than a carnival
of slick jugglers and selfserving
sideshow-men who come to New
York City to eat in posh re
staurants, illegally park their
limousines and shamelessly
chase tall blondes.
Its elite 15-member Security
Council is characterized as an
angry therapy group that meets
periodically and succeeds only
in exposing 15 rather ugly egos
rather than settling internation
al conflicts.
And after 37 years of nego
tiating, talking and resolution
passing, world peace remains an
unfound chalice buried some
where under a desert waste of
words.
zation concedes the U.N. is im
potent and ineffective.
In a frank year-end appraisal,
U.N. Secretary General Javier
Perez de Cuellar said the U.N.
had failed to prevent or halt war.
“The Security Council, the
primary organ of the United
Nations for the maintenance of
internatonal peace and security,
all too often finds itself unable to
take decisive action to resolve in
ternational conflicts, and resolu
tions are increasingly defied or
ignored by those that feel them
selves strong enough to do so,”
said Perez de Cuellar.
“Too frequently, the Council
seems powerless to generate the
support and influence to ensure
that its decisions are respected,
even when these are taken
unanimously.”
International brush-fire wars
could erupt anywhere, Perez de
Cuellar said.
“Even in human rightsii
promoted a double standi |
The U.N. has been a
even according to some of
supporters
She advocates selectivefui
ingof U.N. programs and iB |
the United States should if
fund programs “contrary toi
U.N.defenders claim the
world body is necessary because
it keeps the would-be shooters
talking instead of shooting; its
detractors say the U.N. doesn’t
even know about the shooting
until the Security Council Finds
itself knee-deep in spent rifle
cartridges.
Even the person in charge of
the 157-member world organi
“We are perilously near to a
new international anarchy.”
Critic Juliana Geron Pilon of
the Heritage Foundation in
Washington says the U.N. does
the opposite of what its charter
advocates by politicizing issues
rather than solving them.
interests like UNESCO.’
She has little hope that i
U.N. will change and become!
effective peace-keeping body
“I won’t call the illnessaffec
ing the U.N. a cancer, butitii
very serious illness which ■ f Un
indeed not be curable,’’shesaif | ITH/
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crisis, U.S. Ambassador totl Bected
U.N. Jeanne Kirkpatrick Si pounds,
the U.S. was “impotent” an Becord
“amateurish” in its dealings! above la
the U.N. and saw a bleakfuw from we
for the U.S. at the United Af’tei
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Former U.S. Ambassador: ting a hi
the U.N. Daniel P. Moynfc tageofl
went even further in his crittl Stiles,
ism and railed against what k pomolo
called the George Orwell
state of the General Assembly
In a speech at the U.N.!:
decried the sham that he sai
characterized U.N. delibcB
“The United Nations has
done practically nothing. It has
done very little in the area of
peace keeping and for that mat
ter in other areas as well,” she
said.
lions.
“The General Assembly^
coming the Theater of tb
Absurd. We pretend seriousntf
to an audience that by no 1
understands that is all 1
tense,” Moynihan said.
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