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=local / state Battalion/Page 4 October 14, 1982 Around town Parade deadline approaches The deadline for applying to be a part of the Bryan-College Station Holiday Parade to be held Nov. 21 has been Ex tended to Friday, Oct. 15. Rodger Lewis, parade chairman, says only three Texas A&M groups have entered, not count ing the Aggie Band and the Ross Volunteers. Parade entries are open to all school organizations, clubs, civic groups and merchants, but all entries are subject to the approval by the parade committee. All entries are eligible for prizes. St. Mary’s Church plans festival St Mary’s Catholic Church will host its annual Fall Festival on Sunday with lots of games, entertainment, fellowship and a barbecue meal. The students of Texas A&M, as well as everyone in Brazos and the surrounding counties, are invited to attend to festiv al. Activites will get under way at 11:30 a.m. and will con tinue until 6 p.m. A barbecue beef and sausage meal and all the trimmings will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Plates will be $4 for adults and $2 for children under 10. Festivities planned for the day include an auction, a raf fle, a cake walk and an arts and crafts store. There will also be many children’s booths. St. Mary’s Catholic Church is located at 103 Nagle across from the University Instant editor course to be held A short course to acquaint first-time editors with the steps involved in producing brochures, leaflets, bulletins and other types of printed communication will be held Saturday, Oct. 30 in Rudder Tower. The short course, sponsored by the Department of Com munications at Texas A&M University and the Brazos Val ley Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators, will run from 9:00 a.m. to noon in Room 401 Rudder Center. Topics will range from copy writing, editing and graphic design as well as how to identify your audience, where to get your job printed and distributing your final product. The cost is $10 for faculty and staff members and $5 for students. Enrollment is limited to the first 50 registrants. For more information contact Ellen McDaniel in the Depart ment of English. Outdoor institute to hold workshops The Texas A&M Outdoor Education Institute has announced two fall workshops. The first, called “A Black Powder & Muzzleloading Experience” will be held Saturday, Oct. 30, 9:30-4:00 p.m. The purpose of the workshop is to learn the history of firearms and “the excitement of shooting black powder mountain rifles.” The workshop fee is $12 and anyone over 12 years of age is invited to attend. The workshop is limited to 20 persons, and will meet at Room 1 I9A G. Rollie White Coliseum at 9:30 on Oct. 30. It will later move to the Annex Rifle Range. The second workshop sponsored by the Outdoor Insti tute is a ski class and is offered at three levels. Level one is for people who have never skied before and covers boot Fitting, understanding of the modern boot ski and pole func tion, falling and recovery, kick turn, herringbone, side step and snowplow. Level two, for people who have skied once or twice, reviews level one and covers skills such as parallel to a stop, traverses, uphill turns, downhill turns and side slips. The most advanced class (for those who have skied at least 4 times) covers all of level two and hop Christies, skidded turns and carved turns. The dates for the classes are: Level one - Saturday, November 6 (1-5 p.m.) Level two - Sunday, Nov. 7(1-5 p.m.) and Level three - Sunday, Nov. 21 (1-5 p.m.). The fee is $12 for each session. There is no maximum age limit, but chil dren must be at least seven years old to attend. The work shop will be held at the Mt. Aggie ski slope across the street and east of Kyle field. Those interested in registering for either class should send a check (made payable to TAMU Outdoor Education Workshop) and a card with name, mailing address, phone number and desired class to Dr. Mickey Little, Outdoor Education Institute, Texas A&M University, College Sta tion, TX 77843 or phone 845-3458. If you have an announcement or interesting item to submit for this column, come by The Battlion office in Room 216 Reed McDonald or call Tracey Taylor at 845-2611. A small space in the right place makes... A BIG SALE! The Battalion Classifieds 845-2611 0 U.S. needs better civil defense by Brian Boyer Battalion Reporter An American civil defense program would be an effective deterrent against a Soviet nuc lear attack, a nuclear scientist said Wednesday. “It (a civil defense program) is our only way out in the long run,” said Dr. Edward Teller, a member of the White House Sci ence Council. “The answer is not disarmament.” Teller, a former member of the World War II Manhattan Project team that pioneered the atom bomb, said that an ef fec tive civil defense would increase the number of American survi vors in the event of a nuclear conflict. The Soviet Union will not risk a nuclear exchange un less it is sure it can win, he said. However, a Soviet victory is a possibility under current condi tions, he said. “As it stands today, the Soviet nuclear power is at least three times as great as the American (nuclear power). They probably can destroy us.” The Soviets have been pur suing a civil defense policy since World War II, Teller said. He estimated that 90% of the Soviet population would survive an all- out nuclear exchange. Only ab out 50% of the American popu lation would survive such a con flict, which the Soviet Union could recover from quickly and rule the world, he said. To even the odds, the United States needs to employ an “ac tive defense” in addition to a civil defense, Teller said. An ac tive defense would involve nuc lear weapons designed to des troy attacking Soviet missiles. He said he could not elaborate on his work in the field of active defense weapons because the in formation was classified by the United States government. It is useless to classify such in formation since it is already in the hands of the Soviets, Teller said. Keeping ideas for active defense secret merely hinders research, he said. However, such obstacles can be overcome and the United States could have a strong civil defense in three years, he said. “If this (civil defense policy) catches on throughout the free world, I believe there is still time, but not much time, in which to save ourselves.” staff photo by Robert Snider Dr. Edward Teller calls for civil defense, not disarmament. Company dumps Soviet request United Press International The developer of a patented coal-alcohol slurry fuel says his company turned down a request by the Soviet Union to buy the technology and he hopes Occidental Petroleum and Bechtel Corp. will do the same. Leonard J. Keller, president of Methacoal Corp. of Dallas, said Tuesday his company was approached in March by Italian businessmen who wanted to obtain the technologies for (he Soviet Union. “Methacoal discussed this Soviet proposal with of ficials of the U.S. Department of Com merce, then unilaterally elected not to seek a license, at this time, to export these technologies,” Keller said. GETTING OUT Rudder Forum 8 : 00 OCT. 7,8,9 and 14,15,16 Tickets available atMSC box office or at the door im mm “Doing so would have been opposed to the U.S. government policy regarding the export of technology to Soviet block coun tries, and to the spirit of the president’s announced inten tions regarding such exports,” he said. “It is hoped that other companies will follow Methacoal Corp.’s example of cooperation with government policy.” Keller’s statements followed news stories last week reporting Occidental Petroleum chairman Armand Hammer had discus sed a coal-alcohol slurry pipeline project with Soviet of ficials. The reports said Hammer and two officials of Bechtel Corp. had discussed with Soviet Foreign Minister Nikolai Pato- lichev the possibility of con structing a major pipeline to car ry liquefied coal from Siberia to the Moscow area. Keller said his company took the technology to Bechtel at the advice of the U.S. Office of Coal Research in 1973. He said the technology to produce a slurry made of about 60 percent powdered coal and 40 percent crude methanol be longs to his company and Bech tel was not licensed for it. Keller emphasized that he was not accusing Bechtel of violating any patent. In San Francisco, Bechtel spokesman Larry Thomas said the question of what kind of tech nology would be required in the project and who at Bechtel would provide it is “greatly premature." “Our involvement in this par ticular project began less than a month ago,” Thomas said. “There have been no arrange ments made between Bechtel and Occidental nor between Occidental and the Soviet Union.” Thomas said Bechtel semtwc senior people to Moscow will Hammer only “to hear what the Soviets were seeking to do.’ “Bechtel would not become involved nor would the proj proceed without the blessingo the U.S. government,” Thotnai said. 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