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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
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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.
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“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.
Keller said the use of Media-
coal fuel in the Soviet Union;
would replace great quantitiesof
fuel oil and petroleum and “allow
the Soviets to become a majorer
porter of crude oil and pet
roleum products to Western
Europe and other world mar
kets.”
The coal-alcohol slurry fuel'
can be burned as received
through a pipeline or oceait
going tanker as a replacement
for fuel oils in modified oil-fired
boilers, furnaces and kilns, he
said. It also can be separated
form a dry, powdered carbon
fuel for burning in coal-ft
facilities.
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