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Battalion% October 20,1< 1 y The Batt I H Site- S Serving the University community 76 No. 37 USPS 045360 18 Pages i tly after World WarlvB College Station, Texas Thursday, October 21, 1982 ,s ■! dairy cooperaiJ e has becomeafamilvo ration. P on his father’s doi *• Kruse took w se's brother, Howard; president and prodoc § by Robert McGlohon » OWK ’". l i Battalion SufF hk n. But we cani:Jp or a momenti it sounded like a imk we re greatandbeMte,- ou t of a spy novel. But it Formula not missing placent. Bed out to be a good deal less than hat. ■ Paul Harvey, in a newscast Wnesday, said papers concerning liydrogen fuel production process ■eloped by a Texas A&M research i were missing for several hours 7, the day the hydrogen discov- Bwas announced, and implied that irporate espionage was suspected. FBI and CIA are investigating, Ifvey said. ■However, Lane Stevenson, dire ctor of the Texas A&M Office of Pub lic Information, said the report was false and was caused by mixed-up in formation. “The patent application (for the process) was misplaced for several hours on the day of the announce ment,” Stevenson said. “The FBI and the CIA just happened to be here at the time.” Bill Craven, manager of the Texas * A&M Hydrogen Research Center, said the FBI and CIA were here to interview Dr. John O. Bockris, the head of the research team that made the hydrogen discovery, about an up coming trip to the Soviet Union. Bockris has made several trips to the Soviet Union. CIA and FBI inter views before each trip are routine, Craven said. The mix-up occurred when Craven had an interview with a De troit radio station Tuesday, he said. During the interview, he told the radio station reporter the patent ap plication for the process was missing for about four hours on the day of the original announcement. Later in the interview Craven told the reporter the CIA and FBI were present during the press conferences. “I firmly believe that the fellow I talked to from the Detroit radio sta tion stretched it out of proportion to make it sound interesting to Paul Harvey,” Craven said. “Paul Harvey is a good man. I listen to him all the time. I’m surprised he didn’t call us to check the facts.” Lillian Bockris, speaking for her husband while he is out of the coun try, said Harvey also reported the re searchers are producing hydrogen for 50 cents a gallon. That is false, she said. “The figures as quoted in the ori ginal interviews are still active and correct,” she said. American economist given ; _J:he fifth 1982 Nobel prize M '3N United Press International STOCKHOLM, Sweden — At a newhen economic difficulties have lead throughout the world, the |yal Academy of Sciences Wedns- ^ was revealing this year’s winner of controversial Nobel Economics :e. | The Economics award was insti- ed only in 1969 and is officially led the Bank of Sweden prize in pnomic sciences in memory of ttied Nobel, who patented his ill ation, dynamite, in 1862. The Kzes were begun in 1901. I Like the prizes in other fields, the lard this year is worth $157,000. I The prize was first given at a time pen economists confidently pre- |cted monetary trends on the domestic and international fronts. Over the years, however, econo mics has lost some of its luster as theories have not stood up in practice, and laureates themselves have de rided the Nobel award. The 1974 winner Gunnar Myrdal, whose wife Alva Myrdal won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, has called for the withdrawal of the economics honor. Myrdal said economics is a “soft,” or inexact, science, meaning econo mic theories cannot be proved the way hypotheses can be tested in phy sics or chemistry. He apologized for accepting his award, pleading he was practically asleep and “off my guard” when noti fied. He did not explain why he did not decline in the three months be tween the announcement and the award ceremony. The Nobel committee defends the prize despite the inevitable mix of politics with economics. When Milton Friedman, the apostle of hard-line monetarist economic policy, won in 1976, there were street demonstra tions in Sweden. The 1981 economics honor went to American James Tobin for his analy sis of financial markets and how in vestment decisions are made. Americans have swept the field since 1969, taking 10 of the 19 prizes handed out. Britain trails a poor second with three winners. No woman has won a Nobel Economics Prize. This is the fifth of this year’s Nobel award ' announcements. The final one, literature, falling this year on Alfred Nobel’s 149th birthday, will be announced Thursday. This year’s medicine prize, announced last week, was won by Sune K. Bergstrom and Bengt I. Samuelsson of the Karolinska Insti tute in Sweden, and Dr. John Vane of Wellcome Laboratories in Britain. The Peace Prize was awarded to Mrs. Myrdal of Sweden and Alfonso Garcia Roblez of Mexico. On Mon day, the physics prize went to Ken neth G. Wilson of Cornell University, and the chemistry prize to Aaron Klug of Cambridge University. Staff photo by John Ryan Starting off young Eight-month-old Amelia Mease from Bryan starts off early in the rigors of studying as she mimics Sammy Reese, a freshman architecture major from Houston, with the best object she could find — her bottle. Labor strike erupts into vandalism tudy of alternate bonfire sites ecommended due to hazards by Rebeca Zimmermann Battalion Staff \s Texas A&M University adminis- and students prepare for bon- [T 'h' 8 y ear > <)ne question is being Is it safe? The Environmental Health and |fety Committee says the bonfire at is present location “presents a serious Izard to surrounding buildings, plates fire safety and building code Igulations and should, therefore, tot be located at its present site.” ■ The advisory committee — made •B) of faculty members from various ■niversity departments — has re- jbmmended a study of alternate bon fire sites to Howard Vestal, vice presi- tlent of business affairs. James H. Marsh III, chairman of be committee and a building con- Iruction professor, said the group fes discussed both safe and unsafe Bpects of bonfire. Log cutting and tractor use are |Te, Marsh said. Tractor safety was brought into hestion last year when Wiley Keith apling, a sophomore agricultural konomics major, fell from a tractor hd was killed during work on bon- |re. bonfire safety study, completed in September, was set up to identify, evaluate and control hazards. To pro tect against tractor accidents, a no rider policy is being enforced this year. One of the dangers of bonfire this year could be the proximity of build ings — especially the new University Press Building — to the bonfire site, Marsh said. The committee hasn’t found any specific violations, but is concerned primarily with overall safety, he said. “We certainly didn’t recommend cancelling the bonfire,” he said. “We talked about alternate sites.” College Station Fire Chief Douglas W. Landua agreed the current bon fire site endangers nearby homes and property. A different site might pose less danger to College Station residents, he said. The west campus and Texas World Speedway, south of College Station on Highway 6, have been mentioned as alternate sites. “I would definitely like to get it out of the city limits,” Landua said. “It creates a problem no matter where it is. It’s definitely hazardous to city resi dents if we have a north wind. It all depends on which way the wind blows as to whose property is endangered. “All we can do is try our best to prevent things from getting out of hand.” If the wind blows from the north, homes along Jersey Street are in the line of fire, whereas a south wind could threaten University buildings. “I do receive continuous com plaints each and every year from citizens on the south side (of College Station),” he said. “No matter where you have it — if it’s dry and windy — you’re going to have a problem.” Landua said he is not aware of any fire code violations because the Uni versity is exempt from College Station ordinances. Elmer E. Schneider Jr., assistant chief of operations for the University Police, also said he isn’t aware of any fire code violations. Charles R. “Chuck” Cargill, vice president for operations, said the pros and cons of bonfire have been discussed many times. “This has been brought up every year,” Cargill said. “It’s an emotional issue. We need to continue to discuss it.” The Environmental Health and Safety Committee is supervised by Vestal’s office, but will report to Car gill when the vice president for busi ness affairs position is eliminated with Vestal’s retirement in January. Cargill said he hasn’t had a chance to study the report, but said he be lieves the bonfire hazards haven’t in creased since the construction of the new press building. But the safety questions will be con sidered, and a committee to study and consider bonfire safety may be formed, he said. “We will give it (the bonfire safety issue) a high priority,” he said. Landua and Schneider mentioned another problem created by the bon fire’s present site — traffic congestion on Jersey Street. If an emergency arises somewhere, the congestion slows down the re sponse time of emergency vehicles, Landua said. This happens every year, he said. But Schneider said University police officers help keep roads open for emergency vehicles and direct traffic. “It’s like any large event we have scheduled,” he said. United Press International GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Two officials of the United Food and Commercials Workers Union were arrested early Wednesday on suspi cion of shooting out windows in three buildings of a supermarket chain in volved in a labor dispute with the union. Police said Michael U. Christy, 44, of Richardson, Texas, and Warren Shawn Barcley, 30, of Mission, Kan., were arrested by Sgt. Harry Long ab out 3 a.m. at the end of a chase on Interstate 70 that reached speeds of 90-95 mph. Officers also recovered a .22rifle from the edge of the highway which they said was thrown from the fleeing vehicle. Long said the suspects, who said they worked for the union, offered no resistance when they gave up the chase and stopped their car. The men were held in the Mesa County Jail pending an advisement hearing Wednesday. A spokeswoman for the union’s Re gion 10 headquarters in Dallas con firmed Christy is the assistant to re gional director Eugene Britton in Dallas arid Barclay is an international representative of the union stationed in Kansas City, Mo. Local No. 7 of the UFCWU struck the City Markets grocery store chain in Grand Junction on Sept. 9 and em ployees stayed off their jobs about one month. Athough no contract agree ment was reached, the union em ployees returned to work earlier this month under the threat of losing their jobs. Since then, the windows of City Market stores have been broken at least twice by someone firing marbles from a sling shot. Early this morning, bullets were used shoot out the 22 windows in two City Market stores and a warehouse. “There has been no corelation made between the previous incidents and these people we have now,” a police spokesman said. Lt. Harvey Gorbey, the watch com mander on the overnight shift, said five windows were shot out at the Orchard City Market, 4 windows at East Gate City Market and 13 at the warehouse. “This is the first time that bullets been used in this labor dispute,” he said. There have been no injuries in any of the incidents. Long said he headed east on 1-70 after hearing a report of the shoot ings over his police radio. He said he spotted a car matching the descrip tion of a vehicle given over the radio and chased it about two miles. Charles Mercer, president and chief negotiator for the local union based in Denver, was in Grand Junc tion and unavailable for comment on the arrests. The spokeswoman in Dallas said Christy had been staying in Grand Junction for continuing contract negotiations with the supermarket chain. Informational picket lines have stayed up outside the supermarkets and shoppers have been asked to boycott City Market stores until the union employees get pay raises equal to those won by their counterparts in Denver and other cities along Colora do’s Front Range. Israeli forces plan long stay U.S. senator John Tower from Texas discusses his upcoming question and answer session for Political Forum with (left to right) George Bernhard, program staff photo by David Fisher director for Political Forum, David Alders, student senate member and Beverly Rutledge, national programming director. See related story on page 3. United Press International Israeli forces built a military warn ing station, paved roads and erected winter shelters for a long stay in Leba non, posing new obstacles to U.S. hopes for the early withdrawal of foreign forces from the war-ravaged nation. Israel’s Bamahane armed forces magazine said Wednesday the station went up on the 6,600-foot Jabal al Barouk mountain — in southeast Lebanon at the edge of a proposed 25-33 mile demilitarized zone Israel seeks north of its border. Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, on a tour to the United States, France and Italy in search of support to rebuild Lebanon, arrived today at Rome’s Ciampino military airport for a 24-hour visit. Police — edgy over a terrorist bomb that damaged the Lebanese Embassy in Rome Wednesday — in creased security precautions both for his departure from Paris’ Orly air field and for the arrival in Rome. Italian Foreign Minister Emilio Colombo greeted Gemayel, who im mediately was whisked off to a visit with the pope. Before leaving the airport, Gemayel, who reportedly will invite Pope John Paul II to visit Lebanon during Christmas, said the pope would be safe in Lebanon because “everybody loves him.” Asked what he thought about the bomb attack, Gemayel said, “No prob lem. That’s something usual for us.” In Washington, officials said Tues day President Reagan was “seriously” considering a request from Lebanese President Amin Gemayel to bolster U.S. peace-keeping forces in Lebanon. Israeli troops delayed a pullout from Lebanon’s battle scarred Shouf mountains Tuesday because of fears the Lebanese army could not quell bloody factional fighting. Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Hofi, former di rector of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, was to be the first witness in today’s opening hearing on the Sept. 16-18 Palestinian massacre, a com mission spokesman said Tuesday. inside Around town. 4 Classified 8 National 9 Opinions 2 Sports 15 State 4 What’s up.. . 14 foiecast Continued clear and dry through the weekend. High 70, low tonight in mid 50s.