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features Battalion/Page 3B November 4, 1982 Candidate’s wife steals signs United Press International WAUWATOSA, Wis. — Poli tical campaigns make people do strange things. Just ask the wife of a state Assembly candidate who was caught stealing signs belonging to her husband’s opponent. “I’m just sick about it,” said Grace Bottoni, who paid a $234 bond and was freed Sunday night. “My husband is not even aware of it. He was asleep when I came home and I didn’t tell him.” Her husband, James, is the Democratic candidate against Republican Peggy Rosenzweig in the 67th state Assembly Dis trict. Bottoni said she and a 12- year-old girl she was taking home Sunday night saw a stack of Rosenzweig signs on the ground and picked them up. The girl then said she thought it would be funny to take a sign from a front yard. “1 was not thinking clearly and as an adult I should have been,” Bottoni said. Police officer Howard Bacon III said he saw the girl snatch a sign from a front yard and throw it in the back of a station wagon. When he stopped the station wagon, Bacon said, Mrs. Bottoni denied there were more signs. But Bacon said he saw signs sticking out from under a blank-T et covering the girl’s legs. When he asked what was under blank et, the girl said he couldn’t look because she didn’t have a skirt the same in t. This want to mu do ipacewatcher has eye m possible Mars trek CtlC v added ek some toiled Press International il'STON — Spacewatcher Oberg always is dreaming plumbing)! utsome exotic space mission niorlar ,i mother, but sometimes he tew Hoot it lesthem sound almost possi- -asin his latest essay on a iched up it- med mission to Mars by the brotherai# ^OOl. eir ltot |Sf THere is the p unc h ij ne ng[ lt .■front,” Oberg writes in his lidtti dot [pamphlet, Mission to Mars, said Loin* uand Concepts for the First condo ow j ne( i L anc lj n g. “A manne I )vemenit' <l j e( jj t|()n t0 ]yj ars j s technolo- wantedmj fty feasible as soon as we de ed an in 1 ®! : to do it.” , Admitting problems but be- oyIrit"” In jug they can be solved with to teplatF effort equaling the Apollo ng. CL " She * in-landing program, Oberg throdijisJ ties such a mission can bejus- ew bann^Uon scientific, economic, so- and political grounds. i in'-”' , -eally oug| is ex e nevcf JJ'Furthermore, it can be car- said. W lout by the end of this cen- ,f thedW [ with the equivalent expend- mseives m; eof about half of what it took , ledge of i 1 * the 1960s to sene Apollo ust simp 1 ' 5 ronauts to the moon,” Oberg can find' 1 ft. thesemi* y oberg, a McDonnell- itglas employee who works at Space Center and rksand writes about space on such fj iside, includes a warning. Hechiojl' He predicts American failure rh teacl' el j: advance the interplanetary a in offef mtier will not stop establish- iklets. W k of interplanetary civiliza- onstrafM*! nin the next century, utting ll Pi It will only “delay it a few de- jg furiit(|3 leswhile insuring that such a “arewill not necessar ily reflect characteristics and values of femporary North American pzation, nor benefits the de- |idants of today’s Amer- I The Russians might try to do st red red florid es. it, he said. It is, of course, only Oberg’s opinion that a manned mission to Mars is feasible by the end of this century. He assumes, perhaps inaccurately, that the problems which even he recog nizes can be solved. Many in the scientific com munity disagree with him. One informed observer calls his pamphlet science-fiction “fluff.” But his ideas, which he admits are based on the ideas of many others, are intriguing. The space shuttle makes pos sible the carrying of millions of pounds of payload into low Earth orbit. Oberg argues a man-to-Mars vehicle could be shipped up in parts and assem bled in parking orbit. One big barrier seems to be simply finding the propulsion system to carry men on a months-long mission from low Earth orbit to Mars. Oberg favors solar sail or electric prop ulsion technology. Rockets would require too much fuel. He doubts the early feasibility of solar sail propulsion, which might involve a miles-square foil surface catching photons from the sun just like cloth sails on Earth catch the wind. It is theoretical only and not proven. But Oberg is more optimistic about electric propulsion, which would use electrostatic repul sion of ions for thrust rather than the directed explosion of chemical fuels common in to day’s rockets. The concept of electric prop ulsion has been around since the mid-1950s and small-scale tech nological work has been under way for decades; NASA and the Soviets have tested ion-drive en gines in orbit but have not gone further. “Despite its revolutionary potential, electric propulsion technology remains essentially dead in the water,” Oberg writes. A key reason electric engine technology is “dead in the wa ter” is real applications would in volve enormous amounts of electricity, which might come from big nuclear reactors or so lar panels in space — so far only dreams. Another problem is the body’s inevitable adaptation to long periods of weig htlessness in a sealed, purified environment, a deterioriation of conditionin- ing and possibly immunization achieved on Earth. Exercise en route and drugs are partial answers. Oberg admits the insidious problem of bone deterioration in weightlessness is a long way from being solved. Molson presents the Canadian Tm Step Molson Golden Beer o Molson Ale Proudly brewed & bottled in Canada by North America’s oldest brewery imported by Martlet Importing Co., Inc., Great Neck, NY © 1982. m (($' NOTICE STUDENTS IN AGRICULTURE oterested in a teaching certificate in vocational agricul- ^ leaching jobs available in Texas & other states. ^ Let us explain certification requirements to you: ^ November 3 or 4 6:30 p.m. Room 101 Scoates Hall (Ag. Gn./Bldg.) Contact Gary Briers or Herman Brown at 845-2951 foi'I^ more information and/or come to our meeting. 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