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Horse course
starts Thursday
The Department of Animal
Science, which will begin its
annual horse short course
Thursday, will hold a sale of
more than 50 young regis
tered Quarter Horses at noon
Friday.
Both events will be held at
Texas A&M’s new Livestock
Pavilion on Jersey Street. Re
gistration for the sale, which is
open to the public at no cost,
begins at 7:30 a.m. A preview
of the sale horses will be held
at 8 a.m.
The horse short course in
cludes a Brazos County horse
farm tour, a visit to a ranch
which breeds Quarter Horses
for racing and a cutting horse
training clinic conducted by
Buster Welch, a professional
horse trainer.
A cutting horse contest,
sponsored by the National
Cutting Horse Association,
will end the two-day’s activi
ties on Friday at 6 p.m.
Preregistration for the
course costs $25, registration
costs $30. Registration begins
at 7:30 a.m. Thursday morn
ing. Dr. Gary Smith, acting
head of the Department of
Animal Science, will present
opening remarks at 8:20.
Proceeds from the horse
sale will be used for a new in
door horse arena being built
at FM 2818 and Turkey Creek
Road in College Station.
Shuttle gets economical satellite
United Press International
SPACE CENTER, HOUS
TON — The space shuttle Chal
lenger will carry an experimen
tal satellite next month made by
a West German company from
parts including scuba diving
tanks, helicopter lights and
structural tubes developed as
masts for sailing surfboards.
The 3,300-pound satellite
was built by Messerschmitt-
BolkowBlohm to demonstrate
how an orbiting platform can be
used for commercial purposes
such as materials processing and
surveying the Earth for mineral
deposits.
Since the satellite is designed
to utilize space for commercial
purposes at low cost, program
manager Konrad Moritz said
the company had to avoid the
high prices usually associated
with space hardware.
“We had to find ways where
we could save money,” he said
Monday at a briefing at the
Johnson Space Center. “The
overall goal of the program was,
if it’s not cheap, if we don’t find
ways, we don’t make it.”
The satellite, for example,
uses four scuba diving tanks to
hold the nitrogen gas used for
stabilization jets. Moritz said the
tanks are five times as heavy as
those built for space use, but “we
saved probably some $ 100,000.”
Instead of buying special
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lights made for spacecraft, MBB
used $10 lights made for heli
copters. Mortiz said they passed
all tests and probably saved the
company tens of thousands of
dollars.
He said the main structure of
the satellite is made from carbon
fiber reinforced tubes de
veloped by a Swiss company for
masts on sailing surfboards.
“We just took the production
line of them and made a space
product out of it,” he said. “It
turned out we had almost zero
development costs in this item.”
The satellite, called SPAS-01,
is worth $23 million. MBB’s in
vestment is only $3.5 million,
and MBB marketing manager
Dieter Davidts said the company
expects to recoup the invest
ment by flying the satellite at
least four more times. The Na
tional Aeronautics and Space
Administration charges $3 mil
lion for each flight.
The satellite is a secondary
payload on this mission. The
primary job of the flight, set to
start with launch June 18 from
Cape Canaveral, Fla., is to
launch two communications
satellites — one for Telesat
Canada and one for Indonesia.
The satellite built by MBB will
be launched and later retrieved
for the first time by a 50-foot
mechanical arm installed on the
Challenger.
Besides serving as a test sateli-
ite for NASA, the satellite car
ries six scientific experiments
for which the German!
Ministry of Researcht
MBB $7 million.
The company hopes I
out space on this sateil
more advanced platforml
future for a variety ofpi4
— primarily remote j/0'
space telescopes andi
processing operationstf
alize on the weightless
space to make specialn
Moriz said under t
pany’s ageement with!)
the satellite could even!
for military reconisj
cameras and other
for non-aggressive m
poses.
He said, however,thjJ
company’s potential i
are civilian in nature.
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United Press International
MARCO ISLAND, Fla. —
Gregory T. Mershad phoned
security when he discovered
$1,000 worth of property was
missing from his hotel room.
But Mershad was reporting
the theft of cocaine -L and he
wound up in jail instead of en
joying a vacation with his girl
friend.
Mershad, 21, of Dayton,
Ohio, reported the theft of
$1,000 worth of cocaine from
his room Sunday night at the
plush, 500 room Marriott Marco
Beach Resort.
Drug charges
‘white-collar types
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United Press International
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Federal
prosecutors say the 40 people
named in the first major indict
ments from President Reagan’s
anti-narcotics task force were
“white-collar types” who fi
nanced and organized the
smuggling of $800 million
worth of marijuana and hashish.
About a dozen of those in
dicted have been arrested, in
cluding two in custody in Au
stralia, authorities said Monday
in announcing the indictments
from “Operation Jackpot.”
Ticking,” U.S. Attorney Henry
Dargan McMaster said at a news
conference. “These aren’t the
The defendants, mostly from
South Carolina, were traced to
alleged narcotics operations
through a “paper trail” of bank
drafts, passports and other
documents.
“These are all upper-level or
mid-level people in drug traf-
peddlers out on the streets —
these are white-collar types.
“These are the first major in
dictments coming from Presi
dent Reagan’s special task force
on drug trafficking,” McMaster
said.
The defendants were named
in two indictments. The first in
volved 159,600 pounds of mari
juana valued at $153.2 million
and 30,000 pounds of hashish
valued at $84 million. The
second indictment concerns
187,500 pounds of marijuana
worth $180 million and 130,000
pounds of hashish worth $364
million.
The drugs allegedly have
been smuggled into the country
since 1975.
“The indictments reach peo
ple behind the scenes
believe have been orp
financing and operatii
smuggling ventures
punity for years,"
said.
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smuggling and if thest®
leave the scene, theylB
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In addition to thosei:
eight people have pleact:
to drug charges in tht|
McMaster said.
The charges include^
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and hashish, illegal tm 1 !
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HOUSTON - Seward, is
ployees of the main Nuoted t
post office have been iBy and
and charged with buyi®
selling marijuana andefti''
the post office.
Postal inspectors
arrests over the tveekei
the result of a six-montlj
cover operation.
“What we basically ft
that it is not too wides||
Chief Postal InspectorJk
vinski said.
Slavinski said the irA u
tion showed only smalla®ETR<
of drugselling were im#ce edu
Edward Pickard, 25. ’btes in
lie E. Russell, 37, were[Fg,abet
with cocaine delivery pchers:
Benjamin, 34, RobertPw r oblem,
and Russell were charjfl|“A sh<
selling marijuana. Greg'M matl
son, 26, and WJ. HrW'd ir
were charged with posst£0rsen,”
marijuana. Hubert R foe Man
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