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-'"N Thursday, September 29,1983/The Battalion/Page 7 R.I. by Paul Dirmeyer t* J iliolo by Guy Chandlfrin] the Academic quick catnap 7 ;ton, D.C., to c and agricultural pi national people gou ck of raising a Id nd donatingittoiM Congress to try tom tes on the Farml said. average farmer, es from a half-mi lown.” as said, “Farmers da g asked to give mow essman or senator>1 is drawing $60,W a year." ' think it’s wrong fori office to ask them o give to a man wliow o protect the farmtu place,” he said, lon’t feel like we sb buy ourselves a F» said. You Abfijfcis HURT THE ONE VOC/LOVE. Vet files big lawsuit, cites military police World’s fastest airplane SR-71 to star in show United Press International LUBBOCK — Highlighting the more than 20 types of aircraft on display at the Reese Air Force Base Open House Sunday will be the world’s fastest aircraft, the SR- 71 Blackbird reconnaissance plane. Another probable favorite slated for display is the world’s largest plane — the C-5 Galaxy transport. The Blackbird is an Amer ican plane which can travel 30 miles a minute and can to alti tudes over 80,000 feet. It was manufactured in the 1960s. Although spectators may view the SR-71 only from a dis tance, they will be allowed to walk through the C-5, which has a cargo compartment about the size of an eight-lane bowling alley. The C-5 is so large it resem bles a floating balloon as it glides to a landing, and its size makes the plane appear to travel much slower than its 100 mph flying speed. The Air Force says the C-5 was the only aircraft that can transport nearly any piece of the Army’s combat equipment, in cluding 74-ton mobile scissor bridges, tanks and helicopters. Base activities slated for the open house include a high per formance fighter demonstra tion and with F-15 jets and para chute jumping by an Army Green Beret jump team. Other scheduled activites in clude fly-bys of Reese’s jet train ers, an Army helicopter demon stration and a performance by the Air Force Military Working Dog unit from Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene. World War II aircraft of the Confederate Air Force also be on display. Texas teachers’ colleges called fraudulent by committee head United Press International LAREDO — A Vietnam veteran filed a $3 million federal lawsuit this week charging that Army military police dragged him away from a birthday party in 1981 and jailed him as a de serter without giving him a chance to produce his honorable discharge papers. Laredo businessman Roque Vela, charged that the Army En- glisted Records and Evaluation Center lost his discharge records and listed him as a deserter even though he had applied for Veterans Administration be nefits, gone to school on the GI Bill and been employed five years by the U.S. Postal Service. Vela’s lawsuit filed this week in Laredo federal court asks $1 million for negligence, $1 mil lion for false imprisonment and $1 million for violation of his civil rights. Vela was arrested at a birth day party for District Judge Antonio Zardanetta on Sept. 26, 1981, while his family and friends watched helplessly. His requests to be allowed to get his discharge papers from home were unheeded, he said. Within two days Vela was transported from the Webb County Jail to the stockade at Fort Sill, Okla. But it was not until Vela’s attorney arrived in Oklahoma with the discharge certificate and other documents on Sept. 29, 1981, that Vela, finally was released from custody, the suit said. S The suit charges that in addi tion to several violations of fed eral statues during the Purple Ht art winner’s four-day impris onment, his constitutional rights under the Fourth, Sixth and 14th Amendments were abridged. Prior to Vela’s arrest in Lare do, the suit said, Army officials had converted military records from paper to microfilm. At that time Army officials could not find Vela’s discharge records, so on July 15, 1967, they placed him on deserter status without contacting him to determine whether he had any documenta tion, the suit said. As a result, a “deserter pack et” was prepared and Vela’s name was placed on the Nation al Crime Information Center list, the suit said. The Laredo police depart ment informed Vela that the Army wanted him for desertion, the suit said. Vela said he showed Laredo police his hon orable discharge and they pas sed that information on to milit ary police at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. However, the suit contends that when Fort Sam Houston officials contacted a computer operator at the military records center about Vela’s document, they were told there had been no error. Named as defendants were Steven Gallant, who headed the military police team that arrested Vela; the Army En listed Records and Evaluation Center; the U.S. Army, which allegedly was negligent in not thoroughly investigating Vela’s claims, and the U.S. govern ment. PROBLEM PREGNANCY ' Are you considering Abortion? Confidential Free Pregnancy Testing & Referrals Call (713) 524-0548 Houston, Texas it United Press International AUSTIN — H. Ross Perot ac cused the state’s teachers’ col leges Wednesday of perpetuat ing a fraud upon Texas school- children by turning out incom petent, illiterate teachers who were more harmful than helpful to their students. Perot, chairing a meeting of his Select Committee on Educa tion, said 80 percent of the gra duates of Texas colleges of edu cation were unfit for the clas sroom. “How do schools rationalize recommending these incompe tent, illiterate people for teacher’s certificates?” Perot said. “We are damaging chil dren all over this state through incompetent teachers. “If this were a paving job in stead of colleges of education, we’d call it fraud and start send ing people to prison.” Perot’s comments were aimed at Dr. John Moore, presi dent of the Texas Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, who testified before the com mittee. “I’m interested in how we clean up our colleges of educa tion, not in your philosophy of education,” Perot told Moore when the Trinity University education college dean began his testimony. Moore admitted the 64 teacher colleges in Texas were “grossly uneven in quality.” He said the best way to improve them would be to establish a strict set of standards and weed out inferior schools. His recommendation also ired Perot, who said a standard setting board of which Moore was a member had dawdled for four years without agreeing on stricter college entrance and exit standards lor teacher candi dates. ATTCNTION CHI O S Tee-off time 8:30 Tonight '€ Country Club Be There! (*t4c eefi/tecd wxnicrfUi ut T’tn Somectdhene itt "Time SST^?. 29 730 & (ludden. 701 9*45 7ic(ict^ $1.00 PE* man in another caiu is genitals to her. IER: >erson was arrested while intoxicated i a weapon. The per* a breath test, bm a blood test. He St. Joseph Hospital! test, which pt ed his intoxication.li olice tookhiratolri! Jail. iversity Police trofa 1979 Ford pi urn with din iad been repi Iveston. The he truck to his iui was never paid vehicle back. 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