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Vol 78 No. 71 USPS 0453110 12 pages
College Station, Texas
Monday, December 12,1983
American missiles protested
in 2 countries, 43 arrested
United Press International
Whooping and blowing horns,
more than 30,000 women demons
trated outside a U.S. cruise missile
base in England Sunday while the
anti-nuclear movement in West Ger
many protested for the third day out
side three U.S. military bases.
Police, using nightsticks to break
up demonstrations in Frankfurt,
arrested 43 people Sunday in both
countries.
The European demonstrations
marked the fourth anniversay of the
Dec. 12, 1979, NATO decision to de
ploy 108 Pershing-2 missiles and 464
cruise nuclear missiles to counter
Soviet SS-20 missiles aimed at western
Europe.
In one of Britain’s biggest protests
this year, a crowd estimated by witnes
ses at 30,000 whooped in American
Indian fashion, blew trumpets and
danced outside the U.S. Air Force
cruise missile base at Greenham
Common.
“Every hour throughout the day
we will create a sound around
Greenham, on the principle of the
walls of Jericho,” a spokeswoman
said, referring to the Biblical story in
which Joshua blew a trumpet and the
walls of the ancient city fell down.
The demonstrators also trained
mirrors on the facility “to turn the
base inside out,” she said.
Some demonstrators tried to tear
down a section of a fence surrounding
the base. Police made 16 arrests.
Hundreds of women who had
traveled to the base Saturday camped
during the night in freezing weather.
Some laid wreaths mourning the
arrival of the cruise missiles last
month. Others planted trees as a sym
bol of new life.
In West Germany, demonstrations
and blockade attempts continued for
a third day at U.S. bases near Frank
furt, Stuttgart and Mutlangen, 35
miles east of Stuttgart, although the
groups were much smaller than
Saturday’s protests.
Twenty-seven people were
arrested to raise the three-day arrest
total to 500, police said.
In Frankfurt, riot police used
nightsticks three times to disperse de
monstrators who surrounded trucks
bringing police to and from a U.S.
maintenance center, a police spokes
man said.
At Mutlangen, police arrested
seven people who tried to pull down a
barbed wire fence around a brigade
arms depot and 20 others who block
ed police vehicles.
About 100 people gathered at the
depot Sunday compared to the 5,000
who had demonstrated Saturday. Ab
out 500 demonstrated in Frankfurt
and about 30 in Stuttgart.
West Germany is scheduled to get
all of the Pershing-2 missiles and 96 of
the 464 cruise missiles being deployed
in western Europe.
An anti-missile spokesman said the
protests will continue at Mutlangen,
location of the U.S. Army’s 56th Field
Artillery Brigade, which is listed by
the Army as a Pershing brigade, in
stead of ending Monday as scheduled.
“We will continue our actions over
Christmas and into the new year,” he
said.
NATO’s 1979 “two-track” decision
called for deploying the new weapons
while continuing to negotiate.
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Pentagon sees problems ahead
for AT&T monopoly breakup
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Defense De
partment officials, waiting nervously
for two years for the breakup of the
AT&T communications monopoly,
face a telephone D-Day with nothing
but problems in view.
The Pentagon’s worries range
from keeping the new bills straight to
maintaining the Washington-Moscow
hot line to assuring an effective com
munications system in the event of
nuclear war.
“It’s going to lay more of an admi
nistrative and technical burden on
us,” said Donald Latham, the deputy
defense undersecretary for com
munications. “We’re going to have to
deal with it, that’s all.”
Latham, the Pentagon’s chief wor
rier about the impact on national
security of the Jan. 1 breakup of
American Telephone & Telegraph
Co., has been preparing for the event
for 18 months with a view toward
added costs, a loss of Quality in equip
ment and service and the danger of
foul-ups during an emergency.
A government brief, presented
earlier this year during the court con
sideration of the breakup, noted the
president, the Strategic Air Com
mand and the North American
Aerospace Defense Comnjand “rely
heavily upon commercial carriers for
command and control communica
tions.”
In fact, SAC’s system for communi
cating with bomber and missile forces
worldwide “relies totally upon com-
rnerciai teleconlmunications re-
sburces,” the brief said — meaning
AT&T lakes care of the system used
to put America’s nuclear forces on
alert and, if necessary, to send them
out to Armaggedon.
If the average householder is con
fused by the array of phone bills arriv
ing in the newly thickened monthly
billings, consider that the Defense De
partment expects to pay $1.3 billion
for long distance and local calls this
fiscal year, making it the telephone
company’s biggest customer. It relies
on the Bell System for 95 percent of
its communications.
Another $2 billion will be spent on
communications equipment and re
lated costs that include manpower.
The figures alone indicate that any
monkeying with the phone company,
legal or otherwise, will have a major
impact on the Defense Department,
'which has complained bitterly in offi
cial testimony and privately about
efforts to break up America’s biggest
private monopoly.
The Pentagon expects the Jan. 1
divestiture that will spin off 21 sepa
rate Bell operating companies into
seven independent regional firms will
cause headaches in everything from
installing a phone to laying new cables
for worldwide communications. No
more will Ma Bell be taken for
granted.
“This country had an incredibly
good phone service,” Latham said
wistfully. “I think there will be a quali
ty issue” in the future.
Charles Brown, 62, the outgoing
chairman of AT&T, may have sum
med up the government’s attitude to
the breakup best of all.
Referring to the Pentagon and the
State Department in a recent state-
iiieni, he said, “TheyTe dealing in
matters of life and death. And when
they w’ant something done, they want
it done now, and they want it done
accurately and they want it main
tained well.
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The Cabbage Patch kids may
be going fast, but toy stores re
port they aren’t the only bumper
crops this year — fuzzy teddy
bears, worms that glow and talk
ing sports cars also are selling
out.
With only 13 days left until
Christmas, store clerks across
the country said there is a heavy
demand for dolls of all types —
from the ageless Barbie and GI
Joe to Baby Skates and the “Star
Wars” and “Masters of the Uni
verse” good guys and bad guys.
There was even a hot-selling
Mr. T doll.
“Have you ever seen a charac
ter on TV who wears earrings
yet is still manly?” Washington,
D.C., clerk Michael McKinney
said, trying to explain the popu
larity of the mean “A Team”
character with the Mohawk
haircut.
The Talking Knight 2000, a
replica of “Kit,” the fantasy auto
on the TV show “Knight Rider,”
was another top seller.
Preschoolers could look for
ward to Alfie 2, a computer toy,
and stockings full of the old
standbys — Legos, toy trucks
and cars, wooden trains and
puzzles.
“Some of our biggest items
are old faithfuls like Mr. Potato
Head and Cootie,” said assistant
store manager Roni Helford in
Woodfield, Ill.
If any stores had a Cabbage
Patch doll, they were mum ab
out it. The other 1983 super-
stars were the many pastel
varieties of Care Bears, with
their designer belly buttons, and
the soft and fuzzy Gloworm that
lights up when its stomach is
pressed.
Many stores reported popu
lar toys sold out and some manu
facturers said they had made
their last shipments.
“Cabbage Patch? Oh, gosh.
Nobody can find them. They’re
gone,” said an Albuquerque
store clerk. “Care Bear? They’re
gone. Big Foot (a toy truck)?
Those are all gone, too.”
Penny Richman, spokes
woman for the Toy Manufactur
ers of America, said most stores
order their toys at the New York
shows months before the holi
day season opens.
“There was a lot of caution on
the part of buyers last spring,”
she said. “They can’t foretell the
future, just guess at it.”
But Coleco Industries, the
firm that produced the Cabbage
Patch dolls, reported Santa’s
Hong Kong elves were still turn-
ing out thousands of the
poochy-faced creatures and
planeloads of them were wing
ing westward.
“We’re shipping 200,000 a
week,” said Coleco spokes
woman Barbara Wruck. “By
Dec. 31, we will have shipped
and sold in excess of 2.5 mil
lion.”
Some stores reported that
electronic games had taken a
back seat to traditional toys.
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About $5,000 remains to be raised
for the Village of Hope project to
meet the Christmas deadline.
J| In April, student organizations
i butheiscui 1 ' here made a pledge to raise $25,000
to be given to the Christian Chil
dren’s Fund to sponsor the project.
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icmann pla^ A&M to feed needy children in a
tching load o'" village in Colombia, South America,
dugger. |. The first step of the project is
ancial support, which has been
provided by local residents and
more than 50 University organiza
tions. Emil Odgen of College Sta-
. tion, a 1953 graduate of Texas
do he want,, contributed $5,000 to the
ittermort ’ project Wednesday, bringing the
s an expet project fund tota , to $2 0,000.
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tchingstat; of Texas A&M University Mothers’
Clubs has endorsed the University’s
efforts to sponsor the village and
added a personal contribution to the
fund.
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lasplaveti Sam Kellner, sponsor of the pro-
ree seasons': ject,said. “I don’t intend to rest until
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appropriate for the cause, he said.
“Christmas celebrates the birth of
a child born in a manger of a donkey
stall,” Kellner said, “and look what
happened to that child.”
The long-range goal of the pro
ject is to make the village self-
sustaining by instructing the natives
in technical and agricultural fields.
CCF already has located a pros
pective village, Kellner said. The de
sired village, a small mountain town
called Amaga, is home for about 100
children and is in the state of Antio-
quia in Colombia.
Eddie Stoker, an agronomy major
and student coordinator for the pro
ject, will travel to Amaga this month
to take soil samples and offer advice
on agriculture.
But it is uncertain what type of
help can be offered to the village,
Kellner said.
“We hope they’ll discover they
can grow a crop they’ve never heard
of — maybe a money crop,” Kellner
said. If that happens, the village
could become self-supporting in a
few years.
“We’re going to export some of
our technology and our motiva
tion.” he said. “We’ll be able to some-
how infuse the village with
optimism.”
Once the funds have been col
lected, they will be given to CCF,
Kellner said. CCF then will send the
money to an established mission in
the vicinity of the village and work
with that mission to establish a feed
ing program for the children of the
village.
If a mission is not close to the vil
lage, he said, CCF will establish a
mission of its own, equipped with
medical doctors and equipment.
“It’s a people-to-people project,”
Kellner said. “You know where your
money goes and you’re able to reach
out to people. That’s why the state of
Texas has applauded us.”
The project also is a “pure form of
Reagan volunteerism,” he said.
“This is why Ronald Reagan likes
the idea,” Kellner said.
In a letter dated Oct. 21, Presi
dent Ronald Reagan expressed
thanks to Kellner for informing him
about a project called the Village of
Hope.
See CCF page 10
United Way campaign not reaching goal
by Steve Thomas
Battalion Staff
The Brazos County United Way
fund drive is behind schedule be
cause some volunteers are dragging
their feet and because of the nega
tive effect of the organization’s de
nial of funding to Planned Parent
hood, local United Way officials said
this week.
Bob Fleischer, executive director
of the Brazos County chapter, said
the organization depends totally on
the work of volunteers as he and his
secretary are the only paid em
ployees.
The success — and the efficiency
— of the drive depends on the indi
vidual efforts of volunteers, he said,
some of whom are hard workers and
some of whom are “foot-draggers.”
Fleischer said the drive has
reached about 80 percent of its goal
— a little over $330,000 of the
$420,000 hoped for.
“It’s unfortunate that it has drag
ged out this late,” he said.
Charles Pinnell, co-chairman of
the Texas A&M United Way drive,
said he’s seen a difference between
the 1982 and the 1983 volunteers.
He said too many of the latter are
just passing out donor cards and not
getting involved in the push.
“That’s the big difference, its that
personal effort,” he said.
John Williams, Chairman of the
1983 drive and publisher of the
Bryan-College Station Eagle, said
reaching the goal is just a matter of
time.
“I think we will raise our money,”
he said. “It is just taking longer than
we would like.”
Williams wasn’t sure of all the
reasons for the delay, but said that
bad luck was a part of it. He used
three Texas A&M student projects
that were rained out as examples
that caused the student drive to be
far short of its $10,000 goal.
Pinnell said another factor that
may have contributed to the delay
was the United Way’s denial of
funding to Planned Parenthood.
Earlier this year when Planned
Parenthood applied for funding
from the United Way, the local
Catholic clergy and other religious
leaders threatened to boycott the
United Way if Planned Parenthood
was accepted. The National Organi
zation for Women threatened to
boycott if Planned Parenthood was
not accepted.
Two local United Way investiga
tive committees recommended
Planned Parenthood be accepted
for funding and the majority of the
local United Way’s board members
were supportive of Planned Parent
hood’s activities. Yet Planned Pa
renthood was rejected.
Williams said he also supports
Planned Parenthood, but the deci
sion was one of what is best for the
United Way.
“I’m convinced that had Planned
Parenthood been included, the
financial results would have been
devastating,” he said. “It’s a simple
matter of how much money you can
raise with them or without them.”
Williams said the Planned Parent
hood issue simply provided some
people with an “excuse” for not giv
ing this year, most of whom prob
ably would not have given much
anyway. The impact, he said,
“should not be overestimated.”
Pinnell, who is also a member of
the United Way’s board of directors,
said he didn’t think the decision’s
effect on donations was significant.
see UNITED WAY page 10
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