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: Wednesday, February 1, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7 ( Radioactive material investigation continues United Press International e hi JUAREZ, Mexico— Mem- u jJ’ we: - bers of Mexico’s Nuondnued 1 ill be it? t ^ e j r investigation f o r ’wers !n| r ' a( ji oac ti ve materials in the e ma ^ border city, following the dis- 1 |s 111 Insure Tuesday that a hospit- ones al warehouse was closed he ed onte cause of radiation contarnina- getherf lion . is diiidfl Dr. Juan Rauda Esquivel, a (livid: ■ Bona ft! Kderal health official, said he portant did not know the intensity of i Univerv the radiation or the source of mployrnwhe contamination. He said gulationi the warehouse, owned by the trmatioii: most modern private hospital availabk in Juarez, was closed Sunday, lowers siiH ofaniH Hospital officials denied f theini using radioactive material. In vestigators said they found no radioactive materials in the ' hospital itself. The search for radioactive materials was initiated when tons of steel rebar from a foundry in Chihuahua City, Mexico, were found to contain low levels of radioactivity. Five truckloads of the steel rebar were discovered by offi cials at the Los Alamos Labor atories in New Mexico and re turned to El Paso. Officials of the Texas Health Department quaran tined the material in a storage area of the U.S. Customs Ser vice while Mexican and Amer ican officials searched for the source of the radioactive material, believed to be Cobalt 60. The material is a radioac tive isotope used in radiation treatment at hospitals and cli nics and also in industrial measuring devices. Inspectors traced the rebar to a junkyard in Juarez which supplied scrap metal to the foundry in Chihuahua City. Officials were still puzzled as to how the Cobalt 60 showed up in a junkyard and surmised the material may have come from the United States and was discarded illegally. The foundry in Chihuahua City, Aceves de Chihuahua, S.A., may have crushed the steel covering of the Cobalt 60 in smelling the metal, officials guessed. The nuclear safety com mittee later found radioactive material in a Juarez foundry that makes restaurant table parts for export to the United States and Canada. IS .etter describes Soviet labor camp United Press International nith alivd jrs 10 fe' rean sectd. rial Hoik LONDON — Amnesty Inter- I firefijiijiational published a first-hand worker! iccount Wednesday of life for i life, oolitical prisoners in the Soviet lid theiilnion’s labor camps, a night- J in flantjnare of abuse and starvation for ed.The hose who disagree with the iwn. >o\iet system, nan Di) • he husb BThe letter, smuggled from a irried 1' ‘special regime” labor camp on ebuildmi he edge of Siberia, depicts men :r Bryan :onfined in tiny stinking cells, the m subsisting on miserable food e disomand putrid water, and being :d apart-forced to work in a tedious daily out. She routine in nearly dark rooms. I besideiv ic bed® | Amnesty International, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning hu man rights organization, said Dairy Council 'I introduces new computer game k Airt: ., Dallai! , United Press International sCity,It ROSEMONT, Ill. — The Na- he addleD a i r y Council has intro il the aif^lNd a computer program to to coast 8 el to t-heir milk. | The three-part Grab-a-Byte aur sera program is directed al junior Ihandahigh school children in grades I 1, our: se ven to nine. Morris ’ ^Council president M.F. Brink ons, w sa y s the nutrition education sofour« com ptJter program is in color iceofairjfiP-h optional sound. Ip It uses a quiz show format to ask nutrition questions in such categories as fast food, nutrition and sports and weight control, p The program was developed jointly by the Washington State Dairy Council, the Pacific Scien- and toce Center and the Rosemont- atch frorbased NDC. It is compatible with ’oliceaifApple II and Apple III and other systems that accept Apple ident’si software, i from ait idemiefc . andifi let contai iver’sfoj I checks I invest® the account was written by “a known prisoner of conscience” in April 1982 and reathed Amnesty last October. It was impossible to corrobo rate the account, a spokesman said, but Amnesty believes it is authentic and published the 1,000-word dispatch in its Feb ruary newsletter. It was not re vealed how the account was smuggled out of the camp. The letter depicts life in Camp VS 389-36-1 near Perm, 750 miles east of Moscow on the western fringe of Siberia, where “between two and five prisoners share a cell.” “Each is allotted two square meters (about 18 sq. ft.) of space in the cell,” the prisoner wrote. “We do not meet prisoners from other cells, we work in separate cells and only with those with whom we live. “The living and work cells are equipped with toilets . there is no ventilation and so it stinks.” According to Amnesty, in 1980 the daily task of prisoners in the camp was fitting cables to electric irons. The daily output requirement was 700, but most prisoners managed only 400 a day. “The work cells are dark,” the prisoner wrote. “In autumn and winter the electric light is very weak and flickers. The work is light but the work norms are high and few fulfill them, some are punished as a result.” Food in the camp, the prison er wrote, “is bad,” consisting of “groats, meat (a piece of gristle, bone), which is often rotten. We hardly ever get vegetables — and when we do they are never fresh. Amnesty said there were 31 prisoners in camp VS 389-36-1 in 1982. Such “special regime” camps are the most severe categ ory of corrective labor colonies in the Soviet system. MSC Cepheid Variable The Star Trek Experience Feb. 18 7:30 Tickets on Sale Now )1H Cap and QoWti Hatioiial 'Seriior^ c Horior~' ^Society" cm lie In forma tion Ses sions Feb. L 510 Rudder, 6p.m. Feb. 2, 410 Rudder 6pm. Qual ifi cations • 3.25 GPF( with 75 hours completed by Jan. 1.1984 Active involvement in scholarship, leadership, and service activities. For more information please call 845-1 133. :50-10:00 “CHRISTINE’Nr, 7r15-9:15 “HOTDOQ’MR) 7:30-9:45 m “SUDDEN IMPACT” CINEMA l-ll-lll m North 7:00-10:00 “TERMS OF ENDEARMENT’Va> 7:20-9:50 “SILKWOOD’ <R> >:• 7 . 15 Barbara Streisand g: 9:45 “YENTL’>a> schuLMAN THEATRES Mon-Fmly Nlte-Sch 6 Tue-Fmly Nite-MEIII SCHULMAN6 2002 E. 29th 775-2463 775-2468 7:20 9:45 CHRISTINE 7:35 9:55 UNCOMMON VALOR 7:20 9:40 RISKY BUSINESS 8:45 SCARFACE 7:15 9:40 THE BIG CHILL 7:30 STAYING ALIVE 9*30 FLASHDANCE MANOR EAST III Manor East Mall 823-8300 7:25 9:45 TWO OF A KIND 7:20-9:40 NEVER CRY WOLF 7:15 9:35 ANGEL President to ask Congress for border patrol increase By BARBARA ROSEWICZ Reporter WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration is prop osing the largest personnel in crease in the history of the Im migration and Naturalization Service to crack down on illegal aliens. Justice Department offi cials said Tuesday. President Reagan will ask Congress in his fiscal 1985 budget for permission to hire 850 new border patrol officers and 145 support staff to catch and deport aliens who are sneaking across the United States’ southern border in re cord numbers, officials said. If Congress agrees to finance the new salaries, it will boost the nation’s border patrol force to 3,250 officers. The dollar amount of the 1985 increase was not immediately available, but officials said the INS budget re quest represents “the largest piece” of the $200 million in crease the Justice Department is requesting for the next fiscal year, which starts in October. The new border officers would be concentrated along two sections of the nation’s 2,000-mile border. Last year, more than half of the 1.1 million illegal aliens caught entering the country from the south were apprehended in Chula Vista, Calif., and El Paso, Texas, offi cials said. Besides the 850 border patrol officers, the INS budget request seeks 108 more employees to handle detention and deporta tion of aliens, 18 more legal ex perts to handle cases and 19 more officers to investigate smuggling of aliens. The budget request will be officially submit ted to Congress on Wednesday. The administration also has said it will seek 250 new agents for the FBI and Drug Enforce ment Administration in an effort to boost law enforcement. “With this budget increase, (it) gives us a tremendous shot in the arm to be able to better con trol our borders,” said an im migration official who declined to be identified. However, the official said, it does not alleviate the need for immigration reform legislation being pushed by the administra tion in Congress. The immigration agency’s budget request does not ask for any money to finance the pend ing immigration reform bill. Officials said additional money would have to appropriated if Congress enacts the legislation, which calls for crackdowns such as sanctions against employers who hire illegal aliens. Autocross Winners Announced The Texas AfifM Sports Car Club would like to congratulate Senior Steve Hoeckley for placing first this weekend in th Dodge Collegi ate Driving Championships and will represent Texas A&M in the Nationals to be held in Daytona Beach, Florida. Racing jackets were awarded to second place Thomas B. Thrash and 3rd place Christian V. G. Walker. Congratulations, guys, on a job well done! PHI ETA SIGMA SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS Seniors who plan to enter graduate or profes sional schools in Fall 1984 and who are mem bers of Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society should get in touch with the faculty advisor Dr. Curtis F. Lard in Rm. 113 System Building- Phone 845-3712. National Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society will award eight $1,000 scholarships and twenty- eight $500 scholarships this year on the basis of the student’s scholastic record, evidence of creative ability, potential for success in chosen field, and character. Only members of Phi Eta Sigma are eligible for these gift scholarships. National deadline for submitting applications is March I. Application forms are available from the faculty adviser to the local chapter. Local deadline for applications is February 23,1984. Memorial Headquarters Memphis. 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