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Photo by ROBERTMCGLOHON
Sixteen-year-old Jimi Clark, right, takes a drink of water
from his bicycle canteen as he helps Laura Purdy, 21, hold a
peace banner outside the Federal Building in downtown
Bryan Monday afternoon.
By ROBERT MCGLOHON
Stall' Writer
They stayed with members of a lo
cal peace group Monday night and
are on the road again today. Jour
ney’s end — and their goal of a nu
clear freeze — is still far in the dis
tance.
They are by most standards a di
verse group: Laura Purdy is 21 and
a piano teacher. Father Mike Car-
mody is 28 and a Roman Catholic
priest. Sixteen-year-old Jimi Clark is
a high school student.
They number 15 in all — ten on
bicycles and five in support cars —
and hail from a wide range of back
grounds.
But as they rolled onto East 26th
Street in Bryan Monday afternoon,
they were unified by their vision of
peace ... and by exhaustion.
“That’s it,” said Father Carmody
as he stopped in front of the phlanax
of journalists on the steps of the Fed
eral Building in Bryan. “I’m going
back — too far.”
The Pantex Anti-Nuclear Weap
ons Pilgrimage began in 14 cities
throughout Texas, Oklahoma and
New Mexico on Saturday. More than
140 bicyclists and support people
will travel several hundreds of miles
to meet at the Pantex Nuclear Weap
ons Assembly Plant near Amarillo.
They plan to hold a three-day rally
at the plant Aug. 4-6, ending with an
interfaith religious service on the an
niversary of the nuclear bombing of
Hiroshima, Japan.
Bob Henschen, 36, is one of the
organizers of the Houston portion
of the Pantex Pilgrimage. He is also
driving one of the support cars on
the trip to Amarillo.
He said no civil disobedience is
planned for the rally and authorities
have been notified.
The purpose of the pilgrimage
and rally is to inform the public of
the dangers of the current nuclear
arms race and to promote a nuclear
freeze, Henschen said, explaing that
Pantex was picked as the site of the
rally because it is the final assembley
plant for all nuclear weapons in the
U.S. arsenal.
Essentially, he said, the Pantex Pil
grimage is part of a nationwide fight
for public opinion on the issue of the
nuclear arms race. And as part of
that battle, the Pantex pilgrims will
“pamphlet” people on their trip to
the Panhandle, trying to explain
their concerns.
“This is a part in the long struggle
for the hearts and minds of the peo
ple,” Henschen said.
Originally, organizers were ex
pecting about 500 people to show up
at the peace rally. “Lately, we’ve
been thinking of maybe 1,000,”
Henschen said.
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Missile
Soviet Union denys return to arms talks
United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union
denied Monday it might return to
die Geneva arms talks if the United
States freezes deployment of new
missiles in Europe and raised new
doubts over whether it will hold “star
wars” talks with Washington.
The Soviet reaction came a day af
ter Romanian President Nicolae
-evils dw Ceausescu said he was convinced So-
tion musif viet President Konstantin Cher-
ith the s4 nenko was willing to resume talks as
long as there were no further mis
siles installed in Western Europe.
The Soviet news agency Tass re
plied to Ceausescu’s published com
ments by blaming the United States
for undermining the Geneva talks
on limiting medium and long-range
nuclear missiles by deploying cruise
and Pershing 2 missiles in Europe.
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“The talks may resume any time,”
Tass said. “But with this aim it is nec
essary that the United States should
eliminate the obstacles which it has
created by the deployment of new
missiles in Europe.”
Tass also said Moscow would con
tinue retaliatory measures to offset
the U.S. missiles, including station
ing extra nuclear-armed submarines
off the American coast.
The Soviets broke off the talks in
Geneva on medium and long-range
nuclear missiles last December in re
taliation for the deployment of U.S.
medium-range missiles. The U.S.
missiles were deployed to counter
Soviet SS-20s targeted on Western
Eu rope.
In a separate statement, a Soviet
Foreign Ministry spokesman said the
United States should agree to declar
ing a moratorium on developing and
testing space weapons before pro
posed “star wars” talks are held in
Vienna.
“There is no sense in conducting
the negotiations if there is no mora
torium on testing,” Foreign Ministry
spokesman Vladimir Lomeiko told a
news conference. “We regard it as
part and parcel of the problem.”
Washington has said a moratorium
would be an unacceptable condition
for the Vienna talks, which it wants
the space weapons talks broadened
to include the Geneva nuclear arms
talks.
Lomieko said Washington’s re
sponse to Moscow’s June 29 propo
sal for talks on banning space weap
ons “sets conditions, is evasive and
gives no clear answer.”
Police Beat
The following incidents were
reported to the University Police
Department through Monday.
MISDEMEANOR THEFT:
• A black Peugeot twelve-
speed bicycle was stolen from the
entrance to Haas Hall.
• A light blue Sears Free Spirit
ten-speed bicycle was stolen from
the Clements Hall bike rack.
• A blue and silver Raleigh Re
cord ten-speed bicycle was stolen
from the Haas Hall bike rack.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF:
• Someone dented the right
rear panel of a 1979 Audi in Park
ing Annex 32.
HARASSMENT:
• A student in Haas Hall re
ported receiving an obscene
phone call.
INDECENT EXPOSURE:
• A student reported seeing a
man expose himself on the fourth
floor of Sterling C. Evans Library.
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