Page 16AThe Battalion/Friday, September 7, 1984
Cosmonauts set record
for most time in space
United Press International
MOSCOW — Three Soviet cos
monauts aboard the Salyut-7 circled
the Earth for the 211th day Thurs
day enroute to a new record for the
longest time in space.
“The 21 1th day of their space mis
sion is ending and when night de
scends on Moscow they will surpass
the achievements of another Soviet
space crew made two years ago,” the
official Moscow radio said.
At precisely 12 minutes after mid
night Moscow time Friday, Leonid
Kizim, Vladimir Solovyov and Oleg
Alkov will break the 21 1-day record
set by two Soviet cosmonauts in
1982.
The previous record was set by
Valentin Lebedev and Anatoly Bere-
zovoy, who returned to Earth on
Dec. 10, 1982, after completing 211
days, nine hours and five minutes in
space.
Under the rules of the Interna
tional Aviation Federation, however,
the trio will have to exceed the old
mark by 5 percent, or another 10.5
days, to be entered in the record
books.
The three blasted off from their
central Asian space station on Feb. 8
and entered their Salyut-7 space sta
tion the next day to begin orbiting
the Earth.
The cosmonauts have been living
and working in an area only 20.4
feet long and 13.2 feet in diameter
within the 50-foot long cylindrical
space station, which has been used
by a series of teams since 1982.
Their home in the past seven
months includes such amenities as a
table, shower, toilets and berths
fixed to walls. It also contains a mov
ing track and a special bicycle to
counter the effects of prolonged
weightlessness on their muscles.
Atokov, a physician, has reported
his colleagues in fine condition
throughout the long mission.
“All of us who communicate with
the station’s crew every day under
stand the cosmonaut’s condition and
realize that it is not all that easy for
them up there in weightlessness,”
Deputy Flight Director Viktor Bla
gov said.
“Starting from the 212th day we
shall be monitoring the spacemen’s
state of health even more carefully,
although no other special measures
are planned,” Blagov told the official
Tass news agency.
There was no official word on
when the cosmonauts will return to
Earth.
At a Kremlin ceremony honoring
three other cosmonauts who were
aboard the orbiting station for 12
days in July, President Konstantin
Chernenko Wednesday praised the
three men heading for the space re
cord.
Appearing in public after follow
ing a 54-day absence, Chernenko
said “they have become so familiar
with the conditions of a long flight
that it appears space walks have be
come regular strolls for them.”
SHOE by Jeff Mad
Religion crucial in '84 campaign
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Religious is
sues, never far from the surface in a
political contest, have emerged in a
new and potentially divisive manner
in the 1984 campaign.
In the past, much of the concern
and debate was centered on the can
didates’ religious affiliation —John
Kennedy’s Roman Catholicism in
1900 and Jimmy Carter’s “born
again” Baptist faith in 1976 — and
the influence that affiliation might
have on presidential and national
policies.
The current debate — not always
explicitly stated by the candidates or
the clerics, theologians and pundits
commenting on the issue — has
more to do with the institutional pos
ture of the national government
than it does with specific policies or
beliefs.
Conservative Christians, generally
white Protestants but also a growing
number of Roman Catholics and a
sprinkling of Orthodox Jews politi
cally led by President Reagan, are
seeking a more explicit link between
government and transcendent au
thority.
Conservative Christians
and a sprinkling of Ortho
dox Jews politically led by
Reagan are seeking a
more explicit link between
government and tran
scendent authority.
They believe that the erosion of
the links that have existed in the past
has resulted in what conservative
Lutheran theologian Richard Neu-
haus calls a “naked public square”
and a sapping of the society’s moral
strength.
While Reagan and some religious
leaders of the movement such as the
Rev. Jerry Falwell have denied that
they are trying to create a “Christian
society,” they have not relented in
their campaign to make government
institutions, especially the public
schools, reflect a kind of contempo
rary theocracy, an acknowledgement
that government is ruled by God.
Opponents, generally centered in
the mainline Protestant churches
and the Jewish community, argue
that while religious beliefs and mor
ality have a major role to play in
shaping public policy, identification
of the government and its institu
tions with a particular religious view
threatens not only religious liberty
but democracy itself.
The Rev. James Dunn, head of
the Baptist Joint Committee on Pub
lic Affairs and a leading church-state
separationist, sees the current cam
paign as an “attempt to collapse the
distinction between mixing politics
and religion, which is actually nec
essary within certain limits, and
merging church and state, which is
never acceptable.”
It is no accident that the most bit
ter of the public policy debates in
volving religious issues has centered
on the question of prayer in the pub
lic schools.
Prayer is one of the most intimate
elements of religious belief, while
the public schools are the govern
mental institutions that exist at the
most fundamental level of citizens’
relationship to government.
Deer weigh 10 percent les
due to shortage of forage
By DIB WALDRIP
Repi)rter
The 1984 white-tail deer season,
which opens on Nov. 17, will be a
hunter’s year, Fexas Parks and
Wildlife white-tail specialist Charlie
Winkler said Wednesday.
This year’s drought has caused a
shortage of forage for the deer,
Winkler said. The acorn crop, one of
the white-tails’ main sources of food,
will be below average, he said.
Charles Ramsey, wildlife specialist
for the Fexas Agricultural Exten
sion Service, said this year’s rainfall
has been spotty which will result in
sporadic hunting conditions across
the state. No one area of the state
can be labeled as gcxx! or bad, he
will have only
spikr antic
said.
opment. tie said.
“You will have a mixed bag of
I his does n<
ix mean A
hunting,” Ramsey said. The deer
good antlered t
nicks andi
will react to the feed hunters put out
bucks should lx:
shot. Ram
only if range conditions are bad in
Burks with good
antlcrdod
that area, he said.
in a year with 2
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The deer population is high, but
foodstuffs sJiow
tliat thrv n
no reports of large-scale die-offs
have been made, Winkler said. As a
animals. A b.iLu
ucd tune
cssary to rnamt^
tin qood dc
result of the large population and
quality, he said.
the lack of rain, Winkler expects
Id not ben
deer thuja
deer to weigh about 10 percent less.
Antler development also will be lx--
Hunters shoul
with conserving 1
low average, especially in the west
ern two-thirds of the state, he said.
sey said.
In general, this is not a year to kill
spike oucks, Winkler said. With the
“When foragt
• is low oil
ranch, the ranc
her sells,’»
drought conditions, some good deer
“He doesn’t wait
until the no
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