Friday, September 28, 1984/The Battalion/Page 17 I r Isidore Tropical storm washes out scenic highway in Florida Soviets’ exploration of space improving United Press International BOCA RATON, Fla. Stay Tropical |storm Isidore sloshed ashore with 50 mph winds Thursday, washed out a scenic highway and headed north jalong southeast Florida’s populous Icoast with no more impact than a “bad thunderstorm.” The heaviest weather was found xas % |in Veto Beach, about 50 miles north 0V ' Mai; lof the storm’s center, where the Na- to cal]: ■tional Hurricane Center said winds L to fin J [were gusting up to 45 mph to 50 mph. An Indian River County Sheriffs spokesman said there were high winds, some local flooding and a few ’power lines down. No injuries were reported. “It’s about like a bad thunder storm here,” he said. At midday the broad center of Isi dore was just north of Palm Beach. Neil Frank, director of the Na tional Hurricane Center said Isidore was moving “toward the north- northwest and parallel to the Florida coast north of Palm Beach.” He said since much of the storm is still over water it did not weaken when it reached land as expected. “It would be prudent for residents north of Palm Beach to keep in close touch with advisories,” said Mark Zimmer, another forecaster. “With no further intensification it is of pri mary interest to boaters.” But he said since so much of the storm was still over water, intensifi cation “is a possibility. We’re watch ing it very carefully.” Agricultural experts said Isidore’s new northerly track reduced fears that its winds and rains could spread a highly contagious canker disease that is plaguing Florida’s billion-dol- lar citrus industry. But Linda Perry of the Division of Plant Industry said that in three con taminated nurseries which could be in the path of the storm, 60 percent of the stock had been burned and there should be no problem. A scenic stretch of State Road A1A which runs past a row of man sions on exclusive Palm Beach was washed away, and chunks of pave ment had fallen into the surf 10 feet below. Trucks dumped in dirt and gravel to support the remainder of the highway. “In some spots, it looks like the road is good, but there is nothing underneath the pavement,” said Palm Beach Police Officer Steve Middleton. He said high tides this time of year frequently erode the beach and the highway, but the storm made it worse. Probe of Tl testing procedures begun United Press International oters; ' (whit up this FORT WORTH —Unsatisfactory intatlvl answers from some Texas Instru- Lgpe jj ments officials prompted a criminal l at Affl/fi' nvest 'S al ‘ on of allegedly faulty test procedures on microchips TI soltl r “ WE ; Ifor U.S. weapons systems, a Penta- and vc< agon official said. I Derek I. Vander Schaaf, the Pen- gtagon’s deputy inspector general, I said at a Washington news confer- |ence Wednesday that a Sept. 6 meet- ling with top TI officials did not per- Isuade him that human error was the lonly factor involved, f “I got answers to some of my ques- ike a it turns [ies uidvots Aggie 59. Heie ’iencei tions which led me to believe that it was more than just an internal con trol problem,” he said. “That looked to be about 90 percent of the prob lem, but there were some other an swers that said to me, ‘Wait a minute, that potentially is criminal activity.’” Vander Schaaf would not name the TI officials at the Sept. 6 meet ing or specify what prompted his suspicions. The Pentagon began its criminal investigation of the TI testing proce dures about three weeks ago to de termine if the firm deliberately cut corners in testing some 5,000 types of microcircuits used in the nation’s most sophisticated weapons systems. Vander Schaaf said it would take at least a few months and possibly longer to complete the Pentagon’s review. “I can’t have somebody walk in here and tell me they didn’t do a bunch of tests that the Department of Defense paid for and tell me their side of the story and not want to look at the other side of the story,” he said. “I’m not doing my job if I do that. The investigation will determine whether TI, the nation’s 33rd largest defense contractor last year, inten tionally scrapped or modified tests to save money or speed deliveries of the chips to the major defense con tractors buying them. Since Sept. 10 the Pentagon has refused to accept weapons from more than 80 contractors who used the suspect chips. TI has since begun reviewing the tests, which number up to_I^500, on each chip to check if they were done properly. After testing about half the chips, TI reported that more than 90 percent had previously been tested properly. United Press International WASHINGTON — The Soviets are improving in many areas of space exploration, and a panel of U.S. scientists says the improvement has been accompanied by a partial lowering of secrecy barriers. Russian scientists are telling West ern scientists more of what they are earning, and the Russians are dis mssing future plans more with the West. The Russian scientists are also admitting their failures. This change in attitude is not an official policy, but it is noticeable on an individual level, a report on a meeting of 13 top U.S. space scien tists said. The scientists came together to as sess the scientific advantages and disadvantages of U.S.-Soviet cooper ation in space science. The scientists agreed at this meet ing that as the Soviets become stronger in space science, the Soviets are more willing to provide detailed information about their plans and results. Even in the current political cli mate of mistrust, the report said, So viet researchers have readily pre sented to the West findings from the current Venera radar satellites in or bit around the planet Venus. Some of these results were passed on to U.S. scientists before they were offi cially released in the Soviet Union. Russia’s Venera Venus explora tion program has been the most im pressive of all that nation’s space probes, the U.S. scientists said. Soviet landing craft have survived in the extremely hot, highly corro sive atmosphere of Venus for more than an hour while sending back pic tures and conducting soil studies. The scientists said the current Ven era satellites have shown many ad vanced capabilities. Although the U.S. is capable of in dividual technologies used on the Soviet Venera orbiters they will not be used on a U.S. mission until 1988, the report said. Harold Masursky, a planetary sci entist who attended the meeting, said pictures from the Venera 15 and 16 satellites have helped the U.S. redesign and improve the radar experiment that will fly on the 1988 Venus mission. The Soviet Union is preparing to launch two spacecraft in December to land on Venus next June and then go on to explore Halley’s Comet in March 1986. The report said the Soviet mission is a clear demonstration of the im proved Soviet scientific capability. 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Texas Instruments to launch Job Fair Tues., Oct. 2, 1984 Memorial Student Center, Texas A & M Rooms 212-224 Tl’s technical managers want to see you. They want to tell you about the job opportunities in the many technologies which make Texas Instruments a leader in electronics. That’s why Tl is having a Job Fair on the Texas A