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Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The
veil of secrecy drawn over America’s
l e have si\ffi^ irst military manned space flight
ix from it ma y seem nothing tomparecl to
“the curtain the Defense Department
plans to lower on future missions,
some of which may even blast off
without advance notice.
Air Force and NASA officials said
they learned much from the just-
completed flight of space shuttle
Discovery, during which five mili
tary officers deployed a spy satellite
to monitor Soviet missile tests and
eavesdrop on military and diplo
matic communications in much of
Europe, Asia and Af rica.
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One of the things they learned
was that reporters were able to find
out many details about the flight that
were supposed to remain classified.
Among the leaks: the identity of
the satellite and its purpose; the de
ployment of the payload on Friday;
the early end of the mission, with a
landing on Sunday because of an un
favorable Monday weather forecast.
And several reporters had even
more information on the satellite’s
purpose and capability, but consid-
erecl it militarily sensitive enough to
withhold it.
As for the future, the officer said:
“We have several months until the
next Defense Department shuttle
flight. We learned a lot on this, our
first such mission, and we’ll learn
from that experience.”
Much more secrecy is expected
when the Air Force begins dis
patching shuttles from a base it is
constructing at Vandenberg Air
Force Base, Calif. A separate mili
tary shuttle mission control center is
being built in Colorado.
The Pentagon is considering
opening up the first Vandenberg
launch early next year for press cov
erage. But after that, there may be
no advance public notice of a lif toff
— just as there is now no advance
word on unmanned military satellite
launches .
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GOP congressional leaders
say budget cuts a priority
Associated Press
/ WASHINGTON — Republican
congressional leaders unanimously
told President Reagan on Monday
not to bother sending a tax-simplifi
cation plan to Capitol Hill until a
package of politically painf ul budget
cuts wins approval.
Treasury Secretary Donald T. Re-
_|gan, the incoming White House
•'chief of staff, was quoted as telling
the lawmakers it will be weeks, per
haps months, before the administra-
tion’s tax-simplification program is
ffiready.
Reagan met with GOP members
of the tax-writing Senate Finance
Committee and House Ways and
Means Committee, and conferred
separately with a group of bankers
and homebuilders, to prepare for
release of the administration’s 1986
budget plan Monday.
The president told the home
builders and bankers his plan would
propose $51 billion in spending cuts
m fiscal 1986.
While Reagan has assigned a high
priority to both tax simplification
and budget cuts, the lawmakers told
him spending reductions must come
first.
The Hi!lei Foundation is sponsoring a series of Tuesday night
beginning Jan. 29. Introduction to Hebrew Language wili he
||iatkbt from 7 p.tn. to 8 p.m. and Introduction to the Fundamentals
/ , of Jewish Mysticism will be from 8
' Building. Pay the $10 registration
Tie Hillei office open weekdays from t p.m. to 4 p.m.
Student ‘Y’ Fish Camp has counselor applications available
pihfpugh Feb. 28. lute tested persons may pick them up on the:
ond floor of the Pavilion. For more information, c all 845-11$$
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Big Event looking for job requests
The Big Event is looking for job requests from residents and
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es partidpating. To J
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Government
Students may nominate professors
- :f;<ii : ;Tlj|r Fortner. Students ' Association
1 Awards for teaching may be picked up in 802 Harrington lower.
^Students may nominate liberal aits professors for teaching, student
s and staff/faculty awards. Nominations are also being ae~
This award, spun-
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5 p.m. in
: .iThrfee.ttiitionTree scholarships are Ireingoffered to Texas A&M
students wishing to study law at Baylor University.These ate the Jo-
j$»ph Miltott Nance scholarships available for first year law stidliints
and renewable in die second and third years if the recipient main-
Only students who have done all or most of their pre-law
pd!|yht' Texas A&M will be eligible. At the time of applying for
ptjfy.pept- in Han ingtou Tower.
Senior honor society accepting members
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Applications are now being
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Cap &
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an. 1, 1985 and active involvement in schob
service activities. Informatiou sheets.available |
Cap & Gown cubicle on the 2nd floor of the Pavi Hon, the library
information sessions held Wednesday and Thursday at 7 p.m.
pitcHO Rudder. Applications are due on Feb. H b) 5 p.m, in 110
Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore.,
chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, said “the president by
and large listened, did not specif
ically respond one way or the other.”
Describing Reagan’s meeting with
more than 20 lawmakers seated
around a long rectangular table in
the Cabinet Room, Packwood said
the message was dear and firm.
“The uniform advice to the presi
dent from everybody there, as we
went around the room: ‘Spending
cuts, spending cuts, spending cuts,’
the senator recounted. ”
Mexican
president
visits India
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — On the last
stage of his trip abroad, President
Miguel de la Madrid will start
Wednesday an official visit to India,
where he currently is participating
in a six-nation disarmament confer
ence.
The visit to India is considered
here as another effort by his two-
year-old administration to increase
Mexico’s profile abroad and widen
the current emphasis on Latin
American problems.
De la Madrid started this trip —
his first outside the hemisphere
since taking office in December 1982
— on Jan. 22 with a stop in Spain
where he met Spanish President Fe
lipe Gonzalez and an official visit to
Yugoslavia.
In India, the Mexican president
will meet with new Prime Minister
Rajiv Gandhi and other top officials
in an attempt to increase commercial
and cultural ties between the two
countries.
Information distributed here by
de la Madrid’s office shows relatively
little and fluctuating commercial ex
change between the two countries.
The trade balance favored Mexico
with $42.4 million in 1981, but that
dropped to a negative balance of
$19.8 million the following year.
There have been regular state vis
its since the two nations established
diplomatic relations in 1950, how
ever. Four Mexican presidents have
visited India.
The first was made in 1962 by the
late Adolfo Lopez Mateos, followed
by Luis Echeverria in 1975, Jose Lo
pez Portillo in 1981 and now de la
Madrid.
The late Indian Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru visited Mexico in
1961. His daughter, assassinated
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, came
to Mexico in 1981 to attend the
North-South summit of 22 nations at
the Caribbean resort of Cancun.
De la Madrid arrived in New
Delhi on Sunday to attend the meet
ing about disarmament with the
leaders of Sweden, Greece, Argen
tina, India and Tanzania. The state
visit to India will last Wednesday and
Thursday, to be followed by his re
turn to Mexico.
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February 15-17
$115 includes:
* Round-trip bus transportation
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Special Sneak Preview-FREE
Heaven Help Us
with Donald Sutherland
8 p.m.
Auditorium
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we’ve promised it,
now we have it.
Wednesday
Jan. 30
7:30 p.m.
Rudder Theater
$1.50
with TAMU ID
HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU
SEEN AMERICA'S*! MOVIE?
"THUMBS UP!"
—Gene Siskel and Rogei Ebert, AT THE MOVIES
Friday & Saturday
Feb. 1 & 2
7:30 & 9:45 p.m.
Rudder Theater
$2.00
with TAMU ID
Friday & Saturday
Feb. 1 & 2
Midnight
Rudder Theater
$1.50
with TAMU ID
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