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B-1 bomber maintenance A8cM prof to head Air Force program Pages The Battalion ten, arrested u Vallarta last lues' i rrent and formei sco state judicial po. ■- ‘ Ilts of the Federal 80 No. 134 USPS 045360 14 pages tn law, there is no “ licfendants, if not remain imprisoned •ikes up to a yearto ' guilty or innocent. College Station, T exas Wednesday, April 17, 1985 FF nctld Shultz: change is under way in South Africa Associated Press WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George: Shultz, responding to )ofic Watching the Line Up ' Wov '‘ WORl ' sanmks jThe Texas A&M football team’s intia-squad Maroon and defensive line. Hal Felwell, a senior physical education ma- |White scrimmage on Saturday attracted Aggies of ail ages, in- joj’. saw White beat Maroon. 21-0. Seniors don’t participate in [eluding this three year veteran of the A&M football team s the game since they wonT be on the team in the fall critics who say l S policy toward South Africa perpetuates apartheid said i uesday the United States must not throw American matches on the emotional unde r oi the re- gio.n Shultz speaking at a Natwmai Press Club luncheon expressed sharp opposition to a proposal be fore Congress that would ban new U S. investment and reduce U.S. South African trade ties. He said the. economic proposal ig nores tile harm that would be in dieted precisely on the black rnaj’or ity whom the advocates of boycotts, embargoes and sanctions purpor tedly want to help. Ac economy that even now needs to create 2 SO,000 new jobs for young blacks each year and that will have twice as many of them entering the job market by the turn of the century needs more job opportuni ties, not fewer,” Shultz said. He added that a U.S. policy of exacer bating hardship in South Africa could promote a ‘‘race war” there. Shultz said the process of racial change is under way in South Africa, contending that there has been more reform in the past four years than in the previous 30. Change has just begun, but it has begun Shultz said. “Out job is to continue to encourage it.” Shultz spoke as the Senate Bank ing. Housing and Urban Affairs Committee held hearings on a pro posal by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass and Sen. Lowell Weicker, See Shultz, page 6 Live life to fullest, religion not rational: O’Hair By ANN CERVENKA Staff Writer ■“Atheism is a very simple concept siSd Madalyn Murray O’Hait the atjieist famous for winning the 1903 Slpreme Court case which removed idercntial Bible reading and prayer filiation from public schools “An alieist is a person who has no till: LSI) i ■O’Hair spoke on “Freedom From RlHgion’ Fuesday night at a prog iln sponsored by Memorial Student (|nfer Great Issues ■She stressed the importance of liv iijilifeon earth to the f ullest because djath is final. ■“An atheist loves hmisell and his tllow man instead ol God. she said. Orly through a knowledge of self and ol fellow man can he find the ulderstancling that will assure a life of fuitiilment she said We simply look at whai religion is and say we can’t accept that because it is not rational" she said. Atheists accept ho God holy books, miracles, heaven, hell purgatory, oi any stage in between going up or down ’ In a press conference earlier on Tuesday. O’Hair emphasized the ra tionality of atheists, and stated their single most important purpose, “How do vou de program a whole natiion from irrationality? 'We are the rational ones in the crowd,” she said. l think Christians are empty Coke bottles. They’re throw away bottles. We're square, but we re intelli gent We have ail our marbles. Because of inconsistencies found in the Bible O Hair said anyone who would read tire Bible objectively from cover to cover would disregard it. It s crazy as hell,” she said Read the Bible. If you’ve got any kind of brains in your head when you get done reading it from cover to cover you will throw it in the trash It s not fit for human consumption.’ O’Hair also attacked prayer. So an atheist looks at religion as what we find: bullshit , piled vei v high and very deep, she said “You go pray about it (world prob lems) and see if whether ycku prayer s till the bellies of the starving Ftho-- pian children Or you pr ay for peace and see how far that will get you It’s wasted useless exercise ' She emphasizes the need to take action Atheists do deeds, not say prayers, or build hospitals not chur ches. she said. O'Hair said tite Christian idea of salvation is absurd Just as Adam and Eve cannot impute their sin onto the next generation Jesus Christ cannot die for .others. A fter her speec n O'B air- answered questions from the audi ence She stressed living a full life on earth. When asked if handicaapped oi retarted children are entitled to life, O Hair said absolutely not. After working lot 17 years with retarted and neglected children, t) Hair sard they are an economic cost to taxpayers and an emotional cost to parents. 1 hey ate not. anything that should be preserved she said If 1 wen in charge ot them I would abso lutely see that every single one of them was snuffed out. There is abso lutely no solution to that monster child who is born,” Madalyn Muiray O’Hair Spacewalkers affix fly swaffer' Crew ready for satellite rescue Supreme Court: CIA may conceal sources' identities Associated Press WASHINGTON -- i he CIA and other U.S spy agencies are free to conceal f t on the public the identities of all intelligence sources, (he Supreme Court ruled Tuesday The court, by a 7-2 vote gave tbe director of the Central inn Mr gence Agency unlimited power to protect not only secret agents but all other sources of information classified and unclassified. That includes the names or pri vate scientists and researchers and even academic journals. “Congress intended to give the director of Central Intelligence broad power to protect the se crecy and integrity of the intelli gence process,” Chief justice Warren E. Burger said for the court. ‘The reasons are too obvious to call for enlarged discussion,” he said. “Without such protec tions the agency would be vu- tuallv impotent. ” The ruling comes at a time when the Reagan administration is continuing to lobby Congress for broader exemptions from the Freedom ol Information Act for intelligence and law enforcement agencies Tuesday s decision overturned a ruling that could have forced the CIA to disclose the names of college researchers and others who contributed to a notorious project in the 1950s and 1960s in volving brainwashing and experi mental drugs like LSD being ad min i s < e c e d i. o u n $ u s p e c > i n g individuals At least two people died be cause of the experiments, The U S. Circuit Court of Ap peals ruled in 1983 in favor of a Ralph Nader lobbying group that filed a 19 <8 suit under the Free dom of Information Act. I he appeals court said the CIA .may not withhold the names of its sources merely, for example, to guard against, a public outcry It said the agency could conceal the names only if it could show that the promise of confidentiality was required to obtain the informa tion. Burger said the appeals court misunderstood the realities of in teiligence work, which often in volves seemingly innocuous sources as well as unsuspecting individuals who provide valuable intelligence information. “A for eign government car. learn a gieat deal about, the (CIA's) activ ities bv knowing the publit sources of information that inter est the agency 1 he said, 1 he CIA said the project was designed to counteract, brain- washing and use or mind*altering drugs by the Chinese and Rus sians. See Court, page 6 Associated Press CAPE l AN a v FRAL, Fla Two spacewalkers fastened a makeshift fly swatter to the end of Discov ery’s robot arm Tuesday, and the crew practiced ways of using it to gently pull a switch to activate an or biting satellite filled with volatile fuel At stake in today’s attempt is the life of the $80 million Syncom com muntcadons satellite. If NASA guessed right, flipping the switch will start z 45 minute sequence thai erects the satellite’s antenna puts Syncom into a faster spin and sends Editor’s note: This is the first arti cle hi a three-part series on the role of Texas A&M's Student Govern ment By JERR Y OSLIN Staff Writer What does Student Government really do- What can they do? While some students might an swer “nothing to these questions, the leaders of Student Government say they can and do make a differ ence at Texas A&M. “Student Government s power is not a structured thing.” says Sean Royall Texas A&M s nev\ student body president. “ That is not to say. we don’t have input in University de cisions. We have a lot of input ” While the University does not al ii off to a useful orbit high above Earth Tt i could think of a better bullet to fire. Id be shooting it, said Randy Stone, flight director. The oniv tping on this satellite we can do anything about is this lever I think we’ve got a very good probability of tripping this lever."' Discovery’s crew has two four- minute periods, 90 minutes apart to accomplish the task. The first try is scheduled shortly after 9 a.m.. when shut tie and .Syn com are over two Atlantic Ocean is lands called St. Peter and St. Paul northeast ot Brazil. low Student Government any formal powers, the administration does ac cept Student Government’s ideas and opinions on certain issues, says Di John Koldus, vice president of student services. In addition, Student Government has the responsibility of budgeting the money collected from student service fees, Koldus says. Student Governments finance committee recently appropriated more than $.3.8 million in student service fees Though the Student Government has only advisory powers, those pow ers are important because the Uni versity frequently follows Student Government suggestions, says Eric Thode, the student senate’s speaker pro tein. Clad in clumsy space suits, astro nauts David Griggs and Jeffrey Hof fman floated into Discovery’s cargo bay Tuesday and strapped two jury- rigged tools - one, described as a fly swatter, the other as a lacrosse stick - to the end of shuttle’s 50-foot me chanical arm. The unscheduled space walk and repair attempt extended the flight which was supposed to end Wednes day. but NASA, had not decided whether the landing will be Ehurs- day or Friday. If the repair maneuver works on the first attempt and the weather forecast is. good, the shuttle may “While it looks like we have little to no power, and what power we do have looks quite informal because its not written down somewhere,” he says. T consider it formal power be cause the University administration gives us a chance to change things." Because Student Government represents the student body, admin istrators are very receptive to ns ideas, I hode says. t hey want to know what student opinion is ’ he says. We are 36,000 people with an idea They aie a lew administrators with an idea T hey arenf always there to see what needs to be done.” Royall says the administration has solicited Student Government’s in put on certain occasions. land at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday morning. Otherwise, homecoming day is Friday. 1 oday, commander Karol Bobko and pilot Don Williams wall close the 40-mile distance with Syncom and fly alongside it Mission Specialist Margaret Rhea Seddon wall extend the arm to allow' the flexible end of the crude tool to brush along the sa tellite’s solar panels. “The idea is to let the fly swatter drag on the satellite,” Seddon said. “The swatter ought to catch the le ver move it to the proper position and then tear away.” “In some instances, they'll call us and say ‘we need to talk to you’ or ‘we want to form a committee to get your input,’ ” Royall says. While the administration is open to Student Government’s ideas, the organization must prove that its ideas are credibile, T hode says. “ 1 he burden of proof is on us to find out student opinion on how things should be run be it a shuttle bus or a change machine,” he says. “We have to research the issue and then convince them that it should be done this way.” 1 he student senate’s bills and res olutions are sent to Koldus and to the administrators that the legis- See GOVERNMENT, page 6 A&M’s SG: Does it make a difference?