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I Dr. Richard Thomas, director of
A&M’s Center for Strategic Tech-
ology, also known as the defense
think tank, recently was appointed
hairman of a joint project between
lire U.S. Air Force Logistics Corn-
land and and the Air Force’s flight
dynamics laboratory at Wright-Pat-
terson Air Force Base.
Both of these parties are working
in conjunction with the North Amer
ican Rockwall B-l program to install
a computer-aided design program,
Thomas said.
Although the bombers are similar
on the outside, each airplane differs
internally, Thomas said. Thus the
need for a comprehensive mainte
nance and repair program became
obvious to North American Rock
wall
“We are faced with a situation
where weapons systems are awfully
expensive,” Thomas said. “The
weapons systems are more complex
and thus fewer vehicles are man
ufactured; the readiness of the sys
tems must improve, and we must
have a rapid turnaround time.”
Through a computer-aided de
sign (CAD) program which contains
the differing features, a B-l bomber
will he able to be serviced anywhere
in the world, Thomas said.
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bomber needs to be repaired, the
maintenance crew can call up a di
agram of the part on a computer ter
minal, Thomas explained.
“The computer display can allow
the repair crew' to either manufac
ture a new part or fix the original
one,” Thomas said. “This allows for
good old-fashioned American in
genuity to still be used if necessary.”
Besides getting the bomber back
into the air quickly, the program will
enable companies to share knowl
edge with other companies that
manufacture other weapon systems.
Thomas said he was chosen chair
man because he has no axes to grind
between North American Rockwall
and Logistics Command. Ffe also
was chosen because he had served
for six years as a member of the
technical advisory group for the Air
Force integrated computer-aided
manufacturing program.
Separated since fall ofSaigon
Vietnamese family finally reunited
Associated Press
I GRAPEVINE — An ugly twist in
timing and a decade worth of bu
reaucracy kept a Vietnamese family
separated, but Phan Minh Hoang
pas finally been reunited with his
tvife and a 10-year-old daughter he
tad never seen.
In a tearful meeting at Dallas-Fort
»Vorth International Airport Mon-
lay night, Phan was reunited with
lis wife, Niem Tran Tin, and
laughter, Tram Huong.
Tram Huong was born the day
a ’ban landed in the United States in
Il975 for what lie thought would be a
jpvo-year stay for schooling in citrus
riculture at the University of Flor-
a.
But because of the fall of Saigon,
resultant poor Vietnamese-Ameri-
can relations, and later a slow-mov
ing bureaucracy, he was unable to
return home or bring his wife and
daughter to the United States.
“Tve been waiting very long,”
Phan said. “But I’m sure other peo
ple have been waiting longer.
“It will take a while to convince
myself that they’re really here. It’s
like a dream. A very long dream.”
Phan, 38, unwillingly left his preg
nant wife behind in Vietnam in 1975
after a year of marriage. An em
ployee of the South Vietnamese gov
ernment, he was to study two years
then return to head a government
task force on citrus disease.
But when Saigon fell a short time
later, Phan could not get back and
his family could not get out.
He said news reports of the chaos
in the city fed his fear that his family
was hurt or even dead.
“For the first few months, I didn’t
have any contact,” he said. “I was
very, very panicked and very, very
depressed,” he said.
“Every day I watched the news. It
looked like (the) whole (of) Saigon
was flattened.”
Phan finally learned his family
was safe, hut before 1978 no families
could legally leave the country, he
said.
In 1978, a plan to reunite families
like Phan’s was established and he
began the six years’ worth of paper
work to bring his 32-year-old wife
and daughter to Texas.
Until only a month ago, such a re
union was only a fantasy for Phan.
“There have been a lot of set
backs,” he said. “Every time I con
tacted either side, they asked us to
provide some other form of paper
work. They told my wife she had to
do the same. . . .
“At one point, in 1980 or ’81, they
told her they had lost her file com
pletely,” Phan said.
In July 1983, Phan’s wife finally
got her passport. Last December,
her application was approved.Last
week, Pahn said, he found out that
Monday would be the day.
A&M student held
by police after he
decorated grass
By KIRSTEN DIETZ
Stuff Writer
A Texas A&M student says he
was handcuffed and taken to the
University Police station for plac
ing flowers on the Memorial Stu
dent Center grass, hut a police
spokesman says the student was
brought in for giving the police
off icer a false name.
Hugh Stearns, a junior history
major, said he and two friends
were stopped by several Univer
sity police of ficers at 4 a.in. Mon
day for arranging flowers in die
shape of a peace symbol on the
MSC grass.
He said he and his friends did
not construct the symbol to defile
the grass memorial, hut to re
mind students of its true mean
ing. The symbol, Stearns said,
was to represent the peace for
which the soldiers fought.
Stearns said an officer ap
proached him, asked questions
and then searched and hand
cuffed Stearns and took him to
the station.
“He was quite snotty and
wouldn’t answer any of our ques
tions,” Stearns said.
Stearns said his friends were
told to clean up the flowers or
Stearns would be put in jail.
However, Bob Wiatt, director
of security and traffic, said the of
ficer approached the MSC area
Hugh Stearns
and saw a man (Stearns) running.
The officer chased Stearns to a
car, where two friends were wait
ing, Wiatt said.
The officer asked Stearns for
identification, which he didn’t
have, Wiatt said. Stearns gave the
officer a false name, and ad
mitted his real name only after a
check by University Police proved
the first name false, Wiatt said.
Stearns was handcuffed and
brought to the station so his true
identity could be established,
Wiatt said. He was released after
his identity was verified, and no
charges were filed against him.
Wiatt said the flowers used to
construct the peace sign were
taken from a dumpster where
they had been discarded-
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DPS head discredits Lucas] claim of killing only 3
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Serial killer Henry
Lee Lucas has given police informa
tion only the murderer could know
in numerous cases, and his claim of
killing only three people is “ludi
crous,” the head of the Department
of Public Safety said Tuesday.
“In over 100 cases we know of, he
.. took (officers) to the scene of the
crime,” Col. Jim Adams said. “And
some of these read like a whodunit
as far as the detail lie was able to give
them.”
At various times, Lucas claimed to
have committed 100 to 600 killings.
Adams said police nationwide cur
rently attribute 189 murders to the
one-eyed drifter.
On Sunday, the Dallas Times
Herald quoted Lucas as saying most
of his confessions were bogus — a
hoax to show up authorities. Lucas
told the newspaper he really killed
just three people.
Asked whether he believed that
claim, Adams replied, “No, I don’t.”
But a close friend of Lucas says
the convicted killer told her he was
lying when lie told a Times Herald
reporter that he had only killed
three people.
Clemmie Schroeder said that dur
ing a 70-minute visit Sunday af-
At various times, Henry Lee Lucas claimed to have
committed 100 to 600 killings, said Col. Jim Adams,
head of the Department of Public Sa fety. Adams said
police nationwide currently attribute 189 murders to
the one-eyed drifter.
ternoon at the McLennan County
Jail in Waco, Lucas told her that he
had made the claim about killing
only three people 14 months ago be
fore his religious convictions deep
ened and while he was still denying
involvement in other slayings.
“I know he’s a killer,” she said.
“There’s no doubt in my mind.”
Adams said some police agencies
may have been too quick tp credit
Lucas with killings to “clear” pen
ding cases off the books.
Adams and Texas Ranger Sgt.
Bob Prince, a task force member,
said they know of 15 to 20 cases ini
tially blamed on Lucas, then re
opened later.
“There’s no question whatsoever
that some of the cases that have been
credited to him by those depart
ments are not cases that were com
mitted by Henry Lee Lucas,” Adams
said.
During an hour-long news conf er
ence, the DPS chief defended the
task force his department estab
lished to deal with Lucas cases.
Adams said the task force never
was designed to investigate the slay
ings Lucas said he committed in 26
states, hut to make Lucas available to
investigators from around the coun
try. To date, Lucas has talked to
some 1,000 lawmen, Adams said.
“It is not an investigating task
force,” he said. “It existed ... to
make Lucas and information avail
able to these law enforcement agen
cies.”
In many cases, Adams said, Lucas
had descriptive information which
would not have been available to him
from other sources. “The press
doesn’t print all the gory details
about what he did to some of the vic
tims,” he said.
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