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Lecture tries to find
force behind changi
By Alan Sembera
Senior Staff Writer
“The Importance of Making Mistakes:
How Columbus Accelerated the Engine
of History” will be the topic of a presen
tation to be given by Dr. William H. Mc
Neill, a University of Chicago professor,
tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Lecture rooms
A & B of the Clayton Williams Alumni
Center.
McNeill’s speech, which is sponsored
by the University Lecture Series, is part
of a multidisciplinary conference being
held at Texas A&M to identify the single
most important force driving social and
cultural change.
Dr. Peter Hugill, an A&M associate
geography professor who helped orga
nize the conference, said it is designed to
look at changes in history over the long
term and to look at the needs of future
generations.
The conference’s title, “What is the
Engine of History,” is the question used
to challenge about 20 leading scholars
who will be in attendance at the confer
ence.
The scholars, who come from fields as
diverse as engineering, economics, ge
ography, anthropology, history, psy
chology, philosophy, demography and
political science, will present papers at
the conference.
The scholars will come from universi
ties from around the country.
Hugill said the conference is an at
tempt to look at history on a “macro-sca
le.”
The question, “What is the engine of
history,” belongs to the German econo
mist Karl Marx, Hugill explained, and
from the Depression until the mid ’70s,
social scientists have looked at this ques
tion only in terms of about the next 30
years.
But today, he said, scientists such as
archeologists, anthropoligists and geolo
gists are dealing with systems where 30
years is a mere blip.
The scholars will present most of their
papers in different sessions in 206 MSC.
and the audience will be alio
ticipatc.
The next session begins
p.m., and deals with
change.
Friday there will be two s
about technological ami
change, and the other aboils
political change. They begini'-ij
and 2 p.m. respectively.
The last session, about intelit
cultural change, beginsat9iu|
day.
Any one may attend tkc
and the sessions are free.
But students must pay Sm
must pay $25 to attend the kta
reception.
The conference is being sm
Texas A&M provost, the Ib
Ixcturc Scries. Sterling C. Ea
brary and Friends of the Libran J
colleges of engineering, geosad
liberal arts.
The proceedings of the cd
will be edited intoabook.
National Guard withdraws
from Marfa, secret mission
MARFA (AP) — A Texas Army Na
tional Guard unit has pulled up stakes
and three sophisticated U.S. Customs
aircraft have flown back to their home
base, taking with them any explanation
for their simultaneous, week-long pres
ence in this quiet Big Bend town.
The National Guard unit’s mission
was so secret that the assistant chief of
staff of the Texas Guard said he was kept
in the dark. And Charles Conroy,
spokesman for U.S. Customs in Texas,
said he knew of no special operations
based in Marfa, a town of 2,500 about 60
miles north of the U.S.-Mexican border.
The National Guard and the aircraft
were in Marfa during the height of the
fall marijuana harvest in Mexico.
At least three Customs aircrafts — a
Blackhawk helicopter, a twin-engine
Cessna Citation II jet and a single-en
gine, propeller-driven Ayres Thrush 600
— were based at Marfa’s municipal air
port for about a week. The aircraft,
which probably are based permanently at
San Angelo, were gone by Monday.
The National Guard left Monday from
its encampment in the fenced-in back
yard of the U.S. Border Patrol’s sector
headquarters on the town’s southern
edge.
Lt. Col. Dwain James, assistant chief
of staff of the Texas Army National
Guard, said Tuesday by phone from
Austin that he was told only that the
guard unit was in Marfa to perform a
classified communications exercise. He
said he was not told the number of
Guardsmen present, where they were
from or whether they were working with
other branches of the armed forces.
“It was a very restrictive exercise,”
James said.
The Guard brought in two helicopters
and a truck loaded with communications
equipment, then set up a 30-foot-square
camouflage tent on a lawn between the
Border Patrol headquarters building and
parking lot.
Patrol deputy chief Charles Hensley,
said, they roped off the area around the
tent, stationed armed guards and did not
allow Border Patrol agents nearby.
“They said they were testing somo
kind of radio equipment,” Hensley said,
adding that one Guardsman told him they
were working with a communications
unit at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
But Lt. Roger Meyer, public affairs
officer for the l 1th Signal Brigade at
Fort Huachuca, said the brigade was not
working with any National Guard units
in Texas in the last two weeks.
Fort Huachuca, about 60 miles south
east of Tucson and 20 miles north of the
U.S.-Mexican border, is the site of the
first U.S. Customs aerostat — a helium-
filled radar balloon that can detect air
and land traffic up to 200 miles away.
The Customs service’s second aerostat
is scheduled to go up in early December
above Marfa. Other aerostats are sched
uled to go up later near Yuma, Ariz.;
Deming, N.M.; and the Rio Grande Val
ley in Texas.
Conroy said he did not know why
Customs had the three aircraft at Marfa's
airport, or whether their presence was re
lated to the National Guard r 1 "
the impending deployment cd
aerostat.
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one for each sector of the at
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tor. said. They will couik j
and their families, he said.
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that may get a chaplain hyN
the year, Mike Williams,^
agent in El Paso, said.
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