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Thursday, March 9,1989 The Battalion Page 5 ir to voor ay rly ion ofjadi rrill was give ng fired ions, Hellnf ve individus ; fully w mh. intact as a, y their oppo:' organization on.” ic outcome; t more by lit well in : may semi >n bowk e future.' ,g el erris said ion for 2! ingtodo,' mt AGGIES DON’T LEAVE DURING SPRING BREAK AND RETURN TO FIND YOUR VALUABLES MISSING! Take items such as TVs, stereos, jewelry and other valuables home during break. Apartments are particularly vulnerable to burglary during the holiday season. Try and have a neighbor watch your home while you are away. Be sure and lock up before you leave and have lights and a small radio put on timers to give the appearance you are home. For more information contact the Crime Prevention Unit of the College Station Police Department 261 1 A Texas Avenue College Station, TX 77840 (409) 764 3611 guestions about the m ever-changing JP tax laws? H&R Block has the answers. What’s more, our professional pre parers will help you get the maximum refund you’re entitled to. New Location in College Station in Culpepper Plaza (behind Holiday Inn). Open 7 days. 693-2739 Also, in Sears during regular store hours. 764-0395. H&R BLOCK DON’TSETTLEFORLESS! ^Contact Lenses V/ >7. Only Quality Name Brands (Bausch & Lomb, Ciba, Barnes-Hinds-Hydrocurve) $ 79 00 pr.*-STD. DAILY WEAR SOFT LENSES pr.*-STD. FLEXIBLE WEAR SOFT LENSES 3 $ 99 00 pr.*-STD. TINTED SOFT LENSES Daily Wear or Extended Wear Sale ends March 31, 1989 and applies to clear standard Bausch & Lomb lenses of limited power Call 696-3754 for Appointment Charles C. Schroeppel, O.D., P.C. Doctor of Optometry 707 South Texas Ave., Suite 101D College Station, Texas 77840 1 block South of Texas & University * Eye exam & care kit not included ines n ^Rd wuMic lediiAMzl AUSTIN, TEXAS MARCH 17-19, 1989 THE BIGGEST MUSIC FESTIVAL IN TEXAS! 250 BANDS! 50 SOLO ARTISTS! 23 CLUBS! 3 NIGHTS: FRI-SAT-SUN MARCH 17-18-19! ONE $10 TICKET GETS YOU IN TO ALL SHOWS! CL ENJOY SPRING BREAK IN AUSTIN! For just $10 you can see Timbuk 3, Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper, Hung's X, Flock of Seagulls, Sarah Hickman, Doug Sahm, Presence,The Reivers, Wednesday Week, Dash Rip Rock, Fleshtones, The Judy’s, Alex Chilton, Michael E. Johnson & Killer Bees, Killbilly, Gary P. Nunn, Pato Banton, Gunbunnies, Jackie King, Wild Seeds, Ten Hands, DDT, Lou Ann Barton, Mamou, Poi Dog Pondering and 275 more great acts! Tickets in Austin at Waterloo, Antone's Records, Harmony House, Sound Exchange. For Hotel and Festival information call: 1-800-888-8AUS US jjf i i. c W III rJ JDiilU Sell with the Best Battalion Classifieds 845-2611 What’s Up Thursday TAMU ANTHROPOLOGY SOCIETY: will have a guest speaker at 7 p.m. in 126 Academic. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will have a general discussion at 8:30 p.m. Call the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280 for more information. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. Call the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280 for details. ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: will meet at 6 p.m. Call the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280 for more details. ELECTION COMMISSION: will have a mandatory candidate meeting for sen ators, legislative chairmen and graduate student council at 7:30 p.m. in 102 Zachry. HILLEL STUDENT FOUNDATION: will offer beginning Hebrew at 7:30 p.m. at Hillel. There will also be aerobics at 8:30 p.m. at Hillel, and lunch with the Rabbi at 12:30 p.m. at the MSC. SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 214 Reed McDonald. MEXICAN AMERICAN ENGINEERING SOCIETY: will meet at 7 p.m. in 104B Zachry. RECREATIONAL SPORTS: will have registration from 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. in 159 Read for: tennis doubles, innertube water polo, and golf singles. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM: will have an open forum and a discussion of issues and activities at 7 p.m. in 502 Rudder. TAMU MACINTOSH USERS GROUP: will have a demonstration of WingZ, a graphical spreadsheet, at 7:30 p.m. in 101 Herman Heep. TAMU EMERGENCY CARE TEAM: will have a team meeting at 7 p.m. in 113 Kleberg. NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 308 Rud der. AGGIE SPACE DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY: will discuss the LPP conference and eat at 8:30 p.m. at the Flying Tomato. HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT ORGANIZATION: will offer beginning Hebrew at 7:30 p.m. at Hillel. STUDENTS WITH ALTERNATIVE PHILOSOPHIES: will discuss “souls wan dering about perishing” at 8:30 p.m. in 502 Rudder. DIE AGGIE KOMODIANTEN: will present a German play at 8 p.m. in Rudder. Friday ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. Call the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280 for details. RECREATIONAL SPORTS: will have registration for innertube water polo, ten nis doubles and golf singles from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. in 159 Read. HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT ORGANIZATION: will have Shabbat services at 8 p.m. at Hillel. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no later than three business days before the desired run date. We only publish the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What’s Up is a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions are run on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. If you have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315. Marfa blimp to search for smugglers by radar MARFA (AP) — Twenty miles west of Marfa, a half-mile south of an isolated stretch of U.S. 90 — far from all but the most determined prying eyes — the biggest snooping device in Texas is being built. The device, called an aerostat, is a blimp the size of a Boeing 747 equipped with radar to spot drug smugglers’ airplanes. Residents of Marfa are hoping the government installation will bring the tiny town legitimate business while it chases away the illegal drug trade that now flows across the re mote stretch of Mexican border to the south. Once the U.S. Customs Service deploys the aerostat this summer, the white Kevlar blimp will hover 2 or 3 miles above the desert plain some 30 miles east of the Rio Grande — a speck of silver tethered to earth by three cables. From its lofty position, the aeros tat’s downward-looking radar will be able to detect low-flying airplanes up to 260 miles away, customs officials say. No longer will drug smugglers be able to fly low across the border and evade radar detection, customs spokesman Charles Conroy said. “Conventional radar looks across the horizon,” Conroy said. “Because of the curvature of the earth, smug glers can fly under it. That doesn’t make a difference with the aerostat, because it’s downward-looking ra dar.” Customs hopes the aerostat will have the same power to deter wrongdoers as might a highway pa trolman wielding a radar gun with a 260-mile range. Anyone who knows he’s there isn’t going to speed, Con roy said. The aerostat is designed to keep drug-laden aircraft out of the United States, Conroy said. “No one in his right mind would fly into one of these things if he knew it was there, and they’ll know it’s there be cause we’re going to publicize it very highly.” When suspected smugglers are detected, customs can send airplanes to intercept the quarry. The Marfa aerostat will be the third along the U.S.-Mexico border. The others are at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., and Deming, N.M. Three oth ers are scheduled to be built: two in South Texas and one at Yuma, Ariz. Once the entire border is covered by aerostats looking deep into Mex ico, customs officials believe smug glers will have to abandon aircraft and rely instead on risky ground transportation. In the year ending last Sept. 30, the Border Patrol’s Marfa sector re corded 47 marijuana seizures total ing 5,045 pounds and four cocaine seizures totaling 19 ounces. The Border Patrol also seized 61 ounces of heroin in two busts. The total va lue of marijuana, cocaine and heroin seized that year was a little more than $5 million. Most of the druge were inter cepted at a checkpoint on U.S. 67, which heads north from the sister cities of Ojinaga, Mexico, and Pre sidio, Texas, through Marfa about 60 miles to the north. No one is sure how much Marfa’s economy stands to benefit from the aerostat, but it already is raising hopes. “The aerostat people have said it’ll drop about $1 million each year into the local economy,” Fritz Kahl, man ager of Marfa Municipal Airport, said. “You divide that among, 2,400 people and that’s going to have a big effect.” That $40 or so per person could pay for a dinner in Pecos or a trip to El Paso, Odessa or Midland. The helium-filled blimp and its ground base cost $12 million to $18 million to build, Conroy said. Main tenance runs $2 million to $3 million a year. A crew of about 35 General Elec tric engineers will staff the aerostat in the first few months, fine-tuning the blimp and radar. Later, a perma nent crew of about 15 GE employ ees, supervised by customs, will monitor the aerostat and feed infor mation to a command center at March Air Force Base in Riverside, Calif. Though Marfa residents will be just 20 miles away from a device with the capability of tracking their auto mobiles wherever they go, residents of the Big Bend ranching center don’t seem too worried. “There’s just been some coffee- shop talk,” Robert Halpern, editor of the Marfa Independent weekly newspaper, said. “We realize it’s very important to drug interdiction, but we’ve heard of the power of these electronic devices, be it radar or in frared or cameras.” Police Beat The following incidents were reported to the University Police Department March 1: ATTEMPTED THEFT OF VE HICLE: • A student reported that someone damaged the ignition of his 1985 Kawasaki motorcycle. 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