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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
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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.
BURGLARY:
• A student reported that
someone broke into his car and
stole an equalizer.
HARASSMENT:
• A student reported that he
received an annoying and
obscene phone call.
• Another student reported
that his ex-girlfriend had been
placing signs up around campus
that referred to his love life.
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