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2 The Battalion STATE & LOCAL Monday, April 24,1989 [ any here Dean Sueltenfuss Opinion Page Editor promote racism: thought about what obt it. io try to find racism cist: : who will graduate and go see the world; ; once. sors who don’t realize because I hardly ever ruse. vho listens to Top40 s me ill. ogen f usion boys at ely are trying to bring ch bucks: rill: spending our money lith: h Texas A&M, you a still watch the Mor- 3w: ned black birds that > terrorizing innocent come from? A Hitcli- . .Mi . wr ho is opposed to any ause it violates “tradi- o everyone who dis- ling they read on to ss is a junior joum- inion page editor foi nnot ut 1 know it is just a >re it happens. When will disturb me. But ay occurrence, and it the events of the day. lead to a change for rst make people stop change," then I have rthwhile. sophomore joum- rt director for The Breathed A&M student enjoys stint as volunteer in Israeli army By Holly Beeson REPORTER Some people go home during the summer, some take classes and some work. One Texas A&M student de cided to go to Israel to serve as a vol unteer for the Israeli army. “I was actually part of the army,’ Beth Morrison, a senior psychology major from Houston, said. “1 wore the uniform and lived in the bar racks. I ate with the Israeli soldiers and woke up when they did. It helped me understand their way of life.” Morrison said she heard about the Volunteers for Israel program through two speakers, an Israeli and a Texas A&M student, at the Hillel Jewish Students Center. The program allows people to be come soldiers in Israel for three weeks. Morrison she believes the purpose of the volunteer program is to bring people closer to the country. “T he country gives off a vibra tion,” Morrison said. “When you land in Israel, you just feel alive. There’s something about the coun try that gives you life.” Morrison said that when volun teers arrive in Israel, they are as signed to groups, and although peo ple may request where they want to go and what they want to do, it de pends mostly on where volunteers are needed. “What you’re doing is little things to help out,” she said. “I requested to work in an infirmary, but ended up doing computer work at a base in Haifa.” Some of Morrison’s friends were painting ships, peeling potatoes, weeding and handing out uniforms to soldiers. “In a way, the program is similar to the Peace Corps,” she said. “You are giving of yourself — three weeks of your life to go and enrich your self.” See Israel/Page 8 Injured cavalry member heals rapidly after fall By Holly Becka REPORTER Scott Armstrong, the member of the Texas A&M Parsons Mounted Cavalry and Squadron 11 who was injured when he fell from his horse in a Parents’ Weekend ceremony, is making a rapid recovery from his injuries. Bill Peterson, commanding of ficer of Squadron 11, said Arm strong was moved to the Texas Institute of Rehabilitation and Research Center in Houston on April 17, where doctors originally thought he would have to stay for three months. “Now they’re saying that he’ll only have to stay for two weeks,” Peterson said. Armstrong was semi-conscious the day af ter the accident and was speaking incoherently, but Peter son said he has since made a dra matic improvement. “His dad thought Scott would be back to move his stuff out of his dorm room at the end of school by himself, and from the way Scott was talking, I think he’ll be back for Final Review,” Peter son said. “I know he really wants to.” Armstrong, a senior animal sci ence major from Baytown, was in intensive care at St. Joseph Hos pital in Bryan for a week after his injury. The accident occurred when Armstrong lost his balance while the cavalry was charging to the end of Simpson Drill Field to close the Parents’ Weekend cere mony. Peterson said Armstrong lost his balance and landed on the ground feet-first, but because of the rate of speed at which he hit the ground, he rolled forward and hit his head. Armstrong had remained in the hospital until April 17 when he was transferred to the rehabili tation and research center in Houston. Friends rally in support of Wright’s wife WASHINGTON (AP) — Betty Wright’s friends have rallied to her side as she fights allegations that she and her husband, House Speaker Jim Wright, violated House rules by accepting impermissible gifts. “She is a strong individual arid she’s always been very nice to me,” said Phyllis Coehlo, the wife of Rep. Tony Coehlo, D-Calif, the House majority whip. Wright, an adoptive Texan who came to Washington as a secretary in her husband’s congressional office 24 years ago, has tried to avoid the limelight since the House Ethics Committee concluded last week that the speaker violated 69 rules. Some of the allegations stem from her em ployment by Wright’s friends. “Neither Jim nor 1 ever intended to evade the law in any way, shape or form,” she said to the Washington Post. “My God, he’s been there for 30 years. Why all of a sudden would he do a shady thing like that?” Attention! Former Members of 24 hr. Gyms of Texas! You have 1 day left! croLDisciym* is offering a limited transfer membership to all eligible members. But hurry! Offer ends April 24th! GTOLDS CYM A LICENSEE OF GOLD'S GYM ENT. INC. 1308 Harvey Road College Station 764-8000 Cosmonaut offers perspective on 211-day trip through space By Kelly S. Brown STAFF WRITER Valentin Lebedev wrote his thoughts and feelings down almost daily during his 211 days in space because he wanted to correct a “dis torted public perception” of a Soviet cosmonaut’s work. Six years later he published these thoughts and is now on a nationwide book tour. He made his third stop on the tour Friday at Texas A&M. Lebedev said he decided to write in his diary everything a cosmonaut experiences on a mission — how he lives in space, his frustrations and the source of his endurance. Lebedev’s second flight into space began May 13, 1982. His Soyuz-T spacecraft was launched toward the new space station, Salyut-7. The craft set a record by not touching down on earth for more than 30 weeks. Lebedev, the flight engineer, ac companied Commander Anatoly Berezovoy. Orbiting the Earth at an altitude of 140 miles, they took about 20,000 pictures of the Earth’s surface, walked in space and con ducted hundreds of technological, medical and biological experiments. Lebedev said he was excited about the job, because he awaited some thing like it for nine years. But, as expected, the first few weeks inside Soyuz-T were confin ing and uncomfortable for the cos monauts, he said. Michael Cassutt, author of “Who’s Who in Space” and writer of the foreword in Lebedev’s book, “Diary of a Cosmonaut: 211 Days In Spa ce,” described the flight as an ex traordinary mission. “The passengers were caged in a cylinder somewhat smaller than a mobile home, crammed with scien tific equipment and a cloud of cables, paper and even guests, for 211 weightless days and nights amid the dangers of space,” Cassutt said. In his book, Lebedev explains the complications with equipment and triumphs of discovery. But the reader can see beyond the technicali ties and enter Lebedev’s life when he Photo by Ronnie Montgomery Soviet cosmonaut Valentin Lebedev writes about his friends, family and feelings and about a sunrise he viewed from above the earth. “The sun was still behind the hori zon when suddenly, a blue sword sliced into the Earth and a smooth blue arc spread before the dawn,” he wrote. “Later, when the sun came up, it was as if melted copper ran on the clouds, its warmth licking the sleeping Earth.” Although he did experience some quiet moments, Lebedev’s days were usually turbulent. On the spacecraft’s return to earth, the Soyuz T-7 flew through low clouds, and dense fog, then fell down a snowy hillside in Kazakhstan. Lebedev and Berezovoy were frozen and exhausted as they waited for rescuq. The first rescue helicopter crashed upon approach. Forty min utes later, all-terrain vehicle brought a rescue team to pull them out of the capsule. 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