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Sat. Sun. Tues. Wed. Fri. ‘Invite Only Sept. 2 Cookout w/Delta Zeta Sig House Sept. 3 Sept. 5 Banquet Happy Hour Sept. 6 A Day w/the Sigs Sept. 8 Date Party Ramada Inn Wings-n-Things Noon 3:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Page 14 The Battalion Friday, September 1,1989 FA A calls detector inadequate to stop all plane disasters Bakker (Continued from page 1) WASHINGTON (AP) — A $1 million bomb detector that the Fed eral Aviation Authority starts oper ating Friday at a New York airport is not sensitive enough to spot an ex plosive like the one that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 last December, Science magazine reports. The magazine, the journal for the American Association for the Ad vancement of Science, said the bomb detector, called a thermal neutron analysis device, or TNA, is being set at a sensitivity that will uncover about 2.5 pounds of plastic explo- plosives. 1 he luggage passes through the machine on a conveyor belt, and il nitrogen of a certain level is detected, the machine indicates the source, enabling operators to separate suspicious bags. Science said the machine is so massive that it requires special con struction to install, increasing the cost of deploying the $1 million ma chine. Sell with the Best Battalion Classifieds 845-2611 Science said British experts be lieve the bomb that brought down Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21 contained only about one pound of explosive. The crash killed 270 people. A TNA bomb detector has been installed in a special building at JFK Airport in New York and will go into operation for international TWA flights on Friday, FA A officials said. The agency has said it wants U.S. airlines to spend about half a billion dollars to install 491 of the machines at international airports over the next five years. A problem with the system-is that some types of fabric, leather and such things as plastic ski boots can have nitrogen densitities as high as explosives. Thursday afternoon. “I would like to tell the people, you be in our shoes and see if you can hold steady for 2 1 /2 years,” she said. “He was very distressed last night after what happened in the courtroom.” Defense attorney George T. Davis told Potter that Bakker, 49, kept say ing he wanted the trial to continue but was “on the floor in a fetal posi tion.” “If Mr. Bakker is handled gently and carefully he may be able to pro ceed with this trial,” Davis said. The defense had tried to persuade the judge to allow Bakker to stay in a private institution. Bakker’s wife described a similar scene last year, saying in a fund-rais ing letter to supporters that her hus band had stayed in a fetal position for hours after he was forced to leave the ministry in 1987. She made no mention of Thurs day’s developments on the couple’s daily religious broadcast. I And Jessica Hahn, the worn; whose 1980 sexual encounter wii Bakker led to Bakker’s downfal said in a 1987 Playboy interviewth; just after the tryst, a fellow evange ist who had just come from Bakker hotel room said he was “lying in a tal position in his room, saying 1 happy.” Jackson said his initial diagnos; was that Bakker was “actively hallu cinating,” suffers from “acute de pression” and has episodes where! is unable “to adequately judge ant relate to reality.” Nelson’s collapse came the saw day that lawyers confirmed thatar other key witness in the trial, form PTL second-in-command Richart Dortch, was being treated at a Clear water, Fla., hospital for an undis Of closed ailment. Marshals said the shackles th; bound Bakker are standard procr dure for moving prisoners. A few supporters were on handi offer encouragement. “He will come back,” said Loren Mays of Jacksonville, Fla. “Jim’s fighter. He’s not a quitter, ... but will take time.” Grant (Continued from page 1) The bomb finder is a 10-ton, 13- foot-long machine. It uses neutrons, a type of sub-atomic particle, to probe luggage for the presence of nitrogen, a major component of ex- approximately $300,000 of the pro grams budget, a figure that will be matched by the University of Texas, the other school providing the bulk of the funds. While admitting the current bud get is limited, Bentsen said he “hopes the administration will recog nize the need to expand this pro gram as it proves itself.” Fellowships will be an important part of the program and will result in increased recruitment of students in space-related fields of study. The recruitment of women and minori ties will be emphasized in the pro gram aimed at preparing students for careers in the aerospace indus try. All of the consortiums submitted proposals to NASA to apply for par ticipation in the program and the Texas delegation has already formed a network and plans that are ready to be implemented. Bentsen said the Texas consortium’s plan was the most comprehensive and re ceived praise for including private companies so that the transition to commercial developments can lx made easier. Board of Regents Chairman liam McKenzie said it takes the lie sector, the private sector and aca demia to bring innovation change — and the combination A&M is has is doing just that. “For a long time we’ve been a land grant college, then a sea grant colie ge,” McKenzie said, “we’re ranked eighth nationally in research — are continuing to bring innovation as we can now add that we area space grant college.” SKyt?/t/£ Aggies Over Texas Coulter Field Highway 21 Bryan,Texas 77803 Hist Jump Course-$136.00 Tandem Jump-$12500 Accderated Free Fall Course-$26000 Aggjes Over Texas is open every weekend900am Phone: 7780245 Gam e experience the thrill! jumoN l mr/tti towr ADS Advertise an item in the Battalion. 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