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EL PASO (AP) — Pvt. 2 William
Harris toggled the keyboard while
his eyes remained fixed on the cir
cles, squares and lines on the radar
screen before him.
The screen’s graphics are no
match for those of today’s video
games, but this is not child’s play.
The missiles Harris fired on his
screen, and the targets he killed sud
denly have become life-like.
“Before it was a learning experi
ence, now it’s like something you
might actually have to use someday,”
Harris, a student at the Army’s Air
Defense Artillery School at Fort
Bliss, said.
“Everyone takes this a lot more se
riously.”
Harris is one month away from
graduation from the 33-week course
the Army teaches for students who
will be part of Patriot missile crews
like those in Saudi Arabia shooting
down Iraqi Scud missiles.
Fort Bliss is the Army’s training
center for air defense weapons, in
cluding the Stinger, Chapparal,
Hawk, Vulcan and Patriot systems.
The school has not only trained sol
diers in the Navy, Air Force and Ma
rines, but has trained soldiers from
30 foreign countries, said Col. Vin
cent Tedesco, deputy assistant com
mander of the Air Defense Artillery
School.
“Essentially folks who have
bought U.S. air defense artillery
weapons, they come here and re
ceive training,” he said. That in
cludes the Royal Jordanian Army
and Israelis. El Paso Mayor Suzie
Azar said at one time the school
trained Iraqi students.
Air defense is considered one of
the Army’s more difficult specialties,
known as Advanced Individual
Training. Most specialty training
classes last about eight to 10 weeks,
Harris said.
“Shooting a missile is the easy
part,” Jim Pool, a Patriot System
Simulator instructor, said. “I can
teach you to shoot a missile in five
minutes that’s how easy it is. What I
need to do is teach you when to
shoot and what to shoot.”
The console of green lit radar
screens simulate all of the operations
of the Patriot system, which have
been shooting down Soviet mac
Scuds fired by Iraq at Saudi Arab,
and Israel.
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Soldiers are taught to identify li
graphics on the screen, for exampl;
a circle with a lightning bolt in it
nifies a hostile target with radarja;
ming equipment.
While the targets appear on
screen, information on that targe
such as its speed and identificatii
number appear simultaneously,
soldier must be able to digest that
formation instantaneously and
the same split second decide whatii I
do about it.
In one example, Pool showed
hostile aircraft moving at 777 knoi
or about 854 mph.
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The Soviet Internal Ministry is re
sponsible for the latest Lithuanian
action. Hatchett said Bakatin op
posed the use of force in Lithuania
when he controlled the ministry’s
troops.
Hatchett said Gorbachev’s in
volvement is unknown, due in part
to the fragmented Soviet power
structure. He added that Red Army
troops are not involved in the crack
down.
“We don’t know what the loyalty
of the Red Army will be in the long-
run, if called upon to take action,”
Hatchett said.
“Even though it looks like the
hardliners are carrying on a coup, if
it comes to a showdown the security
forces could be overwhelmed by the
Red Army,” he said.
Microbes
Dr. Alex Pacek, an A&M profes
sor of political science and specialist
in Soviet politics, said Soviet forces
historically have acted in unison dur
ing a crisis.
Though the Lithuanian incident
is “less organized,” Hatchett said the
Soviets are sticking to their long
standing tradition of cracking down
on rebellious republics during a time
of world crisis.
For example, Soviet forces re
pelled a Hungarian revolutionary
movement in 1956 when British and
French troops went into the Suez
Canal area. The Soviet Union also
annexed the three Baltic republics at
the end of World War II.
Pacek, however, said the Soviets
are not taking advantage of the Mid
dle East crisis to crack down on Lith
uania.
The 1968 Czechoslovakian trad
down was one of many well-plannd
Soviet operations not triggered byJ
world crisis, Pacek said.
“The Baltic crackdown is just con
fusion with no plan,” Pacek said
“Troops are acting under local com
manders with no clearly definet
goal.”
He said it is clear Gorbachev ha
less power than previous Soviet lead
ers and now is surrounded by hard
liners.
Hatchett said the only thing
can stop the Soviet Union from
ing back to conservative communis
leadership is a large-scale civ
upheaval.
“I don’t see that happening," hr
said.
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be difficult, or even impossible, to
combat.
“It may be left up to natural
means to take care of the spill,” he
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dreds of years, and there are many
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of a spill, including evaporation, dis
solution in water, and even naturally
occuring microbes.”
Hobby.
week during a semester with faculty
members and students.
“He or she shares their views of
E ublic service, public policy prob-
:ms, by visiting classes and partici
pating in informal discussions,” says
Dr. Kim Hill, director of the master’s
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Hobby’s four-day agenda includes
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The program gives A&M an op
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relative isolation. Hill says.
Kennicutt says the problem with
these natural processes is they can
take a long time to deal with so large
a spill.
f ‘There is a natural resiliency in
nature,” he says. “But there is a
point where there is just too much
oil to handle. At this point, I doubt if
even the best technology can effecti
vely address the situation.”
Kennicutt says from what he has
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she says.
The idea for the program origi
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ment, but Hill says the program’s
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wide effort.
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ning parts of two academic years.
Hobby will be at A&M Monday
through Thursday and return to
campus for a second visit this fall.
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spill is a defensive one.
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tecting vital areas and falling bad
where the spill can’t be controlled
he says. “Obviously the intakes fo:
the desalinization plants which pn>
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Arabia are being protected, as wet
as key environmental areas.”
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and shallow water parts of tie
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ronmental defense areas, Kennicr
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still exists.
“We’re watching the situation
and will make a decision if some
thing new develops,” she says. “If
there is enough interest in the
trip, it will happen.”
Luke Altenaorf, MSC associate
director, says the Jordan Institute
for International Awareness has
experienced similar reactions with
its Germany and Dominican Re
public exchange programs.
“We’ve noticed the people that
have applied have been concer
ned,” Altendorf says. “Everyone
has asked about the situation in
the Middle East, and there have
been concerns from parents as
well as the students themselves."
He says if the U.S. State De
partment announces a travel alert,
the institute will cancel its trips.
“We’re working with the Uni
versity administration to see
what’s in our best interests,” Al
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