Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, February 26, 1982 Page: 3 of 8
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UNIVERSITY PRESS February 26,1982*3
VV.
Editorial/Doiron/Letters
Viewpoint-—-
Executives 9move to halt
nuclear race applauded
As the dilemma—indeed, the
drama—of President Reagan's fiscal
1982 budget favoring huge in-
creases in military spending and
drastic cuts in social spending con-
tinues, a somewhat new and unlike-
ly group of citizens are opposing his
military proposals.
A group of corporate executives
have banded together to form the
Business Executives Move (BEM),
whose aim is to halt the arms race
the United States has continually
waged with the Soviet Union.
The group is not a new concept.
The first BEM was formed in the
late 1960s as a protest to the Viet-
nam conflict. Many of these same
executives are joined by new ones
in this fight to turn the spending of
the U.S. away from arms and revive
the economy.
Organizer of the new BEM, Er-
win Salk, president of Salk, Ward &
Salk mortgage bankers of Chicago,
told Len Ackland of the Chicago
Tribune that the "arms race is tear-
ing the guts out of our -etfonomy,
just like Vietnam did."
Some of the executives who have
joined BEM or have expressed in-
terest in joining the organization
told Ackland they had voted for
Reagan in the -1980 presidential
election. Irony, one asks? Not
necessarily.,. , ^
One executive says;-
"He (Reagan) is doing
philosophically good things regar-
ding the economy, despite the
rough bumps?l>ut fie is doing exact-
ly the opposite in our national
defense policies. There, he's bring-
ing the world closer to disaster."
Yet another executive is not so
supportive of the budget. "The
budget has really got people bugg-
ed," a Chicago investment firm ex-
ecutive says., "Howw many atomic
bombs douuvueb need to blow
everybody off the face* of the ear-
th—that's what bugs me."
Are these astonishing remarks,
one asks, coming from what is often
considered a rather conservative
element in society, the corporate ex-
ecutive? Hopefully not.
While one may argue that the
motive for these executives pro-
testing overspending in arms is
economical and not humanitarian,
the comments given by each of
these executives appear to show far
beyond financial concerns.
It is refreshing to see that these
men "throw their hats in the ring" of
an anti-arms race movement that is
gaining in numbers and influence.
The influx of such concerned ex-
ecutives will help provide a strong
voice in Washington and across the
nation—a united chorus of protest
that cannot be ignored.
The concern of BEM shows that
the debate of the nuclear race
should not just be confronted by a
few social justice groups or the
stereotyped "hippie."
It's everybody's concern.
As I was
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Be prepared,
Earth— the ‘Jupiter Effect’ is
coming
By BONNIE DO IRON
UP Columnist
A syzygy is coming!
And so are several conjunctions.
Should I say the syzygy are com-
ing?
No, syzygy is singular in more ways
than one and is pronounced sizz-uh-
gee, more or less.
Sygygy means a nearly straight
line configuration of three celestial
bodies in a gravitational system, and
a conjunction is a configuration in
which two celestial bodies have their
least apparent separation, or appear
to meet or pass in the same degree of
the zodiac. ■ Z ~
Now, what is a word for a triple
syzygy superconjunction of nine
celestial bodies?
Disaster, according to the authors
of “The Jupiter Effect.”
Some writers, who have written
concerning “The Jupiter Effect,”
seem to feel that John Gribbin and
Stephen Plagemann base their dire
Readers’ Forum
Team wants 6class9 in forfeit
Editor:
Recently Pi Kappa Alpha’s
basketball team forfeited two
Beaumont city league games to
our squad, the Temple-Eastex
Papermakers.
The Papermakers are a team of
men that gives up much of its time
for their weekly games. Many of
these men have families or job
commitments that are sacrificed
so that they might participate in
these games.
It seems that out of common
courtesy the Pikes would have had
the decency to leave prior notifica-
tion that they were going to forfeit
the games, so that some other ar-
rangements might hatfe been
made.
We realize that our early season
loss to the Pikes, with best guns on
the floor, was humiliating to our
team.
However, one would expect that
a national fraternity such as Pi
Kappa Alpha, which is supposedly
based on the epitomy of manly
honor, would haV6 shown the
courtesy to forfeit with a little
more style and class.
The Men of the Temple-Eastex
Papermakers Basketball Team
Palestinian problem addressed
Editor:
For the sake of passing the truth
to the people of the world. I will
start with some historical events
that will give the readers an idea
of how the problem started.
This is my second semester at
Lamar University. I have talked to
some students here about the
Palestine problem and the Palesti-
nian, but I found most of them
don’t know much about this pro-
blem.
The question of Palestine refers
to conflict arising as a result of the
intrusion of European and other
Jews into the Arab land of
Palestine, against the will of the
Palestinian people, but with
British and later American and
Western support.
At the outbreak of the first world
war, Palestine, along with the rest
of the Arab land, was under the
rule of the Ottoman Empire. In
1916 the Arabs revolted against the
Ottoman Turks. It was the aim of
the Arab people to achieve their
unity after the war.
Britain had promised to support
this Arab goal. But on the other
hand they entered into the Sykes-
Picot accord with France to divide
the Arab land. This accord was one
of the secret agreements con-
demned by President Wilson in his
14 points.
Further, Britain in 1917 promis-
ed, in the words of the Balfour
Declaration, “the establishment in
Palestine of a national home” for
the Jews. Of course the Balfour
Declaration, being a unilateral
declaration by Britain without
Palestinian consent, was not bin-
ding on the Palestinians.
At the time of the profriise, the
population of Palestine was 93 per-
cent Moslems and Christians and
seven percent Jews. By 1946, the
population had changed to one-
third Jews and two-thirds Chris-
tians and Moslems.
Why has America supported
Israel?
America has supported Israel
for a number of reasons. But the
most important factor in the U.S.
support is the myth of the “Jewish
vote” which has captivated the
politicians of the two , major
political parties in the country.
Hesham Tillawi
Palestine junior
predictions of earthquake activity in
1982 on the direct gravitational forces
that the coming planet alignment will
exert on the Earth.
What I gathered from reading the
book was that the authors base their
thesis on what effect the gravitational
influence of a grand alignment of nine
planets will have on the Sun in ac-
tivating sunspots WHICH will affect
the cosmic rays which affect the
ionosphere (that part of the Earth’s
atmosphere above 25 miles) and the
Earth’s atmospheric circulation
WHICH will agitate regions of
geologic instability WHICH might
just be the needed infinitesimal trig-
ger to fire off that cocked California
pistol—the San Andreas fault.
To quote J.G. and S.P., “The gravi-
ty of the planets can affect the Sun,
through tidal interactions, and distur-
bances on the Sun can influence the
Earth through changes in the
magnetic field which links all the
planets in the Solar system.”
Fortunately, the grand alignment
on March 10,1982, comes during spr-
ing break and, although it will not be
an “exact” alignment (the span
covers an angle of 95 degrees, a little
more than a quarter of a circle), it
will be a superconjunction with all
nine planets on the same side of the
Sun.
Nevertheless, aside from possibly
ruining spring break, this is a most in-
convenient time for an alignment.
We are now at the peak of a long
13-year sunspot cycle, and, to make
the cheese more binding, there will be
a full moon on March 9, lending a
helpful gravitational pull on the
earth’s oceans;and land masses.
Well, forewarned is forearmed.
Don’t go to California during spring
break, and do try to enjoy this grand
alignment; otherwise, you will have
to wait at least 179 years for the next
one.
I disclaim any responsibility for
any earthquake occurring at or on
any spot on the planet Earth between
the time this appears in print and the
end of the World.
Japan introduces new concept in baseball
By DICK WEST
United Press International_
WASHINGTON (UPI)-The United
States, according to Industry Week
magazine, lags far behind Japan in
the use of robots. But I didn’t realize
how far until I came across some pro-
motional material put out by the
Mizuno Corp. of Osaka, a sporting
goods company.
Having made deep inroads in the
U.S. car market, thanks in large
measure to their advanced develop-
ment of industrial robots, the
Japanese now have designs on our
very own national pastime—the game
of baseball.
Get a load of this space-age equip-
ment Mizuno is introducing in this
country this week:
Electronic catchers’ mitts.
Even in the major leagues, cat-
chers still flash signs to the pitchers
the old-fashion way—by hand. Com-
pare that quaint system with the
Japanese pushbutton mitt.
By pressing certain buttons on an
electronic relay device, the catcher
indicates whether he wants a fast
ball, a curve, a slider, a change-up or
whatever. That signal then is
transmitted to the mound, where it
appears on a lighted display panel on
the pitcher’s glove.
Moreover, each glove has its own
radio frequency said to prevent other
teams from stealing the signs.
What about jamming? Could the
enemy dugout disrupt catcher-to-
pitcher transmission the way Soviet
radio technicians occasionally in-
terfere with Voice of America broad-
casts?
I don’t know, but I certainly
wouldn’t put it past some baseball
managers—Billy Martin, for exam-
ple.
Hit and run—And what of the signs
a manager conveys by hand to first
and third base coaches, who then
relay them to the runners and bat-
ters?
For that, Japanese roboteers have
developed a device that transmits
coded messages from the dugout to
keyboard microwave receivers built
into the players’ headdress.
Moreover, these signals are chang-
ed into audio messages that can be
scrambled if necessary to prevent the
other team from intercepting them.
Design of Vietnam war memorial
undergoes rigors of controversy
By MAXWELL GLEN and
CODY SHEARER
Field Enterprises Inc.
WASHINGTON-Politics did a hit-
and-run on art last month.
A graceful, but controversial monu-
ment to all Americans who served in
Vietnam was proceeding toward
groundbreaking March 1 when it was
sideswiped by a coterie of indignant
conservatives and congressional
allies.
Like the war in Southeast Asia
itself, there seems to be no end to the
controversy surrounding the Vietnam
Veterans’ memorial. Ever since a
Yale architecture student’s stark
design captured first place in the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s
competition last summer,
somebody’s been dissatisfied.
It seemed there was something in-
glorious about a monument that took
the shape of two black walls, dipping
10 feet into the ground to form a broad
“V.”
In a December letter to his col-
leagues, for example, Rep. Henry
Hyde, R-Ill., remarked that the
memorial would be an embarrasing
understatement, more ditch than
monument. He noted that one
member of the architectural jury had
communist sympathies. (Meanwhile,
the winning designer, 22-year-old
Maya Ying Lin of Athens, Ohio, didn’t
escape veiled slurs about her Chinese
ancestry.)
Memorial sponsors were able to en-
dure the crtiticisms largely as a
result of the moral—and finan-
cial-support of such All-Americans
as Bob Hope and Roger Staubach. But
then they caved in. An American flag
and statue of a GI in the familiar
“follow me” posture were added to
the wide sweep of granite.
No single design, of course, can
please every eye, particularly when
the finished product must speak to,
among other things, our still-shaken
memories of a difficult national
period. Indeed, the controversy aris-
ing over the addition of traditional
American military icons underscores
how divided we remain about Viet-
nam.
But most Americans, we think, will
still find plenty of appeal in the
memorial when it’s completed. Our
associate, Michael Duffy, viewed 25
other design entries recently to learn
how a stunningly-simple granite bight
can speak to so many Americans.
For the record, few of the unsuc-
cessful entries either involved statues
of Vietnam-era soldiers or recalled
pithier sculptures of “Winged Vic-
tory” commemorating other wars.
But one wants something simpler in
a memorial, and that’s why Maya
Lin’s creation is a clear winner. Two
connecting walls, each 200 feet in
length, would neither create an un-
neccesary spectacle on the Mall nor
belittle the war or its veterans. The
memorial would rise slightly from the
ground to create a shallow “rift in the
earth,” recalling the domestic
upheaval and destruction abroad of
the period.
Unchanged, the monument’s wide
face would have lured visitors to the
site and enabled them to survey the
scene in a single glance (as with more
famous landmarks). The flag and
statue mar the designer’s original in-
spiration, but provide a simpler con-
text for those who want to explore the
monument quickly and pause to pay
respects.
Yet Lin’s original design never
tried to immortalize the dead or toy
with the thought that those named
died for a cause greater than
themselves. It was soberingly honest:
“For death is, in the end, a personal
and private matter, and the area con-
tained within this memorial is a quiet
place, meant for personal reflection
and private reckoning,” wrote Lin in
her official description of the design.
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