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NASA chiefforsees
U.S. space station
WASHINGsOr(A)-NAS'sc Beggs said. 'The space station is the
WASHNGTN (A) -NASAs cief next logical step for long-duration
predicted yesterdsy that President work.
Reagan soon will give the go-ahead for "WITHOUT A station, I can envision
an American manned space station, a much different world several years
saying, "If the United States does not from now," he said. "If the United
take this step, we will lose our pre- States does not take this step, we will
eminence in space." lose our pre-eminence in space.
James Beggs, administrator of the Because the Soviets will not stop, the
National Aeronautics and Space Ad- Europeans will not stop and the
ministration, said there have been en- Japanese won't stop.
couraging signs from the White House "there would be no impact at first,
recently and he expects an approval but in five years we would begin to fall
within 12 months. back, and in 10 to 15 years, we would
BEGGS SPOKE at a Space Station 'ert htwdint a e wouldx
Symposium attended by several hun- regret that we didn't take that next
dred industry, government, foreign logical step," Begga said..
and military planners gathered t' He said a station would enhance
provide~NASA with final ideas before America's economic well-being by
presenting its case to the White House providing new aress of technological
in the fall. research. "It will open up commercial
He said NASA hopes to gain approval opportunities we have not dreamed of;
from both the administration and it should improve our national security;
Congress for start-up money of about provide more sophisticated science,
$200 million in the fiscal 1985 budget to and be a source of international
be submitted in September. The agency cooperation,'' he added.
has estimated it will cost $6 billion to $8 Beggs said the most encouraging
billion to havea permanent station with White House signal comes from
four to six persons on board in orbit by presidential science advisor George
1991. Keyworth, who recently dropped his
"The space shuttle is moving ahead long-held opposition to a space station
well, and while it is truly impressive, it and called for NASA to come up with a
allows only a short time in space," "grand vision" for the future.
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and more importantly the University
committed itself to that."
Despite many programs designed to
recruit and keep black students here,
enrollment is only 5.2 percent of the
total student body now.
IN HIS NEW part-time post,- Hunter
said he wants to try to come up with an-
swers for the difficulties blacks ex-
perience financially, academically, and
socially when they come to the Univer-
sity.
"I think we're at a point in time
where there are a lot of rumors and in-
nuendos. I hope to research those and
go back and share my information with
groups and organizations," Hunter
said.
"There are a lot of resources on cam-
pus," he said, but the information is not
getting out to the students who need it.
Hunter, a black 31-year-old, will
receive $1,000 for his term which ends
in December. He graduated. from
Eastern Michigan University with a
degree in social work.
MSA Vice President for Minority Af-
fairs, Salene Hitchcock, said the
position will not end when Hunter
makes his final report to MSA.
"One big report is not what we're
working for. It's an ongoing thing," she
said.
Hitchcock said she was originally
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skeptical of the minority researcher
plan, but she now thinks it can be suc-
cessful if Hunter can have contact with
students.
Hitchcock said that with only one
term to work in, Hunter will probably
have to limit his activity somewhat.
"With the time that he has, it might be
best if he stuck with just one area (of
minority concerns)," she said.
Hunter hopes that much of his ac-
tivity will come from resonding to
direct student complaints and
questions, a plan that MSA President
Mary Rowland agrees with.
"I hope he's working with people. I
don't see him working in a little office on
his report, and then he will turn it in and
we will all applaud," she said.
MSA hired a student minority resear-
cher in November, who quit two weeks
later because the job demanded too
much time. Rowland said she thinks
Hunter's appointment is a step toward
helping the problem, but said that there
will be no solution until the University
makes it a priority.
"It's not an insurmountable problem,
it's just never been a (University)
priority," she said.
Although Hunter will probably con-
centrate on the problems of blacks at
the University, Rowland said he will
also work with other minority groups.
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Differences divide OPEC
HELSINKI, Finland - Bickering broke out over oil pricing and production
violations at the OPEC summit yesterday despite an unprecedented effort
by the cartel's 13 ministers to play down their bitter differences.
A senior OPEC delegate said Nigeria, Iran and the United Arab Emirates
- a Gulf moderate - have flouted their individual output quotas. A UAE of-
ficial hotly denied his country was overproducing.
The delegate, who asked not to be identified, said he would ask the
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to ban barter deals under
which Iran, Iraq and Libya have covertly discounted their oil to boost sales.
Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani said his kingdom,
OPEC's most influential member, favored keeping the cartel's $29 a barrel
base price unchanged through 1985.
He said a "significant" number of OPEC members supported the Saudi
stand.
But insiders said several OPEC dissidents vowed to fight any Yamani-led
move to freeze prices until a clearer picture of world oil demand emerged in
the next few months.
Mondale leads in campaign cash
WASHINGTON - Walter Mondale, while losing ground to John Glenn in
polls on who will win the 1984 Democratic presdential nomination, keeps his
commanding lead in one area - campaign cash.
Finance reports released yesterday said the former vice president has
gathered contributions totaling more tha $5 million this year, while Glenn,
Ohio's senior U.S. senator, has raised just over half that amount, $2.6
million.
Sens. Alan Cranston and Gary Hart, who are trailing the two frontrunners
in the polls, are also behind in the battle for money. Cranston has raised
about 1.1 million this year, while Hart has collected $823,204.
Campaign finance reports for April through June, due last Friday at the
Federal Election Commission, were made available yesterday. Hart's
figures are from a news release since his report- though it may have met
the commission deadline of being postmarked by midnight Friday - was not
available from the FEC.
Debate continues over MX
WASHINGTON - Republican Senate leaders have given up trying to force
a decision on whether to build and install the MX missile before the issue is
settled in the Democratic House, where the vote is expected to be extremely
close, congressional sources said yesterday.
Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker said he would not move to limit
debate on the MX, while across Capitol Hill there were growing indications
that the House might reverse itself and vote to block production of the
multiwarhead nuclear weapon sought by President Reagan.
House Majority Leader Jim Wright (D-Texas) said yesterday he has not
decided whether to shift a previous pro-MX vote cast in May when the House
decided ?45 to 176 to free funds for test-flying the missile.
In May, Wright and all the House Democratic leaders except Speaker
Thomas O'Neill supported Reagan and voted for the MX, so a change by
Wright would influence some Democrats.
End of Poland's martial law
may involve Solidarity protest
WARSAW, Poland - Polish military leaders yesterday agreed to end
martial law, the official news agency reported, but a senior Parliament of-
ficial said fears of pro-Solidarity protests may delay the move.
It was not clear if the decision by the 21-member Military Council for
National Salvation meant martial law would end on Friday, Poland's
national holiday. The Parliament official, who spoke on condition he not be
identified, said differences still exist and that the decision could be delayed.
The military council set no date or conditions during a session led by
Communist Party chief Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, said the news agency
PAP.
The parliamentary official said lifting of the 19-month-old state of
emergency could be temporarily blocked because of concerns over possible
demonstrations by backers of Solidarity on the outlawed union's third an-
niversary next month.
CIA fails in halting arms
WASHINGTON - The CIA's 18-month-old covert action to prevent arms
from reaching leftist Salvadoran guerrillas has failed to capture a single
weapons shipment, officials say. But its supporters contend the effort has
succeeded in disrupting supply lines.
The degree of success achieved by the CIA's support for Nicaraguan coun-
ter-revolutionaries operating from Honduras is likely to be a central issue in
a closed-door House debate today. The debate's focus will be a bill to cut off
the covert aid and replace it wil an $80 million open fund to help friendly
governments stop leftist gun-running in the region.
In interviews with officials familiar with the no-longer-secret covert ac-
tion, opinions on its worth varied sharply.
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