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The Red and Black
Athens, C3a. Wednesday, March 31,1982 Voi.89, No.BO An independent student newspaper serving the University of Geornia community News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
Ex-President Carter
finally accepts request
to speak on Law Day
Mangan helps tame the Tigers
SUM photo/Larry ( utrhall
By BOB KEYE8
Krd and Black Aaaoriatr New* Kriltor
Former President Jimmy Carter will speak at
the annual Law Day ceremonies May 1, a law
school official confirmed Tuesday
Gwen Wood, assistant to the law school dean,
said Carter will speak in the north campus
quadrangle at 11 a m. as part of the law day
ceremonies. Carter will also attend a luncheon in
the Georgia Center for Continuing Education
following his speech
The topic of Carter’s speech has not been deter
mined, but he is expected to meet with his schedul
ing director late this week to discuss a topic, Wood
said.
"We feel honored," Wood said of the upcoming
engagement. “He can speak from a unique van
tage piont and intertwine what the legal system
needs from an executive point of view.”
John Mangan’s 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory over Clemson's Mark Dickson was and jeered as Georgia beat the sixth-ranked Tigers for the first time
a major factor in the men’s tennis team's 5-4 victory over the Tigers at since 1979. Please see story on page six.
Henry Feild Stadium Tuesday. Over 1,500 Bulldog supporters cheered
Astronauts bring shuttle home a day late
WHITE SANDS, N.M. (UPI) - Astronauts
Jack Lousma and Gordon Fullerton flashed to
a dusty desert landing in the shuttle Columbia
Tuesday to cap a triumphant eight-day mission
in space.
Their hypersonic spaceplane swept across
the Gulf of California, southern Arizona and
New Mexico and touched down at 11:04:49 a.m.
EST, a day late, on the buff-colored Northrup
Strip at White Sands Missile Range.
"Welcome home,” ground communicator
Steve Nagel told the astronauts, as Columbia’s
main landing gear kicked up streamers of
gypsum dust from the runway. "That was a
beautt
eautlful Job."
the Is
landing, delayed by Monday’s
“ ds, ‘
With
sandstorm at White Sands, the astronauts
racked up a shuttle endurance record of 8 days,
4 minutes and 49 seconds.
They sped around the Earth 129 times at
altitudes ranging up to 150 miles, and flew 3.9
million miles — giving Columbia a total now of
5.8 million miles.
It marked the first time an American
manned spaceflight has been extended, and the
first time Columbia has landed on a backup
field.
"Columbia, the space program, now Is
something that people can hold up and say,
'We’re good, we can do It, we're Number
One,”' Lousma said afterward at a welcoming
ceremony where they were reunited with their
wives.
"Everything fell Into place better than my
wildest dreams could imagine,” Lousma said
in his turn at the microphone.
Harold Draughon, the flight director who
orchestrated the drop from orbit and the
landing, said In Houston: “All in all, it was a
beautiful flight; the entry, in particular, was
textbook in every respect. And we enjoyed it
very much.”
President Reagan, in a telephone con
versation with the astronauts, told them: "We
were watching you come in for that perfect
landing and everyone in America is breathing
again.
“Our heartfelt congratulations,” Reagan
said, "and our thanks for all you have done and
all It means to America."
Minutes after Columbia rolled out and
stopped, winds picked up and began blowing
dust across It. Ground crews at White Sands
quickly took the craft under their care, using
equipment shipped by rail from Edwards Air
Force Base, Calif., after the scheduled landing
there was rained out.
Columbia more than lived up to its ex
pectations as the space workhorse of the
future.
Its 50-foot jointed cargo boom worked per
fectly, scientific and technological ex
periments went well, and the ship proved Itself
more resistant than expected to the extremes
of heat and cold In space.
The touchdown was not as smooth ss the two
lous ones at Edwards. A wind gust pushed
nose up sbruptly as It rolled along on the
main wheels, but command pilot Lousma
quickly leveled It out and eased it down on the
nose wheel
Cheers went up from ground crews snd an
estimated 5,000 spectators
“I think I got tears In my eyes and chills
when It landed," said Celia Harris, 25, In from
Santa Fe, N.M., to catch this moment in
history "When the fishers (chase planes)
came up and tipped their wings, I had tears in
my eyes.
"It was so much better than TV, so much
better I"
Columbia soared in from the west, made a
sweeping right turn and touched down at just
over 200 miles an hour on the 7-mile makeshift
runway that mission directors resorted to when
rains flooded out Edwards Air Force Base.
There were only a few scattered reports of
sonic booms along the ship's sparsely
populated flight track.
Sweeping In over Baja California at about
9,000 miles an hour, Lousma radioed: "I think
we’re booming right over the commander-ln-
chlef's ranch right now." He was looking
northward out his side window toward the
president's Rancho del Clelo near Santa
Barbara, Calif.
Nancy Reagan heard that on television and
alerted her husband, who watched the landing
on the TV set in his White House Oval Office
and exclaimed, “That's marvelous!"
Mission television cameras first picked up
the spaceplane as a ghostly white image as It
bore In over the little New Mexico desert town
of Truth or Consequences. Gradually, details of
the stubby wings and triangular tall emerged
as chase planes edged In and escorted
Columbia to the strip 4,000 feet above sea level.
"This la really a beautiful flying machine,”
Lousma reported as Columbia approached the
Pacific Coast.
Lousma, followed by Fullerton, emerged
about 37 minutes after landing. They gave their
ship a walk-around Inspection.
Carter will be in town only a few hours because
he is due in Washington later in the afternoon
The law school has been trying to get Carter to
speak at the ceremony in recent years, but
because of his tight schedule he has been unable to
attend. However, this is not the first time the
former president has addressed the Law Day
crowd at the University. In 1974, while serving as
the state’s governor, he spoke at the luncheon
following the ceremonies
Carter follows a long list of distinguished guesLs
who have spoken at the ceremonies in years past.
In 1977, former Secretar of State Cyrus Vance was
the featured speaker. Sen. Ed Kennedy, D-Mass,
spoke the same year Carter spoke at the luncheon,
Griffin Bell was the guest speaker while he was
Attorney General, and Andrew Young spoke when
he was Ambassador to the United Nations U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun spoke at
last year's law day ceremony
In 1979 Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti was
scheduled to speak, but the day before the speech
a helicopter en route to Iran to rescue the
American hostages crashed, and Civiletti was de
tained in Washington.
A Washington, D C. lawyer began Law Day in
1957, and in 1958 President Dwight Eisenhower
decided the Saturday nearest May 1 should be
recognized across the country as Law Day.
The Carter speech is free and open to all Univer
sity students, staff, faculty and area residents
Various awards will be presented to University
law students In a ceremony before Carter's
speech.
This year’s Law Day theme Is "A Generation of
Progress,” and the ceremonies will "look at the
backbone of the American Judicial System over
the past 25 years," Wood said.
Legislature allowsfor local liquor hour vote
prev!
Its m
By LAURA OTTO
Red ln4 Black Stlfl Wrllar
The Georgia legislature waited until the last
moment before finally approving a bill that.will
allow Clarke County residents to vote on ex
tending the hours of liquor sales on Saturdays
from midnight to 12:S5a.m.
The city and county residents will vote
separately on the issue during the state primary
elections Aug. 10, said Johnny Fowler, Athens
clerk-treasurer.
Rep. Bob Argo, D-Athens, said the votes of the
city, county and other municipalities, such as
Winterville, will be independent of one another,
with each area determining its own policy.
In early February, the Athena-Clarke County
Restaurant and Bar Owners Association asked
the city council and county commlsalon to send
requests to the state legislature to enact a bill
that would permit the extension of liquor sales on
Saturdays.
The requests were sent after both govern
ments voted on the Issue, but the legislature did
not summarily pass a law allowing the ex
tension, which the body usually does when
presented with local issues.
Instead, the legislature passed a bill allowing
county residents to vote on the Issue In a
referendum
Argo said he had thought It unwise to "rubber
stamp” the bill without holding a referendum. as
the extension would amend a liquor law which
had been originally voted on in a referendum
Although Argo said he had not personally
recommended the Issue be held for a referendum
vote, he would not say who had voted for the
measure.
The bill passed Friday by the General
Assembly states that all 159 counties In Georgia
can call local referenda during regularly
scheduled primary elections If they wish, and the
results of those elections will go into effect Nov.
1.
In the past, counties and municipalities could
hold special elections to decide on liquor laws,
but the new bill will forbid this practice because
combining the referenda with primary elections
Is less expensive.
The Aug. 10 election will be Athens and Clarke
County voters’ first opportunity to change the
hours that liquor may be served in the area
Nunn favors draft to upgrade recruit quality
By JOHN O'BRIEN
Bed and Black Contributing Writer
The men inside America's tanks have a problem: they
don't know which buttons to push. As often as not, they shoot
at rocks, trees, birds — anything but their intended target.
The recent tank-shoot competition among elite NATO
forces illustrated the relatively poor quality of even
America's best armored units. Despite their use of the latest
equipment — tanks the Pentagon boasted can cause up to
four times more enemy casualties than any others in the
world with their new stabilized turretts and advanced
technology sights — in the annual test of NATO’s best, the
American tank team came in last — again — behind the Ger
mans, Dutch, Belgians, Canadians and other allies "We
don’t talk about the Americans any more,” said an em
harassed German observer "They use a tremendous amount
of ammunition. They simply miss the targets."
A 1978 report on the state of America’s all-volunteer armed
forces published by Georgia Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn said
25 percent of the U.S. tank gunners in Europe did not know
where to aim when using the tank battle sights, and 90 per
cent of the nuclear-weapons specialists failed a basic skills
test.
Nunn, former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Sub
committee on Manpower and Personnel, advocates
reinstating the draft as a means of improving the quality of
America's armed forces Although Nunn has been unable to
get any consensus in the Senate favoring reinstatement of a
peacetime draft, he is currently working on legislation that
would abandon the all-volunteer concept for the armed forces
and would restore the draft.
“I don’t anticipate a return to the draft," Nunn said, "but I
think it’s a wiser course to take now rather than waiting and
having to deal with a crisis later "
The peacetime draft, in which young men served a two-
year term in the Army or exercised their option to serve a
longer hitch in the Air Force, Navy or Marine Corps, official
ly ended on June 30,1973.
Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., a leading opponent of the draft,
said a return to the draft is unnecessary ' The draft would do
nothing to enhance our military preparedness,” he said. For
Hatfield and other opponents of the draft, the all-volunteer
force is capable of handling any emergencies that might
arise
But Nunn opposes their stand. "There is an alarming
deterioration in the quality of new personnel entering the ser
vices, especially the Army," Nunn said in an updated report
published in June 1960 Nunn also charged that the deteriora
tion in the number of high-quality recruits has had a serious
impact on our combat units' ability to perform their wartime
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missions.
A more recent report by the Congressional Research Ser
vice supports Nunn’s claim that a draft would solve the pro
blem of poor quality personnel in the military The report,
published in September 1961, said the armed forces stalled
falling short of their recruiting goals in the third quarter of
fiscal year 1976. and in order to compensate, the Department
of Defense lowered its quality standards for new recruits.
But even after standards were lowered, recruiting goals
were still not met by any branch of the armed services for the
next three years Thus, the U.S. armed forces in 1979
numbered slightly more than 2 million men and women — far
below the pre-Vietnam War level of 2.7 million troops
Although enlistment quotas have been easily exceeded in
all four branches of the military since 1960, Nunn looks back
at the lowering of standards and wonders whether any of the
recruits are fit to fight
In its I960 report. Nunn's committee recommended that the
Army focus on quality instead of “adhering blindly to the
self-destructive, quality-at-any-cost recruiting philosophy
of today."
Nunn's 1980 report also gave new evidence of the poor
quality of the new recruits by comparing today's armed
forces with those of the early 1960s, when the draft was in ef
fect.
Nunn said his committee received estimates from Assis
tant Secretary of Defense Robert Pirie that showed up to 45
percent of Army recruits had a measured mental ability
lower than 70-90 percent of the total population (Mental
Category IV), compared to 15 percent that fell into the same
category in 1964 Nunn also said the percentage of high school
graduates entering the Army went from 55 percent in 1979 to
38 percent in 1960
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Non-registrants
face prosecution
By JOHN O'BRIEN
Knl and Black ( a*Irtbating Writer
Since President Carter reinstituted draft registration in
1980, 7.8 million men have registered — or 14 out of every IS
eligible men
And if President Reagan sticks to his pledge, the 500,000
men who have so far failed to register may soon find
themselves facing federal prosecution
On Jan. 7 President Reagan announced that those who had
failed to register would be prosecuted, but he gave them a 60-
day grace period to sign up That grace period ended Feb. 2$,
and the Selective Service will soon begin tracking down
violators
Betty Alexander, regional public affairs officer of the
Selective Service, said that as soon as all necessary informa
tion is collected the Selective Service will match the registra
tion lists against the social security numbers of those eligible
to find the unregistered men When this list is completed, it
will be handed over to the Justice Department, which will
prosecute all non-registrants, Alexander said.
"There will be prosecutions," Alexander said, "but it’ll be
up to the Justice Department to decide who they'll go after
first and how they'll handle the large number of violators."
Although the grace period has ended, the Selective Service
is still accepting late registrations through the post office,
Alexander said “Anyone who registers will probably not
have any problem with the Justice Department, but the
longer they wait, the greater the chance there’ll be some
trouble," she said
The law requires all young men horn on or after Jan. 1,1960
to register for the draft within 30 diys of their 18th birthday.
"Make no mistake: the continuation of peacetime registra
tion does not foreshadow a return to the draft," Reagan said.
"I remain firm in my conviction, stated in 1980, that ’only in
the most cevere National emergency does a government
have a claim to the mandatory service of its young people.'
No such emergency now exists and registration is in no way a
proxy for conscription "