Reagan OKs production
of neutron warheads
By FRED S. HOFFMAN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan,
reversing a controversial Carter
administration decision, has deeded to go
ahead with the production and stockpiling of
neutron warheads, the White House said
Saturday.
The warheads for the Lance battlefield
missile and an 8-inch Howitzer shell will be
stockpiled in the United States and will not be
deployed outside this country.
The State Department, in response to
questions about the decision, stressed that
"production of these weapons is an internal
U.S. government matter" and noted that
i "deployment outside U.S. territory is not
involved." The statement said there were no
plans "at this time" to deploy the weapons
outside the United States.
In Santa Barbara, Calif., deputy White
House press secretary Larry Speakes
confirmed that Reagan had made the go
ahead decision Thursday. He refused publicly
to provide additional details about the
decision.
Administration leaders are now in the
process of telling U.S. allies in Western
Europe abput the decision, said the State
Department. Western European leaders have
generally opposed U.S. deployment of, the
weapons in their countries.
President Carfer first supported the weapon
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and approved its manufacture and stockpile.
Then, in 1978, he decided not to produce it, but
instead permitted the weapon's key
components to be built.
The neutron warhead is a high radiation
weapon designed to kill people without
inflicting intolerable damage to surrounding
structures. It carries twice the radiation but
less than one-tenth the explosive power of a
conventiodal nuclear weapon.
The intended purpose of the weapon,
according to U.S. defense planners, would be
to halt a Soviet tank attack in Central Europe,
where the Russians now have an estimated
three-to-one advantage in armor over NATO
armies.
Reagan's decision came after a lengthy
review of the entire neutron warhead
question, a study coordinated by the National
Security Council and including
representatives of the Pentagon, State
'Department and Energy Department.
One of the key administration figures
supporting production was Defense Secretary
Caspar Weinberger.
Under Reagan's order, the warheads and
launchers will be built and stored separately,
a customary practice with smaller nuclear
weapons.
Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, chairman of the.
Senate Armed Services Committee, was told
about the production decision early Saturday
and he applauded Reagan's stand.
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WDFM's listeners meet the challenge
By JUDD A. BLOUCH
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
"Challenge '81," WDFM's answer to
the rising cost of commercial-free
radio, surpassed all expectations and
raised $5,332 for the student-run radio
station, development director and
coordinator of the event Daniel G.
Mushalko said.
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"It worked better than we thought
a lot better than we thought,"
Mushalko said.
The week-long campaign was
originally planned to be a test case to
prepare for bigger fund raisers in the
future. WDFM staffers said last
Sunday that they would be happy to
break even at $5OO.
But by noon Wednesday, pledges and
donations to "Challenge '81" had
reached almost $2,500 and WDFM's
staff gained confidence, raising their
goal to $5,000, which was reached
sometime between 4 p.m. and
midnight Saturday.
Mushalko gave credit for the
suprisingly immense success of the
program to a variety of sources. He
said media coverage and new listeners
brought in by the station's booth at the
base of the Mall were extremely
helpful.
But the biggest factor in the success
of "Challenge '81" was the support ,
given by regular listeners a group
whose size surprised WDFM staff
members.
"We're more community oriented
than we ever gave ourselves credit. We
realize people know more about us,"
one • ian
the
daily
"I have long urged that components for the
enhanced radiation warhead be produced,"
Tower said. "The Reagan administration is
doing nothing more and nothing less than
required and what it has said it would do."
Shortly after the Reagan administration
took office, Weinberger said he was leaning
toward development of the weapon, a
statement viewed with some alarm among
U.S. allies.
The State Department said the decision to
produce the weapon was a logical outgrowth
of the 1978 Carter administration judgment to
make the components.
In 1978, West German Chancellor Helmut
Schmit was one of the few Western European
leaders to say he was willing to have the
neutron weapon in his country. Schmidt was
reportedly upset at being left holding the bag
when Carter backtracked.
Opposition to the weapons is based on the
premise that, since the warheads are not as
destructive as the more powerful
conventional nuclear bombs, they would be
more tempting to use, thus increasing the risk
of a nuclear war.
After Weinberger's statement last winter
caused concern among U.S. allies, Secretary
of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. told U.S.
embassies in European capitals to inform
America's NATO allies that Weinberger's
comment was not a change in U.S. policy.
said Max Beahm, assistant general
manager.
The biggest pledge $5OO came
from the owner and employees at New
Morning Cafe, 131 W. Beaver Ave.
Without it, WDFM never would have
reached its goal.
"What it amounts to is a really nice
man came through in the end,"
Mushalko said.
Regular listeners who called up to
pledge or gave in person were asked
about their favorite . shows and Beahm
said the results were helpful in finding
what people prefer.
Mushalko said he is using the
pledger survey to distribute the money
between the various programs, with
the bulk of the money going to the
shows with the biggest givers.
But the original purpose of
"Challenge '81" as a rehearsal for a
more extensive future fundraiser,
probably in February has not been
forgotten.
He said the next pledge drive will be
larger because WDFM's staff will be
larger and more students and
professors will be around. The format
will also be different shortening the
pledge drive to a half week and using
the rest of the time for an on-the-air
auction.
Mushalko said that stations often
don't get all the money pledged. He
said, however, that 50 percent of the
pledges had already been collected and
believed WDFM would get at least 90
percent.
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At the conclusion of the WDFM fund-raising campaign, Challenge 'Bl, Dan Mushalko (left), development director and
coordinator of the event, displays the final pledge total $5,332. Public Affairs Director Dennis Dompert and station
General Manager Len Siebert watch at the station's booth on the Mall at College Avenue.
Strike hits home for
airport employees
1 5 local airline staff members laid off
By DAVID MEDZERIAN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
About half of the State College-based
employees of Pennsylvania Airlines have been
laid off indefinitely as a result of the strike by the
nation's air traffic controllers.
"We're toying to balance our expenses in
proportion to our reduction in passenger
revenues," said Bill Clark, executive vice
president for the airlines, which operates
USAir's Allegheny Commuter service
throughout the state.
Clark said Pennsylvania Airlines has laid off 82
of its 250 employees throughout the state. Fifteen
of the 82 are based at the University Park Airport
nine pilots and six ticket agents.
"We've cut in half our personnel," he said.
Clark said, systemwide, the airline is running
half of its regularly scheduled flights and most
of those flights are running below capacity. At
full operation before the strike, he said the flights
were operating at about 60 percent of capacity.
He said many potential passengers did not
know if flights would be operating, and thus
made other plans. Some passengers may also
have been concerned about flight safety, but
Clark said business has been picking up.
"We've noticed a steady increase of about 10
percent per day," he said.
The airline is now operating under a schedule
imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Under the plan, five of 10 flights to Pittsburgh
have been canceled, along with one flight to
Washington and one to Philadelphia via
Harrisburg.
The passengers pass,
regardless of strike
By DAVID IVIEDZERIAN
Daily Collegian Staff Miter
Although flight schedules have been cut by
more than 50 percent, the air traffic controllers
strike seems to have had only a minimal effect on
passengers traveling out of University Park
Airport.
Paula Madsen of Oxford, Mich. had
reservations to leave State College on Friday.
She said she called USAir on Thursday, and they
told her the Allegheny Commuter flight was
operating but she found out differently when
she went to the airport Friday afternoon.
Madsen had to reschedule her trip for Saturday
but said she was concerned about her
connecting flight from Pittsburgh to Detroit.
"It's supposed to be flying today," she said
Saturday.
Keith 'Wagner of State College agreed: "The
hardest problem is trying to find out which
flights are flying," he said.
Most passengers flying out of University Park
were luckier, though.
"I came before the strike," said Beverly Koch
of Arlington, Texas. She said her reservations to
Dallas/Fort Worth were unaffected by the strike.
"I just hope everything works out," she said.
Melanie Robb of Boalsburg made her
reservations to Louisville about three weeks ago
and as far as she knew her connection in
Pittsburgh was unaffected by the strike.
"They said that it would be running," she said.
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National Airport are among 22 of the nations
busiest airfields targeted by the FAA to cut
traffic in half, Clark said.
Joe Bean, customer ticket agent at the airport,
said the furloughed staff is not expecting to be
called back to work soon.
"The layoff will last as long as the air traffic
controllers strike (continues)," he said. ,
Despite the reduction in flights, Clark said the
planes are not running at capacity.
"We have more seats than we have demand
for," he said. Getting a seat on flights out of
University Park is no problem, he said.
"The schedule we're operating is the one
assigned to us by the FAA," Clark said, and the
airline cannot change the imposed schedule for
at least 30 days.
Bean said, "They won't let us add any other
flights."
He said the airline may petition the FAA for an
early morning flight out of University Park.
Flights to Pittsburgh, scheduled to depart at 6:30
and 7:45 a.m., and a 7:35 a.m. flight to
Washington have been canceled, making the
11:15 a.m. Pittsburgh run the first daily flight out
of University Park.
Clark said Transportation Secretary Drew
Lewis scheduled meetings in Pittsburgh between
officials from several airlines over the weekend,
but no information on those meetings would be
released to the public until at least today.
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Robb said she hoped the strike would not affect
her return flight.
"I would hate to be stuck in a strange airport,"
she said.
Jenny Barger of Lancaster said she wasn't
worried that her connecting flight from
Pittsburgh to Louisville would be canceled.
"I'm hoping they will get us on a flight if not
on USAir, then on another airline," she said.
The strike may even have had its benefits at
least for John Foxworth of Detroit.
"My flight to Washington on Thursday was
probably more on time than with (the regular air
traffic controllers)," Foxworth said.
Wagner, who was traveling with Foxworth on
Thursday, explained that there was a light fog at
the Washington National Airport fog that
usually delays flights about 30 minutes. He said
their flight arrived only one minute behind
schedule.
Allegheny Commuter service out of University
Park has been cut from 12 to 5 flights, but
customer ticket agent Joe Bean said most flights
have not been operating at capacity.
For example, Bean said the 3 p.m. flight to
Pittsburgh on Saturday carried 10 passengers,
but had a capacity for 15 and 17 people had
reservations on the flight. Bean said this is about
average since the strike began last Monday.
He said the planes that were operating were
filling up more or less.