S. African
By ANDREW TORCHIA
Associated Press Writer
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Police said yesterday the arrest of more
than 200 black activists a day had reduced
rioting this week. The foreign minister
vowed that South Africa will not yield to
"perpetrators of violence who burn people
alive."
President P.W. Botha said he was
surprised by France's announcement that it
is recalling its ambassador, suspending new
investment and seeking U.N. Security
Council condemnation of "increasing
repression" of blacks.
He said in a statement that the white
minority government "cannot let itself be
prescribed to about what is in the best
interests of the people of South Africa."
Three-alarm fire
Firefighters pull debris from Spectra Wood, a lumber company, at 2551 Carolean amount of damage to the facilities. The Alpha, Bellefonte and Boalsburg fire
industrial Drive, last night after containing a fire that caused an unknown companies responded to the alarm. No cause for the fire is known.
Senate blocks Reagan's veto request
By STEVEN KOMAROW
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. The Senate on
yesterday blocked President Reagan's request
for line-item veto power over spending bills,
failing for a third time to break a filibuster by
opponents who argued the measure was
dangerous.
Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan.,
pulled the bill from consideration after the third
attempt to choke off the week-long debate failed,
58-40, two short of the 60 votes required.
"The die is pretty well cast" and more
attempts to end the debate would be futile, Dole
said.
"We have stopped . . . one of the most
dangerous proposals to come before the Senate"
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for fiscal year 1984-85, Universi
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at a press conference yesterday.
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The Pollock Road extension,
from the indoor sports complex
to Bigler Road. will be closed to
traffic for one week, beginning
July 29. The section will be
closed for crews to run under
ground utility lines beneath the
roadway to the Nittany Apart
ment complex.
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police claim arrests have reduced rioting
"It amazes one that a Western
government that takes an interest in Africa
. . . can take exception to a government that
restores order when communist powers and
communist-inspired powers murder black
people and try to disrupt the normal life of
black communitiies," the president said. He
has asserted previously that communists
are behind the racial unrest sweeping South
Africa.
National police headquarters said 665
militants were detained in approximately
the first three days of a state of emergency
that took effect Sunday. Most are black
men, involved in 11 months of protest and
violence stemming from opposition to
apartheid, the system of legalized
segregation imposed by the nation's 5
million whites on its 24 million blacks
A police statement said incidents of
in recent years, said Sen. Mark 0. Hatfield, R-
Ore., chairman of the Senate Appropriations
Committee and a leader of the filibuster
It would be "futility to waste any more of the
Senate's time on this issue," Hatfield said. "That
should have been proven by now."
Opponents of the legislation claimed it would
give the president too much power at the expense
of Congress, going against the balance of powers
in the Constitution. The president could hold
spending items hostage for a lawmaker's vote on
something else, "an open invitation to mischief,"
Hatfield said.
The filibuster held fast despite Reagan's first
personal lobbying since his cancer surgery, and
unexpected support for the measure by Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.
Sen. Mack Mattingly, R-Ga., the bill's sponsor,
PSU pursues future with underwater research
By NAN CRYSTAL ARENS
Collegian Staff Writer
Research being conducted at the
University's Applied Research Lab for the
U.S. Navy will help make submarines quieter,
and improve underwater sound-detection
techniques.
L. Raymond Hettche, director of the ARL,
said a three-year contract signed with the
Navy Monday will supply $BO million to
continue research at the lab for 40 years
The research focuses on several related
areas, Hettche said.-
First, the ARL is working on sophisticated
sonar systems, which will improve the ability
of vessels to get clear sonar images of
underwater objects, Hettche said.
This research also involves communication,
surveillance and guidance systems, he said.
Scientists at the ARL are also studying the
propogation of sound waves through the open
ocean, Hettche said. Researchers are
unraveling how environmental conditions
such as surtatp. waves, water temperature
variations, and biological systems effect how
sound travels in the ocean.
Charles Hosier, vice president for research
at the University and dean of the graduate
school, said another research area involves
ollegian
property damage, injury and death had
declined noticeably iri the 36 cities and
towns placed under a state of emergency
that gives police wide powers of curfew and
arrest.
Nearly 500 blacks have been killed in the
widest protest against white rule in South
African history, about half by police
quelling riots.
Scores of blacks have died in attacks by
militants on black town councilors and
policemen, who are seen as willing tools of
the whites. Many of those victims have been
burned.
Foreign Minister R.F. Botha, no relation
to the president, said in a statement that
widespread foreign criticism of the
emergency was ill-informed. He said
militants incite the international
community against South Africa by
the Laser Articulating Robotic System.
This system combines an automated laser
system with a computer to help in a variety of
manufacturing and inspection tasks.
"If you have a lathe, for example," Hosier
said, "now you have a person who stands
there and does the grinding. This person has
to stop every so often to measure the material
he is working with."
Hosier said with the laser robot system, the
laser beam would be used to measure the part
being manufactured, stopping the lathe when
design specifications are met.
"It removes the human being from
occupational hazzards," such as flying metal
chips or toxic material, Hosier said. "But the
big gain is in speed and accuracy."
A third area of continuing research is •
developing quieter propulsion systems for
submarines and surface ships, Hosler said.
"The (Stored Chemical Energy Propulsion
System) was perfected here," he said. This
system, which produces energy through
chemical reactions, replaced the noisy steam
engine for powering ships.
The chemical propulsion system is also
easier to operate than the conventional steam
engines, Hosier said.
In addition to the propulsion system, ARL
researchers are working on new, quieter
said he would seek to attach the language to
another bill.
Dole's action "does not signal the end of this
legislation, merely the beginning of the next
stage'of the legislative battle," Mattingly said.
Reagan has long sought the power to kill
individual items in spending bills sent to him by
Congress, and he telephoned wavering senators
on Sunday and Monday. The president says he is
willing to "take the heat" and make cuts
Congress couldn't make.
Kennedy, breaking with most of his liberal
colleagues, sided with Reagan.
"The budget process is in shambles, the deficit
is out of control, and Congress is part of the
problem," Kennedy said. "Congress has too
much control over the purse, and the president
has too little."
presenting themselves as sober-minded
advocates of democracy who are deeply
worried about black rights.
"The elements that stand for a Marxist
dictatorship have intervened" against the
government's racial reform program, he
said, in order to "stop the process of
change.
"There is too much at stake for all South
Africans to allow our future to be
determined by perpetrators of violence who
burn people alive," he said. "In order to
ensure freedom for all our people,
extraordinary steps must be taken until
peace and order are restored. The country
has the capability to do this and the
government is determined to use fully that
capability."
Police reported at least nine incidents of
arson and about the same number of stone-
Budget
ponder
By CLIFF HAAS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Senate
budget negotiators are
considering proposing a three
year, $340 billion deficit-reduction
package that would restrict
adjustments in government
benefits to every other year and
impose a $5-a-barrel fee on
imported oil, sources said
yesterday.
Congressional sources, who
spoke on condition they not be
quoted by name, emphasized that
senators still are trying to decide
whether to formally propose the
package to House negotiators in
an effort to revive stalled
congressional budget talks.
Earlier yesterday, President
Reagan, wearing pajamas and a
bathrobe, gave congressional
leaders a pep talk, urging action
on a fiscal 1986 budget that will
help hold down the government's
tide of red ink.
The new Senate proposal, which
goes well beyond the $295.2 billion
deficit-reduction package the
Senate passed earlier in the year,
would trim deficits by more than
$6O billion next year and include:
• A $5-a-barrel fee on imported
oil to raise up to $3O billion over the
next three years.
• Adjusting government
benefits every other year to
account for inflation, instead of
annually as is the case now. In
addition, personal income tax
rates also would be adjusted for
inflation every other year, instead
of the annual adjustment that is
due to begin this year. The savings
from both moves would be about
$l9 billion over three years.
• Movement toward a less
stringent House position on cutting
domestic spending programs.
propellers for Navy vessels.
The University's 110,000-gallon water tunnel
is used for tests on new designs, Hosier said.
Hettche said of the water tunnel: "We have
been able to perturb the flow (of water) so the
(test) body thinks it is in the open ocean it
doesn't know there are boundaries."
Hosier said the goal of the improved
propeller designs is to reduce cavitation the
bubbles produced when a propeller turns.
As the propeller turns, it creates pressure
changes in the water, Hosier said. These
pressure changes cause some of the water to
turn to vapor, which forms bubbles.
"When the bubbles burst, they make noise,"
Hosier said. "One of the big contributions is to
reduce the cavitation and reduce the noise."
"When I was on a sub in World War 11, the
Germans had (sound-seeking) torpedoes,
which would home in on our (propellers),"
Hosler said. "We used to hang bed springs off
the back of the subs and the bedsprings would
make more noise than the propellers."
Hosler said reducing cavitation would also
increase the efficiency of the propeller
because energy would not be used to create
bubbles.
A related research area is creating more
sensative sensors to detect the noise produced
by enemy vessels, Hosler said.
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At the White House, Reagan
delivered a message of s'push,
push, push" to get a budget before
Aug. 2, when Congress begins a
month-long recess, said Senate
Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-
Kan.
The president "talked about
domestic spending, further cuts,"
throwing in the 24 hours ending at 8 p.m.
yesterday. They said police used tear gas,
rubber bullets and shotguns to scatter
rioters who attacked police vehicles,
schools and government buildings in Cape
Province in the southeast and Transvaal
Province in the north.
A police statement said 200 black youths
stoned a beer hall in the northern part of
Cape Province, 500 youths stoned a private
vehicle and a school east of Johannesburg
and 600 youths stoned a bus west of
Johannesburg.
Capt. Jan Calitz, police spokesman in the
Cape Town area, said two hand grenades
damaged the home of a former black
councilor in Giiguletu township.
A police clampdown on information made
it difficult to obtain a detailed picture of
unrest around the country;
planners
package
said Senate Minority Leader
Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va.
"It was a friendly discussion,
but nothing was really laid on the
table," said House Speaker
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., D-Mass.
The meeting was held at 11 a.m
in the Treaty Room of the White
House, where Reagan, still •
recuperating from recent cancer
surgery, greeted the legislators
clad in pajamas and a bathrobe.
"We didn't get into details,"
Dole said of the discussion that
also touched on other legislative
items the president wants to see
Congress pass before the recess.
While the White House session
was in progress, the. House
approved a resolution that
Democratic sponsors said would
bind the chamber to achieving $56
billion in spending cuts next year
even if congressional budget
negotiators are unable to agree on
a new spending plan.
Voting almost exclusively along
party lines, the House approved
the measure 242-184. The measure
would not be binding on the
Senate.
"Although I am still working to
reach agreement with the Senate
conferees on a budget resolution
for fiscal year 1986, I believe that
the House must take immediate
steps to implement its own
budget," said Rep. William H.
Gray 111, D-Pa., chairman of the
House Budget Committee.
"The House is firmly committed
to achiving at least $56 billion in
deficit reductions this year and
this message can never be
delivered too strongly to the other
body (the Senate) or to the
American people," Gray said.
But Republican opponents
attacked the plan as meaningless.
"Do we really believe that the
public is so gullible that we can
simply pass a resolution which
says that the Congress has
adopted a piece of major
legislation when as a matter of
public record we haven't," said
Rep. Silvio 0. Conte, R-Mass.
He said the move was the
"ultimate congressional junket to
political Disneyland."
He said the United States now has sea-floor
sensors, which can identify individual vessels.
"We can recognize every Soviet submarine
by the noise it makes," he said, adding that
improved instruments could make detection
easier.
ARL researchers are also working on
making engine gears quieter, Hosier said.
Hettche said about 100 graduate students
and 50 undergraduate honor students are
involved in ARL projects.
"The students and faculty have access to
some unique facilities here," he added.
Hosier said in 1984 the University ranked
18th among colleges and non-profit'
organizations receiving U.S. Department of
Defense funding.
"Within the state of Pennsylvania, Penn
State is the top university for defense
contracts," Hosier said.
Hettche added, "(The renewed contract) is
a reaffirmation of the Navy's confidence in
our expertise in underwater technology."
Hasler said that the University does
research for all branches of the military.
"The ARL plays an important role in the
over-all defense of this country," he said.
He added that defense department research
covers many areas from geology and
meteorology to psychology.