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Section B
Oregon daily
emerald
Wednesday, October 26, 1983
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 85, Number 38
Two Americans killed
Marines invade island of Grenada
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) — Nearly
2.000 U.S. Marines and Army paratroopers
invaded Marxist-ruled Grenada in airborne
assaults Tuesday, clashing with Grenadian
troops and armed Cuban workers through
the day.
The U.S. forces, ordered to protect some
1.000 Americans on the tiny eastern Carib
bean island and “restore democracy," were
followed in by 300 soldiers or national
police from six Caribbean nations.
The Defense Department said two U.S.
troops were killed and 23 wounded, and
Cuba said fighting continued after nightfall.
President Reagan said the operation
began before dawn and 1,900 Marines and
Army Ranger paratroopers quickly seized
the two airports on the mountainous,
21-mile-long island that has a population of
110,000.
Medical students who make up the ma
jority of the estimated 1,000 Americans on
Grenada were reported unharmed,
although pinned down by the continuing
fighting.
Reagan told a mid-morning news con
ference the operation was "completely suc
cessful." But an administration official said
Tuesday night "there was more resistance
than we thought there would be."
Cuban President Fidel Castro ordered an
army colonel commanding Cuban workers
in Grenada not to surrender despite
casualties, and by sundown those left were
reported still offering resistance.
The 600-member Cuban work force had
been extending a runway at the Point
Salines airport.
A communique, the Cuban government's
eighth in the day, said: "The people are in
formed that at nightfall the heroic
resistance of our constructors and col
laborators continued in the face of the at
tacks of Yankee armed forces."
The Reagan administration official, who
asked not to be identified, said units of the
82nd Airborne Division probably would be
sent to control one of the two airports and
free the Rangers to attack pockets of
resistance. The airborne division is based at
Ft. Bragg, N.C.
The Defense Department announced the
American casualties Tuesday night and said
more than 200 armed Cubans were cap
tured along with approximately 30 Soviet
advisers.
“Resistance has been encountered but
most objectives have been taken." Cuban
and Grenadian casualties were not given.
Defense Department sources said several
U.S. helicopters had been lost, including
some that were shot down, but they gave
no details.
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Congressmen
want Lebanon
troops home
Several Oregon congressmen
who voted against invoking the
War Powers Act reconfirmed their
opposition to U.S. military
presence in Lebanon as the death
toll in the Beirut bombing Sunday
rose to more than 200.
Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., said
in a news release Monday he will
"strongly recommend” Pres.
Reagan urge all members of the
multinational peacekeeping con
tingent to replace their troops
with a United Nations force.
After Monday's secret briefing
sessions of the House and Senate
by Secretary of State George
Schultz, Rep. Denny Smith, R
Ore., “remains committed to his
earlier feeling that we have no
goal (in Lebanon) and all we're do
ing is trying to buy time," said
Greg Walden, Smith's press
secretary.
Smith, a Vietnam veteran,
believes “you only use military
force as a last resort and then you
only use it if you're going to use it
swiftly and decisively." In
Lebanon, where several warring
factions are vying for control of
territory, limited military presence
is "little more than a trip wire for
disaster," he said.
Congressman Jim Weaver, D
Ore., has urged complete and im
mediate withdrawal from the Mid
dle East. In a press release Mon
day, Weaver said the "we should
withdraw our military presence
from the Middle East immediately.
We should make ourselves secure
in energy and defense at home by
immediate steps to forestall any
oil emergency."
Possible steps listed by Ron
Eachus, Weaver's Eugene press
secretary, include filling up the
U.S. strategic oil reserve, and
legislating presidential authority
to establish rationing.
Three weeks ago, Smith,
Weaver, Hatfield and Rep. Ron
Wyden, D-Ore., voted against the
plan which granted Reagan the
authority to keep the 1,200
Marines in Lebanon for 18
months.
After the House briefing session
Monday, Wyden said that "most
of the members felt it was unac
ceptable to keep on doing what
we're doing."
However, Eachus said he
doesn't "think members of con
gress will turn around in the space
of three weeks."
Computers enter 'fifth generation'
By Melissa Martin
Of the Emerald
The sun is rising on a new era
of "intelligent” machines, if the
Eugene computer graphics con
ference is any indication.
State-of-the-art computers
have entered "a fifth genera
tion," of artificial intelligence,
said Gene Youngblood, pro
fessor of film and video at the
California Institute of the Arts.
Youngblood was one of about a
dozen speakers at the Pacific
Northwest Computer Graphics
conference held Monday and
Tuesday at the Eugene Con
ference Center.
Computers of the fifth genera
tion "are not information pro
cessors but knowledge pro
cessors," Youngblood said. But
people shouldn't be terrified
that artificial intelligence will
replace human intelligence, he
said later, during a meeting with
the press.
"Artificial intelligence is a soft
ware discipline that attempts to
simulate processes we usually
associate with having brain
power," Youngblood said.
"There's a difference between
simulating human intelligence
and actually being it
(intelligent)."
The conference focused on all
aspects of computer graphics,
including work in the medical
field, where humans are not be
ing replaced, but are being aid
ed by the technology, according
to a team of doctors who spoke
Tuesday.
Jeffrey Marsh, plastic surgeon
and professor at Washington
University School of Medicine in
St. Louis, Mo., and Michael Van
nier, radiologist for Mallinckrodt
Institute of Radiology and
former NASA engineer, showed
slides of their work on corrective
surgery for birth defects.
They use computer
tomography scans (CT scans) to
create 3-dimensional images of
the patient's skull. Using an idea
from the McDonnel-Douglas air
caft corporation, Marsh said he
makes a working 3-D model on a
computer screen. He then refers
to the model while operating on
a patient.
“The software is 100 percent
for aircraft design use," Vannier
said.
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Photo by Melissa Martin
Above: Eugene resident Bob Keefer gets a lesson in computer imaging from Gary McDonald
who demonstrated the machines ' ability to produce likenesses from photographs. Below: The
popular 'Lisa' computer on display at the Pacific Northwest Computer Graphics Conference
held Monday and Tuesday in Eugene.
'Artificial intelligence/ but with an artistic bent
So doing plastic surgery on a
patient is much like constructing
an airplane, Marsh said.
“We'd like them (the patients)
to be attractive, not just unob
trusive. What we should do is
have an artist draw what the per
son could look like," Marsh said.
“The technology has always
been there. Medicine has been
ignorant of it and couldn't take
advantage of it," Marsh said.
The computer graphics con
ference "sold out" to more than
800 people, O’Connell said.
More than 1,300 people attend
ed the computer graphics film in
the Silva Concert Hall Monday
night.
O'Connell said a film and
video show committee put the
movie together from hundreds
of clips corporations sent in.
Along with the speech events,
a trade show was set up in the
Hilton. Northwest firms ex
USA
COMPUTES
hibited "state-of-the-art" equip
ment. A firm representative said
their goal was to show their
equipment and not necessarily
make any major sales during the
Photo by Brian irb
conference.
O'Connell called the event a
"first-class conference in the
Northwest."
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