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Oregon Daily
Emerald
Wednesday, October 29, 1986
Kugene. Oregon
Volume 88, Number 40
SDI economically unfeasible, panelists say
By Dennis Fernandes
(X Itw KnwraM
Four panelists painted a rather bleak,
picture of the implications involving the
Strategic Defense Initiative in a program
sponsored by the University Arms Con
trol Forum Tuesday afternoon in 150
Geology.
Members of the panel included John
Moseley. University vice president for
research; law Professor Peter Swan;
political science Professor Tom Hovet
and Steve Johnson, a researcher from a
Eugene firm called Decision Research
In front of an audience of about 30. the
four gave background on SD1. also
known as Star Wars, and questioned its
economic feasibility and its role in arms
control negotiations, especially in
relevance to last month's summit talks at
Reykjavik, Iceland, between President
Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev.
The ideal behind SIM, Moseley said, is
economically unattainable because a
defensive measure always will be
countered by an offensive measure,
which makes desiring the system "in
finitely complicated” and therefore very
expensive.
"Historically, it's always been possi
ble for the offense to overwhelm the
defense given enough time." Moseley
said. "The systems are too expensive to
get up there, and it's really cheap to
knock them down.
"It is simply not technically feasible in
any reasonable sense except for a limited
missile protection system," he said
Johnson gave a brief history of the
Soviet-American violations of the 1972
Anti-Ballistic Missiles Treaty and said
he was disappointed when Reagan balk
ed at Gorbachev’s desire to keep the Star
Wars proposal within the realm of that
treaty
"If the Russians and Americans an; to
the point where they can agree on
massive reductions in offensive
weapons, and they were stopped
because of the dream of Star Wars, it is a
disasterous thing." Johnson said. "We
should cash in our chips right now and
shelve the system."
Hovet elaborated further from a prac
tical standpoint: that the entire issue is a
question of trust or a lack thereof.
"If you (Reagan) say. 'We're gonna
develop Star Wars, and I'm going to give
it to you, Mr. Gorbachev, so you could
defend yourself.' If you use that as a
bargaining chip, you really perceive that
the other side trusts you, hut that you
don't trust them. Hut really the other
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John Moseley
Looking to the future
Kari Fill ingame (left) and Arlo Barnett play with a robot used at the Early Childhood Center, a
training site for graduate students in College of Eduction. I he center is using robots to observe in
teraction between children.
Activities are planned according to the response and interest of the children, and observations
are made to learn and understand how the children perceive their world. The emphasis of the ac
tivities are creative thinking and problem solving through the experiences of exploring and socially
interacting.
■*Children learn through play. " said Ixiry Freeman, supervisor of the center.
Children participating in the program range in age from three to five years old.
Photo by Maria Corvallis
Intruder enters building,
attempts to free pigeons
By Sarah Kitchen
(X the Kimralit
An unidentified man broke into the premises sur
rounding Building 114 Tuesday morning and attemp
ted to release the laboratory pigeons that are housed
there.
The intruder was attempting to open the outside
pigeon cages when he was intercepted by a University
worker The intruder escaped, but his description was
given to the police.
"There was an attempt to enter the pigeon cages,
but it is not clear to me how far he got; however, it was
a foul attempt." said Greg Stick rod. director of animal
lalairatory services.
"The person who discovered the intruder got a
good description of him.” Stickrod said.
Stickrod does not believe Tuesday’s attempt was
made by the group calling itself the Animal Liberation
Front, which broke into two buildings on Sunday mor
ning. stealing animals and causing at least $50,001)
worth of damage, he said.
Building 114. however, located near the physical
plant, was one of the buildings that the ALF had
entered on Sunday morning.
"The pigeon pen was broken into on Sunday morn
ing, and the people did try to release the pigeons."
Stickrod said.
Most of the pigeons either did not leave the pen or
returned later on Sunday because they are homing
pigeons, Stickrod said.
Building 114 was vandalized as the rooms in
Science 1 were. Stickrod said.
The way the intruder entered the premises on
Tuesday differed from the way the grounds were
entered on Sunday.
"Today some of the wires on the fence were cut: on
Sunday the lucks were cut." Stickrod said.
"I think this event is completely isolated from the
other,” he added.
Stickrod believes the person who attempted to
release the animals Tuesday is a local animal-rights
parson and is trying to copy the group that calls itself
the Al.F. he said.
"If people continue to do things like this, there is a
high probability that they will la; picked up and ap
prehended quite soon." he said.
No pigeons are missing as a result of either Sun
day’s or Tuesday’s break-in. Stickrod said
Security has been increased at the laboratories
since Sunday, he said.
"We do have people in the buildings all night.”
Stickrod said. "However, security is maintaining a low
profile.”
The Kugene Police Department did not return calls
made by an Oregon Daily Kmerald reporter regarding
Tuesday's break-in.
As a result of Sunday’s break-in, 12 work-study
students who were working with the stolen animals
have been temporarily laid off.