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Tile Teell UIISH 2 o Volume LXXX Pasadena, California, Friday, April 6, 1979 Number 23 urner Speaks Out on CIA Shocking Photo by Joe DiGiorgio by Christopher Juten We stand outside, neatly ed up in front of Beckman uditorium. We file through the ors and carefully flash our ID's the stern-faced doormen. Once News!!! ated, we notice interesting omalies in the audience: one rson wears a Jimmy Carter sk, another a visage of Dick ixon. A young man with a ige trench coat (collar turned A Caltech earthquake engineer pi), dark glasses, and a has proposed an earthquake wspaper under his arm strolls alarm system for California oss the stage and peruses each industry that could give up to ok and cranny. In a few several minutes' warning before oments he returns to his seat. seismic waves from a distant then opens his newspaper and earthquake passed through an eers through several area. onveniently-placed holes. According to Professor of eryone is indeed eager to see Applied Mechanics Wilfred D. sfield Turner, Director of the lwan; such a system could be , reveal the covert activities used by business and industry to recent years. qUickly shut down machinery A quarter of an hour after the and processes vulnerable to eduled beginning of the earthquake damage, and to bring emergency power on line. ture, the auditorium is filled. " and I AM the meanest son-of-a-bitch m the valley!" mer appears. He is tall, Such a system could mean the ying, and sharply dressed. The systems, intercepting signals, and exist: the President, the the CIA cannot operate difference between economic ience quiets, and he begins traditional spying. The CIA's President's advisory board, and effectively if the Soviet Union survival and catastrophic damage , attempt to rebuild the CIA's challenge is to unify these three two congressional committees knows all of the operation to an industry, said Dr. Iwan, an blic image. aspects of data collection so that, must be consulted before the procedures and the identities of expert in the placement of The changes forced upon the U.S. ipolicy-makers can obtain CIA can pursue any covert the agents. Turner concluded his strong-motion instrument arrays over the past few years cruci~l information in the activities. Additionally, the statement with the assertion that for measuring large earthquake re, on balance, beneficial, he cheapest and most efficient American press is a strong the added visibility is a net plus. motions. dus. One important change is manner. control. Turner feels that this Turner then answered "An example of an new perception the U.S. has The last change which has added visibility is good if it questions from the audience. early-warning system for its role in international' grossly affected CIA activity is makes the public understand Several interesting concepts came southern California might consist 'vities. The U.S. now is the "increasing interest of the goals and insures the existence of to light. Turner feels that the of an array of strong-motion instruments along the" San enerally opposed to public." Due to investigations of effective checks. However, this major danger facing the U.S. ervention. The pressure of the last few years, the public has visibility is detrimental if today is a lack of self-confidence. Andreas fault which would communicate with industrial munism is no longer seen as lost confidence in U.S. classified material is released Turner also explained how the subscribers via telephone lines," versible, and so supporting intelligence agencies. Turner tried promotionally. Lack' of CIA helps insure the accuracy of said Dr. Iwan. 'The key to the countries the Soviet Union very hard to emphasize that confidence in America's ability data: dissenting views are always poses is not always necessary. nothing illegal or 'unethical now to safeguard secrets can lead recorded in any decisions so that system's viability is the fact that U.S. role is restricted by the occurs in the CIA. He cited the other countries to resist the top-level leaders can make seismic waves travel at a speed of ature of international checks on the CIA which now cooperating with the U.S. Also, intelligent decisions. several kilometers per second, munication; the U.S. must be while electrical impulses 'ravel pared to deal with the over wires at the speed 01 light. ediate publication of any "Obviously, if an earthquake ion the world over. This does ~efus from tqe mitti-C!!ott-C!!Ott occured right under a plant, such eet U.S. policies. Another a system would be useless, but itation is the changing by J. Copeland U.P., with some help from the constituted; including all entitled for an earthquake on the San '!ion of the smaller countries This sudden member of the Polio Sci. department and to be present;-said of an Andreas fault, industries in the world: these countries no jet-set woke up this morning at 6 Congressman Bob Edget. Most of assembly, meeting, etc.-eds.] southern California could have ger blindly follow America's am in Pittsburgh and so far the time; the oldest person in session, where we modified the from approximately 10 seconds d, but instead they support today has been to Rochester and any meeting was 25. The faculty rules, found out who took up to more than a minute ir own interests. Both the Syracuse, (thanks to Allegheny took no active part at all. themselves too seriously, and between the alarm and the arrival iet Union and the U.S. are airlines), Ithaca and back to There were lots of frustrations voted to retain the conference of seismic waves, depending on ding themselves unsupported Syracuse (Avis) & Philadelphia the first time out. A house organizers as chairmen. This where the earthquake- originated various programs. (Eastern). Before I return to LA, meeting, or a BOD meeting can was followed by dinner in the along the fault." ditionally, small countries can 1 will have been to DallasjFt. be run wi~out the benefit of Egyptian gallery of the "An alarm system would be oun t significant military Worth also, the last 2500 miles parliamentary procedure, since University Museum. Over dinner, useful in any location in 'stance to a far greater extent thanks to American Airlines. there are only fifty people (ok, I met a chap named Garth California, including certain n in' the past. Finally, Well, this excursion started seventy) at most, and they all Grennan. (No, I never asked him northern areas of the state, erica's role no longer is out as a trip to the First know each other. But just try whether it was his real name.) Where there is a well-identified ntrolled by mere ,military National Student Congress, U. of that with 105 total strangers. So, After dinner we were treated fault structure and where neerns; the U.S. now must Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1-4, constant modification of the to the conflicting views of manufacturing facilities are nsel and provide information March. (March 5th was an rules was in order. Our first Congressman Dan Crane (R-IN) located a reasonable distance ut such concerns as politics, incidental side trip to mistake was to change the rule and Sen Joseph Biden (D-Del). from a potential source of energy onomics, food supplies, Carnegie-Mellon, today Cornell.) for modification of the rules Crane's speech was short and release," he said. pulat.ion growth, narcotics, I thought I was in for a much from two-thirds vote to a simple ,featured comments like "look at The alarm, said Dr. Iwan, temational terrorism, energy needed rest. (Never produce a majority. We also allowed how the government is trying to ,could consist of either a simple pplies, and health programs. musical if you're intent on taking amendments to resolutions from master our lives. The constitution "yes-no" warning of an Not only has the changing more than 36 units.) We ended the floor. (The rules originally says 'promote the general impending large earthquake, or Ie of the U.S. in the world up working our butts off. In 72 called for postponing debate, welfare' not 'provide welfare'." of a more sophisticated eeted the nature of CIA hours, students from about 40 while amendments were Biden's rebuttal started lightly, transmission of the estimated tivity, but also the increased colleges and universities drafted proposed, and offered in but lasted an hour':"'ending in magnitude of the quake and the phistication of equipment has and argued over proposals in 16 writing.) hell-fire and brimstone. He estimated arrival time. In the en important. Turner was areas of national policy, from Anyway, Thursday evening pointed out that civil, women's latter case, the reaction of the ther vague about the impact Foreign Policy and Defense, to opened the conference with a and minority rights wouldn't industry could be keyed to the 's change has had upon the CIA. Poverty to Morality. I learned a plenary [plenary, adj. (LL. exist if it weren't for the time interval before arrival of the stated that CIA data-gathering hell of a lot. The conference was plenarius, fro L. plenus.) 1. Full; interference of the federal seismic waves. accomplished in three ways: organized by Terry Andrews and entire; complete; as plenary continued continued otographic and technical Gregg Coodley, two students at authority.2. Fully attended or onpage 3 on page 3 Page Two THE CALIFORNIA TECH I can't figure it, but for some reason the other Let Caltech become the eighth nuclear power. eds. won't allow me to use Clip & Paste articles to fill space.

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