1978_12 The Daily Collegian December 1978

              The Dally Collegian
Book Review
Science fiction novel lacks excitement
s today,  despite  the f,
and has been called the best  science
H.ilderl.dn    followed    (his    up    with
bundle but was met with lar less enth
usiam Now his third book. 'All My
S.r.s Keen,-mix-red " has been publish
ed in paperback bv Avon Books and
while it iv somewhat better than Halde
lob is basically to assume the role of
ed by plastic   surgery  and  pwsonalitv
Of the three episodes, the best is
probably the first. 'To Fit the Crime".
in which McCavin investigates the dis
appearence of three men He does this
disguised as a fat old professor on a
mining planet run by a company that
will do anything to turn a profit
There is some action and excitement.
but what makes the story really inter
esting are the alien Bruuchians, which
are gorilla-shaped creatures that get
high on bismuth and keep their dead
ancestors standing around in their
homes However the promise of this
story 15 offset by the other two epi
"ides "The Only War We ve Got'
and 'All My Sins Remembered". which
are rather dull and lack excitement
The first is a slow paced story of politi
<al intrugue in which McCavin parades
as the sex-craved henchman of a gen
eral who plots to start an inter planet
ary war, while the title story is con
< erned with a fake religious fan,
is trying to exploit a race of m
beetles by converting them to
.anity in hopes that they will re
secret behind their ability to mc
planet by thought power alone
e wh„
■sized
■either of these •
it that st
December 5,1978
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I     Wire tap      I
TOKYO - Japanese Prime Mini¬
ster-designate Masayoshi Chira said
today U.S. businessmen are too *lack-
adasical* in trying tosellgoodsinJapan
but cc^ceded his country's economy
had built-in barriers to outsiders.
Chira, in an exclusive UPI interview,
pledged to work at opening up the Jap¬
anese market and s_id that trade nego
nations with the United States are
• going to be one of the most important
issues confronting my administration
The 68-year-old veteran politician,
who upset Prime Minister Takeo Fuku
da in last week's ruling Liberal Demo
cratk Party primary election, takes
over leader sip of the Tokyo government
CAIRO, Egypt Acting on President
Anwar Sadat's orders, security forces
today entered the Bulgarian embassy,
arrested a number of its employees and
seized firearms involved in attacks
Egyptia
e  the
.Rad .said
nudKof _
tained employees who, according to
police officials, Saturday beat the wife
and two daughters of a senior Egyptian
official occupying a flat in an apartment
house bought by the embassy
SAN FRANCISCO - California and
Hawaiian Sugar Company was cited
Monday for 59 alleged violations of the
state safety and health regulations
I he California Department of Indust¬
rial Relations said an investigaiton of
the CAH refinery at Crockett, Calif ,
disclosed 244 instances of safety and
health law violations such as unsafe
working areas, lack of railing protect¬
ing dangerous equipment, and uncov-
SAN FRANCISCO The Peoples
femple decided Monday to open its
books to a court of law and "request a
ludicial decision on distribution of its
multi-million-dollar assets, including
any secret accounts found overseas
'We are filing a lawsuit telling the
court to tell us what to do with the as¬
sets,' said Charles Carry, attorney for
members of the sect who survived the
Jonestown, Guyana, mass murder-
suicide of 911 followers "We are ready
to turn over anything found anywhere
in the world '
LONDON - A Chinese historian,
writing around 100 B.C., told of the
fabulous tomb of the emeror Chin Shih
Huang booby-trapped with a cunning
array of crossbows designed to fire
automatkalty at anyone desecrating
the resting place of the man who uni¬
fied China
Chinese archaeologists found the
mechanical crossbows, as historian
Ssuma Chien had described them, but
grabe robbers long ago apparently
managed to break into the tomb des¬
pite their menace.
Still, enough has been recovered
from sites around the tomb to lead
some experts to call the treasures 'the
archaeological find of the century "
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