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High Energy Heavy-Ion Beams have become a standard operational feature of the Bevatron. A diver-sified experimental program using these beams complement the traditional proton-physics program, and at present accounts for about one-quarter of the Bevatron operation time. Beams of ion species up to mass number 20 (neon), and with intensities up to 108 particles per pulse for carbon, are available on...