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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Friday, October 20, 1972
CADET SLOUCH
by Jim Earle
A&M Researchers Give Reasons For Superport
By TED BORISKE
Staff Writer
In an effort to provide infor
mation on the proposed superport,
A&M’s Industrial Economics Re
search Division has prepared a
study on the case for a deep
water terminal in Texas.
Texas stands to be the first in
the nation to have superport fa
cilities for the handling of super
tankers.
The United States finds itself
in dire need of a superport cap
able of handling the new, larger
breed of tankers now sailing the
seas. According to figures from
the U.S. Army Corps of Engi
neers, 50 harbors in the world are
deep enough to handle the new
supertankers; however, none of
these are in the United States.
‘One cool spell and you lose your head! ,,
As recently as 1960, the largest
tanker in the world was 69,000
deadweight tons (dwt) requiring
only 40-45 feet of water depth.
Starting in 1967 after the closing
of the Suez Canal, however, tank
ers began to mushroom in size to
meet the dual demands of huge
volumes and long distances for
oil moved to Europe. Today, there
are more than 150 ships over 200,-
000 dwt requiring a minimum
water depth of 70 feet.
In 1970, Texas exported an av
erage of 325,000 barrels of crude
oil each day. Due to a depletion
of the state’s reserves of oil and
gas, it is estimated that by 1980
Texas will be importing 3,500,000
barrels each day, and this is ex
pected to incease to more than
5,500,000 barels per day by 1985.
Batt News Summary
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS was capable of electronically sur- namese officials held separate
SAIGON—Fighting blazed up veying more than 60,000 square conference Friday morning as in-
Thursday at a town called Bung, miles in an hour. tensified diplomatic maneuvering
just 10 miles north of where continued in the search for a
Henry A. Kissinger was confer- WASHINGTON The White settlement to the Indochina war.
ring in Saigon with President House announced Thursday U.S. presidential adviser Hen-
Nguyen Van Thieu on the pros- Round 2 of the U.S.-Soviet stra- r y A. Kissinger conferred with
pects for peace in Indochina. tegic weapons curb negotiations Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker at
will start in Geneva Nov. 21 with The U.S. embassy most of the
SAIGON Henry A. Kissinger the aim of “reaching a more com- morning, spokesmen said, but they
and President Nguyen Van Thieu p re hensive agreement on offen- left open the possibility he would
apparently intensified a search for siye arms » see Thieu later in the day. Kis-
a settlement to the Indochina war ____ singer and Thieu met twice on
Thursday, meeting twice for a ™ „ , Thursday, for a total of five
total of five hours and leaving STOCKHOLM German novel- hours,
open the possibility of a third Heinrich Boll won the 1972
meeting Friday. Nobel Prize for Literature Thurs-
day for spearheading the revival AUSTIN, Tex.—Former Presi-
w a Gtxtxt/"*'mxt /"• „ °T German letters from the dark dept Lyndon Johnson and former
clals that a President N~1 rule. Suprerne Court Chief Justice Earl
claims that it cut l resident J\ix- Warren will speak to a national
on’s appropriations requests $5.3 svmnosium on civil rights Dec
billion for the current year but HOUSTON — Israeli minister n 19 • •+>, tv.
,, , . . . x. a., . at , . , , t a. a—i 11-12 m connection with the open-
the administration answers that of commerce and industry Lt. Gen. . a? T u > • -i
, n . , ,. a. XT • r ., m. J a. in & Johnson’s papers on civil
it actually increased spending at Haim Bar-Lev said Thursday ter- r jghts
least $9.5 billion. Both assertions rorism will increase in neutral
appear to be roughly correct, al- countries if those countries don’t The symposium, at the LBJ
though congressional analysts in- take strong measures against ter- Library, was announced Thurs-
sist the administration itself was rorists. day by University of Texas at
responsible for a part of the “We managed to stop the ter- Austin President Stephen Spurr
spending increases. rorists in Israel, so they switched an d LBJ Library Director Harry
to neutral countries,” Bar-Lev Middleton.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—A top- said. “We eliminated them in Is- “We are very happy to join
secret, 2,000-mile-per-hour recon- rae ^ by military means and by forces with the library in spon-
naisance plane was being pressed Um government of civilians. We soring this symposium where
into the search Thursday for a ^ a d a good information of where those who played such a great
plane missing with House Dem- they were—and what they plan- part in the civil rights events of
ocratic Leader Hale Boggs and ned.” the 1960s will discuss what the
three others aboard. The Air nation should do in the decades
Force said the classified aircraft SAIGON—U.S. and South Viet- ahead,” Spurr said.
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S. E. T. CONFERENCE
STUDENT EVANGELISM TRAINING
October 23 - 26, 1972
5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Meal (50^/night) Optional
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Conference ($1.00 for materials)
AT THE BAPTIST STUDENT UNION
THEME: “MAKING THE ISSUES CLEAR”
About the Christian Life.
Speakers: Noel Scoggins Joe Snow
Danny Truitt
Bill Reily
Bob Burch
Dennis Patrick
Special Guest: John Westbrook — A Dynamic
Black Christian and ex-football star
will speak Tuesday night.
Some industry analysts have
stated that oil production in Tex
as will soon peak and then begin
to decline, if this peaking has not
already occurred. If so, it will
shortly become necessary for Tex
as to provide supertanker facil
ities for the importation of large
quantities of foreign crude oil.
At stake is a potential doubling
of Texas’ refining industry. With
out a deepwater terminal in Tex
as, the state’s refiners will build
new facilities elsewhere. This
would be a severe blow to the
economy of the state.
Louisiana is also working to
get the superport located under
its jurisdiction. The states in the
Mississippi River basin will sup
port the Louisiana position. Can
ada and the Bahamas are also
candidates for such a facility.
Once established, the facility in
Louisiana, Canada or the Baham
as would substantially preclude
the development of a competitive
unit located elsewhere.
Obstacles, both natural and man
made, have prevented many ports
from following conventional prac
tices like dredging and widening
to update their facilities. Such
things as pipelines, buried cables,
and vehicular crossing structures,
not to mention the prohibitive
costs involved, almost precluded
the possibility of deepening most
ports throughout the world.
A feasible alternative to deep
ening existing harbors is the off
shore deepwater terminal. This
type of facility consists of a struc
ture which is located at a point
where the natural water depth
is adequate, the maximum size
supertanker likely to call at the
terminal. Such a facility has pro
visions for mooring of supertank
ers and for loading or unloading
liquid cargos. The cargo can then
be transmitted via pipeline or by
small tankers or barges inland.
At the present time, no port in
Texas has an authorized depth of
more than 40 feet, and no Texas
port is actively planning for more
than 45 feet. By 1983, it is pre
dicted that one-third of the pro
jected world tanker fleet of 4,300
ships will be unable to enter Tex
as ports.
J. H. Kirby of Shell Interna-
:
Senate Mulls Over New Yell Leader Policies
tional said, “No matter
there can be no thought of atji,
doning big tankers and return
to 50,000 tonners now. If
to 300,000 are not used,
mand for crude oil is growing
such a rate that it would be
possible to build all the 5(1,1
tonners that would be requi^
Thus, the 200,000 to i
ners are before us and here
stay.”
Since Texas is a net expom
of petroleum, not only would
lack of a deepwater terminal p#
elude future growth in petrolti
and petroleum product
ments, but the possible phasip
out of local refinery operatit
as domestic oil production
dines could cause a reduction
present levels of petroleum
uct shipments and a decline
marine transportation emplq
ment.
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tee, because we need someone
backing us in order to be licensed.
The Student Senate has been
trying to organize a day care
center program for the past two
years for the children of TAMU
students with a low income who
aren’t being provided for in other
Bryan-College Station centers.
The presentation of a board of
directors will be made to the Sen
ate Nov. 22 and application for a
state license will be made at the
same time.
Additions to the 1972-73 Rules
and Regulations handbook were
also voted on and passed by the
Senate. The amendments consist
of the addition of representatives
to the Memorial Student Center
Council, the method of electing
class officers and a by-law addi
tion concerning election regula
tions.
The omitted laws were an over
sight in the printing of the fall
handbook, said Campbell.
Ty Griesenbeck, judicial chair
man, presented a revision of the
McGovern Behind
(Continued from page 1)
was elected the candidate who
was the largest posterior by a
vote of 11 to three.
The pro-McGovern forces criti
cized him for his frequent and
rapid changes in policy, both for
eign and domestic. McGovern
was attacked for his early sup
port of the war in the Johnson
administration and his spongy
policy in Vietnam today. “We
don’t belong there,” he was quoted
as saying.
McGovern drew fire on his
campaign and his proposed new
welfare program. “How can any
man keep from being an ass by
running a campaign that put the
Democrats deeper in debt than
they were four years ago?” said
McGovernite Broussard.
“He can’t even get the Ken-
nedys to pitch in a dime on his
campaign.”
McGovern’s plan to give every
American a $1,000 tax refund
was attacked because 41 percent
of the people would have to give
back the January 1 gift or more
in raised taxes on April 15.
Nixon was not free from at
tacks either. The President was
accused of “gutter politics” and
was described as a person that
“could get into a revolving door
behind you and come out ahead
of you.”
The President was called on the
carpet for his 1968 statement of,
“Those who have had a chance for
four years and could not produce
peace, should not be given an
other chance.”
The Nixon forces said, “If you
think McGovern looked bad when
he had to pick seven candidates
for the vice-presidential spot,
look what Nixon got on the first
try!”
judicial committee by-laws con
cerning voting members of the
judicial committee which was ac
cepted by the Senate.
The revision clarifies the fact
that all members have the right
to vote and in case of a tie, the
appeal will be rejected.
Russ W. Van Helen was voted
in by the Senate to fill the grad
uate student position in the Col
lege of Agriculture.
Layne Kruse, student govern
ment president, concluded the
meeting with a short discussion
on bicycle registration.
In this discussion he said there
is pretty obvious discontent among
students about bicycle registra
tion.
“Tom Cherry, vice-president for
business affairs, intends to ask
for state appropriated funds for
the bike paths, which would pos
sibly reduce the cost of registra
tion,” said Kruse.
Chief of Campus Police O. L.
Luther also said he would be will
ing to refund bike registration
funds already paid if the funis
were lowered by the administra
tion.
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