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NEW ORLEANS — Inspection
ews checked valves and joints
r ednesday in preparation for the
st flow of crude oil through a 42-
Jile pipeline from a Texas, dock to
e nation s first underground oil
orage site.
“They’re walking down the line
ecking every valve,’’said William
arker, deputy manager of the na-
rn’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve
ogram.The pipeline runs from the
[terminal at Nederland, Texas, to
e underground salt dome at
|ackberry, La.
He said oil should be flowing into
tie dome by Friday if no faults were
|und in the 42-inch diameter line .
|“We’re actually flowing water
jlown the line and behind the water
a pig (a test device that mechani-
lly inspects the pipeline) and
me oil,” Parker said. “We re
leaning the line out, just checking
out and making sure it’s OK.
“Sometime (Thursday) evening or
riday morning the test should be
jphere the oil will be at Hackberry,
f d the line will have 350,000-
0,000 barrels of oil in it. ”
He said the first oil from the
ipeline will be injected into the salt
ome after the water washes debris
om the line and the pig device is
removed.
“I’ve heard stories of finding dead
rabbits, snakes, shoes and those sort
of things in pipelines,” Parker said.
The Hackberry dome was the
scene of a blowout and fire that
killed one man and destroyed
thousands of barrels of oil last
month.That accident occurred in
another portion of the complex.
Work at other areas of the site, in
cluding the pipeline receiving sta
tion, were not halted by the fire.
Parker said the Hackberry dome
is separated into different storage
areas by natural salt walls. The fire
occurred at cavern six and the
pipeline will feed into caverns eight
and nine.
President Carter ordered the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve Pro
gram as protection against another
Arab oil embargo or similar short
age. It calls for storage of billions of
barrels of oil in Louisiana and Texas
salt domes and vacant Ohio and
Kentucky mines.
Hackberry was the first storage
site, and received its first oil ship
ment in July, by barge from Neder
land. Barge operations will continue
for several months, but the pipeline
will be the primary method of filling
the dome, capable of holding huge
quantities of oil.
Americans try
to unsnag talks
United Press International
WASHINGTON — American mediators met separately with
Egyptian and Israeli negotiators Wednesday morning to focus on the
difficulties that brought President Carter directly into the talks on
Tuesday.
American mediator Alfred Atherton began meeting with the Egyp
tian delegation at 9 a.m. EDT at the Madison Hotel and was
scheduled to meet later at the hotel with the Israelis.
Conference sources said Wednesday’s meetings should make clear
whether Carter’s intervention removed the hurdles that prompted
him to join in the discussions in the first place.
Egyptian and Israeli negotiators are focusing on the final, difficult
issues standing in the way of a peace treaty, leading to President
Carter’s direct involvement in the talks.
Carter spent one hour each with the Egyptian and Israeli dele
gations at the White House Tuesday, and it appeared that one of the
disputes is whether the disagreements in the negotiations are serious.
The Israelis seemed to think they are. The Egyptians and the
Americans played down the problems.
As he emerged from his meeting with Carter, Israel’s Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan said: “We have come up against some difficul-
tues in our negotiations with the Egyptian delegation. When we
came here the president told us whenever we are stuck, we should
come to him and we used this opportunity.”
Dayan refused to say where the difficulties lie, but it appeared
from earlier government statements that the big problem involves
the linkage between the current Egyptian-Israeli negotiations and
the larger issue of a comprehensive Middle East settlement.
Israeli officials say there is no connection between the two issues;
the Egyptians claim there is, and an American conference spokesman
said the larger issue has been discussed, although the principle focus
of the conference has been on an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.
American officials said there is no sign of a major snag in the
negotiations and the talks are not stuck, as Dayan implied.
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By DILLARD STONE
Battalion Reporter
The Texas A&M University stu-
mt senate voted Wednesday to
esent a new student government
nstitution to the student body.
In principle and in fact it’s the
ie constitution the senate passed
spring, with some changes made
student government efficiency,”
id Austin Sterling, vice president
rules and regulations.
Sterling said that inconsistencies
id contradicting language in the
constitution made the senate
llcide to write a new one last
[ring. The proposed document
[ssed in the student election, but
ie Judicial overturned the election
krlier this semester. The constitu-
j)n was returned to the rules and
Igulations committee in order to
Inform with standardized proce-
bre required for its adoption.
4 The senate approved two major
flanges in the constitution, as well
is a number of wording changes for
Jarity.
JOne major change made in the
lecutive branch provides for stu-
fent senate approval of a new stu-
niblic
de to
court
de to
forth
with
mth.
nher
icer-
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st 10
receive the vote of confidence, the
senate will select the new president
from among the five vice presidents.
The other major change gives the
student body president the right to
remove executive appointees with
out the two-thirds senate vote for
merly required.
The new constitution will be
presented to the students in next
Thursday’s fall election.
In other business. Senator Paul
Bettencourt withdrew a bill that
provided for the extension of dormi
tory visitations to 24 hours on
weekends.
In its stead, Bettencourt offerd a
measure that would co-sponsor with
the Residence Hall Association a
survey to determine the opinions of
dormitory students about maximum
visitation hours.
Also introduced was a bill detail
ing an alternate ticket allocation sys
tem for the Arkansas football game.
The bill calls for each student desir
ing to attend the game to sign up at
G. Rollie White Coliseum on the
Tuesday prior to the game. Each
student would receive a numbered
token, and a lottery to determine
ent body president in the event of the recipients of the 377 available
ke president’s removal or resigna- tickets would be held on the Thurs-
lon. The executive vice president day before the game.
Ell assume the presidency with a Completion of installation of new
ivo-thirds approval of the senate. If washers and driers to two campus
be executive vice president fails to areas has been delayed until the
third week in November. Kevin
Patterson, vice president for stu
dent services, told the senate that
the three-week extension was
caused by conflicts with other cam-
Wiite House gets
hristmas tree
pus projects, such as the renovation
of the Chancellor’s Home.
In other reports, Joe Beall, vice
president for external affairs, said
that 15,000 student government
Student Purchase Program books
have been printed. He added that
distribution would begin soon, with
the RHA passing out the books on
campus.
Dorothy Du Bois reported that
the external affairs committee is
planning energy seminars to help
off-campus students reduce their
energy usage and electric bills. The
seminars will be conducted with the
help of the Texas Energy Extension
Service, she said.
The senate also adopted five
policies that it will use as priorities
in state lobbying this year. A poll of
the senators indicated they wanted
to pursue these areas: more equita
ble tuition rates between foreign
students and out-of-state students,
maintenance of low tuition rates,
maintaining the determination of
Q-drop policy by the university, a
student member of the Board of Re
gents, and faculty tenure.
A resolution urging the adminis
tration to examine university growth
in relation to the need for more stu
dent center area was passed.
Senators Brian Gross and Steven
Hageman introduced a bill to estab
lish a committee to select the recip
ients of annual student government
awards. Gross said the measure is
necessary because now there is no
statutory method of selecting award
winners.
United Press International
KENT, Ohio — The national
Hristmas tree, a 26-foot Colorado
lue Spruce, is scheduled to be
[anted Friday on the White House
ounds in Washington.
A contract to transplant the tree,
Bing moved from York, Pa., was
Warded Wednesday to the Davey
ree Expert Co., Kent, by the Na-
Dnal Park Service.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1978
21 arrests
2 pursued from drug raid
uthorities are still looking for a Safety, said the arrests have been about four of Thursday night’s
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Authorities are still looking for a
woman and a juvenile named in in
dictments connected with a recent
drug raid in the College Station
area.
Both are wanted for delivering
marijuana, a third degree felony.
Nine people have been arrested
since the original bust Thursday
night, bringing the number of ar
rests to 21. Twenty-nine indict
ments were issued.
All of the nine most recently ar
rested have been charged with de
livery of marijuana. They are Deidra
Ray Cheek, of Route 5, Bryan;
William Henry Black Jr., P.O. Box
DE, College Station; Anthony
Joseph Meyer, of Somerville; Joe
Anthony Pleasant, of 901 N. Pierce,
Bryan; Michael Pierce Yeager, of
306 Redmond Drive, Apartment
236-C, College Station; Tyrone
Poole, of Tunis; Timothy Clinton
Storey, of 2201 Leonard Road,
Brazos County; Charles Ray
Freeman, Route 2, Box 246,
Caldwell, and David Gerald
Mouser, who listed his car as his re
sidence.
Ray Nutt, narcotics officer with
the local Department of Public
Safety, said the arrests have been about four of Thursday night’s ar-
made throughout the Bryan-College rests were made in College Station’s
Station area. Northgate area, with others mainly
Detective Ronnie Miller of the scattered throughout Bryan and
College Station police force said College Station.
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