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A brighter idea —
switch gas to coal
United Press International
HOUSTON — The natural gas era is almost over for Texas’ largest
electric utility. For the first time in more than 50 years, Houston
Lighting & Power Co. has switched one of its generating units to coal.
Since Aug. 31, when HL&P switched Unit 5 of its W.A. Parish
Plant in Fort Bend County from Texas-produced gas to coal mined in
Wyoming, coal has generated 2 percent of the Houston area’s elec
tricity.
The switch, ending HL&P’s 100 percent gas-fired status since
1926, has just begun. By 1985, 25 percent of HL&P’s electricity will
come from coal. Gas will produce 15 percent. The rest will come from
Riel oil and nuclear power.
The historic change reflects the rising cost and diminishing supply
of gas. The Texas Railroad Commission has ordered utilities to make
no new contracts for the increasingly precious fuel.
HL&P spokesman Jim Parsons observed a certain irony in the
development.
"Texas is shipping oil and gas to the Northeast. The Northwest is
shipping coal to Texas. But what’s completing the triangle? What’s
the Northeast shipping to the Northwest?’
HL&P President Don Jordan, said that "because of their lower fuel
costs, coal and nuclear generators will help stabilize the cost of elec
tricity for our customers.
In the 1890s, when a tiny HL&P ancestor used only coal, the
generators were handstoked. Electricity demand was much smaller
then. Parish No. 5 consumes 350 tons of coal an hour to generate 660
thousand kilowatts.
HL&P has two more coalfired units under construction at the
Parish site and plans to build a fourth one. Unit 6, identical to Unit 5,
is scheduled to open later this year.
Rhodesian leaders still
aggreeable to peace talk
THE BATTALION Page 9
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1978
United Press International
HOUSTON — Rhodesian Prime
Minister Ian Smith, stumping the
United States with a black co-leader
of his country’s biracial transitional
regime, Wednesday reiterated his
willingness to meet with the guerril
las trying to overthrow the govern
ment.
But Smith rejected preconditions
sought by the United States and
Britain, which he said included dis
banding the Rhodesian army and
providing an interim British "dic
tator” over Rhodesia.
His traveling companion, the
Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, agreed.
“We have always stated we’d be
prepared to go (to a meeting of all
parties). However, we re not dis
posed to accept preconditions,” said
Smith, who appeared with Sithole at
a World Trade Club luncheon.
“The Popular Front feel very
strongly that power should be trans
ferred to them,” Sithole said. “We
feel power must be transferred to
the people as a whole. The people
may delegate the power to people of
their choice.”
Smith, Sithole, Bishop Abel
Muzorewa and Sen. Jeremiah
Chirau, head a transitional govern
ment that has promised a general
election in which 3 million pre
viously disenfranchised blacks will
vote. Smith is the only white in the
regime.
Smith and Sithole predicted the
renewed Rhodesian attacks Wed
nesday on guerrilla bases in
Mozambique would have no effect
on their search for American sup
port.
“Many are the occasions that the
U.S. administration —- and the
British administration — have said
to us, ‘We understand what you’re
doing and, although we don’t like it,
we understand the necessity,”
Smith said.
“Anybody who knows that kind of
terrorist war, knows you must go
into the countries where it origi
nates,” he added.
Sithole criticized United Nations
Ambassador Andrew Young for
doubting the regime.
“He has been more obstructive
than constructive, Sithole said.
“Every person in the U.S. should
support the agreement. It is com
pletely for the benefit of the black
people.”
Smith said he was disappointed
he was unable to meet President
Carter, who Smith said “appears to
have been ill-advised on the
Rhodesia question.”
The Rhodesian prime minister
said the battle between the tran
sitional government and guerillas
amounts to “a confrontation be
tween Russia on the one hand and
Rhodesia on the other.”
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GARLSTEDT, West Germany —
he United States Tuesday took
er its first military base in north-
n Germany since the war to
mnter a Soviet buildup along the
ast-VVest border.
Secretary of Defense Harold
|rown in a speech said the Ameri-
force of 3,800 would be a deter-
nt to any attack hut if one took
ice it would be met by the full
eight of the United States.
West German Defense Minister
Hans Apel joined Brown under
rainy, gray skies in a ceremony turn
ing over a military base to Brigade
75, unit of the 2nd Armored Divi
sion.
Until now American troops, ex
cept those in Berlin, were stationed
only in the south. But the NATO
decided to move an American unit
to the north to join British forces fol
lowing reports of massive Soviet
tank and troop concentrations facing
West Germany.
“We continue to seek improve
ment in our relations with the
Soviet Union and the nations of
Eastern Europe,” Brown said.
“At the same time we fK
confidence and will retain the
strength to meet any challenge. The
stationing of the 2nd Armored Divi
sion Forward in this area is clear
evidence of our collective determi
nation.”
Brown said if trouble came the
small force would not be alone.
“Many more units are available in
the United States to reinforce
them,” he said. “So are the aircraft
and ships to bridge the distance be
tween the United States and
Garlstedt. All of them are ready.”
The American move was
criticized by environmentalists, who
opposed the establishment of the
base on the edge of a national
forest,a tourist attraction famed for
its beauty.
But Brown said the force would
remain as long as the defense of the
United States and West Germany
needed it.
hird European dies mysteriously
Yugoslavs blamed in writer’s death
ill
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United Press International
PARIS — An exiled Croatian
liter who was shot to death two
lys ago may have been the latest
ctim of Communist agents who
ave killed three Bulgarians — two
them in poisoned umbrella at-
cks, an emigre publisher says.
Bruno Busic, the Croat prop-
gandist, was warned by French
olice eight months ago to stay away
om Paris because Yugoslav killers
lad been assigned to murder him,
d emigre Croat publisher Vlado
Markov was killed in London in Au
gust by a poisoned pellet that could
have been fired from an air gun dis
guised as an umbrella.
A few weeks later, Bulgarian Vla
dimir Simeonov, a colleague of
Markov in the BBC’s Bulgarian lan
guage service, was found dead in his
locked London home. An autopsy
showed he broke his nose in a fall
down stairs and choked on his own
blood. Whether he fell or was
pushed is unresolved.
Busic fled from Zagreb on a
mo to Cart avlinic in London.
thea “There can be no doubt Busic was
plan, Pam mrdered by Communist agents,
ervice reit^avlinic said.
Busic, 38, went to Paris from
l,S /Ondon Saturday. Monday evening
unknown attacker shot five bai
ts into his head as he entered an
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rule for Croatia, part of Yugoslavia.
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