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THE BATTALION TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1979 Page 7 Man reaching \\\end of record trans-sea flight llmin g extra °f time kept they other- 1 2.7oirtofi t average. called a lS tic game of team, sails a ll kinds ol 1 of varied other women high IQ, 41 s ‘my God, I girl,”’ sit United Press International P’ALMOUTH, England — Gerry »iss Monday neared landfall and end of an epic trans-Atlantic hssing at the helm of the smallest {sel ever to sail the 3,000-mile Fanned by a fair westerly breeze |al seafarers term “a soldier s pd, Speiss, 39, of White Bear, on., and his 10-foot sailboat Yan- ! Girl were estimated late this af- he shunned publicity, but he agreed to an article in the local paper under the condition it would not be pub lished until the day he sailed. Waiting to greet him at Falmouth are his parents and his wife, Sally, 37, who feared the last 100 miles through the crowded shipping lanes of the English Channel would be the most dangerous. Tankers collide; oil spill surveyed United Press International CROWN POINT, Tobago — Two crippled, fire-swept supertankers Monday were being towed to port where officials hoped to determine how much of their 3.5 million bar rels of oil had spilled into the Carib bean. The 292,666-ton Atlantic Em press and the 210,257-ton Aegean Captain, both Liberian-registered and Greek-owned, collided during a tropical rainstorm at dusk Thursday off Crown Point, between the is lands of Tobago and Grenada. Twenty-nine people — all but one from the Atlantic Empress — were missing and presumed dead. Fifty-one others, including three women passengers, survived. Officials at first feared that all of the 3.5 million barrels of oil aboard both tankers had leaked into the Caribbean, which would have made the accident the world’s worst oil spill. A last-minute maneuver by the Aegean Captain apparently mini mized the impact of the collision, resulting in damage to only some of the ship’s storage holds. Officials believe most of the oil from Atlantic Empress was burned off during the conflage ration. The cause of the accident was not yet determined. Piskopianos Christos, the second officer in command of the bridge on the Aegean Captain, said Sunday that he noticed the other ship sud denly just before the collision and, according to the old law of the sea, immediately started turning left in the hope the Atlantic Empress would do the same so they would miss each other. “It was too late. They didn’t react to this condition,” Christos said. The right part of the bow of the Aegean Captain struck a glancing blow to the Atlantic Empress mid way on its left side and both ships burst into flame. The captains of both vessels immediately gave or ders to abandon ship. “If we had rammed the other ship straight into the side, there would have been a big explosion and a 100 percent loss, Christos said. The Atlantic Empress, still burn ing and listing, was being towed by two German tugboats. The Aegean Captain was also under tow but has a skeleton crew of about 10 officers aboard trying to repair the damage. No one will know exactly how much oil spilled until the remainder is pumped out. Officials estimate it is probably less than one third of the total combined cargo, about a mil lion barrels or less. Whatever spilled out is not drift ing ashore anywhere for the mo ment but merely floating around on the current in the Tobago channel, where three planes and four boats were spraying dispersant chamicals in an attempt to break it up. The evacuation from the Aegean Captain was orderly and resulted in the loss of only one life, but panic broke out on the Atlantic Empress, which was enveloped in flames, and crew and passengers jumped into the flaming sea in a mad scramble. The Atlantic Empress was en route from the Persian Gulf to Beaumont, Texas, fully loaded with Iranian crude for the Mobil Corp. them tothini noon to be less than 60 nautical a to think 1 es from England, lighter could He was repo ted waiting in a fog pk off the English Channel for the it to clear. By my estimation he should get ) port around tea-time on Tues- k if the weather conditions stay as y are at present,” said a local mouth Coast Guard official. “The id out there is 3 to 4 knots wes- ly and it’s a slight sea. ” 'he official said, “It’s what we call uldier’s wind hereabouts, brings i home in a straight line with no nble. Three to four knots is the livalent of a marching pace. 5ut for Speiss, who has been at 53 days, sailing toward shore on ildier’s wind is the culmination of ong ambition to navigate the allest vessel ever across the At tic. spent more than two years ilding the miniature yacht specif- ly for the 3,000-mile journey and his job as an electronics engi- r to make the trip. The boat is ipped with a four-horsepower iliary motor and a 14-foot sail, f set out almost unheralded jHrginia Beach, Va., on June 1, ling his long, lonely trip “a chal- |ge pure and simple” and hoping omplete the journey in 60 days. Jnlike most trans-Atlantic sailors cents pergik I gasoline la ine northeas! ts per as, Georgia ontana, Ne- South recently in- Nicaraguan festivity marred; men spray hotel with bullets United Press International MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Sus pected supporters of ousted dictator Anastasio Somoza sprayed a hotel housing Nicaragua’s new junta with machine-gun fire, marring a weekend of victory fiestas honoring the 3-day-old revolutionary regime. The Junta of National Reconstruc tion Sunday began drafting a plan that would include a law nationaliz ing all banks in Nicaragua and called on the populace to return to their offices, factories and stores. The shooting Sunday at the Camino Real Hotel broke out dur ing a meeting between junta mem bers and Sandinista guerrilla lead ers. Two truckloads of gunmen raked the hotel with machine gun fire, wounding two Sandinista guards who returned the attackers’ fire. Only minutes before te shooting. Commander Daniel Ortega-Saave- dra, the only guerrilla on the five- member ruling junta, said the lead ers would create a new army to pro tect Nicaragua against Somoza in spired counter revolution. It marked the first major clash since the guerrillas overthrew Somoza and stop-gap president Francisco Urcuyo last week. Somoza, 53, whose family ruled Nicaragua for four decades, fled to Miami Beach last Tuesday. Ortega-Saavedra told UPI the junta is also drafting a law to na tionalize all banks in Nicaragua, in cluding the U.S.-owned Bank of America, in order to stop a flight of capital from the country. “This is an elementary measure for a ruined country,” Ortega- Saavedra said. “We have to stop this potential capital flight, like what happened under Somoza when mil lions of dollars were taken out.” Sandinista sources said two other violent outbursts, probably insti gated by pro-Somoza forces, were quickly suppressed by the new police. Weekend celebrations wound up Sunday with 50,000 people par ticipating in Masaya, the strategic city 16 miles southeast of the capital held by rebels under constant na tional guard bombardment for more than a month. Sandinista radio urged account ants, teachers and public works en gineers to meet and discuss the re building of the war-devastated na tion. The first crews of “reconstruc tion brigades” Sunday began repair ing streets, water mains and tele phone wires. The junta over the weekend is sued its first major decrees, eliminating Somoza’s hated national guard and declaring it will exprop riate the former dictator’s personal property, estimated at 7 percent of the national wealth. 3 l\ l l l l l l l -l PACK’S PLASTER AND CERAMICS SUMMER SALE JULY 24 - JULY 28 20% off all unpainted plasters, candles, and candle rings. FM 2223, Old Wheelock Road (off Tabor Road) 823-3965 Tues.-Thurs. 1-8 Pri. & Sat. 10-5 Closed Sun. & Mon. M ********************* **** ** ** ********** a* R* * dore twins uccessfully eparated United Press International BANGKOK, Thailand — Doctors ie successfully separated a pair of Imese twins, but one of the tiny pnts is having difficuty breathing, 0(1 given only a 20 percent ince of survival, hospital officials aid Monday. pile female twins, joined from the st to the navel with connecting rts and livers, were separated in 1-14 hour operation Sunday by an Sj-member surgical team at Bang- oks Hua Chiao Hospital.^ iThe director of the hospital, Dr. |it Phichaisanit, told a news con- "Jence one of the babies was in ||fectory condition but the other is having severe respiratory prob ans. ‘I am afraid the baby may not rvive for too long. Her chances of irvival are now considered less ian 20 per cent,” he said. Mexico to limit gas sales, says Portillo cabinet official United Press International MEXICO CITY — Mexico will not sell huge quantities of natural gas to the United States, a member of President Jose Lopez Portillo’s cabinet says. Jose Andres de Oteyza, Minister of Patrimony and Industrial De velopment, in an interview Sunday with the newspaper Uno Mas Uno, said the amount of natural gas to be sold will be decided when Presidents Carter and Lopez Portillo meet in Washington in Sep tember. He said Mexico would sell to the U.S. only surplus natural gas not used domestically. De Oteyza said the price will be based on the “spectacular” price increases in petroleum and its by-products in recent months. Talks on gas sales between the United States and Mexico resumed in February after Carter visited Lopez Portillo in Mexico City. In 1977, negotiations collapsed when the United States refused to pay Mexico more than $2.16 per thousand cubic feet, the price paid for Canadian gas. 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