The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 15, 1979, Image 9

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    THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1979
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"jperailed chemical cars blasted
Washington man discovers novel,
effective techniques of self-defense
United Press International
snnatp HiiJM olin O> Fla. — A 500-foot-
o souther “S 1 ' fir e ba11 — “spectacular and
hry hot ’ — seared the evening sky,
ilding the destruction of a string
erailed tank cars and the return
1,500 evacuees to their homes. ‘
etonation of the cars, three of
h had been burning since they
lied Sunday morning, was car-
jjd out late Tuesday by a jump-
ited, cowboy-booted demolitions
Jjiert called in from Texas to defuse
i3 he possibility of an uncontrolled
hemical explosion.
Authorities said 1,500 people
were evacuated just before the blast,
and if a daybreak reconnaissance trip
to the Louisville & Nashville Rail
road wreck showed another blast un
necessary, officials said the 500 resi
dents nearest the scene may be
allowed to return to their Florida
Panhandle homes.
Wayne Rutledge, who led the
Texas demolition team, said the
series of controlled blasts Tuesday
was successful in at least eight of the
nine cars filled with flammable li
quids.
If the ninth car still contains gas, it
will be rigged with plastic explosives
— a procedure Rutledge described
as more dangerous than the original
demolition job because of the unst
able nature of the gases after the ear
lier blasts.
He returned from a helicopter in
spection of the scene, where 29 cars
of a 109-car train derailed, and said,
“All of the toxic material is being
consumed by the fire.”
Six of the cars contained liquid
propane, which turns into a highly
flammable fuel as it mixes with air.
The others contained ethyl alcohol,
styrene monomer, used in making
styrofoam insulation, and acetone.
Al Smith, coordinator of the En
vironmental Protection Agency’s
Regional Response team, said, “We
didn’t hurt anybody. We thank God
for that.”
Despite objections by the rail
road, which apparently thought only
the burning cars should be des
troyed, Smith ordered the demoli
tion of all nine cars. “There wasn’t
any alternative to detonating all nine
cars simultaneously,” Rutledge said.
Smith said the response team
probably would pick up the demoli
tion bill, which was expected to run
between $25,000 and $50,000, be
cause L&N officials had balked.
Russell Gober, a National Trans
portation Safety Board member, said
the derailment was apparently
caused by a washout and L&N was
not to blame.
He said the train, bound from
New Orleans to Jacksonville, appa
rently was going about 45 mph, 4
mph below the speed limit, when it
jumped the tracks.
United Press International
SPOKANE, Wash. — Arnold
Sanborn, 32, proved a tire iron is an
effective weapon against karate
moves.
Sanborn, of Wauconda, Wash.,
found a man going through his pick
up truck at a motel Tuesday and the
would-be thief grabbed a tire iron.
He then threw a couple of karate
kicks at Sanborn.
When Sanborn took the tire iron
from the man, the thief assumed a
martial-arts stance. So, police said,
the truck owner bopped him on the
head, chased him and landed a cou
ple of more blows with the tire iron.
Daniel Brown, 25, was arrested
and taken to a hospital for treatment
of cuts on the head and face.
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meat imports was established in
the bill after the House defeated
an amendment by Rep. Willis
Gradison, R-Ohio, to place the
floor at 1.3 billion pounds.
The bill would change the for
mula for determining limitations
on meat imports.
Australia and New Zealand are
major suppliers of the beef im
ports, mostly lean beef used for
hamburger and sausages. Cana-
* da, Mexico and Central American
nations provide the rest.
Currently, beef imports rise
when U. S. production is high and
fall when U.S. production falls,
thus intensifying swings in beef
prices and supplies.
Under the bill, a so-called
counter-cyclical formula would
result in increased beef imports
when domestic supplies are low
and lower imports when domes
tic supplies are high, thus stabi
lizing supplies and prices. The
formula is expected to maintain
imports in the neighborhood of
seven percent.
The bill was in trouble follow
ing its approval May 31 by the
House Ways and Means Commit
tee because the committee bill,
with the support of the cattle in
dustry, guaranteed the United
States would import at least 1.2
billion pounds a year
But the administration, under
pressure from foreign suppliers,
supported an import floor of 1.3
billion pounds. The administra
tion and cattle producers com
promised on a floor of 1.25 billion
pounds.
Last year Carter used a pocket
veto on a similar bill because he
objected to the bill’s constraints
on his authority to raise or sus
pend import quotas.
Presidential use of the author
ity, most recently in June 1978
when Carter raised imports, has
angered cattle producers. Last
year, the imports lowered their
prices just as they had begun to
make money after three to four
years of losses.
This year’s compromise mod
ifies the president’s authority to
increase or suspend quotas in
times of emergency.
Some pro-consumer legislators
objected to any quotas at all,
saying that beef prices would be
lower if unlimited imports were
permitted. They disagreed with
the cattle industry’s arguments
that lifting limits on imports
would hurt cattle production.
Although supporting the legis
lation, the administration said
abandoning quotas would reduce
domestic cattle production by
less than one percent.
Carter asks Senate for
tougher windfall tax
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Determined to toughen the tax on oil windfall
profits, administration officials argue that the need to ban further
Iranian oil imports emphasizes the importance of developing alterna
tive energy sources.
The Senate is expected to take up its version of the windfall tax soon,
possibly Wednesday. Some of the $138 billion it would raise in re
venues would be used for research and development of alternate
sources of energy.
“We are trying to get the toughest tax we can get, one official told
reporters Tuesday.
He said nearly every senator has been contacted by an administra
tion official with the message that President Carter wants a tougher bill
than the Senate Finance Committee has approved.
The recent developments in Iran, including the oil ban, emphasize
the need for building alternative sources, he told reporters.
The Senate voted 68-27 Tuesday to give poor southerners money to
pay for air conditioning, then decided to amend the windfall tax bill by
adding a $7 billion program to help northerners cope with winter
heating bills.
Congress already has approved $1.35 billion in emergency aid to
help the poor heat their homes this winter. The new proposal would
authorize $3 billion for fiscal 1981 and $4 billion for fiscal 1982.
The administration wants to increase tax revenues $114 billion by
eliminating the committee’s exemptions for newly discovered oil, the
first 1,000 barrels per day from stripper wells, and tertiary oil — crude
so difficult to extract it must be flushed from the earth.
“It is very important that the president get an adequate windfall
profits tax, ” said an official when asked if Carter would veto a bill he felt
was weak.
But he said veto talk “would not be productive now.
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Expert warns of
United Press International The four-day meeting of the newly
LAS CRUCES, N.M. — The formed commission is being
)rld must double its food supplies attended by some 50 government
by the end of this century or else rynd academic officials from both the
U.S. and Mexico. The conference is
the first formal scientific exchange
between the two countries.
Thomas, who said cooperation be
tween the two nations in the area of
agricultural research was “long over
due,” told the delegates a worldwide
famine will threaten the security of
prosperous and poor nations alike if
current food supplies are not dou
bled.
The NMSU president said to
poor and rich nations alike will face a
jajor crisis. New Mexico State Uni-
rsity President Gerald Thomas has
Id a conference of American and
exican officials.
Thomas, a member of the Select
ard for International Food and
^cultural Development, deli-
ipred the keynote speech late Tues-
y at the joint U.S.-Mexico Com
mission on Agricultural Cooperation
sonference at NMSU.
shortage
achieve that goal, joint research was
essential.
“There are no simple solutions to
the world’s food problem,” Thomas
said.
Thomas said the most critical fac
tor facing agricultural productivity in
this century is energy, but within
two decades, water will become the
biggest limiting factor in world food
production.
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