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AUSTIN — Attorney General
Mark White announced Thursday he
will file suit against the state of Okla
homa in the U.S. Supreme Court to
settle a dispute over the boundary
between Texas and Oklahoma.
At issue is the boundary between
the states from the western edge of
Lake Texoma to the northeast comer
of the Army Corps of Engineers’
property south of the Red River in
Grayson County.
Texas contends the boundary
should be the south cut bank of the
Red River as it existed prior to the
construction of the Denison Dam.
White said the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, which has
authority to regulate sale of electric
ity in interstate commerce, is seek
ing to readjust the states’ boundary
in order to bring Texas under its
jurisdiction.
By failing to intervene, the Texas
attorney general said, the state of
Oklahoma is interfering with the
Texas’ sovereignty of the area in con
troversy.
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AUSTIN — Sixteen Austin fire
fighting units, the entire fire cadet
class and elements of the Round
Rock and Jollyville fire departments
fought a five-alarm blaze late
Wednesday at an IBM building
under construction near the main
plant.
Flames shot 50 to 60 feet above
the unoccupied structure, but posed
building about a quarter of a mile
from the fire.
There were no injuries, but dam
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The building, under construction
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GALVESTON — A round of explosions on the
wrecked oil tanker Burmah Agate has blown a hole in
the port side of the vessel and split a seam between
two cargo tanks, the Coast Guard said Thursday, and
rough seas are preventing the skimming of oil still
seeping into the sea.
“A series of explosions Wednesday night sent
burning oil over gulf waters a distance of 100 feet
from the vessel at which point the flames exting
uished themselves in rough seas,” a Coast Guard
spokesman said.
“One explosion sent flames 30-40 feet skyward and
led observers on the scene throughout the night to
believe a hole was blown in the port side of the
vessel.”
There was no significant damage to the ship’s hull,
the spokesman said, though a ““narrow seam was
opened along the deck between the No. 7 and 9 port
tanks.”
No oil was seen coming from the tear, but oil
continued to seep from the ship and northerly winds
were carrying it south and southwest along the Gal
veston coast for six miles, the Coast Guard said.
Coast Guard strike teams and Navy supervisor
salvage personnel were unable to conduct offshore
oil skimming operations Wednesday due to 5-6 foot
seas and winds more than 20 knots, officials said.
The Burmah Agate, on which there have
dozens of small explosions in the past three dan
lain crippled five miles outside the entrancet
veston Bay since it collided with the 482-footL
ter Mimosa, Nov. L Thirty-two men died
Coast Guard spokesman David Paxton said
was a “slight impact” of spilled oil Tuesdayni
Bolivar Peninsula, northeast of Galveston Bai
ance, but “it was so slight there’s no attempttc
it up.” It was expected to wash out with the:
fie said an explosion about 10p.m. Tuesdavi
ship’s No. 7 of 36 compartments temporaii
creased oil spilling from the vessel and Wedns
slick extended four miles to the southwest
patch 10 miles from the ship.
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been blackened, but public areas haveheencle
Spokesmen for Burmah Oil Tankers Ltd
operates the vessel, have said they hope the
burn itself out within the next week,
tinuing explosions caused concern for
oil-filled compartments.
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the fire and the rest spilled.
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GALVESTON — Workmen are
patching a 3-foot-wide hole in the
Greek freighter Skymnos, which
struck an unmanned offshore gas
platform 13 miles outside Galveston
Bay. An investigation into the cause
of the collision is under way, officials
said.
A Coast Guard spokesman said the
ship’s captain claimed the platform
was not lighted, but the owners of
the platform have disputed that
claim.
The accident occurred about 5
a.m. Wednesday, 5 miles east of the
burning wreckage of an oil tanker
that collided with another freighter a
month ago.
The Skymnos was empty and
bound for Houston to pick up a load
of fertilizer when the collision ripped
the hole below the waterline of the
495-foot vessel. Water poured in at
500 gallons per minute, but the
freighter continued to Galveston
Bay where it was anchored and
emergency pumps were taken
aboard to keep it afloat.
The Coast Guard reported no in
juries, fire or pollution when the
freighter hit the two-well gas plat
form operated by Oxy Petroleum
Inc., a subsidiary of Occidental Pet
roleum Corp.
“We re just trying to get a plug in
there so we can save the ship,” said
Ben Reynolds, a spokesman for the
vessel’s underwriters. “They’re put
ting divers down so they can put a
temporary patch — a piece of steel
plate — on it.”
Occidental spokesman Carl Blu-
may said damage to the platform, on
which no gas was flowing because a
pipe line was unfinished, was
“minor, less than $100,000. ” He said
it lost a ladder and incurred damage
to a brace and a leg.
“The captain of the ship is saying
the platform wasn’t lighted, said
Coast Guard Ensign Dave Paxton.
“That’s incorrect,” Blumay said.
“All navigation and warning lights on
the platform were working and were
visible to workers on a company plat
form two miles away.” •
Coast Guard Lt. Don Zelazny
said, “I don’t know if it was foggy at
time of collision or not. ” He said the
freighter “was not loaded and had
very little fuel on board, so the possi
bility of pollution was mir
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William Webster Thursday
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to solving the assassinatioi
District Judge John H."
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arrests were expected soon
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lous case, as is the case
murders,” he said. “Itssiml
James Hoffa case.”
Webster said agents
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Wood assassination than
case.
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