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Page 8 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1980 A&M Football Childcare French’s Care-a-lot ; 900 University Oaks < College Station (Behind Woodstone) \ 693-1987 < . Reservations please National Ladybird: LBJ afraid of bomb NEW YORK (UPI) — President Lyndon Johnson was more afraid of right-wing pressure to use nuclear weapons in the Vietnam War than left-wing politicians demanding an end to the fighting, Lady Bird John son says. “Lyndon’s real fear was not from the left but from the right — people demanding that we get this thing over with by dropping the deadliest of bombs, ’’ the former first lady said in the December issue of American Heritage magazine. “Forced to that test, what do we do,’’ she said. “He didn’t want to do it. I just don’t think we ever would have gotten over that nightmare. What would we have loosed? “The one time we did it, when nobody really knew the extent of it, left a scar. Once we’ve seen seen the bomb and know what it can do, how can any succeeding president ever ever give in to that last horrible thing?” She said another problem during her husband’s presidency was the Vietnam War’s overshadowing of his administration’s domestic programs. “What was red meat to Lyndon’s abilities and his agenda and desires were in the fields of health and edu cation and equal rights,” she said. “He’d repeat over and over the phrase about the only war this nation wants to wage is the war against pov erty, ignorance and disease and he really took overwhelming pleasure in prosecuting that war,” she said. Barges, rig just look like toys' He Oil drilling rig drains lake United Press International JEFFERSON ISLAND, La. — It looked like somebody had pulled the plug in a giant bathtub — except it was drilling rigs, boats, barges and trees that were swirling down the drain. The surrealistic scene was created Thursday when an oil drilling rig under contract to Tex aco Inc. punched through the top of a salt mine 1,200 feet below the surface of Lake Peigneur, a IVa-square-mile brackish lake that is a spawn ing ground for shrimp and other forms of marine life. “I thought it was the world coming to an end,” Viator said. “Before we got on the bank, we seen barges and boats rushing to that hole .... The water was all in a circle and it was like a whirlpool and everything was going in there — trees, dirt, every thing just rushing out there.” Viator said he and Dore tied their boat to a tree and ran ashore. The 3-foot-deep coastal lake quickly drained and turned into a giant mud flat, while a grow ing whirlpool sucked water through canals from nearby bayous and Vermilion Bay. No one was injured, but seven workers on the rig and 50 miners had to flee as water rushed in. Some 15 families and about 300 to 500 mine employees were evacuated from the island later as the land cracked and crumbled. Two fishermen, Leonce Viator and his nephew, Timmy Dore, were nearly sucked into the pit. “We looked back of us and there goes that tree into that swirling water,” he said. Greenhouses and a visitors’ center collapsed at Rip Van Winkle’s Live Oak Gardens, a sce nic garden tourist attraction that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Susan White, news director at KANE radio, flew over the lake late Thursday and said she was astonished. “It was awesome/’ Mrs. White said. “It looks like a great big hole in the ground. There are 10 barges, at least one drilling rig and a tugboat in the bottom of it. They just look like toys. There’s a waterfall effect coming over one end where the water is being drawn in.” Texaco said the rig had reached a depth of idea. He won feed it and cul 1,228 feet when it apparently punched a Ij ra ctors on tl in the roof of a cavern in a salt mine ope® father, by Diamond Crystal Salt Co. of St. Clt The shiny s Mich. poks as if it b “Texaco had not been advised of the eas & an a ^ arn ' ence of the (mine) shaft and was not aware! f a£ ty to r ^ n f' it,” said Texaco spokeswoman BrendaBurii: ^P e ^ as sta lh New Orleans. “However, Texaco represetl government 1: tives met with Diamond Crystal represent ^ (>n now ’ i ust fives before drilling began and discussed tl |P e was c l ea proposed location of the well site.” Initially, a 1 Asked if that meant Texaco blamed t some mash le: amend Crystal for the accident, Buras i ®d the whole dined further comment. ELMER, Dr. Darryl Felder, an aquatic Is crop. J “I’ve never the University of Southwestern Louisiawi L.! Lafayette, saied the accident could have amt ;SaK | Bjshop $ impact on both the ecology and geologyofi L l ’ ‘ seafood-rich area. #'\Vehadto Even if the water were pumped out old ^ e P e ^ out ai1 ' salt mine and back into the lake, Feldersaii ,ou c never , would be very briny and would not supportr 6 !? 1 ^ 0 us ; same kinds of marine life as before. K ae oss 0 He potato cn Bly from thi The Bettmann Archive ®1980 Beer Brewed by Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis. fill ' Now comes Miller time. Runaway gets life in cop killing as United Press International LITTLE ROCK, ARK. Edward Eugene Little, a 16-year-old runaway from a shattered Spring- field, Ill., home who was convicted of gunning down a police detective, was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance for parole. A six-man, six-woman jury found Little guilty of capital murder, aggra vated robbery and first-degree bat tery deliberated for five hours Wednesday before returning the verdict. Little, who showed virtually no emotion during his three-day trial in Pulaski County Circuit Court, showed none when Judge Lowber Hendricks read the sentence. He also was given 50 years on the rob bery conviction and 20 years for bat tery. The youth, who was labeled by psychiatrists as brain damaged dur ing the trial and whose mother testi fied she had been married six times by his 13th birthday, was convicted of robbing the Little Rock conveni ence store on May 14, wounding its clerk and then killing Nil McGuire, 23, with founki| .357 Magnum. to\i Police said McGuirestopf^p^j tie and David Russell BufeL are ca Bloomington, Ill., thinl;:| echoslovak| were runaways. Butleristcm. gv t rpm later on similar charges. ¥ Russiailj ■ Janet Arnold, a MissoimfcWeekend h ence store clerk, testifiedrfel(-‘spread p secution’s star witness di iunist Europ penalty phase of the trial VS day. She identified LittltI '‘ ‘ ons 0 youth who had charged into Mr j c to tlc | just 10 hours before McC i tel y owned killed, robbed the cashn ire-fab boxes shot her in the stomach. |j n p 0 j ant j Defense attorneys Charle lekend hou: and Richard O’Brien counten 1 st ? lve y ears a state corrections official*' pduced regi scribed what happens to i an< ^ g ran d body during electrocution, rasfound priv Willis McAlister Little’s \ bla ck ma father also testified that tb t ar § es t f iat was not a trouble maker at k £ essar y f° r u had run away earlier this ft ! rte( ^ to the i left nothing behind butanole l y lavj I don t know how to cope ml t a >- farn pie who care about me. ted p rices luse sites ins agriculture Influencing is the chi [oughout C Ist city dwe apartmen tee generati fnt allocatio J10 years or ^The fact is, it, “that Hi fir own hoi