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’age 8 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1981 State \ National Computer firm wants asset delay United Press International DALLAS — A federal judge may rule Thursday on a request by Elec tronic Data Systems to restrain the United States government from re leasing $20 million in Iranian assets to Iran. U.S. District Judge Robert Porter said Tuesday he would not rule on the request before Thursday, when Justice Department lawyers — who oppose the request — are expected to submit written arguments. Porter also said he could see “no real harm” in granting the giant com puter firm’s request for a temporary injunction blocking the U.S. govern- I ment from returning the assets to Iran under the terms of the hostage release agreement negotiated by for- | mer President Carter. EDS won a $20 million judgment in Porter’s court last May after alleg ing Iran had failed to pay for a data processing system EDS installed under a contract with the govern ment of the former Shah. Nearly a year before, the firm sought and won an order attaching $20 million as security in the event the company won the suit. EDS now is arguing the U.S. gov ernment has no authority to tamper with the funds because the Constitu tion does not give the president au thority to overturn court rulings. EDS also argues that even if the terms of the hostage agreement were legal, they apply only to court rulings issued since seizure of the hostages in November 1979, several months after EDS won the attachment order. Too many tickets Officer Harvey Williams, of the University Police Department, watches as this illegally parked car is towed from the Agriculture Building parking lot. The car, with no parking permit, has 16 outstanding fick- ets, and under University regulations, is to betoweii away when found on campus. Oil spill cleanup nearing end United Press International HOUSTON — Cleanup crews estimated Wednesday they had rec overed 15,000 of22,000 barrels of oil spilled into the Houston Ship Chan nel by a ship collision last week, but 10 miles of Galveston Bay beach re mained to be cleaned. “We’ve got roughly 15,000 of 22,000 barrels that spilled picked up,” Coast Guard spokesman Doug Bandos said. “We’re looking at Thursday even ing to Friday evening to get the ma jor mass amounts out (of the water) and then you’ve got a week to two weeks to get the rocks (shores) clean.” Bandos said he expected oil to be cleared by Friday from the Barbour’s Cut Terminal, a man-made inlet and cargo terminal where business has been hampered by efforts to contain the spilled oil. The tanker Olympic Glory was moored in Barbour’s Cut shortly af ter the chemical carrier Lucor Wic- liffe struck the tanker in the left rear Jan. 24, tearing a 12-foot gash. Ban dos said most of the oil spilled fell into the cut. The cleanup was being managed by Crowley Environmental Services under contract to the ship owners. Crowley deployed vacuum trucks and barges and crews with hand tools at an estimated cost of $100,000 a day. a flood gate blocking Moses Lale Ei environmentally sensitive inlet “Moses Lake has got the floode down and nothing is getting in uil out of Moses Lake,” Bandos said’ll (the shift of oil) is good because»tl WAS! can back our trucks up and such jr orce cq right off the front of the f The Coast Guard planned an in vestigation of the collision. Bandos said oil trapped at Dollar Point, the southernmost reach of the spill down the western side of Gal veston Bay, had “backed up” against in Utah undergix Bandos said that although oil the mini stained shores on the mainlam of Barbour’s Cut and on and Alexander Island, he saidnoit jor environmental damage occurred. Blaze in N.J. nursing home kills four EXTRA MONEY ATTENTION — Students, Faculty, Employees of the ii? Texas A&M System, and others: WOULD YOU LIKE TO EARN EXTRA MONEY? If you, your parents, relatives or friends own 500 acres or :i?: more and would be interested in leasing for oil and gas, ;i| we will pay you a finders fee for just a name, phone number, and location of the tract of land if in the event we ^ buy the lease. CALL COLLECT: GARRY OR LARRY KENT 713-723-2388 DAY OR NIGHT 713-652-4969 HAROLD KENT 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Fri. United Press International POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. — A smoky blaze at an ocean- side boarding house killed four elderly residents in the third fatal fire at New Jersey facilities for the aged and handicapped in recent months. Authorities said the fire at Keifer’s Quarters Hotel Tuesday night in jured eight other residents of the wood-frame boarding house. One woman, her hair singed from the flames, raced to a neighbor’s house to report the blaze. It was the third fire since last July involving facilities that house elderly or handicapped residents. Less than a month ago, a fire at a nursing home in Keansburg, N.J., claimed 34 vic tims. William Eastman, spokesman for Point Pleasant Hospital, said five tenants were admitted in guarded Have you been published yet? We’re completing the Kinko’s Professor Publishing Library for the spring semester now! But we still have plenty of time to prepare your outside reading materials for your spring classes. Just call and well come by to explain our program and pick up your materials to be copied. All at no charge to the professor! KINKO’S COPIES condition to the hospital and three were transported by helicopter to St. Barnabas Hospital’s burn center in Livingston. Seven tenants of the resident boarding house escaped injury, police said. Eastman said the SVz-story, wood- frame structure was occupied by 21 people, although two of the tenants were not in the home at the time of the fire. Some 200 firefighters battled the blaze, which broke out at 9:54 p.m. and was brought under control about 45 minutes later. The blaze was con tained in the front of the structure, but thick, choking smoke poured throughout the facility. Peter Arlauckas, who lives next door to the house, said he was watch ing television when one of the female residents of the home began banging at his door, telling him about the fire. “The only way she could have got ten out was to run though the flames at the front door,” Arlauckas said. “Her hair was singed.” Arlauckas called police and ran with his brother-in-law to the board ing house, where flames were com ing out around the front door. 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Point Pleasant Beach Policed Charles Bertolatus said the victims L the fire died of smoke inhaiatm ty 1 The origin and cause of the was under inyestigation.hy 1« Ui police, the Ocean County prose: FORT tor’s office and the state police ars#lationat squad. Officials said the home wloard ofl smoke detectors, but no sprints tear wh« system, which was not requiredt^ion that the building. Iroyed ra Keifer’s Quarters is just 15inis|lanes pi south of Bradley Beach, wW A sing elderly and handicapped resident'! [7-year-c a boarding house perished in ai wacticir last July. Tuesday Following the blaze, state hyteet abo> makers began clamoring for lt> engine C sions in fire safety regulations f pilot, erning boarding and nursinghomt High New regulations now in efc ley, 17, tt throughout New Jersey call for it* died in £ ter enforcement of fire safety regal collision. tions, and more frequent inspects The fS of resident-care facilities. na421w Willie, 4 C. 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