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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1981
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Suit alleges Hunts
took illegal action
United Press International
HOUSTON -— The chairman of Coastal States Gas Corp. has testi
fied his company would have gained “astronomical” profits from a
Libyan oil deal which his federal court lawsuit claims Nelson and
Bunker Hunt illegally stopped.
Oscar Wyatt is seeking $231 million from the Hunt brothers of
Dallas, alleging they violated anti-trust laws in preventing Coastal
from buying oil the Libyans sold them in 1973.
The Hunts claim they owned with British Petroleum the concession
to buy the oil, which the Libyans sold to Coastal after nationalizing the
petroleum industry in its country.
Wyatt testfied the Hunts, following the nationalization, forced Coas
tal’s lawyers to shy away from the deal. He claimed his legal problems
with Lo-Vaca Gas Co. in 1973 prompted the Hunts to pick him out as a
target.
Lo-Vaca was a subsidiary of Coastal, and its troubles stemmed from
gas curtailments and high prices charged customers.
Coastal’s potential profits from the contract with the Libyans,
Wyatt said, were “astronomical and unbelievable.”
He said the contract was reassigned to a Swiss firm because of
pressure from the banks to get out of the contract. The Hunts had
brought the pressure by telling everyone they owned the oil, he said.
Embryo-transfer calf is born at A&M
By RACHEL BOSTWICK
Battalion Reporter
The Texas A&M University Dairy Cattle Center is pleased to
announce the arrival of a new baby boy.
This boy, however, happens to be the first purebred embryo-
transfer calf to be bom at the center, said center manager Paul Cas-
tenson.
Bom Feb. 20, the Holstein calf is the result of an experiment
conducted by Castenson and Diego Barrios, a Venezuelan veterinarian
working on a master’s degree in veterinary physiology and pharma
cology.
Embryo transfer is rapidly increasing in popularity, Castenson said,
because of the rate at which a herd can be increased in value. With the
five to six year life span of a dairy cow, he said, she can only produce
three or four calves, thus contributing to a large herd only on a small
scale.
However, with embryo transfer, the embryos of a high-producing
(high quality and milk production) cow can be transferred to low-
producing cows and increase a herd at a much faster rate, Castenson
said. This also eliminates the risk of the genes of low-producing cows
being put back into the herd.
Castenson said dairymen see the advantage of embryo transfer.
“They’re realizing the importance it could have,” he said. The techni
que is becoming more common as people buying cattle use it more and
more, he added.
When the calf gets older, Castenson said, he will be used by Dr.
Duane Kraemer, a professor of veterinary physiology and animal
science, for experimentation.
Castenson and Barrios plan to continue their work on embryo trans
fer. At the present, they have two Jersey cows they believe are
pregnant by embryo transfer, but the pregnancies have not yet been
confirmed by a veterinarian.
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The first purebred embryo transfer calf was
born Feb. 20 at the Texas A&M University
Dairy Cattle Center. The Holstein calf is the
result of an experiment conducted by Center
Photo by CirolvuCi;
manager Paul Castenson (left) and Diego Bar
rios, a Venezuelan veterinarian working on;
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today to consider a resoluts
urging Congress to abolish ties
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have “memorialized” Congress'
consider the change.
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