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—National THE BATTALION Page 11 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1981 erosion caused >y rain and winds United Press International [WASHINGTON — Lack of rain and strong winds combined (is indicted during 1980 to cause major soil erosion in the 10 Great Plains states — cutting a path of destruction through croplands. ||The Agriculture Department reported Monday that 4.18 million acres of land in the Great Plains sustained erosion damage in 1980, ■ percent more than in the previous year. P Norman Berg, chief of the department’s Soil Conservation Ser vice, said the major factor contributing to the sharp increase was lack UlLUiUi m0 j S t Ure ■ Of the damaged areas, 94 percent was cropland, 4 percent was tigationtfemgeland and 2 percent was other land. Experts have warned that on cant; excessive wind and water erosion reduces cropland productivity. feretheiL b and tapf j 'rings |)et\J •fi, will be a idtnce unless <: me is ''lawyer or ,;i ileged inlt ii Tmscai "d official 'Harrelsoa, but bond ngra had rt i in the hita er, gambler outh Dakota reported the largest amount of damage, 901,500 d-damaged acres, or 22 percent of the total, compared to 120,948 a year earlier. I'Montana was second with damage to 889,000 acres, compared to |6,125 in 1979-80. [Kansas reported damage to 872,250 acres, up from 442,140, and scurrentlyNorth Dakota reported damage to 817,705 acres, up from 227,750. eral prisonU^ ama S e was worst > n the northern plains states, while wind riminal act erHS ' on declined in three states: New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, o appear btlfflamage in other states, with last year’s acreage in parentheses: ndgewaslo Nebraska 155,695 acres (34,135), Wyoming28,475 (13,830), Colora- ' do 102,520 (10,185), New Mexico 64,170 (148,900), Oklahoma 83,545 (180,450) and Texas 269,006 (989,247). ■Wind also destroyed crops or ground cover on another 286,257 acres without blowing away topsoil. |A final report on wind erosion in 1980-81 will be issued in June, icials monitor wind erosion from November through May. Hunts must liquidate silver holdings United Press International WASHINGTON — The Hunt brothers of Dallas are holding on to their massive silver purchases, and the government is going to ask certain banks to do something ab out it. Federal Reserve Board Chair man Paul Volcker said Monday he will remind the appropriate banks that the Hunt brothers must dis pose of their silver holdings under terms of a loan agreement arranged last year. The purpose of the loan made by a consortium of 13 banks was to meet the millions of dollars in debts the brothers incurred when silver prices plummeted to about $10 an ounce last March after hav ing been above $50 an ounce. The loan to the Hunt-owned Placid Oil Co., which the Federal Reserve Board did not oppose, re quired the brothers to liquidate their silver holdings in an orderly fashion. Volcker’s statement was con tained in a letter to Reps. Henry Reuss, D-Wis., and Benjamin Rosenthal, D-N.J., who express ed concern last week that the Hunts had not disposed of their 131 “Execution stay denied by judge nflict, (e@s£( prevented 4 ild be e> :sen said, iassed tohetf i during the* ■ United Press International any of the'J ^TON ROUGE — Robert ,b\ tec%u S V >c Williams, Facing death in 3 been set j0l ii s * ana s electric chair next rveallregi vee ^’ to w > n a stay of execu- 6 ion in district court Tuesday and . oppose “ s P aw y ers are headed for the wroKM Sll Preme Court to try again, i. Unless he can win a stay from uws ‘ tale or federal courts, Williams Ohio sa ” r Je between midnight and 3 laid25pert: i Tuesday, one of two convicts . ,<entenced to death in Louisiana 5 prices. M l j r m Die same day. pjf he dies, Williams will be- He the first black man to be ex- Ked since the U.S. Supreme kmrt revived the death penalty in !|976. The last black executed was Km Mitchell, who died in San Juentin, April 12, 1967, the 11 d eyentolQp said ^ U j ii Sl^ge Frank Foil, who pres- md lookntjgj over Williams’ 1979 trial for he.murder of a Baton Rouge su- itly projj jermarket security guard, refused ^ity-ownedfuesday to grant a stay of execu te patrol''-j on an d consider a new trial, in one end' “The court was convinced after the other, he [trial and is still convinced that save the he | petitioner did receive effec- ngtheneedlye assistance by counsel,” Foil Towers, aid. am aprofi" Richard Shapiro of the Prison- ilk to ackers' Defense League and Wil- mayoradu jams lawyer, left Foil’s cour- t the ideal xooin shortly after the ruling and ruffi duriniieaded back to New Orleans to ited neighhisk the state Supreme Court for a aidweedsn'jtay of execution and a new trial, nlem'tefl The lawyer said Williams was =saroundldenied adequate legal defense its ate enduring the sentencing phase of his 1979 murder trial. 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