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Local / State THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY JANUARY 1*. 11 Pag* 5 Water rights battle heats up l nrtrd Prc\v Inlernatmmat LAS CRUCES, N M — An El Paso utility executive has testified in federal court that the cheapest way Sor the city to obtain water (t»r its future needs is to hav e access to underground basins in neighbor ing New Mexico John Hickerson general mana ger of water utilities for the El Paso Public Sers ice Board, testi- Monday during the first dav of a hearing on the city’s suit against the state of New Mexico. El Paso, which seeks to gam aqcess to two underground liasins b^ overturning a New Mexkx) law piiohibiting ths* export of ground- water. was expected to end its case Tuesday. New Mexico officials have said their presentation will take about a week. A study of water sources avail able to the fast-growing Texas city showed that obtaining water rights in twro southern New Mex ico basins would be twice as cheap as any other source, Hickerson said. If the New Mexico law was up held, the city wpuld have to turn distances, he said. Another witness, lee Wilson, the head of the Sant* Fe, N M., firm that prepared the water sources report for El Riao, said the alternatives presented other prob lems besides cost Piping water for distances up to 150 miles in Texas involves right- of-way difficulties and an increase in energy requiremegts, Wilson ' said. The technology for desalini zation was not reliable, he said Under cross-examination. to such options as treating sewage Hickerson said the cily has wells and brackish water and importing ' drilled into both uudfoyuuud Texas water from much greater basins with the Texax border and said no new wells have been dril led in eithOT area far two years. He also said no wells were plan ned for a possible water source near Canutillo. El Paso has argu«*d that the New Mexico law against water exports is an unconstitutional barrier to interstate commerce, while New Mexico said the groundwater embargo is directly related to the welfare of the state s citizens No matter how US. District Judge Howard Bratton rules, the losing side is expected to appeal to a higher court Drug traffic focus (PPEitS of crime program sy-ra JJjiLd Texas drug traffickers make more than $5 billion in illegal pro- jits every year and must be stop ped, says the Crime Stoppers Advisory Cotgicil. The council, created by Gov. William Clements and the state legislature, was formed to assist local Crime Stoppers programs. I iky the one in Bra/us County, and to encourage citizens to provide erime information anonymously. Each month, the council plans to spotlight a certain type of (rime; for January, that crime is drug traf- ficking. The council says drugs are destroying Texans both voting and old and that the drug problem in Texas is almost out of control. The 1981 Texas legislature apiMrently agreed, and passed stiff new laws for the prosecution of drug dealers. It also established the statewide Crime Stoppers program in the Criminal Justice Division of the Governor’s Office to encourage citizen participation in crime control efforts. The Texas Crime Stoppers Council is paving cash rewards for information leading to the arrest and indictment of drug traffickers The council guarantees callers anonymity: citizens need not re veal their names hut will be given a unique code number for identiti- i at ion purposes. The council asks that anyone having information about major drug dealing call their toll-frccj number 1 -800-252-TI PS< A&M flu research to start ilbe flu season may be late this year, but it will come, says a Texas A^tM medical researcher preparing to test influenza treatments on 50 student volunteer* alter the spring seme iter liegins. Only 10 cases of flu had baen reported by the end of Decemlier in Houston, where the first evideme <if statewide outbreaks usually shoivs up. Dr Johq Quarles, a Texas A Ac M microbiologist, said the tardiness of flu season this year is unusual, but that it is rare when an entire year goes by without at least one heavy outbreak of the flu Quarles downplavtd the South’s previously mild winter — which quickly ended this week as some of the century ’s coldest w eather hit the nation — as a factor. Germs, not weather, cause illness, he said Researcher* with the Baylor College of Medicine Influenza Re search Center in Houston ami the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta suspect an outbreak of flu tins year may Ik* of the B-strain varietv, the mild form that causes lexer, cough aches and a runny nose However, other strains of A-type yiruses also might surface this year, researchers said Quarles said the Texas AAcM study, latest in a string of major ftu research projects carried out on campus, is prepared for almost any outbreak If the dominant flu ^irus this year is A-strain. student volunteers will test the drug amantadine in pill form If the virus is A or B, the scientists will test riluourin in a mist form in acontinuatioa of last year s successful trials against the Russian-A-strain If this year s flu is Atvirus only, researchers will do follow-up studies on as many as 4(X) of the f»40 students who received v act mes against the Bangkok ffu last year, Quarles said it is unusual in flu research to have swll a long-term follow-up with so many people, hut that the close-knit university atmosphere allowed iesearchers tn keep in touch with most of the volunteers from previous studies The amantadine and vaccine studies are funded by influenza re search grants from the National Institutes of Health, Quarles said The ribavirin project is funded by Viratek, the California drug company that made nitional headline's in November by announcing that ribaviBn administered as a mist could all hut cure a had case of flu within two days. V irgtek manufacturers the* drug under the* name brand Virazole The study noted thgt by the second day of treatment, ribav irin had significantly reduced lemperatures of randomly selected flu victims while temperatures 4mmg student volunteers in a control group remained higher. 1 • . - * i «. BEAT THE RUSH FOR USED BOOKS! pT V V Caperton seeks re-election bid in senatorial race State* Senator Kent A ('aper- Itou. D-Brvau. Ii.o announced lie canclidacv loi i< dciNion as tin Utat. scnatoi r< pr< s. nting tin I Kiftli Senatorial District of T« \ Caperton stressed his eflfcctive- |nc*ss in passing legislation and Ins coiiscrs aHv. voting record m area' of fix. al rcstiauit and limit ing the growth of Imrcaucfnc) as |reasons for Ih iiic m . I> . tixJ "During mv firs! campaign two Ivcars ago I li't< .1 < dm ati >u uni law enton > incut as the top two priorities on tin state s agenda Caperton said U lul« tin (iTtl, la-gislatun* did inueb to help in thesi n * as we still l.av c tar to go land I remain eommitted to tlw'se ;oals *, During his first term in the* Scn- |at. < a|Ma ton served on the Stati ]Affairs jcinsprudenee and Hu- Campus Names 0 F.C.A. Kuiii^e Dr E < \ I ^Hungc professor ami bead "t tin Departmrnl t oil and ( top StieiK-es at Texas \Ac\1 was appnnted to tlie State |Seed and I'lant Hoard for a tvv<* rc*ar term Ruiige. 47 was reap- otqt«*d to the Itoard His term •xtencls to Oct. 6. 198.1 |Kaii(iall I > \\ omi I)i Hamlall I ) W | . it. ■if hKK'ht'niistry and hiophvsic s at |r(*xas A&M I niversity lias focn [lesignated as tin Distinguished tientist of the Year tor m8l-S2. 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