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national Battalion/Page 11 February 15, 1982 Chinese woman inay be tallest: 7 feet 11V2 inches United Press International PEKING — China News Service said Saturday it had the tallest living female in the world, a 7-foot-11 Vz-inch woman of 17. The news service said Zhen Hinliang of Hunan Province developed exceptionally fast as a baby, eating a bowl of por ridge at each meal in her first few months in addition to her mother’s milk. By the time she was 18 months old, she displayed ex traordinarily great strength and was able to lift a 120- pound bag of cement, the news service said. At school, her intellectual abilities were rated normal but she naturally liked sports such as basketball, the report said. Now just a half-inch short of eight feet, she weighs 290 pounds, experiences pain in both feet and has difficulty walking. A provincial hospital diag nosed her as suffering from giantism and diabetes. The Guinness Book of Re cords says the tallest living woman is Sandy Allen of Niagara Falls, Canada, who measured 7 feet 7‘A inches when last measured. According to Guinness, the tallest woman in medical his tory was Jane Bunford of En gland who measured 7 feet 7 inches, but would have mea sured 7 feet 11 inches were it not for severe curvature of the spine. Official: Clean Air Act gets dirty deal United Press International WASHINGTON — Rep. Toby Moffett, (D)-Conn., charged Saturday the adminis tration’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year aims to kill the Clean Air Act by severely cutting appropriations for the Environmental Protection Agency. Moffett, in a statement re leased by his office, said the agency’s budget figures for fis cal 1983 translate into an attempt by (EPA Administrator) Anne Gorsuch to heap new re sponsibilities on the individual states while simultaneously de nying those states the resources necessary to carry out the man dates. “It amounts to yet another attempt by the administraation to gut the Clean Air Act,” the statement said. Moffett, chairman of a House Government Operations en vironmental subcommittee, also released a letter dated last Octo ber from James Hambright, then president of the State and Territorial Air Pollution Prog- mericans chided lor bearing arms I United Press International ■WASHINGTON — A team of ■S. Army soldiers was disci plined Saturday for carrying automatic rifles while on a bridge-repair mission in El Sal vador’s bush territory, and the officer who led the unit was ofdered out of the country, the White House says. ■ President Reagan called for a fill report Friday on why several Biencan soldiers, in civilian ■thes, were carrying pistols and M-16 rifles at the site of a bridge that had been blown up iblguerrillas. The men and their jwlapons had been videotaped I a television crew from the Cable News Network. ■ InSan Salvador, U.S. Ambas- sador Deane Hinton said Satur day that Lt. Col. Harry Melan- Hr, a military attache at the Kerican Embassy, would leave ■ Salvador within a week. An undetermined number of other (Jlicers involved in the incident d been given verbal repri- fands, the ambassador said. Melander was not a part of the 50 U.S. military advisers assigned to El Salvador. Hinton |told reporters the officer was armed because he was con- ■bned for his own safety. ■A State Department directive Bibids the carrying of weapons larger than pistols by American ilvisory troops in El Salvador and also orders the soldiers not tpventure into dangerous areas. Hit was the first admission that the troops involved in the inci dent were part of the embassy military staff. ■“The U.S. Embassy in El Sal vador in coordination with the D01) (Department of Defense) has investigated allegations that U.S. military personnel ex ceeded current local guidelines on the carrying of weapons,” the White House press office said Saturday. ■“Our policy in this area autho- jffzes the carrying of sidearms only. “The investigation has deter mined that this policy was ex ceeded by some of the members of a U.S. military technical team, which was engaged in a training program at a bridge construc tion site. “The assignment to El Salva dor of the senior member of the technical team has been cur tailed and he will leave the coun try shortly. Other members of the team who had exceeded the guidelines have been admo nished.” The incident drew immediate reaction from Capitol Hill. Sen. Paul Tsongas,(D)-Mass., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said when Congress reconvenes Feb. 22, he will ask for a report on Amer ican military activities in the troubled Central American country. Sen. Larry Pressler, (R)-S.D., said in an interview with Cable News Network: “We’re in a situation that we’re on the verge of being inyplved militarily, be cause il one of these advisers with an M-16 should be fired upon and fired back, then you’d have U.S. ground involvement.” SHRIMP DINNER *545 “STEAK ’N PEEL” $300 Specials Good After 5 p.m. Monday-Thursday Only Don’t Forget Happy Hour All Day Eveiy Day! We LOADING ZONE of Aggieland AGGIE OWNED & OPERATED 404 University Drive in University Center OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 693-8869 ram Administrators. “EPA’s inexplicable rush to cut its own throat will do the same to us,” Hambright wrote. State programs need the tech nical support that EPA has pro vided and federal enforcement powers to ensure compliance, the letter said. 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