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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.”
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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.
Moffett said the administra
tion’s revised Clean Air Act,
backed by the EPA, ends any
hope of progress towards clean
air in our congested cities; it re
peals enforcement authority; it
threatens air quality in national
parks and wilderness areas; and
it doesn’t even mention the acid
rain problem.
“This so-called ‘compromise’
is really a ‘dirty air' bill,” Moffett
siad. “It is the air pollution
equivalent of the New Federal
ism, leaving the states with lots
of new responsibilities while de
priving them of the tools they
need.”
Moffett said he is not against
re-examining the clean air law
“and making what may be:
needed revisions.” The prob
lem, he said, is that the adminis
tration and others in Congress
“are determined to gut the bill
beyond recognition.”
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