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Tuesday, February 16, 1982
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Crew of rig,
Soviet ship
lost in storm
United Press International
ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland —
Searchers gave up hope for 84 crew
members of a giant oil rig that sank in
the frigid North Atlantic and a Soviet
ship with 37 people aboard was re
ported sinking today from the same
storm-driven waves.
Shortly after the search for survi
vors of the Ocean Ranger drilling rig,
including 15 Americans, was sus
pended at dark Monday, the Mekanik
Tarasov sent a distress signal warning
it was about 65 miles east of the sunk
en rig and also could go under.
Canadian Coast Guard spokesman
Malcolm McLauchlin said from Hali
fax a small Danish fishing vessel and a
larger Russian fishing ship were
alongside and ready to remove the 37
crew members.
“She’s in the process of sinking,”
McLauchlin said, saying the crew of
the 4,262-ton Soviet container ship
had been waiting until the arrival of
the Fishing vessel before deciding to
abandon ship.
“The cargo shifted, probably due
to the storm,” placing the 400-foot
ship on a severe list, he said. “1 he
waves have abated somewhat,” he
said, but the wind was “still blowing at
roughly 35 knots, with probably 40-
foot seas.”
McLauchlin said, “There aren’t
any helicopters to send. All the crews
are too tired because they’ve been out
all day in the rescue efforts of the
Ocean Ranger,” Helicopter and air
plane crews, which planned to re
sume the hunt at the site of the rig
disaster at daybreak, saw only bodies,
half-sunken lifeboats and scattered
debris at the wreck site 195 miles
southeast of St. John’s.
Sharp contrasts
staff photo by Eileen Manton
Two students take a study break on the steps in the
lobby of Zachry Engineering Center, which form a
linear geometric pattern when viewed from the second
floor.
Senators meet
with guerrillas
eorganization
Directorate to merge into council
by Johna Jo Maurer
Battalion Staff
proposed reorganization of the
BC Council was well-received by
ncil members who approved it 14-
Monday night.
J Four vice presidents of programs
11 take on the combined responsibi-
I iesof present directorate programs
iordinators and the current council
te president of programs.
Those four vice presidents — re-
Jonsible for committee program
ing in the areas of education, cul-
|!re, entertainment and recreation —
(fd oversee activities of the 19 MSC
f/intnittees comprising the directo-
ne.
The council president will take on
le responsibility of the present vice
resident of programs in that he will
leet regularly with the four vice
residents of programs and the dire-
torate committee chairmen to dis-
|tss committee and project activities.
[Council response to the proposal
*as positive with the exception of
kirk Kelley, vice president of student
levelopment, who expressed concern
hat merely changing the organiza-
bnai chart will not necessarily solve
he inherent problems.
"Just by elevating titles, communi-
ation problems will not be solved,”
it said.
Kelley said he feels the council
ihould strive for more stability and
Jontinuity of organization and chang-
ng council structure every year is not
e most effective way to alleviate
'oblems. Council members im-
emented a major structural reorga
nization during the fall 1980
semester.
However, Kelley conceded that the
restructuring approved Monday
night may be the best approach to
increasing council’s efficiency.
Because the new structure essen
tially absorbs the directorate into the
present council structure, Paul
Fisher, vice president of operations,
suggested that the name of the MSC
Council be changed. Fisher’s motion
was referred to the constitution and
by-laws committee for further con
sideration.
Council President Doug Dedeker
said the reorganization proposal was
prompted by an evaluation of the re
lationships between the vice president
of programs and the program coordi
nators.
He said coordinators often were
bypassed in the communication link
between directorate committee chair
men and the vice president of prog
rams. The creation of four vice presi
dents will alleviate this, he said.
The misconception of the MSC
Council and Directorate as separate
entities will be alleviated, more flexi
bility in structure will be provided,
and the council president will be more
closely involved with programming,
Fisher said.
The reorganization approved by
council members is now subject to the
approval of both Dr. John J. Koldus
III, vice president for student ser
vices, and University President Frank
E. Vandiver. Dedeker said this pro
cess should be complete within a
week.
United Press International
MEXICO CITY — Two U.S. sena
tors' held talks with Salvadoran guer
rilla leaders in the Mexican capital
and a San Salvador businessman’s
group labeled their fact-finding mis
sion a political maneuver of interna
tional communism.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and
Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.L, told re
porters they met with the Salvadoran
guerrilla commanders Monday but
gave no details.
The guerrilla leaders, Salvador
Samayoa and Ana Guadalupe Mar
tinez, said they explained the rebels’
post-revolution plans in a 90-minute
meeting with the senators at their
Mexico City hotel.
“We told them the future revolu
tionary government would not be a
one-party system” and private busi
ness would continue in the country
after the revolution, Samayoa said.
Samayoa, a former minister of edu
cation, denied the guerrillas were re
ceiving Soviet-bloc arms and urged
the senators to ask President Reagan
to stop giving the junta arms “to ex
terminate the Salvadoran people.”
Samayoa, 31, is a commander of
the Marxist-dominated Popular
Liberation Front and Martinez is a
leader of the People’s Revolutionary
Army.
The senators met the guerrilla
commanders less than 24 hours after
returning from San Salvador, where
they clashed with Defense Minister
Jose Guillermo Garcia over allega
tions of massacres by Salvadoran
troops.
In San Salvador, the National Pri
vate Enterprise Association, El Salva
dor’s largest business group, Monday
called the senators’ fact-finding mis
sion a dangerous political maneuver.
Judges delay
filing deadline
photo by Todd Woodard
MSC Council president Doug Dedeker explains Cepheid
Variable’s budget to MSC Director Jim Reynolds and the rest
of the Council.
United Press International
AUSTIN — A three-judge panel,
blaming the Justice Department for a
second delay in the filing deadline in
16 congressional districts, has blocked
Texas congressional elections until
new boundaries are drawn.
The panel Monday enjoined the
state from conducting any congres
sional elections until the court has
drafted new boundaries for all 27 of
the state’s congressional districts.
The judges also postponed until
March 19 the filing deadline in 16
contested districts, marking the
second delay in the filing deadline.
“As a result of the delays occa
sioned by the office of the attorney
general of the United States, this
court finds it necessary, once again, to
postpone filing deadlines for pros
pective candidates for representative
to the United States Congress,” said
an order signed by Judge Sam
Johnson.
The panel last month postponed
the traditional Feb. 1 deadline to Feb.
22 for the 16 districts contested in a
suit challenging the Legislature’s re
districting plan.
The judges also ordered parties to
the redistricting suit to file by Friday
an agreement setting out any other
election deadlines that must be
changed because of the filing dead
line delav.
Clements to speak briefly
at Texas A&M Wednesday
Gov. William Clements, on the
ampaign trail in hopes of re-election,
I'ill be on campus Wednesday for a
•rief speech and question-and-
nswer session.
The governor will speak for 10
minutes starting at 10:30 a.m. in Rud
der Theater, said Sara Trim, state
programs chairman of the MSC Poli
tical Forum Committee, which is
ponsoring the event.
Clements will respond to students’
uestions for about 20 minutes after
e speech.
Trim said Clements must leave for
the airport by 11:20, and thus his
appearance will be brief.
She said Clements will be in town
Wednesday for a meeting of Texas
county judges. He will go from that
meeting to a short reception for about
10 Texas A&M student leaders.
Trim said the Republican gov
ernor’s recent speeches have been ab
out his administration — what he be
lieves it has accomplished and what it
is doing to solve problems such as
drug trafficking.
The Ross Volunteers, who serve as
the governor’s honor guard, will meet
Clements upon his arrival at Easter-
wood Airport at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Wheat farmers appeal to Court
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Sparked by a
drought in the Soviet Union, a mas
sive U.S. grain sale to the Soviets in
1972 is the focus of a sensational anti
trust case now confronting the Sup
reme Court.
The last-ditch appeal by wheat far
mers in three states involves charges
the nation’s largest grain exporters
conspired with a government official
to fix wheat prices in a way that
allowed them to buy low from far
mers and sell high to the Soviets.
The Texas, Oklahoma and New
Mexico farmers want the justices to
overturn lower court rulings that
threw out their suit against six grain
exporting firms and former Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture Clarence
Palmby.
The grain companies describe the
farmers' allegations as “fanciful
claims of conspiracy” unsupported by
investigations of “a half-dozen feder
al agencies and two congressional
committees.”
Targets of the suit are Continental
Grain Co., Cargill Inc., Louis Dreyfus
Corp., Cook Industries, Garnac
Grain Co. and jftunge Corp.
The controversy dates back to the
winter of 1972, when unusually dry
weather in the Soviet Union — fol
lowed by light rainfall the following
summer — caused a big shortage in
the Soviet wheat harvest. At the same
time, U.S. wheat farmers produced
record surplusses.
The farmers claim this prompted
Continental to conspire with Palmby
“to withhold and suppress from the
wheat market the true demand for
wheat.”
When the sales became public, far
mers Joe Zinser, John Spearman and
Edgar Cleveland filed class action
suits on behalf of wheat farmers-
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Today’s forecast: Sunny and warm
with a high near 80 becoming cool
er tonight with a low in the upper
40s. Wednesday’s forecast calls for
clear skies with a high in the low
80s.