The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 31, 1982, Image 8

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Even though we do not prescribe
diets, we make it possible for many to
enjoy a nutritious meal while they
follow their doctor's orders. You will
be delighted with the wide selection
of low calorie, sugar free and fat free
foods in the Souper Salad Area, Sbisa
Dining Center Basement.
OPEN
Monday through Friday 10:45 AM-1:45 PM
QUALITY FIRST
state
Drilling firm
must post bond
to recover rig
WEDNESDAY
United Press International
HOUSTON — Although
Zapata Corp. officials found it
curious and maddening, they
were ready this week to post two
$2.5 million bonds with the
Canadian government and tug
boat crews to free a drilling rig
seized under salvage laws.
The drilling firm’s represen
tative in Nova Scotia, Donald
Kerr of Halifax, had been au
thorized to post the Canadian
bank-guaranteed bonds late
Monday but a technical problem
prevented him from doing so at
that time.
Zapata officials and their
attorney termed it inept that
they were forced to post the
PUNK NIT€
Live Entertainment
by The Tymes
2 for one ’till 10 o’clock
DALLAS, the only club in town that gives
away over $3,000 cash a monthl
DALLAS NIGHT CLUB IN THE DEUX CHENE COMPLEX
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Glasses Repaired
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Mon.-Sat. 10-9 p.m.
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Children’s Easter
Wednesday March 31,1982
Doom 228 M(8C 7-8-30 p.m
Ages 4 and up
huge bonds to retrieve the 10-
story, $57.2 million jackup rig
Zapata Scotian.
A Halifax judge Friday au
thorized seizure of the rig,
which is on a barge moored in
Halifax Harbor alter eight tug
boats captured it floating free in
the harbor March 5.
Violent weather had broken
the rig’s moorings and govern
ment tugs captured it. Under in
ternational law, governments or
companies can file for compen
sation but Zapata officials said it
was rarely done.
The rig was to leave as sche
duled Friday but a lawyer for the
Canadian Department of Natu
ral Defense had it stopped
under a salvage claim. Zapata
said the lawyer would not accept
the company’s letter of guaran
tee from its insurance under
writer.
Kerr said the expenses of the
eight tug boats that retrived the
barge and of the harbor master
could not possibly come to more
than $40,()()(). He called the re
quirements of higher bonds “ex
cessive stupidity and inepti
tude.”
Zapata Offshore Co. Presi
dent Thomas McIntosh was un
happy the rig was falling behind
schedule.
“It’s tantamount to the U.S.
Navy or the Coast Guard claim
ing a salvage award,” McIntosh
said.
Zapata officials are particu
larly miffed that the salvage
award is being claimed on a rig,
which is not a vessel.
“All we have is the cargo on
the barge. We are the cargo on
another company’s barge,”
Zapata spokesman Joe Allen
said. “ Our contention is the\
can’t claim the cargo, loo."
The two $2.5 million bonds
sought in the salvage claim by
the government is based on a
percentage of the value as dic
tated by maritime law.
The matter will probably be
settled in a Canadian federal
court.
Reach!
staff photo by Eileen Manton
Mechanical engineering junior while helping to keep the MSC
Ruben M. Santiago from Ponce, looking good. Santiago works for
Puerto Rico, gets a good stretch MSC Social Services.
UNIVERSITY
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CHAPEL
SOME PEOPLE PREFER TO HIDE
THEIR HEADS IN THE SAND AND
PRETEND THAT THINGS ARE ALL
RIGHT AS THEY ARE WE ARE NOT
FOR PEOPLE LIKE TMAT1
But rf you know that things are not as they
should be if you would like to catch a
new vision of what can be if you want
to hold your head high and look to the
heavens
WE ARE FOR YOU!
WORSHIP SERVICES AT 9:15 AM. AND 10:45 A.M.
WORSHIP STUDY AT 7 P.M.
CANDLELIGHT COMMUNION SERVICE WEDNESDAY AT 10 P.M.
31S N College Main - 846^637
Hubert Been Pastor
FDA names Texan
drug bureau director
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A native
Texan has been named director
of the Federal Food and Drug
Administration’s Bureau of
Drugs.
Dr. Harry Meyer Jr., 53, a
Palestine native, was named to
the post by FDA Commissioner
Dr. Arthur Hull.
The Bureau of Drugs is one
of six FDA bureaus. Meyer will
oversee FDA approval of new
drugs for marketing and will
maintain regulatory controls
over distribution of drugs
already available.
Meyer received his bachelor’s
degree from Hendrix College in
Conway in 1949 and his doctor’s
degree from the University of
Arkansas Medical School at Lit
tle Rock in 1953.
Upon graduation, he joined
the Army as an intern. In Febru
ary 1954, he worked in thedim
at the Walter Reed Army Hi*
pitafs Research Institute n
Washington and later becam
chief of the virus diagnostics
sion, where he gained recogr.:
tion for isolating an Asian in
fluenza strain.
He joined die National Instt
tme ol Health’s Division d
Biologic Standards in BethestU
Md., in 1959 and his micl-l%i‘
work at the Arkansas Children
Colony led to development i
the prototype measles am
rubella vaccine now used toim
munize children against thedis
eases.
In 1964, Meyer becamediK
of the Laboratory of Viral In
munology in the NIH. He tx
came associated with the FD.
w hen it took over the laborator
in 1972.
3RD ANNUAL TEXAS A&M
INDEPENDENT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
two nights of film and video
by independent film makers
MARCH 31
APRIL 7
Apfil 7 features Aden Coulter, film maker of Hobb's Case
7:00 to 10:00 pm
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