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state Battalion/Page 6 November 19,1982 83 drug indictments returned United Press International BELTON — Law enforce ment officials are seeking peo ple indicted by a Bell County grand jury on various drug- related charges, authorities said. The Bell County grand jury Wednesday returned 80 sealed indictments and the Lampasas County grand jury returned three others against 43 defen dants, charged in drug transac tions believed to be valued at more than $85,000, authorities said. About 70 law enforcement officers began making arrests Wednesday afternoon. Author ities said most of the drug cases were unrelated. The bust, believed to be the largest in the history of Bell County, was the result of a three-month undercover inves tigation headed by the Belton Police Department, authorities said. Company plans guilty plea in Pemex bribery charge wat Sensational PM. Dressing... in Oiana* Drysilk. 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Bill Greenhill said Wednesday, quoting a company statement. “International Harvester ex pects to enter a plea of guilty to a one-count charge of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in the federal court in Houston,” Greenhill said. “The maximum penalty for this offense is a $10,000 fine. The company was negotiat ing with the Justice Department on the matter to avoid the finan cial demands of an extended period of litigation, spokesman “The documents to be sub mitted by the Justice Depart ment will include a statement that there was no evidence offic ers, directors or management of IH were aware of, or partici pated in, the conspiracy,” he said. In a criminal information charge filed Wednesday, the U.S. government claimed Solar Turbines International took part in a conspiracy to bribe offi cials of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) — the government- owned Mexican oil monopoly — to obtain Pemex purchase orders for turbine compression systems. ployees of Solar TurbinestjBj involved in the alleged Oil United Press i spiracy. P*LONGVIEW )ohn Russell, a U.S..]usi)M te ^ e P’ Department spokesman W ovec ' back to W ashington, said the 1,1 against Ill stemmedln)niaii®. ar J 118 Iiame vestigation which resulted ep is() d e that en< charges against threeotheriiJr ta ' ee ''. panics last month. ^ att . in ’ 1 A 49-count indictmentHH me< lom ■ - -«use he was nc The charges allege the bribes were made between December 1977 and May 1980. Greenhill said IH sold the San Diego- based Solar Turbines Co. to Caterpillar in 1981. Greenhill said lower-level em- last month charged Cram. , , Enterprises of Houston.®, w u anted tc board chairman and and seven other men witKlfQ’ iy Q ’ spit acv to pay $9.9 m,il,oJ ou ". ded inAL I I I) ,- r ■, • ■ His cousin, bribes to Pemex otticiaumnM,, rr - ■ , , . , i told olhcials he lucra,lve “““jMartm'sreques Colby says better days ahead U.S.-Soviet chill seen United Press International HOUSTON — Former Cen tral Intelligence Agency Dire ctor William E. Colby’s forecast is chillier short-term relations with the Soviet Union because of the new leadership in Moscow. Yuri Andropov succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as Communist Party chief after Brezhnev died last week. “I think we are in for a period of heightening of rhetoric,” Col by told a luncheon Wednesday. “1 think we are in for, in the short term at least, an increase in the degree of tensions betweeen our two countries.” Colby, now a Washington lawyer and international busi ness consultant, said his long- run outlook is different. He ex pects continued mutual accom modation to reduce the risk of a nuclear confrontation. “Our leadership is exactly the kind that can reach out to a hos tile leadership,” Colby said, sug gesting President Reagan like President Nixon would be in a strong position to deal with a Communist country. Colby said “I think this is a dangerous world but it is also the kind that will push both sides” toward reaching some limited accommodation. On another subject, Colby said the arms-smuggling convic tion of renegade ex-CIA agent Edwin Wilson in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday was the desir able course of justice and not a blot on the agency. “The CIA has had literally thousands of people go through it over the years,” Colby said. “It has had a few bad apples. When someone transgresses American law, he is prosecuted. That’s what happened to Mr. Wilson. “But I don’t think we con demn (the institution) for the ac tions of a few bad apples.” Colby addressed the Cham ber of Commerce International Business and Governmental Re laiions Council under iliecl "International Political VLUXS 1 *—*8 ,sm - Threats and Defe B » cia i s withtvv , c He suggested that Amc.| (e y SiContinu companies need to do moitf Wednesd gather public support lers and a phots’ c. ease i heir security agamsi L a joint ^ ronst attacks. A Pacific Sout A company m a situatiB : > faced with the existence oil* Unions repi rorists must have a coiwltti ndants and cl program, not only of findiigtMeed to term about threats and havings fept ration. How in, but also development Wives of the mt public support,” Colby said poleft the barg “In this way, the svmpaii.lfontlay, had n of the people can be for lip talks, organization, for the c? Jfl oward ^ rather than for the terrorr: |h e boardoftl Texan dies capping well BRID€ O FORfnOL 1208 San Jacinto • Houston • 652-0861 14 Area Locations Houston • Pasadena • Baytown • Port Arthur • Bryan/College Station •Duponjt (.ert if Ration mark for fahriis meeting its standards United Press International LODGEPOLE, Alberta — Amoco Canada officials are puz zled as to why a routine opera tion to cap a well seeping hyd rogen sulphide gas turned into a death trap that killed one mem ber of a Texas crew and left another critically ill. “We’re genuinely mystified,” Amoco Canada Petroleum Co. Ltd. spokesman Don Smith said Wednesday. “We’re not attemp ting to hide anything. We just don’t know the answer.” While provincial government officials spent the day investigat ing the cause of the accident, Joe Bowden, president of Wild Well Control Inc. of Spring, said his expert crew would continue cap ping efforts today. “The mystery (of what caused the accident) is troublesome, but we still have faith in Mr. Bow den’s ability to cap the well,” Smith said. The accident occurred Tues day afternoon as workers were trying to cap the well, about 110 kilometers southwest of Edmon ton. Bryon Lee of Spring was killed in the accident. Lee, in his mid-30s, was originally from Book Clio, Ala. Rafuse “Irwin” Hoke was listed in critical but stable condi tion at University Hospital in Edmonton. Smith said three workers equipped with face masks were lowering a blowout preventer — a device with large steel rams de signed to choke off a wild well — onto the well when the accident occurred. When the preventer was ab out two feet above the well, Smith said, gas began to steam horizontally out the side of the well at an estimated 3,000 pounds per square inch. It was believed the force of the gas may have knocked the masks from at least two workers, including Lee, who later died. “The first warning we had (of trouble) was when an Amoco person noticed Lee coming out of the cloud of gas without a mask,” Smith said. “What’s so perplexing,” he added, “is that this (escaping gas) was expected. The crew and our own people were fully aware it would happen. It’s a short term phenomenon.” The other workers crawled or stumbled away from the well site and were given oxygen to coun- leract the effects ol the hyi rogen sulphide, he said. Wild Well official John B)| ton said he was uncertailft| caused the accident. "1 believe the hydrogensJj phide overcame the vvorkl! and they collapsed,” he sffl “From what I undeistand,fel fumes paralyze the lungs*! workers black out.” Barton said the 5-veatm company had lost an emplo»| in June while servicing a well | i he 10,000-foot-deep t> | ploratory gits well blew out>I control Oct. 17 and aiffl capping team was called I; shortly af terward. But thesitt! 12()-foot-tall drill ngcaughtfcl Nov. 1, delaying the ire»l efforts to cap the well. jt<l flames were extinguished i| week later. , Meanwhile, world-renpfflp I well-tamer Red Adair saidl«l was willing to fly to Lodgepz I and “kill the monster.” Adair was hired by AmoCbcl 1977 to solve a spectacular! out and fire in the Lodgepo! area. Calgary-based Amoco is • wholly owned subsidiary ( ! Standard Oil Co. of Indiana Clearance STACK A FOOT OF BOOKS AND THEY ARE YOURS FOR ONLY $000 Choose from over 1,500 titles at our sales table Now in Progress At x — HEY RACERS! 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