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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1983)
Wednesday, November 16,1983/The Battalion/Page 13 by Paul Dirmeyer MSPEAKlNG-To VICTOR 'TYKE'eulti(r-mARD RES IDENT. \*M!5ITUt£BEIN(r A PKESH/WJIAI HoTARD? WELT, I «feS ITS NDTToO HAD. THE OCDSK 6DY5im ToKIDAmiJJDAmT. j MlNSTANCE. VlEU-, THEY fVT.SHAVINU- CKEAfl VHSER NY OCOK AND HIDE AY bW AND BQMrlMrS AUDT.BUl i Think-muteme. DIDL TBl- YaJ HOWTH& HUM Mb FRon m WATER Pirns BY /lYTHMBS? ^/Ell PBVM af- m ms comeRON. 2nd batch arrives at London Planes bring cruise missiles United Press International mdonK said, been ii survive msandi days if' Mike Davis, Battalion staff Stacks for the stack Rows and rows of wood wait to be wired onto the bonfire stack as Push Week continues. Work is being done around the clock until the stack is completed. Bonfire is scheduled for Nov. 25. vases 8 allowifl e bom! miliian nmeis the aid rity vingtkt J.S.aid Use of refunds debated udrei! ted nteaji ere® alien. i silvfl iayinai 78 and caseu tjudji ie wai ” and of cif United Press International ; AUSTIN — : A formula that would allocate to customers $41 million in fuel overcharges col lected by Gulf States Utilities Co. was recommended to the Public Utility Commission by Texas’ consumer counsel. But the Beaumont-based electric utility has asked the PUC for authority to invest the money in a coal-fired generating plant now under construction in Louisiana. GSU recovered the money from the company’s fuel sup plier, United Gas Pipeline Co., in a lawsuit over natural gas sup plied to two generating plants in Louisiana. A PUC hearing examiner will hear evidence on the distribu tion of the award in January. Public Counsel Jim Boyle said his office intervened because of a concern that large industrial users would collect up to 80 per cent of the money if the PUC bases refunds on a 10-year usage plan. Boyle said it would be unfair for industrial customers to re ceive any of the refund because they have already passed on the overcharge costs to their cus tomers. The plan submitted by Boyle’s office calls for $5 million to be set aside for such energy conservation investments as weatherization, rebates to buyers of efficient appliances and loans for insulating homes. “Our energy conservation plan will put $5 million to work in lowering everyone’s electric bill — money which might otherwise have predominantly enriched the profits of large in dustrial customers,” Boyle said. The remaining $36 million would be distributed by direct cash refunds to various classes of consumers, with current re sidential customers getting a uniform amount. GSU, which serves more than 500,000 customers in East and Southeast Texas, has also asked the PUC for permission to take a $1.8 million cut from the award for legal fees. But Boyle said the company’s rate base already makes an allo wance for legal fees. LONDON — Giant American transport planes apparently car rying a second batch of cruise missiles and possibly nuclear warheads landed Tuesday, sparking protests and the arrests of 125 women. In another out burst, red paint was sprayed in the British defense minister’s face. The women were arrested at Greenham Common airbase west of London where the mis siles were arriving after they blockaded the main gate in a chanting, singing demonstra tion. As they stopped traffic, a U.S. C-5a Galaxy and a C-141 Starlif- ter landed on a runway guarded by paratroopers and a vehicle- mounted gun. Reporters at the scene said six or eight long crates were wheeled toward the missile stor age silos and other cylinders, thought to be the warheads, also were unloaded from the planes. Describing the cylinders a BBC television reporter said, “It is thought they are the nuclear warheads.” Cruise and Per shing-2 missiles are scheduled to be deployed by NATO in Bri tain, West Germany, Nether lands, Belgium and Italy to counter Soviet missiles. The defense ministry refused to comment on the contents of the planes. Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine, who announced Monday’s arrival of the first cruise missiles, was sprayed with red paint by an anti-nuclear de monstrator at Manchester Uni versity in northern England. Heseltine looked shaken as police hustled him through an angry crowd of some 200 heck lers, many shouting “out, out, out,” in front of the student un ion where the minister gave a speech. As Heseltine left, two eggs were thrown at him. A Starlifter landed Monday at Greenham Common and Heseltine told Parliament it car ried the first new cruise missiles for Britain. But he said he would be making no further arrival announcements. In Parliament Tuesday, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told opposition Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock he was talking “absolute rubbish” when he accused her of being a lackey to the United States. The Greenham Common “peace camp” women, whose numbers have swelled consider ably since Monday, sang and chanted as they tied themselves to the base gates with strands of wool. They held up traffic for nearly an hour. About 40 police men dragged them away. At the nuclear submarine base at Faslane, Scotland, 230 miles northwest of London, three men scaled the radio com- municatins tower and stayed aloft for six hours before com ing down, a defense ministry spokeswoman said. 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