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'd )0n U P , of a "refuse r of such Ve learned; mmmm Texas A8cM The Serving the University community ;Vol 78 No. 69 USPS 0453110 12 pages College Station, Texas Thursday, December 8,1983 &no i • • i i die m plane crash itimonalolj I )abilitiej of 1 ocheofA® United Press international 39, director of the Singer Co. in Spain Spain, was on the Aviaco jet and be- pulled bodies and the e walked), MADRID — An Iberia Airlines and his wife, Sydney — were aboard lieved dead, airline officials said. the wreckage United Press International MADRID — An Iberia Airlines chfromat; ?27 taking off Wednesday on n which kiJWg-shrouded runway slammed into Mercedes which crossed in front of it, i road oils; ling the jets ablaze and killing 92 d crashedIm ^°pi e ‘ n Madrid’s second jet disaster ie. 10 days. ely, the car: I.Authorities said the smaller Aviaco onthedriij ^ Ines j el was preparing to take off whowasap a domestic flight when it apparent- :red abrot B an dered, blinded by the fog, onto ie wrong section of the runway, rant tosatf P" ai d os Espinosa, president of the teful than, f 0 state-owned Spanish airlines, said time and dj jr ^ P ew P* e 0,1 the DC-9 were killed bag," sai- F fiteria said in a communique that wuldlile Idfthe people on Flight 350 to it put those F"'' died. One unidentified man car.” 1 reported in critical condition. i* e Iberia jet’s pilot, Juan Carlos Ijope/. Barranco, crawled from the I V damaged cockpit, helped out two Her survivors and shouted repe- lly, “The runway was mine.” "wo Americans — Thomas Goltz, rs 39, director of the Singer Co. in Spain and his wife, Sydney — were aboard the Iberia 727. “We felt a terrible, terrible im pact,” said Mrs. Goltz, 32. “I was screaming ‘Oh God, Oh God.’” She said she and her husband, of Berkeley, Calif, were sitting by the rear emergency door and managed to kick it open after the plane swerved from the impact of the crash. “Then we ran and ran blindly,” she said. “You couldn’t see 10 feet in front of you. We heard dull thumps of ex plosions and people yelling and we looked back and saw the flames.” Among the passengers aboard the Iberiajet were Spaniards, Italians and about 40 Japanese tourists going to Rome, including several honeymoon couples. Mexican actress Fanny Cano also was aboard the Iberiajet and feared dead. South African pianist Marc Raubenheimer, on a concert lour of Spain, was on the Aviaco jet and be lieved dead, airline officials said. King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia decided to cut short their private visit to the United States and return to Spain after hearing of the accident. Osnat Berkovich, 32, of Israel, sur vived the crash apparently unscathed, running from the burning Iberiajet with about 20 other people. “It was like a movie — it wasn’t real,” she said. “I heard cries of‘Help me, help me, I’m dying.’ But we couldn’t do anything.” The morning crash came just 10 days after a Colombian Boeing 747 crashed into a field less than a mile from Madrid’s Barajas airport run way, killing 181 of 192 people aboard. Fog at the collision site — a grue some scene of charred flesh, smolder ing fuselage and strewn luggage — was so thick that one plane’s wreckage could not be seen from the other. Mi nutes after the accident, the planes were burning, and rescue workers pulled bodies and the injured from the wreckage. “I pulled out one body and half of its skin came off on my hands,” said one of the scores of rescue workers at the scene. The corpses were laid on the tar mac and covered with blankets, and a priest administered last rites. Authorities estimated it would be days before the identity of all the vic tims would be known. Espinosa said when the crash occurred, visibility was 330 yards, 110 yards beyond the minimum. The air port was closed to incoming flights at the time. International aviation officials said the airport was not equipped with ground radar control that could have prevented the accident. Airport offi cials refused comment. Final exams schedule Final exams will be held accord ing to the following schedule: Monday: Class meeting Exam time MWF 8 a.m. 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. MWF 1 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. TTh 8 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. MW 5 p.m., 5:15 p.m. or 5:30 p.m. 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday: MWF 9 a.m. 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. MWF 2 p.m. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. TTh 9:30 a.m. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. TTh 5 p.m., 5:15 p.m. or 5:30 p.m. 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday: MWF 10 a.m. 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. MWF 3 p.m. or MW 3 p.m. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. TTh 11 a.m. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. TTh 3:30 p.m. 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday: MWF 11 a.m. 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. TTh 2 p.m. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. TTh 12:30 p.m. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. MWF 12 p.m. 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday: MWF 4 p.m., MW 4 p.m. or MW 4:30 p.m. 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. inkacci I outbyan ree monti lepartnwil iciaimed a claimed b| ' ownenl mes (lief an accoumlj e, somei rong, and | n’t even 1 - e,” RicMl unusual 1 estigators« not knowll inherit,si usual for tl aer throujll office I translait 'en Greek.’ I age amooij :ount I the larratJ 37,0"^ o woman, require thf J lancialini firms, i id other A iaimedorfl he state! Graduation shorter, features one speaker Who’s Who? John Makely, Battalion staff a mudsfinging fight at the Hail of Fame ednesday night are Susan Judge, Teri Inish, P.J. Kellog, and Susan Patterson all little sisters for Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, versus Reagan Rorshach. This was the third of several bouts scheduled in the inter-sorority competition sponsored by ATO. by Leslie Yoder and Stephanie Ross Battalion Reporter Commencement ceremonies for nearly 2,340 graduates and the com missioning of 44 cadets will be this weekend in G. Rollie White Coliseum. In order to make the ceremonies shorter, a main speaker will appear only at one of the ceremonies, Presi dent Frank E. Vandiver said. The speaker has not yet been chosen. In the past, speakers have appeared at all of the ceremonies, and their speeches lengthened the cere mony considerably. Vandiver said that eliminating speakers is one way of experimenting to ntake the cere monies shorter, and that in the future other parts of the ceremony may be changed. Vandiver, H.R. “Bum” Bright, chairman of the Texas A&M Board of Regents, and A. W. Davis, president of the Association of Former Students will also speak briefly at the com mencement exercises. All graduate degree candidates and undergraduate candidates in the colleges of agriculture, architecture, business and geosciences will receive their diplomas at 7:30 p.m. Friday. At 9 a .m. Saturday, undergraduate degree candidates in the colleges of education, engineering, liberal arts, science, veterinary medicine and can didates from Texas A&M at Galves ton will receive their diplomas. The Geosciences and Earth Re- Eliminating speakers is one way of ex perimenting to make the ceremonies shor ter. In the future other parts of the ceremony may be changed. sources Achievement Medal will be awarded to Robert H. Allen during the Friday ceremony. Edwin H. Cooper, dean of admis sions and records, said the graduate program, anti the colleges of agricul ture, architecture, business and geos ciences have the largest number of eligible candidates for the upcoming commencement totaling 1,262. The colleges of education, en gineering, liberal arts, science, veter inary medicine and Texas A&M- Galveston have 1,082 eligible candi dates. Thirty-six cadets will be commis sioned as second lieutenants and eight cadets will be commissioned as en signs into the U.S. Armed Forces at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Twenty cadets will be commis sioned into the Air Force; five into the Army; 11 into the Marine Corps and eight into the Navy. Lt. Gen. Herman O. Thomson of the Air Force will be the special guest and commissioning officer at the ceremony. The Doherty Award, a $3,000 check and a plaque, given each year to a cadet who has accepted a contract and who has an outstanding record in academics and leadership, will be pre sented at the commissioning cere mony. huttle to bring spacelab back to Earth IEAI: United Press International EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE — six men aboard the shuttle Col- bia Wednesday finished their ex- Bments, packed up Spacelab and pared to return home today with ^priceless product of 10 days and 4 llion miles in orbit. dentists on the ground eagerly j^ited the film, recorded data tape, er crystal samples, unique alloys, jten blood samples and other ex- riment results returning in the biting laboratory anchored in Col- bia’s cargo bay. “The excitement has just begun,” said mission scientist Charles Chap pell in mission control in Houston. “You have to feel overwhelmed about the enormity of accomplishment this mission represents.” Pilots John Young and Brewster Shaw and scientist-astronauts Owen Garriott, Robert Parker, Ulf Merbold and Byron Lichtenberg were tired but exuberant from America’s longest manned space flight since Skylab flew in 1974. n g a.m. and the weather forecast had im proved significantly over earlier pre dictions. The latest word from Air Force weather forecasters called for mostly fair skies with variable high cloudiness. “Shoot, that sounds great to me,” Shaw said when informed the weath er was better than expected. The four scientists aboard the crew must spend a week at Edwards under going a variety of tests to monitor their re-adaptation to gravity. Young and Shaw planned to fly back to their homes in Houston later Thursday. The 33,252-pound Spacelab gave Columbia a record landing weight of 220,425 pounds — 5 tons heavier than the previous record. This extra weight required a shallower than usual gliding approach to the broad landing strip. The astronauts started receiving congratulations from ground control lers when their ship swept into the start of its 10th day in orbit — an extra day added to the mission because of a surplus of oxygen and hydrogen for its fuel cell generators. “You guys have done a tremendous job,” said Bill Fisher, a doctor sche duled to fly next December.”! know you’re working hard and looking for ward to getting a little rest. But you certainly have done a super mission.” “Things started off a little rocky in certain ways, but it’s gotten better and better every day and we’re certainly pleased with how things have gone up here,” said Garriott, who spent 59 days in orbit aboard Skylab in 1973. Spacelab in 10 days has gathered 50 times the information radioed back from Skylab during 24 weeks of man ned operations, Chappell said. “There is a tremendous amount of science that will come off this mission and this is just the first of what will be a long series of missions Spacelab will fly,” he said. “We’ve watched a smooth opera tion of a very comprehensive payload. We’ve done science around the clock, around the world. That had never been done before.” 3 everti Senior rin g s U l J have arrived ggie senior rings which were ordered during the second sum- fner session are in. They can be picked up in the Pavilion from ISgpy | a rr i- to 4 p.m. Inesdaf 00 PI ; includ’ (Ithif inside l|||l |k oun d town 7 iHHi Classified 10 .Bryan Jf cal 3 ge station r 110 " 8 2 “D 3 ' 1 late 4 llhat’s up 10 ement efifiif A&M professor receives second major national scientific award for this year by Chris Cox Battalion Reporter Dr. F. Albert Cotton, a Texas A&M professor, was presented his second major national scientific award of the year Wednesday night from the New York Academy of Sci ences. Cotton received the 1983 Award in Mathematical and Physical Scien ces at the annual national meeting of the academy at the World Trade Center in New York City. Cotton, the Robert A. Welsh Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M, was the first recipient from the state of Texas. The award was given for his con tributions for fundamental research in structural and inorganic chemis try. The prestigious academy of sci ences grants one award a year to a physicist, mathematician, chemist or astronomer. In May, Cotton received the Na- tional Medal of Science from Presi- dent Reagan. The 53-year-old pro fessor became the first member of Texas A&M’s faculty to win a Na tional Medal of Science while on the faculty. The award was also for Cot ton’s work in the field of inorganic chemistry. More than 700 scientific papers on inorganic chemistry bear Cot ton’s name- half of them written since he came to Texas A&M from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology in 1972. He has written several textbooks on the subject that have been trans lated into 15 languages. His best- known text is “Advanced Inorganic Chemistry,” which he co-wrote in 1962. The “Institute for Scientific In formation” compiled a list in 1977 of the 250 most-cited primary authors for the fifteen-year period 1961- 1975. Of these 250 most-cited au thors, in all fields of science, there were only sixteen who had over 10,000 citations, and included in this top list, in position number nine, was Cotton, with 12,901. Among these 16 in 1977, Cotton, then 47, was the youngest. The average age of the other 15 was 69. Larry Falvello, staff scientist in the chemistry department, says Cot ton is a dynamic person with an en cyclopedic knowledge of chemistry. Falvello said he knew of Cotton’s work before he had actually met him. And, he said. Cotton is really a pacesetter. Carlos Murillo, a visiting profes sor from Costa Rica, says Cotton has special qualities he has not see in many professors. He says he is quite different from the professors in Costa Rica. Cotton was named to the Nation al Academy of Science in 1967. He also belongs to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. F. Albert Cotton