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MADRID — An Iberia Airlines
chfromat; ?27 taking off Wednesday on
n which kiJWg-shrouded runway slammed into
Mercedes which crossed in front of it,
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d crashedIm ^°pi e ‘ n Madrid’s second jet disaster
ie. 10 days.
ely, the car: I.Authorities said the smaller Aviaco
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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,
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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.
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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.”
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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