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Monday, January 23, 1984/The Battalion/Page 7 Congress convenes today, election-year issues top list Unwtt. 11 g team ■hen in- crash o[ t ouu( <hJ neai icdovei own an , indud >or Ken hurt in ote area 'ington. rom the said the down a ; to rest : fence, of Poft 1. Kesty re., sus- injuries, g lOvar.j assistant \ td match ate Uni- • It was ach Dean d minoi fO! to raise ik! been prts-| board siK wants toht is family as j ciate profcj tree at Texi! United Press International WASHINGTON — Con gress returns From a two- month recess today to deal with election-year issues rang ing from U.S. troops in Leba non to the Equal Rights Amendment. The second session of the 98th Congress convenes at noon with the Senate taking up a bill to block a $2-a-month access charge for long dis tance phone users. The House was to adjourn immediately for the day in re spect for Rep. Clement Zab- locki, D-Wis., who died during the recess. President Reagan will give his State of the Union address Wednesday, and his fiscal 1985 budget will reach Capitol Hill on Jan. 31. A major Reagan request, the power to veto individual items in spending bills, is expected to be turned down. Generally, no minor legisla tion is scheduled before the lawmakers leave Feb. 10 for a 10-day recess usually filled with political speeches back home around the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The major House business in the first week is the Demo cratic Party’s selection of 164 House members as delegates to the national party conven tion. A United Press Interna tional survey shows Walter Mondale holds an over whelming lead, although technically, all delegates will be unpledged. House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings — but not floor action — is sche duled Tuesday on aid for Central America, including the recommendation of the Kissinger Commission that aid be tied to progress on hu man rights. An effort also is expected to be made to reduce the 18- month limit on the presence of U.S. Marines in Lebanon, granted by Congress last year before more than 240 Marines were killed in a truck bombing near the Beirut airport. Action is expected later in the year on the ERA, which barely failed to gain the neces sary two-thirds vote last year in the House. Another sensitive social issue — immigration — is like ly to be considered early in the year when the House takes up a bill to tighten restrictions on foreigners entering the Un ited States illegally. Sea water may run electric car Protesters march, rally to fight nuclear arms United Press International RICHARDSON (UPI) — As long as there is sea water, George Thiess figures his pro totype electric car never will run out of fuel. Thiess is so convinced about the success of his invention that he intensely dislikes the word petroleum. “I don’t think OPEC will even speak to me,” the engineer from St. Louis said. In a small laboratory in this upper middle class Dallas sub urb, Thiess and Jack Hooker, his partner in the Electric Motor Cars venture, are working on their invention. They say they are close to test ing an electric car that will oper ate on magnesium made from processed sea water. The mag nesium will charge a regular bat tery using a patented chemical solution called electrolene, Thiess says. The magnesium-powered battery will eliminate the limited range problem plaguing the current line of electric cars, he says. Today’s batteries won’t take a car more than 40 to 50 miles without a recharge. The charges last up to 10 hours. “We have solved that through electrolene, and by replacing the battery’s magnesium rod every 400 to 500 miles,” Thiess says. “The electrolene is pumped into the gasoline tank. Replacing the magnesium rod is as easy as filling your radiator or adding oil. No, don’t talk of oil. There will be no motor oil of any kind in our car, perhaps some grease for the transmission,” he said. “You can convert any auto mobile plant into an electric car plant without much trouble,” says Thiess, who is using a Mer cedes-Benz for his project. “You don’t even have to make drastic changes in battery pro duction. It will even cost less to operate an electric car because our electrolene uses ordinary chemicals I can’t reveal what they are,” Thiess said. The project, which Thiess says takes advantage of the abundant supply of electricity, is under contract with the U.S. De partment of Energy. Thiess says his company has been asked by the department to collect data on the car and its feasibility for commercial pro duction. The inventors say a cubic mile of sea water converted into mag nesium will power every new car built in the country in 1982 fora full year. That translates into 72 billion miles of driving on “a drop of ocean,” they say. Magnesium is the seventh most abundant element on earth. “If Henry Ford and other car pioneers could do it over again, and they had today’s technolo gy, they wouldn’t use the com bustion engine,” says Hooker, a former Mercedes car dealer and banker. “We’re on the edge of a real technological break- through.” “At the present time, some thing like 95 percent of all elec tricity generated in the United States is through non-petroleum sources whereas transporation is 65 percent petroleum-based,” Thiess said. “The latter figure is climbing at a rapid rate. “We are becoming more and more petroleum dependent for transporatation and less and less petroleum dependent for elec tricity. So the key is making transportation electricity- dependent. The electric car is the car of the future. It is that simple.” Thiess, who said he invented the digital watch before going into car technology, says magne sium and zinc pack more energy per pound than any other metal. “But magnesium is easier and cheaper to produce than alumi num or zinc or iron,” Thiess said. “With constant improve ments being made on batteries, the use of magnesium will be come even more attractive.” Thiess thinks his electric car has the best potential for success in countries where gasoline is selling for $4 to $5 a gallon. “We have received many in- ; ? [uiries. I have already had visits rom parties in Singapore and India and some European coun- By HELEN DE LA ROSA Reporter |. “Neither rain, nor sleet, nor [cold, nor blisters...only nuclear Ibomb cold...” was the theme of those who braved the freezing weather Saturday to protest the nuclear arms race, said Kris Par sons, one of the protesters. | Parsons, an active member of ■ the Brazos Valley Peace Action Itommittee, said the protest group, which called itself the 'January Twenty-First Coalition, was formed specifically for this demonstration. I The coalition is made up of , .. the Brazos Valley Peace Action, decisionmP v — ■■ * - othin; ed rumon munity between ilf| perintendfl : also dei«| its Brazos Valley Sierra Club, Bra- os County National Organiza tion for Women, and Student eace Action. The group began the protest ith a 10-mile “Walk to Stop the Missiles/Meet Human Needs” from Santa Teresa Church in Bryan to Westinghouse in Col lege Station. 9ns, Parsons said the Westing- house site was chosen because of ^ | ^^ |he national Westinghouse com pany’s involvement in the manu- 'acture of components for nuc lear weapons. k WINNER! 1981 PULITZER PRIZE N.Y. DRAMA CRITICS’ CIRCLE AWARD CM GO CRIMES OF THE HEART Presented by MSC Town Hall/Broadway Texas A&M University Rudder Auditorium February 2 8:00p.m. Tickets $13.00, $12.50, $11.50 w. MSC Box Office »i saa, Mastercard Call 845-1234 ‘rnationil - Author 1 ■ illegal ali on up tod ito the bad 1 topped for lation Following the walk, some 50 people participated in a rally in front of Westinghouse. Father Louis Pavlicek of St. Joseph’s iatholic Church was feature Ipeaker at the rally. Photo by DEAN SAITO Cathy Foley, of College Station, stands outside the Westinghouse plant in College Station to protest the companies involvement in the manfacture of components for nuclear weapons. ■—— k Pavlicek also spoke on the wall-to-wal Catholic Bishops’ pastoral letter lepartment* on nuclear war, explaining that per whosltj Jt was written as a teaching docu- hedetecttd|ment “to bring into public de late the whole morality of the fiudear race.” j The rally also included speak ers from each organization in the coalition, group singing, and a die-in” in which coalition arrested ^ |nembers fell to the ground to eported not se stuffed ic ; uck. d the 73afc the trucked Bend Coil hmond nd Natural^ the slow beating of a drum. The “die-in” symbolized that war ends life, said Bobby Slovak, another coalition member. Parsons said this was the second anti-nuclear demonstra tion held in front of Westing house by her organization. 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