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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.
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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.
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Parsons said the Westing-
house site was chosen because of
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pany’s involvement in the manu-
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people participated in a rally in
front of Westinghouse. Father
Louis Pavlicek of St. Joseph’s
iatholic Church was feature
Ipeaker at the rally.
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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.
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wall-to-wal Catholic Bishops’ pastoral letter
lepartment* on nuclear war, explaining that
per whosltj Jt was written as a teaching docu-
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late the whole morality of the
fiudear race.”
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ers from each organization in
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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. The
group participated in a Hiroshi
ma Day demonstration at the
same site in August.
Westinghouse had not voiced
an objection to their demonstra
tions, Parsons said.
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