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The Battalion
Serving the University community
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, February 29, 1984
art wins New Hampshire primary
United Press International
CONCORD, N.H. — Sen. Gary
Wirt, seeking to become the “new
his h leadership” of the Democratic Party,
lenefitttt ^embarrassed front-runner Walter
[he m«ii'llbiidale Tuesday with a stunning
ry colur Ipset victory in New Hampshire’s
ibune; Mfirst-in-the-nation primary,
jio showMjHart’s surprisingly big victory
is oftent halted what for more than a year has
it theBk Tbeen an unimpeded drive by Mon-
ier. idah to the Democratic presidential
joniination. With all the other candi-
ofthejoc Mes far behind, it left three realistic
it. My far Contenders — Mondale, Hart and
dJoeyMt' 1 Sen John Glenn of Ohio, who fin-
|y whatjtejished third.
rentlynew “This is a massive victory,” Hart
specufc laiii 0 f surprise outcome. “We’re
isions tia'Jobviously the product of an awf ul lot
iis son bii;'jof tilings.
jl think what it represents is that
■rly a very large number of people
prefer an alternative to Vice Presi
dent Mondale and particularly one
that represents the future of this
party and the country.”
With 42 percent of the total vote
reporting Hart had 16,079 votes or
40 percent; Mondale, 11,210 or 28
percent; Sen. John Glenn, 4,905 or
12 percent; civil rights activist Jesse
Jackson, 2,417 or 6 percent; former
Sen. George McGovern, 2,388 or 6
percent; Sen. Ernest Hollings, 1,495
or 4 percent; Sen. Alan Cranston,
990 or 2 percent, and former Gov.
Reubin Askew of Florida, 519 or 1
percent.
If those percentages hold up, Hart
would win 10 delegates to the Demo
cratic National Convention and Mon
dale, eight.
President Reagan, who had only
token opposition on the Republican
side, was also the beneficiary of an
organized campaign to write in his
name on the Democratic ticket. With
about half the precincts reporting,
Reagan had 1,976 votes on the Dem
ocratic race, putting him ahead of
three Democrats.
Hart led Mondale in every part of
the state, although the former vice
president was closer in the industrial
areas, especially in Manchester, than
in the rural areas where the Colo
rado senator scored his biggest mar
gin.
Mondale virtually conceded the
race, saying he took a “cold shower”
in New Hampshire, noting that there
was “a very heavy theme” running
through the campaign “not to end
the debate.”
But he said he was confident he
would overwhelm his rivals in the
score of primaries and caucuses com
ing up in the next few weeks.
The three serious contenders now
have two weeks to regroup for “Su-
March 13 — when
primaries and cau-
per Tuesday” —
nine states hold
cuses to pick more than 500 dele
gates to the national convention.
It was evident that Hart’s theme —
offering himself as a new leader for
the party with new ideas — appealed
to independent Yankee voters in
New Hampshire who have a history
of damaging front-runners, some
times fatally.
Hart’s position in New Hampshire
polls was not strong before scoring a
surprise second place finish in the
Iowa precinct caucuses last week. He
apparently gained voters in droves
that originally favored other dark
horses but switched when it was ap
parent their first choice had no
chance.
He campaigned tirelessly in the
state almost non-stop in the final
days and with funds that poured in
after his Iowa finish, he waged a
$125,000 advertising campaign the
final week.
There would be much analysis of
where the Mondale campaign went
wrong. His forces came to Iowa 14
months ago and had more workers,
more money, more endorsements
than any other candidate and maybe
in the end New Hampshire voters
just went for the underdog.
Hart’s victory could help keep al
ive Glenn’s candidacy, since he and
not Hart has the better organization
after Mondale in the nine states that
hold primaries and caucuses on
March 13.
“We may have the station leaving
the train,” Glenn said. “I think peo
ple are looking for an alternative. It
ndangered birds given
econd chance for life
yer
recruits
By ED CASSAVOY
Reporter
kTIic golden eagle placidly preens
rc i, i its feathers, unaware of the fate
haw ailing 80 percent of all young
I jiirds of prey. Death. Perched on the
gloved hand of John Karger, this ea-
Tlmay have a second chance.
|Karger, the director of Last
lance Forever, brought his feath-
the Ltf jered patients to the Blocker building
mmitiet TOesday night as live evidence of
ten fflfliWjBat care and understanding can do.
;ssorstob%jkarger says the organization’s
lofptffWin function is returning injured
g for as- Bird:, of prey — hawks, eagles, fal-
sioner.' cons and owls — to their natural hab-
a non-esi> li; itat.
bes. ILKarger says he gets the birds from
d job. T- slatt and federal agencies and pri-
strengthtf yate citizens who’ve heard of Last
made s^Wance Forever. Karger says the or-
anels aiwj|Wization holds only one of four en-
ee theyli dangered species handling licenses in
peat, ibjjexas. He says the birds are brought
r but site*ihlvith broken legs, wings, gunshot
Tiore cof wounds or are young birds that have
irengthc^ fallen out of the nest,
ionerfli^f Karger says, the five-year-old
one. golden eagle perched on his hand is
jressure^Mid — DDT the, culprit. “Men
jf thef dump chemical w^e into the earth
ioner# 1 anti then just cover it over with dirt,”
rtoftfc Karger says, “and they figur^ out of
>s or oil 1 ' 1 sight, out of mind.” He says the eagle
re abusi^H poisoned by the deadly, chemicals
us are I'filtering into the bird’s tissue
we mad fhrough the food chain. In the past
he pubh jear Karger says the eagle is slowly
good etfjMaining its eye sight,
ep yotif f®arger says his rehabilitation cen-
probleia terhas 38 birds of prey at the present
Mae. Smiling, Karger says of the 1 12
sses that/fcls received in 1983, 77 were re-
iseball turned to the wild.
0 bew^f karger along with six volunteers
mission^'J
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ssioner '
ring the >
run the San Antonio facility, fi
nanced “by scrounging and scraping
money wherever and whenever we
can.” Karger says the 14-chamber fa
cility is not open to the public be
cause “some of the birds are very
tempermental and would be upset by
strangers.”
Karger, a wildlife biologist, says he
does not give names to any of the
birds because, “I don’t want to give
them any human characteristics, be
cause they are wild creatures, not
pets.”
Karger says with the six volunteers
doing all the day-to-day chores, he is
free to concentrate oh surgery to the
birds.
Karger says the organization,
which receives no government or
university funding, cannot afford to
finance a 24-hour security system,
which would be necessary for the fa
cility was to allowed visitors. Karger
says there are cases where people
have broken into the bird’s enclo
sures and injured the birds.
Unlike humans, Karger says, “I
have never met a malicious falcon,
eagle, etc., in all the time I have been
handling these birds.”
But, Karger says, “Sometimes I do
wonder what this eagle see or what
he thinks he see when he stares at
me.”
Karger says he has been a profes
sional falconer for years and has
learned “to show the birds the
proper respect,” and he has found
the birds will respect him. Karger has
also done bird of prey research at the
South Western Research Institute in
San Antonio.
Karger says funds for operating
Last Chance Forever come from a va
riety of sources. “Private donations
of 50 cents or $50 are of equal impor
tance to us,” he says, “because the
size doesn’t matter, if it shows your
heart is in the right place.” Last
Chance Forever is a tax-deductible
organization.
Karger says enviromentalist must
be realistic. “When a sheep farmer
sees an eagle killing a young sheep,
he sees a dollar figure in the eagle’s
talons.” Karger says society carries
partial blame for injuring these birds
of prey, “In a society where we waste
so much, we force that poor sheep
farmer to produce more.” This cre
ates a situation where man must re
move some of eagle’s natural habitat
for his own needs, Karger says.
“Look at it this way, say there is
this falcon in a tree when some
farmer builds a chicken farm with
2,500 chickens underneath,” Karger
says, “what would you do?”
Karger says he has contracts to do
a number of shows, including the
Texas Renaissance Festival. Karger
says he thinks exposing people to the
birdswill disprove some of the myths.
“I had one guy ask me if an eagle
could pick up a Jeep,” Karger says,
“and it is not unusual for people to
ask if eagles carry off children.”
Karger says he doesn’t think peo
ple who hurt birds of prey do it with
malicious intent. “I think more than
anything, it is just plain ignorance,”
he says.
“That is one reason why I do talks
like the one here at Texas A&M with
live birds,” Karger says, “I don’t
think anyone can understand the en-
viromental problem if they don’t
know what an eagle looks like.”
Along with the golden eagle, Karger
had a horned owl and a Harris fal-
Photo by JOHN MAKEL Y
John Karger displays a golden eagle during a discussion of
Last Chance Forever, an organization that fights to save endan
gered birds Tuesday in the Memorial Student Center.
opens up a whole new dimension to
the campaign.”
While the size of the Hart victory
was stunning, there were hints over
the weekend that Mondale was in
trouble. For three consecutive days
Washington Post-ABC polls showed
Mondale slipping while Hart was
moving up strongly. The final poll
on the eve of the primary showed
them locked at 30 percent each, with
John Glenn of Ohio a distant third
with 14 percent.
Since it became the nation’s ear
liest primary in 1952, New Hamp
shire has an uncanny tradition of be
ing mean to front-runners. President
Harry Truman and Lyndon John
son, and favorites Barry Goldwater,
Edmund Muskie and Edward Ken
nedy all got bad news from the voters
over the years.
U.S., Iran
debate
oil route
United Press International
Iran warned Washington Tuesday
that it could close the vita! Strait of
Hormuz oil route if any incidents oc
cur because of limitations set by the
U.S. government on Iranian forces
approaching American ships in the
area.
Although Iraq claimed its planes
bombed tankers berthed Monday at
Iran’s Kharg Island oil depot at the
head of the Persian Gulf Monday,
London shipping brokers said tank
ers were still loading there on Tues
day.
With his Islamic regime reportedly
stockpiling oil supplies outside the
Persian Gulf, Tehran’s Ayatollah Ru-
hollah Khomeini dismissed President
Reagan’s pledge to keep the strait
open by force, if necessary.
“No superpower could confront
Iran, which is a nation that has sacri
ficed everything for the cause of Is
lam,” the Iranian news agency
quoted Khomeini as saying.
Tehran’s Foreign Ministry said
Iran would not accept “in any form”
the American regulations, instituted
a month ago to protect U.S. ships
from surprise air attack while operat
ing in the Gulf and Sea of Oman.
The Pentagon acknowledged
Tuesday that a U.S. destroyer oper
ating in and near the Strait of Hor
muz chased off an Iranian patrol
plane and a warship and fired across
the bow of a second unidentified ves
sel.
Iran said responsibility for any in
cident caused by U.S. action would
be paid for by Washington, possibly
by the closing of the Strait of Hor
muz, through which 20 percent of
the West’s oil supply flows.
en injured after jet skids off runway
In Today’s Battalion
United Press International
[NEW YORK — A Scandinavian
ines DC-10 jet with 177 people
fard skidded off a rain-slicked
Bway at Kennedy International
J)on Tuesday and nosed into the
contfrjattTs of Jamaica Bay. At least 10
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lesuffered minor injuries,
irport fire department personnel
ed rescue the 163 passengers
14 crew members who were
„— to slide down emergency
,owers^ Bes or walk out of the tail-end exit
Jiead | tiie crippled pi ane and onto the
^an'tstf' 1 ' Bshrouded edge of Jamaica Bay.
jB could see mud Hying and I
; cendai> 1 Buld hear the screech of the engines
gowie, t the pilot tried to stop the plane.
inTak life next thing I knew we were in the
ter," said Donna Davison of New-
Beach, Calif.
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□rting^MEhe crew screamed ‘Emergency,
^ear i ! P"ut. Get out,”’ another passenger
sXtrenWjB- “No one panicked ... it was a
door r *ally,good group.”
je Kuhn.:*
=>[iie nt ^W om Young, a spokesman for the
, ed as » ri Authority, which operates the
“ort, said some of the passengers
exited from emergency chutes into
flotation rafts while others simply
“jumped into the water from the
plane.”
“Only the nose of the airplane
went into the water,” an FAA official
said. Port Authority police said the
craft straddled the shoreline, with
the front landing gear submerged in
about 10 feet of water and the tail
resting on land.
Officials said only the left wing tip
and the nose assembly of the Scandi
navian Airline System plane were
damaged.
Other passengers said all aboard
the craft exited in an orderly fashion
and listened to crew who ordered
passengers to leave all their belong
ings behind and leave as quickly as
possible.
One passenger, however, com
plained Port Authority police did not
have boats prepared for such an
emergency landing and said some
passengers were forced to sit in res
cue rafts on the freezing water for up
to 20 minutes before being pulled
ashore.
The FAA said it could not specu
late on whether the rain or pilot mis
calculation was to blame for the
plane skidding, but one passenger,
Brennan Jones of New York, said it
appeared the “pilot overshot the run
way.”
The Port Authority said the in
jured passengers were treated at the -
airport medical facility. The other
passengers were ushered into the
customs area.
The FAA said the jet, Flight 901,
had flown in from Stockholm via
Oslo, Norway, and “hydroplaned”
off runway 4-R about 4:16 p.m. dur
ing a fierce winter storm that packed
wind gusts of up to 50 mph and
dumped more than an inch of rain
on the metropolitan area.
Heavy fog that reduced visibility to
one sixteenth of a mile was reported
in the area at the time of the landing.
“I could see a shower of water
coming in,” said Mette Bjorun, of
Oslo. “I didn’t know we were in shal
low water and I was very frightened.”
One passenger said the pilot man
aged to set the plane down on the
runway “but locked his wheels and
went right off the end.
“The plane didn’t bounce very
much ... I don’t think there was any
reverse thrust. It just hitched up a
little and then there we were, flat in
the water.”
The nose of the jetliner came to
rest intact in about 10 feet of water of
Thurston Basin, a tributary of Ja
maica Bay in the southeast corner of
the airport.
The incident was similar to one on
Jan. 23, 1983 in which a World Air
ways DC-10 from Oakland, Calif.,
carrying 198 passengers and 12 crew
skidded off a runway into icy Boston
Harbor at Boston’s Logan Interna
tional Airport. Two people were
killed.
Local
• Brazos County Red Cross is venting car seats at low
prices for needy families with young children in the area.
State
may attend y]
the March meeting of the Texas AFL-CIO meeting in Aus
tin . See story page 5. \
• UT fans with orange Longhorn stickers on their li
cense plates may face a $200 fine for violating state law. See
story page 6.
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