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Tuesday, June 5, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3 Tall Ships British Square rigger capsizes, 18 still missi ng United Press International | MILTON, Bermuda — Survivors said Monday two huge waves cap sized and sank a British square rig ger in less than a minute, raising Tears that 18 missing people were trapped below deck and entombed at the bottom of the Atlantic. I U.S. and Canadian vessels searched the sea north of Bermuda ids rusi IACK 'national .ing? do by hand; for possible survivors of the 117- nore easilnjp 001 , 67-year-old British ship Mar- Eues, which sank Sunday during a EdwinE.J' a ‘! S £ ips Race ' f |: Light survivors, including tour issoi o( Kfe^mericans, and the body of od * ^rbcoli American crewman, were brought to I Mathemail Bermuda by the Polish schooner Za- t in a repo®' 53 Czarny and taken to the Royal atorsbysaji ed to know land,just as aw how tor t a questioi Navy base in the British colony. A ninth survivor was taken aboard a Canadian frigate. Crew members of the Zawisa Czarny said seas were high Sunday morning and suddenly one wave struck the bow of the Marques, fol lowed by another giant wave. “They (the survivors) told us it happened at four o’clock in the morning when the watch, or the crew, was changing,” said Jerzy Albi- mah, chief mate of the schooner. “They said at one moment there was a big wind and a big wave and the hull was turned over. It was pounding and rolling. The sails were flattened. They were on the ocean. “They tried to hold down the sails. It was impossible, and at last they tried to cut the ropes but it did not help. They said it took half a minute for the ship to sink. It was turned upside down,” Albimah said. Everybody who was below deck never came out, the survivors told their rescuers. Those who were on watch on deckjumped over the side. The crew members said there was not even time to send a May Day dis tress signal. The eight survivors rescued by the Polish ship were aboard three in flatable life rafts when they were spotted, the rescue vessel’s chief mate said. The dead American crewman was identified as James F. McAleer, 47, of Quincy, Mass., a spokesman for the Quincy Police Department said. Three Canadian warships, each equipped with a helicopter, and a U.S. Navy craft with infrared equip ment for night operations, searched for the 18 missing people, said Coast Guard spokesman Johnny Ludlow. Among the missing were the ship’s skipper, Stuart Finlay, his wife and 15-month-old baby, and several cadets, ranging in age from 15 to 21, from the Sail Training Association in Newport, R.I. The Marques, built in 1917, is op erated out of Antigua and owned by the China Clipper Society of En gland. s of the oi out thereasj right answ (the arithi in all thret ssimistic alt will notprt :ics,” he sa«| ossihletoim in element rely trained r w. For this t ,e when ot undeni Algeria tries to end Gulf war world Fair exhibits A&M work United Press International of a pockeil ABU DHABI, United Arab Emi- out thecoii® ates — Iraq said Monday it sank an front of our positions in the Misan operational zone” and killed two Ira nian troops. Branian boat in the marshes south- of Baghdad as Algerian media tors began a fresh effort to prevent a lew flare up in the Persian Gulf war. The attack, reported by the offi cial Iraqi News Agency, occurred near an area where both sides are massing troops in anticipation of a Blew Iranian ground offensive pgainst Iraq in their S'/u-year war. The report, quoting the Baghdad military command, said Iraqi forces " nk an “enemy boat stationed in Algerian envoys visited Baghdad and Tehran a day after a Turkish oil tanker, the 153,000-ton Buyuk Hun, was hit by an Iraqi missile and set ab laze Sunday. In Ankara, acting Foreign Min ister Mesut Yilmaz hinted Turkey might ban Turkish vessels from en tering the Gulf. The Nicosia-based Middle East Economic Survey said the Gulf states were resorting to tanker movements by night to escape air raids by the two combatants in the Gulf War. Khamenei told Bitat that Iran did not want to expand the war to other areas of the Gulf, but said Tehran would “retaliate decisively” against recent incidents in the waterway, the radio said. He did not specifically threaten retaliation against the Iraqi raid on the Buyuk Hun. Algeria, which has good relations with both Iraq and Iran, has at tempted unsuccessfully several times since the war began in September 1980 to mediate peace. ice Snakebite season starts again teachers, a.® me University News Service It’s snakebite season again and to exercise caution, warns exas A&M University wildlife spe- lialistDr. Fred Hendricks. “Chances are only four in ten that a poisonous snake will release venom when it bites,” said Hendricks of Texas A&M’s Department of Wild- lored... orMhe and Fisheries Sciences, “but . t0 Jjsfoup that’s no excuse not to be cautious.” The fatality rate from snake bite is ^extremely low. Less than one per- ientof the victims who are struck die from 2,000-plus bites annually re- |)orted nationwide, he said. “If you encounter a snake, simply valk away,” Hendricks said. “Most bakes are not aggressive, and most ban/snake encounters go unnoticied by man. In any case, an average per son can outrun a snake. :e between | ity, or boi “Nearly all bites occur from peo ple handling snakes, rather than be ing suprised by one. Most of the bites should come as no suprise. I can recall seeing a bunch of young men along the highway playing with a huge rattlesnake. They had that snake so hacked off that if it had bit ten, it could have killed one of them.” Snakes are most active between April and mid-June because it is their mating season, Hendricks said. Hendricks said people should learn to distinguish one snake from another, pointing out that rattles nakes, copperheads, cottonmouths (all pit vipers) and coral snakes are considered dangerous in Texas. the He warns people when picking up to be cautious fallen limbs, boards, tin or other objects on ground this summer. “They ought to get rid of debris,” he said. “If they did, it would reduce the likelihood of a snake being around. Don’t lift anything towards you. Lift things away from you so that a snake won’t be staring you in the eye.” There’s no standard procedure to treat snakebites, Hendricks said, al though most doctors would advise remaining calm, avoiding unneces sary movement and putting a con stricting band above the bite to slow down but not cut off the blood flow. Then go immediately to the hospital. “There’s so much controversy about how to treat snakebites that the best cure seems to be to learn to avoid snakes and not get bitten in the first place,” he said. University News Service A system to extract clean water from oilfield waste — patented two years ago by a Texas A&M chemist — will be one of 10 exhibits from American small businesses to be dis played at the New Orlean’s World Fair, where the U.S. theme is “Water for the World.” Dr. Rod O’Connor, professor of chemistry and president of Texas ROMEC Inc. through which the sys tem was patented, said a small work ing display of the water cleanup sys tem will be exhibited through Nov. 11 by the Small Business Adminis tration. About 45,000 people a day are ex pected to view the SBA exhibits. O’Connor and more than a dozen others worked after hours to perfect the system, which operates on a re verse osmosis principle to filter enough oil or other wastes to make water safe to drink. Larger systems — able to process 10,000 gallons a day — could pro vide emergency drinking water dur ing floods or other disasters. In ad dition, thousands of dollars worth of petroleum could be recovered by us ing the process to squeeze more oil from wastes, O’Connor said. ROMEC was founded in 1980 by a group of Texas A&M faculty mem bers as a spare-time invention and research firm. Salvadorans seek archbishop’s killer United Press International SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — President Jose Napoleon Duarte’s new government has be gun investigating the killing of a popular archbishop in the first step of a crackdown on death squads, a government official said Monday. Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes, Duarte’s chief of staff, said the March 24, 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Ro mero was the first of “two or three big cases” the government was starting to investigate. Other political murders at the top of the list for investigation were the 1980 assassinations of two high-ranking Christian Dem ocrats, Mario Zamora and Melvin Orellana, Rey Prendes said. Duarte, the Christian Demo crat leader sworn in on Friday, has ordered a special armed forces unit trained oy the FBI to investigate death squad activities, government sources said. There are reports that the unit will investigate Hector Regalado and Juan Ramon Gonzalez, two bodyguards for ultra-rightist leader Roberto d’Aubuisson, who lost the May 6 presidential runoff election to Duarte. Government officials were not immediately available for com ment. D’Aubuisson has been ac cused of having links to the death squads. Rey Prendes has said a cleanup of human rights abuses must pre cede any peace talks with leftist guerrillas. He said such talks could not begin for six months to a year. Romero, an outspoken critic of army repression and right-wing political killings, was shot to death by a rifleman in March 1980 as he said mass in a San Salvador cha pel. Mario Zamora was a director of Duarte’s Christian Democratic Party and his brother Ruben, also once a top Christian Democrat, joined the guerrilla political lead ership after the assassination. The army, meanwhile, has put three security forces most often blamed for human rights abuses under a unified command, a top officer said. Col. Reynaldo Lopez Nuila, newly appointed deputy defense minister for public security, said he is coordinating the command of the National Police, Treasury Police and the National Guard. Rand McNally helps vacationers save money Lodging guide offers money-saving ideas United Press International One of the greatest boons for va cationers traveling in the United States is Rand McNally’s new two- volume guide of places to stay over night for less than $35 for two peo ple. The guide, titled “Lodgings for Le$$,” has been published in East ern States and Western States vol umes, roughly those states on either side of the Mississippi River. 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