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"Jen pMH Texas A&M V • The Battalion - Serving the Gniversity community Vol. 79 No. 168 USPS 0453690 8 Pages College Station, Texas Wednesday, July 11,1984 1 complain not offet on. s, and I ivith peopj al's olfra n gel ihd in and m i thing (il could ■rsons isume inn unii uld be w ttlemem aify in t t Pius pi Finals jith Teii kown nd had :signali( ;d thal T he said) sfficialdJ I The schedule for Wednesday llnals is: P 8-10 a.zn.: Classes meeting from 8-9:30 a.in. P 11-1 p.m.: Classes meeting Iroin 10-11:30 a.m. • 2-4 p.m.: Classes meeting from 12-1:30 p.m. (tegistration Registration for the second summer session will take place Thursday. First, students will pick up their [card packets in DeWare Field House according to the following schedule: • 8-9 a.m.: Students whose last names begin with D-G *9-10 a.m.: H-K • 10-11 a.m.: L-O • 11-noon: P-S • 12-1 p.m.: T-Z • 1-2 p.m.: A-C Students may pick up their card {jackets any time after their scheduled time. No packets will be distributed after 2 p.m. Students then will go to G. Rollie White Coliseum where cards for courses are obtained. Students must gel the signature oftheir dean on their course card. The deans’ offices will have rep resentatives in G. Rollie White Coliseum during registration. Students then report to the fee assessors at 212 and 224 MSC to turn in their card packet. Ron I rned i 1 ward d subs® oal mine collapses in Taiwan p ||: United Press International JUI FANG, Taiwan — A fire erupted in a deep undersea coal bine in northern Taiwan Tuesday, >ld ofll Elapsing parts of the underground shafts and trapping 124 miners just a maf ^ ree wee ^ s after the country’s worst theevn minedisasler - I President Chiang Ghing Kuo, in formed of the fire at the Mei-Shan bine, ordered all 110 coal mines on pie is k the island to close Thursday and jfhey ai cease operations until safety checks Right-# 1 are made. lis rath' The fire occurred three weeks af- Jiingaii; ter ah explosion in another coal numixprnine killed 74 miners, the country’s rmentworst mine disaster. Rescue teams worked in contin- rus shifts in a bid to reach the 124 iners trapped in the 7,200-foot- deep mine in Jui Fang when the fire erupted about 1:30 p.m. EDT. After toiling through the night, rts cit? firefighters and rescue workers said ries h> ithat the blaze had been put out and » Unite 1 the search for the trapped men had tires ft begun, although none were immedi ately found. Richard Pearce, a political science major reading for a Shakespeare exam by the Wof- from Port Arthur, does some last minute ford Cain pool Tuesday afternoon. British supertanker hit in Persian Gulf United Press International Two missiles from an unidentified fighter jet slammed into a British su pertanker Tuesday on its way to sal vage $45 million of oil aboard a ship crippled three weeks ago in a Per sian Gulf missile attack, officials said. The 261,000-ton British Renown was off the coast of Bahrain when it was struck by the missiles, igniting a small fire that was quickly doused, said a spokesman for Smit Interna tional, the Dutch salvage firm that chartered the ship. The supertanker was only slightly damaged, the spokesman said. None of the 26-member British crew was reported injured. The British Renown changed course after the attack and headed to Dubai, where it was expected to arrive Wednesday. There was no immediate com ment from Iraq or Iran on the at tack. The British Broadcasting Corp. reported it was believed Iran was re sponsible for the attack. In past at tacks in the Gulf war, Iraq has quickly claimed responsibility while Iran rarely reports its action in the Gulf. It was the second British ship hit in the Persian Gulf in recent months. The British carrier Charming was damaged in a March 1 missile attack. The owner of the supertanker, British Petroleum, quoted the ship’s captain as saying the missiles were fired by an unidentified fighter jet. “It fired two missiles that struck the starboard No. 2 tank and the foremast. There were no casualties,” the statement said. It said the attack was preceded by a reconnaissance flight by a four-engine spotter plane. A spokesman for Lloyds of Lon don said the vessel was hit by two missiles in the forward cabins. Other shipping sources said one missile bounced off the deck while the other damaged some loading equipment. The attack on the British Renown was the latest flare-up in the nearly 4-year-old Iran-Iraq war. More than 40 neutral vessels have been hit this year in the Gulf, most of them by Iraq, which has vowed to cut off Iran’s oil revenues by de stroying its strategic Kharg Island oil export terminal and blockading its ports. Iran has attacked Gulf shipping in retaliation, mostly Saudi and Ku waiti tankers. Saudi Arabia and Ku wait support Iraq in the conflict. In Moscow, the Kuwaiti defense minister. Sheikh Salem Sabah al Sa bah, received assurances the Soviets would supply Kuwait weapons to de fend its shipping, the Kuwaiti News Agency said. Kuwait turned to the Soviets after the United States refused to sell it Stinger missiles. Western diplomats said air defense weapons were most likely at the top of Salem’s request list. Smit spokesman Thys de Rooy said the firm chartered the ship to transfer crude oil from the Swiss- owned tanker Tiburon, crippled in an Iraqi missile attack June 27. “What’s happening to shipping in those waters is simply terrible,” he said. “We do not know how badly damaged the British tanker is, but we chartered her to take on the 1.75 million barrels of crude from the Ti buron.” Jackson upset at running mate choices United Press International Jesse Jackson, complaining he is not considered a prime contender for vice president, unleashed a ver bal assault against Jewish leaders, “white women,” the press and Sen. Gary Hart in an interview published Tuesday. Jewish leaders immediately called on Democratic Party leaders to repu diate Jackson. In an interview in the Los Angeles Times, Jackson said he believes rac ism was the basis for much of the ill- treatment and criticism he encoun tered during his campaign. “Look at the (vice presidential) polls ... it’s clear if there was any sci entific basis for making a vice presi dential choice, it would be me,” he said. “I virtually won a region. I won D.C., Virginia, South Carolina, Mis sissippi, Louisiana.” He said there were at least two reasons for his not being interviewed by Walter Mondale for the No. 2 job. One is that Mondale may not have a genuine interest in a black running mate, Jackson said. “The other, of course, is that the threats to Mondale by a significant number of Jewish leaders are very evident,” he added. He said Jewish leaders tried “to make me a pariah and isolate our support, attempt to separate me from the masses.” He also accused Hart of commit ting “a serious act of racism” by clos ing out accounts in 1983 with a Washington bank, reportedly as soon as he learned it was owned by Arab investors. Hart’s action was “blatant, inten tional and political” and therefore a much more serious breach than Jackson’s own “Hymie-Hymietown” remarks, he said. Yet Hart’s actions were “projected as honorable,” Jackson complained. He called the news media the “ar rogant Aryan press.” Jackson also criticized “white women” and the predominantly. white National Organization for Women for what he called purloin ing one of the main issues of his campaign — the suggestion that a woman should be selected as the vice presidential nominee. “Jesse Jackson continues to seek to polarize Americans and to set group against group,” said Henry Siegman, who heads the American Jewish Congress. Siegman said if Democratic lead ers “do not act promptly to finally repudiate Jesse Jackson, it is a disas ter they will have well deserved.” Meanwhile, Sen. Dale Bumpers of Arkansas said he told Mondale he no longer wants to be considered for the No. 2 spot. “I have considered the matter very carefully and have concluded that I should not be considered fur ther and have so notified Mr. Mon dale,” Bumpers said in a statement issued from Little Rock, Ark. “About 3 weeks ago, Vice Presi dent Mondale called to discuss the vice presidential nomination with me,” Bumpers said. “Subsequently, I talked to both Mr. Mondale and his aide John Reilly. I told them that I was highly honored to be consid ered, but that at present I was enjoy ing my service in the Senate and felt that I could best serve my state artel country by remaining there,” Bump ers said. “They asked me to consider the matter further, and I agreed to that request. Since then, I have visited at length with my family, close advisors and friends and as one might expect, have received many diverse sugges tions and opinions.” But, Bumpers said, he came to the same conclusion that he would pre fer to remain in the Senate. Bumpers is at least the fourth per son to withdraw from consideration for the No. 2 spot. Others known to have withdrawn from consideration are New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia and Flor ida Gov. Bob Graham. Earlier in the day. Mondale said he is convinced that blacks will back him — hopefully with Jesse Jack son’s support — and a new poll showed black Democrats will stick with him even if Jackson sits out the November election. The former vice president said he was not too concerned by Jackson’s call that black Democrats wait for his signal before committing themselves to Mondale in the general election campaign. “No, I am convinced that I am going to be nominated and I’m con vinced that the American people, in clude the black Americans, will re spond to my leadership,” he said in an interview on ABC-TV’s “Good Morning America” “I hope to have Reverend Jack son’s support as well, and I believe I will,” he added. A New York Times-CBS News poll indicated that Mondale does not need Jackson to win black voters in the presidential election. Prevention key for summer survival Soaring temperatures raise By KARI FLUEGEL Staff Writer While July and August tempera tures soar into the 90s and 100s, the threat of heal illnesses becomes more prevelant. Heat illnesses, such as heat stroke and heat exhaustion, are caused by rising body temperatures. Severe heat illnesses can be dangerous be cause nearly every organ in the body is affected. Heatstroke and heat exhaustion are not the same disorder. Heat stroke is caused by rising body tem peratures and is often related to oc cupational activities, Dr. O.C. Coo per, a clinical professor of family and commmunity medicine in Col lege Station, said. Heat exhaustion is usually related to recreational activities and is caused by loss of body fluids, Cooper said. Heatstroke falls into two catago- ries — exertional and classical. Exertional heatstroke occurs pri marily in persons participating in strenuous muscle activity in a hot en vironment. Athletes, pushing them selves to perform beyond previous limits are especially vulnerable. Na tionwide, heatstroke is second only to head and spinal injuries as the leading cause of death in athletes. Dr, Ron Anderson, associate profes sor of Internal Medicine at the Uni versity Health Science Center at Dal las, said. Victims suffering from exertional heatstroke have moist skin after the attack compared to classical heats troke victims whose skin becomes hot and dry. Classic heatstroke appears more often during sustained heat waves affecting the elderly, the very young, and the poor. Failure to build up a tolerance to the heat is the most common reason normal people suffer heatstr oke. “If you’re working in an air-condi tioned place, your body doesn’t get regulated to the heat,” Cooper said. “It adapts to the air conditioned en vironment and you have no toler ance to the heat.” Other factors that also can lead to heatstroke are: salt and water deple tion, heat intolerance, acute infec tion or fever and mild to moderate obesity. Heat exhaustion is caused by a so dium deficiency, water deficiency or both. Several days of exposure to heat usually preceed heat exhaus heat risks tion, Anderson said. Heat exhaustion symptoms vary with each type of deficiency. A water deficiency is characterized by intense thirst, fatigue, weakness, anxiety and confusion and is more likely to lead to heatstroke. Sodium deficiencies are marked by a clammy pale appearance, giddi ness and problems such as nausea, vomitting and headache. Victims of a sodium deficiency do not experi ence intense thirst. Heat cramps can occur when a person, even though used to heat and exercise, is working in a hot en vironment and replaces water and salt loss with water only. Heat cramps may not occur until the per son leaves the hot environment. Re- See HEAT page 3 In Today’s Battalion Local • A five-year-old boy strives for perfection at Wonder World, a local child care and educational center. See story page 3. State • Convicted drug smuggler Jimmy Chagra isn’t entitled to a new trial, rules the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ; See story page 5. World • During the running of the Pamplona bulls, one Ameri can was injured. See story page 4.