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Gunmen blow up Libyan Embassy in Lebanon
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United Press International
^BEIRUT, Lebanon — A gang of'
gunmen stormed the Libyan Em
bassy Wednesday, forced the guards
outside and blew up the building in
the third attack against Libyan inter
ests in west Beirut in two weeks,
jjtt’olice said no one was hurt in the
remote-control bombing, which
came two days after Libyan diplo
mats fled the Lebanese capital under
the threat of being kidnapped by a
radical Shiite Moslem group.
BfThe damage was so extensive
that the building is no longer us
able," a police report said.
Bn the Christian east Beirut sub
urb of Baabda, the Lebanese Cab
inet approved a plan calling for
some 300 hostages held by Christian
and Moslem militiamen to be re
leased “as soon as possible,” radio re
ports said.
The Cabinet, acting after angry
protests over an estimated 4,000 ab
ductions in nine years of civil war,
also discussed implementing the
death penalty for convicted kidnap
pers and offering financial compen
sation to the families of murdered
kidnap victims. No decisions were
announced.
A Shiite faction called the “Sadr
Brigades” took responsibility for the
blast at the Libyan Embassy. The
same group said it kidnapped Li
The blast blew out all the windows of the five-story
embassy and gutted the interior, leaving only the
shell of the building still standing.
bya’s senior diplomat in Beirut Mon
day and another Libyan envoy in the
city June 23. Both reportedly have
been released.
The Sadr Brigades have sworn to
avenge the loss of Mousa Sadr, a
Shiite imam, or religious leader, who
vanished during a visit to Libya in
1978. Libyan leader Moammar Kha-
dafy has denied any knowledge of
Sadr’s presumed death.
The group claimed in a telephone
call to a foreign news agency that it
bombed the seaside Libyan People’s
Bureau, Libya’s diplomatic mission
in Moslem west Beirut, to protest a
planned visit to Beirut by Libyan
Foreign Minister Abdel Salam Tu-
reiki.
Tureiki, in Damascus at the time
of the explosion, reportedly called
off his visit and remained in the Syr
ian capital.
Police said 10 gunmen overpow
ered several policemen and barged
into the embassy about 4 a.m. They
forced three guards to leave and
held them about 500 yards away
while an accomplice planted a 55-
pound bomb inside and set it off by
remote control.
The blast blew out all the windows
of the five-story embassy and gutted
the interior, leaving only the shell of
the building still standing.
Lebanon broke off diplomatic re
lations with Libya earlier this year,
but Prime Minister Rashid Karami
restored ties with Khadafy’s govern
ment soon after forming his “na
tional unity” Cabinet on April 30.
The Cabinet, which includes the
leaders of Lebanon’s Moslem and
Christian militias, appointed an ex
ecutive-level panel to deal with the
kidnapping issue that has under
mined a Syrian-mediated security
plan under which some measure of
order has been restored in Beirut.
Most of the 4,000 missing people
are thought to be dead; Red Cross
officials have said the rival militias
are holding only about 300 hostages.
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Energy tips offered
By SUZANNA YBARRA
Reporter
Picture this: someone
drenched with sweat fanning
himself with a notebook-paper
fan and smiling at a $25 electric
bill.
Or picture this: someone sell
ing textbooks in the middle of the
semester because it’s the only way
to pay the electric bill.
There is a happy medium: en
ergy conservation.
Conserving energy doesn’t
mean doing without life’s little
pleasures, particuarly the electric
ones. It just means being careful
those comforts don’t cost an arm
or a leg, or textbooks.
Sometimes it takes spending
money to save money. Connie
Custavus, bookkeeptn- at Univer
sity bookstore, and her husband
|joe are remodeling their home in
Bryan to save energy.
“We’vejust put new windows in
because the one’s before leaked
really badly Mrs. Gustavus said.
’We’re lowering our ceilings and
adding more insulation, we’ve got
ten-foot high ceilings."
Mrs. Gustavus and her hus
band have a new water bed also
that helps keep them cool at night
in the summer and warm during
the winter.
Bob Gingerich, owner of Wa-
terbed Gallery, said waterbeds
can help save on utility bills.
“If you play it right,” Gingerich
said, “you could turn the air con
ditioner up in the summer and
the heater down in the winter."
Gingerich said the water in a
waterbed is about 70 degrees dur
ing the summer.
“Lower the water bed (heater)
about four degrees in the sum
mer,” he said, “and you’ll find
you’ll turn your air conditioner
up.” A waterbed can help just as
much in the winter because a wa
terbed holds heat well and the
comfortors act as insulators, Gin
gerich said.
Knowing how much electricity
an appliance uses and how much
it costs to use it can be helpful in
saving energy. For example: a
window air conditioner uses 750
to 1500 watts per hour while a fan
uses 100 watts.
The cost of operating an appli
ance each month can lie figured
by multiplying the wattage of the
appliance by the hours it is used
for a month. Multiply that answer
by the rate (cents per killowatt
hour).
Using the formula above, an air
conditioner used eight hours a
day for 30 days each month
would cost about $51 for a year.
In contrast, a fan used the same
amount of time would cost about
$34 for a year.
If there is a cool breeze outside,
open a window; it’s the cheapest
way to cool down. The same
breeze that’s cooling the inside of
the house could be drying blue
jeans just as cheap. A clothes
dryer using an average 5,000
watts an hour costs about $7 a
month if used eight times.
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Amtrak train, truck collide; two killed
United Press International
MCBEE, S.C. — Amtrak’s north
bound Silver Star slammed into a
tanker truck full of diesel fuel
Wednesday, killing two men and
slowly dragging passenger cars la
den with 309 people through a rag
ing inferno visible seven miles away.
Flames cracked windows and
poured smoke and searing heal into
the cars, but only four passengers
were treated for minor bruises.
“Everybody was screaming, but no
one really ran — there was nowhere
to go,” said Mary Anne Herbeck, 18,
of Hackensack, N.J. “We thought we
were all going to die.”
The 14-car train bound from
Florida to New York struck the
tanker truck at 7:30 a.m., slicing the
cab from the tanker and hurling its
driver 75 feet away in Amtrak’s sec
ond serious accident in five days.
The tanker exploded into tow
ering flames and the train, its engi
neer dead and its fireman injured,
ground slowly through the inferno.
dragging the truck’s cab with it.
Highway Patrolman J.A. Morris
said the Silver Star’s “deadman’s
brake,” thrown shortly before im
pact, finally brought the train to a
halt about 80 yards clear of the fire.
“It was fortunate it didn’t stop in
the fire,” Morris said. He said brush
around the intersection obscured vi
sion and the truck driver “probably
had to go out on the track a little to
see what was coming.”
The passengers, some of them
sickened by fear, heat and smoke,
piled out of the fire-blackened silver
cars when the train finally halted.
Some said it took at least 15 minutes
to clear the fire.
Saturday, Amtrak’s northbound
Montrealer derailed in Vermont,
killing five sleeping passengers and
injuring 148 others. In March, the
Silver Star derailed on its south
bound run near Kittrell, N.C., injur
ing 50 of its 249 passengers and
crewmen.
OPEC ministers to allow Nigeria to produce more oil
United Press International
VIENNA — OPEC oil ministers
Wednesday agreed to let Nigeria
produce more crude but held the
line on the cartel’s $29-a-barrel base
oil price and its 17.5 million barrel-a-
day production ceiling.
OPEC President Kamel Hassan
Maghur said the group’s semi-an
nual suntmit had been marked by a
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dean and vice chancellor for engi
neering.
In addition to paying Richardson
$1 10,000 a year, Texas A&M agreed
to hire his wife, Barbara, a epide
miologist, as a lecturer in the univer
sity’s Veterinary Public Health De
partment.
Richardson began his professional
career in 1953 at the MIT Dynamic
Analysis and Control Laboratory.
“pragmatic... very friendly and se
rious atmosphere.”
But insiders said the Organization
of Petroleum Exporting Countries
appeared to have papered over ma
jor differences at the tense confer
ence that often erupted into heated
debate among its 13 members.
Sources said OPEC is deeply di
vided over measures to prevent a
new round of price cuts in face of
the global oil surplus.
“We are the healthiest group in
the world,” Maghur told reporters at
a news conference at the heavily
guarded hotel where the ministers
had met behind closed doors.
An OPEC communique said the
group “reiterated its strict adher
ence” to the unprecedented March
1983 agreement that reduced the
cartel’s base oil price for the first
time by $4 to $29 a barrel and re
stricted its production to 17.5 mil
lion barrels a day.
The ministers said Nigeria will be
allowed to raise its production to 1.4
million barrels a day in August and
to 1.45 million barrels in September.
While working toward master’s
(1955) and doctoral (1958) degrees
in mechanical engineering, he con
ducted research on stability and con
trol of a variety of electrohydraulic,
fluid and mechanical ystems. Follow
ing service in the U.S. Army Ord
nance Corps designing nuclear blast
instrumentation, he returned to
MIT and rose through the academic
ranks to professor of mechanical en
gineering.
He has taught design, fluid power
control, dynamics and control, trans
portation technology and other sub
jects and led research in control
components, fluidics and high-per
formance vehicle-suspension sys
tems.
Richardson served as first chief
scientist of the U.S. Department of
Transportation from 1970-72 where
he developed new programs on uni
versity and basic transportation re
search, prevention of aircraft hijack
ing, high-speed inteltcity and
automated urban transit. After re
turning of MIT he was appointed
head bf mechanical engineering in
1973.
Richardson is co-author of the
landmark text “Introduction to Sys
tem Dynamics” as well as numerous
technical articles. He received the
American Society of Mechanical En
gineers/Pi Tau Sigma gold medal in
1963 and the Secretary of Transpor
tation’s Medal in 1972.
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