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PnonEd Dominik Drive College Station-BYTHE-SEA PORT ARTHUR — Weather in the Gulf of Mexico switched abruptly Wednesday, sending a mas sive oil slick toward land and threat ening major environmental damage to beaches along the Texas coast, Coast Guard officials said. Landfall was expected between Port Arthur and Galveston Thurs day or Friday, and Coast Guard spokesman Keith Spangler said “you could have very thick oil, a lot of it, all along the beach.” The 1.3 million gallon spill from a ruptured British tanker had been headed away from land, but wind and sea changes have forced the slick — nearly 14 miles long and 200 yards wide — toward tn Spangler said. Crude oil continued to leak Wednesday evening from the tanker Alvenus, which apparently hit an uncharted shoal early Monday af ternoon, he said. Top priority was given to getting the crippled ship — still carrying more than 13 million gallons of crude — into Port Arthur, Spangler said, and efforts to contain the spill were dropped. Coast Guard officials Tuesday and early Wednesday had used plas tic floats to trap and suck some of the oil into a barge, but Spangler said that was halted when the weather changed Wednesday. “Our cleanup efforts as they are will only be able to contain 1 percent of the amount of oil that is in the wa ter,” he said, “and we have 10 times that amount aboard the tanker. “We have abandoned the cleanup efforts of the oil in the water and are concentrating our efforts toward sal vage of the tanker and its cargo.” Tugboats will try to turn the ship so vapors are blown away from workers trying to unload it, reducing the fire hazard, he said. Until that turn is made, it is extremely danger ous to work aboard the ship, Span gler said. There is a chance conditions could change again and the shore line could be spared, he said, but if'' the slick continues on its current path the environmental damage could be enormous. Slouch By Jim Earle SALE TY 5CT 13- purP/es =•" -- ‘We’re going to ha ve to get around to updating those tests." Cable “It could be a major, major inci dent. It could have a major impact on the environment, on the beaches and so forth,” the spokesman said. (continued from page 1) down in communication between Community Cablevision and the Sypcon Corporation. He says he paid the cable company Wednesday for services for the month of August and hopes that in the near future a contract will be worked out so that the satellite dish can be used. Another problem with satellite dishes, Di Bacco says, is that they use private communication signals. He says unless permission is given by pay TV channels to broadcast the TV shows, satellite users are reaking a federal law. “Everything sent out by satellite and microwaves except for public broadcasting serv ices is private communication,” Di- Bacco says. 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