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MEXICO CITY — Rescuers
Bd a baby boy and a woman alive
B the ruins of a hospital Wednes-
fland U.S. officials said the two
Ki earthquakes that hit Mexico
Bveek were much stronger than
■measurements indicated.
“lie was hurt a little bad but I
hink he’s going to live,” Capt. Fred-
■ Pierre of a French rescue team
■of the baby, who was taken from
■rubble of the earthquake-dev-
istated General Hospital.
■erre said the woman was freed
B the hospital’s ruins after an 11 -
hour rescue effort. One of her legs
was amputated during the rescue, he
said.
No other details on the two survi
vors were immediately available.
Police said the death toll in Mex
ico City from the quakes last Thurs
day and Friday was up to 4,596.
Mayor Ramon Aguirre’s office stuck
with its estimate of the death toll at
3,500.
There was no explanation of the
discrepancy between the two figures.
National government officials
have said that about 100 people were
killed outside the capital.
About 1,500 people were believed
trapped in the wreckage, some per
haps still alive. Aguirre’s office said
11,700 people were injured, of
whom 1,700 remained hospitalized.
U.S. Ambassador*John Gavin said
his initial estimate of 10,000 deaths,
based on an aerial survey, was “prob
ably relatively correct.”
The embassy knows of five Amer
ican fatalities, and there are “28
Americans we have not accounted
for that we believe would have been
in hotels that collapsed,” Gavin said.
Equipment was being brought
from the United States to relieve in
ternational communications prob
lems caused by the quakes.
The National Earthquake Infor
mation Center in Golden, Colo., said
in a news release that the official
magnitude for the first temblor on
the Richter scale of earthquake in
tensity had been revised up to 8.1.
Officials earlier had said earlier that
last Thursday’s quake measured 7.8.
The center said the magnitude of
the second quake, on Friday night,
had been revised to 7.5, up from 7.3.
The new magnitudes were com
puted using data from several sta
tions around the world, and were
more accurate than magnitudes
from a single station, the center said.
Every increase of one number on
the scale means that ground motion
is 10 times greater. A magnitude of 8
indicates a great earthquake capable
of causing tremendous damage.
President Miguel De la Madrid
began a review of building codes at a
meeting with city officials Wednes
day. It will include land use, building
heights, allowable population den
sity and construction standards.
The president made his eighth
walking tour of the city Tuesday af
ternoon.
About demolition he said: “I rec
ognize that we have to work with
caution so as not to put the volunteer
groups at risk, and so that the rescue
work might not provoke internal
cave-ins that could lose the lives of
those who probably still might be
found alive.”
Rescue teams from France, Swit
zerland, West Germany, the United
States and other countries joined
Mexican crews Wednesday in an
other day of digging and sifting
through the heaps of debris.
French commanders, with 377
men and 35 dogs at their disposal,
began giving their men rest periods.
French teams have found 25 survi
vors and 70 bodies since Saturday.
See Quake, page 16
ENTOT—
Aggie Helicopter
Anna Glasscock, a senior economics and finance major, and Scott
Summers, a senior electrical engineering major, participate in
“Hoppy Hour,” a free aerobics class that meets behind the System Ad-
Photo by JODI FELTON
ministration Building. Glasscock instructs the class on Tuesdays and
Thursdays from 5 to 6 p.m. Beginning Oct. 1, the class will be held in
the Pavilion.
HIS
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Space
Iwo Aggies preparing for upcoming shuttle missions
By MARYBETH ROHSNER
Stall Writer
I If Air Force Undersecretary Ed-
lard C.* “Pete” Aldridge Jr. could
have his way, space shuttle Discovery
d be launched next March with
One conspicuous change — the br-
biier would be painted maroon and
white.
Aldridge, who graduated with a
legree in aerospace engineering
:rom Texas A&M in I960, will be
he highest-ranking Air Force offi-
:ialand the second Aggie to venture
into space.
The first son of A&M to make a
Shuttle flight will be Maj. William
ailes, who received his bachelor’s
Edward C. “Pete” Aldridge Jr.
degree from the Air Force Academy
and then earned his master’s degree
in computer science from A&M in
1981. Pailes is scheduled to ride
aboard the new shuttle Atlantis Oct.
3.
Both men will act as payload spe
cialists for the Air Force on top-se
cret military flights. Because of the
classified nature of the Atlantis
flight, Pailes was unavailable for
comment. Aldridge, however, said
he was “absolutely thrilled” about his
flight.
“It hasn’t really all sunk in yet —
I’m slowly beginning to get used to
the idea,” Aldridge said Friday.
Aldridge probably will be the vic
tim of good-natured ribbing from
his fellow crew members while in
space. University of Texas graduate
Bob Crippen will pilot the shuttle.
“I’m sure there will be lots of Ag-
Schultz, Soviet Foreign Minister meet at U.N.
Associated Press
■ united NATIONS — George
I P. Shultz and Eduard Shevardnadze,
he Soviet foreign minister, met for
(lore than four hours Wednesday,
lut the secretary of state said they
lid not reach agreement on any of
he issues discussed.
Both had indicated they were op-
imistic before the meeting.
The two leaders met for four
tours and 20 minutes at the Soviet
U.N. Mission. It was the first of seve
ral sessions regarded as crucial to a
successful summit Nov. 19-20 in Ge
neva, Switzerland, between Presi
dent Reagan and Soviet leader Mik
hail S. Gorbachev.
Shultz said the Soviets did not re
veal any new proposal that could
break the impasse in the arms con
trol talks now under way in Geneva.
He said the discussion focused on
“security issues, most particularly
those being discussed by our nego
tiators in Geneva.
“We agreed we were looking for
points of contact in our positions
and areas of common understand
ing. We did not reach an agreement
on any of these items. But we cer
tainly did discuss each other’s posi
tions with great care,” Shultz told re
porters.
He said the talks had been “most
worthwhile” and had been con
ducted in an “easy and frank atmo
sphere.
“There were no particular new
proposals put on the table,” he said.
Shevardnadze spoke to reporters
after Shultz and said he agreed with
the secretary’s assessment of the
talks. “It was an interesting, frank
and useful meeting,” he said.
The Soviet foreign minister noted
that he will meet Reagan in Wash
ington on Friday. He is expected to
see Shultz again on Saturday.
“There are quite a lot of things to
do” before the November summit,
Shevardnadze said. He declined to
take any questions from reporters.
See U.S., page 16
gie jokes while we’re up there,” Al
dridge said.
Aldridge is the third politician or
political appointee to ride on a space
shuttle. Unlike Senator Jake Garn,
R-Utah, and Rep. Bill Nelson, D-
Fla., Aldridge will not be a passive
observer for the flight. He will work
with Maj. John Watterson as a pay-
load specialist.
Air Force spokesman Capt. Marty
Houser said the shuttle carrying Al
dridge will be launched into a polar
orbit from Vandenburg Air Force
Base in California. All previous
flights have been launched into an
equatorial orbit from Cape Canave
ral in Florida. Florida lift-offs were
used for west-to-east orbits, those
frequently used for satellites, be
cause it is easier to reach a geosynch
ronous orbit from Florida. However,
Houser described launching into a
polar orbit from Florida as “trying to
go up a ‘down’ escalator.”
Houser added that the Vanden
burg launch would be safer than a
Florida launch in this circumstance
because the shuttle will fly over rela
tively sparsely-populated areas in
stead of the East Coast.
Because the shuttle will be able to
view the entire earth as the planet
rotates instead of just the equatorial
regions, Houser said the 90-minute
revolutions offer information about
troop movement, polar weather pat
terns and oil reserves under the po
lar caps.
NASA spokesman John Lawrence
said because Aldridge, 47, is not an
See Space, page 16
Safety precautions
taken to prevent
post-game injuries
By BRIAN PEARSON
Staff Writer
Representatives of four Texas
A&M administrative offices met
Wednesday morning and decided to
further alter a tradition for the sake
of safety.
The meeting was held to discuss
safety measures to help prevent acci
dents on Kyle Field such as the one
involving a 12-year-old girl who suf
fered a broken leg Saturday night
after the Aggie football game.
Traditionally, after an Aggie vic
tory, the yell leaders run in all direc
tions on the playing field to avoid
capture by freshman in the Corps of
Cadets.
At Saturday’s football game, the
yell leaders were instructed by Dr.
Malon Southerland, assistant vice
president for student services, to
stay on the end zone side of the 40-
yard lines and not run out of the sta
dium through the tunnels.
Head Yell Leader Thomas Bu
ford said at the meeting that the in
jury occurred because of crowds
running straight across the field
from each side and running head-on
into each other.
Buford was representing the
Corps of Cadets. Representatives of
the University Police, Athletic De-
artment and Division of Student
ervices were also at the meeting.
Buford said at future A&M home
football games, the yell leaders will
be instructed to run toward the Ag
gie football team at the center of the
field. He said this would prevent po
tentially dangerous cross traffic.
Buford advises that members of
the crowd who are not in the Corps
to remain in the stands until the
post-game confusion dies down.
“I would advise if they’re going to
go onto the field to celebrate the vic
tory or whatever, that they wait
maybe a minute after the time ex
pires and then go out there,” Buford
said. “Once the yell leaders are cap
tured the problem is resolved be
cause you don’t have anybody run
ning around.”
The injured girl, Stacy Gilleland,
a resident of Bryan, was part of this
crowd and on the field near the
horseshoe when she was hit by an
unidentified person, Buford said.
Gilleland was released Sunday
from St. Joseph Hospital.
Bob Wiatt, director of security
and traffic, said at the meeting, “It’s
difficult, once they (the crowd) are
down there, to excercise a certain
amount of control.”
Wiatt said children can get onto
the field as easily as any adult.
“They like to get on the field and
fantasize that they’re football players
rolling around on the astro turf,” he
said. “They like the opportunity to
get close to one of the players to say
‘you sure look big,’ ”
Study: U.S. faces more
energy crises in future
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The world
appears to have enough oil to last
until the mid-21st century, the
U.S. Geological Survey said
Wednesday.
But, it said, because most of the
known and undiscovered re
serves are found principally in
the Middle East, Americans can
expect to face several repetitions
of the energy crises of the 1970s.
In a 25-page report, “World
Petroleum Resources,” the gov
ernment geologists said their sur
vey of potential oil-bearing for
mations around the globe
indicates there are none equiva
lent to those in the Middle East.
“The most important conclu
sion of our study is that the Mid
dle East increasingly will monop
olize world petroleum supplies,”
said Charles Masters, the chief
author of the report.
The study said discoveries of
new oil appear to be on a perma
nent decline from a high of some
35 billion barrels per year in the
1950s to between 10 billion and
15 billion barrels annually in re
cent years.
Given this trend, it said, “we
can project the potential for sub
stantial oil discovery and produc
tion to the middle of the 21st cen
tury.”
The report dismissed what it
called ' “the commonly held as
sumption” that discoveries have
dropped because of a decline in
exploration caused by a current
surplus in world oil supplies.
The researchers noted that an
nual production and consump
tion of oil has continued along at
about 20 billion barrels per year
and is outpacing new discoveries
by almost two to one.
“Were it not for a world reces
sion, we most surely would have
even a greater disparity between
discovery and production,” they
suggested.
World oil reserves now total
723 billion barrels, about a 36-
year supply, the report said. It es
timated undiscovered resources
at 550 billion barrels, about half
the amount already found or
drilled.
“We have but a few decades to
enjoy the convenience of crude
oil as our major energy fuel,” the
report said. “And while it is
found in great supply today,
there is every indication that it
will become ever more difficult to
obtain in years to come.”
Because about 360 billion bar
rels of the known reserves and at
least 120 billion barrels of the un-
discoverd oil are in the Middle
East, “we can anticipate many ir
regularities in its availability dur
ing those last decades of oil prom
inence,” the researchers said.
The report noted that an in
crease in U.S. coal production
over the past 10 years — from
600 million to 875 million tons
annually — already has displaced
about .1 billion barrels of oil im
ports.