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Thursday, January 23, 1986/The Battalion/Page 17 i priti Jred to, r. I ener cent. i°tup | ipidh ocketii tomato :ly hip the® heGr« I In ; fleeted enthol; :ent est n 3/d Murpb Inquire >ortdii' d by tin al cour a jun ppearec "Eddit d’s Bm .id Hel leath." the Ei alse and out the rd Mur bed hvi headlint ?n in J ast sales’ ,ed Mar- ile, inse- NASA discovers moons orbiting planet Uranus EPA imposes asbestos ban on products Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Envi ronmental Protection Agency is calling for an immediate ban on some products made with asbes tos, and a phase out of the man ufacture and import of many other items using the cancer- causing material, an agency spokesman said Wednesday night. The sweeping EPA plan, to be formally announced by agency chief Lee Thomas on Thursday, contains three separate proposals for restricting and banning a wide range of asbestos products, spokesman Dave Ryan said. “Asbestos is a definite human carcinogen, with no qualifiers, in both short-term or long-term ex posures,” Ryan said in a tele phone interview. “We just can’t let this situation continue.” Many scientists say asbestos fib ers, when breathed, can cause lung cancer, other lung disorders and a cancer of the lining of the chest or abdominal cavity as long as 40 years after exposure. The EPA proposal caps years of efforts for an asbestos ban. The agency says its proposal would prevent 1,900 cancer deaths a year. The first alternative in the agency’s proposal calls for an im mediate ban on asbestos clothing, asbestos cement pipe and fittings, vinyl asbestos floor tile, and as bestos roofing and flooring felt. Felt is a thin, paperlike backing material used to prevent corro sion and to help insulate. Another alternative would im mediately ban asbestos construc tion products, including asbestos cement sheets and shingles, and would outlaw some asbestos fric tion products, such as brake drums, in five years. Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. — Voyager 2, racing toward the climax of its his toric sightseeing cruise to Uranus, has found clouds and winds in the planet’s atmosphere and discovered two more moons, NASA said Wednesday. The newly discovered satellites raise the total of known Uranian moons to 14. They are the first “shepherd moons” found orbiting Uranus, Voyager imaging team leader Brad Smith said. Shepherd moons are so named because their gravitational forces are believed to herd the planet’s nine known rings into their narrow shapes. Clouds swirling in the Uranian at mosphere also were discovered by the Voyager spacecraft, said Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Jet Propulsion Lab oratory. crete (distinct) clouds have ever been “This is the first time that any dis- detected in the atmosphere of Ura nus,” Stone said during a Wednes day news conference. “In other words, there are winds there,” Stone said. JPL astronomer Richard Terrile said the each of two shepherd moons measure 12 to 18 miles in diameter. They were discovered Monday in photographs taken by Voyager, said Smith, a University of Arizona astro nomer. The two moons were found “in side and outside the epsilon ring,” the outermost and widest of the nine rings, and were designated as 1986U7 and 1986U8 until they are formally named, he added. Seven other moons have been dis covered by Voyager since late De cember, and the planet’s five major moons were discovered earlier by telescopes on Earth. None of those Sea-Land Carp, wants to avoid proxy fight Associated Press MENLO PARK, N.J. — Sea-Land Corp. said Wednesday it would nominate financier Harold C. Sim mons to its board of directors so as to avoid Simmons’ plan to wage a proxy fight for control of the board. Two of Simmons’ representatives also would be nominated to the board according to the “understand ing” reached between the container shipping concern and Simmons, a Dallas-based investor, Sea-Land said. Sea-Land’s common stock sky rocketed from $2.25 a share to $21.75 on the New York Stock Ex change after the company’s an nouncement. Simmons, who currently owns just under 40 percent of Sea-Land’s common stock outstanding, offered last fall to acquire the stock he did not already own for $25 a share, but was rebuffed by Sea-Land. Sea-Land also adopted a “poison pill” anti-takeover provision that is triggered once a bidder acquires 40 percent or more of its stock. The provision gives stockholders, other than Simmons, special rights to buy Sea-Land stock at half price and is aimed at making a takeover attempt prohibitively expensive. Earlier this month Simmons an nounced that he would stop accumu lating Sea-Land stock until the poi son pill could be repealed or declared invalid, but that he would instead try to control the company by winning a majority of seats on its board through a proxy contest. Joseph F. Abley Jr., Sea-Land’s chairman and chief executive, said Excommun ication Planned parenthood head undaunted by church's ruling Associated Press for the orntneci PROVIDENCE, R.l. — The head of the state’s Planned Parenthood organization said Wednes day that her excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church for what it called activities caus- had noi f| ing’ the sinful termination of human life” would j not affect her work or her religious beliefs. “1 am a Catholic and I will always be a Catho lic,” Mary Ann Sorrentino said. “Whether they ?i ve me .communion or bury me in their church 1 isn’t going to change that. ... I can sit in my living I room and talk to my Cod. I don’t need to go to their church.” The Diocese of Providence excommunicated Sorrentino in June, saying in a letter that her ef forts had “resulted in the sinful termination of human life.” The Vatican City liaison in Wash ington supported the move. “It is incomprehensible that you cannot per- e Nano® n... isles jw and« It accost itizens an d front y> assure ce Aug' 1 cut waj ed the!* 11 25 an ho® move jrnpfitP ,er Hot® essions as 'S • leg s * the seat tv what .* 1 ,e vibratis p into f from the . inch afte topp 1 :ats ed, to ^ head ^ ing and, 11 unconsc® Neither 1 injutedi ■ ceive that you are an accomplice when you direct an agency where ... about one-sixth of the state’s 7,000 abortions a year are performed,” the June 14 letter said. Sorrentino, 43, has been executive director of Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island for nine years. The organization provides counseling on birth control and pregnancy and performs abor tions. She said she did not disclose her ouster from the church because of publicity that would fol low. Word of the excommunication came during an anti-abortion program broadcast Tuesday on several cable television outlets. The show’s narra tor, the Rev. John Randall, made the disclosure, calling her “public enemy No. 1 of all babies be ing killed in the womb in Rhode Island.” Randall’s program is not sanctioned by the di ocese. Eleven convicted in Chicago Medicaid fraud Associated Press CHICAGO — Eleven people, in cluding pharmacists and physicians, were convicted of participating in a Medicaid fraud that dispensed cough syrup to drug addicts and bilked the state out of almost $20 million, it was announced Wednes day. Pharmacists Morton Goldsmith and Vito Sblendorio were found guilty of operating a fraud that pros ecutors said involved 22 clinic-phar macies selling sedatives and cough syrup with codeine to drug addicts in poor Chicago neighborhoods. The two were convicted of the most serious of the charges: operat ing a continuing criminal enterprise, which carries a penalty of 10 years to life in prison and a fine up to $100,000. Goldsmith, said to have been the ringleader, also was convicted of 86 counts of racketeering, obstructing justice, perjury, illegal drug distribu tion and mail fraud. Sblendorio, who prosecutors said assisted Goldsmith, also was con victed of 11 counts of racketeering, illegal drug distribution and mail fraud. Five doctors, three pharmacists, two medical technicians and a secre tary were defendants in the trial, which lasted two months. All of the defendants were found guilty of racketeering, which carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a $25,000 fine, prosecutors said. 10,000 feared dead in South Yemen fighting Associated Press DJIBOUTI — Rebels moved through South Yemen’s capital with tanks and rocket launchers Wednes day, and the president called in loyal tribesmen to a “last-ditch battle” for control of the Soviet-allied Arab state, diplomats here reported. The Arab diplomats in Djibouti, which faces South Yemen across the southern entrance to the Red Sea, said the struggle between rival Marxist factions had brought the So- viet Embassy in Aden under fire. They said they did not know which side was shooting at it. No direct reports from Aden are available because regular commu nications have been cut. Arab diplomats, speaking on con dition of anonymity, estimated the death toll at 10,000 and the wounded at twice that number in the fighting that started Jan. 13. Both President Ali Nasser Mo hammed and the rebel leaders sup port Moscow, but Mohammed’s re cent overtures to pro-Western Arab nations apparently inspired the coup attempt. The Soviet Union has two military bases in South Yemen. “The battles are vicious, and the confrontation lines are all overlap ping, ” said a diplomat who was in touch with his country’s embassy in Aden, the South Yemen capital. “ In ty ing ☆☆☆ Spring Rush ALPHA CHI OMEGA A National Women’s Sorority Tuesday, January 28, 1986 at 7:00 pm College Station Community Center All Interested Collegiate Women Welcome For Additional Information: Marci Jill 693-2527 260-8366 12 moons are shepherd moons. Scientists expect Voyager will find up to 18 shepherd moons around the solar system’s third-largest planet, with one on each side of each of the nine rings. If 16 more shepherd moons are found, the planet will have 30 satel lites, more than any planet in the so lar system. Saturn now has the most with 20. Voyager 2, launched in 1977, ex plored Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1981. It began the near-encounter phase of its Uranus exploration late Tuesday, project manager Dick Laeser said. It is the first spacecraft ever to visit the seventh planet from the sun. The probe will make its closest ap proach to the planet and its five ma jor moons Friday, swooping within 51,000 miles of Uranus’ cloud tops and gathering more information about the gaseous planet than has been learned since its discovery in 1781. First Presbyterian Church 1100 Carter Creek Parkway, Bryan 823-8073 Dr. Robert Leslie, Pastor Rev. John McGarey, Associate Pastor SUNDAY: Worship at 8:30 AM & 11:00 AM Church School at 9:30 AM College Class at 9:30 AM Bus from TAMU Krueger/Dunn 9:10 AM Northgate 9:15 AM Jr. and Sr. High Youth Meeting at 5:00 p.m. Nursery: All Events lil Jsl— 2 s ** s 5 CARTER CREEK PKY Rr*t 4- Presbyterian ' Church in a statement Wednesday that the company “is mindful of the disrup tive effect that a proxy fight can have on the ability of a company to manage its business in the best inter ests of its shareowners.” He said Sea-Land moved to avoid such a fight by proposing that Sim mons and hiS' representatives be elected for three-year terms on Sea- Land’s board. The election of direc tors will occur during Sea-Land’s an nual meeting, which is scheduled for April or May, said Sea-Land spokes man Stanford Erickson. However, Sea-Land said its cur rent board decided to retain the company’s poison-pill provision “to protect the interests of all sharehold ers.” BOB BROWN UNIVERSAL TRAVEL | COMPLETE, DEPENDABLE DOMESTIC AND WORLDWIDE TRAVEL Airline Reservations* Hotel/Motel Accomodations Travel Counsel • Rental Car Reservations • Tours Charter Flights • FREE Ticket Delivery 846-8718 “I consider it is a discriminatory attack,” Sor rentino said. “I don’t see that I represent any thing that (U.S. Sen.) Ted Kennedy hasn’t rep resented, that (former U.S. Rep.) Geraldine Ferraro hasn’t represented, that a lot of people in this country with a lot more national prominence and influence haven’t represented.” The Rev. Salvatore Matano, vicar of adminis tration for the diocese, said the church’s ouster of Sorrentino “is a logical consequence of her posi tion. None of those (national figures) is the head of an agency which in fact performs abortions.” Sorrentino also accused the diocese of hypoc risy, saying it had not dismissed three priests who were accused of sexually assaulting young boys. Matano said “There is no priest who has been found guilty of any crime who is still performing as a priest. “The law says one is innocent until proven guilty.” 1 <sN e f j * * * * * + * * * * i * * * * * * * * * if + f f »f f •f f • Agency is fully computerized • 410 S. Texas/Lobby of the Ramada Inn/College Station KAPPA SIGMA FRATERNITY Spring Rush 86 Ski Lodge Party Thur. Jan 23 8:00 p.m, KAPPA SIGMA House 606 W. 28th Bryan * if * * * * * * * * * * * * * * >f * * * * * * jf * * * * jf jf jf jf jf jf jf jf jf C.rrrnlrtf MoiptUl 1 1 AAM Campui 20% OFF Defendants besides Goldsmith and Sblendorio were found guilty on va rious other counts of the perjury, il legal drug distribution and mail fraud counts. 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