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• Native Texan
• Brazos County Resident for 12 Years
• Successful Business Woman
• Active Community Citizen
WHO WILL
• Bring Sound Management Methods
To Brazos County Financial Affairs
• Serve All The People In The
Office of County Treasurer
• Bring Dedication To Excellence
In Daily Office Performance
WHO IS COMMITTED
Page 6The Battalion/Monday, November 3, 1986
Texas oilmen say
oil minister’s firing
to add to troubles
DALLAS (AP) — Texas oilmen
say that the dismissal of Ahmed Zaki
Yamani as Saudi Arabia’s oil min
ister adds another element of uncer
tainty to the already troubled state
economy.
“Sheik Yamani’s departure poses
a serious danger to this nation,” said
George Mitchell, chairman of Mitch
ell Energy 8c Development Corp. of
Houston.
Mitchell said the departure of Ya
mani could strengthen the more
radical members of the Organization
of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Such a move could “prove threaten
ing to our military and economic se
curity,” Mitchell said.
Yamani was fired Thursday by
King Fahd.
Named acting oil minister in place
of Yamani was Planning Minister
Hisham Nazer.
The announcement sent shock
waves through financial and oil com
munities around the globe, leaving
analysts wondering what Yamani’s
departure would mean to the finan
cial world.
Yamani has orchestrated Saudi oil
policy since 1962.
He was the dominant figure at
OPEC meetings and was considered
the architect of the 1973 Arab oil
embargo that triggered the first ma
jor oil price rise and reshaped the
world economy.
“There is no question that it (Ya
mani’s ouster) adds yet another vola
tile factor,” said Ray Hunt, chairman
of Hunt Consolidated of Dallas.
Hunt said he expected Nazer, as
Yamani’s replacement, to push for a
higher oil price and reduced pro
duction.
The alternative would be to in
crease output and attempt to force
prices downward.
Hunt is especially interested in the
developments in the Middle East.
A Hunt company made a major
wildcat discovery in North Yemen in
1984 and is building a 200,000-bar-
rel-a-day pipeline to transport the oil
to a Red Sea loading area.
Some observers said the change in
leadership may help the United
States oil industry by calling atten
tion to its problems.
Members of the Independent Pe
troleum Association of America
called on President Reagan last week
to impose a fee on imported oil if
dominant OPEC countries continue
to hold oil prices below levels needed
for the United States to maintain ad
equate reserves.
The Reagan Administration had
welcomed the decline in oil prices
when the decline began a year ago
because it was seen as a way to con
trol inflation.
But the administration recently
launched a major study of the indus
try’s problems.
One of the reasons given for the
study was the downturn in the econ
omies of Texas, Oklahoma, Loui
siana and other oil-producing states.
DA: Charges
won’t affect
election
WACO (AP) — McLennan
County District Attorney VicFea-
zell, who faces charges of settling
criminal cases in exchange for
bribes, says he is confident going
into Tuesday’s election because
"I’m like an honest Huey Long.
“You ask anyone if Vic Feazell
was indicted because he took
bribes and they’ll say, ‘No, he was
indicted because he steps on the
wrong toes,’ ” Feazell said. “Itsi
the average people saying that." I
Feazell contends his legal prob
lems stem from his investigation
that discredited scores of murder
confessions made by Henry Lee|
Lucas, and the fact that hecasis^
himself with the common folks-
farmers, blue-collar workers and
minorities.
He says he likes rankling ‘the
bureaucrats,” “greedy out-of-
town bankers” and “the knot
heads at the country club who^
think they can sit around and run
things.”
Republican Paul Gartner, who’
lost to Feazell in 1982, has re i
fused to campaign against Feazell
on the grounds of his arrest.
"I'm not going to attack him
Gartner said. “I’m just not. its|;
not my way of doing things."
In a trial set for Feb. 2 in Airs-1
tin, Feazell faces 12 federal
counts of taking bribes. Hesav<|
the election will affect the case. I
“If I win big, I think you'll set|
them backing off,” he said. “liE
might not even go to trial.
"If I lose, I’m probably gointI
to prison."
To Keeping The People Informed
To Maintaining Conf idence In The
Integrity, Efficiency And
Effectiveness Of The Office Of
County Treasurer
Urban fight training purpose of mock city j
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Vickie Saxon, Treasurer, P.O. Box 100, Wellborn, TX 77881.
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FORT HOOD (AP) — A mock
city is being constructed on this
sprawling U.S. Army installation in
Central Texas to teach soldiers how
to fight in urbanized areas.
The city is inspired by the post’s
long-vanished Nazi Village that was
constructed during World War II to
train soldiers to fight in the villages
of Europe.
Guyco Engineering Co. of Lam
pasas is constructing a “mini-city”
that will be much larger than its
World War II counterpart. The city
will include paved streets, buildings,
underground drainage systems and
almost everything soldiers would
have to deal with in urban combat.
The new training facility will be
open by next November, according
to Capt. Gerald Bell.
The training area also will include
a company training area, a platoon
training area and an assault course
where soldiers will use live ammuni
tion and explosives.
Similar iacilities are being built at
Fort Ord, Calif., Fort Pickett, Ga.,
and Fort Benning, Ga., but the one
at Fort Hood is the largest, Bell said.
“We will have to fignt for or from
urban terrain in Europe and to do
that you have to train," Bell said.
All units at Fort Hood will take
advantage of the new training, MI
said.
“The medics have to know howitl
evacuate sick and wounded soldicn |
in urban terrain,” Bell said. “Suppl' |
personnel, military intelligence and 1
military police all nave to Deabletoi
operate in urban terrain."
He said 16 of the 32 buildings will,
be intact and the other 16 will lie |
constructed to simulate combat dam
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age.
Steve Hudson, an engineer for |
Guyco Engineering, said the projet;
is an unusual one for his compaiw
since the buildings will have little fin
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Freshmen & Sophomores
Freshmen and sophomore photos for the 1987 Aveieland have
been extended until November 7. Photos will betaken at AR
P lotography, 707 Texas Ave., across from the A&M Polo Field.
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