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THE HUMAN FACTORS SOCIETY
STUDENT CHAPTER
PRESENTS
NASA ASTRONAUT
MICHAEL J. McCULLEY
"HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING: APPLICATION IN
SPACE SHUTTLE, SPACE STATION, AND ADVANCED PROGRAMS’
TUESDAY MARCH 31, 1987
ROOM 102 ZACHRY
7:30 PM
ALL INTERESTED ARE URGED TO ATTEND
Page 14/The Battalion/Tuesday, March 31, 1987
Oil officials claim problems
require long-term solutions
FARMEltS MARKET I
HOUSTON (AP) — The federal
government should take a more
long-term outlook in trying to help
the battered oil industry although
most people are more worried about
quick solutions, top petrochemical
officials said Monday.
“We tend to forget the last crisis
and wait until the next one before
we do anything about it,” said Paul
F. Oreff ice, chairman and chief ex
ecutive officer of Midland, Mich.-
based Dow Chemical Co., referring
to the government. “It’s a sad com
mentary, but that’s the way we oper
ate.”
Joe T. McMillan, senior vice presi
dent of Exxon Co. U.S.A. Inc. of
Houston, said, “I don’t think any
thing the government is going to do
is going to make that much differ
ence immediately. This is a much
longer-term problem. That’s one of
the difficult things for our govern
ment to do. One half thinks of two
years from now and the other half
four years from now.”
Oreffice and McMillan spoke at a
news conference held by the Ameri
can Institute of Chemical Engineers,
which is holding its biennial spring
meeting in Houston.
The convention and accompany
ing trade show is about half the size
of previous years, attracting only
about 1,500 delegates and reflecting
the depressed nature of the energy
industry, of ficials said.
Oreffice said he hoped oil indus
try sentiment for an oil import fee
was “dead and buried.”
“I think there are many ways to
help the oil industry without hurting
all of the downstream industries,” he
said.
“I don't think we’re ready for an
oil import fee and 1 don't think polit
ically it’s very feasible,” he said.
Asked what he thinks the Con
gress might do, Oreffice replied, “1
would not presume to know what’s
in the mind of the Senate and the
House.”
T he best way, he said, is to give in
centives to the industry.
McMillan said he expects the Rea
gan administration to respond
within six weeks to an Energy De
partment report, released earlier
this month, warning of incieased de
pendence on imported oil.
“I do think we will see govern
ment respond in some wa\ to en
courage exploration and devel
opment of reserves,” lie said.
“ 1 here’s no wav to guess at this
point what thev’re going to do."
Crowd throws stones at trial
in poison cooking oil case
MADRID, Spain (AP) — An an
gry crowd threw stones Monday at
defendants emerging from the
opening session of the trial in the
poison cooking oil case that killed at
least 584 people six years ago.
Prosecutors say the 38 defendants
should serve thousands of years in
jail and pay millions of dollars in
fines for selling the toxic imitation
olive oil.
T housands of people, many re
lated to victims, gathered outside the
exhibition hall in a park on the out
skirts of Madrid, where authorities
created a makeshift courtroom.
The trial, where charges include
homicide and fraud, is expected to
last about six months.
Some in the crowd cursed and
threw stones when the defendants
emerged from the building after the
morning session.
Stones hit Adela Jaraute Marti
nez, the only woman among those
on trial, as her lawyer led her to a
waiting car.
Lawyers on both sides complained
about a lack of security and sug
gested the trial might have to be sus
pended until protection was im
proved.
Juan Miguel Bengoechea, the
main defendant, gave the govern
ment lawyer vague replies and
would not answer questions from
private lawyers representing victims
or their families.
The first death was reported in
May 1981 f rom the adulterated ra-
peseed oil intended for industrial
use.
Although Bengoechea told an in
vestigating judge in 1981 he knew
the oil was destined for human con
sumption, he told Prosecutor Edu
ardo Fungairino on Monday that he
was aware of it only af ter reports of
deaths.
Bengoechea’s company imported
the oil from France by the tanker
load.
The defendant told the three-
judge panel his company imported
adult m ated rapeseed oil for 12 oi 13
years for industrial purposes.
He replied vaguely when Fungai
rino tried to demonstrate that Ben-
egoechea knew that the oil was des
tined for human consumption and
that the dye used to mark it for in
dustrial use was toxic. He said at one
point he was not aware of what was
on the bills sent to firms that IxMiglu
the oil from him.
Prosecutors contend that Bengoe-
chea and his brother, Fernando, im
ported the oil knowing it was unlit
for human consumption, with the
intent of selling it to two middlemen
in Madrid and Tarragona who
would remove the red dye that
marked it as industrial and pass it oil
as cheap olive oil.
It was sold in 5-Iiter plastic con
tainers in poor towns and neighbor
hoods, mainly around Madrid, in
May and June of 1981. The first
death reported was that of an 8-
year-old lx>y on May (’>, 1981. Other
members of his f amily fell ill.
Prosecutors put the numliet of
deaths at 584. T he Healtli Ministry
number is 356 and figures from
other sources range up to 650.
T he state asks a total of more than
100,000 years in prison for the
Bengoechea brothers and six other
principal defendants on charges of
homicide, fraud and crimes against
the iublic health resulting in death.
It has charged the other 30 de
fendants with lesser of fenses.
West Germans
may free 2
accused of
terrorism in U,$,
WASHINGT ON (AP) -Tk
West German government, in®
attempt to gain the freedom of
two West German businesstnei
held hostage in Beirut, maybt
considering releasing two Lef
tnese brothers accused of terror
ism, a l I.S. official said Mondar
“All I can say is we’re getlin;]
some rather disturbing indh
lions that they're consider®;
such a course," said the officii
who spoke on condition of ano
nymity.
T he West Germans are hold
ing Mohammed Ali Haniadi,;
Lebanese who is wanted inti*
United States on air piracy an)
murder charges, but mav cor
sider expelling him and te
brother, Ali Abbas Haniadi. ti*
l .S. oilicial said.
I he of ficial declined tospec:
what information the Uniiec
States had received about it*
Haniadi brothers hut saidithaij
I>een within the last week.
He did not know what actiom
were 1 Iwing taken to persuaded*
West German goverment nou
let them leave the country.
Stock market
experiences
another drop
NEW YORK (AP) — Thes
market dropped sharply for the wj
ond straight session .Mondavi]
profit-taking continued amid <
cei ns alxuit the dollar, interestniel
and a trade confrontation witliji
pan.
But analysts shrugged offthetw
day decline and predicted 1VJ
Stieet would resume its bullish win
in short order.
I he Dow Jones average of30 in
dustrials fell 57.39 to 2,278.41,tit
thii d-lai gest chop on record ford*
closely watt lied barometer.
Overspending
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ter-page notes (called door slips, be
cause they are passed under doors),
badge covers, plywood, lumber and
paint for making signs — which he
said he painted, nails, masking tape
and a $5 filing fee to enter the race.
The receipts add up to $306.66.
Bradshaw produced 5,000
unused door slips, worth $14.60, to
bring his total down to $292.06. He
also said he’s only used half his fliers.
Candidates must only account for
material they actually use in the race,
not all the material they buy.
“We could bring our total down to
$200 easily if we wanted to, with all
the material we haven’t used,” he
said.
The candidates filing the charges
admitted that making charges of
overspending historically has not re
sulted in a candidate’s expulsion.
In both the Sean Royall case two
years ago — when Royall was ac
cused by other candidates’ campaign
workers of overspending, and the
Mike Sims case last year — when
current Student Body President
Mike Sims was accused of over
spending by Mike Hachtman — the
accused candidates were exoner
ated. It is a difficult charge to prove
if the candidate can present valid ev
idence of his spending.
Some have said that filing an ex
penditure complaint is a campaign
ploy to trip-up the front runner, but
all the candidates involved in filing
the charge deny that is the case, and
said they didn’t feel Bradshaw was
the front runner in this race.
Bradshaw reacted indignantly to
the charges, saying, “I feel that when
we started this campaign all these
people were our friends, that this
was a clean campaign.
“The main thing is, that we have
run a clean campaign. We're hurt
very much that a group of student
leaders would do something like
this. It shouldn’t happen.”
Brian Banner, Bradshaw’s cam
paign manager, said, “Our outlook
on this race was to start off with a
bang. We used half our fliers and al
most half our brochures in the first
two days. I guess they based their as
sumptions on that.
“Now almost half our stuff is gone
— I don’t know what happened to
it.”
Bradshaw added, “I told these
people that I hoped I could be in
Student Government yvith them next
year. At that time I thought they
were my friends and I thought I
could work with them. Obviously
some of them f eel strongly about ibis
or they wouldn’t pursue it.
“I’ve talked to them and told them
Legislation
I had receipts and they could«
them, but they didn’t want to.Wn
that tells me is that they’veforgott®
about the facts, and they just want#
be student Ixxly president. Noth
else matters.”
(Continued from page 1)
Brandenberger said, “Within
what is constituted as an offense,
there should be no enforcement
problems at all.”
T he oidy comment local law en
forcement officials made was that
they would enforce any law to the
fullest of their abilities.
Previous open-container bills
were opposed by people who were
worried about police harassment,
questioned the clarity of the hill’s
language or just fiat-out opposed the
bill’s concept, Brandenberger said.
“Right now Sen. Sarpalius is very
confident that it is going to pass,” he
said. “Really, he cannot see any way
that it won’t pass.”
An open-container law wouj
serve as a constant deterrent f
di inking and driving becausepeopl
would conscious!) know toe/tt
breaking the law, he said.
“There have been a lotofstufc
that have indicated the biggestval«<
of an open-container bill is f
ser ves as a constant reminder—(*<
that is there every day — of the fa-
gets of drinking and driving.’
said.
Watson said some legislators *:
vote for this bill just to satisfy
constituents, but Watson considft
the bill unenforceable.
“I think they are going to vote to
it because they won’t havetoexplai
to people why they voted against it
he said.
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AG CONVOCATION and CHILI COOK-OFF
Saturday, April 4, 1987
1:00 p.m. Central Park, College Station
Tickets $2. 50 from Kleberg, Dean's Office,
Ag Council Representatives,
or at the door. 1
Chili Cook-Off
Volleyball tournament
Domino tournament
Sponsored by the College of Agriculture, Alpha Zeta, and Student Agricultural Council,