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WASHINGTON (AP) — The So-
het Union on Tuesday called on the
Jnited States to clear away the “last
bstacles” to an agreement banning
Inedium-range nuclear missiles by
Ivithdrawing 72 Pershing 1-A war-
lieads from West Germany.
I But U.S. officials said the war-
neads were not subject to negotia-
lions with the Soviets because the
Inissiles that carry them belong to
■he West Germans.
“We have said consistently that
hird-country systems are not part of
he negotiations,” White House
pokesman Marlin Fitzwater said in
anta Barbara, Calif., near President
eagan’s ranch. “We stand by that
sition.”
A State Department official, who
emanded anonymity, said the war-
eads would be withdrawn from
est Germany only after the mis-
iles were dismantled.
West German Chancellor Helmut
ohl offered last Wednesday to
rap the Pershing 1-A missiles,
which have a range of 465 miles, af-
■ter a U.S.-Soviet treaty is ratified and
utimo effect.
Both the United States and the
Soviet Union welcomed the offer as
i step forward.
But it is not clear whether Kohl’s
[schedule was acceptable to Moscow
sr posed a problem in completing
fhe treaty.
At a news conference here Tues-
lay, a Soviet deputy foreign min
ister, Vladimir F. Petrovsky, insisted
on removal of the warheads, which
are under U.S. control.
“If the United States would agree
to remove the 72 nuclear warheads,
the last obstacles to the double-zero
option would be removed,” Pe
trovsky said.
The Soviet official referred to the
dismantling of two categories of in
termediate-range missiles in what
would be Reagan’s first nuclear arms
control agreement with Moscow.
In all, 332 U.S. missiles would be
withdrawn from West Germany,
Britain, Italy and Belgium while the
Soviets scrapped 442 rockets aimed
at Western Europe and an additio
nal 121 issiles targeted on China and
Japan.
“It is very necessary for the
United States now to give a clear an
swer,” Petrovsky said. “Seventy-two
nuclear warheads are part of dou
ble-zero.”
On another arms control issue,
Soviet Col. Gen. Nikolai Chervov of
fered to permit the United States to
conduct a nuclear weapons test on
Soviet territory in order to check the
accuracy of American verification
methods.
Chervov, an adviser to the Soviet
general staff, said “we are prepared
now to enter large-scale negotiations
on the matter.”
He said the Soviets had submitted
the proposal in talks with U.S. ex
perts.
Lineup
Many students waited 1 Vz hours to get their all-sports passes outside
at Kyle Field yesterday. This is just one of the many massive lines
Photo by Jay Janner
forming on campus this week as students clear blocks, buy books and
pick up parking stickers.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A confi-
lent group of Texas state and con
gressional officials formally pre
sented the U.S. Energy Department
on Tuesday with two proposals to at
tract the planned $4.4 billion super-
conductingsupercollider.
The Department of Energy esti-
lates 24 states will submit bids for
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l GST today.
neSIS Texas officials said New York and
I California also are expected to sub
mit multiple bids.
“We in Texas know that our state
acquired so- has much to offer the rest of the
which must WO il(l and that Texas would be an
excellent site for the superconduct
ing supercollider,” said Rep. Jack
Brooks, D-Beaumont, dean of the
Texas congressional delegation.
As the largest and most advanced
particle accelerator ever con-
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Competitors offer proposals for supercollider
WASHINGTON (AP) — Flush
with optimism, state officials on
Tuesday rushed in their proposals to
the federal government to land the
“supercollider,” a $4.4 billion atom
smasher that will mean 3,000 jobs
for the winner.
To hear them talk, all the two
dozen competitors were bound to
win.
Some states made a big produc
tion out of it, either in Washington
or at home. Others said little and
kept details secret until after the 1
p.m. deadline today for getting pro
posals to the Energy Department.
A dozen Texas officials held the
first news conference of the day’s
several at the department and else
where after delivering 60 cardboard
cartons of documents in a station
wagon and a rented van.
Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, gave
one reason for secrecy — keeping
competitors from matching an at
tractive inducement.
His state plans a $200 million joint
venture with utilities to supply elec
tricity at an unmatchable 1 cent per
kilowatt-hour or less, he said. “It’s
too late” for other states to beat that,
he said, although several are stres
sing their low power costs.
Congress banned consideration of
direct financial incentives to prevent
states from getting into a bidding
war, but did permit states to contrib
ute to site improvements with roads,
sewers and other work. States that
wanted to offer more were asked to
submit details in a sealed envelope to
be opened only if they won, and sev
eral were doing so.
For Texas, site improvements
could add up to $700 million,
Gramm said.
Texas officials’ optimism was
echoed by their competitors from
one end of the country to the other.
• New York Lt. Gov. Stanley
Luridinetold reporters in New York
his state’s three sites were “techni
cally sound, financially superior and
politically attractive.”
• Joe Allbaugh, an aide to Okla
homa Gov. Henry Bellmon, said in
Oklahoma City he was convinced
“that we have probably the best tech
nical site that is being offered up
anywhere in the United States.”
• Arizona project jcoordinator
Ian McPherson called his state’s two
proposals “superb” and said in Phoe
nix, “We hope that now the issue will
be laid to rest that Arizona simply
does not have the werewithal or the
expertise to proceed.”
At least nine states were expected
to deliver their solicitations during
the day and three more were ex
pected on today. Others among the
24 states expected to compete
turned in their documents earlier,
shunning fanfare — Utah sent 36
boxes by Express Mail.
smasher is built, it will create up to
4,500 construction jobs, 2,500 per
manent technical jobs, and 500 to
1,000 visiting scientists each year.
The two official Texas sites, near
Amarillo and Dallas-Fort Worth, are
the product of two years of research
and evaluation during which more
than a dozen sites in the state were
examined.
Private groups are independently
proposing locations near Midland
and El Paso.
Inducements for the Texas sites
include payment of up to $700 mil
lion in infrastructure costs,
agreements with utilities at each site
to offer low cost electricity, and $150
million in research and community
pledges, said Sen. Phil Gramm, R-
Texas.
Gramm said the state is not offer
ing direct monetary inducements to
attract the project, which Congress
earlier this year forbade the DOE
from considering.
Small-state senators won the pro
vision by playing on fears that big
states could “buy” the project.
Instead, Texas officials said they
are working to pass a constitutional
amendment on the Nov. 3 ballot that
will allow Texas to issue $500 million
in bonds for the research facility that
would be spent on “site enhance
ments.”
“What we do have are site en
hancements — $600 million to $700
million in site enhancements which
do count as part of the technical pro
posals, ... to build roads, to run uti
lities and to build buildings,” the ju
nior Republican senator said.
He also said the state would offer
$200 million through a joint venture
with public utilities to supply power
to either of the two facilities at less
than one cent per kilowatt hour.
“Nobody in the nation can match
that in terms of a proposal,” Gramm
said.
Cost of building the supercollider
is estimated at more than $5 billion,
and the annual operating budget
will be about $300 million, said Dr.
Peter Flawn, chairman of the Texas
SSC commission.
A committee of the National Aca
demy of Sciences will have 90 days to
winnow the sites to an unspecified
number of finalists.
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Fiery end to garbage barge saga
offers relief for New York officials
NEW YORK (AP) — The first bales of the nation’s
best-known garbage were unloaded and burned
Tuesday after being barged 6,000 miles, rejected by
six states and three nations, challenged in court and
lampooned on TV.
“Good riddance,” city Sanitation Commissioner
Brendan Sexton said at his agency’s Southwest
Brooklyn Incinerator.
Bulldozers broke up the bales and a half-dozen
environmental workers in white suits and masks
probed the debris with pitchforks before it was
burned.
It was the beginning of the end of the five-month
garbage barge saga. Incineration of the 3,186 tons of
trash is expected to take a couple of weeks and the
ashes are to be trucked off for burial at the Long Is
land town of Islip’s landfill.
The load of commercial trash from Islip, New
York City and Nassau County began traveling after
it was turned away from that same landfill for lack of
space.
While it provided fodder for comedians and news
reports, the garbage may have had a more lasting le
gacy: Some officials said the worldwide exposure
helped convince the public that garbage disposal is a
growing problem.
“We used it every chance we could to say there is a
garbage crisis,” Sexton said. “You can’t wish it away.
You can’t demonstrate it away. This helps people vi
sualize that there’s nowhere else to put the garbage.”
The barge began its journey March 22 from a pri
vate dock in Queens.
Lowell Harrelson of Bay Minette, Ala., planned to
unload it at a garbage-to-methane gas operation in
North Carolina, hoping to show it was cheaper to
move garbage over water than land.
Sexton said, “A few people got together and
thought they found a magical way to make a for
tune.”
But it was turned away from the North Carolina
landfill for lack of proper permits.
That began a 6,000-mile trip, gathering angry re
jections from Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Texas, Florida, Mexico, Belize and the Bahamas as
public officials feared it contained hazardous waste.
The 230-foot-long barge returned May 16 to New
York, where it remained while environmental
groups challenged disposal of its cargo in courts, al
leging the trash contained hazardous or infectious
waste.
But as the first 30 bales were taken from the barge
Tuesday, inspectors could find only an empty tar
can that was set aside so its contents could be
checked.
Compared to bales of smelly household waste that
were already in the huge building that houses the in
cinerator, the garbage barge bales were odorless.
“Most of it, frankly, looks like everyday trash,”
Sexton said. “There’s an Oreo box, some potato
chips. We don’t expect to find anything,”
Gubbi Murthy, senior engineer from the state De-
artment of Environmental Conservation, said the
arge waste did not have a foul odor because any
thing that would have degraded would have done so
long ago.
Sexton said those responsible for the barging ven
ture would be forced to pay the $180,000 final dis
posal cost.
Center gives A&M students
24-hour medical aid again
By Drew Leder
Staff Writer
The A.P. Beutel Health Center
Saturday officially reopened its
doors for 24-hour emergency medi
cal services for the first time since af
ter-hour treatment was discontinued
in May 1986.
Director of Student Health Serv
ices Claude Goswick said a physician
emergency room service has been
contracted by Texas A&M to care
for students requiring immediate
medical attention after the center’s
regular hours of 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
weekdays and 8 a.m. to noon on Sat
urdays.
There is one physician and at least
one nurse, who will be from the cen
ter’s staff, available for emergency
outpatient care all night.
Before Saturday, students requir
ing outpatient medical attention at
night were being transported by a
University ambulance to area hospi
tals.
Actually, Goswick said, some stu
dents who needed emergency treat
ment after regular office hours were
unofficially admitted as outpatients
even after the discontinuation of this
service in 1986.
Goswick said that these reinstated
after-hour services are to help stu
dents needing urgent care, although
it necessarily does not need to be an
emergency for a student to come in.
“If a student is sick or injured,
even if they’re not sure if it’s an
emergency, they should come in,”
Goswick said.
If the doctor on duty feels that
someone has an injury or illness
which the center is not equipped to
handle that person will be trans
ported to either St. Joseph Hospital
or Humana Hospital, both located in
Bryan.
Goswick said the all-night services,
which will cost over $300,000 per
year, were resumed at the request of
Texas A&M Board of Regents
Chairman David Eller.
Two-thirds of the money to pay
these added expenses will come
from the student services fee reserve
fund, Goswick said, and the rest will
be taken from the health center re
serve fund
Goswick said that the student
health center fee, which is now $15
per semester, will not increase this
year to cover the costs of the added
service.
Goswick said that the 24-hour
service will be evaluated sometime
near the end of the semester to see if
students are using the service and to
determine if the added benefits stu
dents are receiving from an all-night
medical service outweigh the finan
cial costs to the University.
After this evaluation, a decision
will be made about whether the Uni
versity should continue-the service,
or, once again, put a stop to it.
In the past, about half of those
students who have come in for emer
gency after-hour treatment have
had legitimate emergencies as
judged by the health center doctors.
Since Saturday the center has ad
mitted about 50 patients between 4
p.m. and 8 a.m.
The health center discontinued its
24-hour emergency services in 1986,
Goswick said, because of the diffi
culty involved in getting doctors who
were on call to come to the center in
the middle of the night.
“I felt misgivings about having to
discontinue the service then,” Gos
wick said, “but it was the only thing I
could do.”