Wednesday, January 20, 1988/The Battalion/Page 5
■Texas becomes finalist
br super collider project
WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas
go head-to-head with six other
j^es in the Final lap of a nationwide
ipeiition to land the multihillion-
lar super collider. Energy De-
prtment officials and Texas poli-
ans announced Tuesday.
L^So we have now come down to
, en,” said Sen. Phil Gramm, R-
%as. “We’re expecting official site
| Rirobably in the early spr ing. I
tyjlbe setting up a meeting with the
»nire Texas delegation to propose a
twiih DOE Secretary (John) Her-
Ity’gton to reconfirm our commit
ment to the project.”
Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis, whose
district encompasses the North
Texas site, said he feels Texas is po
sitioned well to triumph over the
other competitors.
Each of the finalists — Texas, Illi
nois, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Arizona, Michigan and Colorado
had been previously chosen by a sci
entific panel as being the best overall
sites for the atom smasher.
New York, which also was recom
mended as a candidate state by the
National Academy of Sciences and
the National Academy of Engi
neering last month, was not on the
list.
New York Gov. Mario Cuomo
earlier this month asked the DOE to
drop consideration of the site as a lo
cation for the $4.4 billion atom
smasher because of opposition from
local residents.
“I think that Texas has the best
geology, the best geography and the
best public support team,” Barton
said in a telephone call. “We’re also
the low-cost site. If given a level play
ing field we should do very well.”
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Javy missile cruiser enters fleet
^HOUSTON (AP) — Twenty-one
' n salutes rang out over the San ja-
ad^to; Battleground Tuesday as the
jefttjVyJs newest and most sophisti-
:ed guided missile cruiser passed
flormamesake battlefield to begin cer-
^onies marking the vessel’s official
,s Try into the nation’s fleet.
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The USS San Jacinto, named after
: Wttle that gained the Republic
Texas its independence, cruised
e f tht ship channel into the Port of
juston — a day late because of
avy fog that kept it at anchor
mday in Galveston Bay.
Although the other nine ships of
its Aegis class of cruisers are named
after historic American battles, the
$1 billion San Jacinto is unique in
that the commissioning is taking
place within sight of its namesake.
The San Jacinto is named after
the 1836 battle in which the outnum
bered Texas Army, commanded by
Sam Houston, defeated the Mexican
Army under Gen. Santa Anna. The
battlefield site, about 15 miles east of
downtown Houston, is now a Texas
state park and home to the Battle
ship Texas.
Flying a Texas flag on its beam
mast, the new 567-foot vessel ex
changed a 21-gun salute with a four-
cannon battery manned by Texas
National Guardsmen onshore.
The 21-gun salute, normally re
served for foreign heads of state,
was designated in honor of the Bat
tleship Texas, the flagship of the
Texas Navy.
The ship, the last of the dread-
naught class of battleships, saw ac
tion in World Wars I and II and now
is undergoing restoration.
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