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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1988)
nee upon a time in the Land of Ags, there came a new Fish.31 For a time all things went well for Fish.^ Fie liked his roomie, especially when he discovered roomie's beautiful sister. His parents included money in every letter from home. His profs never, ever assigned exams on the same day. All his shirts came back from the laundry with the buttons still attached. Fish's intramural foot ball team won the Class A championship — Fish was very happy. When his grades arrived. Fish aced a straight 4.0. His parents were very happy too — they gave him an almost new maroon Porsche for Christmas . Merry Christmas! 31 Then the Ags won the Cotton Bowl by a high his score...he discovered he liked roomie's sister a lot. Happy New Year! 3f All things went well for Fish until he drove the almost new maroon Porsche back to campus to pur chase a parking sticker. "Zounds ! That parking lot is in Navasota, Fish cried out in dismay. "My Reeboks won't last a week walking back to my northside dorm," he wailed. "The sun will fade my almost new maroon Porsche to pink by May," he moaned. "After the first hailstorm, my Porsche will be all pocked like ... like me," he sobbed, suddenly zit-faced 31 Soon, everything started going south for Fish. Classes started on Monday and three of his profs assigned quizzes for Wednesday. He picked up the laundry he had forgotten before Christmas and two of his best Polos were missing. There was not one letter from home in his mailbox. And, his roommie ^pnnounced the beautiful sister’s engagement yA \ to a teasip! Fish wasn't even asked ^ to join an intramural team. 31 One {,$}? night, as the Albritton clock struck twelve. Fish stood in front of Sully and poured out his troubles. Sully listened carefully in his own quiet way. And then, miracle of miracles,Sully spoke to Fish."Be patient. my son. Good things are in store for you." Sully proclaimed. "In the Spring of '89, I will open my new Parking Garage. You can park the almost new maroon Porsche in its own numbered space," Sully continued."You will be near your dorm, your classes, and even near Northgate. Neither hail, nor sleet, nor even the glaring sun will mar the almost new Porsche's maroon beauty." ^ ^ And Sulley concluded, s' iia "I will provide a guard for this Parking ' Garage, and L -—3-4^ should the guard turn his head, 40 tele vision cameras will watch over and protect the almost new maroon Porsche." Fish was impressed. 31 And so it came to pass, just as Sully foretold. In January '89, the roomie's beautiful sister broke her en gagement. His parents remembered how to sign checks. The laundry found his shirts. Even Jackie called to invite Fish to join the T2th Man Team. And the still almost new maroon Porsche was safe and sound in its very own parking space, protected from all harm. Fish was happy ever after. 31 Sully had spoken. w \ \ ^ % WATCH YOUR SUMMER MAIL FOR MORE INFORMATION Union Carbide sues insurers Thur to cover pollution sites’ costs r Paid For By The Office of the Vice President for Finance and Operations DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — The Union Carbide Corp. has filed suit against at least 115 of its insurers in an effort to force them to provide coverage for cleanup, legal and study costs stemming from pollution sites around the country. The Danbury-based company filed two suits last week, one in Supe rior Court in Danbury and the other in state Superior Court in Newark, N.J. The company didn’t disclose how much money it has spent on pollution defense or cleanup, and company spokesman Edward Van Den Ameele wouldn’t say. Defendants in the suits include Aetna Casualty and Surety Co., and subsidiaries of Travelers Corp., Hartford Insurance Group, and Cigna Corp. The suits also say there are unnamed defendants. Robert D. Chesler, a company at torney in Roseland, N.J., said Car bide still hasn’t determined all of the insurance carriers that provided cov erage. Some of the pollution occurred at Union Carbide plants, while other problems cited in the Connecticut suit stem from the company’s dispo sal of its wastes at other sites. In the New Jersey suit, the com pany seeks coverage for seven pol lution sites in that state. The sites were identified by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and state environmental de partments. None are in Connecticut. Spokesmen for the insurance companies declined to comment on the suits, citing company policies on not discussing matters that are in liti gation. Union Carbide is among a grow ing number of companies suing their insurers over whether liability policies cover contamination of property and groundwater due to seepage of hazardous wastes. United Technologies Corp., for example, recently sued more than 240 of its insurers from the past 37 years to obtain coverage for 134 pol lution sites. The Connecticut suit seeks insur ance for sites or situations including: • Three pesticide dumping sites in Aberdeen, N.C., where Union Carbide shipped hazardous wastes from 1962 to 1970. • The Laskin landfill in Jeffer son, Ohio, where Union Carbide sent 60,000 to 70,000 gallons of waste oil from 1976 through 1981. • The Northside landfill in Zion- sville, Ind., to which UnionCjl sent 1.8 million gallons oft silicate and asbestos from 1 1980. • Union Carbide’s plantbi etta, Ohio, which made strong, corrosive, poison, froci to 1971. World briefs Dutch jet makes emergency landing AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A KLM Boeing 747 air liner developed landing gear problems on a flight from Los Angeles and made a successful emergency landing Tuesday, an airline spokesman said. None of the jumbo jet’s 196 passengers and 16 crew was in jured after the 11-hour non-stop flight from California, KLM spokesman HugoBaassaid. “The right leg of the pk i main landing gear failed to [ into position,’’ Baas told the. 1 ciated Press. After the emergency sei of Amsterdam’s Schiphol Air: went on full alert, the p landed safely at 11:05 a.m.,E. said. He said damage to jumbo jet was minor. Polish strikers demand Solidarity GDANSK, Poland (AP) — More than 7,000 strikers at the Lenin shipyard, where Solidarity was born eight years ago, de manded Tuesday that the out lawed union federation be made legal again. The government called that “not negotiable.” Solidarity founder Lech Wa lesa spoke to the strikers several times, but said he would not lead the strike. “I am not your leader,” said the man who vaulted the shipyard fence in 1980 and took charge of a labor revolt that brought down a government. “I’m tired. You need a new Walesa, many more new Walesas. “You declared this strike,” he said. “I’m with you and I’ll always be with you. I can advise you. I have some experience. “If we don’t achieve a real form this time, then wewillfi a bloody revolution.” A striker offered a loal| bread, a Polish gesture off. I tality. Walesa broke offapj and munched on it. Four thousand ship-reJ workers and 1,000 portworli at another Gdansk ship: 1 stayed off the job Tuesda y sympathy with the strikers ail Lenin shipyard, Joanna Woji chowicz, a Solidarity activiy Gdansk, said. The report could not her pendently confirmed and t:| was no answer at the ship-repi yard. In Warsaw protestersmartil in the streets in support of| strikers, an opposition spot- man said. They were disperse police. 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