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The captain, Joseph Hazelwood, was not on the bridge when the ves sel left shipping lanes to avoid ice, rammed a charted reef and ran ag round early Friday. The third mate, who did not have proper certifica tion, was in charge, Exxon Shipping Co. President Frank larossi said. A National Transportation Safety Board spokewoman in Washington, D.C., said the captain, third mate, quartermaster and bridge lookout are among those who will be ques tioned. Investigators said at a news con ference that the results of drug and alcohol tests on crew members will be made public when officials re ceive them, possibly in two or three days. But according to one source close to the investigation, it is quesionable whether the tests will be of much va lue. Drucella Anderson, an NTSB spokeswoman, said preliminary indi cations are the tests may have been administered as long as 10 hours af ter the accident. “I don’t know how good the (tests) will be,” said Rachel Halterman, an other spokeswoman for the NTSB in Washington. The board plans to open a formal inquiry in Anchorage sometime in the next three weeks. The 987-foot tanker, carrying 1.2 million barrels of North Slope crude oil, apparently struck a glancing blow against a rock, kept going and hit rocks a second time, then ran ag round, larossi said. through the hull, creating an oil slick that has since covered about 100 square miles, according to the Coast Guard. The accident closed the Port of Valdez, the southern terminus of the Alaska Pipeline, and crude oil prices rose sharply on Monday. Meanwhile, gusts up to 70 mph idled most aircraft, including one that was to spray chemicals to break up the oil slick. larossi said the wind damaged some of the containment booms used to corral the oil, including some around the stricken tanker. The vessel remained stuck on Bligh Reef, about 25 miles from Val dez. larossi said the wind pivoted the ship 12 degrees to the north, and that the crew said the new position felt much more stable. Workers continued pumping op erations to remove the 1 million bar rels of oil left on board the Exxon Valdez. By Monday morning, about 100,000 barrels had been trans ferred to the Exxon Baton Rouge, larossi said Exxon hoped to have about 95 percent of the remaining oil off the vessel in three or four days. He said he cannot guarantee that all the oil will be removed from the tanker nor that all of the slick will be cleaned up. “There’s no way I can keep the oil from impacting more beach area,” larossi said, adding that he thought workers were making headway. “Frankly, we are a little over whelmed,” he said. “We still have a major problem ahead of us, but we feel we are gaining.” Lawmaker retirements would get boost with bill AUSTIN (AP) —A proposal to raise the annual base pay of dis trict judges by more than $ 15,UUU also could boost lawmakers re tirement benefits by 27 percent for every year they serve in the Legislature, a newspaper re ported Monday. The proposal will come under consideration this week by Senate and House committees. But in previous considerations, lawmak ers have been able to avoid pub licly discussing the retirement boost because it is connected to the pay increase forjudges. The Texas Supreme Court is backing the proposal. Currently, lawmakers’ retire ment pay grows by only $1,145 for each year they have served. Under a 1965 law, the retire ment of lawmakers is connected directly to judicial salaries, a link that some legislators now regret. “Having our retirement system linked tojudicial pay is an unwise policy that is potentially embar rassing to every lawmaker, said Sen. Kent Caperton, D-Bryan, head of the Senate panel that twice has reviewed the proposed pay hike forjudges without pub licly discussing the effect it would have on legislative retirement Under the existing system ! is'ators receive 2 percent of £ I state-funded base pay formal for each year they serveinoffi up to a maximum of 60 p erce , of the basic judicial salary Currently, a lawmaker with 151 years of service would receiv * i3 . 7 , 4 > pay. If the judicial pay raise bili under consideration by theSe ate Finance Committee i s a ! proved, a retired legislator 11 the same amount of service would receive $ 17,442 annually. The last time a proposed p a , I raise was on the ballot in Texas voters defeated it. A publicoutcn earlier this year forced Congress to retreat from a substantial s a |. ary increase. I .aw maker s are considering I asking voters in Novernbet toap prove a constitutional amend ment that would raise their sala ries from $7,200 to nearhj $22,000 a year and tie their paytn the governor’s salary in the futu re. However, because only the| Legislature can raise judges’sala ries, voters have no say over par allel increases in lawmakers’ re tirement benefits. Premarital sex may be related to divorce rate, professor says By Holly Beeson REPORTER Involvement in extensive prema rital sexual activity may be related to divorce, says Dr. Jeff Simpson, Texas A&M assistant professor of psychology. “People who have more sexual partners before marriage may be more likely to end up in divorce,” Simpson says. One-half of all first marriages end in divorce in the United States — the highest divorce rate in the Western world. Simpson says other telltale signs exist that may indicate a rocky mar riage for certain couples. Having a past divorce in the fam ily may teach kids divorce is an ac ceptable way to deal with adversity in a marital relationship, he says. Also, marriages between young people tend to end in divorce. Peggy Love-Clark, psychologist at HCA Greenleaf Hospital, says the ideal age to marry is in the late 20s or early 30s. People are a little more worldly and experienced by that time, she says, and there’s an element of re sponsibility that usually develops during that age frame. “Those marrying young have a greater chance of getting a divorce," Love-Clark says. Couples may not know what they want when they are young, she says. Younger couples often act on im pulse or may think they are in love when it’s only infatuation. An recent artfcle in “U.S. News and World Report” said a survey of 346 newlyweds showed that before the wedding, 41 percent doubted they were marrying the right per- Six months into the marriage, the article said, about half the new lyweds admitted that marriage was more difficult than they had ex pected, and 51 percent believed their unions might not last. Love-Clark says bringing a baby into a troubled marriage can hinder instead of helping a relationship. “It just adds more responsibility, more stress and more time limita tions to the marriage,” she said. “U- sually there’s much more of a finan cial obligation as well.” Simpson said people expect me out of relationships than they did the past. more in “It’s easier to get out of a mart relationship than it used lobe, says. The social, economic and changes in society have alkmedi vorce to become more prevalol Simpson says. It used to be that women couldrl have their names on legal dal ments, couldn't own property didn’t have jobs independent their spouses. “There was a much strongerso stigma against divorce 30to40yeirl ago than there is today,” he says. Some couples contemplating mil riage are enrolling in pre-marra;! classes as a divorce-prevemici method. Classes may be directed! specialists in fbsychology or relig counselors;;^:'. ■' Love-Clark says she defmitfj would recommend taking classes, especially if the couple is nl periencing doubt, hesitancy or coj cern about marriage. For people considering marriapl she advises the participants to ini derstand they are making a life-lor| commitment, to be certain of thf choice and not to act impulsively. The MSC Wiley Lecture Series presents THE MIDDLE EAST: Peace or Powder Keg r// f PZOfZAM PP/tf POP/A Dr. Clement Henry U.S. Policy in the Middle East March 28,7 p.m. Room 701 Rudder TtO siTwt'iss'j&n pss The Honorable William Crawford Fmr. Amb. to Yemen-Arab Republic, and Cyprus Islam: Culture and Relimori March 29, 7 p.m. Room 206 MSC The Program Symposia are preparatory lectures for our April 12th panel discussion Dr Henrv is an authority on Middle Eastern affairs, especially Egypt, at the University of Texas The Y Honorable William Crawford spent twenty-nine years in the area with the Foreign Service has remained at the forefront of his field through his work with the Middle East Institute’ - I lamic Affairs Programs. 1 " s s ~ We would like to thank the Middle East Institute and the MSC Jordan Institute for their support and funding don't let your business bomb. call 845-261'! to advertise at ease