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fff" AM/PM Clinics CLINICS Minor Emergencies Weight Reduction Program 10% Discount With Student ID Minimal Waiting Time College Station 845-4756 693-0202 779-4756 Page 10 The Battalion Monday, April 10,1989 Bush faces headaches, criticism for handling of Valdez tanker spill WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi dent Bush, who has declared himself an environmentalist, has found his first few months in office full of en vironmental headaches and criticism that the fresh breeze he promised may be little more than stale air. “The honeymoon isn’t over, but I think we’re in a shaky period,” says Jack Lorenz, president of the Isaak Walton League, when assessing the Bush administration’s record in pro tecting the environment and natural resources. While Bush is given good marks on some environmental issues, there has been broadening criticism of the way the administration has dealt with the massive oil spill in Alaska, its attitude toward oil exploration in environmentally sensitive areas and on some key sub-Cabinet appoint ments to posts involving the environ ment and conservation. Environmentalists still applaud: the selection of William Reilly, a life long conservationist, as head of the Environmental Protection Agency; a Last Fleet Street paper makes final press run $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME STUDY Wanted: Symptomatic patients with physician diagnosed $100 Irritable Bowel Syndrome to participate in a short study. | 100 $100 incentive for those chosen to participate. f 100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $£ ASTHMA STUDY *1»° $200 Wanted: Individuals ages 12-70 with asthma to partic- $200 $200 jpate in a research study to evaluate asthma medica- $200 $200 tions - $ 200 incentive for those chosen to participate. ^qo $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 tloo HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE STUDY $300 Individuals with high blood pressure medication daily to parti- $300 cia P te in a h i9 h blood pressure study. $300 incentive for those $300 c b osen to participate. BONUS: $100 countdown incentive for pa- $300 tients chosen to participate and who complete study. (9 days). $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 CALL PAULL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 776-0400 LONDON (AP) — The last na tional newspaper on Fleet Street, once London’s rumbustious newspa per row, made its Final press run there Sunday as British journalism traded the typewriters’ clatter for the quiet of high technology. Behind the gleaming, black glass facade of the art deco Express build ing, reporters, editors and techni cians crated the contents of desks, packed up their memories, and sent off the final Fleet Street edition of the Sunday Express before moving to new headquarters. When the last bundle of papers was tied up and dispatched around the country, all was silent where for decades typewriters clacked, lino type machines rattled, and presses hummed. Express Newspapers group is moving only a few hundred yards across the River Thames to a new, 10-story building with computers and other modern newspaper tech nology. But the site is a million spiritual miles from the noisy exuberance of Fleet Street 89 years ago, when the Daily Express was the new kid on the block. The Sunday Express was founded by Lord Beaverbrook in 1918, and its celebrated building went up in 1931. The British are avid newspaper readers. For nearly 300 years, the country’s national papers were all published on or near Fleet Street. The short, crowded street and ad joining warren of alleys and hidden courtyards were abuzz around the clock with journalists rushing to meet deadlines. The national newspapers have moved away one by one to compute rized facilities since publisher Ru pert Murdoch began the exodus in 1986. That year, his four newspa pers — The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun and The News of The World — moved to the devel oping Docklands. decision to work aggressively for re visions in federal clean air laws in cluding provisions to combat acid rain; a decision to push internation ally for 100 percent elimination by the end of the century of chlorofluo- rocarbons, a chemical blamed for depleting high-altitude ozone; and for Reilly’s intervention in building the controversial Two Forks dam in Colorado. Nevertheless, some of the opti mism expressed by environmental ists when Bush took office in Jan uary has soured. “Clearly we’ve got problems on our hands. And it looks like a long siege is at hand,” Michael McClos- key, chairman of the Sierra Club, said last week as the leaders of nine major environmental and conserva tion groups chastised the Bush ad ministration for a number of per sonnel decisions and its response to the Alaska oil spill. The complaint was that Bush wasn’t moving quickly enough to take control for the oil spill cleanup in Alaska from the Exxon Corp., whose tanker ran aground and tore open in pristine Prince William Sound on March 24, spilling more than 10 million gallons of crude. George Frampton, president of the Wilderness Society noted that three national parks are in theoi's path. “It is the federal government responsibility to prevent this dam age,” he said. “Mr. President, this (the oil spill)ii your Boston Harbor," declared Roger McManus, president of the Center for Marine Conservation ina news release. The pollution in Bos ton Harbor became a campaign issue last year as Bush sought to gain an edge on environmental issues over Democrat Michael Dukakis, gover nor of Massachusetts. The president said Friday that Ex xon’s efforts were inadequate and that the Coast Guard would take in creased control of the cleanup. There also have been personnel decisions that have riled environ mental groups, most notably the nomination ot James Cason, a con troversial Interior Departmentolfr cial, as an assistant secretary of agn culture overseeing the U.S. Fores Service. Cason, as a senior Interior De partment official in the Reagan ad ministration, has been accused of consistently taking a pro-devel opment stand on public lands issues and being the architect of variouset- forts in recent years favoring mining and oil interests. Soviet soldiers crush Georgian nationalist rail; MOSCOW (AP) — Soldiers charged thousands of protesters in the Georgian capital early Sunday, and at least 16 people were killed in a crushing melee of clubs, shovels, sticks and stones, official sources and activists said. “They threw themselves on our people like beasts, and our people couldn’t do anything,” said Leda Arch- vadze in a telephone interview from Tbilisi, capital of the southern republic that lies on the Turkish border. The official Tass news agency said a curfew was in ef fect Sunday night. Residents flew black flags in mourn ing, troops and tanks reportedly patrolled the streets, and activists called for a general strike. On activist said 50 people died in the clash in Lenin Square. Tension has been building in Georgia since Tuesday, when thousands of hunger strikers and protesters be gan pressing demands for independence from the So viet Union. Georgian nationalists contend that under Moscow’s central control, Russians have encroached on their indigenous culture, language, politics and econ- omv, , , They also accuse the Kremlin of fomenting unresi among Georgia’s ethnic Abkhazians, who are demand ing more autonomy. Georgia is the third Soviet republic where authorities have brought in troops and tanks to quell disturbances in the past year. Similar measures were taken to quell ethnic unrest last year in the republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan. 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