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WORLD & NATION 7
Wednesday, August 22,1990
Families of U.S. hostages
request toll-free hotline
Associated Press
Texans with loved ones missing or
being held in the Middle East say
there’s one worry that Washington
could help with right away: sky-high
phone bills.
They say the State Department
should install a toll-free number for
information about Americans being
held since Iraq invaded Kuwait 21
days ago.
“This is one thing that has both
ered me, and I have requested it sev
eral times,” said Donnita Cole of
Odessa, whose husband, John
Henry Cole, has been missing from a
Kuwait oil field since the Iraqi inva
sion Aug. 2.
“I’m keeping a tally of my phone
bill, and already this month it’s going
to cost $600” for long distance calls
including those to Washington, she
said.
“The times that I mentioned (a
toll-free number to State Depart
ment employees), it was like it came
completely out of left field,” Cole
said. “Am I the only one who has
thought about an 800 number?”
“We asked them,” said Marjorie
Walterscheid of Jacksboro near Fort
Worth. Her husband, Rainard, was
among several American oil field
workers who were relocated by Iraqi
troops the first day of the invasion.
“I told (the State Department)
that with calling our kinfolk, it’s
going to cost us enough money, and
we tried to get a toll-free number” to
Washington, she said.
“I
I’m keeping a tally of my
phone bill, and already this
month it’s going to cost
$600 (to call the State
Department.)”
—Donnita Cole,
wife of U.S. hostage
But the State Department em
ployee she was talking to just said,
“We don’t have one,” Walterscheid
recalled.
Another family member, P.C.
Carr of Aspermont, said a toll-free
number “definitely would help.”
Gary Carr of Keller, near Fort
Worth, is another oil field worker
who has been missing since the inva
sion.
Most of the families said they ex-
ected their phone bills to be in the
undreds next month.
“I don’t think they’re spending
hundreds of dollars,” calling Wash
ington, said Judy Baroody, press of
ficer for a special task force set up by
the State Department to deal with
the crisis in the Persian Gulf.
She said officials believe that a
special phone bank is enough to help
the 4,000-some callers each day.
“The decision has been made that
the 40 lines they have, they’re satis
fied with that,” she said. “They are
calling families back. They are keep
ing in touch with families.”
“This is the first complaint I’ve
heard of people begrudging the
money to call,” Baroody said.
There are more than 3,000 Amer
icans and thousands of other foreign
citizens now under Iraqi control, and
President Bush has said they are
hostages.
UA scientists
plan project
to join SSC
LITTLE ROGK (AP) — Univer
sity of Arkansas scientists say they
support construction of a $13 mil
lion system that would link an Ar
kansas project to the superconduct
ing supercollider project in Texas.
Don Wold, a professor of physics
at UA-Little Rock, said the Grande
Project would require construction
of a particle detector in an old min
ing pit near Malvern.
The system would detect neutri
nos emitted by the supercollider.
Neutrinos are particles that can pen
etrate almost all known substances
but have almost no mass, Wold said.
Wold said the university probably
would apply for research money
available through the Texas Na
tional Research Laboratory, a state
agency participating with the federal
government in the superconducting
supercollider project.
The supercollider project, ex
pected to be the world’s top high en-
ergy physics research center, will be
built in Ellis County, near Fort
Worth and Dallas.
“It seems to me to be a natural tie-
in,” said Andre Rollefson, chairman
of the physics and astronomy de
partment at UALR.
American troops complain Magellan returns pictures
about lack of protective suits showing Venus ’ terrain
SAUDI ARABIA (AP) — Ameri
can troops stationed here before the
huge buildup of the past two weeks
are complaining they have not been
issued suits designed to protect
against chemical weapons.
“All these guys coming in here get
gas masks and the suits, but we get
nothing,” one Air Force airman said.
“They are treating us as if we don’t
count.”
A military spokesman said the
shortage was discussed at a com
mand staff briefing Tuesday and
more suits are expected to arrive on
transport planes in Tht*' next few
days.
The enlisted men’s comments
suggest how deep the fear of chemi
cal weapons runs. Such weapons —
and Iraqi President Saddam Hus
sein’s willingness to use them — are
prime topics of discussion among
troops here.
“It’s as much psychological as any
thing,” one of the men, an Air Force
master sergeant, said of the protec
tive suits.
“We see everybody else with them
and hear everything being said
about Iraq’s gas and chemicals, but
we get nothing,” he said.
One Air Force sergeant, stationed
in Saudi Arabia the past nine
months, went as far as calling a news
organization in the United States to
voice his complaint.
“I was just fed up with the bu
reaucracy,” the sergeant said Mon
day. “Why should my guys be left
naked?”
Pentagon ground rules prohibit
the use of troops’ names in news me
dia pool dispatches from Saudi Ara
bia.
In brief interviews with a dozen
men stationed here as part of a
standing U.S. military training oper
ation, just one said he had chemical
gear.
“I scrounged it up by cutting a
deal,” the Air Force sergeant said.
The sergeant who called the states
to complain said there are about 120
U.S. military personnel stationed at
the training mission, most of them
Air Force. The men conduct train
ing with the Saudi military and also
provide security, communications
and other logistical support to a
small U.S. compound on a Saudi air
base.
Both Saudi and American officials
have said they doubted Iraq has the
capability to successfully use chemi
cal weapons against the base.
But the men said they still would
feel more comfortable with the anti
chemical gear and had requested it
several times.
PASADENA, Galif. (AP) — Ma
gellan’s first radar pictures of Venus
were released Tuesday, showing
faults and lava flows like those in
Hawaii and Idaho and parallel val
leys and ridges like those between
the Sierra Nevada and Rockies.
The large number of fractures
and “Venusquake” faults seen in
images from the spacecraft suggest
the crustal movements that shaped
the landscape are “perhaps even
more violent than I imagined be
fore,” said Steve Saunders, Magel
lan’s chief scientist at Jet Propulsion
Laboratory.
“Overlapping lava flows of va
rious ages” and six to 10 miles wide
appear as bright and dark splotches,
he said.
But Saunders said the pictures
don’t yet show any of Venus’ major
volcanoes, whether any of them are
active or if the planet’s crust is bro
ken into the kind of drifting plates
that carry whole continents across
the face of the Earth. Previous
spacecraft revealed numerous
mountainous volcanoes.
The lava flows are “similar geo
logically to volcanic deposits seen on
Earth at Hawaii and the Snake River
Plains in Idaho,” NASA said in a
statement.
The parallel sets of elongated val
leys and ridges resemble those in the
basin-and-range province of the in
termountain region of Utah and Ne
vada, or at the Great Rift Valley in
eastern Africa. They show that at
least part of Venus’ crust has been
stretched apart, Saunders said.
Meanwhile, engineers said they
still haven’t figured out why they
temporarily lost radio contact with
Magellan for more than 14 hours
starting last Thursday.
One leading theory is that a cos
mic ray or a high-energy particle
from the sun Caused a temporary
blip in Magellan’s computer mem
ory, said spacecraft system engineer
John Slonski.
“We’re not ruling out a software
(computer program) flaw or some
hardware problem” or perhaps
some unknown electrical fields sur
rounding Venus, Magellan project
engineer Tony Spear said.
As far as engineers can tell so far,
“the spacecraft is healthy,” he
added.
Cosmic ray “hits” on spacecraft
electronics can be expected to inter
fere with Magellan about once each
year, Spear said.
Engineers will spend the next
week or so trying to diagnose the
cause of the malfunction.
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