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unch to new } f .4 vPwf! Page 8 The Battalion Friday, April 17,1992 Elefclra SAVE $2.00 OR MORE THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS APOLLO 18 1 FEATURES: THE STATUE GOT ME HIGH I PALINDROME I They Might Be Giants are ready to break big with their new album Apolllo 18. The ftrst single "The Statue Got Me High " is heading up the charts. Libya kicks out pro-sanction officia U.S., allies lack statesmanship in dealing with problem, Arab nationst $7.99 Cass/$12.99 CD TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Libya, showing no signs of backing down in the face of, U.N. sanc tions, on Thursday began ordering the expulsions of diplomats repre senting countries that supported the measures against it. The sanctions, which took ef fect Wednesday, are meant to pressure Libya into turning over suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Meanwhile, Arab nations, while largely complying with the sanctions, criticized the United States and its allies for lack of statesmanship. The sanctions prohibit all flights to and from Libya, ban arms sales, and call for the expul sion of most Libyan diplomats abroad. The Libyan Foreign Min istry said at least six heads of em bassies had been ordered to cut down staff in retaliation for simi lar action by their governments. The United States has no diplo matic relations with Tripoli. But as host of the United Nations, it was expelling three of the 12 diplomats at Libya's U.N. mission. Italy said Thursday that six of its envoys had been ordered to leave Libya, and Belgium, which looks after U.S. interests in Libya, said it had been told to reduce its diplomatic staff. "They told me some embassy members would have to leave soon and they will be in the next few hours notify me of the names and the deadline," Belgian Am bassador Leon Doyen said. He said he had no new information about the status of Americans in Libya. About 1 million foreigners, in cluding 500 to 1,000 Americans, live in the nation of 4.2 million people. Many said they were not afraid and did not plan to flee. However, Russia began evacu ating about 3,000 of its citizens — military advisers, technicians and their family members — from Libya. Radio Russia said Moscow was concerned about the "threat of terrorist attacks against foreign ers of states which have supported the U.N. sanctions against Libya." Despite the grounding of flights, land and sea links re mained, including ferry service to the nearby island of Malta. Traffic through Salloum, the Egypt-Libya border crossing point, was report ed normal. At least 400fori working in Libya arrived]] day aboard the first Libyan dock in Malta sinceU.N.sn cut flights to and fromLilii;| travel is not covered bytlii tions. Many of the foreign^ they departed as partoftlij ular leave, rather thanout;! over staying. In Tripoli, residents wen: J their business as usual and — Prices good thru April 30th Oil, gas theory causes controversy was normal. Despite wideiL _ cooperation with thesa-Jj^L there was criticism governments. The head l| Arab League mission inlJL Ghayth Armanazi, said wjr ' "seems to have been alii statesmanship in the wir Western powers have app^J WASH this problem.'' gona for layed oi Continued from Page 2 Hastings We’re Entertainment! We’re Entertainment! Collese Station • Culpepper Plaza Bryan • Manor East M S C yspqie qinf: ivizy PRESENTS TIME CHANGE mi TiSp-IoLy l PC FROM CINEMA 5 Friday-April 7 7 8pm, 10pm,& Midnight Rudder Theatre Tickets are $2 ©:847-8478 which Kennicutt said is a key point — involves new analytical techniques to document com pounds in oil that are traced to oiochemicals. Skeletons of plankton, biologi cal organisms found in the oceans, have been found in oil. Plankton use chlorophyll, a chemical found in living organisms, during photo synthesis. "Finding the remnants of these organisms in oil provides a link," Kennicutt said. The A&M Ocean Drilling Pro gram (ODP) has found data to support the biological theory that also involves phytoplankton, al though the program's primary work is in understanding the geol ogy of the ocean. Dr. Timothy Francis, deputy director of the ODP, said oil drilling in the ocean is largely con ducted in sedimentary rock basins, which have the rock types that will hold oil. "Where oil is generated is usu ally in areas where stagnant seas were in the past, so there was no oxygen reaching the bottom," he said. "Organic remains were part of the sediment, and converted into oil over a period of time." "If you look at the chemical composition of plankton crea tures, you'll find the same elemen tal composition you find in oil," he said. Other organisms provide addi tional evidence. Specific struc tures, such as cholesterol, are formed when organisms synthe size biochemically. This is an en ergy-storage compound produced by living organisms, and a com pound similar to cholesterol has been found in oil, Kennicutt said. Another part of the controver sy in Gold's theory is caused by the drilling site. Holditch said a reason Gold picked that area to drill is because there is no normal organic rock there, only granite. Gold suppos- found oil in the granite. edly "If it did pan out, there would be a large source of energy for the world." -Dr. Stephen Holditch, Texas A&M Petroleum Engineering Department which most scientists say cannot generate, hold or store oil. "A lot of people have assumed it's the core of the earth," Holditch said. However, sometimes sheets of granite are thrusted between or ganic rocks in complex geological settings. Explorers can drill further and hit sedimentary rocks that can store fluids like oil. Holditch said this is a very rare situation, and usually once explorers reach gran ite, they stop drilling. One thing that scientists — in cluding Hokiitch — do agree with about Gold's theory is that if it were true, the entire planet could benefit. "If it did pan out, there would be a large source of energy for the world," Holditch said. "In truth, it's probably a little of both. Major oil and gas fields are produced like we say now, but there could be some deep gas that could be discovered." Robert McCabe, an associate professor of geophysics at Texas A&M, agrees with many profes sors across the country who ques tion Gold's theory. McCabe said oil taken from different areas has a different or ganic composition. He said re searchers can study the oil and name the area the organisms con tained in it come from. "Different organisms have dif ferent organic signatures, which are consistent with living organ isms today," he said. "The mantle doesn't have any way of having different isotopic signatures." McCabe said that he has done some work with oil found in gran ite rock, but the oil seeped in from other sources. "Oil and gas is almost always associated with sedimentary rock," he said. In addition, McCabe said that rocks coming from volcanoes have extremely small amounts of methane. "The only way we know what's going on in the mantle is to study what’s coming from volca noes," he said. The fact that these rocks do not have much methane, or any oil and gas, provides evidence against Gold's theory that these hydrocarbons are coming from the earth's mantle. "His theory certainly is not McCabe said. -I 1 / jH-year Serbs defe^*°J Muslims hrow ir in Visegraitcfep yhere in letzenbi U.N. envoy, Va«Ute efi attempts peace SARAJEVO, Bosnia-He ised for inn (AP) — The Serb-led:;** army crushed MuslimrcsL*'? in the key town of Visep Bosnia-I lerzegovina onTfe as U.N. envoy Cyrusfi sought to negotiatepeaceE republic. usiru lonric le were I emefi ays, eng he tunnel liver tha !ood anc proven. Imports carry translation troubles for Poles WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Consider the perils of dyeing your hair following French instruc tions, fighting an ant infestation with instructions in Arabic or end ing up with a can of squid rings in garlic sauce by accident. Scrutinizing packages has be come a national pastime for Poles newly confronted by a dazzling array of imported products. The problem: only a few are labeled in Polish. Nearly 21/2 years into Eastern Europe's most dramatic economic reforms, Poles can choose from a well-packaged plethora of goods that could hardly have been imag ined during the 1980s, when leaky )1- vinegar bottles — labeled in Pol ish, to be sure — were virtually all that was piled high. But there is already resentment that even routine marketing trips resemble a "Let's go shopping" lesson in a foreign language class. Some Poles are responding with the first hints of a "Buy Pol ish" drive, others simply with confusion. The federal army, coming from the neighboring Serbian town of Uzice, "took control of the whole city," the Tanjug news agency report ed. Radio Sara jevo said at least four peo... 17 wounded Juringtheprevijjf'J 1655 . j 24 hours in fighting in Bosnia. cI u d i ng a t least one army resenU St reported killed at Visegrad. j 0 °£ rk e h Thcro were w IvgblsiMJ „ k from Vance s mission to get t/im warring parties® wa fire and negotiations. e ,.P°, The leader of the Serb minorb i 13 l0n in the republic said his talks will ° mrr '‘ Vance had been IratM. ■"“‘J 11 tored to a In Helsinki, Finland, the. ference on and Cooper*, tion in Europe accused Serbia^ lire federal army ofslmgupf^." olence in Bosnia, andGermaB , , threatened Serbia with"seriol , e l steps" if it does not Mtl™^*' Woodshed. vaterS Germany s F° rei g n ™ nis | )t was j- expressed support for a Uj tof conc ‘ backed proposal to suspends^jg neec bia's membership in theSKifflW t _ 0 ] association if Serbia and the Sf| w ^ bian-dominated army do notif Q n low recommendations of iea [ ec } fo United Nations, the Europi| out a ^ Community and the CSCE5^ ^ tunn aimed at ending the violence, fo da D MSC Political Forum MSC Political Forum presents a discussion of political and legal issues on Wednesday, April 22, 1992 7:00 p.m. Rudder Theater Guest speakers: Dr. Joseph Graham and Susan Nenney Moderated by: Dr. Kurt Ritter President of Texas Right to life Committee Dir. of Communication and Public Affairs for Planned Parenthood of Houston Prof, of Speech and Communications Texas A&M University THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS PROGRAM DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, THE MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER, OR MSC POLITICAL FORUM. jy, and Breast-cancer patient fav®*^' availability of gel implants!.?; vork and i )nce uj freigh ■is a mo Disagrees with FDA for imposing limits[Nes (Associated Press )- Rep. Mari lyn Lloyd, D-Tenn., a breast can cer patient who was forced by the moratorium to wait for recon struction with a silicone gel im plant, said she was pleased the im plants will now be available to others in her situation. But she expressed concern about the limitations being im posed, saying, "it is not the FDA's role to make value judgments." Others on Capitol Hill, includ ing Sen. Edward Kennedy, D~ Mass., chairman of the Labor and Human Resources Committee; and Reps. Henry Waxman, D- Calif., chairman of the House En ergy and Commerce health sub- In shi committee, and Ted Webplugged," N.Y., said the policy wasr«|o Mayor ] able and sensible. Jfet mean: Mentor Corp. of Santa fLjof normalc Calif., one of only two com'pusiness d: still making silicone gel imff'i/'Most I said it was pleased withFDr able to reo] tion. Klowevi The company stopped ^{drained fr< the implants during themoi pesses rem um. However they said they widely available for breast_ struction in the next threa#® 1 llC months. The other manufacture-'jSSlv. McGhan Medical Corp. Barbara, Calif. B Spring Allergy Study jStudent kxas A&I hire are tn towns this communit danced by Individuals 18 and older with spring allergy symptoms |Thetwo to participate in a two-week long research study (4 visits) with a medication in nasal spray form. $100 [d south incentive for those who complete the study. For more information call: BIOPHARMA, INC. 776-0400 ar t colonii Pic settle ^rnost co JColonia: ^ariety of " 0 >r healtl Cat ion. Coi J e ds mar r facilitie