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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
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their business as usual and
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there was criticism
governments. The head l|
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Ghayth Armanazi, said wjr '
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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.
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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...
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24 hours in fighting in Bosnia.
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in the republic said his talks will ° mrr '‘
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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™^*'
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Germany s F° rei g n ™ nis | )t was j-
expressed support for a Uj tof conc ‘
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MSC Political Forum
MSC
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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,
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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;
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