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Page 12 • Thursday, February 25, 1999
News
Program studies China site
BY AMANDA SMITH
The Battalion
The Ocean Drilling Program
(ODP) has embarked on a re
search expedition to the South
China Sea to study the evolu
tion of the Asian monsoon in
order to better understand
global climate change and its
impact on human history.
ODP will study six sites in
two contrasting geographic re
gions: a northern region locat
ed 211 miles off the shore of
Hong Kong and a southern re
gion located northwest of
Bornea.
The South China Sea was
chosen for the study because
the seafloor sediments indicate
variable and intense monsoons
in the winter and summer
months.
Jack Baldauf, deputy direc
tor of the Ocean Drilling Pro
gram, said ODP conducts re
search involving volcanism,
sea floor spreading and earth
quakes.
“All of these [studies] give
us a piece of the global puzzle,”
Baldauf said. “The earth is dy
namic. We have emphasis on
looking at the evolution of the
“The earth is
dynamic. The
driliing in China
is only part of a
much larger
picture.”
— Jack Baldauf
Ocean Drilling Program
monsoons and comparing
them to other regions. The
drilling in China is only part of
a much larger picture.”
Texas A&M scientist Peter
Blum is drilling in the South
China Sea with co-chiefs, Pinx-
ian Wang of Tongji University,
and Warren Prell, of Brown
University.
ODP, an international part
nership of governments and
scientific institutions, is con
trolled by Joint Oceanographic
Institutions with Texas A&M
University managing science
operations. It receives funding
from the National Science
Foundation (NSFJ and its inter
national partners. The People's
Republic of China has con
tributed research in earth sci
ences and was added as an
ODP associate member in
spring 1998.
High pressure systems over
northern Asia and northeast
winds across the South China
Sea are characteristics of the
winter monsoon. Low pressure
systems over Tibet and south
westerly winds over the Arabi
an Sea are characteristics of the
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may act out ag
summer monsoon.
Weekly reports from the
crew traveling with the ODP
can be accessed online.
Legislators propose prohibiting
lawsuits against gun makers
AUSTIN (AP) — At a time when a number of
U.S. cities are considering suing gunmakers to re
cover costs of gun-related violence, several state
legislators said Wednesday they want to prohibit
such lawsuits in Texas without the Legislature’s
approval.
The bill’s sponsors said the lawsuits follow a
questionable legal theory and are little more than
gun control in disguise.
“These lawsuits are ludicrous. They’re nothing
but a backdoor attempt at gun control,” said Rep.
Suzanna Gratia Hupp, R-Lampasas.
Rep. Rick Green, R-Dripping Springs, said it’s
the gun-wielding criminal — not the gun manu
facturer — who should be held responsible.
“It’s no different than going after Ford or Chevy
if the getaway car in a bank robbery happens to
be a Ford or a Chevy,” Green said.
“We don’t believe you can go after a manufac
turer that has created and produced an inanimate
object, and they’ve done it legally, and they've
sold it legally and it’s non-defective,” he said.
The bill would prohibit any state agency or lo
cal governmental unit, including cities and coun
ties, from filing lawsuits against legal gun or am
munition manufacturers, trade associations or
sellers without the Legislature’s consent.
The bill wouldn’t take the right to sue from any
individual, and governmental bodies still could
sue gun makers over breach of contract or war-
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victed of dragging a black mantade
probably cling to his racist belieie
lash out violently again, a ps)»
Wednesday told that jury thatwii |
whether the defendant shouldliveni I
Other prosecution witnesses a 1 ,1
William King, the white supreme I
victed Tuesday in the slaying of Janie:
Jr. last June, acted up in jail byte
to assault a police investigatorandsE
a TV set.
A defense expert, however,saidat
tence would be appropriate for the;
old former laborer.
Dr. Walter Quijano, a forme; c
chologist for the Texas prison system
private practice, said he based thai
sion on King's lack of drug useania
he used no weapons during previoii:
In Texas, a person serving a life si
cannot become eligible for parole
40 years.
“The probability of people at age>i
mining violence is very low," Qite
A bailiff said King fell asleepdi
jano’s testimony. King was sitting£j|
fense table, his head in his hand, 1
apparently drifted off for a few min
Dr. Edward Gripon, a forensicpsi
who testified for the prosecutiona?|
viewing King’s writings andphon
his racist tattoos, said he doubtsifii?
shake his beliefs.
“Anyone who has white supra
any other kind of racist feelings,!!
heavily invested in that kindofite
not going to just go away,” Gripon
The psychiatrist also said: "Ifeellie
pose a continued threat for futureao;
olence”
The jury will probably be giventa
on Thursday.
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Supreme Court clears way
for execution of German man
Y2K computer bug's may mi
into nuclear weapons, gas ink
FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — The
U.S. Supreme Court overturned a
lower court Wednesday and
cleared the way for the execution
of a German citizen who had
picked the gas chamber over lethal
injection.
The federal appeals court had
ruled earlier in the day that the use
of cyanide gas was cruel and un
usual punishment, just as Karl La-
Grand had calculated when he
chose the gas chamber.
The state had appealed the rul
ing to the nation’s high court.
LaGrand, 35, had been sched
uled to die Wednesday afternoon
for fatally stabbing a bank man
ager during a botched robbery in
1982. The execution in the gas
chamber was rescheduled for ear
ly Wednesday evening.
His brother, Walter, 37, is set to
die in the gas chamber next week
for the same crime.
The brothers’ request for death
by cyanide, a method far more
painful than injection, was a cal
culated move designed to keep
them from becoming the first Ger
man citizens to be executed in the
United States since World War II,
when several prisoners of war
were hanged.
Attorneys for the LaGrands,
who have been on death row since
1984, gambled — successfully —
that an appeals court would buy
their argument that gas is cruel
and unusual punishment. A three-
judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals ruled unani-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian
missiles, Chinese power systems
and Mideast shipping could all face
breakdowns because many foreign
countries are failing to face up to the
seriousness of the Year 2000 com
puter problem, the CIA told Con
gress on Wednesday.
Air Force Gen. John Gordon, CIA
deputy director, told a Senate Armed
Services Committee hearing that
Russia appears particularly vulner
able, raising concerns about the
safety of its missiles, nuclear plants
and gas pipelines.
“We do not see a problem in
terms of Russian or Chinese missiles
automatically being launched” be
cause of Y2K-related problems. But
computer glitches could cause local
accidents if temperature or humidi
ty monitors malfunction, or Russian
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consulting with the Ro:^Ipnent
how to avoid that danger, Ncomr
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the Y2K problem was hi Ip to p
draft of a report findingl#Pe’envir
United States, while well ate irhisy
most of the rest of theworii las chosi
ing computers, is likelyloflIons i
ence some disruptions ir Ian the t
care, electric power andfw ite The
bution. ■from
“All sectors of the ay
many of which provide
services that are vital tooid
and well being, are at risk !
Robert Bennett, R
Christopher Dodd, D-Comd
their Senate colleagues.
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