Iran blamed for missile attack on tanker
By MONA ZIADE
Associated Press Writer
MANAMA, Bahrain — A rocket hit a
Panamanian tanker amidships yesterday
and the captain radioed he was heading to
Dubai in the United Arab Emirates for
repairs, Persian Gulf shipping sources said.
The sources said an Iranian warplane
almost certainly carried out the attack.
They said the U.S. Navy warship King, a
guided missile destroyer, was about 50
miles from the Cleo 1 at the time of the
attack and offered help, but that the tanker
reportedly replied it needed none.
The King is part of an 11-ship U.S. force in
the Middle East that patrols gulf waters and
the Indian Ocean.
The 20,880-ton Cleo 1, bound from
Colombo, Sri Lanka, to pick up crude at
Saudi Arabia’s oil terminal of Ras Tanura,
IFC doesn't know what to do about keg regulations
By TERRY MUTCHLER
Collegian Staff Writer
The Interfraternity Council
unanimously agreed yesterday
that the new alcohol policies
initiated by area distributors
necessitate appropriate action,
but the key question remaining is
What will the action be?
IFC president Maury Billig said
,the new policies are directly
affecting the fraternities and he
stressed the need for the
fraternities to stick together.
The policies prohibit
distributors to lease equipment to
organizations such as fraternities
and sororities, to deliver
merchandise or to receive
payment through a fraternity
check.
• “It’s directly affecting us more
so than others and we need to band “
together and stick together IFC
will back anything you decide,”
Billig told the council.
. According to Billig, distributors
are no longer legally liable under
the present policies if an accident
occurs. The legal responsibilities
now rest on the social chairman of
the fraternity purchasing the
alcohol.
Creating a hypothetical accident
situation, Beta Theta Pi’s social
chairman, Mark Clayton said, “If
a fatal accident occured, you (the
social chairman) could practically
guarantee yourself a cell at
Atherton Hall now home to undergrads
By ROBERT P. KING
Collegian Staff Writer
For the first time in 19 years,
undergraduates have moved into Atherton
Hall, which had housed only graduate
students, paving the way for the complete
removal of graduate students from the
residence hall.
Donald T. Arndt, director of housing
services, said the 140 undergraduates are
upperclassmen and participants in the
University Scholars Program, and comprise
about one-third of the residents in Atherton.
William H. McKinnon, assistant vice
president for housing and food services, said
the move is the first phase in the plan to
convert Atherton to undergraduate housing
within two years.
Next year the ratio of undergraduates to
graduate students living in Atherton will be
inside
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than twice as much beer if it
comes in a pitcher than in a
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was the latest victim in the so-called
“tanker war” involving Iraq and Iran,
according to the sources, who spoke on
condition they not be identified. At least 40
have been hit since February.
The Cleo l’s captain radioed no distress
signals, but reported his vessel was struck
by a single rocket. He said he was forced to
change course and use emergency steering
to proceed to Dubai.
His first plan was to sail to the nearest •
port, in Doha, Qatar. Shipping sources said
the tanker was diverted to Dubai instead
because most surveyors are based there
and because United Arab Emirates ports
had received many ships previously
attacked, both for damage inspection and
repair work.
The Cleo 1 was attacked at about 10 a.m.,
eight hours before it was due to dock at Ras
Tanura, pick up crude and then sail back to
Rockview.”
Clayton presented three options
that he said are worth
contemplating:
• Stay with the present
distributors and let the social
chairman assume responsibility.
• Enter a change into the
present Greek party system at
Penn State by not serving beer.
• Go outside Centre County to
purchase the alcohol.
Although most council members
sided with the second alternative,
no official action has been taken.
Council member Ralph Rosen
said that no matter what action is
taken to avoid the legalities, “it all
comes down tp breaking the law
because of the 21-year-old
drinking age.”
Billig said he doesn’t see how the
distributors carried the legal
burdens for as long as they did, ;
adding that he realizes the actions
taken, are not directly aimed at
fraternities.
Although he said he didn’t agree
with what the distributors are
doing, Billig said he commends
them on taking a stand.
“I compliment the distributors
for taking this action as opposed to
waiting until a fatal accident
occurs,” he said.
“We are simply going to form an
alcohol committee and try to find
out the legal implications and get
alternatives,” he said.
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two-to-one. In Fall Semester 1986, Atherton
will house only undergraduates, McKinnon
said.
The switch is being made to help
compensate for the construction of
apartments in the Nittany Halls area that will
mostly house graduate students, he said.
Meanwhile, relations between the graduate
students and the new arrivals seem to be
proceeding smoothly, the president of the
Atherton Hall Council said.
“They seem to be getting along very well.
So far there have been numerous volleyball
games and games of Trivial Pursuit,” said
Frank Arlinghaus, whose.organization
opposed the decision to move undergraduates
to Atherton when it was first announced last
year.
Predictions of tension between the two
groups have not come true, he added.
“It’s not (the undergraduates’) fault
Fraser garage:
By MICHAEL J. VAND
Collegian Staff Writer
The State College Municipal Council last night voted
to award a construction contract for the Fraser Street
parking garage, ending months of uncertainty over the
design and cost of the facility.
J.C. Orr and Sons of Altoona made the low base bid of
$3.9 million. State College Parking Authority
Chairman Fred Carlin told the council the figure was
7.2 percent over the architect’s original estimate. But
he also said it was 7.2 percent less than the next lowest
bid.
He noted that the contractor has done work for the
borough in the past and has had experience building
three other parking garages.
“It seems like a reasonable bid,” Carlin said.
Carlin reviewed a list of possible alternatives that
could lower the cost of the garage. For example,
installation of one of two elevators'could be deferred
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Sri Lanka, said the ship’s agent in Ras
Tanura. It was about 60 miles northeast of
the northern tip of Qatar at the time, said
shipping sources.
The shipping sources hold Iran
responsible for eight attacks now on gulf
ships including yesterday’s and blame
Iraq for the rest.
They said the Iraqis would not strike at
ships going to or coming from countries that
are allies of Iraq in yesterday’s case,
Saudi Arabia. They also noted that Iraq
usually immediately reports having struck
“a large naval target” when it attacks a
tanker in the gulf. No such claim was made
yesterday.
Ah Iraqi attack Friday crippled the
Cypriot tanker Amethyst, which was hit
after loading 50,000 tons of crude at Iran’s
main oil export terminal on Kharg Island.
The Amethyst was towed to Iran’s Lavan
IFC President Maury Billig (center) and Executive Vice President Paul Blahusch (left) look on as members discuss
fire safety precautions and the new beer distrubuting policy at last night’s meeting.
Arlinghaus said. “So far everybody is just
waiting. It’s really too early to say how it will
work out.”
Ralph Miller (graduate-business
administration), who lives in Atherton, said
the experience of living with undergraduates
will benefit graduate students by involving
them more in dormitory life.
“Grads tend to live in a stricter
atmosphere. With the undergrads here we’ve
already had things like a volleyball game the
other day,” Miller said.
Undergraduates have also reacted
favorably to their first week in Atherton.
“I think it’s a great study atmosphere. I’m
in my final year here and I really need some
time. I like not having to hike to the library if I
want to study,” Doug Keys (senior-business
logistics) said.
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they’re here. They were assigned here. Any
antagonism we have is toward Housing,”
and one of three stairways could be eliminated, he
said.
However, he said the two alternatives the authority
was recommending were the use of cheaper brick
facing to save $5,500 and the.elimination of pivoting
windows in the stairwells to save $30,500.
Carlin said cleaning windows on a tall structure such
as the six-story garage is difficult. The pivoting
windows would allow easier access. However, because
regulations prohibit their use in the glassed-in elevator
shafts, the borough will have to purchase equipment to
clean them. The same equipment can be used to clean
the stairwell glass, he said.
Gary Wiser, council member and finance committee
chairman, moved that the council accept the
authority’s recommendations and award the contract
at a final estimate of $3.85 million.
Council member R. Thomas Berner asked why they
could not eliminate the stairwell and defer the elevator
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Island, where it anchored yesterday.
Both the Amethyst and the Cleo 1 were
managed by the same' company the
Greek Troodos shipping lines.
The tanker war began in February when
Iraq warned that any merchant vessels
sailing to or from Kharg Island would be
attacked. Iraq said it wanted to stop Iranian
oil revenues and force Iran to accept a
compromise settlement in their four-year
old war.
Iran insists that Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein must be ousted before the war can
end. It said it would see that gulf shipping
lanes remain unsafe, particularly those
leading to countries backing Iraq, as long as
Iraq keeps up its blockade.
On Sunday, seven Arab foreign ministers
and the head of the Arab League failed to
agree at a meeting in Baghdad, capital of
Iraq, on proposals to organize an
Deborah Golant, resident assistant for
women undergraduates in Atherton, said
some adjustments were made with both the
alcohol and noise policies in Atherton.
Both undergraduates and graduates have
been informed of the standard University
policy that forbids the possession of alcohol by
residents under 21 years old and prohibits the
presence of open containers of alcohol in the
hallways, Golant (senior-psychology) said.
However, violations of the rules will be
handled differently, she said. Undergraduates
will be handled by the standard disciplinary
system through the local coordinator’s office,
while graduate students will be referred to the
Atherton Hall Association.
“As far as noise goes, we are all operating
under the assumption that there’s a 24-hour
study atmosphere here. There doesn’t have to
be constant silence but we’re trying to keep
things toned down,” Golant said.
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international campaign to convince oil
importing nations not to buy Iranian crude,
according to an Arab diplomat in Iraq.
Represented were Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,
Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq and North
Yemen and Arab League Secretary-
General Chedli Klibi.
The ministers had hoped to bring
pressure on Iran to cooperate with
mediation efforts to end the war by cutting
down its oil exports. Their governments
fear the war could spill over to other
countries in the oil-rich region.
The diplomat, speaking on condition he
was not identified, did not say who proposed
the campaign.
A war communique issued in Baghdad
said Iraq and Iran fought border artillery
duels yesterday, with six Iranian soldjers
killed and others wounded.
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Shipwreck
leaves no
radiation
By RAF CASERT
Associated Press Writer
OSTEND, Belgium Belgium
said it would send down navy
divers today to examine the Mont
Louis and its cargo, but reported
that it had found no trace of
contamination in the North Sea
two days after the French
freighter sank with 225 tons of
radioactive material aboard.
Environment Minister Firmin
Aerts said he would ask France to
“act as swiftly as possible” to
salvage the 5,000-ton ship, which
sank Saturday after colliding 12
miles off the Belgian coast with
ferry carrying more than 1,000
people from Holland to Britain.
No one was hurt.
The French government and
the Mont Louis’ owners, the
Compagnie General Maritime of
Paris, said the material aboard
the sunken vessel was only
slightly radioactive and was in 28
special steel containers built to
withstand the pressure of being
up to 650 feet below the sea for at
least one year.
The ship sank in 46 feet of water
and part of it is visible at low tide.
Officials said sea water would
quickly dilute the material even
if a leak developed. A company
statement said the increase in
radioactivity would be
“negligible with no consequence
for man and the environment.”
The owners identified the cargo
as crystallized uranium
hexafluoride, which is used in the
uranium refinement process. The
material is shipped as crystals
and becomes a gas when heated
at 158 degrees Fahrenheit.
In Paris, the international
ecological organization
Greenpeace said yesterday that
despite official assurances,
recovering the cargo posed a
serious danger. The group sent
out the first alert about the
nature of the cargo after the
collision.
At a Greenpeace news
conference, Yves Lenoir,
secretary of a group called
Energy and Development, said
uranium hexafluoride, when
immersed in water, could
produce a “violent” reaction and,
possibly, an explosion.