I Page 2- The Michigan Daily -Tuesday, October 24, 1989 Chem. plant burns PASADENA, Texas (AP) - Explosions rocked a Phillips Petroleum Co. plastics plant yester- day, hurling chunks of metal and other debris miles away and creating a fireball visible 15 miles away. More than 80 people were injured, authorities said. Officials said they fear many died in the plant, but flames and intense heat are keeping rescue workers from getting close enough to investigate, said Dr. Paul Pepe, the director of Houston emergency medical ser- vices. The blasts buckled a ceiling and blew out cafeteria windows at an elementary school about a mile away. None of the more than 700 pupils was injured and they--were all sent home, a school employee said. At the plant, leaking gas and broken water lines hampered fire- fighters, said Phillps environmental director Bill Stoltz, who was at the scene. Several fires were visible beneath columns of dense smoke in the plant complex and patches of grass IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports AP PHOTO The Phillips Chemical plant in Pasedena, Texas exploded yesterday injuring over 80 people. Of the injured 72 were plant workers and 9 were injured from flying debris. smoldered outside. More than 900 people work in shifts at the plant, built in 1948 on the 800-acre complex on the Houston Ship Channel, said Dave Dryden, Phillips spokesperson at five minutes, then saw a white company headquarters in Bartlesville, cloud. Okla. "I told a safety man I saw Kelly Manerly, a pipefitter at the nothing but gas. Then it exploded. I plant, said he heard hissing for about ran. Selective abortion technique may be i restricted by new LANSING (AP) - A special they are carrying multiple fetuses. abortion technique that has helped "The issue of social abortion is some previously childless women very different from the type of cases bear healthy babies might be threat- we're talking about here," said er~ped by legislation proposed by anti- Evans, associate professor of obstet- legislatic The measure, which bans public employees from participating in abortions except to save the life of the mother, was introduced follow- ing last July 3rd's U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding a similar law in Missouri. "The general concept in Missouri was they didn't want doctors at the county health clinics doing abor- tions. The issue is different in abortion forces, medical experts say. The techniques, pioneered by Dr. Mark Evans of Wayne State Univer- sity, involves selectively aborting fetuses carried by women who have taken fertility drugs and later find rics and gynecology. As a public employee, Evans fears he would be barred from using selective abortion techniques if a measure proposed by Sen. Jack Wel- born (R-Kalamazoo), passes. Michigan where we have the most sophisticated health services for women that happen to be at univer- sities. That's very different from running an abortion clinic," Evans said. Welborn, who said he was unfa- miliar with Evans' work, questioned the distinction between abortions for social reasons and those per- formed by Evans. i i E a a t r c r I i S 0 g a a S East German workers form first independent union BERLIN - Several hundred employees of an East German factory have formed an independent union, a worker spokesperson said yesterday,[ stirring memories of Solidarity's challenge a decade ago to an equally stern Polish regime. Workers at the Wilhelm Pieck Electronics factory in Teltow, a suburb of East Berlin, call their union Reform. It is the first independent labor union in communist East Germany, as Solidarity was the first in the Soviet bloc, and includes the right to strike among its demands. There was no comment from the government. ZDF television in West Germany quoted a Reform spokesperson as. entire sections of plant workers had resigned from the state-run Freie Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund labor federation. It said workers had appealed to comrades in other factories to spread the new union. In Leipzig, tens of thousands of people marched through streets yesterday demanding a more democratic society, Lutheran Church sources. said. Shuttle touches down safely EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Space shuttle Atlantis streak down through the atmosphere and glided safely home yesterday after a five-day mission that sent the long-delayed Galileo spacecraft on a 2.4- billion-mile journey to Jupiter. Atlantis touched down at 9:32 a.m. in a light breeze, cutting short its mission by two 90-minute orbits to get down before predicted high winds came up on Rogers Dry Lake. Before the landing, dense fog had shrouded he base. "Atlantis, congratulations on an outstanding mission," said capsule communicator Ken Cameron in Houston. "You've extended the shuttle's each to the outer planets." "It's nice to be home," shuttle commander Donald E. Williams replied. A relatively modest crowd estimated at 20,000 was on hand to watch Williams, pilot Michael J. McCulley and mission specialists Shannon W. Lucid, Ellen S. Baker and Franklin R. Chang-Diaz come home. Virginian campaigns to be nation's first Black governor RICHMOND, Va. - Lt. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder is striving to be the nation's first elected Black governor, but has avoided emphasizing his race in a campaign without even a drive to register Black voters. The 58-year-old Democrat who grew up in the segregated South has conducted a campaign designed to appeal to the moderate, urban voters who helped put him in the state's No. 2 office in 1985, when he got 44 percent of the white vote. But he showed a rare moment of anger on a matter close to the hearts of Black voters last week when his Republican opponent, J. Marshall Coleman, invoked the name of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in a televised debate. EXTRAS0 Beer lovers taste a 'wet dog' LONDON - If a beer tastes like a wet dog, beer lovers should know t, according to a new guide to British brews. But if it has "a clean, crystal malt palate with more than a hint of eville oranges about it," that, too, should be stated out loud without fear )f sounding like a wine snob, says the Good Beer Guide. The guide, published yesterday by the Campaign for Real Ale, aims to o beyond the time-honored but undiscerning request for "a pint of bitter, lease" and put a touch of class into the beer drinking vocabulary. Among terms appearing in the guide is "wet dog," as in: "Light, dry nd hoppy, often with an excellent finish, but can suffer from a lack of ny particular aroma, or smell a little sulphury like a wet dog." Other terms include marzipan, rancid, spicy and worty. Then there is "Tom Cat" - any brew with a "pungently urinous, kunky" flavor. Vein rlcg'a aws.e4. A* f T, STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Now Hiring Full Time & Part Time! eFlexible Hours " Competitive Salary' *Cash Tips Daily e Free Parking " ~. OBSCENITY Continued from Page 1 the bill on three grounds: Regulating the material one can or cannot see is unconstitutional, making the distri- bution of obscene materials a felony will increase the burden on the al- ready overloaded penal system, and eliminating the current exemption for store clerks is unfair. "Say I'm some $4 or $5 an hour clerk, and I need the money. I could be charged with a felony without having any discretion over the mate- rial (the store sells)," hypothesized LSA senior Roger Kosson, president of the College Democrats. Under the current law, only the r 7 f store owner can be prosecuted for the distribution of pornographic mate- rial. But said Dillingham, "often it is almost impossible to identify the owner of an adult bookstore (because they are out of the country). The bill would provide that the people who are absolutely distributing the prod- uct (be punished)." 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