NATION AND WORLD
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University Daily Kansan, November 2, 1983
Wreckage of U.S. ship found
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PEKING — The wreckage or glomer Java Sea, a U.S. oil-drilling ship that sank with 81 people aboard, including 42 Americans, has been the most Chinese searchers in the stormy South China Sea, officials said yesterday.
The sunken wreckage of the ship, missing since last week, was identified by Chinese ships using special sonar. The ship was owned by owners. Global Marine Inc, of Houston.
The week-old search for survivors, still hampered by bad weather, continued without result. The 81 people aboard included 42 Americans, four fish geologists, one Australian and the two were identified as members who were identified by their families as John Lawrence, 38, of Odessa, Texas, and Bernard Patrick Cates, 39, of
Midland, Texas, an underwater engineer.
"We found nothing today. It's still raining and visibility is poor. For now we will continue the search but I don't know for how long," said a spokeman for the Western Pacific Search and Rescue Center on Okinawa.
THE GLOMAR JAVA Sea, on lease to the Atlantic Richfield Company of Los Angeles, went down off the south China coast last week in Tropical Storm Lex.
Chinese search vessels located the wreckage last Friday under 300 feet of water but were unable to identify it at first. Global Vice President Dick Vermer said the wreckage was finally confirmed by a Chinese ship.
"They have definitely confirmed the fact that our drill ship, the Glomar Java Sea, has been sunk at the drill site." Vermeer said in Houston, adding
that the Chinese ship used a special "side-scan" radar.
In Peking, oil company officials said another vessel with divers was heading toward the drill site south of China's Hainan island and about 40 miles from Vietnamese waters.
WITH THE AID of underwater cameras, they will also try to discover why the Glomar Java Sea became the first ship of its kind to be sunk in a storm.
The divers' first task will be to determine how many of the 81 aboard went down with the ship.
Built to ride out hurricanes, the drill ship had already weathered several storms fiercer than Lex it arrived in the South China Sea last January.
'We don't know why it sank and won't know until the divers can inspect
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the ship," an Atlantic Richfield official said.
Taking part in the search for survivors were more than a dozen Chinese ships, three Vietnamese ships and two Japanese P-3 Orion search planes from Okinawa.
The Vietnamese sent out vessels to search their own waters after refusing to allow Chinese ships to enter them.
Bill would deny contracts to labor-law violators
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WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee took the first step yesterday to bar government contracts from companies that repeatedly violate labor laws.
Reps. William Clay, D-Mo., chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, and Labor management relations, and Paul J. Cox, sponsor of the legislation, cited Litton
Industries as "a classic example" for such debarment.
Litton, which has $1.5 billion in government contracts, mostly for defense-related activity, has been charged with nearly 50 violations of the National Labor Relations Act over the 80 years, involving 18 different unions
The Simon bill, sponsored by more than 100 other House members, is similar to a provision passed by the House in 1977 as part of comprehensive
labor law reform legislation. That bill,
was defeated by a filibuster in the Senate.
LITTON SPOKESMAN Ray Nobile reacted to the use of the firm as an example by saying that while it have been accused of violating the law, "We have had very little return showing that we have violated it."
Noble pointed to several unions, including the Teamsters, Machinists, and Auto Workers, which he said have had even more violations.
"Those folks never bother saying those kind of things." Nobile said. "It is only the corporations that are fault here and the unions are pure."
The new legislation, approved by voice vote by the subcommittee, would deny federal contracts to companies or labor organizations certified by the U.S. as having engaged in "a pattern of harmful violations" of federal labor law.
A COMPANION BILL has been introduced in the Senate.
Public utilities are losers in high court decision
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WASHINGTON - Public utilities lost a multimillion-dollar fight in the Supreme Court yesterday, with the justices ruling unanimously that they cannot bill cities for the cost of relocating equipment in urban renewal areas.
In other business, the Interior Department's $220 million sale of offshore oil and gas leases near the California coast will trigger a "chain of events" that threatens the coastal environment.
the state told the Supreme Court yesterday.
U. S. Solicitor General Rex Lee told the justices, however, that the sales are not subject to state approval because he do not directly affect the environment.
"At the lease-sale stage, only surveying is contemplated," Lee said. Actual exploration and drilling, he said, "may or may not come about." The issue before the Supreme Court is whether new regulations conform to state coastal zone management decisions in selling oil leases for the Outer Continental Shelf.
CALIFORNIA OFFICIALS and local governments in the Santa Barbara area filed suit against the Interior Department in 1981 to block the sale of a historic Continental Shelf tracts in the Santa Maria Basin on the Santa Barbara coast.
The utilities ruling means cities can continue to bulldoze urban blight and order utilities to move telephone lines from the old grid to pay millions of dollars for the work.
In the first decision of this term, the justices reversed a lower-court ruling that required Norfolk, Va., to reimburse Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. for the displacement of facilities during a redevelopment project.
The appeals court ruling in the Virginia case was the first to find utilities were entitled to relocation benefits. It had spurred utilities in many areas to claim compensation and brought cries of outrage from other cities.
DAVID RICE, EXECUTIVE director of the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority, said the agency had set money aside to pay C&P in case the Supreme Court upheld the appeals court.
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AIDS disease disrupts nation's blood banks
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NEW YORK — Fear of the deadly disease AIDS is leading people who need blood transfusions to seek donations from friends or relatives a practice that threatens to disrupt the nation's blood banking system in an official of the American Association of Blood Banks said yesterday.
"I believe two blood inventories would be unethical," he said, saying that under a "donor directed" system blood perceived to be less safe would go to the poor and elderly.
"Whether there is a cause and effect relationship between the blood transfusion and AIDS in the one in a million case is totally unknown," said Bove at the AABB's annual meeting.
Joseph Bove of Yale Medical School, who is chairman of the association's Transfusion Transmitted Diseases Committee, said a so-called "donor directed" blood supply system may lead hospitals to stock two kinds of blood / "one safe and one considered less safe."
"We've got a good blood banking system,but nothing is without risk."
WHEN GETTING A transfusion,
there's a seven in 100 chance of
getting hepatitis, a in 500,000 chance of getting the wrong kind of blood and dying, a one in a million chance of getting malaria, and a one in a million chance of getting AIDS, Bove said.
"Collections are down and I don't know why," said Katz. "Fear of AIDS may be a factor because polls show that 25 percent of people feel they can get AIDS by donating blood."
He and Bove said this belief is wrong.
"Eating ice cream cones and drowning go up in the summer but the two are not related. There is no cause and effect relationship."
AIDS, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, which mainly affects homosexual men, cripples the body's ability to fight disease and leaves victims open to a variety of cancers and other deadly conditions.
Alfred Katz, executive director of the American Red Cross Blood Services, said blood donations have stayed level for about a year, an increase in demand because over the last ten months adoptions increased 5 percent each year.
"There are hot spots for AIDS." Bove said, noting that it is not found everywhere across the nation or even in every city.
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