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Monday, August 27, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Persian Gulf Crisis
Crisis stirs interest in natural gas
The Associated Press
TULSA, Okla. - The Persian Gulf crisis and continued high gasoline prices could stir interest in compressed natural gas and make it easier to convince businesses to try the technology, industry experts say.
The main attraction of CNG in recent years has been pollution control, but the American Gas Association says it hopes the crisis will open a new market by making economy and "energy security" two more of its advantages.
The association reported that 93 percent of U.S. natural gas supplies came from Canada.
For now, the economic benefits of compressed natural gas are apparent. The CNG equivalent of a gallon of gasoline costs about 70 cents, the association reported. Unleaded self-serve regular gasoline averaged $1.237 a gallon Aug. 20, up 16.2 cents since Iraq invaded Kuwait Aug. 2, according to the American Automobile Association.
Companies that operate large fleets of cars or trucks are seen as the most likely consumers of CNG, but before they make a large investment in compatible vehicles, they will have to be convinced they will save money.
Rigg, spokesperson for Amoco Oil Co
Already, 30,000 vehicles in the United States run on natural gas. Most are in company fleets where the gas is compressed at the motor pool.
"We have to show them the long-term economic benefit, not a short-term benefit," she said.
Amoclo last week opened a CNG pump at one of its stations in Denver, but access to CNG remains the main obstacle to wide-opening roads for the station's shorter range, about 150 miles a tank.
General Motors Corp. announced July 24 that it would begin production early next year at of least 1,000 light-duty trucks that would run on natural gas and be available for utility and private fleet use in California and Texas.
Ethanol demand rises to ease oil loss
The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa - Midwest corn fields are getting a chance to pinch hit "for the crop."
The call for more ethanol is part of a scramble to ease the loss of Middle East oil arising from Iraq's invasion of Kuwait this month. Gasohol is approved for use in most vehicles, and proponents say its time has come.
The U.S. Department of Energy has recommended stepped-up production of ethanol, a corn-based moonshine that is blended with gasoline to make gasolol.
"There's no question in my mind it's
"there's no question in my mind it's
"there's no question in my mind it's
"there's no question in my mind it's
raises corn near Wapello, in southeastern Iowa
Since ethanol was introduced in 1978, more than 800 million miles have been traveled using ethanol blends, according to the American Board. Gasolol is 10 percent ethanol.
"Every year there's a new crop, but every time you take a barrel of oil out of a domestic oil well it is closer to running dry," said Marty Andreas, a vice president at Archer-Damiels-Middleton Co. of Chicago, the nation's largest ethanol processor.
A bushel of corn produces about 2:1 gallons of ethanol. Last year, about 1
The government estimates that U.S. farmers will harvest 7.85 billion bushels of corn this fall. One out of every five bushels are grown in Iowa, the nation's leading corn producer.
billion gallons of ethanol were produced nationwide from more than 360 million
"It's renewable, it's domestic and ethanol is benign," Andreas said.
He said the Energy Department on Wednesday asked ethanol industry officials how much idle capacity could be brought into production and was told that an additional 150 million to 175 million gallons could be produced each year.
Freed hostage says others are forgotten in Lebanon
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Former hostage Frank Reed says his 14 Western comrades in Lebanon are forgotten, deprived, sick men whose plight is worsened by the hostage crisis in the Persian Gulf.
“What’s the frightening that they could be there for 10 years,” he said in an interview August 14. They told me the day I was younger. “I told them 20 years ago, 20 years. I’m a very lucky man to be one.”
Reed said the 3,000 U.S. citizens held in Iraq and Kuwait would take priority over the six U.S. citizens and eight other Westerners held in Lebanon by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, or Party of God, which is thought to be the Mousaerella group for Shite Moslem terrorists.
"I think it will have an overall effect of them being put further and further down in the agendas." Reed said. "As far as I know, the American government is doing nothing."
Richard Boucher, State Department spokesperson, said he had no comment on
Reed implored the U.S. public to start writing the president and members of Congress and urge efforts to gain the hostages' release.
"For God's sake. We're talking about almost six years that Teyerson and Tom Sutherland have been in captivity," he said, "and I've never seen any of them were sick. This is very degenerating."
Anderson, 42, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, is the longest held of the hostages. He has been in captivity nearly $5\%$ years. Sutherland, 59, actean dean
of agriculture at the American University of Beirut, has been held for a little more than
The other U.S. hostages are: Joseph Cippe, 59, acting comptroller at the American University in Beirut; Edward Tracy, 59, West Beirut resident; Alain Steen, 51, communications instructor at Beirut University College, and Jesse Turner, 42, professor of mathematics and computer science at Beirut University College.
Reed, 57, lives in suburban Malden. He was the founder and president of the Lebanese International School. He was freed in April 2014 and is now a U.S. hostage have been released since then.
Reed has criticized the Bush administration for its stand against negotiating with
The demands of the kidnappers in Lebanon include the release of prisoners held by Israel in southern Lebanon and terrorists jailed in Kuwait and Western coastals.
There are conflicting reports on the fate of the prisoners in Kuwait. Some say they escaped after the Iraqi invasion. Others say they have been killed. Some suggest they have been moved to Baghdad, the Iraqi capital.
If the prisoners in Kuwait got out, the Western nations now have less to offer to the prisoners.
National Guard troops train in Mojave to prepare for desert conditions
Reed said he was sympathetic to U.S. families who have relatives among the host nation.
"But I believe they're a hell of a lot safer in that situation than the people I left behind in Iraq."
By Elliott Minor
Associated Press writer
FORT IRWIN, Calif. — With the temperature approaching 120 and a harsh sun beating down, some weary Georgia guardsmen shuffled to the肩 of an Army truck in the Mojave Desert for a ration of lasagna and beans.
Nearby, a dozen M-1 tanks tossed up clouds of choking dust as they raced across the desert floor. In the shade of a tan Bradley Fighting Vehicle, medics pumped an IV solution into a grimacing guardman and began treating him for a scorpion sting.
Nearly 1,400 members of the Georgia Army National Guard's 48th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized) spent three weeks in the California desert last month, defending the imaginary country of Mojavia against invaders with black berets.
The 48th serves as a backup for the 24th infantry Division (Mechanized) at Fort
Stewart, Ga., which is deploying troops and equipment to the Saudi Arabian desert to defend the oil kingdom against a possible Iraqi attack.
I spent a week in the desert interviewing and photographing the part-time soldiers as a staff sergeant in the guard's 124th Public Affairs Deployment.
At the same time, my 23 year-old son, Emory, was hallway around the world, training in a Middle East desert with combat drills. I don't think Saddam Hussein's troops invaded Kuwait.
Fighting the desert
Despite a regimen of pushups, situps and six-mile runs, I found it difficult to walk very far in the desert heat with a 70-pound rucksack, a Kevlar helmet, a gas mask, two caneets, a first-aid pouch and two ammo pouches stuffed with plastic bags containing
powdered milk and Slim-Fast, a concession to my own battle of the bulge.
The importance of water, shade and portable toilets quickly became apparent.
We drank water constantly to avoid dehydration. Many guardsmen carried insulated water bottles and larger containers were available for their locations and lashed to nearly all vehicles.
I drank about a quart of water every hour and never passed an opportunity to toil me.
The desert heat was oppressive, but a constant breeze was blowing, and we were fairly comfortable in the shade. We were surrounded from horizon to horizon by sand and rocky peaks. Small creosote bushes dotted the landscape.
I saw a coyote ambling across the desert one morning but no other wildlife. I shook my head.
Pfc. Dawn Dovle. an operating room technician with a Macon medical unit, had some definite plans for her return.
"I'll spend three hours in the shower and then sleep for about 24 hours," she said. "I just like to relax."
Tank smashes 'Leroy'
The medics stayed busy treating the guard members for heat exhaustion, cuts and kidney stones. Georgians are susceptible to kidney stones because of high calcium levels in their water. Doctors said dehydration and possibly the rough rille across the desert triggered dozens of painful kidney stone attacks.
A common greeting in the Mojave was,
"Hey, I massed my stone."
The Army placed portable toilets in the Mojave for the convenience of soldiers and to protect the desert environment. The portable Johns had the word "Leroy" stenotic on the
.
When one got crushed by a tank, someone put up a sign that said "Who killed Leroy?"
Cause of death: laser blast
Unaware of the sleeve policy, I kept mums rolled up for half a day and wound up with a bruise.
The guard members were issued sunscreen and goggles to protect their eyes from the sand and sun. They had to keep their sleeves rolled down to avoid sunburn.
I also lost my goggles and my eyes became irritated while riding in a truck with no windshield. I eventually had to go to an aid station to have them flushed out and treated.
During hulls, the medics, nurses and officers catrapped in the shade of truck. When patients arrived, they examined them on our liters set up beneath a camouflage net.
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