NATION/WORLD
Friday, October 21, 1994
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Pipelines burst; gasoline fills river
At least 15 killed in Texas flooding
The Associated Press
HOUSTON — Two pipelines beneath a rolling river burst yesterday, sending 100-foot flames of burning gasoline smacking more than a mile down the San Jacinto River. At least 69 people were injured.
"It looked like hell opened up on the water, and the whole river was gasoline," said Mike Norman, who was on the bank trying to retrieve his sailboat when the explosion occurred.
At least 11,500 people were forced from their homes by heavy rain that began Sunday. Skies were clearing, the murky water had begun to recede in most areas, and some people were
returning to their damaged homes when the pipeline broke east of Houston, sending smoke and flames hundreds of feet into the air. The flooding has claimed at least 15 lives.
The burning mixture wound 1 1/2 miles downstream, setting fire to homes and boats along the banks. Schools and businesses in the path of the smoke were evacuated. Most of the injured were treated for minor burns and smoke inhalation.
"There were three loud booms and then an immediate black cloud," witness Doug Trowbridge said. "It just began to spread like wildfire."
The first explosion around 10:30 a.m. occurred near "The Spaghetti Bowl," the mouth of the nation's interstate pipeline network. A second pipeline ruptured around 2 p.m.
U. S. Transportation Secretary Federico Pena surveyed the scene by helicopter and said the explosion was likely caused by the rain-swollen river.
"We have seen this in other parts of the country where you have massive flooding, and pipes are hit, tanks get loose, and you have ruptures, and you have explosions," Pena said, adding that an investigation was planned.
The two pipelines, about 8 feet apart, are buried about 3 feet beneath the floor of the river, said Sam Whitehead, a representative for Atlantas-based Colonial Pipeline, which owns both lines. They run beneath the river for about 2 miles.
The first line, 40 inches in diameter, carries gasoline from nearby Pasadena to New Jersey. The second line, 36 inches in diameter, carries No. 2 diesel fuel, Whitehead said.
Simpson update
JURY SELECTION: Citing concerns about the intense publicity in the case, Superior Court Judge Lance Ito ruled that a portion of jury selection, in which prospects are queried on media exposure, will be conducted in secret.
MEDIA OPPOSITION: The ruling came over strong objections by media and civil liberties lawyers, who argued that closing the proceedings would do nothing to stem publicity or promote candor in prospective jurors.
RULING CONFUSION: Most reporters and lawyers initially thought the judge was closing all of jury selection. But a court representative talked to the judge and said only the "media portion" of questioning would be closed to the press.
Scientists advise FDA to approve new eye laser procedure
The Associated Press
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — A panel of outside scientists advised the Food and Drug Administration yesterday to approve the nation's first eye laser to correct nearsightedness, provided the maker can meet strict safety criteria.
Summit Technology Inc. must show the FDA that at least 75 percent of patients treated with this laser will have good enough vision to abandon their glasses or contact lenses and that only a tiny number
could have their vision worsened because of the procedure.
The 13-1 vote by the panel came after 12 1/2 hours of often-testy debate. At one point, the panel came within a single vote of completely rejecting the OmniMed laser.
At issue is a surgery called photorefractive keratotomy or PRK, which some doctors say is safer and more precise than radial keratotomy, RK, the current eye surgery that 250,000 Americans undergo every year.
In RK, a surgeon makes tiny cuts
on the cornea, the clear tissue covering the eye's iris and pupil. The cuts flatten the cornea to bring vision closer to normal.
PRK also flattens the cornea, using ultraviolet light to vaporize corneal cells. It has some risks similar to RK, including a tendency for some patients to overcorrect and thus require reading glasses.
Advocates project that 1.4 million Americans would make use of the new surgical procedure each year.
The new laser uses a beam of ultraviolet light to reshape the
corneas of patients who are near-sighted.
About 250,000 Americans undergo RK surgery every year, but there are problems connected with the procedure. In addition to occurrences of farsightedness, some patients have difficulties with glare and night vision.
Researchers for Summit Technology, of Waltham, Mass., presented data on 700 eyes treated with the laser over the last two years. About 78 percent of the patients no longer needed glasses.
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