Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday. February 8. 1989
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Cold weather fails to freeze festivities
The Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Mardi Gras bawdiness blossomed on Bourbon Street as men in miniskirts yesterday pranced past gay bars in temperatures that kept most of the estimated 1.7 million瓶颈 bundled up.
The French Quarter filled quickly despite the cold, and some hardy parade lovers staked out spots by the streets of St. Charles Avenue well before dawn.
For the most part, costumes gave way to parkas and winter gear, covering up much of the usual nudity. However, observers said the weather had little effect on the size of the crowd.
"The less you wear, the more you get your picture taken," bragged a man in a black lace corset, garters and goose bumps who would not give his name. "I live to just go up and down the street and get my picture taken. It's one time of the year and I'll freeze for it."
Police were lenient with revelers, but they 'led the party at midnight, ushering six weeks of Lent in this predom', only Catholic city.
"We were colder about five years ago. We were in kilts," laughed Pete Fountain as he marched with his "Half Fast Walking Club."
Wind chill factors were in the low 20s,but some folks didn't mind.
Ship's leak threatens Antarctic sea
The Associated Press
SANTIAGO, CHile — Chilean navy frogmen daylight plunged into ice Antarctic waters to seal shut the fuel tanks of a crippled ship and to stop the spread of an oil slick threatening an area's wildlife, authorities said.
A navy communique said the cuter Yelcho arrived Monday night, the first clean vessel to get to the spill site, which is 590 miles from the tip of South America and close to the shores of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Crew members yesterday morning encircled the almost sunken vessel Bahia Parraio (Paradise Bay) with floating booms designed to contain any further oil leak to the ship or to the water by a spokesman at navy headquarters in Santiago.
Divers then entered the frigid
U.S. to help save wildlife with cleanup of Chilean spill
waters to seal shut the Bahia Parato's tanks, it said.
The Argentine research and supply ship grounded on shoals Jan. 28 about two miles from Palmer Station U.S. research base. Scientists said the area teamed with wildlife, including thousands of penguins.
The ship holds about 800 tons of fuel, including diesel oil in bulk and aviation fuel in steel drums. Officials of the Washington-based National Science Foundation said oil was leaking slowly from the ship, which gradually sank in the shallow waters. Only a section of its superstructure
remains above the surface
They said a slick almost 500 feet wide and two miles long was trailing from the vessel toward the south, where it collided with the ship's fragile and unprotected environment.
A U.S. research vessel, the Polar Duke, was expected to arrive at the spill yesterday. It carries a multimillion-dollar cleanup mission organized by the National Science Foundation, which includes military and civilian experts and 52 tons of sophisticated equipment.
The Yelcho and the Polar Duke left Friday from the Chilean port of
Punta Arenas, a major supply point for Antarctic operations.
Two Argentine vessels are in the area of the spill and plan to help, according to the Chilean navy. However, they await equipment being flew from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Chase Airlines base 280 miles from the accident.
An Argentine Embassy official in Santiago told reporters Monday the government would try to salvage the environmental threat was quelled.
A research vessel of the Chilean Antarctic Institute also is at the spill site to evaluate environmental damage of the Mossie's acting director, Antonio Massei.
Baryshnikov is popular as basketball at Duke
In a telephone interview in Santiago, he said the area around the accident was home to 29,000 penguins.
DURHAM, N.C. — On the Duke University campus, it's almost — but not quite — as big as blue Devils basketball. Dance superstar Mikhail Baryshnikov is making his dramatic stage debut playing a cockroach in an adaptation of Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis."
The Associated Press
The play, which has its official press opening today, has been a hot ticket since the box office opened in December. The first two days, 200 to 300 people waited in line for as long
as four hours to buy tickets. The three-week run at the 640-seat Reynolds Industries Theater is sold out.
"Basketball is the major activity down here, but I would tell you, that from a cultural and artistic standpoint, this has been the biggest thing in basketball." said Ron Kumin, administrative director of the Duke drama program.
Almost 30 percent of Duke's 10,000 students will see the show before the end of its run Feb. 25, Kumin said.
NORTH TRIAL STOPS: Lawyers for Oliver North never趾腰 moved to stop the Irian-contra trial on the grounds that the jury selection was too slow for six days, failed to meet legal requirements.
In a court filing, North's lawyers said the court had violated requirements of the Jury Procedure.
"The court refused to excuse numerous prospective jurors" who under indicated on questioning that they had been exposed to North's 1987 immunized congressional testimony, said the motion to U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gessell. Judge did not act on the motion immediately.
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Because of a mix-up that sent some prospective jurors home before they could be questioned, Gesell did not finish choosing the panel
from which the jury would come and said that would be done tomorrow morning. Five or six prospects are yet to be questioned, he said.
The number already qualified stood at 45, which is what Wesell had wanted, but there appeared to be a question about three of the four Jesse was designated that he wanted a larger pool as insurance.
The judge also said the trial could be prolonged for as long as one month by a defense tactic, which would challenge the authenticity of every document introduced by the government.
SOLIDARITY SEEKS LEGALIZATION Solidarity leader Lech Walesa yesterday told supporters that he would not press for completely free elections in his country, but he first wanted them to restore his union's legal status.
status.
A spokesman for Solidarity said the union wanted open parliamentary elections eventually but was willing to delay fulfillment of that goal until it obtained its prime objective of legalizing Solidarity.
U. S. CRITICIZES PLO: The State Department yesterday criticized the Palestine Liberation Organization about a clash with Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. It reserved judgment about whether it would disrupt the U.S. dialogue with Yasser Arafat's group.
Robert Pelletreau, the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland, said he would up the matter immediately with PLO officials.
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