Vol. 99, No. 44 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Thursday October 27,1988
U.S., Soviet cooperation frees whales
The Associated Press
BARROW, Alaska — Two traps trapped for almost three weeks in the arctic ice pack were freed yesterday by Soviet and United States icebreakers.
"The whales are loose and in the channel and headed out," said L1 Mike Haller, a spokesman for the Alaska National Guard. "They looked good all afternoon. To look at them, you'd have thought they had their bags packed and were ready to head south."
Ron Morris of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and rescue coordinator said, "They're in the main lead, and I can't help but think they'll keep on
truckin', I don't know how much more we can do.
The work to free the migrating California gray whales progressed rapidly Tuesday when two Soviet ice-breaking vessels began smashing the ice that kept the pair imprisoned. A third trapped whale is thought to have died last week.
Morris, who followed the whales by helicopter, landed a little after 8 p.m. to say that the whales had moved from the final manmade breathing hole to the path the Soviet icebreaker Vladimir Arseniev cut Tuesday night.
whales would have trouble breaking air holes through the partly frozen cut, but about 4:30 p.m. rescue workers found the two whales in a small breathing hole and were sharing it.
One of the whales was bleeding enough to stain the water red.
Rescue officials were worried that the
Spectators watched anxiously for several moments, waiting for the whales to surface in the new waterway cut by yesterday in the waterway heered when the whales broke the surface.
As darkness fell, the whales were swimming back and forth in the channel. Officials patrolled the water.
nightfall.
Scientists and others involved in the rescue might never know the whales' fate. Rescue officials decided not to put electronic tracking tags on the already stressed animals.
"A lot of people really didn't want to learn" said Jim Harvey, a marine biologist.
Haller said plans were being made in Harrow to thank the Soviets with a party, but the government did not.
Before the whales were freed, as the Soviet icebreakers drew near, the whales were "acting in a very excited manner, almost like they can sense freedom," said Sgt. Ian
Robertson, an Alaska National Guard spokesman.
By midday, the Soviet icebreakers were a quarter-mile from the line of breathing holes being cut by Americans working in the opposite direction, he said.
Later yesterday, rescuers began to use a tractor-like device propelled by pontoon augers to clear the ice cut by the icebreaker. Robertson said.
The breakthrough in the effort to free the whales caught in an early freeze came after more than a week of delays and disappointments.
Roof collapses at building site Workers escape unharmed
By Mark E. McCormick
Kansan staff writer
The roof of a partially constructed building in northwest Lawrence collapsed yesterday, as workers narrowly escaped falling
Hoobler said. "I've been around here 13 years, and the most I've run across was three or four."
Hoobler said the roof probably collapsed because of a loosely supported frame. The wind wasn't
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Soviets to launch shuttle tomorrow
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union said yesterday it will launch its space
estday it will launch its space l'Buran on an unmanned missi this week, following months of similar to those that plagued maiden voyage of its U.S. count.
government commission set the tech for 6:23 a.m. mосква time urday (10:23 p.m. CDT Friday) r receiving reports from special-following several thousand tests be Buran and its booster rocket, Energia, the official news agency s reported.
Buran" is Russian for snow,
an appropriate name since
first snow of the season fell this
fork in Moscow.
University Daily Kansan PROFILES/Wednesday, October 26, 1988
reparations for pouring nearly 4 tons of liquid hydrogen, oxygen hydrocarbon fuel into Energia, as the world's most powerful ster rocker, to begin today. The rocket is carrying more than 100 tons of cargo Earth orbit, and up to 20 tons to planets Mars and Venus.
widet media did not say how long an' mission would last. If the flight is successful, a mission two cosmonauts is to follow, but et officials have not said when. wificials have said the first mission will be piloted by personnel like the Jan 28 1986, oison of the U.S. shuttle Challen-Seven astronauts were killed in blast.
ate-run television yesterday wed the white delta-shaped an, with its name emblazoned in attached to the Energiaon a ch pad at the Soviet Union's ionur Cosmodrome on the Cen-Asian stepses of the republic of akhstan.
raternity abolish ledgeship, and hazing
unch was originally planned for first half of this year, but was poned as technical problems e, officials said.
David Stewart an staff writer
KU fraternity will abilis its je system after this year in ante to a national anti-hazing fraternity's president yesterday.
n greenfield, president of the Beta Tau fraternity, 1942 Stewwe., said yesterday that the ZBTE council Embulged pledge-nationally for ZBT chapters at a last month in Chicago.
members of the Supreme Council neet with local ZBT members in vence this weekend.
enfield said that ZBT had
tes this semester and would
mute to have them in the spring,
and the new system
wFall 1899.
enfield said the decision was
in response to a nationwide
azing movement.
we message to all the fraternists that hazing is out," he said. jenfield predicted that other mities would follow suit.
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