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Friday. February 28, 1982 7A Leader Press Senate liberals give up fight for school busing Two men seriously ill after deadly gas leak From Our Wire Service HANOVER. Va. Two men were gravely Dl and another was in serious condition today after a leaking deadly gas felled worker where they stood and forced the evacuation of an industrial park for nearly five hours, authorities A total of 16 people, including rescue workers, were in mained on the Senate floor, using a variety of procedural tactics to postpone the inevitable. The Senate was in session late Wednesday and into the early morning hours Thursday.

When Majority Leader Howard Baker reconvened the Senate Thursday morning, tempers were on edge. Weicker accused Baker and his opponents of unfairly using Senate rules to squash the filibuster prematurely. In reply, Baker approached Weicker angrily and the Republican leader was overheard saying, "You have gone too far." Afterwards, Weicker said he quit because Baker had limited his ability to maneuver and because of the uncer tainty of continued support from liberal Democratic allies on the floor. By Mike Shanahan The Associated Press WASHINGTON Senate conservatives are poised to claim victory in a congressional drive to eliminate busing as a tool to desegregate schools, but the proposal has a long way to go before becoming law. A small group of Senate liberals abruptly surrendered Thursday after a 9-month uphill battle against a strong anti-busing majority.

A fatigued Sen. Lowell Weicker, leader of a filibuster which had been blocking a final vote on the anti-busing measure, said he bad run out of time, help and parliamentary tactics. As a result the Senate will vote Tuesday on a Justice Department authorization bill that includes an anti-busing rider sponsored by Sens. Jesse Helms, and Bennett Johnston, D-La. Approval in the Senate is a foregone conclusion, but another big fight is likely in the House and there still could be further discussion later in the Senate.

Johnston said that while he is optimistic the legislation finally will be approved by Congress this year, he conceded, "It is not a foregone conclusion." Weicker said flatly, "This will not become law." The measure would direct federal judges not to order public school students transported more than 10 miles or 30 minutes round trip from home to their classrooms. It also would prohibit the Justice Department from asking federal courts to issue busing orders, a policy already adopted by the Reagan administration. Although Weicker had help from a half dozen liberal Democrats, the fight was mainly his. For hours, he re For the budget mindedl Rectangular table with leaf. Easy clean high pressure laminar top resists stains.

Includes four chairs. Rail chemical spill cleaned up NOW ONLY United Press International GREENSBORO, Ga. Rail crews cleared away the wreckage today of a ruptured chemical tank car that loosed a yellow, 900-foot-high acid cloud and forced the evacuation of Greensboro, a farm town of 3,000. Railroad spokesman Gordon Pride said a special work train towed the tank car out of Greensboro about 8:30 a.m. after workers spent most of the night hoisting the crippled vehicle onto a new set of wheels.

The move ended a 16-hour ordeal for Greensboro and its citizens that began when the tank car began spilling phosphorous trichloride about 6:45 a.m. Thursday. The tank car was righted and the leak stopped about 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Pride said the car would be taken to a remote area of Greene County and the, remaining 6,000 gallons of the chemical pumped from the tank car into tanker trucks.

All but 100 townsfolk returned to their homes late Thursday night. The group of 100 lived In the immediate area of the spill and officials would not allow them to return until the car was moved. Greensboro Mayor James P. Smith gave the all-clear for most residents at 11:15 p.m. Thursday.

Following the derailment, a smelly yellow cloud about 20 feet wide and 900 feet high rose over Greensboro, 85 miles east of Atlanta. A state of emergency was declared and the town was ordered evacuated. Some 5,000 gallons of the noxious chemical poured out of the tank car and onto the red Georgia clay, but officials said they were able to trap most of the liquid with makeshift earthen dams. Workers plugged the leak almost immediately after they used bulldozers and long cables to pull the tank car from beneath other mangled rail cars that fell on top of it SUNSHINE APPLIANCE and FURNITURE MARTS 224 E. COMMERCIAL OPEN NITES FREE AREA DELIVERY ADVERTISt IENT jured in the leak of the acid-like boron gas.

The leak oc-curred about 6:15 p.m. Thursday at Environmental Laboratories north of Richmond while a worker was bubbling a chemical compound called diborane through a water system to neutralize it and flush out its canister, authorities said. Some gas escaped in the process. Diborane can flame "when mixed with air and water, and there were at least two brief bursts of fire, officials said. Plant workers exposed to the gas dropped to the ground where they stood, said Chuck Ramsey of the state's Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Team.

They almost didn't know what hit them," he said. Man rescued from Texas flood WAXAHACME, Texas Deputy sheriffs rescued a man clinging to a tree in rain-swollen Cottonwood Creek today, ending a 7-hour ordeal for the man whose car apparently was washed off a bridge. Ellis County deputy sheriffs said a passerby saw the man grasping a tree in the stream about 20 miles southwest of Waxahachie and alerted authorities. Authorities said the man's car apparently washed down the creek, swollen by a 2 Vz inch rain since Thursday. Stockman rumors denied WASHINGTON After recently losing a series of fiscal arguments with the White House, budget director David Stockman was despondent and ready to resign, sources say.

On Capitol Hill, even now, there is speculation Stockman may soon be gone. The, Reagan administration, however, says rumors of Stockman's demise are "unfounded and that the president has full confidence in him." Crews fuel Columbia for tests CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Cold liquid fuel was successfully poured into the space shuttle's massive external tank today as part of a simulated countdown to prepare for Columbia's third flight on March 22. Meanwhile, the shuttle crew said their 7-day voyage will be the busiest for a long time. "We probably have more things to do for a two-man crew, more things per man per hour than any of the succeeding flights for a while," Air Force Col.

Charles G. Full-erton told a news conference in Houston, the astronauts' last before their launch. "Everything we are doing on the flight is an extension beyond the last flight," said the shuttle commander, Marine Col. Jack Lousma. "We try to break new ground and we're doing that on this flight" 1 Lousma said Columbia's flight is "not just another ride" on a spacecraft "While we are not in the first wave of pioneers, we are not far behind them," he said.

The tanking of liquid hydrogen and oxygen began slightly ahead of schedule, shortly before 7 a.m. CST, and was completed without incident at midmoming. Westar IV satellite launched 1 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Lighting up the night with a blue plume of flame, a 116-foot-tall Delta rocket carried a giant $28 million communications satellite into space. The Westar IV is twice the size of three other Western Union satellites now functioning in space.

It was launched into orbit at 6:04 p.m. CST Thursday after strong winds in the upper stratosphere forced a 15-minute delay. VV'-' Among other duties, the Westar TV spacecraft will transmit regional editions of Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal and Sports Illustrated from its orbital station 22,640 miles above San Antonio, Texas. Hearing Loss Is Not United Press International A Sign Of Old Age A train derailment Thursday caused the evacuation off many residents in Greensboro, Ga. The gas seen by the bridge in the background is sulfuric acid.

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The House Energy and Commerce Committee set the stage for a historic confrontation between Congress and the executive branch by voting 23-19 Thursday to cite Watt for con say they cannot find an instance of a Cabinet officer being cited by the full House for contempt, which carries a maximum punishment of a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Watt, who says he's willing to go to jail, apparently is only the second Cabinet officer ever cited by a congressional committee for contempt. The other, then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, was cited in 1975 by the House Intelligence The present dispute involves 11 documents that President Reagan ordered Watt to withhold on the grounds of executive privilege. The papers relate to Canadian energy and investment policies. Rep.

John Dingell, chairman of the House committee, contends the executive privilege claim is spurious. "We are accountable to the people who elected us, to ensure that the laws are faithfully and lawfully executed," Dingell said. In other congressional business: Reagan's new budget raises a "very grim outlook" for deficits exceeding $100 billion a year for the foreseeable future, Alice Rivlin, the head of the Congressional Budget Office, told the Senate Appropriations Committee. The administration would be willing to scale back some of its proposed food stamp cuts if states would start sharing the cost of the program this fall, Assistant Agriculture Secretary Mary Jarratt told the House Agriculture Committee. 1,1 5 tempt.

"The vote comes as no surprise," said Douglas Baldwin, Watt's chief spokesman. "As has been made clear from the beginning, this is a constitutional issue involving executive James G. Watt privilege" that probably will be. decided by the Supreme Court, Baldwin said. The committee resolution now goes to the full House, which must decide whether to refer Watt's case to the U.S.

attorney for the District of Columbia. A criminal case could end up being appealed to the Supreme Court Records are incomplete, but congressional researchers MORE HOURS FORVOUR CONVL-NIGNCE Dry Cleaning Gyotom OPEN: MONDAY-FRIDAY SATURDAY Anti-Libyan drive pushed HOUSTON An 18-year-old high school student will get the chance of a lifetime next month. An experiment he designed will be launched aboard the space shuttle to see how well bees and moths fly in OLD PHOTOS WV COPIfD DUNCAN STUDIO 325 South Avt. same category as the Soviet Union, the Survey reported today. In addition to a ban on U.S.

oil and gas equipment, Libya would be unable to buy computers, air traffic control gear or other items having a potential military use. Despite official U.S. disapproval of the Libyan government, documents obtained last month by The Associated Press showed American firms had sup-! plied Ubya with $53 million in weapons and material. provocation for the move, which was under consideration for several months. Secretary of State Alexander M.

Haig Jr. is understood to have played a leading role within administration councils in urging a boycott of Libya. First word of the decision came from Middle East Policy Survey, a newsletter published here. Informed sources confirmed the action, but insisted that they not be identified. The export controls would place Libya in the 866-1420 v) ,1 weightless space, Todd E.

Nelson of Rose Creek, a senior at Southland Public School at Adams, said his experiment could benefit space colonists in need of bees to pollinate fruit in massive orbitmg farms. "There really haven't been any studies on this before," Nelson said Thursday at the Johnson Space Center. This is why it's really exciting." The insects a dozen honey By Barry Schweid The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Reagan' administration is stepping up its campaign against Col. Moammar Khadafy, the Libyan leader, by imposing a boycott of oil imports from the militant Arab country and halting sales of American oil and gas equipment to the Libyans, Informed sources say. The decision was taken by the National Security Council Thursday and is expected to take effect in two weeks, after consultation with the West European allies, Congress and oil company executives.

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