Chevron Denied Tanker Permit for SB Channel Potential for Oil Spills Plays Role in Decision
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O PIN IO N SPORTS OFFENDING AGAIN! G o o d G o d PAGE 7 Volume 71, No. 109 Thursday, April 11, University of California, Santa Barbara Two Sections, 20 Pages Chevron Denied Tanker Permit for SB Channel Potential for Oil Spills Plays Role in Decision By Aaron Rudger commission to hold a special Staff Writer hearing on the issue, Chevron at torney Richard Harris said, but added, “We enter into a decision In a historic decision Wednes to sue with great reluctance.” day, the California Coastal Com It was the first vote the commis mission upheld a county ordi sion has made on whether to over nance denying Chevron USA per turn a local government’s deci mission to tanker oil through the sion to deny coastal development Santa Barbara Channel. in accordance with its local plan. The commission found, in an “We’re veiy pleased to have our 8-3 vote, that no “substantial decision upheld,” Santa Barbara issue” existed to overturn a deci County Supervisor Bill Wallace sion made in December by the said. Santa Barbara County Board of Local environmental group Get Supervisors which denied Chev Oil Out, which brought a large ron the use of tankers because en contingency to the meeting, was vironmentally safer pipelines also pleased with the decision. could be used instead. “The oil industry is finding it “The Commission decided that harder and harder to do business pipeline transportation was the in Santa Barbara,” GOO Presi best, most environmentally sound dent Henry Feniger said. method o f transporting this oil,” Currently, the dormant Chev Commissioner W3d?$B*01ickfeI d ron Point Arguelio project, which said. loses $500,000 every day it stays Chevron is now considering a lawsuit which would direct the See TANKER, p.3 A.S. Moves to Create Student-Run Advisory Board for Events Center By Jan Hines they were ousted from the Staff Writer student-funded facility by the UCSB intercollegiate basketball team, A.S. recommended Winter Following recent concerns that Quarter that the Advisory Board students have lost control of the be reinstated. UCSB Events Center, preliminary Although the administration plans to create a student-run has received criticism for its deci ECen Advisory Board — replac sion to disband the original ECen ing the one dissolved by the admi board, Associated Students Inter DAVID SOTELO/Duily Next» nistration in 1985— were put into nal Vice President Rachel Doh effect Monday by the Student Fee erty said campus officials ap Turnin' Things Around Advisory Committee and Asso peared enthusiastic about recreat ciated Students. ing it. “They were very positive After intramural and recrea about it. They finally understand The Gaucho baseball team defeated Westmont 8-5 Wednesday, ending a four-game losing streak as tional users complained that de the importance of students gov- Tom Myers earned his seventh win of the season. See story, p.8. spite ECen policy guaranteeing top priority for open recreation, See ECEN, p.5 ANNIVERSARY: APRIL 11th City Council Custodian Killed by Bomb in 1969 Remembered Lifts Lawn By Kenneth Klein but that the “pipe bombs seem to Watering Ban be tied to nothing, and without R eporter__________ “When the pipe bomb (incidents) of last quarter connections there can be no By Aaron Rudger took place, I was mindful of the Dover Sharp constructive outcome.” y - • *•. Campus reaction to the dis tragedy, even though I was not at the university Although “the death of Dover covery of pipe bombs and a rash at that tim e” Sharp was one of the low mo of bomb threats last month was ments of the anti-war movement The record-breaking March for the most part muted. If to in the 1960’s,” and a "disap downpour*, which greened day’s students knew the story of John MacPherson pointment to the majority of the Santa Barbara’s hills after five Dover Sharp they might have UCSB chief of police left,” the difference between years of drought, put another been a bit more concerned. that tragedy and the seemingly 18 months on the South In April of 1969 Sharp was a homemade bomb. The package There are still some figures on random nature of the pipe bomb Coast's draught *ilaak and 55-year-old university custo exploded and Dover Sharp was campus today who remember threat is that “there was logic be prompted the Santa Barbara dian, living in a room at the Fa mortally wounded. Dover Sharp. One of them is so hind the events that occurred in City Council Tuesday to relax culty Club. On the morning of The explosion knocked him ciology Professor Harvey Mo- the 1960s and '70s,” namely ’ fcMNK nrfMjMMNHpife . April 11 he was walking through back several feet, engulfed him lotch, who has been at UCSB for stopping the Vietnam War and After reviewing current re the club’s patio when he came in flames and covered 80 percent 23 years. other issues of the day. servoir levels and newwater re upon a cardboard box. of his body with bums. Sharp Molotch said last quarter’s Others who were there now sources, the council decided by Thinking it was a delivery, suffered for 48 hours, then died pipe bombs brought back me say it was nearly impossible to a 4-2 votejto ease its current Sharp picked the box up, not April 13,1969, leaving behind a mories of the stream of events drought emergency ordinance knowing it actually contained a wife and four children. that occurred in April of 1969, See DOVER, p.10 SOK WATER, pS 2 Thursday, April 11,1991 HEADLINERS Daily Nexus S t a t e Baker Takes Plan for Peace Officials Claim Tap W ater Man Is Accused of Asking Talks With Israel to Egypt May Be Safer Than Bottled Cop to Kidnap Young Girl CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Secretary of State James A. WASHINGTON (AP) — Plain tap water may be safer STOCKTON (AP) — A convicted child molester was Baker III took an Israeli peace proposal to the Arab world than some pricey bottled waters because of lax federal reg accused Wednesday of trying to have a blond girl- on Wednesday, uncertain about the reception it would re ulation of the bottled-water industiy, congressional inves kidnapped so she could become his sex slave, ending with ceive but eager to maintain momentum begun in tigators and lawmakers said Wednesday. her murder in a "snuff” film. Jerusalem. The General Accounting Office, the congressional Harold Wayne Tomason, 46, was booked into San Joa Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was ready to con watchdog agency, concluded the Food and Drug Admi quin County Jail Tuesday for investigation of solicitation front Baker with a five-point plan of his own calling for Is nistration needs to do more to ensure bottled waters are to commit kidnapping, murder, sodomy and rape. rael to relinquish land in order to gain Arab acceptance of safe. An undercover police officer was initially investigating its existence. Inadequate regulations mean “bottled water, including an alleged attempt to buy pornographic magazines involv Other provisions in Mubarak’s plan included a halt to mineral water, may contain levels of potentially harmful ing children, Sgt. Tom Morris said. new Israeli housing construction on the West Bank and in contaminants that are not allowed in public drinking wa But Morris said the seriousness of the case suddenly es Gaza, and the establishment of a Palestinian state. ter,” the report said. calated when the officer was asked to kidnap a blond girl The Egyptian leader did not rule out the regional peace about 8-years-old who Tomason had seen unsupervised conference proposed by the Israeli government. John W. Harman, director of the GAO’s food and agri outside a duplex in north Stockton. culture issues, told a House panel it was “difficult to make Israel’s plan would have the conference held under U.S. assurances” that bottled waters are safe or unsafe because Tomason, who has a child molestation conviction in auspices, preferably in Washington, with the Soviet Union the industry is not scrutinized well enough. Oregon, wanted tp use a stun gun to capture the girl, then a participant. Reporters traveling with Baker were told the The GAO conducted its investigation at the request of tie her up and drive her to a cabin he planned to rent near Soviets would have to restore full diplomatic relations Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., chairman of a House Energy Fresno, Morris said. with Israel if they hoped to sponsor peace talks. and Commerce subcommittee on oversight, who blasted Police decided to arrest Tomason for fear he might act Baker has called Israel’s proposal “constructive.” the FDA for its handling of the bottled-water industiy. on his own before officers could set up an operation to The FDA has been “inexcusably negligent and compla make an arrest during a kidnap attempt. cent” regarding its duty to regulate bottled waters, Dingell 100,000 Byelorussians Strike said. Man Accidentally Run Over, For Higher Wages in Protest Nintendo Settles Price-Fixing Killed Following Car Chase MINSK, U.S.S.R. (AP) — More than 100,000 workers defied an appeal from Mikhail S. Gorbachev for a mora Complaint; Coupons Issued TORRANCE (AP) — Police ran over and killed the torium on protests, pouring out of factories Wednesday in driver of an alleged stolen car following a chase through the Byelorussian capital to strike for higher pay. WASHINGTON (AP)— Nintendo bullied some of the city streets, authorities said Wednesday. “The Communist Party Drove Us Here!” read one pla nation’s biggest retailers to keep them from cutting the The man, identified as Jose Serrano, 20, of Bell Gar card held by workers marching in a light rain to Minsk’s price of its home video system, federal and state officials dens, died at Harbor General-UCLA Medical Center central Lenin Square.