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Volume 115, Number 29 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Wednesday, July 26, 1995 Budget Can't be Cut, Sleek Solar Car Cruises Vest Tells Press Club To Victory in9-Day Race By Eva Moy standard of excellence 10 years STAFF REPORTER from now?'Ifthe nation is to be pre- By DanIel C. Stevenson The race generally traced along 55 mph back Proposed federal budget cuts eminent a decade hence, if we re EDll'OIIN CHIt#" roads, said driver Ooro ramai G. The MIT car gen- could affect not only university edu- not only to compete but lead, then At speeds sometimes exceeding 60 mph, the MIT eraHy traveled at the speed limit, but did receive cation and research, but' industry we must sustain these unique Amer- Solar Electric Vehicle Team's car raced to victory some time penalties for driving too fast )0' the rare and the competitiveness of the Unit- ican institutions." last montb in Sunrayce '95, a 1,I50-mile solar car 65 mph zones, the car reached speed of 62-63 mph, ed States, President Charles M. Vest "Congressional hearings and race from Indiana to Colorado. The MIT car, named Tarnai said. The MIT ear's average speed was 37.23 warned in a July 18 address to the media exposes ... have tarnished the Manta for its flat, sleek shape, beat out 37 collegiate mph. National Press Club. image of universities," Vest said. competitors from around North America in the 9~day The team is composed of about 2~ student&, with "In the curre~t debate, many And while "most of the real issues race. a.core group of about 6 or 7, Chi,en said. Other mem- seem unwilling or unable to retain, have long since been addressed... a Mania finisHed with a time pf 33:37: 11, Nst bers include Matthew . Condell '95, George J. let alone enhance, our national residue of misunderstanding and under 19 minutes ahead of the second place finisher, Delagrammatikas )95, Eric L. Gravengaard '96" excellence in science and advanced cynicism remains." a University of Minnesota car. The result was the education," Vest said to an audience Academia is not the only group Closest in the race's ltistory'. . that included Presidential Science that would like that sentiment Adviser John Gibbons and fonner reversed, Vest said. The public is in Secretary of Energy Admiral James fact on universities' side: Citing Watkins. "Instead of pursuing our recent poll data, Vest said that near- endless opportunities, we are in dan- ly 70 percent of the American pub- ger of drifting toward mediocrity," lic thinks it is very important for the Vest said. government to support research, 90 "We live in an age in which percent want the country to main- knowledge holds the key to our tain its position as a leader in med- security, welfare and standard' of ical research, and 73 percent are living, an age in which technologi- willing to pay higher taxes to sup- cal leadership will detennine who port more medical research. wins the next round of global com- petition. .. and the jobs and profits Bills could hurt MIT that come from it ... an age in which Vest's speech comes as Con- events move so rapidly that almost gress discusses deep cuts in research 80 percent of the computer indus- funding. If passed, cuts set forth in try's revenue from products that did 13 or so spending bills now under not even exist tWo years ago," Vest debate "would unravel bedrock edu- said. cation, health, and environmental "The cornerstone of our era-t~e programs," President Clinton said in information era-is education," yesterday's Boston Globe. Most of Vest continued. "Today, America's the bills are still at the committee system of higher education and stage in both houses, and must be research is the best in the world. Period. But will it be the world's Vest, Page 11 Laboratory Accident Injures Grad Student

By Saul Blumenthal teams responded to the scene. Fol- ASSOCIATE NIGHT EDITOR lowing standard procedure, the fire A graduate student was cut in the alann was sounded and the building face last Tuesday when a flask over- was ordered cleared. About 200 heated and shattered in a chemistry people were evacuated, according to laboratory, prompting an evacuation The Boston Globe. "We have a of Building 18. responsibility to act on what we Shuang Qiao G was distilling 1- hear, to activate our full response Trimethylsilylethyne in a chemical system," said Chief of Campus hood at around 11:00 a.m. when the Police Anne P. Glavin. People were small flask she was using overheat- allowed to return to the building at ed and shattered in front of her. 11:47 a.m. Other students in the fourth-floor Qiao, who was wearing protec- laboratory responded by dialing the tive glasses at the time of the acci- Campus Police emergency line. dent, was taken to the Medical They reported the incident as an Department, treated for a cut on her explosion. cheek, and released. No-one else The Cambridge Fire and Police Departments and M IT emergency Accident, Page 11 Thomas D. Cabot George ~ Panteleyev G INSIDE Thomas Dudley Cabot, the longest serving member of the MIT George P. Panteleyev G, a graduate student in the MIT -Woods Corporation, died June 8 at his home in Weston. A member emeritus of Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography and the Corporation who was first appointed as a tenn member in 1946, Oceanographic Engineering, was lost overboard June 8 during a • Hanks, crew aim for Cabot regularly attended meetings of the trustees until shortly before research trip on the Ob River in Siberia. He is presumed dead. new heights inApollo his death and marched in last year's Commencement procession. Details of the accident were sketchy and unclear, according to a Cabot was director emeritus of the petrochemical manufacturer WHOI announcement. According to information from Russia, the acci- 13. Page 6 Cabot Corp., and still went to ~is office fairly regularly. dent occurred in the early morning hours, a few days after the start of Cabot received his bachelor's degree in engineering from Harvard the cruise. The ship searched for Panteleyev for about five hours. A • P~ delivers in 1919. He took several courses at MIT when it was locat~ on Boyl- preliminary investigation was conducted by local officials in the charm, morals. Page 6 ston Street. His father, Oodfrey Lowell Cabot, attended MIT for one remote region. year in 1877-78 and graduated from Harvard with a degree in chem- Panteleyev was serving as chief scientist on the cruise, which was istry in 1881. He also served many years on the MIT Corporation start- collecting data to asse s radioactive contamination in the Ob River sys- • New zords grace face ing in 1930. Cabot's son, Louis W. Cabot, is also a life member of the tem, which empties into the Arctic Ocean. ofPmJ)cr Rangers Corporation and also a Harvard graduate. A similar cruise was conducted by Panteleyev and Stephen Smith of Thomas Cabot was born in Cambridge into one ~f Boston's oldest WHOI's Marine Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, with movie. Page 7 families on May I, 1897, the son of Godfrey and Maria Moors Cabot. Russian collaborators, in the summer of 1994. On graduation from college, he entered his father's business in West Born in Moscow in 1966. Panteleyev entered the MIT-WHOI Joint • First Night lacks the Graduate Program in June 1991. He and his wife Natalia Y. Befiakova cabot, Page 11 G, also a WHOI student, lived in Westgate. magic. Page 7 Page 2 THE TECH July26,199'- WORLD & NATION Bosnian Serbs March Into Deserted Enclave of Zepa Bomb Explodes in Paris LOS ANGELES TIMES SARAJEVO. BOS IA-HERZEGOVI A The Bosnian Serb army pushed ahead Tuesday in its takeover of a Station; Kills 4, Injures 60 second United ations-designated "safe area," marching into the town of Zepa but finding its streets and homes almost deserted, U. . By William Drozdlak Within minutes of the blast, Inte- Remy-Ies-Chevreuse. He said the' officials said. THE WASHINGTON POST rior Minister Jean-Louis Debre timing of the explosion - at 5:30 . Muslim women, their children and government soldiers, fearing PARIS ordered heightened security in the p.m., the peak of rush hour - sug- Bosnian Serb atrocities, fled in advance of their enemies' troops' A powerful explosion ripped city, at its two major airports and at gested the attackers sought to cause arrival and sought refuge in the surrounding caves and forests. The through a crowded commuter train other possible terrorist targets the maximum number of casualties. Bosnian Serbs' capture of Zepa follows by exactly two weeks the fall at a busy underground station near throughout the country, including In his first two months as presi- of Srebrenica, another U.N.-protected enclave where conquering otre Dame Cathedral Tuesday, border crossings and transportation dent, Chirac has made several con- Serbs expelled more than 30,000 Muslims in the single largest inci- killing at least four people and injur- facilities. ' troversial foreign policy decisions dent of "ethnic cleansing" in the 39-month Bosnian war. ing about 60 others what Prime There was no immediate claim that have provoked criticism abroad. Written off by the United Nations and the West, Zepa had resisted Minister Alain Juppe described as a of responsibility for the bombing, He has ordered French U.N. troops for a week of Bosnian Serb shelling and psychological warfare. The terrorist bomb attack. but speculation in political circles in Bosnia to retaliate against any isolated enclave of 17,000 people received no assistance even after The blast triggered scenes of here focused on Algerian Islamic attacks by Bosnian Serb forces, Washington and allied nations pledged a more aggressive defense of chaos and panic during evening rush extremists, a possible connection to even if that risks provoking further the safe areas. hour at the St. Michel subway and France's military role in Bosnia or Serb attacks. He also has ordered a The Muslim-led but nonsectarian Bosnian government, insisting suburban rail station, a Left Bank its decision to resume nucl(:ar resumption of nuclear tests at the that parts of the enclave remained under its control, said its forces in ,crossroads for tourists and students weapons testing. Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia, Zepa would turn over their weapons to the United -Nations as the at the nearby University of Paris. A If the blast is confirmed as the outraging Asian and Pacific nations nationalist Serbs are demanding - but only if U. . officials agree to neighborhood cafe was transformed work of terrorists, it would be the and prompting protest demonstra- evacuate civilians and airlift soldiers from Zepa. "Any evacuation into a makeshift field hospital as bloodiest such attack here since tions by environmental groups without the protection of (U. . peacekeeping forces) would mean medics performed emergency 1986. In that year, pro-Iranian around the world. sure death," Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic asserted. amputations on several victims. Lebanese extremists killed 13 peo- In Algeria, a former French Fire engines and ambulances ple and wounded 100 others in a colony, Islamic extremists are wag- raced to the blast site next to the wave of bombings at department ing a three-year-old guerrilla war Group Says Baby Foods Contain Seine River, and the cathedral stores, restaurants and other public against the army-backed secular esplanade was turned into a landing sites to protest French arms sales to government and have threatened to Pesticide Residues zone for helicopters evacuating the Iraq and the arrest here of a suspect- carry the battle to France, which -I THE WASHINGTON POST wounded. "It's carnage down ed Iranian assassin. they accuse of siding with the WASHINGTON there," said a fireman who emerged Chirac, who was then prime Algerian government. Last Decem- More than half the name-brand baby foods selected at random from the explosion site as he and minister of a conservative govern- ber, Algerian militants hijacked a from grocery stores in a recent study were found to contain residues more than 300 other rescue workers ment under Socialist President Fran- crowded French airliner with the of pesticides, including (hree probable carcinogens, a nonprofit envi- scrambled to extinguish the fire, cois Mitterrand, had been the archi- apparent intention of blowing it up ronmental organization reported Tuesday. muffle the fumes and pull the tect of an aggressive French in the skies over Paris, but French Sixteen different pesticides were detected on the eight types of injured from the damaged rail cars. arms-export program to Iraq during commandos stormed the plane in baby food sampled in the inquiry, according to the Environmental "All of the windows of the train the 1970s, when he headed the first Marseille, killed the hijackers and Working Group (EWG), the Washington-based organization that con- were blown out by the explosion. It government of MiUerrand's prede- freed the passengers. ducted the study earlier this year. was a scene of real horror," a wit- cessor, conservative Valery Giscard There were also suggestions that Lynn Goldman, an assistant administrator of the Environmental ness said on French, television. D'Estaing. the bombing may have been carried Protection Agency, said that the findings accurately reflect the occa- "I was shocked by what I saw Anti-terrorism investigators were out by allies of IlJich Ramirez sional occurrence of minuscule amounts of pesticides in baby food. there," a shaken Juppe told reporters sifting through the wreckage of the Sanchez, also known as "Carlos the But the levels found should pose no health threat to infants, she after visiting the scene and speaking train Tuesday night, looking for evi- Jackal," the infamous Venezuelan- stressed. with some of the victims. "There dence that would help identify the born terrorist who. planned and led "I would not recommend that parents stop feeding their children was a very strong explosive device attackers. 'A police spokesman said. hijackings and bombings throughout baby food as a result of this," said Goldman, who was trained as a placed down there with the intention an initial inspection indicated that the Middle East. Carlos was arrested pediatrician. The nutritional value of the food is important for infants, to kilL" President Jacques Chirac about six to nine pounds of explo- in Sudan last year and extradited to she said. also visited the site and spoke with sives were detonated under a seat of Paris, where he is awaiting trial for The EWG study acknowledged that the levels of residues found victims but left without making any the sixth car in the train, which was the murders of two French police- fall well below the amounts allowed by federal agencies. public comment. . bound for the southern suburb ofSt.- men. EWG took samples from grocery stores in Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco last May. The test focused on eight foods: apple- sauce, garden vegetables, green beans, peaches, pears, plums, squash and sweet potatoes. Senate to Vote Today.to Lift Salvadorans Protest Arrest Of Accused Vigilantes Anus Embargo against Bosnia LOS ANGELES TIMES By Helen Dewar to allow a U.N. member state, the Lieberman, D-Conn., cosponsor MEXICO CITY THE WASHINGTON POST victim of aggression, defend itself." with Dole of the legislation, in sum- Salvadorans marched through the streets of San Miguel, EI Sal- WASHINGTON Already "our fingerprints are all ming up the argument for the bill. vador, Monday to protest the arrests last week of 16 men accused of The Senate moved Tuesday over-this conflict .:. we cannot "There is one thing we cannot do, belonging to a vigilante group that has ki1led street gang members toward approval of legislation to lift escape responsibility," he said. He and that is nothing," added Sen. and threatened lawyers, judges and politicians. _ the embargo on arms shipments to said the vote was more about ideals Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. Four police, a Protestant minister and a prominent merchant, were the Muslim-led government of than politics. "It's not just about The administration has argued among those arrested Thursday in San Miguel, about 80 miles outsid~ Bosnia in its most serious challenge Bosnia. It's a vote about America that, although a vote to lift the EI Salvador-'s capital of San Salvador, by the National Civilian so far to President Clinton's conduct and what we stand for - our human- embargo does not obligate the Unit- Police. All have denied that they are members of the vigilante group of foreign policy. ity and our principles," Dole argued. ed States to send arms to the Bosn- known as "Sombra egra," or Black Shadow, which has claimed It plans to vote on the bill In response, Sen. John F. Kerry, ian government, it would impose a responsibility for murders of two dozen gang members. Wednesday. D-Mass., said a vote to lift the moral obligation to help it. At the Further arrests are anticipated as a special unit continues its inves- As the Senate resumed debate on embargo would amount to an "epi- same time, administration officials tigation into possible involvement of the Public Security Ministry and the proposal, Clinton - in a final taph for Bosnia: we wish you good have said, NATO allies Britain and high-ranking police officials in the vigilante activities, sources close appeal his aides agreed was likely to luck and have a nice war." The France - both of whom have troops to the case said. • change few votes - warned that United States should give NATO a on the ground in Bosnia as part of "The arrests are disturbing because they suggest the involvement lifting the embargo would be a chance to strengthen its response to the U.N. force - oppose its lifting of police," said George Vickers, executive director of the Washington "futile effort to find an easy fix" and Serb aggression "before we step out because they fear it would lead to an Office on Latin America, an American think tank. "On the other could wind up increasing rather than with an arrogant club" to smash its upsurge in the fighting and endanger hand, there has been some real serious investigation here. While there decreasing American involvement chances, Kerry added. their own peacekeepers.

are some high-level individuals involved, it is individuals rather than I in the bloody Balkans conflict. The debate - which was begun In Tuesday's Senate debate, institutions. " After an appearance before Sen- and then suspended last week at the opponents of the bi II repeated That is a relief for those who feared that the vigilantes marked a ate Democrats, Secretary of State administration's request to avoid themes raised by Clinton, Christo- return to the days of "death squads," when unknown gunmen killed Warren Christopher said he could disrupting a weekend conference of pher and Perry. It "threatens to government critics with impunity. see "a great deal of pressure" on the NATO allies on Bosnia - was an Americanize the conflict," argued United States to get more deeply echo of countless earlier Senate Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W. Va. First involved if a lifting of the embargo arguments that have been leading up the U.S. will provide trainers, then provokes an attack by rebel Bosnian to the pending vote. intelligence, then advisers, and soon WEATHER Serbs that overran the Bosnian gov- .Republlcans were joined by "we will have chosen a well-traveled ernment. Defense Secretary William Democrats in criticizing U.S. policy path - a path that in our own past J. Perry said he could see a "human- but also acknowledged it dated to has led to places like Vietnam and Summer Stonns itarian catastrophe" in Bosnia. the administration of President Nicaragua," he added. To lift the NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE The admini-stration's case Bush, which, Dole noted, gave the embargo would "invite NATO to Today: Morning clouds followed by hazy afternoon sunshine. A against the proposal was rejected by initial "green light" for Serb aggres- walk away from Bosnia .. -. making 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Continued humid Senate Majority Leader Robert J. sion. The arms embargo, against all an appalling situation even worse," with a high in the upper 80s (29°C). Southwest wind 10-20 mph (16- Dole