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The FDA said its action was based on new USD A tests which detected residues of DES or die- thylstilbestrol in livers and kid neys of animals slaughtered 120 days after the synthetic estrogen was implanted in their ears. The use of DES in animal feed has been illegal since Jan. 1. DES has caused cancer in lab oratory animals and has been linked to vaginal cancer in the daughters of women who took it during pregnancy. The FDA recently announced, however, that it will approve the use of DES as a “morning after” birth control pill for short-term use by women who did not take precautions before sexual inter course. “It’s nothing short of tragic that within weeks following the announcement by the FDA that DES as a morning after pill is safe for humans, it’s unsafe be cause of infintesimal quantities having been found in beef livers,” said C. W. McMillan, vice presi dent of the American National Cattlemen’s Association. “A person would have to con sume several thousand pounds of liver daily to get the equivalent DES in one of the morning-after pills,” he said. The association, representing about 250,000 beef cattle produc ers predicted the ban would boost retail meat prices eight cents a pound or roughly $1.8 billion a year. Acting FDA Commissioner Sherwin Gardner, in announcing the new action, said a number of other livestock growth drugs are available to producers. The FDA earlier had estimated that an animal given DES reaches the market weight of 1,000 pounds 35 days sooner on 500 pounds less feed. Most feedlot operators switch ed to more troublesome implants after DES feed additives were banned, McMillan said. Alterna tive drugs are much more expen sive than DES which costs only about 50 cents per animal, he added. Highly sensitive USDA tests in volving radioactive tracers con firmed DES levels ranging from .04 parts per billion from a half dose to .12 ppb from a full dose, the FDA said. Federal law ptj hibits the use of any carcinoget! animal drug if residues are dt tected in edible portions. The ban on DES implants i effective Friday, but FDA saii that animals already implante, and meat from slaughtered aii mals may be marketed. DES has been used in animi feed and ear implants for moti than 20 years. Five Seniors Receive Graduatf Army ROTC Fellowships Phony Pro-Nixon Ballots Sent To TV Opinion Poll WASHINGTON CP)_An offi cial of President Noxon’s re-elec tion committee says committee workers sent in thousands of pho ny ballots to a television station poll which showed overwhelming support for Nixon’s decision to mine North Vietnamese' waters, the Washington Post reports. DeVan L. Shumway, spokes man for the Committee for the Re-election of the President, was quoted in Thursday’s editions of the Post as saying the committee sent “about 2,000 ballots and re sponses” to the poll conducted by Washington Metromedia station WTTG. The paper also said another former Nixon committee official said the panel sent in about 4,000 of the responses agreeing with the President. Final results of the poll taken during the week of May 15, 1972, showed 5,157 agreeing with the President and 1,158 opposed. When the station reported the results of its poll, it qualified the results by saying several thousand of the postcards appar ently had been typed on the same typewriters and had much the same phrasing, the Post said. The Post quoted Shumway as saying: “When you’re involved in an election, you do what you can. . .” The paper also quoted James Dooley, former head of the mail- room at the re-election commit tee, as saying that committee workers were sent out to buy about 1,000 newspapers from which the ballots were clipped. In addition, the Post quoted Doo ley as saying, about 2,000 post cards were filled out and mailed in. “Work ground to a halt in the press office while everyone filled out 15 postcards,” the paper quot ed Dooley, 19, as saying. “Ten people worked for several days buying different kinds of stamps and postcards and getting differ ent handwriting to fake the re sponses.” The Post said Wednesday that the Nixon committee conducted a Q&everlep Q&ralep 1907 TEXAS AVENUE BRYAN TEXAS 78801 Hanes Everyday stretch pantyhose. Free. Right now, just buy one pair of any Hanes pantyhose (including Hanes Everyday) and pick up a free specially marked package of Hanes Everyday. 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FRIDAY Inter-Varsity Christian Fellow ship will hear Roger London at 7:30 p.m. at 600 Fairview, Col lege Station. Rides will leave All Faiths Chapel and the steps in front of the corps area at 7:15. India Association is presenting a film, “Anokhi Rat,” in the Zachry Engineering Center at 7:30 p.m. Admission for mem bers is $1.25 and $1.75 for non members. Guests of non-Indian origin will be admitted free. Army ROTC fellowships for graduate studies have been award ed to five senior cadets, announc ed Col. Thomas R. Parsons, pro fessor of military science. Recipients are Mark A. De- Harde of San Antonio; Robert E. Howard III, Shreveport; Leslie C. Lyons, Honolulu; Ronald F. Peter sen, College Station, and Gregory P. Walk, Houston. They will have two years grad uate study at Army expense aft er receiving appointments in the Regular Army, Col. Parsons said. The fellowship recipients will at tend graduate school as offe on active duty, with full pay ar,: allowances. Each winner ranked in the Ini five per cent of all senior Amj ROTC cadets in the U. S. whoa;- plied for Regular Army sions. Standings were based academic and military perfo ance and Graduate Record Ex ination scores. Col. Parsons noted the nil of A&M recipients represents i most 10 per cent of the t selected. 3 Miles N. On Tabor Road Saturday Night: Charles Ellison & The Countrymen From 9 - 1 p. m. STAMPEDE Every Thursday Nile (ALL BRANDS BEER 35*) XEROX COPIES 5< EACH OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Monday thru Friday 9 a. m. - 10 p. m. Saturday & Sunday 10 a. m. - 10 p. m. 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