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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1978
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By HARVEY LAAS
Battalion Reporter
The Houston Zoo is conduct
ing a program aimed at saving
the Houston toad — which may
no longer exist in the Houston
area, a curator said here Tuesday
night.
| Last year efforts by the federal
government to preserve habitat
in the Houston area for the
endangered Houston toad
created an uproar among busi
nessmen and politicians.
; The Houston toad is found
only in the Houston area and a
couple of areas in southeast and
south-central Texas.
Dr. James Dexon of the Texas
A&M Wildlife and Fisheries Sci
ence department said a bureauc
ratic mistake in Washington
caused a Sharpstown shopping
center and other prime de
velopment areas to be declared
“critical habitat.” Construction is
prohibited on land which is de
clared critical habitat for an
endangered species.
Dixon said the land was listed
as critical habitat without anyone
from Washington coming to
Houston to investigate the area.
He said the problem has been
corrected by listing part of El
lington Air Force Base that is ho
longer in use as critical habitat,
as well as another area near the
Addicks Reservoir, for the toad.
Hugh Quinn, curator of rep
tiles for the Houston Zoo, spoke
to the Texas A&M University
Herpetological Club Tuesday
night.
Quinn said no one is sure if the
toad still exists in the Houston
area. It is still found in small
areas near Bastrop and Caldwell.
The program at the Houston
Zoo is an attempt to increase the
number of toads in captivity so
that they may be released in the
wild in an effort to prevent their
extinction. The project is funded
by a $2,000 grant from the U.S.
Department of Interior.
Quinn said the zoo obtained
6,000 toad eggs from ponds near
Bastrop and hatched them at the
zoo.
A number of factors have
probably lead to the near extinc
tion of the toad, Quinn said.
“Watershed programs which
drain the temporary pools that
they breed in have forced them
to breed in permanent ponds,”
he said. “This has probably lead
to hybridization with other
species of toads. ”
Quinn said it is possible that
the toad’s reduced numbers are
due to a natural extinction pro
cess and not related to human in
terference.
Five hundred young toads
were released in Bastrop earlier
this year, and adults will be re
leased this spring, Dixon said.
He said the federal government
must grant permission before
any of the toads may be released
in the Houston area.
Inflation ‘disappointing
Oil nations rap U.S.
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['I looked across the page and I
a picture of Nelson Rockefeller
Daniel Moynihan and I
E bught, well, they wouldn’t de-
ibe them as paunchy or pudgy or
/thing like that,” Blue said. “Nel-
Rockefeller was not portrayed as
lie divorced grandfather of seven
eight.’”
Blue said in London, the media
scribed Margaret Thatcher as
iefeminine Margaret Thatcher.”
couldn’t imagine them talking
out the ‘masculine Harold Mil-
she said.
Descriptions such as this take
ay from the seriousness of what
re doing,” Blue said. “What
st often happens is that women
o are recorded as newsmakers
ie wives of political figures. ”
study has been make that corn-
red media photographs of women
those of men, Blue said. Whereas
itures of men are usually head
ots, women’s photographs include
ire of their bodies.
Moyer was speaking about
Bs tendency at a conference in
istin in 1975, the editor said. He
ticed a picture in London of a
man’s body. He was particulary
rick by the fact that the woman
s pictured from the neck to the
|kles, she said.
Then Moyer saw a photograph in
icNew York Times of Gov. Bella
izug with her back turned and a
t on, Blue said.“He said,‘That’s
e way the media regard you - no
ad.’”
Then Moyer saw a photograph in
eNew York Times of Bella Abzug
ith her back turned and a hat on,
lue said.“He said,‘that’s the way
media regard you - no head.’”
“Human beings make decisions
out what is news,” Blue said.
Tom all the billions of events that
ippen every day in the world,
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mnday
United Press International
VATICAN CITY — History’s first
lish pope today promised to lead
ie world’s 700 million Roman
itholics on the path of faith and
rayed for victims of “injustice or
iscrimination” anywhere in the
(odd.
The Vatican announced that the
st non-Italian pontiff in 455 years
ill receive the insignia of his office
a solemn investiture Sunday but
d not say whether the rites would
e in the open in St. Peter's Square
was that of his predecessor.
Pope John Paul II also pledged in
is Latin inaugural address to the
rinces of the Roman Catholic
hurch that he would follow the
ourse of the Ecumenical Council in
:s search for Christian unity.
‘We wish to extend our hand and
pen our heart at this time to all the
copies and individuals who are op
pressed by any kind of injustice or
liscrimination, whether in eco-
omic and social life, or political
fe, or as regards liberty of con-
cience and due religious freedom,”
he former Cardinal Karol Wojtyla
)ld the 110 cardinals who elected
im Monday to succeed Pope John
’aul I.
He said he would be guided only
>y religious considerations in his ef-
orts for peace and international jus-
ice and would not try to trepass on
he rights of civil authorities.
Praising his predecessor, the
ope, the youngest pontiff in
nodem times at age 58, said:
“It seems only yesterday that he
eft our ranks to take on the weight
if the papal mantle. But what a
warmth, what a true love ... he
spread out in the few days of his
inistry.” I
The pope said liturgical reform in-
roduced by the Ecumenical Coun-
1 begun by Pope John XXIII —
id continued by Pope Paul VI —
nust be defended against both
hose who refuse it and those who
ire inclined to carry it too far.
The pope, the first pontiff from
he “church of silence” behind the
ron Curtain, said the church must
sdude “arbitrary and uncontrolled
nnovations, and also the stubborn
rejection of that which has been
legitimately decreed and introduced
'nthe sacred rites.”
someone has to decide what gets
into the paper.
“It is an incredible experience to
see how that power can be used to
portray good images of ourselves,”
she said.
Blue said news programs concen
trate too much on fires and crimes
rather than conferences or city
council meetings. “Who can decide
that sports and weather should take
up 10 minutes of a 30-minute pro
gram?” she asked.
“Only by controlling our own
media are we able to take the same
liberties and decide what is an im
portant news story,” Blue said.
Advertisements also depict
women adversely, she said.
“When you see men in ads doing
something like vacuuming the floor,
they’re in a white sterile robe and
it’s like a demonstration.
“You won’t see a man in cut-off
jeans like your husband or boyfriend
helping around the house on Satur
day morning,” she said.
“Role sharing is very prevalent
today, but you will not see it in ad
vertising.
“Women, on the other hand, are
shown in blue jeans — and usually
tight blue jeans,” Blue said.
She said some progress can be
made by complaining to the news
paper or broadcast station. She
called the Houston Post about and
advertisement which implied that
women did nothing but gossip all
day.
The advertisement was removed
shortly after she called them. Blue
said.
National Airlines discontinued
their “Fly Me” ads after stewardes
ses argued that they were interfer
ing with air safety. The flight atten
dant said that people were not treat
ing them as professionals.
“In Oregon, the state controls the
liquor distribution and has advertis
ing standards,” the editor said.
“One of the big issues was the Black
Velvet ads, which were banned in
Oregon.”
“It does make a difference if you
complain,” Blue said.
United Press International
BOULDER, Colo. — Represen
tatives of oil-producing nations are
disappointed that the United States
has not been able to institute effec
tive energy conservation measures
and control its inflation.
Three panelists at the Fifth Inter
national Conference on Energy in
the 1980s Monday said strong con
servation measures are needed or
the United States will face an in
creasing petroleum shortage.
“Maximum conservation on the
domestic front and the encourage
ment of conservation abroad” are
necessary, said Dr. Feretdon
Fesharaki, advisor to the prime
minister of Iran.
Fesharaki said the United States
should institute a 50 percent sales
tax on gasoline to keep consumption
down.
Echoing his comments was Ar
turo del Castillo of Mexico, eco
nomic advisor to the general direc
tor of Petroleos Mexicanos.
“Oil is as important as food and
should not be subject to monopoly
by private groups,” he said. “Oil,
like all other natural resources,
must contribute to the welfare of
mankind.”
Del Castillo said Mexico had de
cided not to export natural gas and
would use it instead to release more
crude oil for export.
Taleb Ali of the economics de
partment of Kuwait said OPEC na
tions saw their oil profits decline by
15 percent last year because of U.S.
inflation.
“Kuwait oil revenues have been
lost in a real value of $1.2 million
per day,” he said.
But he said Kuwait was not being
economically damaged and would
maintain its production at the pres
ent level, or at a slight decrease.
In another session at the confer
ence, an energy consultant said the
price of crude oil will more than
double during the decade that
started in 1975.
Edwards Symonds, a former dep
uty assistant secretary for energy
policy in the U.S. Department of
the Treasury, predicted the price of
crude oil will rise nearly 130 percent
from 1975 to 1985.
Symonds said the world demand *
for oil would reach 61 million bar
rels a day by 1985, which said would
mean a “finding rate” of new oil of
22 billion barrels per year. He said
he doubted the new oil could be
found at that rate.
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