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Page 4B THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, 1979 Travel, Entertainment & Fun with the Social Dance Club Fall Auditions Sept. 26, 1979 7:30 p.m. Room 266 G. Rollie White More information call: Bryan 693-2240 Labrador cold but oily Canada seas oil-rich ATTENZIONE STUDENTI Se pensate viaggiare per Natale dovete fare le vostre preno- tazione ADESSO, i posti sono limitati, piu presto fate le vostre prenotazione piu possibilita ne avrete di trovare un posto nel giorno e nel volo scielto. PRENOTATE ADESSO! OGGI! BEVERLEY BRALEY TRAVEL, INC. ubicato in Memorial Student Center. Non si accettano preno tazione per telefono per Tepoca di Natale. Noi aviamo agenti che parlano Spagnolo, Tedesco, Portughese, Francese, Italiano, Ingelese, e un poco di Texano. United Press International BUCHAREST, Romania — Pros pectors exploring the iceberg- infested waters of the Labrador Sea Tuesday reported that Canada’s coastal waters are as potentially oil- rich as the North Sea. At a 10th World Petroleum Con gress seminar on “exploration in new areas, ’ Venezuela and Spain reported significant discoveries on their continental shelves and the Soviet Union boasted of a “petro leum bearing” area of western Siberia “that occupies an area of over 2.8 million square kilometers.” In a paper presented to the 4,500 delegates from 70 nations, Canadian geologist Neil McMillan estimated that the Labrador and Baffin Island shelves hold a total of 18 billion bar rels of oil and some 4 trillion cubic meters of gas. “The Labrador Sea has many of the earmarks of the North Sea,” McMillan said. “Many ex plorationists think that the petro leum successes of the Labrador Sea will, in the end, be found to match the North Sea.” The Americans, in a paper pres ented by G. Alex Mills of the De partment of Energy, discussed their work in coal conversion — expected to be a major part of President Car ter’s $88 billion plan to develop a massive “synfuel” program to re place 2.5 million barrels of imported oil daily by 1990. He said coal conversion would only become commercially feasible if the initial cost of building and de veloping synthetic fuel plants in flated more slowly than the price of oil inflated. In estimates of the costs of pro ducing synthetic fuels, most dele gates agreed that the minimal cost per barrel was $40 with many types three and four times that amount. It will take many years, they said, be fore such synthetic fuels can com pete against oil which OPEC is cur rently selling for about $20 a barrel. A paper, prepared by the De partment of Energy, for presenta tion to the congress today said the U.S. is sitting on 301 billion barrels of petroleum the oil industry has written off as too expensive to bring to the surface. The DOE said the United States currently extracts an average of only 33 percent of the petroleum in each of its exploited reservoirs. The other 67 percent, usually heavy crude oil, is too expensive to pump to be commercially feasible. Vegetable plots in trouble in Soviet agriculture picture ALPHA PHI OMEGA National Service Fraternity RUSH MEETING SERVICE ... The finest frontier Tues. and Thurs. Sept. 11 and 13 at 7:00 p.m. in room 350 of the MSC. After a brief presentation we will go out for some free pizza. United Press International MOSCOW —- Personal farming plots, a key factor in Soviet agricul ture, are heading for troubled times. Social changes seem to be in colli sion with the Soviet push to im prove harvests from the country’s 534 million personal plots. Agricul ture ministry officials admitted as much in a recent interview. “The young people say. Let it be for mamma or papa or babushka,” said Leonid Ivanovich Zaitsev, dep uty head of the collective farms Sec tion of the Agriculture ministry. “The new generation just doesn’t feel very excited about land cultiva tion. From the profit point of view, it’s just not very attractive. And a small plot means a lot of work. ” Be sides the fact that young people don’t like groveling in dirt, rural vil lages are gradually being consoli dated into larger rural towns and there’s a migration to the cities across the U.S.S.R. Yet small, private gardens play an important role in Soviet agriculture. Zaitsev said they cover about 9 million acres, even though personal plots are generally limited by Soviet law to about an acre. But their out put is impressive. According to Zaitsev, in money terms about 25 percent of the food grown in the Soviet Union comes from private plots. Besides growing fruit and vegeta bles, Zaitsev said the law allows owners of personal plots to have one cow, one calf, a “small number” of beef cattle, one sow or piglets, up to 10 sheep or goats, plus chickens, bees and rabbits without limit. Personal plots have been around for centuries, but they didn’t be come a state concern until the mid- 1930s. They have had a roller coaster existence since then. Vari ous heads of government never have been able to decide whether they were for or against them. Despite the label “personal plot, ” the system smells of private enterprise, and that fostered years of debate. Western agricultural specialists, who believe uncertainty has ham pered the system’s development, say it was one factor that led to Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny’s ouster. They say he opposed expan sion of the program while Com munist party chairman — and now president — Leonid Brezhnev sup ported it. The ideological argument was re solved when it was agreed to in clude the personal agricultural sec tor in the new Soviet constitution, ratified in 1977. Brezhnev himself stressed the importance of the plots and has publicly chastised state and collective farm managers for not as sisting personal plot farmers. Congress pay may rise only 7 $ WASHINGTON (UPI) — Congress may resist the temptation toper ] mit itself a hefty pay raise of nearly 13 percent, and instead settle fora] | percent hike in line with President Carter’s wage and price guidelines. The 7 percent figure was recommended Tuesday by a House A[ propriations subcommittee. The bill now goes to the full committee! and then to the House. UNDER PRESENT LAW, Congress is in line for an automatic] compounded pay increase beginning next month: 7 percent recoin ] mended by the administration this year plus a 5.5 percent hike Con ] gress deferred last year. The bill would give an 11 percent increase this year to top federal] officials — those making $47,500 and above — whose pay was frozen] last year. That increase for the top government bureaucrats would far exceed] Carter’s inflation guidelines and outstrip the 7 percent increase pro-] posed for Congress whose members now earn $57,500 a year. Congress last gave itself a pay increase in 1977 when it allowed a $13,500 increase to go into effect automatically. APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Les Whitten D-Miss., said inflation has climbed 25 percent since the last pay raise President Carter has recommended a 7 percent increase thisyearfor all white-collar government employees and high-level officials in t legislative, executive and judicial branches. The house attempted to deal with the pay question in June when tie | legislative appropriations bill first came up. The bill proposed a 7 [ percent raise, but was amended to 5.5 percent in the House. AMID SOME CONFUSION, the House members then killedtle] bill when it came up for final passage. A pay increase of any size is expected to draw some opposition in | both House and Senate. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, introduced a bill Tuesday to stop tie] automatic pay raise for Congress. Hatch’s bill would freeze salariesal their present level for members of Congress but would allow the top] level government officials to get their 12.9 percent increase. Soviets deny new combat units in Cubi Despite the amount of food they produce, Zaitsev said, personal plot land is not always used to its maximum potential. The plots wholly depend on state and collec tive farms for animal feeds, which creates problems in areas where grain production doesn’t match projections. Despite an increase in aid, he said, production from personal plots has dropped by 5 percent over the past seven years, while production in the state sector on huge collec tives has gone up by 20 percent. Bishops hope pope will deal with abortion Welcome Back United Press International WASHINGTON — The nation’s Roman Catholic community looks for support from Pope John Paul II’s visit to America in their effort to overturn liberal abortion laws, a top Catholic official says. “We certainly hope abortion will be a principal theme of his visit,” said Bishop Thomas Kelly, general secretary of the National Confer ence of Catholic Bishops. Abortion has been a major issue for the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops and other religious groups since the Supreme Court’s 1973 de cision to liberalize access to legal abortions. In the past, the Vatican has been strongly supportive of the bishops’ effort, including their activity on behalf of a drive to enact a constitu tional amendment to ban most abor tions. Kelly said in an interview that he believes the pope will “have a lot to say to the Catholic community” on the issue during his visit. United Press International MOSCOW — The Soviet Union Tuesday denied as “totally ground less” U.S. reports the Kremlin has sent a combat brigade to Cuba, and said the number of its forces on the island is the same as during the days of the Cuban missile crisis. In a rare front-page editorial, the Communist Party newspaper, Pravda, said only Soviet military training personnel were in Cuba, that they had been there 17 years and were no threat to the United States. “Neither the number nor the functions of the said Soviet person nel have changed throughout all these years,” Pravda said. “All con tentions about the arrival in Cuba of organized Soviet combat units are totally groundless.” The newspaper blamed the charges about the stationing of 3,000 Soviet troops in Cuba on American propaganda media, working with the blessing of opponents of the strategic arms limitation treaty. “All this outcry is being used by those circles in the United States that are trying to prevent the cation of the SALT II treaty d any case to complicate the proces its ratification, ” Pravda said. Pravda said Soviet military p Jody Page day as pai Coffeehou IS inf sonnel were in Cuba at thereqa of the Cuban government. “It is also absolutely clear t| either by its size or its functions Soviet military personnel in G do not present and cannot presi any threat to the United States, said. President Carter said Friday troops posed no strategic threat the United States, but their ence was unacceptable and m be challenged through “firm dip United macy. ” TEL AVIV Senators of both parties li eiitial envo’ called for opposition to the SALI nay negoti; treaty unless the Soviet troopsi le Palestini; withdrawn immediately. e stepped A brigade of 2,000 to3,OOOtra ope the is; would bring to 5,000 the numbei ithin the ne uniformed Soviets in Cuba, incli “There are ing 1,500 to 2,000 military advisei ictbetween In addition, there are an estimat ifferences," 6,000 to 8,000 Soviet technic* Ben-Gurio and advisers in Cuba. om Egypt i ill include t R. 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