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i cajkj«. tdi. ik_ t>r-t« « % WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1980 WHY SEARCH? Our service is FREE Apts. — Duplexs — Houses We can also help you sublease your apartment A&M APT. PLACEMENT 2339 S. Texas, College Station ' A. A| world Soybean embargo aid sought iTi'W'' United Press International jaaaa—hool MSC Cepheid Variable WASHINGTON — The United Slates has asked representatives of Brazil and Argentina not to increase soybean exports to Russia to replace soybeans embargoed by the United States. Representatives of the three na tions, the world’s major soybean ex porters, met Monday in a closed meeting at the Agriculture Depart ment. There were no policy deci sions made at the meeting, officials said. American officials asked the na tions not to fill the gap created by an DR. STRANGELOVE: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. Peter Sellers • George C. Scott • Slim Pickens Let us inform & entertain you for embargo of 17 million tons of Ameri can grain exports to Russia. “We asked them to keep their ex ports at traditional levels,” said Philip Makie, Agriculture Depart ment spokesman. The United States also suggested that the three nations exchange in formation on soybean exports and trade flows. In recent years, Brazil’s soybean exports to Russia have risen as high as 1 million tons. Soybean exports to Russia from Argentina, where soy beans have been a minor crop until recently, have been negligible. Prior to the embargo, American soybean sales this marketing year to taled 1.4 million tons of soybeans, 400,000 tons of soybean meal and 70,000 tons of oil. The embargo cut off 740,000 tons of American soybeans, all of the meal and 30,000 tons of oil. The Agriculture Department es timated Brazil’s soybean production this year at about 13.5 million tons and the Argentine crop at about 4.5 million tons, compared to an Ameri can crop of 60.9 million tons. At the grain exporting nations meeting Saturday, officials from the United States, Australia, Canada, the Common Market and Argentina agreed their governments would not directly or indirectly replace grain that would have been shipped prior to the American embargo. Later, Argentine officials said they opposed the U.S. embargo. They said their position was misinter preted by American officials, and their government would do nothing to replace grain but it also would do nothing to interfere with private traders from responding to market demands. Howard Hjort, the Agridi Department’s chief economist,i he believed the controversy s med from a distinction behveejj government and private trade He said the Argentine ol “are saying that there’s the p trade that operates and hand! commodities that come fromArs tina and that their (government]) | cedures) do not govern that andiHy pec they do not intend to do so." Hjort said the United Stated consult with other meat export) nations to try and develop at strategy toward meat exportsloli There were indications the [ sians would try to increase mtaJDalla ports ifthey could not importeno* th grain and soy beans to feedtheirlni j sho stock. 3 of t ‘You’’ :M c 1/2 P rice $400 million in Pakistani Thursday, Jan. 17 7:30 & 9:45 Rudder Theater $ 1.25 w/TAMU I.D. LAST CHANCE Win a free Spring Break vacation Get your hair cut and register for the trip to Mazat- lan, Mexico before Friday, Jan. 18th, 6 p.m. Call 846-4771 for your appointment today. Bring this coupon with you Receive the new morning Chronicle for half-price for daily and Sunday delivery all semester and get thorough, news coverage. Coverage which offers more significant and timely information than any textbook. Information which will help you excel in classes. But we give you more than news, We offer the latest sports coverage, fashion, money-saving and time-saving recipes and entertainment. Sunday's Zest magazine previews and reviews plays, movies, books, and aid to be asked of Congress United Press International WASHINGTON — Worried by the Soviet thrust into Afghanistan, the administration has decided to ask Congress to resume aid to Pakistan and temporarily put aside fears that Pakistan may become the world’s seventh nuclear power. The State Department, however, has warned President Carter that Congress, especially the influential House Foreign Affairs Committee, may not agree with the adminis tration’s priorities. A State Department memo iden tified Rep. Clement Zablocki, R-Wis., chairman of the Foreign Af fairs Committee, as one of those who might be expected to oppose the music. To start your subscription today, call 693-2323 or 846-0763. January 14 to May 9 tor 39.35. u :-please'.: ’HELP PREVENT FOREST FIRES ' Officials said the Pakistanis have been offered a two-year $400 million aid package, evenly divided between economic assistance and credits with which to buy U.S. weapons of a de fensive nature. In order to put the package through, the State Department said Monday, it will ask Congress for an emergency waiver of the laws that forbid the granting of U. S. assistance to any non-nuclear country building an atomic weapon. U.S. and British intelligence offi cials are convinced Pakistan has sur reptitiously collected the necessary ingredients for a nuclear weapon, and it is only a matter of time and money before it can explode a device that would match India’s atomic bomb. “Our non-proliferation policy to ward Pakistan hasn t changed, ’ said State Department spokesman Hod- ding Carter. “The decision to seek aid for Pakistan is a response to the Soviet invasion. We will continue our effort to dissuade Pakistan and others from building atomic weapons. “The Soviet Union has created a destablizing situation where Pakis tan, with good reason, can feel threatened. Our response, in the first instance, must deal with that situation. “Since we don’t know whyt Soviets invaded Afghanistan,! can’t rule out a second, or thinl, fourth operation against othertw tries.” WOR Reds denounce U.S. sanctions United Press International MOSCOW — The Soviet l'i charged Tuesday the United State guilty of “gross pressure” ap Iran in its plan to exact ecoi sanctions to free American in Tehran. The Soviet governments if agency Tass, responding to l criticism of the Soviet veto!; blocked U.N. Security Council tion against Iran, said the Unit States is to blame for the contiai detention of the hostages. ERVH :15 A. 10:4‘ WOR ST AT 6 IBLE ■ 9:; “If they think in Washingtontl the policy of blackmail and threati a naval blockade against revolut ary Iran, a policy fraught will danger to international peaceanJi curity, will help somehowsecuitt release of the hostages, this iso dently a dangerous delusion, Ti said. la Houston Chronicle Selection for Hosts and Hostess!! 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