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The Battalion Vol. 73 No. 85 16 Pages Wednesday, January 23, 1980 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 ran is silent on Carter’s offer of help By United Press International (Tehran Radio was silent this morning jut Presdient Carter’s dramatic offer of a y relationship because of the Soviet in ion of Afghanistan but carried fresh [arges by militants against one of the rican hostages held in the besieged S. Embassy. [Referring to the embassy’s press attache iiry Rosen who is one of the 50 hostages d since Nov. 4 one of the militants said was “a recognized American spy and ■■nspirator in Iran. ■In his annual State of the Union message i^nt to Congress Monday Carter said the £V United States has “no basic quarrel with Iran once the hostages who have been held for 79 days are freed. “We are prepared to work with the gov ernment of Iran to develop a new and mutually beneficial relationship” after the hostages are released Carter said. But there was no response to the offer from Iran’s leaders. Carter was to give his nationally tele vised version of the address at 9 p.m. EST tonight and a White House aide siad it may contain “some surprises.” It is expected to outline Carter’s “hands off” warning to the Soviets regarding Pakistan and Iran. The militants’ charges which ran on Ira nian television Tuesday night and were picked up by Tehran Radio were the latest in a series of “revelations’ about docu ments found at the embassy. They said the documents showed links between the embassy and certain sectors of the Iranian press which a year ago had opposed the revolution a year ago that overthrew the shah. The radio broadcast monitored by the BBC in London quoted a militant as saying when Rosen’s trial begins “his ugly face and the conspiracies hatched by America in Iran will be exposed clearly and better than ever to our nation.” Western reports Tuesday evening said no Western journalist was being allowed to enter Korrassam in northeastern Iran. American journalists were ordered out of Iran by last Friday. The reports quoted the governor of Khorrassan as saying many Western jour nalists including “agents of U.S. imperial ism” had slipped illegally across the border into Afghanistan during recent days. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in New Delhi to attend the U.N. Industrial Organization Conference cut short an Asia tour Tuesdy to make an unscheduled trip to Pakistan en route to New York for special Security Council consultations Thursday and Friday on Iran and Afghanistan. On his arrival in New Delhi Waldheim said: “We have worked out a package — a mechanism during my visit in Tehran; hopefully this mechanism will lead to the release of American hostages held in their embassy in Tehran.” In the mountains north of Tehran re scuers wading through 2 feet of snow reco vered the bodies of all but eight of the eight of the 128 people on hoard the Iran Air Boeing 727 that crashed Monday night. The remaining victims of Iran Air’s first fatal crash were believed bureid under snow drifts. Some radio and press reports from Tehran said the bitter dispute between air traffic controllers and the Islamic regime may have contributed to the crash of the jetliner. But a Tehran dispatch from the Italian news agency ANSA said Iran Air sus pended all fights Tuesday because of the strike and said some employees were con ducting a sit-in on one of the main runways of the airport. Playboy photographer Chan searches for best of A&M By DOUG GRAHAM Staff Writer Texas may become as famous for exports of beautiful women as it is for beef and oil if Playboy magazine photographer David Chan is correct. Chan, who is in College Station doing preliminary interviews for an upcoming Playboy pboto essay on the women of the Southwest Conference, said that Texas is a “breeding” spot for beautiful women. “They say there are a lot of beautiful women in L.A. and California, but they’re transplanted,” the diminutive Chan said. “They make them here and transplant them elsewhere.” Chan’s present project is a spinoff similar to his previous three Playboy features on Girls of the Ivy League, Girls of the Pac 10, and Girls of the Big 10. Texas A&M Uni versity is his second stop; he spent last week at the University of Texas at Austin. Three hundred-fifty girls at UT answered his ad for interviews, and four were Playmate quality, he said. The interview does not involve nude photography. Each involves a short inter view to develop a biography of the girl. A resume-type snapshot of the girl is in cluded. Chan, a 42-year-old whose Chinese ancestry denies his Canadian birth, said the selection process goes like this: “Out of the 350 UT girls, I take their photos and bios back to Chicago (Home of the Playboy publishing empire). We look through them and find five girls. Girls who are selected can earn $100 for a fully-clothed pohto, $200 for a semi-nude shot, and $300 for a nude shot, he said. Those who qualify as Playmates can earn $10,000 for a photo spread. After several girls have been selected from the interview material, Chan said will return to College Station to shoot the pic tures. Chan chooses a girl based on what he calls “physical and “inner” beauty. There are no such things as “dogs,” he said. “Some have physical beauty and some have inner beauty, and to each their own. Sometimes a girl is not photogenic even though she is pretty. The inner beauty is absent in many younger women,” Chan said. "They are still searching . . .looking for themselves. They don t have the necessary experience. “The thing that interests me are the eyes. I like nice smiling eyes, nice nose, sensuous lips, and hair that flows.” He prefers long hair. “Short hair out of place looks sloppy’ long hair out of place looks free.” When he photographs a woman, Chan said he works like a doctor with no personal interest in her. He said he never touches her. But even though his approach may seem clinical, he said, “We are not gynecologist photographers.” Playboy does not accentuate only parti cular parts of the body to the exclusion of all else, he said. “You work with the face, the body, and then the background. ” ayboy photographer David Chan is looking for women at Texas A&M to pose for an upcoming issue- photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr. abbits hopping ad over student’s lass experiment By CAROL THOMAS Campus Reporter What started as a long-neglected English aper for a technical writing class has ,ained Kevin Fox some national attention. Tie Fox Project, which succeeded in pro- ing that rabbits wearing hard hats have upaired mobility attracted the interest of few newspaper reporters in the country. The 21-year-old Texas A&M senior says eand his economics professor Joe Massey iid the experiment as a satire on the way ancer researchers have been packing mas- es of carcinogens on rabbits to see if a umor will develop. Fox said he came up nth the idea after a wood products conven- ',on, where wood preservatives were being lacked around the rabbits’ bellies to see if hey caused cancer. “What we were going to do initially was Jest the rabbits and hit them over the head nth pine cones to see how well they pro- ected their heads,” says Fox. But Fox adds hat they were afraid The Humane Society vould disapprove, so they came up with he hard hat idea. The experiment, which consisted of five abbits wearing the hard hats, composed of lalved tennis balls wrapped in foil, and five abbits without the hard hats, took place in lassey’s back yard. Fox says he used the rabbits wearing lard hats as symbols of woodsmen, and hopped a stick behind the rabbits to simu- ate a woodsmen’s reaction to a falling tree. “We developed a ratio that a rabbits av- irage weight is four pounds, and that’s ab- H - I’ut 2 percent the average weight of a 200- ggf lound woodsman, ” says Fox. ^ The “falling tree” was a stick one-foot ong and Vi-inch in diameter, which was 2 lercent of an average tree in Texas. The forest” was Massey’s back yard. When the “tree” was dropped behind the rabbits. Fox measured the distance they ran in a 15-second period. Each of the rabbits was tested four times. In each test, says Fox, the rabbits without hard hats ran farther than those wearing them. Fox says he did encounter a few difficul ties in the experiment. One of them was keeping the hard hats on the rabbits’ heads. Fox says they had to get someone to hold the rabbits down because many of them learned how to kick their hats off and would go hide under the bushes. “We tried using rubber bands for a while but they started choking on them and we had to pull them off,” says Fox. Although Fox has not received an award for the experiment, he says he and Massey are trying to get the experiment printed in “The Journal of Irreproducible Results,” which prints silly experiments. Fox says an example of one was throwing mice in front of moving cars to test their reaction to the Poverty can be beat if people have the will — Yarborough Poverty in Texas and in the whole nation can be alleviated if people have the will to do something about the problem, former U.S. Sen. Ralph W. Yarborough of Austin, said in a speech in Rudder Theater at Texas A&M University Tuesday night. “The strength of people is in people themselves,” Yarborough, 76, said. The lawyer s speech was part of the three-day conference in Rudder Tower on food and Hunger in Texas, sponsored by Texas A&M and several religious organiza tions. In his speech on the “Political Realities of Hunger” Yarborough defended Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty” programs, saying that they did in fact decrease the number of poor people in the nation. Citing Hammond’s Almanac, Yarbor ough told a 60-member audience that Texas had 2.9 million poor in 1959 that decreased to 2.04 million people in 1969. Former President Nixon destroyed the poverty programs, the white-speaker said, and the media see the “War on Poverty” as a failure, Yarborough said. The au f hor of several welfare and labor laws, during his 13-year career as senator, accused the legislature of not giving enough money to feed and educate the American poor. “Most money goes to feeding fat-cats and does not educate people or feed the poor, ” Yarborough said. “Texas is the richest state in the union due to its natural resources,” Yarborough said, but it ranks 49th in old age payments, 48th in employment payments and Aid to Families with Dependent Children. “We need someone to stir people, maybe someone like Martin Luther, Yar- borough said. Comparing the Texas Capitol in Austin to the Catholic Church were centuries ago Luther nailed his demands on the door, Yarborough suggested that Texans put a manifest on the capitol door to make their demands known. Yarborough encouraged the audience' to contact their legislators and demand a pledge from them to help end poverty in Texas. “We need someone who stands for prog ress and humanitarianism, not a conserva tive,” Yarborough said. Ralph Yarborough In order to have irreproducible results to be printed in the journal, the subjects were destroyed. Fox took care of this by killing the rabbits and inviting his economics class for a rabbit fry. Fox says reactions to his experiment have been mixed. “Some people think its great and some people think its stupid,” says Fox. He also says he’s a little embar rassed at getting all the calls from newspap er reporters, but in general, he says he’s satisfied. “I got a paper done out of it and had a party out of it and those are good dividends,” says Fox. For the future, Fox says he is reconsider ing the possibility of bombing the rabbits with pine cones or other objects. “Crescent wrenches would be good,” says Fox. The almanac United Press International Today is Wednesday, Jan. 23, the 23rd Jay of 1980 with 343 to follow. The moon is moving into the first garter. American Patriot John Hancock was born Jan. 23, 1737. American actors Randolph Scott and tan Sothern were born on this date — he in 1903 and she in 1923. In 1937, during the Communist Party purges in the Soviet Union, 17 party mem bers confessed they had conspired with Leon Trotsky to undermine Josef Stalin. In 1948, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower said he could not accept a presidential nomina tion from either party. A thought for the day: The Chinese phi losopher Confuscius said, “When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.” Energy Nuclear power faces uncertain future United Press International CLEVELAND — Citing the “politic al and regulatory uncertainities” of nuc lear power plant construction stemming from the Three Mile Island accident a group of five Ohio and Pennsylvania uti lities have scrapped plans to build four nuclear reactors costing $7.3 billion. In addition the utilities announced Tuesday night they will delay the com pletion dates of three other reactors already under construction by at least one year each. “The political and regulatory uncer tainties affecting the future construction of nuclear plants has intensified follow ing the accident at Three Mile Island” the Central Area Power Coordinating Group said in a prepared statement. “Nuclear construction scheduled furth er in the future carries greater uncer tainty of eventual cost. ” The members of the power group known as CAPCO are the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. Toledo Edi son Co. Ohio Edison Co. Duquesne Light Co. of Pittsburgh and Pennsylva nia Power Co. “This uncertainty surrounding nuc lear reactor operations has compelled the CAPCO companies to terminate those nuclear units not yet under actual construction in order to reduce the fu ture costs to our customers and share- owners” CAPCO added. The CAPCO companies serve some 2.5 million customers in northern and central Ohio and western Pennsylvania. The CAPCO members said in a five- page statement they definitely have de cided to terminate plans for two addi tional 906-megawatt reactors at the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station in Oak Harbor Ohio and for two 1260- megawatt reactors near Berlin Heights Ohio. One reactor currently is in operation at the Davis-Besse station. Both the Oak Harbor and Berlin Heights sites are in northern Ohio. Three nuclear power units now under construction for CAPCO — two at North Perry Ohio 35 miles east of Cleveland and one at Shippingport Pa. near Pittsburgh will have their comple tion dates pushed back. One reactor at North Perry has been rescheduled for completion in May 1984 instead of May 1983 and the other North Perry unit will be finished in May 1988 instead of May 1985. The Spin- ningport unit has been rescheduled for completion in May 1986 instead of May 1984. of nuclear plants has intensified tollow- those nuclear units not yet under actual at tne uavis-Besse station, both the Environment may be the first victim of the crisu United Press International that that s very nice if you re in an dioxide into the atmosphere. Scientists sun bv the vear 2000. He sai United Press International WASHINGTON — A leading advo cate of solar power says the nation’s con cern over the environment appears to be faltering because of increasing wor ries about energy. “It’s not something that is reflected in the polls but it is reflected somewhat in the attitude of the press, the tone of stories that are written, and I think somewhat in the attitudes of elected and appointed public officials, said Denis Hayes, director of the government’s So lar Energy Research Institute at Gol den, Colo. “What it seems to boil down to is that a lot of this environmental concern is a concern for birds-and-squirrels issues, whether something is pretty or not, and that that’s very nice if you’re in an affluent society with a lot of flexibility.” But he said it appears some of the country’s leaders feel that if the nation is “in a real crunch, if we have important issues, not aesthetic ones — issues that have to do with maintaining the power that drives the American economy, then the environment is one of the things that can be traded off.” Hayes called that a mistake. In some cases, “life and death” environmental issues are involved, he told the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco. A major environmental problem caused by the burning of fossil fuels, he said, is the increasing addition of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Scientists believe too much carbon dioxide will turn the atmosphere into a greenhouse, trapping more solar energy and warm ing the Earth with disastrous effects. Hayes said nuclear energy has the problem of radioactive waste disposal and the threat of nuclear weapons pro liferation posed by the plutonium pro duced in atomic reactors. The answer to the environmental problems of fossil and nuclear energy sources, Hayes said, is to switch more to solar energy. “Solar energy is the cleanest, safest, most environmentally gentle energy option we have.” Hayes said the nation could be pro ducing 20 percent of its energy from the sun by the year 2000. He said rapid progress already is being made and, “I expect this already rapid rate of growth to accelerate dramatically in the next couple of years. ” Hayes said most of the environmental costs of energy production from fossil fuels largely are ignored, “but rough estimates suggest that they are huge numbers.” “While no single solar technology can meet mankind’s total demand for ener gy, a combination of solar sources can, he said. “The transition to a solar era, already begun, is proving technically feasible, economically sound and en vironmentally attractive.”