The Battalion
Vol. 73 No. 85
16 Pages
Wednesday, January 23, 1980
College Station, Texas
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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
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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
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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.”