The Battalion
Vol. 73 No. 103
12 Pages
Monday, February 18, 1980
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arter approves choices
[or UN board of inquiry
United Press International The U.N. spokesman said Waldheim The panel was expected to be able to
WASHINGTON — President Carter, in completed formation of the panel of in- complete its investigation of Iran s grie-
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m 1 ^ as %ASHINGTON — President Carter, in
' ' 1 ‘ “V n0 v(! calculated to pave the way for the
[ease of the 50 American hostages in Iran,
s approved a list of members to serve on a
liljecl Nations panel probing charges
■st the deposed shah.
Carter, who scrubbed plans for an ex
uded Washington’s Birthday weekend at
mjp David, remained in Washington to-
■o monitor developments in the crisis
itlbegan 107 days ago.
He president withheld public comment
formation of the panel, but notified
/N Secretary General Kurt Waldheim
it he agreed to the names of the indi-
l|als who would comprise the fact-
|ng body.
We don’t have any reaction at this
int ” White House deputy press secret-
pU>x Granum said Sunday following
puncement of the panel by a U.N.
jfa sman in New York.
The U.N. spokesman said Waldheim
completed formation of the panel of in
quiry, but did not disclose the names of
those who would serve. He said the United
States agreed to the members chosen, but
that Iran had not replied.
Diplomatic sources said the members
would include individuals from France,
Algeria, Syria, Venezuela and Sri Lanka.
The delay in releasing the names of the
members was not viewed by the White
House as a sign of a new roadblock or obsta
cle in the delicate negotiations.
The makeup of the panel has been a
stumbling block between the United States
and Iran and it was learned that positive
developments have been made in remov
ing mechanical and technical problems.
The president, who last week expressed
his willingness to adeept an inquiry, consid
ers such a development to be a major step
toward resolving the prolonged stalemate
over freeing the 50 American hostages.
The panel was expected to be able to
complete its investigation of Iran’s grie
vances about Shah Mohammed Reza Pahla-
vi in about two weeks, then submit a report
to Waldheim.
The findings then would be turned over
to the U.N. Security Council.
Carter has conceded he is “more opti
mistic” than in the past, but will not predict
when a final breakthrough may occur.
White House officials cautioned against
excessive optimism amid some encourag
ing signs that the prolonged drama may
finally have an end in sight.
Diplomatic sources said the commission
will include: Louis Edmond Petiti of
France, an international law expert;
Mohammed Bedjaoui, Algerian ambassa
dor to the U.N.; Adib Daoudi, foreign poli
cy assistant to Syrian President Hafez alAs-
sad; Andres Aguilar of Venezuela, former
ambassador to Washington; and Harry W.
Jayewardee of Sri Lanka, a lawyer and
noted expert in international law.
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American women
subject of study
By GAIL WEATHERLY
Battalion Reporter
■woman in the poor, rural areas of Latin
Krica bends over a hoe in the sun to
t)v crops such as corn, beans and squash
dr' to feed herself and her children while
;r iiusband works in the city. She doesn’t
;li( ve the United States gives millions of
fflars to her country to increase agricultu-
dfcroduction.
(Hie United States gives several million
Hrs in aid to Latin America to raise
3,(k >0 acres of coffee or bananas for export,
4t the money earned doesn’t help feed
Hourished children in rural communi-
es.
factors and plows introduced to the
are left to rust in the fields because
len make up 50 percent to 90 percent of
the agricultural labor force, and no one
bothered to show the women how to use
the farm implements.
These are just a few of the problems of
women in Latin American, problems
caused by lack of knowledge of their cultu
ral role — problems that education
psychology professors Drs. Marva Lar-
rabee, Walter Stenning and Michael Ash
will be studying. Larrabee is the coordina
tor for the study.
The education psychology department
has been given $19,482 in federal funds as a
strengthening grant to study women in
Latin America over a five-year period.
“With our $19,482 we are going to pre
pare people who will be involved in tech
nical assistance to people in under
developed countries,” specifically those
Press criticizes network’s
naive Olympic coverage
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United Press International
Jake PLACID, N. Y. — If you’re one of
te 180 million Americans slumped in an
asy chair, sipping a beer, munching chips,
etching the Winter Olympics on TV, you
night not know about the chaos and anger
iver bus and ticket snafus.
In columns headlined “ABC Flunks
Mympically’ and “ABC Fouls Up on
lames Foul-ups,’’ reporters in the
rashington Post, Washington Star and
■wsday (N.Y.) Sunday ripped the No. 1
Rwork for its belated coverage of the mas-
livie problems at the Games.
■‘All is not sugar and spice and everything
liCe, as ABC makes it appear, ” wrote Tom
Cunningham, an Albany, N.Y., sports col-
urjinist.
While the foul-ups were a singular
ect of the scene here the first week, the
C nightly coverage had a wideeyed
Winter Wonderland quality to it,” News-
TV sports columnist Stan Isaacs said,
saacs said he sensed that ABC, which is
ing $15.5 million for the rights to tele-
e an unprecedented SlVa hours of the
mes, wished the “bad tidings” would go
■ay — maybe because advertisers don t
like negative news, which at the Winter
Games included thousands of spectators
stranded without buses, thousands of un
sold tickets, hotel rooms without toilets,
overpriced hot dogs and a jammed phone
system.
“Before we begin today’s Olympic cover
age, let’s go up close and personal with Jim
McKay, who is threatening to go so far over
the hill he’ll need a cab to get back (the
Olympic buses aren’t running),’’ wrote
Tony Kornheiser in a sarcastic column in
the Washington Post.
“It seems clear that McKay sees himself
as the FDR (President Roosevelt) of sport-
scasting; that he longs for the thrill of vic
tory, sitting by the Olympic torch, all snug-
gy pooh in his cashmere sweater, babbling
along, setting a new world and Olympic
record for most tripe spewed in any given
hour.”
ABC said correspondent Jim Lampley
did a dVk-minute report detailing the bus
and ticket problems for Thursday viewing,
but it was delayed until Friday because the
network opted to go live with the U.S.
hockey team’s stunning upset of highly re
garded Czechoslovakia.
people in agricultural assistance, Larrabee
said.
In September 1979, Texas A&M re
ceived $1 million from the Agency for In
ternational Developmental (AID), as apart
of the Title XII legislation passed in 1975,
to gather information beneficial to universi
ties and lesser developed countries.
AID, Larrabee said, “has been con
cerned about the exportation of technology
negative impact. That is why they are
emphasizing learning about and under
standing people as well as increasing agri
cultural production.”
Also in September 1979, a Strengthen
ing Grant Program was begun at Texas
A&M to set up guidelines for study and to
administer the AID funds for each project.
Pam Horne, strengthening grant prog
ram adminstrator, said the priority subject
areas are nutrition and agricultural de
velopment, women in development and
small farmer; the University’s international
policy guidelines set Latin America as the
priority area.
Horne said departments throughout the
University submitted a total of 56 propos
als, and 12 were approved by a 13-member
advisory committee representing a cross-
section of the University.
Johnny Clay Johnson, an educational
psychology doctoral research assistant
working with Larrabee, said the group will
be gathering information from such areas as
libraries, experts on women’s develop
ment, people who have done agricultural
projects in rural Latin America, and stu
dents who have lived in rural Latin Amer
ican or are from there.
The information they gather, Johnson
said, will be offered in seminars in the fall to
the faculty who are involved in the streng
thening grant projects and anyone else who
is interested.
He said this will benefit Texas A&M be
cause a clearer knowledge of Latin Amer
ican culture is beneficial to anyone in Texas
and to faculty who may later be working in
Latin America on projects.
Agricultural production in Latin Amer
ican countries is important, he said, but
“we are interested in the impact on the
home and family.”
Larrabee said the project is “designed to
respect their culture and help others
understand it so that we don’t abuse their
culture.”
Ee-aye, ee-aye,
Sara Libecap of Bryan poses in her overalls and
cowboy hat while attending the Future Farmers of
America Barnyard during the weekend. The FFA
displayed various farm animals for the public in the
Manor East Mall. Please see related article, page 3.
Staff photo by Lynn Blanco.
Technology opens doors,
speaker tells audience
BY CAROL HANCOCK
Campus Staff
Technology opens doors but does not
compel one to enter, a professor of technol
ogy history said Saturday at Texas A&M
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Hazel Henderson, an advocate of small technology, studies her notes
while opponent Samuel Florman defends the value of advanced technolo
gy in modern culture. The two took opposing stands during the Appropri
ate Technology Debate sponsored by the Student Conference on National
Affairs Friday. Please see related article, pg. 5.
Staff photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
University.
Dr. Melvin Kranzberg, a professor at the
Georgia Institute of Technology, gave the
closing address for the SVk-day 25th Stu
dent Conference on National Affairs.
“Questions of technology are basically
questions of value,” Kranzberg said of the
SCONA topic “Technology: Tool or
Tyrant?” Technology opens the doors but it
is the human value system that determines
which ones will be entered, he told over
200 people in the Memorial Student Cen
ter Ballroom.
Opponents of technology, who say it is
indeed a tyrant which dominates man and
outruns human control, fail to see that all
technical processes and products are re
sults of the human creative imagination and
spirit, Kranzberg said.
“What’s more, the significance of any
technological development lies in its use by
human beings.”
Kranzberg gave the telephone as an ex
ample. By looking at it as a collection of
wires and parts, it’s of interest to only the
telephone technician, repairman and com
pany, he said. Its use by humans is what
makes it significant; it is a link for world
wide communications.
Kranzberg said many technical develop
ments have social and human consequ
ences which go far beyond its original in
tention. The invention of the automobile is
a good example, he said.
Early in the 20th century, the auto
mobile was proposed as a solution to the
pollution, safety and congestion problems
posed by horse-drawn transportation.
Since then, wide-scale use of the auto
brought back the problems in heightened
form, Kranzberg said.
The demand for highways, cars, parking
lots and auxilary technical developments
caused a whole new industry to spring into
being, he said. “Thus, a mass of social
choices, political motivation and economic
goals resulted in our organizing the country
spacially and economically around the
automobile.”
America’s love affair with the automobile
might be over, Kranzberg said, but the
country is so centered around the auto that
a break away from it is next to unthinkable.
“The affair might be over, but the fact is,
we have married the auto and as is the case
with many marriages, the cost of divorce is
simply too high to contemplate,” he said.
Chinese catch
dancing fever
United Press International
PEKING — “Saturday Night Fever” is
spreading among young people in the
Chinese city of Shanghai, but is causing
concern among older Communist Party
officials.
Party cadres in one Shanghai district re
cently began a campaign to dissuade young
people in the street from holding dance
parties in their homes, the Liberation Dai
ly, a leading Shanghai newspaper, said.
A letter to the newspaper complained
that household dances were annoying
neighbors.
Officials sought out the dancers and
warned them of “dangers” accompanying
dancing, the newspaper said. It said the
dances attracted thieves, led to fights and
corrupted public morals.
The dance fans were requested to hang
up their shoes, turn over a new leaf and
improve their morals, the Liberation Daily
said.