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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1980
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DALLAS — A House subcommittee plans to investi
gate allegations of widespread fraud and kickbacks
throughout the military’s exchange services, which pro
vide everything from perfume to major appliances at cut
rates for military personnel, a Dallas newspaper re
ported Wednesday.
The Dallas Morning News reported the House
Armed Services subcommittee will hold hearings on the
charges against the Army-Air Force Exchange Service,
as well as similar charges against the Navy and Marine
exchanges and military commissary systems.
The exchange services, with total estimated sales of
about $9 billion, purchase goods and resell them to
members of the military and their dependents through
outlets on most military installations. Goods are sold at
16,000 outlets worldwide at costs averaging about 21
percent less than retail prices, the newspaper said.
Subcommittee chairman Rep. Dan Daniel, D-Va.,
said the group planned hearings in Washington and
Dallas, where AAFES is headquartered.
Staff investigator Will Gofer said officials were con
cerned by indictments of high level officials, the news
paper reported.
Court documents and testimony indicate AAFES em
ployees took bribes in exchange for writing lucrative
orders from companies doing business with the ex
change service, the newspaper reported.
Twenty-six AAFES employees, including the top
civilian in the organization, and more than 50 companies
have been implicated in the scheme, the paper re
ported.
The newspaper reported a federal task force of agents
from the FBI, Internal Revenue Service, the U. S. Gen
eral Accounting Office and the Air Force Office of Spe
cial Investigations is continuing its investigation-
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Battalion Reporter
Help is only as far away as the telephone.
Help for what? Help for homework problems,
social problems, medical problems, and endless
other kinds of problems. There is a telephone
number — many times toll-free — for almost
every type of problem a person can have.
Hot lines are becoming more popular in cities
around the United States as a unique and valuable
source of help to the community.
A major attraction of hot lines is that many find
a sense of security in the anonymity of the tele
phone. Those having difficulty discussing a prob
lem with a friend might find it easier to talk to
someone who will never know his identity.
An organization in Bryan has created a hot line
for homosexuals. Homosexuals have extreme dif
ficulty expressing their problem to anyone be
cause they are afraid to reveal their sexuality, says
a spokesman for the group, wanting only to be
identified as Dale. This hot line, called Gayline,
helps homosexuals who need to talk, Dale said.
“It can be very lonely. No one understands
him; he may not even understand himself. He’s in
a real bind and that’s what we’re here for,” Dale
said.
A major attraction of hot
lines is that many find a sense
of security in the anonymity of
the telephone. Those having
difficulty discussing a problem
with a friend might find it
easier to talk to someone who
will never know his identity.
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The Gayline is geared toward a specific group of
people with special problems. Another hot line in
Bryan — the Crisis Hotline — serves people with
any type of personal problem. Crisis Hodine gets
calls from people with problems as minor as a
simple fight with a roommate to problems as ma
jor as attempted suicide.
The organizer of the Crisis Hotline, wishing to
be identified as Mary, says the majority of calls are
from those who are lonely. “We try and just listen
to what they have to say. Many people feel better
after talking it all out,” she said.
Mary said a number of callers are regulars —
they call back until a sort of relationship is formed
between the caller and the volunteers working
the line.
Operation Peace of Mind was set up in Texas
five years ago to assist runaways by former Gov.
Dolph Briscoe after 27 youths, mainly runaways,
were killed in Houston by Dean Corll’s torture
ring. This line works by passing messages from
the runaway to the parent without revealing his
whereabouts.
The main purpose of Operation Peace of Mind
is to let parents know their children are alive. The
1979 grant from the state of Texas was $174,000
and more than 80,000 calls have been handled.
Another type of hot line was formed at the
University of Texas in 1976 through which a stu
dent could call to hear tapes about mental or
physical health. This line now has 150 tapes on
different topics and Some of the more popular
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Emporia, Kan., where students can ask q«ej
about correct grammar usage. Time magazulTpast inspe
ports the most frequent callers here are sect;
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lifesaving treatment by remote control ism
reality. Companies are interested in i
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the U.S. Food and Drug Administration*: i united
out some of the liability problems. If sok DALLAS
dies while hooked up to this device, the hie ing paid
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Pesticide use weighed
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STILLWATER, Okla. — Oklaho
ma State University scientists have
developed a strain of sorghum resis
tant to a new greenbug discovered in
Texas five months ago, OSU officials
said.
OSU agronomist Dale Weibel said
the new strain, called bloomless sor
ghum, is disliked by the Biotype E
greenbug because it does not have a
waxy substance called bloom in the
stock.
"No one knows how long the re
sistance will last against the green-
bug’s ability to adapt,” Weibel said.
By LAURA CORTEZ
Battalion Reporter
Approximately one billion pounds
of pesticide are used each year in the
United States to help control insects,
plant diseases and weeds, which des
troy 33 percent of potential food
crops.
Pesticides are beneficial in that
they enable greater food production,
and thus lower food prices. A study
by David Pimentel, an entomologist
at Cornell University, says that pes
ticide treatment costs in this country
total $2.2 billion annually. However,
Pimentel adds, if pesticide use were
discontinued, there would be appro
ximately an $8.7 billion increase in
crop losses.
But in addition to the benefits,
there are problems.
In a report to Congress last year,
the U.S. General Accounting Office
said, “Although pesticides are be
neficial to the world’s health and well
being, they are not problem-free.
They can be poisonous to people and
animals, and damaging to the en
vironment where they remain active
for several years.”
An awareness of the potential
hazards of pesticides became wide
spread during the early 1960s, and
has continued ever since.
Synthetic pesticides, including
DDT, were introduced during
World War II and were highly suc
cessful because they were inexpen
sive, easy to use and potent long after
application.
But in 1962, Rachel Carson’s book
“Silent Spring” created public fear as
well as concern.
Carson warned of hazards related
to pesticide use, including pest re
sistance to certain insecticides and
the concentration of insecticides to a
lethal level in the food chain.
In 1970, the newly created En
vironmental Protection Agency took
over the enforcement of regulation
concerning pesticide use, which had
been the responsibility of the De
partment of Agriculture.
The EPA banned DDT in 1972,
and has banned 15 other pesticides
since.
The agency is continually review
ing chemicals for possible hazards to
humans, and sets tolerance levels —
the maximum residue allowed in
food.
The responsibility to assure that
marketed food is safe, pure and
wholesome lies with the Food and
Drug Administration, which con
ducts monitoring programs.
But a question arises: Is what is
legal necessarily safe?
The GAO has criticized the EPA
for setting tolerances without adequ
ate testing, and the FDA for moni
toring only a small percentage of food
crops.
But Dr. Perry Adkisson, vice pres
ident for agricultural and renewable
resources at Texas A&M University,
said he does not think consumers
need to be worried about pesticide
residues on food.
He said the best scientific evi
dence available indicates residue on
food is not harmful to humans.
Adkisson said that pests are a se
rious problem to the $300 million
Texas crop industry. He added that
Texas, the third largest producer of
vegetables in the country, could not
produce most of its crops without
pesticides.
“Although we realize the need for
chemical pesticides, we don’t want
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varieties that are resistant to r iad a medi
and disease, and managementplsmpared tc
dures that would reduce the i-The stud)
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Dr. Ralph Hanna, associatefeld by the
fessor of entomology at Texas ife.
said he takes a risk-to-benefilp)isparitie
attitude concerning the use
cides on food crops — he feek|
risk is low in relation to thebei
He said that most chemicals
in use are non-persistent, *tgers had co
means they break down e;8tiondid nc
There is a waiting period foal
time of the last application ofap
cide until the crop can be
to allow for this breakdown,
But despite the chemical k
down, residues remain on food,
as raw fruits and vegetables.
When asked if washing these
ducts removes residues, Hannai
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avoided the regulations
there is not enough on themtoi
off.”
But not everyone accept
need to worry” attitude whi
es to pesticides on food,
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category.
Although alternatives to cfc
use — biological control of iti •
and crops resistant to disease
being studied and in some case
plied, the abolition of pesticii
not in sight.
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