-national Battalion/Page If February 15,1983 Warped by Scott McCullar EVERY CORNING JUAN CARLOS AND HIS f'lULE CLIMB THE FOUNTAIN SIDE OF THEIR SMALL SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRy TO PICK COFFEE BEANS FROM PLANTS THERE YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW THAT CAN GET BORING REAL FAST, LIVING EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE PICKING COFFEE BEANS. SO TUAN HAS TO GET REALLY WIRED ON COFFEE BEFORE HE CAN FACE ANOTHER DAY OF IT AND LEAVE THE HUT AND THAT MAKES IT DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO BE TOO CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT BEANS HE PICKS. OLD ONES, PRY ONES, EATEN ONES, ROCKS ON THE GROUND, HE DOESN'T CARE. HE JUST PICKS. AND THIS IS THE CROP THAT GOES INTO HIGH PERK " THE COFFEE BRAND THAT DOESN'T GO SO MUCH FOR FLAVOR AS EFFECT. % WHEN YOU'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THAT "high-as-the MOUNTAINS"FEELING. Defector’s parents get letter from son i./i Parent notification is issue Birth control plan fought United Press International ST. LOUIS — The soldier who defected to North Korea last year has written his family for the first time, his parents said today. Joe White’s father, Norval White, said his son gave no indi cation in the letter, which the family received Friday, why he left his post in South Korea to defect. “The letter contains only assurances that he is well and expressions of love and concern for family and friends,” White and his wife, Kathleen, said in a statement. White, 21, from St. Louis, was patrolling the demilitarized zone the morning of Aug. 28 when he walked up to a gate along the border and shot off the lock, a military report said after the incident. Soon after, another soldier saw White, car rying his rifle, on the other side of the border. North Korean officials said White defected. His parents vigorously denied the claim un til the Army said in September its investigation showed White willingly entered North Korea. The Defense Department since has listed White as a defector. The elder White refusij divulge the exact conteniil son’s letter, which wasj Oct. 27 and datelinedl gyang, capital of NorthliJ White, who worksataG al Motors Corp. trucks plant, called the WasW Po$t late Saturday to i the letter. He toldtheiwj er his son wanted a dicli and an almanac. “We’re going to try to| him that dictionary nac,” he said. “We’ll geij and just send themtojoelf care of Pyongyang, I Korea. That’s all ivehavtj United Press International WASHINGTON — A lawyer for a family planning group urged a judge, Monday, to block the administration’s plan for federally funded clinics to tell parents when their teenage daughters get prescription birth control devices. John Nields, attorney for the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Associa tion, said the new regidation will discourage teenagers from seek ing contraceptives, but not from engaging in sexual activities. “The U.S. Congress has uni formly and consistently rejected the requirement of parental notification,” Nields told U.S. District Judge Thomas Flannery in asking him to block the rule that takes effect on Feb. 25. “The Department (of Health and Human Services) has no power to make that requirement on its own.” Flannery did not rule im mediately on the dispute, but said he would make a decision this week on the request for a preliminary injunction to block the rules. At issue in the case is an HHS regulation that federally funded clinics notify parents within 10 working days when girls 17 years old or younger are pre scribed birth control pills, diaphragms or intrauterine de vices. 5,000 clinics and more than 400,000 teenage girls would be affected, family plan ning officials say. Justice Department lawyer Theodore Hirt told Flannery the government has the “right to impose limits’' when it funds ser vices. “It has the right to set condi tions on those services,” he said, arguing the new regulation is in line with the intentions of Con- tives is perhaps the most practic al, concrete way of encouraging family participation,” Hirt said. Mom loses three kids Planned Parenthood Federa tion of America and the Health Association went to court in a move to stop the regulation, arguing it is unconstitutional and could adversely affect hun dreds of thousands of teenage girls. to ‘crib death’ syndromi gress. He also said parents have an important interest in knowing what medication their children are taking. “A notice to the parent that a minor has received contracep- Nields said Congress passed an amendment in 1981 for cli nics receiving federal money to “encourage ” family par icipa- tion, not mandate it. He said Congress specifically rejected proposals to require parental notification. United Press International DALTON, Ga — Relatives of a woman who lost three babies to sudden infant death syndrome in three years say they learned to accept the mysterious deaths spanning five generations as the will of God. Doctors say their investiga tion into the family’s 12 infant deaths may lead to the first evi dence that sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has genetic origins. About 9,000 American babies die each year from SIDS — the most common cause of death among infants between the new born stage and 1 year of age, officials say. “My grandmother says the babies all died in their sleep. I guess my family learned to accept it because there was no thing they could do about it. But it’s hard for any mom .h ( cpt tin