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H-*- • Local phone rates may be going up Sampson named to NBA All-Star team See page 3 See page 15 Ags in spoiler role against SMU tonight See page 15 The Battalion Serving the University community iec! e i) ;s - luc >nz; hai alle b< ol 78 No. 77 CJSPS 0453110 16 pages Wednesday, January 18, 1984 hultz colls for resumed talks United Press International ■STOCKHOLM, Sweden — On the 'e of a key meeting with the Soviet ireign minister, Secretary of State korge Shultz Tuesday appealed to oscow to resume nuclear arms talks id called fora global ban on chemic- weapons. “We are ready for negotiations henever the Soviet Union is pre- red,” Shultz told the East-West con- irence on security in Europe. The conference was called to con sider measures to prevent war in Europe between NATO and the War saw Pact. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was to speak Wednesday and see Shultz later at the Soviet Embassy. The two men have not met since an icy encounter in September in Madrid following the Soviet downing of a South Korean airliner with the loss of 269 lives that plummeted East-West relations to new lows. In November, relations worsened when Moscow walked out of the Geneva talks on limiting medium- range missiles in Europe and refused to set a date for resuming talks on strategic missiles and conventional forces on the continent. “This tells us a great deal about which side is eager for progress,” Shultz said as Gromyko listened im passively to his remarks in the confer ence hall. “Nevertheless, the door remains open,” Shultz said. He spoke one day after President Reagan urged the Kremlin in a speech televised in Europe to make nuclear arms reduc tions the top priority of the super powers. Moscow has said it will not return to the talks until NATO pulls out the new U.S. nuclear missiles it deployed late last year in western Europe. The United States says cancellation of its plans to deploy 572 new Per- shing-2 and cruise missiles would give the Soviets a monopoly on intermedi ate range missiles that now amount to more than 300 triple-warheads. Shultz said the United States would soon present a draft treaty at the Gon- ference on Disarmament in Geneva “for the complete and verifiable elimi nation of chemical weapons on a glob al basis.” The 40-nation conference has dis cussed such a ban for seven years and the United States has accused the Soviets of using chemical weapons in Cambodia and Afghanistan. Last week, the Warsaw Pact nations proposed a conference be held to dis cuss a ban on chemical weapons in Europe. Shultz said arms control negotia tions could not work in a vacuum and must be based on verification, always a major obstacle in agreements with Moscow. “This enterprise cannot prosper in conditions where some nations seek global or regional military superiority or resort to threats or to intimidation as instruments of their foreign poli cy,” Shultz said, apparently referring to Soviet actions in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslavakia and Afghanistan. Supreme Court declares home video taping legal according to current laws Nutrition study shows elderly here better off United Press International WASHINGTON — Americans are free to use home video recorders lo tape television programs, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday. The decision, nearly two years in the making, is a major victory for the $3-billion-a-year recorder industry, ‘freeing itfronvthe threat of millions of dollars in fines and royalties. Thejustices, acting on a case filed by Walt Disney Productions and Universal Studios against the Sony Corn., rejected an appeals court’s finding that taping TV programs violates copyright laws and that manufacturers of recording devices are responsible for the illegal in fringement. It is estimated that more than 5 million Americans record shows at home. Claiming they were being dep rived of massive revenues by unau- ihorized use of their productions, Ihe Hollywood studios sued Sony — the Japanese manufacturer of the Betamax video cassette recorder — aswellasaBetamax user and a retail outlet that sold the devices. The high court struggled for more than two terms to resolve the ssue, which is likely to bounce back to Congress. Movie-industry lobbyists are ex pected to press Congress to rewrite the laws providing royalties to com pensate TV producers and perfor mers. It is estimated that more than 5 million Americans record shows at home —often for viewing at a later, more convenient time. The movie industry called this a form of piracy. But Justice John By BRIGID BROCKMAN Staff writer The chairman of The Senate In terim Committee on Hunger and Nutrition said at a press conference Tuesday that the committee did not find hunger and malnutrition to be as severe a problem in the Bryan- College Station area as in Houston. But state Sen. Hugh Parmer did say the committee found several signi- ficant problems within Brazos Goujjityv . - ... if .... - 1 he committee concluded the last of its public hearings in the Bryan- College Station area Tuesday after noon. Formal public testimony was heard in Rudder Tower concerning hunger and nutritional problems, especially those of senior citizens. Parmer said testimony during the hearing showed there was not enough communication between institutions which sponsor education programs on nutrition, and institutions which send out food stamps. The nutrition programs are de signed to help educate people on how to buy the most nutritional foods for their money. Erwin M. Dabbs, regional adminis trator for the Texas Department of Human Resources, said it would be beneficial to require those who need food stamps to attend some sort of program on nutrition before they could receive their food stamps, but he also said this probably couldn’t be done. He said it would not work because most of the .people .. who need food stamps aren’t concerned about nutri tion as much as they are about getting food into their stomach as soon as pos sible. He said if they could get “past the point of emergency,” then social workers might be able to interest them in some type of nutrition program. Parmer also said the committee found that area unemployment rates have a direct impact on nutritional needs. Because Brazos County has a rather low unemployment rate com pared with other counties in the state, Dabbs said, there are relatively few people on food stamps. Only 4 per cent of the total population of Brazos County is receiving food stamps. Another problem the committee found was the bad situation senior citizens have been forced into because of federal government cutbacks on nutrition programs. Testimony showed that these cut- rbacks have left-areas in Texas without mechanisms to deliver meals to the elderly who are not able to leave their homes, and Parmer said the situation is especially bad in Brazos County. The committee probably will not return to the Brazos County area, Parmer said, because they have so many other areas of the state to visit. He said they expect to find more se vere problems in the more urban areas, in the Valley and in deep East Texas where rural poverty indicates there could be nutritional problems. Moreno to plead innocent photo by Dean Saito John Coldewey, business manager of Premier Video in the Post Oak Mall in College Station, demonstrates how TV programs can be recorded using a video recorder. Paul Stevens, in the high court’s 37- page majority opinion, said this is a lawful use of the recorders. Stevens, in a key finding, called videotaping for personal viewing a “fair use” exempt from the copyr ight laws. “Any individual may reproduce a copyrighted work for a ‘fair use;’ the copyright owner does not possess the exclusive right to such a use,” Stevens wrote. Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justices William Brennan, Byron White and Sandra Day O’Connor joined the majority opinion. Justices Harry Blackmun, Thur- good Marshall, Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist dissented. Jury selection begins United Press International RICHMOND —Jury selection be gan Tuesday in the capital murder trial of a Bryan lawnmower repair man charged in a shooting rampage that left six people, including two from College Station, dead last October. A defense lawyer for Eliseo “Joe” Moreno, 25, said prosecutor James Keeshan has agreed to limit question ing of each prospective juror to 30 minutes so a panel could be chosen in two weeks. Capital murder juries often take months to seat. “I’m looking for the most educated jurors I can find,” attorney Robert Scardino Jr. of Houston said, adding he wanted a jury that will not be “stampeded (to a verdict) by pictures of bloody bodies.” Scardino said Moreno will plead innocent by reason of insanity. Moreno, charged in six deaths in Bryan and Hempstead, is on trial in Richmond in the shooting of Depart- Nobel prize winner says hunger $ most pressing world problem By KAREN WALLACE Staff writer Dr. Norman Borlaug, the Nobel fee winner teaching an agriculture curse at Texas A&M this semester, aid Tuesday that the United States Bould stop worrying about war and pace travel and start worrying about low to feed the growing population. “The world population will double a 50 or 60 years so we have to in tease food production the same mount as we have in the last 12,000 c 14,000 years,” said Borlaug, who mn the Nobel Prize in 1970 for de doping new varieties of wheat which ncreased crop yields around the 'orld. Borlaug said agriculture, which be an 12,000 to 14,000 years ago, has leveloped dramatically in a short leriod of time compared to the age of le Earth, which is 4.5 billion years. That is a lot of development in a ion period of time, and the same mount of agricultural development latoccured over 12,000 years must tor now in 50 or 60 years, he said. “If you look at this in terms of 24 ours, agriculture was developed in BSmllS Dr. Norman Borlaug 23 hours, 59 minute and 59.3 seconds.” said Borlaug, who has been working in foreign countries for the past 40 years. Food and agriculture are taken for granted in the United States because we have never had a national famine, he said. But in places like China and India, hunger, famine and poverty are a way of life. Borlaug said he was at a meeting earlier Tuesday where they discussed the problem of hunger in Texas. “Nothing could compare with what I’ve seen and worked with,” he said. “We (the United States) have been so priviledged.” Borlaug said that before World War II, the United States was inde pendent except for a few imports like tea, coffee and rubber. But following that, the world became very inter dependent, he said. Borlaug said that although the Un ited States exports one-third of the food we produce, we depend on other countries for two-thirds of the nut rients needed for fertilization of crop land. The nutrient import cost is much higher than the food export cost, he said. “We need to start working to de velop these nutrients,” he said. “When we are priviliged and affluent we get preocupied with other things,” he said. Borlaug said that because the Un ited States governmen t is not present ly concerned with hunger in the Un ited States, some environmentalists don’t think about future food produc tion problems in the right perspec tive. “One of the worst pollutants in the environment today is the negation or pessimism poured out by extreme en vironmentalists who perceive the im possibility of a utopian environment,” he said. “It’s an impossibility that pol lutes the minds of young people.” The future, Borlaug said, could be bright or very dismal. “The creativity in man is great and development will continue,” he said. “Unless we destroy ourselves.” It is developments such as arms and space travel that worry him, he said. Borlaug said that the nuclear pow er in the world today is millions of times greater than all the explosive power combined in World War II. “We need to stop worrying about these things and start worrying about how to feed our people,” he said. “Space can’t feed people, and nuclear arms will destroy.” In Today’s Battalion State • There is still no official ruling on the mysterious death of a general found hanging in a stairwell at Fort Sam Houston. See story page 6. • The daughters of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald have reached an agreement to settle a lawsuit against the National Enquirer. See story page 6. National • Lucky, a pregnant loggerhead sea turtle, received a pair of rubber flippers in a $200,000 operation to replace the originals snapped off by a shar page 7. See story • Actor Cary Grant celebrates his 80th birthday today, feeling “pretty good for an old character.” See story page 10. World • Three carloads of gunmen kidnapped the consul of the Saudi Arabian Embassy Tuesday in a daring day light attack. See story page 5. ment of Public Safety Officer Russell Lynn Boyd, 25, of Hempstead. The DPS has said Boyd radioed moments before he was shot that he was stopping a speeding car six miles north of Hempstead on Oct. 11 that later was found to resemble Moreno’s. Boyd apparently did not know two in-laws of Moreno’s had been shot to death several hours earlier in College Station. Boyd died of a single shotgun c-:-:*: blast to his chest at point-blank range.