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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
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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
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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.