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United Press International
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Secret
ary of State George Shultz and Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko
met for more than five hours
Wednesday in an effort to thaw su
perpower relations. The session went
on two hours longer than expected.
No details of the meeting, their
fine face-to-face since a confrontation
last year over the Soviet downing of a
Korean airliner, were immediately
available.
Shultz and his aides left the Soviet
embassy in Stockholm’s western sub
urbs at 8:10 p.m. local time, five hours
and 15 minutes after his arrival.
Reporters were not allowed into
the embassy grounds to approach
officials at the end of the meeting,
which began at the embassy overlook
ing Lake Malaren with a friendly ex
change about the weather.
Despite an angry morning speech
to the European security conference
in which Gromyko charged that “nuc
lear war is the policy of the United
States,” the usually dour diplomat
seemed cordial facing Shultz in the
wood-panelled room.
Shultz strode into the marble lobby
past a bust of Lenin and through a
reception room overlooked by a large
photograph of Soviet President Yuri
Andropov.
Mineral water, club soda and
cigarettes were on the lacquered
brown conference table with a bowl of
sugar and sliced lemons, apparently
for a later serving of tea.
Shultz was accompanied by the
U.S. ambassador to Moscow, Arthur
Hartman, Richard Burt, assistant sec
retary of state for Europe, Jack Mat-
lock, a Soviet expert with the National
Security Council, and interpreter Wil
liam Krimer.
Directly across from him was
Gromyko, accompanied by his per
sonal assistant, Vasily Makharov,
Georgi Kornyenko, the first deputy
foreign minister, S.P Tarasenko, de
puty director of U.S. affairs in the
Soviet Foreign Ministry, and inter
preter Viktor Sukhodrev.
“You have to come to the United
States to find out how cold this winter
is,” Shultz said at the start of the ses-
‘Tve read reports about the frost,”
Gromyko replied. “Muscovites can
say, now the Americans know what
frost means.”
“That’s right,” Shultz answered.
Gromyko and Shultz last met in
Madrid in September — a stormy con
frontation that followed the shooting
down by Soviet fighters of a South
Korean airliner on Sept. 1 over the
northern Sea of Japan. All 269 people
aboard were killed.
Since then, the United States has
begun deployment of 572 Pershing-2
and cruise missiles in NATO coun
tries to counter the triple-warhead
Soviet SS-20s, prompting Moscow to
break off all arms and troop reduc
tion negotiations.
The Kremlin has warned it will not
resume the talks until the missiles are
removed. On Tuesday, the official
Soviet news agency Tass reported the
Soviets have begun installing new mis
siles in East Germany in response to
the NATO deployment.
Gromyko charged Wednesday the
Reagan administration is preparing
“maniacal” plans for nuclear war,
dashing hopes for a quick thaw in re
lations between the superpowers.
“The present U.S. administration is
an administration thinking in terms
of war and acting accordingly,” he
said.
Contaminated foods still in stores
BY SARAH OATES
Staff Writer
Food products contaminated with
the powerful carcinogen EDB will
be available in local grocery stores
until the Environmental Protection
Agency establishes guidelines for
acceptable levels of thfc pesticide in
foods.
EDB, ethyl dibromide, a soil
fumigant that is particularly effec
tive against weevils and nematodes,
was banned in September 1983 be
cause EPA officials feared it might
be contaminating Florida’s ground
water supply. The pesticide was put
on the market in 1948 and its carci
nogenic properties have been
known since 1974.
Contaminated products range
from baby food and citrus fruits to
dog food. Carmen Lovell, consumer
affairs director for the Kroger Co.,
said she received a letter from
Martha White Foods Inc. stating
that company is working to reduce
the levels of EDB in its baking mixes,
such as corn meal and cornbread.
“Until the EPA issues a recall, we
will continue to sell these products,”
said Lovell. She said there’s no warn
ing to issue to consumers right now.
A Jan. 6 consumer alert release
from the office of Attorney General
Jim Mattox lists seven Martha White
products containing various parts
per billion of EDB. No employees of
the company were available for com
ment.
The Texas Health Department
found no traces of EDB in 25 ran
dom water samples last week. State
Health Commissioner Dr. Robert
Bernstein said that about 12 tests are
being run daily and that so far re
sults indicate no traces of the che
mical.
Bernstein said there is no set na
tional standard for EDB levels in wa
ter. The acceptable limit in Florida is
one-tenth part per billion, which
Bernstein called “ridiculous, be
cause you can’t measure under one
part per billion.”
“William Ruckelshaus is trying to
set limits,” Bernstein said, “We’ll go
from there.” EPA Administrator
Ruckelshaus is gathering informa
tion from each state about con
taminated food products.
Leland Beatty, of the Texas De
partment of Agriculture, said the
department is running tests in
cooperation with Florida to deter
mine how Florida citrus fruits were
contaminated. He said several possi
bilities are being considered.
“We don’t know yet,” he said. “It
could be from ground water used to
water the trees or it could be that
EDB sank into the fruit when it was
sprayed on the peel. We don’t know
for sure.”
EDB is used as a citrus fumigant
against the Mediterranean fruit fly.
Leland said the chemical levels in
Florida citrus fruits range to 5,000
ppb, according to California tests.
Florida health standards allow less
than one ppb in products for human
consumption.
EDB came under EPA scrutiny as
a possible carcinogen in the mid-
1970’s. Phil Hamman, an extension
services entomologist at Texas A&M
University, said that EDB lost visibil
ity when the Dow Chemical Co. stop
ped manufacturing it after its carci
nogenic properties were discovered.
The chemical was also used as a pes
ticide for stored grains, such as
wheat and corn. Hamman said that
two important characteristics of
EDB in relation to its use oh stored
grains are the fact that it is slow to
turn from a liquid to a gas and that it
absorbs into the grain.
“EDB doesn’t volatilize as greatly
as other liquid grain fumigants,” he
said, adding that this makes it diffi
cult to judge the pesticide’s chronic,
or long-term effects.
EPA research has shown that re-
Baking mixes such as these
have be on found with high
levels of EDBs. Until the
sidues in the average diet can cause
cancer in one out ot three thousand.
Leland said that since the EPA risk
assessment is based on a balanced,
“normal” diet, those with a wheat-
based diet may run a greater risk.
Bernstein, however, emphasized
Photo by DEAN SAITO
EPA issues a recall, local
stores will continue to sell
them.
determine EDB’s carcinogenic
properties must be considered when
viewing the pesticide as a public
menace.
See EDB page 12
American University official shot in Beirut
United Press International
BEIRUT — Gunmen firing
silencer-equipped pistols killed the
president of the American University
outside his office Wednesday and
Moslem extremists said he was a vic
tim of “the American presence in
Lebanon.”
The Islamic Jihad group claimed
responsibility for the killing of Dr.
Malcolm Kerr, who refused a body
guard after becoming head of the
school, and also threatened to kill a
Saudi Arabian diplomat kidnapped
Tuesday in Beirut.
Kerr, 52, an American who was an
expert on the Middle East, was shot by
two gunmen using silencer-equipped
pistols. He was declared dead on
arrival at the American University
Hospital, the same hospital where he
was born.
Police and army units — aided at
one exit by U.S. Marines assigned to
the adjacent U.S. Embassy — sealed
off the walled and guarded 73-acre
campus to search for suspects but the
gunmen escaped.
“Kerr was the victim of the Amer
ican presence in Lebanon,” said a cal
ler identifying himself as a member of
the Islamic Jihad — the Holy War.
“We pledge that there will no lon
ger be a single American or French
man on this soil,” he told the French
news agency AFP in a telephone call.
The Islamic Jihad also claimed re
sponsibility for devastating suicide
attacks on the U.S. and French
peacekeepers in October and the
bombings of the U.S. Embassies in
Kuwait and Beirut.
In Washington, the White House
and State Department denounced the
killing.
“It’s certainly tragic,” said pres
idential spokesman Larry Speakes. A
State Department official said the
murder by “these despicable assassins
must strengthen our resolve not to
give in to the acts of terrorists.”
The caller said that Saudi consul
Hussein Farraj,,who was kidnapped
off the crowded streets of west Beirut
Tuesday, was undergoing a trial
“under the terms of Islamic justice.”
“Our organization assassinated
Kerr,” the caller said, “and the body
of the Saudi Arabian consul will soon
be thrown out.” He vowed to “pursue
all Lebanese and Arab agents, should
they be leaders, politicians or military
men.”
Amidst the furor over the assassi
nation, Christian east Beirut came
under a new burst of shelling by the
Druze Moslem rebels. Radios broad
cast warnings for civilians to stay in
doors after six shells hit.
The killing of Kerr produced an
angry outcry from all sides of
Lebanese life, with Justice Minister
Roger Chikhani calling the assassina
tion “a cowardly terrorist act.”
The university was closed until
next Monday, and the Catholic school
system said it would also shut down in
mourning for the head of the univer
sity, which it called “the cornerstone
of culture in Lebanon.”
Kerr, whose father taught medi
cine at the school, had replaced David
Dodge, the acting president who was
kidnapped from the campus and held
captive in Iran for exactly one year.
He was released, with the help of
Syria, last July.
Kerr had spent his entire life study
ing the Middle East. He took the posi
tion in Beirut after a 20-year career at
the University of California, Los
Angeles, as director of the Center for
Near Eastern studies.
The official statement from the
university said that “two armed men,
equipped with silencers on their
guns” were waiting for Kerr and kil
led him with two bullets in his head as
he walked from the elevator in the
corridor of his third floor office at
College Hall.
But Lebanese government medical
examiner. Dr. Ahmed Harati, told
state-run Beirut radio that Kerr had
died from a single bullet wound.
Kerr was alone as he stepped out of
the elevator, having relinquished his
bodyguard shortly after assuming his
duties in October 1982 “because he
felt at home and was surrounded by
friends,” said university spokesman
Radwan Mawlawi.
The attack followed two attempts
in west Beirut in recent weeks to assas
sinate people associated with the
French Embassy, also with silencer-
equipped pistols.
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Vice Chancellor James Bond resigns,
returning to private legal practice
By KELLEY SMITH
Senior Staff Writer
Having reached what he calls the
pinnade of his career here, James B.
Bond, vice chancellor for legal and
public affairs, will return to the pri
vate practice of law which, he says, is
his first real love.
Bond, who has served the Texas
A&M system as vice chancellor and
general counsel since 1977, said he
reached a point where he had to eva
luate his career to decide what would
he most fulfilling and exciting for
him. At that point he had worked
eight years in the private sector and
eight years in the public sector.
He worked on everything from
suits against the University to real
estate negotiations. He announced his
resignation last Wednesday after de
ciding his contribution to the Univer
sity was complete.
The choice between the private
and public sector was a serious matter,
Bond said. However, Bond said he
saw no room left for upward mobility
at the University.
“First, I think it’s an enjoyment
factor,” he said of his decision to re-
James B. Bond
turn to private practice, “and second,
I don’t think there are any caps in the
private sector to achievement,” Bond
said. There’s a lot of room to grow
and to find satisfaction in the chal
lenging atmosphere of private prac
tice, he said.
“In the public sector, sometimes
you can only do so much,” Bond said.
“You can see something you would
like to change but it’s too big to
change.”
The limitation in the public sector
stems from the size of the institution,
which by its nature has a sense of in
ertia, he said. Contributions to initiat
ing changes might help but the pro
cess is slow and difficult, he said.
The public sector also has its share
of bureaucracy and trappings that
sometimes can limit a lawyer, he said,
as opposed to the private sector where
he can control his destiny and become
a success based on his own ingenuity
and talent.
Working in the public sector also
poses some contraints on a lawyer’s
work. Bond said.
“Your control mechanism as a
lawyer is less in this setting and the
public nature of an institution means
that the administration or the Board
of Regents naturally have to be some
what affected by public sentiment,”
he said. “Sometimes as a lawyer, you
must follow public opinion as trans
lated by the administration, so there
are times when pure legal judgement
on an issue may have to be mitigated
by that public opinion as translated
through those people.”
However, Bond -said his job here
has been rewarding.
Through his new position working
with public affairs. Bond coordinated
state, federal and local government
affairs for the chancellor and other
administrative officers.
Bond said his office made a strong
start in public affiars with the federal
government.
“It was one of the things that was
stimulating and somewhat difficult to
walk away from because I think we
have a lot to gain there,” Bond said.
He said he expects the progress in
that area to continue. Mike Lytle,
from the chancellor’s office, will take
over Bond’s responsibilities with fed
eral public affairs, and state represen
tative Bill Presnal, after his term in
office ends this year, will become vice
chancellor for state public affairs.
See BOND page 10
In Today’s Battalion
local
• Pope John Paul II has blessed the Texas A&M
Village of Hope project. See story page 4.
State
• Gov. Mark White wants to lengthen the Texas public
school day to nine hours. See story page IB.
• A new drug used to treat high blood pressure is also
helping bald men grow hair. See story page 10.
Notional
* • How to earn college credit via television. See story
page IB.
• Eric Dickerson has been named outstanding black
athlete for 1983. See story page 14.
World
• Two U.S. Army survivors tell about last week’s
Nicaraguan attack that killed one American pilot. See
story page 3.
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