The Battalion
. 82 No. 32 CISPS 045360 12 pages
College Station, Texas
Wednesday, October 15, 1986
eaders say
ummit talks
nust resume
eagan, Gorbachev blame
ach other for stalemate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
lt Reagan and Soviet leader Mik-
Gorbachev blamed each other
lay for their inability to strike
|trms reduction deal in Iceland,
agreed that too much is at stake
Id the arms control bargaining
ecalling his description of Ice-
uni as a base camp leading to a
"mit, Reagan said, “I believe
exists the opportunity to plant
rmanent Hag of peace at that
mit, and I call on the Soviets not
iss this opportunity.”
jrbachev, in a nationally broad-
laddress to the Soviet people, ac-
Reagan of trying to push his
■itry into an expensive new arms
|(lup. But Gorbachev also said
negotiations cannot be aban-
d. He did say, however, the
imove is up to the United States.
|bt (lie intercontinental verbal cross-
jj |came two days after the pair, in a
ttf sweet climax to a weekend of
lisive talks, grimly bade one an-
iliort pti farewell in the darkness out-
leihe house in Reykjavik.
■The American people don't mis-
a|i the absence of a final
pet. lenient for the absence of pro-
si Is” Reigan said in a speech. “We
le progress. We must be patient,
e made historic advances. We will
|iurn back.”
rrbachev said the meeting was
ill, but foundered on Reagan’s
to give up “Star Wars,” the
:e-based missile defense system,
(bachev said he remains opti-
icthat the superpowers have not
bed the end of the road in their
Irts to agree on arms control.
Reagan said the Kremlin over
played its hand in seeking to get him
to scrap “Star Wars,” the system
known formally as Strategic Defense
Initiative, which the president says is
vital to America’s defense.
The Americans “put good, fair
ideas on the table, and they won’t go
away,” Reagan said, but he also said
the Soviet Union long has been en
gaged in extensive el forts to devise
its own strategic defense system.
Reagan said the Soviet proposal to
confine Star Wars research to the
laboratory would have given the So
viets a dangerous one-sided advan
tage.
Gorbachev talked of possibly hav
ing to counter the Star Wars pro
gram.
“Soviet people know this, and all
people around the world should
know this as well,” he said. “But we
are opposed to a power play. This is
an extremely dangerous undertak
ing in the nuclear missile age.”
At the Pentagon, a top U.S. arms
control strategist said the Soviet
Union well may have wished to pro
tect some of its own breakthroughs
in Star Wars-type research when it
demanded that the United States
give up non-laboratory testing of
America’s space-based missile shield
concept.
Richard N. Perle, assistant de
fense secretary for international se
curity policy and a member of Rea
gan’s negotiating team in Reykjavik,
also suggested that the Soviets ad
vanced their unacceptable demands
to limit Star Wars research in hopes
of stopping all U.S. research in
space.
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Tony Carabello and his beginning Spanish class day afternoon. The day’s temperatures ranged
take advantage of the cool, sunny weather Tues- from 46 degrees to a high of 78 degrees.
Abortion
issue set
for review
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Su
preme Court said Tuesday it will
study whether states may require
some adolescent girls seeking abor
tions to wait 24 hours after telling
their parents or a judge about their
decision.
The justices voted to review rul
ings that struck down a 1983 Illinois
law that would impose the 24-hour
waiting period.
The vitality of the court’s 1973 de
cision legalizing abortion does not
appear at stake. But this case is the
first in which the abortion issue is be
ing considered by the court with Wil
liam Rehnquist as chief justice and
Antonin Scalia as a justice.
A decision is expected by July.
The Illinois law required that un
married girls under 18 and still de
pendent on their parents notify the
parents 24 hours before they abort
their pregnancy.
The notification requirement may
be waived altogether if the girl
proves to a state judge she is mature
enough and well-informed enough
to make the decision on her own and
that notifying her parents would not
be in her best interest.
In 1981, the Supreme Court al
lowed states to impose parental-noti
fication requirements for “imma
ture” girls under 18 who still are
dependent on their parents. But in
1983 the court struck down an abor
tion law’s 24-hour waiting period
that was applied to minors and
adults alike.
The court last June reaffirmed its
landmark decision legalizing abor
tion as it struck down, by a 5-4 vote,
various abortion regulations im
posed by Pennsylvania.
In another action, the court re
fused to reinstate an Oklahoma law
that makes it a crime for consenting
adults to engage in heterosexual so
domy. Just last June, the court
upheld Georgia’s outlawing of adult
consensual sodomy among homo
sexuals.
eports of major crimes up 8%
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of se
lls crimes reported to police rose 8 percent in
Tfirst half of 1986, the biggest increase in six
Is, the FBI reported Tuesday.
Jriminologists linked the upward movement
more frequent reporting of crimes to police by
1ms.
An index of eight major offenses showed that
lent crime, led by a 14 percent jump in aggra-
Id assaults, rose 12 percent from the first six
fthsof 1985. Property crimes rose 7 percent,
[rime rose in all regions of the United States,
^penally in the South and West, up 13 percent
ndii percent, respectively, reflecting population
■ration from other parts of the country. The
wBjscrime index rose 5 percent in the Northeast
nd! percent in the Midwest.
erall increases were recorded universally
throughout the nation,” FBI director William
Webster said in a statement.
“Upswings were evident ... in cities of all sizes
and counties, both suburban and rural,” he said.
The latest increase is the largest since the first
half of 1980, when the FBI’s crime index went up
10 percent.
Nationally, robberies and motor vehicle thefts
rose 1 1 percent, while murder and burglary were
up 8 percent. Larceny rose 7 percent, rape 2 per
cent and arson 1 percent.
The amount of major crimes reported to po
lice has been increasing for the past 18 months,
the FBI reported. But criminologists say a num
ber of factors suggest actual crime levels will be
relatively stable for the remainder of the decade.
“I’d put my money on a greater willingness to
report crime than I would on there being a major
increase in real crime,” Marvin Wolfgang, pro
fessor of criminology and Jaw at the University of
Pennsylvania, said in interpreting the latest num
bers.
The Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice
Statistics says reporting rates for aggravated as
sault rose by six percentage points from 1973 to
1985 and that reporting of rape went up by 12
percentage points in that time.
The statistics bureau reported last week that
crimes committed against individuals and house
holds in 1985 fell to the lowest level since the gov
ernment began collecting the information 13
years ago, declining 2 percent from 1984.
The bureau’s figures are based on surveys of
households in which those questioned are asked
about experience as victims of crime, whether or
not reported to the authorities.
Psychologist says
blacks can solve
problems with unity
Environmentalists push for protection
Shrimpers endangering
By Ronda Hancock
Reporter
I Conflicts have arisen between
Invirorimentalists and Texas’
lommercial shrimpers, and en
dangered sea turtles have been
■aught in the middle.
| The U.S. National Marine
Fisheries Service reports that
Ihrimpers on the southeastern
t.S. coast, including those in the
IGulf of Mexico, captured 47,973
lea turtles last year and 11,179 of
I ■them died.
T “The demise of the sea turtles
is a direct result of developments
in the shrimping industry,” said
Dr. Dave Owens of the Texas
A.vM biology department.
I Marydele Donnelly of the Cen
ter for Environmental Education
in Washington, D.C., adds,
■There’s a great concern in the
(ulf waters about the future of
|]ie Kemp’s ridley turtles.”
| Donnelly points out that 767 of
the 11,179 captured sea turtles
that died last year were Kemp’s
fidieys — the most endangered of
the known species of sea turtles,
With only about 500 reproducing
females believed to be in exis-
ince.
| As a result of the high mortal
ity of turtles caused by shrimping,
environmentalists and protec
tionists have asked shrimpers to
voluntarily cooperate in a conser-
fation effort by using Trawling
Efficiency Devices in their trawl
ing operations.
The TEDs, originally called
Turtle Excluder Devices, are steel
and mesh boxes that are sewn
into shrimping nets. TEDs are
designed to allow sea turtles and
finfish to escape, while causing
little or no reduction in the
shrimp catch.
CEE officials say consistent use
of TEDs in the shrimping indus
try is necessary to reduce the nee
dless loss of endangered sea tur
tles. Consequently, the
government has spent some $3.5
million through NMFS devel
oping a workable TED.
While it’s true that a large
number of sea turtles are drown
ing in shrimp nets each year, an
individual shrimper may catch
few or no turtles over a period of
several years, says Gary Graham,
a fisheries specialist with the
Texas Marine Advisory Service.
In the more than five years
that Graham has been testing
TEDs along the Texas coastline,
he says he’s seen only three tur
tles.
Agreeing with CEE, Owens
says TEDs are a good idea. He
says he hopes shrimpers soon will
realize the benefits of TEDs and
begin to use them more regularly.
But Ralph Rayburn, executive
director of the Texas Shrimp As
sociation in Austin, says Texas
shrimpers are unable to afford
the extra financial burden that
would be imposed on them if they
were required to use TEDs all of
the time.
“Most Gulf fleet vessels would
require eight TEDs each,” Ray
burn says. “That’s four in the
working nets, plus extras in case
those get damaged. In effect, that
doubles the cost of the fishing
gear.”
An individual TED can cost be
tween $350 and $560, Rayburn
says, depending upon the type.
Full-scale TEDs — those devel
oped by NMFS — have the high
est price tags, while smaller, pri
vately developed models
generally are less costly.
Graham agrees that the cost
factor is a major disadvantage of
the TEDs. But, he says, other
problems exist.
The main problem shrimpers
have with the TEDs, Graham
says, is the increased danger
shrimping crews face when deal
ing with full-size TEDs like those
developed by NMFS. For that
reason, he says, there is an in
creased interest in developing
smaller, equally ef fective models.
Graham says TEDs also are an
inconvenience for shrimpers be
cause of the extra effort required
to keep them working properly.
These problems, Graham says,
are keeping voluntary use of
TEDs among Texas shrimpers at
a low level, even though TEDs
turtles
have been shown to effectively re
duce the amount of by-catch —in
cluding sea turtles, finfish, jelly
fish, and weeds — in shrimpers’
nets.
Graham says this reduction of
incidental catch is important to
consider in terms of economics
because for the shrimping indus
try, “the bottom line is shrimp.”
He says the best way to increase
the level of TED use is to let
shrimpers know how they can
benefit from it.
In a booklet titled “Sea Turtles
8c Shrimp Trawlers,” CEE con
tends that a reduction in by-catch
results in increased fuel efficiency
for shrimpers because the nets
aren’t as heavy. CEE says a reduc
tion of by-catch also reduces the
amount of time shrimpers must
spend separating shrimp from in
cidental catch.
Donnelly says Gulf shrimpers
bring in as much as 10 pounds of
finfish for every pound of shrimp
caught. Because shrimpers have
no use for the finfish, Donnelly
says, they dump the fish over
board.
“That means between one and
two billion pounds of finfish are
wasted (in the Gulf) each year by
the shrimping industry,” Don
nelly says.
“They (shrimpers) should be
concerned about how their ac-
See Shrimp, page 8
By Larry Keller
Reporter
Unity among black Texas A&M
students is important in helping
them overcome problems at a pre
dominantly white school, an A&M
counseling psychologist said Tues
day night.
In a forum sponsored by Alpha
Kappa Alpha and Delta Sigma
Theta sororities, along with Alpha
Phi Alpha fraternity, Dr. Bernadine
Duncan said that 75 percent of the
black students in the country attend
predominantly white universities.
Duncan surprised the audience of
about 120 by pointing out that only
42 black males and 22 black females
graduated from A&M last year.
She said that getting to know pro
fessors could be one solution to the
low percentage of black graduates.
Duncan said that although pre
dominantly white schools may offer
more educational opportunities than
black schools, they are socially con
stricting for black students.
“Blacks have fewer dating oppor
tunities,” she said.
Duncan added that because of iso
lation many black students don’t
participate in campus life and miss
an important part of their educa
tion.
She said that the attitude of blacks
toward other blacks also needs im
provement.
“It would seem with all these dis
advantages one would want to uni
fy,” Duncan said.
She said that it’s difficult to be
come unified if blacks don’t even say
hello to each other on campus.
“We have to stop being jealous of
each other,” Duncan warned.
She stressed that strength and
unity come in numbers and said it’s
time for black students to get to
gether.
After Duncan’s speech a panel of
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Dr. Bernadine Duncan
black students and faculty answered
questions from the audience and
told of their experiences at A&M.
The topics ranged from getting
good grades to dating habits.
Chris Phillips, a senior in the
Corps of Cadets, told the audience
that the Corps helped him adjust to
white students.
He said that being surrounded by
white students was made easier by
the Corps members’ dependence on
each other.
The panel members all agreed
that the situation for black students
in the outside world is going to be
even tougher than the experiences
they have faced in the past.
A graduate student in the audi
ence complimented the sponsors for
having the discussion. He said that
when he attended A&M no forums
of this type were held.
Terris Burton, a member of Al
pha Phi Alpha, said that the rea
soning behind the forum was to
make black students aware that they
are not alone.
“We wanted to bring blacks to
gether, and I think we accomplished
our goal,” Burton said.