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NEW YORK (AP) — First they
broke off the wedding. Now
Miss Piggy is accusing Mickey
Mouse of carrying on as if they
were married.
What was once one of Ameri
ca's more tender courtships
soured into a court feud
Wednesday as the owner of
Piggy, Kermit and other Mup
pets sued Walt Disney for al
leged misuse of the famous char
acters.
The lawsuit, filed by Henson
Associates Inc. in federal court in
Manhattan, charges that The
Walt Disney Co. used images of
Muppets without a license in
television commercials, movies,
books, brochures, T-shirts and
other merchandise — and in Dis
ney's 1990 annual report.
The legal action stems from a
dispute over whether Disney has
the right to show the Muppets
after protracted merger talks
with Henson Associates broke
down in late December.
It also marks a low in a
relationship that once was hailed
as an aptly touching epilogue for
Jim Henson, the Muppet father
and company founder who died
unexpectedly in May 1990 at age
53 from pneumonia.
Supporters of the proposed
Activist appeals to audience to boycott grapes
welcomes
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"Boycott anything that looks
like a table grape," he added.
The UFW targets grapes be
cause one-third of the pesticides
used on grapes are known car
cinogens, Chavez said. Also,
over one-half of all acute pesti
cide-related illnesses reported in
California come from pesticides
applied to grapes, according to
literature from the UFW.
Two communities near grape
fields have incidences of cancer
in children which are 800 to
1,200 percent higher than the na
tional average.
Chavez said this third boycott
is a direct result of the unwilling
ness of Republican California
Gov. George Deukmejian to en
force laws designed to protect
farm workers.
In the 29-year history of the
UFW, this is the third boycott.
The first was from 1965 to 1970
and the second was from 1974 to
1975.
Growers argue the boycott has
not succeeded in the six years
since it started, but Chavez said
the focus on grape pesticides
didn't start in earnest until later.
When the UFW wins is not im
portant, Chavez said.
"Our adversary is one of Cali
fornia's richest industries," he
said. "Farm workers can never
match its resources. The rich
have money, but the poor have
time. We'll just keep plugging
away, day after day, until the
boycott — with its appeal against
agricultural poisons — takes its
toll on the grape industry. We
will never quit.
"This campaign is effective
when 5 to 10 percent of the con
sumers boycott grapes," Chavez
said. "This percentage will have
the impact on the growers that
the farmworkers need to begin
negotiating in good faith about
pesticide use in the workplace,
and also about better wages, job
security and a union contract."
Fewer grapes were unloaded
in 1989 than the year before in 15
out of 23 major markets sur
veyed in the United States and
Canada, according to a U.S. De
partment of Agriculture report.
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April 22,1991
404 Rudder
Train strike not expected to affect University
Continued from page 1
the University.
"It so happens that our Food
Services Commissary out there
has a railroad sitting so the train
comes right to our door," he
said. "But many places do not
have this."
Pow T ell said Business Services
is responsible for food services,
printing centers and copy cen
ters on campus. Textbooks are
also trucked in for bookstores.
One reason for the change is
because some think the railroad
running through campus is un
safe and have proposed the Lo-
Trak project, Powell said.
If the project is implemented,
the railroad tracks will be low
ered into a trench and people
will walk over the trains. If tnis
happens, the train will not stop
at the commissary, he said.
"It would not be coming
straight through campus anymo
re," Powell said. "It will actually
be going two stories down. The
railroad would not be able to get
to food services, and we began
to phase that out so we would
not have to depend on the rail
road."
Campus mail service con
verted to highway traffic after
hearing about the strike and
does not expect any problems.
The mail service rarely used the
railroad and has almost phased it
out completely, he said.
'This part of the country has
converted so much to the trucks
as opposed to rail," he said.
"This is not going to be a big
problem."
Rex Janne, director of purchas
ing and stores, said the strike
will not effect A&M in the short-
run. It also uses trucks for most
of its freight.
"That is not to say that our
wholesalers do not get their sup
plies from the railroad," Janne
said. "In fact, many of them do,
but their stock is such that a
short strike will not have any im
pact."
Purchasing and Stores uses
railroads for the shipment of
towels, tissue paper and other
high-volume paper products,
The strike might not aff
A&M in the short-term but could |
in the long run, he said.
"If it turned out to be a l
term strike, probably the trued
ing business would eventuallil
pick up the slack," Janne said,
Amtrak passenger sendees i
the Midwest has been limitedbel
cause of the strike. Amtrak train:[
in the Midwest are operated prl
marily over tracks of freight rai l
roads that provide dispatchkj
and maintenance.
Many of the Amtrak trains, in I
eluding those that operate irl
College Station, are notexpeciecl
to resume their operations unlij
the strike has ended.
U.S. Beef producers aim for Japanese market
Continued from page 3
its tradition," he said. "Different
regions in Japan have a reputa
tion for their particular beef.
"So just because we produce
beef with this kind of marbling
doesn't mean it will sell for top
dollar in Japan," Lunt said. "It
won't have any tradition, and
will automatically be considered
inferior because it was produced
in America."
The cattle A&M is using for re
search are descendants of four
bulls from Japan imported to the
United States in 1976 by a group
of investors. The bulls were bred
with Angus cows.
Lunt said the cattle have to be
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fed more roughage, like hay
straw, than American cattle Ik j
cause they cannot handle q
much concentrated feed.
"American cattle have beenI
lected for rapid growth and learl
tissue, but Japanese cattle I
been selected for marbling,|
Lunt said.
The cattle also are fed
than American cattle sotheywil
grow slower, he said. The cattll
need the special diet, he added, I
"I mimicked what wasdonei|
Japan so the cattle would gaiiul
the same rate as Japanese cattle, I
Lunt said. "1 tried to d
the production system thatiei
suits in this kind of beef in ja
as closely as I could."
Lunt has visited Japan
times to study its cattle and mat I
agement system, and found if
system very different fro
America.
"The American system
based on quantity and pricedfj
averages, while the Japanef
system is based on quality i
priced on individual merit," i 1
said. "We make money on 1
much we produce."
Lunt said some America
companies are beginning to p- j
duce the marbled beef for I
Japanese market. The compam
only have calves now, andabef
4,000 of the cross-bred cattle'T
be born this year.
"No one in Japan ever $o|
pected we could produce jf
type of beef," Lunt said.
Japanese industry officials caff
to see the cattle slaughtertj
here, they couldn't believe
quality we had. They were i^
pressed."
A cooperative research [
g ram to study marbling alre
as been established with a c
tor at Kyoto University, a mail
university in Japan with a T 1
regarded agriculture program
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'This enhances the inteflf
tional reputation of A&M/'bl
said. "We have very strong
in Japan already. This helps
further those ties.
"It also helps A&M to be
ognized as the leading agricui'-
ral university to the Japai r
cattle industry," Lunt said
we can discover what reg
marbling, the major u
would be in helping the ^
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their product for domestic 1 j
sumption."
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merger said the puppeteer's elfin
vision was guaranteed to endure
when combined with Disney's |
marketing magic.
The 90-page lawsuit accuses I
Disney of "outright theft of Jim |
Henson is Trying to bar Disney
"from performing, advertising
merchandising and acting in any I
way that suggests Disney owns
or has any rights to the Mup
pets."
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ing laws and regulations govern [
ing allowable residues of cancer I
causing pesticides permitted!
high levels of some chemicals or
or in foods reaching consumers,
Another 1987 report by tlif|
World Resources InstitutJ
claimed that about 300,C
workers are poisoned withpesti |
cides annually.
In addition, three commu|
nities in the San Joaquin
of California have been declared|
Childhood Cancer Ousters
the state health department.
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