The Battalion Thursday, April 18,1991 Page 12 Asthma Study Wanted: Individuals 18-50 years of age with asthma to participate in a short clinical research study involving an investigational medication in capsule form. Pauli Research International® VSzoo 776-0400 SzooV Muppets owner files lawsuit Meet the Players Night First 100 fans will receive FREE KOOZIES compliments of CC CREATIONS! 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 SW TEXAS STATE BETWEEN DOUBLEHEADER: Coaches vs. Athletes Hitting Contest Al Ovens (voteybafl - Diane Robertson Cindy Durham (women's baskelbal) - Jennifer Fasnacht James Green (men's basketball) - Anthony Ware Robert Parker (track Si field)- Steve CoSer Tonight •April 18, 1991 double header 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Lady Aggie Field Continued from page 1 "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. The National Academy of Sci- MSC Jordan Institute for International Awareness Presentations Of Study and Travel Abroad by Jordan Fellows Cathy RentZ: Scotland and Ireland-7:00 p.m Kail DeRouen: Caribbean-7:30 p.m. Dan HofQrOVQ: Mexican trade agreements-8:00 p.m 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 9 Clinique bonus time! Clear Tomorrow is your gift with any Clinique purchase of 12.00 or more Come in today and select anything Clinique for 12.00 or more, and these six ways to a beautiful, new tomorrow go home with you, too. 7 Day Scrub Cream is an esssential polisher to smooth skin, soften lines, clear pores. Clarifying Lotion 2 clears away surface cell debris and uncovers a fresh glow daily. Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion, an everyday drink for skin’s better tomor row. 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"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 mhances the inters SHOP DILLARD’S MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY 10-9; SUNDAY 12-6; POST OAK MALL, HARVEY ROAD AT HIGHWAY 6 BYPASS. COLLEGE STATION. DILLARD'S AND ALL MAJOR CREDIT CARDS WELCOME. '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 ^ can cattle industry by map 10 ' | their product for domestic 1 j sumption." cTXs 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." Vol. 90 Iv ences reported in 1987 that exist I 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. The Committee for the Aware J ness of Mexican American Cul j ture, MSC Great Issues and MS(| Political Forum sponsored tk| presentation. A delega education 1 derstandin sible joint ' ment traini to reality. The sign effort to p between tr Center for