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University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 13, 1990
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StarKist agrees to dolphin-free tuna
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Stark Kait said yesterday it would no longer buy or sell tuna captured along with dolphins, winning strong praise from environmentalists who have sought to protect dolphins from fishing nets.
Environmentalists and lawmakers said they hoped the move would save some of the estimated 200,000 dolphins that die annually in the huge driftnets used to catch schools of tuna.
tuna caught in association with delphins," said Anthony J.F. O'Reilly, president of the H.J. Heinz Co., which owns the StarKist Seafood Co.
"StarKist will sell only dolphin-free tuna," he said at a news conference.
"StarKist will not purchase any
'StarKist will not purchase any tuna caught in association with dolphins. StarKist will sell only dolphin-free tuna.'
Anthony J.F. O'Reilly president of H.J. Heinz Co.
The change could cost consumers a couple or more cents per can, O'Reilly said. He said he hoped that sales would increase with the rise in demand and the increased costs would be compensated by increased volume.
StarKist, the world's largest tuna canner, has a 35 percent share of the U.S. tuna market.
announcement one of the biggest steps that could be taken in order to preserve dolphins in the Eastern Tropical Pacific in the last 20 to 30 years.
Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., who is
sponsoring legislation to require canners to label tuna caught by nets that ensnare dolphins, said the announcement made StarKist both the largest and most enlightened tuna canner in the world.
Keith Hauge, StarKist president, said the company would require its suppliers to have observers on their vessels to certify that the driftnets are not being used.
Experts say about 10 percent of the world's tuna is caught in nets.
Service in Soviet army ruled illegal by Estonia
MOSCOW — The 'Estonian parliament has declared service in the Soviet army illegal and has called on President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to begin immediate talks concerning the Baltic republic's independence, Soviet media reported yesterday.
The Associated Press
Estonia's new law on conscription states that service by residents of Estonia in the U.S.S.R. armed forces and others is not permitted in criminal penalties for draft-dodgers.
The parliamentary move, accompanied by a strident letter to Gorbachev, stepped up the push for independence in the small republic of 1.6 million residents. Estonia has made clear that it intends to follow neighboring Lithuania in seceding from the Soviet Union but more cautiously.
Mart Tarmot, an Estonian Popular Front activist, said yesterday that the law's passage had evoked no particularly loud public reaction.
The law concerning the draft raised the prospect of new tensions. When Lithuania's legislature passed a similar measure last month, theJECTed its legality and ordered the army to detain deserters anyway.
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"Everybody was expecting it. It was necessary to start sometime and first step," he said in a telephone interview from Estonia's capital Tallinn.
ISRAELI UNREST: Police fired tear gas yesterday to end a Christian protest over a Jewish settlement and fought Palestinian stone-throwers as foreign tourists visiting the city for Easter tried to avoid the violence.
The street battles with young Arabs occurred in Jerusalem's Old City near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher as thousands of tourists were visiting this Biblical setting for Easter celebrations.
The protest by Christian clerics focused on a nearby settlement of 150 Jews in the Arab Christian quarter. The Jerusalem magistrate's court, responding to a lawsuit by the Greek Orthodox Church, ruled late yesterday the settlers must leave.
HIGH-TECH PROPOSAL! The Bush administration is preparing a proposal to ease restrictions on sales of high-technology items to the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe, but the changes likely will not go far enough to satisfy Western allies.
Commerce Undersecretary Dennis Klosse, who supervises export control activities, said Wednesday there was growing agreement in the administration over the actions needed to provide Western technology to the struggling economies of Poland, Hungary and other former communist bloc countries.
X-RAY QUESTIONS: Doctors' decisions to give tests or take X-rays depend in part on how much money they make on them, according to a study released yesterday.
AIDS DRUG SUCCESS: An experimental AIDS drug injected into two pregnant monkeys reached their fetuses, raising hope that it might block a virus infection of human babies by their mothers, scientists said today.
If used early enough in pregnancy, it might ward off perinatal AIDS infection, said study co-author Daniel Capon of Genentech Inc. of South San Francisco.
The research supports the widely held but hard to document idea that doctors' own financial interests play a role in determining the kind and amount of care they give their patients.
PRESIDENTIAL PROFITS: A better-paying job and a healthy return on investments helped President Bush and his wife, Barbara, pull in income of $456,780 last year, on which they paid $101,382 in taxes.
A copy of the first couple's joint 1989 return, released Thursday by the White House, showed that the Bushes paid taxes equivalent to 22.2 percent of their total income.
Customs seizes warhead pieces
The Associated Press
LONDON — Customs officers seized a huge forged steel tube ordered by Iraq after military experts determined yesterday that it could be used to build a gun capable of hurling nuclear or chemical warheads hundreds of miles.
Iraq tried the accusation, and the British manufacturer said the tube would blow up if it were used as a gun barrel.
Arms experts say a gun with a barrel the size of the tube seized by Customs, 131 feet long with a 39-inch bore, could fire artillery shells as far as Tehran or Tel Aviv, each within 350 miles of Iraq's borders.
"There is no question it could be used as a barrel of a large artillery gun to fire a projectile of some considerable size. It is definitely subject to export licensing controls," said Douglas Tweedd, head of the Customs and Excise Office.
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