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Show Page 30—-THE HERALD, P 0, Utah Sunday, November28, 1! 97 Taiwan GoesIt Alone — For Now By APRIL PRATT Idahs Official Pleased With Court Decision BOISE (UPI) — Idaho Attor- ney General W. Anthony Park has voiced approval that the United States Supreme Co ruled unconstitutional an law giving men preference over womenin administrating es- tates. The high court handed down the decision Mondayin the case of Sally Reed of Boise. It is considered a landmark case in the field of equal rights for women, “Even though the U.S Supreme Court overturned a statute of the state of Idaho I mustsaythat I’m verypleased bythe decision,” Park said. 70s today and iew has not been ‘Several months ago the Supreme Court wrote and asked this office if we wished to parTIME HAS NOT resident ned visit to lina, he still is y onto the diehard Chiang’s followers since they lost the civil war Even the Chinese on the mainlard respect Chiang Kai-shek,” Lee says. “They don't like Mao." Like Lee, most of the Nationalists’ leaders publicly argue their current time of troubles is a passing phase. This smacks of whistling in the dark but Chiang's gov- ernment does haveonetangible thing going sound economy for it: a American aid totaling $1.5 billion, coupled with effective use of that aid. has given Taiwan one of the TEMPERED the Chiajangs and the ag % generation that fled aiwan, even within the from the mainland with them. But younger elements on Nationalist government, see changes coming, soundest economies in Asia with average take-home pay the third highest for the con- tinent. Even here Though production levels are still foreign Japan, after As for the long run, many of the most determined Nationalists admit privately that one day the island will probably become part of the Peking People’s Republic They envision a gradual the United States Taiwan's sec cause for concern. rising, “I refused to enter an appearancesince I did not think sources of capital and raw materials Even investment dropped nearly 40 per cent during the first six months of this year and some local businessmen are transferring their capital out of the country, too. ond leading trade partner, is showing signs of drifting away As if this general malaise sition over 10 to 20 years as the old Nationalists lead- weren't enough, the Nation- ers fall by the wayside and alists are confronted with a contact between the mainland and the island in- newlyactive student popula: tion that is challenging the doctrinaire anti-Communist wan event- beliefs that rule here. The government contends that this year’s growth rate will still hit 10 per cent but what businessmen are wor. ried about is next year They're worried Peking wll try to isolate Taiwan economically by cutting off its of oe despite external pres: ing up as a province mainland China with somespecial status. s, the generation gap NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) and the long-standing con- (April Pratt is the Taipei flict between thenative-born Taiwanese and the National ist Chinese, most observers do not expect any drastic correspondent for Westing: house Broadc casting Com pany's “Group W” chain of radio stations. ) changes in the short run By FDA Sperm WhaleFor Pet Food Rejected — catch is believed to be one of Spurred by anxious pet lovers the last commercial shipments and conservationists, the Food of sperm whale meatallowed and Drug Administration into the United States. Effec(FDA) has rejected a pet food tive Dec. 2, all such imports company’s tentative plans to are barred exceptfor scientific feed sperm whale meat to dogs purposes. Kal Kan officials said they andcats, The problem now for the bought the meat more than a FDA and the company, Kal year and a half ago from Kan Foods of Los Angeles, is Japanese fishermen. “It’s a how to get rid of more ‘han 1 particular type of whale meat, million pounds of frozen sperm real black, and we didn’t have whale meat, now on ice at a any use for it,” a Kal Kan spokesman said in a telephone Vernon, Calif., warehouse. The FDA formally seized the interview. “But we thought we whale meat last week on sy have use for it eventualoan it contained excess "Meantime, however, excess Thasperm whale was de- mercury in tuna and swordfish clared an endangered species in was declared hazardous by th December by the Anterior FDA. Herbert Friedlander, a Department, and Kal Kan’s case chief in the FDA’s Bureau WASHINGTON (UPI) of Vetinary Medicine, said letters poured in from pet lovers fearing that fish barred from human food because of mercury contamination would be quietly mixed into pet foods. Conservationists alsc wrote in, Friedlander said, urging the FDA to discourage whale imports prior to the ban lest the creatures becomeextinct. “Pet lovers are a pretty powerful group in this country,” Friedlander said. “We decided we would look into it. We found this shipment, perhaps the last permitted into this country under the Vanishing Species Act.”” The FDA tested the meat, found mercury content above = limit of 0.5 parts per ticipate in the case in support of the statute,” he said million, and seized it. The FDA’s mercurylimit applies to food for pets as well as humans. The Kal Kan spokesmansaid the firm was trying to sell the meat, but would not say to whom or for what. Earl E. 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