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Show Page 48—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah Wednesday. June 27, 1979 Population Growth Problem Cited WASHINGTON(UPI) — leading U.S. food and population authority savs it is unlikely the earth can sustain a world population of 12 billion which United Nations population experts predict will be reached over the next century Lester Brown president and senior researcher at the nonprofit Worldwatch Institute, says the international community needs to cooperate on a population stabilization timetable that will hold population growth down to billion. “Population growth,”’ Brown said in an interview, ‘‘does not occur in a vacuum." He said current projections of population growth are based on the implicit assumption’ that basic com natural resources are going to be available in the future as they have been in the past. That is the rub Brown said Per capita production from exploitation of those natural biological systems fisheries forests grasslands and crop- land “may have peaked and now are declining The same appears to be true of oil the major component in boosting the production of those In a papercalled “Resource Trends and Population Policy. A Time for Reassessment,” Brown noted that oil suspicious,’’ says Zackery Brown. 27-year-old Texai: is‘onday won 2 Supreme Court reversalof i:is conviction for refusing to identify hinxself to police when they spotted him walking away from another man in an E] Paso Texas, alley. Brown, dressed in blue jeans and a dress shirt, claims he was returning to his job as a legal assistant after noon He wasarrested, jailed for five or six hours and fined $45. need a new approach to economic policy as it relates to the population- production “in several major produc ing countries has already peaked and begun to turn downward” He cited resources question. Traditionally,” he said, “fiscal and monetary policies could be used to con trol inflation but these old remedies are no longer adequate in part because in- flation is now being fueled by mounting population pressures.” Fiscal policy can be used to eliminate excessive public expenditures but it cannot restore a forest or halt the deterioration of cropland due to excessive food demand per capita world earth’s current populationis stretching key commodities to the biological limit the capacity of His view of the decision was echoed He sued and after losing in lower courts, won a Supreme Courtruling by American Civil Liberties Union that a person maynotbe penalized for lawyer Frank Askin whosaid the court refusingtotell police his nameif they had reaffirmed the ‘basic right of stop him without any specific reason Americansto travel free of arbitrary “Monetary policy can be used to slow the rate of economic growth but it can- not save an oceanfisheryif the level of demand exceeds the fishery’s sustainable yield stopping for stspecting wrongdoing The court has not specifically arBrown, who now attends El Paso Community College, said in an inter- ticulatedthisright before, Askin said view Monday, ‘I’m happy that they It a reaffirmation of a right we've decided it for justice, for the better for alwayshad.’ Askin who teaches at the Rutgers all people.” He said he hoped the decision would University law school in Newark, N.J., help minority people because, he said said if the Supreme Court had not reversed Brown's conviction, it would most stops aredirected at blacks and have signaled “the unthinkable — a Hispanics domestic passport system that many countries havebut is alien to our way of life Win at Bridge But the court left open the possibility that a person may be punished for refusing to identify himself ‘‘in the con- Rotten Bidding Lucks Out text of a lawful investigatory stop whichsatisfies Fourth Amendmentrequirements NORTH @Aa | | 6-27 ¥ 1096 os4 PAK QSE4 WEST EAST QJ1063 #875 vA72 ¥KQ843 @AQ62 ess oJ @5 SOUTH oK92 wJ5 @K987 #10973 Vulnerable: Both Dealer: North West North East South 1@ 26 3NT 1¢ 2NT Pass 1@ Pass Pass Pass 2¢ Pass Opening lead: #Q By OSWALD JACOBY AND ALAN SONTAG will perform some feat of magic to br ing home a notrump contract North raises to game. He is looking at seventricks When dummy comes down, South sees that he is almost sure to wind up with just eight tricks, but he is not dismayed. He has been told that anytime a good declarerstarts with eight tricks he can find a ninth. So herises with dummy's ace of spades and rapidly runsoff the six good clubs. His own discards are easy. He chucks a couple of small red cards. Meanwhile, East and Westare having their problems. East does make a heart signal by throwing the eight, but he doesn’t do it soon enough. By the timehe indicates heart strength West has jettisoned a spade and his two small hearts. So South casheshis king of spades, throws West in and makes his ninth trick with the king of diamonds. Oh, yes! Only super perfect defense can hold Westto nine tricks at a spade contract. (NEWSPAPER ets AS(For a copy of SKGOBY. MODERN, send $1 to: ‘‘Win at Bridge,”’ care of this newspaper, P.O. Box 489, Radio A little sunshine falls on the steady City Station, New York, N.Y. 10019.) free bidderfrom timeto time. Here we see him at both his worst and his best. Lightning can be as important His two-notrumpcall shows him at ecologicallyas rainfall or temperature, his worst. He has responded with a the National Geographic Society says. bare seven high-card points and The death of trees struck bylightning balanced distribution. His partner, can meanlife for other things — insects North, has bid one and two clubs. Our and birds dependent on dead trees, as bidder looks at his king of spades and « well as new trees and other valuable decides he wants a lead up to it and growth that replaces dead plants. grassland and The question that hasto be asked,” he said, “is are we over the hill with these commodities? Brown believes governmentofficials Venezuela Libya the United States Canada, Algeria Iraq, and Kuwait world’s population. “If I'm at all close Similar peaks in production, hesaid to the mark "' Brown said ‘‘wehit the can benoted for wood fish beef mut peak of oil production in 1973 ton wool and cereals, suggesting the In other words fisheries. croplands to 4 billion and has been declining as population has moved past the4 billion mark Student Wins Identity Court Suit WASHINGTON (UPI) — ‘When police stop a person and they don’t wantto tell their name, I don’t thinkit should be acrime.. unless he looks its forests necessary for sustaining life peaked as modities such as food oil and other world population moved from billion Askin said the courtleft open exactly how much suspicion police must have in order to stop a person and require identification “It's more than hunch, whim or caprice,”’ Askin said. “but less than probable cause." In other action, the high court Monday upheld the warrantless search of a man whowasarrested under a Detroit ordinance requiring citizens to produce identification when stopped by police who have “reasonable cause” to suspect their behavior. Since the arrest was lawful at the time, the court concluded the search of Gary DeFillipo was valid The court also —Decided a state may, without a prior hearing. suspend the licenses of drunk driving suspects who refuse to let their breath be tested for alcoholif it provides a prompt post-suspension hearing —Struck down a Social Security Act provision permitting unemployed fathers — but not out-of-work mothers -- to receive state-federal welfare benefits ‘Governments that do no not have a policy to stabilize population size are going tofind it necessary to formulate one,” Brown said. “Indeed, the pressure on resources mayhave reached a point where long-term national efforts to cope with inflation will not succeed without a concerted global effort to slam on the demographic brakes." “On balance,” Brown said, world population should be stabilized at around the billion mark even though that would be excessive for someof the key natural resources. But attempting to stabilize at any lower figure would be ‘exceedingly dif- ficult’’ given the large number of young people cominginto their reproductive years. “Adequately supporting even 6 billion people will not be possible without greatly improved management of biological systems, widespread ration ing, stringent energy conservation measures, recycling programs and a more equitable distribution of vital resources such as food land, and petroleum "’ Brown said. In short Brown said it means the formulation of explicit national and international population policies. A lot of countriesencourage family planning,” he said, “‘but China is the only one so far to have national birth planning.’ Hesaid a national birth quota is apparently set each year in Peking as part of the nation’s overall economic planningandatthe locallevel ‘‘production team’’ members. working with the local population, translate the quota into what amounts to a “‘birth permit’’ with encouragementor discourgement based on the age of the couple and the numberoftheir children. Solving the population problem, Brownsaid, will not resolve all of the world’s economic and socialills. “In many cases, however.’ he said, “it is a necessary prerequisite.’” LESTER BROWN,president and senior researcher at the nonprofit WorldwatchInstitute, says it is unlikely the earth can sus- tain a world population of 12 billion which United Nations population experts predict will be reached over the next century. Success of Skull Operation Awaited by Florida Doctors TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) — Doctorssayit will be some time before they know whether an operation reducing the oversized skull of a 6-year-old New Brunswickgirl will be as successful as one they performed two years agoin Gainesville Laurie Montgomery of Flatlands, N.B., underwent a 14-hour operation at Tampa General Hospital June 15 in ‘hich her skull was reduced in size from that of a 35-pound watermelon to near normalsize The young girl suffered from hydrocephalus, a condition in which a tiny pathway which normally drainsoff the fluid that cushions and nourishes the brain, fails to develop. The trapped fluids build up pressures which force the skull to expand to tremendous sizes and usually causes severe retardation. blindness and paralysis But Dr. Jack Maniscalco, a neurosurgeon, and Dr. Mutaz Habal, a plastic surgeon, said Monday Laurie had escaped serious damage to her brain. “She should have been severely men- tally retarded, blind and paralyzed,”’ Maniscalco said. But he said tests conducted prior to the operation indicated she was only “‘slightly retarded’’ with the mentality of a 5-year-old. Maniscalco and Habaldiscussed the operation and the child at a newsconference at the hospital. “She remains unresponsive to our commands,” Maniscalco said. ‘‘We cannottell for sure if she hears us or understands us.’” Alcohol-Powered Auto BRASILIA, Brazil (UPI) — Setting an example for using alternative ener; sources, President Joao Figueiredo becamethefirst chief of state to use an official car that runs on alcohol. In ceremonies at the Planalto Palace Monday, Ford Motor Co. mechanicsturned over to Figueiredo his black Landaulimosine modified to run on alcohol instead of gas. Brazil has launched a program aimed at producing more than 1 million alcohol-powered cars by 1985. HEINZ Ketchup The Absorbent Paper Towel That Keeps on Working Even When Wet. SSS SSS SS SS SS a1 STORE COUPON ActFast! Your hamburger buns are free whenyou buy 44 oz. 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