Nestle Products Are Banned by FS A $32 000 Debt Vendors Asked Is Also Revealed To Follow Suit By John Burkhardt The Board of Directors of the Faculty Student Association (FSA) unanim- A report on the Faculty Student Asso- ously endorsed a boycott of Nestle pro- (FSA) finances, discussed at ciation's ducts in all businesses and vending of Director's meeting Wed- the Board machines Wednesday because of find- found that at the end of January nesday, ings that Nestle is selling dangerous $32,000 poorer than it was at FSA was products in Third World countries. time last year, FSA President the same Though the board endorsed a boycott said. Rich Bentley os all of Nestle and Nestle Subsidiaries' said that most FSA opera- Bentley products, the resolution is non-binding had fixed costs that continued over tions because FSA has sub-contractors run- and since it continued for intersession, ning most of its businesses, and cannot all of January, they lost $25,000, "the simply add conditions in the middle of we've ever seen." Last year, Ben- largest the contract period, FSA President FSA lost $15,000 in Jan- tley esplained, Rich Bentley said. uary. FSA also lost about $30,000 running the End of the Bridge Restau- The only campus business directly rant in the Stony Brook Union. affected by the decision to ban Nestle is They had hoped to break even on it by the FSA-operated Main Desk in the the end of this year, "and that no longer Stony Brook Union. About 20 percent of seems possible," said Larry Roher, their annual sales, which are about FSA's director of operations. ,$100,000 are Nestle. Bentley explained There were two suggestions on how to that the consession will stop buying Nes- handle the funding; to either raise pri- tle products, allowing their current ces or cut back services. The cost of stock to sell out. using laundry machines went up from Bentley said that FSA will send let- 35 cents to 50 cents in January because ters recommending that the vendors - the subcontractor requested an who must negotiate with FSA to put the increase; Bentley said FSA could not machines on campus - also discontinue make too many other price hikes or they selling Nestle products. would simply discourage business, and However, FSA's lawyer Joseph Atto- the idea was soon dropped. But there nito, said a similar resolution was once was more discussion, and some dis- passed - "I think it was seven or eight agreement about where services should years ago," - and that most of the con- be cut back. tractors agreed. Attonito said contractors often agree Bentley suggested that the Whitman can write to con- FSA President Rich Bentley said the banning to suggestions. "You and James pubs both are used very of Nestle products in non-binding because tractors and say that FSA, with whom heavily most of the week, but draw little FSA has sub-contractors running most of its you have a contract, and you don't say business on Sundays and Mondays, so businesses and cannot simply add condi- but you imply very heavily, whose good that FSA could save money without sig- tions in the midst of a contract period. will you need when it's time to renew nificantly cutting services if they closed that contract," requested something them one night or the other. Polity Pres- Attonito said. However, he added, that ident Jim Fuccio argued that they FSA wouldn't force it on anyone, and should instead cut back on The End of many people this year from last. By con- that in any case, contractors would find the Bridge, since it lost $30,000 while trast, he said, in spite of promotions and it easy to use competitors' products the pubs lost a total of about $11,000. advertising, they were unable to make instead of Nestle's. But Bentley and Roher responded that the pubs profitable on Sundays and The Polity Senate endorsed a boycott much of the loss at The End of The Mondays. He also said that The end of late last semester and requested that Bridge actually involved investment, The Bridge was a large, expensive Polity President Jim Fuccio propose the not loss. Bentley said about $12,000 was establishment to run, and it could only boycott to the FSA board. spent on improving the establishment be made profitable by investing in its Commuter Senator Mike Kornfeld by renovating and buying new equip- operations and drawing more business. brought the issue before the senate, ment, for example, and that they had The board did not vote on wherf to cut (continued on page 13) succeeded in drawing roughly twice as back. - S~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I Two Controller's Proposals To Audit University Refunds Are Dropped - -Page 5 - ReaganWashingtonReagan~0 Attacked (AP) - The for Disarming Ui In announcing last October that his Washington (AP) - The Reagan of the Titans was justified by safety con- Retiring them before four years before the MX is ready "seems to me not administration would build the MX. administration was accused yesterday siderations and projected savings of President Reagan said the first 100 of The Titans a very sound argument if we are con- of "unilaterally disarming"' the United $500 million over five years. the new missiles would be put spills cerned about the window of vulnerabil- in "super- States in retiring long-range Titan mis- have been plagued by accidental hardened" Titan and Minuteman of toxic fuel, including two fatal acci- ity," Exxon said. silos siles before new, multiple-warhead MX reinforced against unclear blasts. mobile missiles are employed in 1986. dents near Rock, Kans., and Damascus, "What we are doing is unilaterally disarming" while "the Soviet Union is Gen. Lew Alien, the Air Force chief of Ark. Reagan said the aiming about 12 additional warheads a program, part of his staff, conceded under questioning at a defense buildup, would narrow the Senate hearing that retirement of the Sen. J. J. Exon, (D-Neb.) said the month at us or our allies," he said. "And this administration is recommending to "window of vulnerability," a term used aging Titans starting this October Titans' huge single warheads account to describe what some experts see as would shift the nuclear balance, at least for about one-third of the megatonnage, save a pittance compared with the $216 billion budget" it wants for the Defense period of Soviet nuclear arms superior- temporarily, "in the wrong direction." or explosive power in the U. S. nuclear ity over the United States. Alien, however, said early retirement arsenal. Department in fiscal 1983. - -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~m -Newvs-- n^^olVnb DiWest -Stale and Loenl --- -International they did yesterday. There have been rumors of possi- ble anti-martial law protests this weekend, and offi- Peking - China yesterday accused Vietnam of cials in Gdanski, the Baltic port where Solidarity was deceitfully proposing a lunar New Year cease-fire born, said they have warned students and workers New York - A 25-year-old woman was in stable along their disputed border last month, then launch- against being provoked into demonstrations. Ccondition yesterday after a man raped her and then ing an attack that killed several Chinese civilians. stabbed her in the abdomen, killing her 6-month-old The Chinese Foreign Ministry sent a strong note to fetus, when she told him she was pregnant. the Vietnarrmese Embassy here protesting the 'continu- X -National The woman told police she was on her way home at ous encroachment on Chinese territory and killing and about 1:15 AM when she summoned what she thought wounding innocent border inhabitants and border Washington,D.C. - Rep. Shirley Chisholm, who was a gypsy cab near Westchester Avenue and Fox guards." came to Congress as an unspoken maverick 13 years jStreet in the Bronx. It said the Vietnamese would be responsible for the go, said yesterday she now finds the job "tedious and The driver of the dark sedan drove the woman 20 consequences if the border provocations, continued. frustrating" and will not run for re-election. Iblocks to Boston Road and Wilkins Avenue, where he For years, both countries have accused each other of "It has become increasingly difficult to carry the ordered her to undress, she said, and then raped border provocations. her. tragic messages back from Washington to the jobless, He then produced a knife, asked In February 1979, China invaded Vietnam with her if she was preg- homeless and hopeless Brooklynites," the New York nant, and stabbed her when she answered 600.000 troops in what it termed a "defensive counter- in the affir- Democrat said in a written statement. Chisholm, 57, mative. The woman cried out, "Oh, attack." China has promised todo it again if necessary, please, my baby! the first black woman ever to win a seat in the House of My baby!" and was stabbed but most military experts here think China suffered in the hand as she tried to Representatives, became known nationally for her prevent the man from serious losses during the invasion and is not likely to stabbing her a second time, fiery speeches and her 1972 campaign for the police said. She try again in the near future. then was shoved, naked, into the street, ** ** presidency. where she yelled to passersby for help. * * *. One person was almost run over when he tried to stop Beirut, Lebanon - Iran celebrated the third anni- the attacker from driving away, police said. The pas- versary of its revolution yesterday with Ayatollah Palatka, Fla. - A 36-year-old Wyoming prison paro- sersby managed to flag a car, and they rushed the Ruhollah Khomeini calling for increased vigilance and lee who has led police to the bodiesof three hitchhikers bleeding woman to Bronx Lebanon Hospital, where leftist guerrillas predicting the downfall of his regime.