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[ Economic council is “more powerful and cohesive” than the UN - Kevin Leydon Kevin Leydon Photo *» D*nnis Hickok EEC estimates 5 percent alternative energy usage By KENT KULLBY Of the Emerald Future world prosperity will re quire international economic cooperation and alliance, said Kevin Leydon, a bureaucrat of the European Economic Community (EEC), to Prof. Thomas Hovet’s International Relations class T uesday. The EEC is an international political/economic organization, which deals with common economic concerns. It has nine members — France, West Ger many, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Holland and Denmark. “The organization is more pow erful and cohesive than the United Nations, but it is not a confedera tion,” said Leydon. The EEC was created because the steel and coal industries needed to reorganize after World War II. “It was an international problem that required international coop eration to solve,” Leydon said. In recent years the EEC has ex panded. Today unemployment and energy are its chief concerns. According to Leydon, energy needs will be primarily met by coal and oil, while “optimists of the EEC see alternative energy re sources contributing only 5 per cent. “The EEC understands the im portance Carter places on energy,” Leydon said. "A major problem of the future is who gets the oil.” “While the U.S. is taking a large amount of oil, it is the weaker na tion who must pay the bill of less energy,” said Leydon. He be lieves international limits will be imposed on oil imports in the fu ture. Leydon said one controversy within the EEC is French-Socialist encouragement of national indus trial development while com munist elements support regional development. The EEC is working on “bring ing in more Mediterranean and less-developed nations into the organization,” Leydon said. But this ‘‘will mean putting money into areas where money could have been put elsewhere,” he said. The organization of the EEC has legislative and judicial branches. The legislative branch is made up of a council of Minis ters with representatives of each member nation. The council legis lates on issues recommended to them by the Parliament, which is made up of various political groups that decide upon the is sues and concerns of the EEC. The judicial branch “is a treaty-determined organization,” Leydon said. To explain the judi cial branch’s power Leydon cited an American banana corporation that was fined one million dollars for “trying to rig prices.” The purpose of EEC is “to in sure economic security and de velopment among the interna tional community,” said Leydon. “The U.S. (and EEC) must move together cooperatively to insure the prosperity of the fu ture.” he said. Senate eyes course evaluations Motions concerning faculty course evaluations, the museum of art council and two new joint education degrees will be consi dered at today’s 3:30 p.m. Univer sity Senate meeting in Room 229 Law School. English professors Paul Holbo and Stanley Greenfield are pre senting a rather complex motion that would amend present Univer sity legislation pertaining to faculty course evaluation questionnaires. A second motion would estab lish an advisory committee to the museum of art council beginning fall term, 1978. The committee would promote the educational and research ac tivities of the museum and advise the museum director of general program policies. The College of Education will present two new doctoral pro grams and .request approval for of fering them jointly with Portland State University and Oregon State University. The senate will discuss these motions and make recommenda tions to the University Assembly which will act on them next week. Pulsar (Continued from Page 1A) Throuyh their research, Racine and Yao have found that people can be exposed to microwave radiation from such ordinary sources as television sets and the obvious, microwave ovens. Purchasing a Pulsar screen could stop all that, Racine says. “All TVs and all microwave ovens expose people to mi crowave everyday,” he says. "But with a pulsar screen they can be protected.” The screens range in size from the personal model to be worn on clothing (about $30) to larger models that can protect entire houses (no price estimate availa ble). Part of their research, Racine admits, is to establish possible markets for the Pulsar screen. Eugene would be a prime market because the Pulsar screen is able to stop errant radio waves as well as all other forms of microwave radiation, he says. Had the workers in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow had Pulsar screens, they could have escaped the effects of microwave radiation exposure from Soviet spying de vices, Racine says. Although the EPA discounts the claims that Eugene’s mysterious radio wave is hazardous, Racine doesn’t believe its findings. “The government is only pro tecting themselves,”,he says. “They’ve already okayed TVs and microwave ovens, so how would it look if they said these things were suddenly dangerous?” The EPA may not be telling the truth, but the only interest the gov ernment has in the new Pulsar screen is to keep it "under wraps,” Racine says. ‘‘They don’t want them sold,” he says. “They just want them for government use and that’s all." While Racine and Yao say they have found the answer to mi crowave radiation exposure, sev eral members of the University’s science department may disag ree. 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