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i Page 6 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1979 gJVfngattil? •ITui Answer The Best Pizza in Town (Honest) to a^izza^ljover's ^Prayer LIVE MUSIC — Fri., Sat., Sun. playing your songs by request. Our Place in University Square College Station 046-4b09 HAPPY HOUR - BEER & WINE 2-4-1 Mon.-Fri. 4:30-6:00 p.m. Our new place 2401 Texas Ave. Bryan 779-2431 Hey Kids! Have your birthday party at Mr. Gatti’s ... free cokes! Contract totals $14 million Prairie View aids Liberi a Attention Students: By RICHARD OLIVER Batallion Reporter Prairie View A&M University and the Booker T. Washington Institute in Kataka, Liberia, have signed a $14 million, five-year contract to re structure the secondary vocational training program at the institute. Prairie View A&M President A. I. Thomas and four Prairie View staff members traveled to Liberia to coordinate the agreement, which was signed April 4. The contract provides for Prairie View A&M to assist in changing the institute’s four-year high school program to a three-year vocational training program. Prairie View A&M has been as sociated with the Institute since 1954, when a three-year, $1.6 mil lion contract was signed between the Republic of Liberia, the Inter national Cooperative Administra tion and Prairie View A&M. The contract was designed mainly to train prospective institute teachers in vocational skills, im prove the economic condition of the people of Liberia and stimulate a broader base for commercial trad- MSC Town Hall is in the process of conducting a random survey of 2,000 Texas A&M University students. ISeries] tall mg. [fVesentation lAJ Nearly $5.5 million of the funding for the new project is being provided by the Agency for Interna tional Development in Washington, D.C. (an offshoot of the Interna tional Cooperative Administration), and the remaining $8.6 million is being provided by the Liberian government. Dr. Ivory V. Nelson, vice- president for research and special programs at Prairie View A&M, was optimistic about the pact. “This program will serve as an ex tension of Prairie View A&M on an international basis,” he said. “We’ll have eight of our professionals there to coordinate the restructuring and provide short-term consultants for the various areas. I’m very excited and proud of it.” Nelson said the change from a four-year program to a three-year program was a matter of necessity for Liberia. “They (Liberians) need to get students straight from school to the labor market,” he said. “We are there to help them do this and provide some technical expertise. Some of our staff will be over there to instruct and we will bring some of their staff over here to learn. ” Nelson said the grant is one of the largest of its kind. It is the largest grant of its kind ever given by the Agency to a predominantly black university. He also said thePij View A&M staff members to the Institute will report Junf| NRC voluntarily releases reports United Press International WASHINGTON — Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Joseph Hendrie has decided to avoid a subpoena and turn over transcripts of secret agency sessions on the accident at the Three Mile Island atomic power plant, congres sional aides said Wednesday. A House government operations subcommittee on energy voted 6-2 Tuesday to authorize a subpoena for Hendrie to produce the transcripts of nine secret commission meetings since the March 28 Pennsylvania nuclear plant accident. An aide to panel chairman Toby Moffett, D-Conn., said Hendrie late Tuesday called the congressman and agreed to submit the transcripts as The results of the survey will be presented to the Town Hall selection committee, which consists of three faculty members and fifteen students, that represent a cross sec tion of campus (twelve students are non Town Hall members). The feedback from the survey and the selec tion committee will help Town Hall determine student entertainment preferences for the 1979-80 Town Hall season. If you receive one of these survey forms in the mail please fill it out completely and mail it back in promptly, so that we can begin our booking process for next year as soon as possible. Thank you for your coop eration. MSC Town Hall Find out what everybody is looking for under piles of whipped cream in the they become available, ma: portions the commission feelsu to be kept secret. Moffett indicated his pan which has authority to inveslji the efficiency of such govern agencies as the NRC, wouldbeij the fourth congressional comm! to probe the accident. A Senate environment sulxi mittee opened formal heart Tuesday, and its House countei will do so when the immediateo dies down. A third panel, (he nate health subcommittee, hai ready heard testimony on thele effects of the accident. Moffett said his panel w know why the agency held meetings and why the NRCded not to close eight reactors simili the one at Three Mile Island. Rep. Floyd Fithian, D-Ind, voted against the subpi suggested the committee seen as “trying to fish in ma waters for a sensation of the ment,” and that it certainly« be after the Easter recess to see the N RC provides voluntarily Moffett said, “We have noiii tion of rushing in and dartingil into the nuclear issue withouti our homework.” Johnson contest. c c Bluer than Blue * HATE DOING £ LAUNDRY? Let Frarvnie's do it for you £ Aunt Frannies ■¥■ Laundromat ^Holleman at Anderson 693-6S When: Monday, April 16 11:30-12:30 Where: MSC Fountain Area IServsl ball [fVesentaUxi ZiU THE BAIT DOES IT DAILY Any student who does not receive a survey and is interested in filling one out may do so in Room 216 of the MSC. Prizes Include free reserve tickets, free dinners and more. Monday through Friday