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Contract totals $14 million
Prairie View aids Liberi
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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.
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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
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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.”
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