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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 1981
A&M international students featured in TV series
By LAURA LARSON
Battalion Reporter
“Beyond Our Borders,” a TV
program taped at KAMU-TV with
the cooperation of the Texas A&M
International Student Association
ill feature several Texas A&M
International students.
The 10-week series was created
’in an attempt to give Americans
nsight to different cultures.
“Very few Americans know
nything about cultures besides
their own, ” Ruth Bomar, program
producer-director, said. “If we
understood other cultures and
how their people think, I believe
it would help international under
standing and be reflected in our
foreign policy.”
Each part of the series features a
different country which was
selected by the ISA. However,
the programs focus on the fact that
the individuals are citizens of their
country, rather than students at
Texas A&M.
There are between 1700 and
1800 foreign students Trom about
85 countries attending the Uni
versity, Geraldo Alves do O, ISA
president said. Alves do O is a
graduate student in Agricultural
Economics from Brazil.
He said the countries featured
in the series were chosen because
they each have more than 15 stu
dents in their organization. Fif
teen is the minimum number that
a group of students from a particu
lar country can have to form a
club.
The selection also was based on
regional location, he said. The
series covers the Americas, Africa,
the Middle East and Asia. Euro
pean countries are not repre
sented because there aren’t
enough students from a European
country to form a club.
Taping for “Beyond the Bor
ders” began in mid-July and was
completed the first week of Au
gust, Bomar said. About 50 Texas
A&M students are featured in the
programs.
The format for each country in
cludes a presentation of an art
form, a custom, tradition or
music, a food dish typical of that
country, a discussion on current
political trends and a historical re
view or geographical representa
tion.
Initial plans for the series in
cluded 12 countries, Alves do O
said, but two that were chosen
dropped from the roster for poli
tical reasons.
He said ISA appreciates
KAMU-TV for developing the
shows because “they help open a
window for Americans about other
countries and show that there is
some understanding between
them.”
ISA promotes cultural, social
and political activities and spon
sors seminars to help narrow gaps
between foreign students and
Americans, Alves do O said.
Featured in order of their
appearance will be India, Vene
zuela, the Republic of China
(Taiwan), Palestine, South Korea,
Nigeria, Mexico, Lebanon, Tan
zania and El Salvador. The prog
rams will air on Wednesdays at 7
p.m. and Saturdays at 3 p.m.
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DALLAS — For the out-of-
;owner, Big D comes on like an
musement park, and now there’s
fitting ride to take you from one
ittraction to another.
Conceived on a typically Texan
ild hair by writer Kirk Dooley
nd banker DeWitt Ray, the Texas
axi limousine service gives the
raveler a taste of the mobile good
- Texas style — in a white
adillac convertible with lon-
orns on the hood, Texas flags
uttering from the fenders, and
me Star longnecks in the fridge.
“It’s really a grand sight to see
the whole three-car fleet coming
down the street at once,” said Ray,
26.
But to hear Ray tell it, it’s hard
to say who has more fun — the
driver or the passenger.
Since Texas Taxi opened May
3, Ray and Dooley have chaf-
feured Larry Hagman, Linda
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Gray, and others from the “Dal
las” television show cast, plus such
luminaries as Bill Cosby and Joel
Grey. But you don’t have to be a
celebrity.
Ray said there’s something ab
out the taxi that invites clients to
be as expansive as Texas itself,
concocting bizarre displays of
affluence of the kind that makes
the state famous.
“There was the time we chaf-
feured for the Screen Door Open,
a golf tournament that brought
together 24 people from all over
the world,” Ray recalled. “We
picked them up early Saturday
morning and took them to the
Reunion Tower, where they took
helicopters to the Tenison Memo
rial Golf Course.
“We were supposed to pick
them up at the 18th green, but
when they got there they all
started loading their golf bags into
the cars, and we became the offi
cial caddys for the rest of the
course.
Ray says some of his best times
have been when Larry Hagman is
in town, ever since the time he
took Hagman down to Adair’s, an
authentic West Texas honky-tonk
transplanted in the heart of Dallas’
arty Oak Lawn district. Ray says
Hagman pronounced the Texas
Taxi crew “the craziest people I’ve
met in Texas.”
“We worked with him and Lin
da Gray once, taking them over to
Fort Worth to see Joel Grey and
Liza Minelli,” he recalls. “We
wound up taking Joel Grey over
to Billy Bob’s (billed as the
world’s biggest honky tonk).
“Liza didn’t get to go, but as we
pulled away she was laughing so
hard she was in tears, because this
is exactly the kind of thing you’d
expect J.R. to do.”
The experience aside, Ray said
the taxi service — at $50 an hour
with a two-hour minimum — is on
the verge of breaking even, a cou
ple of months ahead of schedule.
But it’s hard to see Texas Taxi as
just another business.
Port of Houston Authority
seeks foreign trade zone
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different folks”
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HOUSTON — The Port of
Houston Authority plans to seek a
oreign trade zone for the port
hich a spokesman said would sti-
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make an application for the trade
zone, but Horne said it would be
at least six months before it could
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Foreign trade zones are not
usually utilized by consumers, but
used by manufacturers. Home
said.
The application will be for
warded to the Foreign Trade Zone
Board in Washington, D.C.,
which is made up of the Secretar
ies of Commerce, Treasury and
the Army, Home said.
Presently, there are about 60
foreign trade zones in the country,
although only about half of them
are active, Home said.
At least 24 local companies had
expressed an interest in a foreign
trade zone operated by the Port of
Houston. Home said the board
has not determined a site for the
trade zone, but it will be some
where in Harris County.
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