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It® rd. el to doing all tkfl to keep bust, Id r ’m just happstf' Thursday ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 12:15 p.m. Call 845-5826 for location. ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: will meet at 6 p.m. Call 845-5826 for location. TAMU ROADRUNNERS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 404 Rud der. TAMU CYCLING TEAM: will meet at 7 p.m. in 105 G. Rollie White. CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: will meet at 7 p.m in 200 Heldenfels. STUDENTS FOR SCIENTIFIC CREATIONISM: will meet at 8 p.m. in 607 Rudder. LEBANESE STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p.m in 302 Rudder. ECONOMICS SOCIETY: will meet at 5 p.m. at Interurban. AGGNOG: will meet at 5:30 p.m. for a demonstration on squeezing and archiving files to save diskette space. Friday MANAGEMENT 481: Thomas O’Dwyer of Ling-Oliver-O’D- wyer Electric will speak at 10 a.m. in 114 Blocker. LATTER-DAY SAINT STUDENT ASSOCIATION: Gor don Wright will speak at noon at the LDS Institute on 100 E. Dexter. CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST: will meet at 7 p.m. in 108 HECC. CHI ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: will meet at 7 p.m. in 156 Blocker. UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will meet for a peanut-but ter fellowship at 11:30 a.m. at Rudder Fountain and Bible study at 6:30 p.m. at A&M Presbyterian Church. COMMODORE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP: will meet at 8:15 p.m. in 105 Horticulture Forestry Sciences. AFRICAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will meet at 7 p m. in 402 Rudder. MARRIED STUDENT APARTMENT COUNCIL: will meet at 7 p.m. in the council room next to the garage. STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will conduct an informational seminar on studying in Britain at 10 a.m. in 251 Bizzell West. TAMU BADMINTON CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 351 G. Rollie White. CENTER FOR RETAILING STUDIES: applications for se nior positions are available in the CRS office through Fri day. STUDENT “Y” ASSOCIATION: applications for chairmen are available through Wednesday. CHANCELLOR’S STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD: appli cations are available in the office of the Vice President for Student Services, office of Student Affairs, Student Activ ities office, Corps Commander’s office, MSC Director’s of fice and Student Government office. Applications axe due at 5 p.m. Friday in 110 YMCA Building. MSC SCONA: applications for committee member positions are available in 216E MSC. Applications are due at 5 p.m. Friday. Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days be fore desired publication date. A&M course takes place in Honduras By Kent Hawes Reporter Honduras will be the classroom for a new course offered this sum mer by the agricultural education department. The course will offer a chance for graduate students and faculty mem bers interested in agricultural devel opment to see the agricultural facili ties of foreign countries. Dr. Daniel C. Pfannstiel, profes sor of agricultural development, said that for three weeks students will see agricultural efforts of foreign coun tries while earning three credit hours. After a week of preparation stud ies, the class will fly from Houston to Honduras where it will have a one- week visit of some of Honduras’ ed ucational institutions and agricultu ral-development projects. Pfannstiel said students will get a chance to go out to farms and talk to native farmers as well as get an idea of what the U.S. government, for eign governments and charitable or ganizations are doing to help im prove the agricultural conditions of Honduras. The class is open to students in all majors, although it is tailored to those interested in international ag riculture. Students are given the chance to get “a feel for what they do or don’t want to do as a profession,” Pfannstiel said. Students will be required to keep a diary during their trip to Honduras, he said, and write a paper analyzing the agricultural situation of the country the week after the course. Round-trip air fare for the trip is $313 if nine or more people go, and food and lodging in Honduras will cost about $35 to $55 per day, he said. The trip promises to include a wide range of activities for the stu dent, Pfannstiel said, but he stressed that the class is not a vacation or sightseeing tour. The trip, he said, offers more because it gives students a chance to actually see the kind of life people live in Honduras. The class is listed as AGED 689 — special topics in Field studies in agri cultural development — and will be held from May 18 to June 5. Professor says tariffs will hurt Texas agricultural exports hips law ixed to feel less of is hhier studenij 1 ive a trust fuiiib interest, andii en you could IS 'iirden. ids on one’s ance — so it's he.” vice preside By RaeAnn Warmann Reporter A classic example of the battle ag riculture has to fight concerning trade is the tariff the United States is imposing on Japan, says Dr. Mechel _ Paggi, assistant professor of interna- i; tional trade at the Texas A&M Agri- “1 cultural Experiment Station and Ex- | tension Service. The tariff will be imposed for two | reasons, Paggi says. The United 1 States has accused Japan of selling ; microcomputer chips in third mar kets — those in which the United States and Japan compete — at a price less than that in the U.S. mar ket. In July, the United States met with Japan to address the problem of market access for U.S. computer in thTcri C ^'P S * n J a P an - At that time, the market was 8 percent, and an 1, said thebijjfj 1 i ply be how sin* tney. s a severe imp nts are able» :ation,hesaid. ity will report t ry 1988 tlie! irds valued inK* olarships, felo* rded to studen 1 . 1 ixond and 1 st students sri : statements. he Universii'i? with general: eir scnolarslf 1 ax, and studeiS 1 questions ato ;; ax should lalflij consultant." xicaiii the numbe# s declined stop' ment at 11$ s last fall, of'j :an citizens, sai* ce president t : In 1981,' ghest enroll# its, at 694. It ^ and to 31 t concentratii' its is in bust# 's, and those? of Mexico, Stt agreement was made in which the Japanese would try to expand U.S access to Japanese markets by 20 percent, he says. The current estimate is between 9 percent and 11 percent, so some progress has been made, but not what was envisioned in the July meeting. “As a result of those two prob lems, we have the 100 percent tariff initiative that’s supposed to go into effect April 17,” Paggi says. “And it’s simply that the non-ag sector issues will tend to take precedence over ag riculture issues.” If Japan wants to play a retaliatory game, an easy target would be agri- “There’s a lot of agricultu ral imports in Japan, and there’s a number of sources for those imports. So, it would be easy for them to look other places for those products. ” — Dr. Mechel Paggi, A&M assistant professor of international trade cultural imports, he says. “There’s a lot of agricultural im ports in Japan, and there’s a number of sources for those imports,” Paggi says. “So, it would be easy for them to look other places for those prod ucts.” This is important, since out of $26 billion in agricultural exports last year, $5.1 billion, or about 20 per cent, went to Japan, Paggi explains, making it America’s No. 1 market. “We’re in a period of declining ag ricultural exports and we need all the markets we can get,” he says. Paggi says it’s even more signifi cant when looking at Texas, whose major commodities of cattle, cotton, wheat, soybeans, grain sorghum and rice are the products Japan imports. “Should the Japanese choose to retaliate, and should they choose to retaliate in agricultural commodi ties, U.S. agriculture would be the loser and Texas producers would suffer as bad a blow or worse than most other states because we do pro duce all those things,” Paggi says. This also is an example of what agriculture has to look forward to in the next three or four months, he says, since agricultural interests are negotiating with Congress to de velop a trade bill or bills. “The software industry wants in tellectual property rights,” Paggi says. “It wants to be able to protect those sorts of things. The countries that don’t Want that to occur read like a checklist for the top customers for ag exports. “We stand to lose in arguments over steel, in arguments over auto mobiles and arguments over all the non-agricultural products,” Paggi says. “In those battles we stand to be the losers if we get into a trade war with any of the competitors because it is an easy thing to retaliate.” District judge visits prison unit, looks for improved conditions J RICHMOND (AP) — U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice visited a prison unit Wednesday to get a first-hand look at what the state daims it has done to improve living conditions for disabled convicts. The tour of the Jester III Unit near Richmond in Fort Bend County was part of the state’s rebut tal to testimony presented earlier about conditions for handicapped inmates. The tour concluded a contempt hearing that could cost the state up to $800,500 per day in fines for fail ing to comply with Justice’s orders on prison improvements. Justice declined to talk with re porters Wednesday about his visit. The hearing, which began Mon day in Houston, was to determine whether the state should be ordered to pay any fines for not complying with court orders. Several inmates testifying in Houston complained about lack of medical care and poor working con ditions. Inmate Russell Bonham, who tes tified both in Houston and at an other court hearing in the case last sunjmer, said that some im provements had been made and he hoped that would continue. But Bonham said he believed prison offi cials were just trying to put on a show for the judge. On Dec. 31, the judge found the state in contempt of an agreement to improve prison conditions and gave the state until April 1 to comply or face fines of some $24 million a month. The judge has ordered the state to complete reforms it agreed to as part of the landmark April 1981 decision in what has become known as the Ruiz case, named after former state inmate David Ruiz, who filed a law suit in 1972 alleging poor security and living conditions and “excessive crowding. Donna Brorby, an attorney for the inmates, said Wednesday that al though conditions for handicapped inmates are better, improvements are still needed before the state is in full compliance. “What we learned from this is that if the order has a price tag, the TDC will obey it,” Brorby said. “But it took a pretty huge price tag for the state to become motivated to live up to the orders in the case that are years old.” 268-BEST ■Iruft Beer Pitcher £1.50 Served with Chips & Hot Sauce MTV & Sports in Aggie Room Approved Checks-Credit Cards 3109 Texas Ave. Bryan 823-7470 AGGIE SPRING SPECIAL Colorwatch Professional Qualify at Special Prices Color Enlargements from 35 mm negatives or slides 5x7 8x10 8x12 .890 ea. $1." ea. $1." ea. 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Ten one-hour programs present one of America’s most respected journalists with Supreme Court Justices, historians, educators, scholars, and citizens who have taken petitions of their constitutional rights all the way to the high est court in the land. “The series is about ideas,” Moyers says. t “The people you will meet have spent their lives wrestling with interpretations of the Constitution. They remind us this document is alive in our times...requiring us to make up our minds about what happens if we ignore or misuse it.” General Motors is presenting this series of programs to broaden an appreciation of our Constitution in the belief that the strength of America lies in under standing our freedoms and responsibilities as citizens. Presented on PBS by WNET-New York and WTVS-Detroit. Check local listings for time and channel. A General Motors Mark of Excellence Presentation Call Battalion Classified 845-2611