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AGGNOG: will meet at 5:30 p.m. for a demonstration on
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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
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E. Dexter.
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108 HECC.
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p.m. in 156 Blocker.
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study at 6:30 p.m. at A&M Presbyterian Church.
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in 402 Rudder.
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West.
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Rollie White.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.”
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