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Riu on di learn Reed and permits underprivileged youths to participate in a summer camp atmosphere in four-week sessions. One day in each of the tw sessions is spent touring the A&M campus. The camp is free. penis ^ AD open i teams International students visit A&N as part of ‘Youth in Agriculture nl, of peiloi specia las M< pvatt Six FI ■ys. Dm dr ill u teams struen By Rosaline Aguirre Reporter Students from 22 countries spent five days at Texas A&M to prepare for the hands-on experience they will receive next week when they visit host families in Iowa and Wis consin. The students’ visit to A&M is part of the “Youth in Agriculture” ex change student program, and the students were hosted by the Depart ment of Agricultural Education. The program has given the visit ing students a chance to not only learn more about agriculture, but also to learn more about each other. Yinka Williams, a Nigerian ex change student, says the cause of to day’s world problems is quite simple. “I think the problems the world has now are basically due to the ig norance of what exists from one continent to another,” Williams distributes information about the United States to foreign countries. ' For those students who don’t speak English, the USIA provides interpreters. Many are working on their mas ter’s degrees and doctorates and plan to apply the information they gather for educational and profes sional purposes in the agricultural area. Jim Sedlacek, of the Department of Agricultural Education, says the purpose of the five-day seminar was to provide students with informa tion about U.S. agriculture and cul ture. “Our role in the exchange pro gram is to be an orientation which will give an awareness and back ground about U.S. agriculture and its economic and political issues,” Sedlacek says. says. Williams is one of the 29 foreign students in the program that is sponsored by the National Future Farmers of America and funded by the United States Information Agency. The USIA is a federal agency that “I want the students to leave here with more questions than answers, because if they don’t, it means that they haven’t thought about a lot of things or grasped the entire situa tion,” he says. “There are no easy answers since the United States is such a diverse country.” Agricultural education professors and graduate students gave semi nars on topics which included rural life in the United States, agricultural marketing and policy and other ag ricultural issues on the international and domestic levels. The Department of Animal Sci ence gave tours of University facili ties such as the meat science and technology center, horse center, sheep center, poultry center and da iry center. In several of these facilities the students had the opportunity to participate in various activities, such as meat processing and milking pro cedures. The students also toured Gra nada Corp., a genetic engineering facility located at the Research Park, and Texas A&M University at Prai rie View. One student from the Nether lands was interested in the Granada facility and says that although Hol land has genetic engineering, he had never seen it. Theresa Schumacher, the Na tional FFA program director, says the tours and seminars offered were first-time experiences for many of the students. “Many of the things that I took for granted, like a feed grinderfoiBbiackg cattle, many of the students WHirrei never seen,” she says. jwann- "One girl from India said thatthf| Eac people in her country still did mat at ship things by hand," she says. fcamp. “It’s so hard to believe that i| Emi many people are still in the Da: dividu Ages," she says. [§|ys. 1 She says the topics that the si. structi dents were interested in learninjiiines.' about were as diverse as the stc| dents’ backgrounds — some atigg vanced and some third world. But the major topic of interestif|' all of the students was agricultural policy and economics and intern: tional trade. Nevenka Vricini, a food techno! ogy major from Yugoslavia, was no: only interested in agriculture, bm the American culture as well. SI It au: “I really hope to experiencereaL American culture, see what P eo p4^- e( | n ' ( do in everyday life, doing every© . ungs, she says. IB"- After leaving College Statiotl Bentsen oil-import plan fails in Senate floor showdown WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted 55-41 Wednesday to drop from its sweeping trade bill a plan to require the president to use import fees or other means such as quotas to limit U.S. dependence on foreign oil. “This is special-interest legislation at its worst,” Sen. Howard M. Met- zenbaum, D-Ohio, declared before the vote. “It seeks to prop up the do mestic oil industry at the expense of everyone else.” It was the second time in recent months that the Senate had rejected an oil-import fee or something re sembling it. But the sponsor of the plan. Finance Committee Chairman Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, said af terward that the issue was not nec essarily dead for the year. Bentsen said he was weighing a plan to try to reduce from two-thirds to one-half the number of Senate votes needed to override a presi dential veto of such a fee. He also said that the narrow mar gin of the vote showed that the con cept of a fee is “gaining in power” and that “if we’d had the president’s support, I’m sure that we would have carried it.” No such provision is contained in a sweeping trade bill approved by the House on April 30. The Senate’s action represented the first showdown on the floor over one of four key disputes that have been drawing fire since lawmakers started debate on the trade issue last Thursday. The others are stepped-up retalia tion against foreign unfair trade practices, notice to employees of im pending plant closings and in creased protection for industries threatened by import competition. Lawmakers indicated that resolution of those issues most likely would have to wait until after the five-day Fourth of July recess. Bentsen sought to tie his oil plan to the current turmoil in the Mideast “My friends, if you are concerned about energy dependence and the Per sian Gulf, here is a chance to do something about it. ” — Sen. Lloyd Bentsen “It would give OBEC a golden op portunity to refinance its mortgage on American security,” Bentsen said. Critics led by Sen. Bill Bradley, D- N.J., said that the “economic night mare” would not be averted by an import fee because the major prob lems of the 1970s energy crises were the skyrocketing cost of gasoline at the pump followed by the bu reaucratic complexities of cost con trols. He said a fee of $10 a barrel would cost $45 billion a year. and President Reagan’s plan to re flag Kuwaiti tankers, putting them under U.S. protection. “My friends, if you are concerned about energy dependence and the Persian Gulf, here is a chance to do something about it,” Bentsen, the Senate Finance Committee chair man whose panel produced the pro vision, said. He said it was needed “before the threat of OPEC dependence be comes an economic hammerlock on the national security” and drew of picture of Mideast political chaos “punctuated by gunfire” spawning anew the energy shortages that rocked the country in the 1970s. They said the measure actually represented an effort to rescue do mestic producers from economic problems caused by a massive slide that saw oil go from $28 a barrel in November 1985 to below $10 a bar rel briefly last year. At the same time, unemployment in Texas topped 10 percent. Oil currently is selling for about $20 a barrel on the world market. Americans consume 15 million bar rels a day. The Reagan administration has been opposed to such a measure. The price slide was caused by a sharp increase in production by Saudi Arabia as it sought to give its OPEC partners a taste of their own medicine for exceeding their quotas designed to maintain the world price. Under the measure, the president would have been requirea to set a limit of not more than 50-percent U.S. dependence on foreign oil and, if his three-year forecast showed im ports exceeding that amount, take action. The action could be a fee, quotas or some unspecified measure. Wednesday, the students will go Wisconsin and Iowa to live withhosH n s * families to have an opportunityKi experience American agriculturf' and culture. ail ews Bjunc piofit Court upholds death sentenced million for prisoner ^ 1 IRS transfe AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Housk Court of Criminal Appeals contro upheld the death sentence pfudei Wednesday of Igancio Cuevas,an fund, inmate who was involved in one i“We of the bloodiest escape attempts mo st p in Texas prison history. half of Cuevas has been convicted it.was three times in the 1974 shooting death of Julia Standley, a prison worker who was a hostage during the 11-day ordeal at the Walls fST Unit in Huntsville. The Court of Criminal Ap peals, citing errors in jury selec tion, had twice previously or dered new trials for Cuevas. Tltf current conviction was returned by Houston jurors who heard the |COl casein 1983. fexas In a unanimous opinion, the 0 f t p e court Wednesday overruled Cue- Sunda vas’ latest appeal. ' [’he The prison ordeal began Jul) noi thv 24, 1974, when inmates Fred Car- hinder rasco, Rudolpho Dominguez and Cuevas seized control of an edl1 ' of Cod cation area at the prison. lipnal On Aug. 3, 19/4, the inmates S p ()tte( planned to llee to a waiting ar- to t mored car. Each inmate hand- g cuffed himself to a female hos- *>) But ta 8 e - , f Brk C Gunfire erupted and two p 1 |“j t >]| the women, Carrasco and Dor©- j|| e j le | nguez died during the escape at- tempt. Standley was killed byJ bullet fired from Dominguez’pis - Spaeth tol. (wne Under the state’s “law of P ar 'R w c | ties,” Cuevas was found guilty whu p . though he was not the gunman. ^