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Thursday, September 13,1990 The Battalion HOTTEST /VEW HESTAUHAA/T AT A/OHTHGATE /W Te& D/ne/n/ Take Out/ Det/Very/ GRAND OPENING SPECIAL All you can eat soup & salad...$3.50 Entree of your choice....99 (Chicken in Lemon, Chicken Italian, SNsh Kabob, Wine Marinated Chicken, Pork Steak) 103 Boyett (Across from 7-11) Exp. 09/30/90 846-2898 Flood, drought damages cost farmers millions -l) Summer Session II, 1991 GEOG 322: The Geography of Britain Prof. Peter Hugill 803-C O&M Building 845-7106 GEOG 450: Field Geography Prof. Rick Giardino 814-C O&M Building 845-7188 (all courses pending approval) Study is based at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Travel will include York, Malham-Lake District, Bradford, Nottingham and London. Informational Meeting Thursday, September 13 2:00 - 3:30 510 Rudder STUDY ABROAD OFFICE 161 B1ZZELL HALL WEST 845-0544 WASHINGTON (AP) — Floods and drought have caused hundreds of millions of dollars worth of crops to fail in Texas this year, farm lead ers told the House Agriculture Com mittee Wednesday. But the chairman of the commit tee, Rep. Kika de la Garza, D-Mis- sion, said he wasn’t very optimistic the government could provide any assistance. “A disaster bill costs money and I don’t know where we have any,” de la Garza said. “I can only promise we will con sider whatever is possible,” he said. The adverse budget climate, the condition of the federal crop insur ance program and the lack of disas ter areas make such legislation hard to sell on Capitol Hill. But disaster legislation does have support from another powerful con gressman, Rep. Leon Panetta, the California Democrat who chairs the House Budget Committee. “With the recurrence of weather disasters each year, it is clear that we must find a permanent solution to Committee chairman thinks disaster legislation unlikely this problem,” Panetta said. “How ever, until that time I believe that it is important that we provide assis tance to those farmers who have lost crops in weather related disasters.” Farmers from 11 states testified to the committee. Texas and Georgia farmers have suffered the most from disasters, primarily drought. Yield losses to Texas farmers for cotton, corn and sorghum are esti mated to be $619 million this year, said Wayne Labar of the Texas Cot ton Producers. The ripple effect will cost the state’s agribusiness industry $2 billion, he said. “For some farmers it is the third year in a row of poor yields,” Labar said. “The producers face a bleak fi nancial picture. Given conservative lending practices, a large number of them in the hardest hit areas will have no place to turn for financing the 1991 crop.” • Crop losses are estimated at more than $500 million in Georgia, $130 million in Alabama and $119 million in South Carolina, officials from those states testified. Texas received $235 million in di saster relief in 1988 and $348 mil lion in 1989. After floods in April and May caused 54 counties to become fed eral disaster areas, Sen. Lloyd Bent- sen, D-Texas, sponsored a bill to ex tend the 1989 clisaster act. The bill is sitting in the Senate Agriculture Committee. Its progress depends on finding a way to finance it, aides say. Most of the farmers who ap peared before the House committee said they appreciated the govern ment’s budget constraints. But seve ral said they couldn’t understand how it could forgive billions of dol lars in loans to Egypt and noi out U.S. farmers. “It seems that any budget lems can be overcome,” saidj ; Adams, a San Patricio County producer, referring to the Eg debt forgiveness. A three year drought and spring flood were the primary ships for Texas farmers. Rep. Jim Chapman, D-Su Springs, gave de la Garza pictun the spring flood he said slii “rich Red River farmland looked more like South Padr; land.” Steve Vance, a Bowie C», farmer, said 18,400 acres of wht: that county alone were Inst in flood. “Besides the flood, we 103 degree temperatures Iasi and no rain in August,” Vances Some lawmakers and the Bui ministration oppose using boti nual disaster hills and cron ir ance to help farmers. They or the other should be chosen promised to c fully developed. Task forces face cuts in ’90 crime bill Phone. 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The committee was expected to caucus Thursday and decide what could be debated, said Rep. Martin Frost, D-Dallas, the only Texan on the panel. Reps. Albert Bustamante, D-San Antonio; Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio; and Charles Wilson, D-Lufkin, testified in support of the task forces. A provision in the crime bill changes the way federal drug-fighting funds are administered. The provision takes the money out of the hands of state administra tors and distributes it directly to local officials. It would wipe out the 49 drug task forces by redistri buting the funds to law enforcement agencies on the basis of size. The state’s Criminal Justice Division distributes the money primarily to law enforcement agencies that have formed task forces in rural and border areas, said Randy Erben, director of the state of Texas Office of State-Federal Relations. The federal funds pay for 75 percent of each task force with 25 percent coming from local sources. Texas task forces received $7 million from the federal govern ment in 1988, $23 million in 1989 and $27 mnlion in 1990. As now written, the crime bill would bypass the state’s strategy for the money and direct it to Texas’ six largest counties: Harris, Dallas, Bexar, Tarrant, Travis and El Paso. “None on the border, none in rural areas and none in suburban areas,” Erben said. Bustamante noted the Mexican border is a major en try point for illegal drugs. Several task forces along the border would lose their funds under the bill as it is now He said the task forces are “on the frontline in our war on drugs and represent our cities’ first line of de fense.” States demand disposal sites ORANGE BEACH, Ala.(AP) — Thirteen states including Texas banded together Wednesday to press Congress for tougher penalties against other states that have failed to locate toxic waste disposal sites within their borders. Environmental officials from the 13 states met for two days at the Per dido Beach Hilton on the Alabama Hong Kong LS] Restaurant .—.TIN coast. It was an organizational effort by a total of 17 states that import more toxic wastes than they ship to other states. The states demanded that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency crack down on states that have failed to build disposal sites within their borders. Russ Wyer, director of waste man agement at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, described the states’ criticism as a “strong message” that he intended to take back to Washington. “We will evaluate sanctions,” Wyer said. Wyer said several top EPA offi cials attended a forum Tuesday with Wyer said the agency the “e process of sorting from the bad states.” mCE mr T ft VALUE. Our selection B of young men’s leather “ bomber jackets is on target for fashion and quality *200 The leather waistband and cuffs on our bombers keep their shape and wear longer than knit. 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Continued from page 1 “Urban crime is prevented because rural task forces destroy clandestine manufacturing labs and drug traf ficking centers,” Smith said. the state officials complaining that the federal agency had failed to en force its own regulations against states without disposal sites. is in the good states Under the EPA rules, the agency could withhold Superfund cleanup funds from those states that have failed to build toxic waste disposal sites or reach an agreement with an other state in their region for a site. day and seven days a week tomers will be treated like het customers as much as possible,C tok says. The service can be used to from Texas to anywhere in United States. There is no charge for locale and long-distance calls within state are hilled at a reduced However, there is no discount calls placed in Texas to an out state number. To place a call, a person wki deaf, hard of hearing or speeck paired will call 1-800-RELA1 and talk to a trained operatorut a TDD or a computer. The operator will receive typed message sent by the caller will call the hearing party withwl the impaired person wantstotall The operator will relay the ty message orally to the personke called and will communicate the response as a typed message bat the caller. When a person of normal heal wants to call a person who is head?, or speech impaired, the works in reverse with persomg normal hearing calling LAYVV. The hearing-impaired hi when they have a relay call of a noise or light on their TDD Prior to this network, relay ices were operated by volunteeitj non-profit groups. Service u« was available only for a limitedu her of hours, and sometimes were restrictions on call lengths “Certainly this was far from access,” Greytok said. views on that; ssues. He told the ittee it woul im to discuss onstitutional though he sai stitutional rig the Supreme tion-legalizinj Wade. Souter, the who is Presid for the natior slowly and so Senate head Cott« Michael Nazi workers Continued from page 1 Stuc engineers can begin extensive f search on other forms of energy ! fuels for automobiles and made ery. “We are going about this in c wrong way,” he says. “We’re notot using up limited fuel, but were making any effort to design vehid that can run on solar and electricf of K ergy. Some prominent oil compaiK however, say the hydrogenati process is not feasible. Krammer agrees the beginni stages of any new idea cost morek cause of kinks that need to worked out. “The first generation of any the is more expensive,” he says. “H first generation of nylons after stockings were $15 and then prices dropped to $ 1.25.” Krammer says a U.S. governing agency called the Bureau of Mil* built a synthetic oil facility in L® siana, Mo., in 1949. German scientists operated plant to see if it would producet from American coal. The coal only worked, but produced onef Ion of gasoline for 6 cents “It is true these are 1949 fig® but multiply (this) by 10 and in costs only 60 cents a gallon,” hesa' The history professor says l! during the first generation ofopei tion, it cost $ 1.50 to produceonegi Ion. “We have to just get over hump when we experience that ft generation, but nobody wants take that first step,” Krammer safi PROFITABLE NUMBER! 845-0569 The Battalion Classified Advertising ByJOEFERi Of The Battali More tha towel-waving quite a mess. Trash cc A&M’s Kyle large dumps ing to Asso Wally Groff. So who ha up after 72,( water polo te The athlel water polo te tract, but th< contracts out said. 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