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The Nebraska Union Board voted Tuesday to
kill a motion tint would have extended union
he-rs during finds week.
The motion failed because cf lack of student -Interest
&nd the belief that extending the
union's hours wodd waste student fees, ssid
board member Frank Kuhn.
In'the past, union-hoars have been extended .
beyond the regular 11 p.m. closing time. Ey 1
a.n., tragic la the union had died dcv.n and by
1:39 a.m. "there was hardly anyone left in the
union," Kuhn said.
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. In other business, the board discussed recruit
Kent cf at-lsrgo members for this summer and
the fa!MS5 semester through an informal
epplication process. The board will have a formal
process b the f:Il.
' Newly-elected vice president list Edens said
: recruits aren't expected to make say commit-.
For more information, call Edens cr newly-'
fleeted beard president Missy Huckfddt la the
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have been proposed, End the board will vote
April 23 to determine the d'oeatienj.
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Aanimistrator says iuxicans
must learn iooa tecnnoiogies
Chinese, U.S. scientists
to study farm emiditions
By Eric D
"A hungry child knows no politics."
With this idea in nfrd. Julia Chesg
Biooh, assistant administrator of the
U.S. Food for Pesee 'n the Agency for
International Development, ssld the
U.S. government will contribute more
than $1 billion v;erth of aid to ftmine
stricken Africa in
Eloch speke at the Nebraska Union
on the African food crisis.
"Food sld slone csnnot soke Afri
ca's food emerienc-y,1" Bloch said,
steeississ thai A&iem countries must
increase fsod self-reliszte through
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Tha Urited tstes nes(h to maka
policy charges in iti actions tsxard
African countries to help reduce their
reliance on foreip aid, she said. Food
aid is partially used to cushion the
impact these changes M11 have on fam
ine victims.
Bloch denied charges that the Rea
gan administration was deliberately
slow in getting food aid to Etiy
'We did not know the magnitude
the problem until probably September"
of last year, she said. The United States
could not respond automatically to fee
food crisis because, Koch said, the
food aid chain is an extremely long and
tortuous road of IcticsS, fensncial
and orgsnkational problems. The Uni
ted States did not wast to send tmi to
a coimtry end hivo it rot cn the docks
beea239 tkQ were no tracks to teas
port it into r.te'fy ertrs.
Feed eld b : r.:rd dr:s:i't have the
p ricri ty thit it f..-jid ih b uli, main;?
fcr o"f f orders di
media has done a good job cf bringing
the African food crisis to the attention
of U.S. citizens, she said.
But, Bloch said, the "ordinary Amer
ican" doesn't understand the real
causes of the crisis. Many reasons
extending beyond the drought have
caused it, she said.
African governments have given low
priority to agriculture. Many have fol-
. lowed policies that subsidize food for j
urban poor but have done nothing to '
help the small farmer with production, j
Africa has suffered from an environ-f
'. mental deradttion, including sell era-
sien, deforestation and the destruction j
cf trees for firewood, she said. '.. .
Africa tes not benefited from the
miracle seeds d the "fjreen revolution"
n Euany Asiai caunde3 hive, t"$ the-
:t cm meet Afdct's cy-br.d farming;
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UNL will lead a joint study by the
People's Republic cf China and the
United States to compare the climate
and agriculture of the North China
Plain and the North American Great
Plains.
Norm Rosenberg, program coordina
tor and director of the UNL Center for
Agricultural Meteorology and Clima
tology, said the program's goal is to
help increase and stabilize food and
fiber production in the North China
Plain and the North American Great
Plains. The two areas are similar in .
climate, soils and crops, Rosenborg
said. "'.'.'.
Eosenberg went to China in ISS1 to
see agricultural and meteorological
research stations. It was proposed that
Chinese and U.S. scientists collaborate
on a program to explore productivity in'
the two plains regions. .
The U.S. National Oceanic and '
Atmospheric Administration and the
U.S. National Science Foundation were
enthusiastic. The NOAA and the State
Meteorology Administration of China
signed an agreement in 1881.
Five possible projects have been
identified for the plains study:
O Physical climatology;
O Measurement of insulation and
photosynthetically active radiation;
Agricultural microclimatoiogical
measurements for comparing produc
tion functions and water-use efficien
cies; Understanding moisture stress
and drought; -.
O' -Ecological changes and poten
tial plains productivity. 9
. ' The Chinese ere especially inter
ested in the control of wind and water
erosion, drought management, the uses
of windbreaks and irrigation schedul
ing, he said. .
UNL wants to test some dines
techniques - for inter-cropping and
multidrop ping, he said. .
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