Agriculture Institute digs up plan
By bam s. Kepfield
Staff Reporter
Work is underway to begin
implementing a new strategic plan
developed by the University of
Ncbraska-Lincon’s Institute of
Agriculture and Natural Resources.
The new plan, completed in
June, builds upon an earlier project
done in 1989. Irv Omtvedl, vice
chancellor of Agriculture and Natu
ral Resources, said that the plan as
a whole focuses on the different
roles that agriculture plays in
Nebraska’s economy.
“Too often, agriculture is
thought of as just production. Our
emphasis is on various value-added
processes,” Omtvedl said. “We
must reach beyond what is tradi
tionally thought of as traditionally
agricultural.”
Omtvedl said that the plan
guides the IANR in several ways.
The earlier plan guided budgeting and
redirected funds to areas identified as
needing improvement, and nearly 15
percentoflANR’s budget isallocated
in such a manner.
The areas targeted for improve
ment under the new plan focused on
agribusiness, nutrition, strengthening
farming communities and environ
mental concerns.
IANR began jointdegrcc programs
in agribusiness with the College of
Business and Administration and in
environmental sciences with the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences, under a
linkage program.
Student recruitment, retention and
advisement was another priority for
IANR, Omtvedt said. Emphasis will
be placed on tailoring curriculum for
the individual students as well as giv
ing them greater exposure to commu
nications and business.
The plan developed after a meet
ing with lOOagriculture-rclatedorga
nizations in Lincoln, as well as six
listening sessions across the state.
The IANR also met with the Lin
coln and Omaha Chambers of
Commerce.
The need for a strategic plan
grew in part from the upturn in
enrollment since bottoming out in
the late 1980s. Soon after his ap
pointment as vice chancellor in
1987, Omtvedt detected a short
age of trained agriculture profes
sionals.
The strategic plan of 1989 and
the updated 1992 version arc more
than just an obligatory pet project
thalnew administrators sometimes
undertake, Omtvedt said.
IANR coordinators met this
week on East Campus to discuss
development of action plans to
implement the strategic plan. Fi
nal recommendations could be re
leased by Nov. 15.
Party
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liamentary offices. There were no
victories, but some candidates polled
as high as 20 percent of the vote —
impressive, Wiedershine said, for a
infant party running in a multiparty
system. One major British newspaper
noted that the appearance of the party
was the “most significant thing to
happen to the country during the elec
tion.”
Currently in the United States, the
party is on the ballot in 19 states, and
21 more will be added in the near
future. Wiedershine said that the party
would not be on the ballot in 10 states
because it failed to meet filing dead
lines or registration requirements.
He said he expected Nebraska to
certify the Natural Law Party for the
November ballot. More that 2,000
signatures are needed by August 25.
The purpose of the parly,
Wicdcrshinc said, is to “bring the
light of science into politics, and the
support of natural law to America.”
As such, Wicdershinc said, the party
secs itself as the heir of Thomas
Jefferson in upholding a tradition of
rational thinking in public debate.
The party’s platform is based on
integrating sound scientific principles
into all facets of public policy mak
ing, he said.
Health care, a major concern this
election year, would be supplemented
by preventive natural medicine. Gov
ernment waste would be eliminated
by use of scientific principles to
streamline administration, which
would encourage growth, in turn de
ducing taxes.
The Natural Law Parly’s defense
strategy is to create a “more coherent .
consciousness” among the electorate
to reduce tensions at home and even
tually abroad. Wicdcrshinc said that
the party does not favor massive, im
mediate defense cuts, but that reduc
tions would come gradually as their
policies take effect.
The most important element of
their platform and strategy,
Wicdcrshinc said, is that the party is
“neither conservative nor liberal, nei
ther Republican nor Democratic” in
its philosophy.
Once in office. Natural Law lead
ers would build a consensus with both
sides, using any technological means
available to solve the problems facing
the country, he said.
The ultimate goal is to elect the
Hagclin/Tompkins ticket. But more
importantly, according to
Wicdcrshinc, is publicizing the plat
form and policies of the party, so that
it can influence the direction of deci
sion making no matter who is elected.
Wicdcrshinc said that the goal of
winning the White House is not as far
fetched as it may first appear. The
party, if it continues to grow at the
current rale, will be the third largest
political party in America by Novem
ber.
Sarajevo escapes stalled
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
(AP) — More than 300 women and
children gathered Wednesday amid
the echo of sniper fire, waiting to flee
Sarajevo after besieging Serb forces
agreed to allow their evacuation.
The 340 mothers and children were
to board five buses headed for Croatia
under U.N. escort. Three of the buses
were to then travel on to Austria. The
other two were to stay in Croatia.
The convoy was delayed for un
known reasons yesterday
moming.Only one bus had arrived at
the boarding point by 2 p.m. (8a.m.
EDT) and it was not known when the
others would come.
Children were becoming restless
after wailing for five hours in tem
peratures reaching 95 degrees.
”1 don’t really want to go because
my father is wounded. But I can’t take
the whistling of bullets in my cars,”
said 9-year-old Muamar Vatrcs.
The Serb forces surrounding the
city agreed Tuesday with the
Children’s Embassy charily in
Sarajevo to allow all children under
18 and their mothers to leave.
I he agreement came as the U.IN.
Security Council expected to vote
today on the possible use of force to
protect relief shipments to Sarajevo
and other areas of Bosnia cut off by
Serb forces.
Serb militants could be trying to
deflect criticism being directed at
them, but their offer of safe passage to
refugees also could be aimed at mov
ing many Croats and Muslims out of
Sarajevo and make the city easier to
capture.
Serbs have captured about two
thirds of Bosnian territory since war
broke out after Muslims and Croats
voted on Feb.29 for independence
from Serb-dominated Yugoslavia. At
least 8,000 people have died in the
fighting.
Sarajevo came under heavy shell
ing Tuesday night from Serb posi
tions around the capital. One shell
landed in frontof the Bosnian defense
headquarters late Tuesday, wounding
three people, local officials said. Ear
lier, four shells reportedly hit the presi
dency building.
Many of those wailing to leave
Sarajevo Wednesday morning were
refugees from eastern Bosnia, where
Serbs have captured large swaths of
territory.
Nine-year-old Muamar and his
family had been living in the base
ment of a house belonging to Halima
Pod trie.
“Living underground sucks the
souls out of these kids,” Podtric said.
“It is almost worse than death.”
Ibro Melic, 49, was saying fare
well to his 5-year-old son Adnan as
the Children’s Embassy read outa list
of those who were to board the buses.
“He is going to Vienna and I’m
going to the frontline,” he said. “This
could be the last time I sec him.”
An evacuation of children last
month was not escorted and came
under fire. Two children were killed.
In another conciliatory gesture, the
Bosnian Serbs’ self-sty led parliament
asked the U.N. Security Council to
inform it what to do in order to “avoid
a military intervention and the blood
shed that would accompany it.”
Allhough Serb soldiers cannoi 1
imagine fighting soldiers from En
gland, France, the United Stales and
other (World War II allies), interna
tional military intervention would
create an uncontrollable process
whose outcome cannot be foreseen,”
a statement said.
It pledged not to impede humani
tarian relief and open the detention
camps that shocked the world to inter
national inspection. Therefore, ilsaid,
“military intervention for humanitar
ian reasons would not be justified.”
But despite the Serbs’ apparent
flexibility, in northern Bosia, they
were forcing about 28,000 people,
mostly Muslims, from their homes,
U.N. officials said.
The draft U.N. resolution, circu
lated tothc 15-member Security Coun
cil, asks all states to use “all measures
necessary” — implying use of force
— to safeguard deliveries of food and
humanitarian aid.
NATO scheduled a special meet
ing for Friday to consider contin
gency plans being drawn up for the
possible use offorce to deliver aid.
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