July 25, 1995

MARTIN, Tenn. — Egyptian farmers along the Nile River are learning from a University of Tennessee-Martin agriculture professor how to prevent or limit damage to their tomato crops. Dr. Bobby Hathcock, a field crop pathologist, is spending four weeks with farmers who export tomatoes to surrounding countries and Eastern Europe. Hathcock is teaching them to

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Mark W. Degler, an attorney and adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, will help the Russian government draft a new tax code. Chosen by the U.S. Treasury Department, Degler leaves Aug. 10 on a one-year assignment in Moscow to advise the deputy minister of finance, Sergei Shatolov, Russia’s highest-ranking tax official.