THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1981
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A 200 mile free-trade zone would benefit Texas and Mexico
by removing restrictions on imports and exports within the
zone, said Ambassador and former chief of protocol Abelardo
Valdez in the MSC Ballroom Monday night.
By FRANK L. CHRISTLIEB
Battalion Staff
The United States must rec
ognize that the U.S.-Mexican
border presents “great opportu
nities for mutual cooperation
between the two nations and
the rest of the Western Hemis
phere,” a former White House
chief of protocol said Monday
night.
Ambassador Abelardo Val
dez, who has held several im
portant government positions
and is now a visiting professor at
Texas A&M University, told ab
out 300 people in the MSC Bal
lroom that the border is “one of
the great strategic frontiers of
the world” and that it links the
two countries in a “seamless
web of economic, political
and people-to-people relation
ships.”
Valdez said Texas plays an
important role in trade and in
vestment between countries in
the western hemisphere. The
fact that 50 percent of last year’s
$27.7 billion in U.S.-Mexico
trade passed through the state
shows Texas’ economic import
ance in the hemisphere, he
said.
Valdez said the United States
and Mexico have common eco
nomic, political and social prob
lems and that the border itself
presents problems which must
be solved through joint efforts
of both countries.
As a partial solution to some
of these problems, Valdez prop
osed the creation of a free trade
zone along the border which
would increase free trade and
economic cooperation with
Mexico and other Latin Amer
ican countries. He said this
plan, which he has already pre
sented to the U. S. Trade Advis
ory Committee, would create a
zone extending 200 miles into
each country and running from
Brownsville to San Diego.
Any product manufactured in
this zone, Valdez said, would be
able to travel duty-free
throughout the area. He said
the zone would be a “mutually
beneficial step” which would
stimulate and attract industry,
create new jobs and provide
“new opportunities for U.S.-
Mexico joint ventures ... using
the best U.S. and Mexican
skills, resources and technolo
gies to attack traditional econo
mic stagnation.”
Valdez said the trade zone
could be the first step toward an
“inter-American equivalent of
the European common market”
with its potential for stimulation
of this hemisphere’s economies.
“This proposal is not a defini
tive blueprint for the establish
ment of a free trade zone be
tween the United States and
Mexico, ” Valdez said, “nor is it
a definitive analysis of its poten
tial for both countries. It is ... a
call for action to meet critical
economic needs in the United
States and Mexico in an effec
tive manner.”
Pre-law society to give
mock admission exam
By CARLA SUTTER
Battalion Reporter
The Texas A&M rre-law Socie
ty is giving a mock Law School
Admissions Test Saturday for stu
dents trying to get into law school.
The test will be given in 103
Zachry at 8 a.m.
“We re hoping for a large turn
out, but we won’t know until re
gistration closes how many are
taking the test,” said Marilyn
Mungerson, a Pre-law Society
officer. This is the first time the
test has been given at Texas A&M
University.
The exam is the same one that
was used last October by the
LSAT. The Law School Data
Assembly Service provides a copy
of the test and the correct answers
for anyone who requests it after
the exam has been given.
The LSDAS is an information
gathering service that compiles
the students’ test scores and infor
mation sheets and sends them to
the different law schools upon re
quest of the student.
“By giving the mock exam the
student is able to see what the test
will be like, it’s not unethical,”
Mungerson said.
“The directions are the hardest
to follow,” Mungerson said. “If
the student is able to familiarize
himself with the test beforehand,
then he won’t have to spend so
much time figuring out what the
directions mean when it’s the real
thing.”
The answers will be called out at
the end of the test. “We’re asking
the students to bring their calcula
tors so we can show them how to
compute their scores,” Munger
son said.
The test is based on the same
format as the Scholastic Aptitude
Test, only it’s much harder, she
said. There is a math section that
covers basic geometry and algebra
and a section on logical reasoning.
A situation is given, and the stu
dent has to find the major problem
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