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Page 8/The Battalion/Friday, February 17,1984 Border cities need special assistance, group says United Press International EL PASO —Spokesmen for a Washington-based Hispanic group said massive federal aid is needed to cure lingering eco- opmic problems along the U.S.- Mexico border, not cosmetic re medies used by the Reagan ad ministration. In a 31 -page analysis released Thursday to the El Paso Herald-Post, the National Council of La Raza said U.S. border cities should be given special assistance like that granted to the depressed Appa lachian region in the East. “We need to look at the bor der area much as we look at Ap palachia,” said La Raza Presi dent Raul Yzaguirre. “It has continuing, chronic, endemic socio-economic problems, and needs the same kind of infras tructure” as the Appalacian re lief programs. The administration’s use of existing grants and aid to help the border region has not worked, he said. Without the Appalachian ap proach, the Raza spokesman said, conditions in the border area will continue to worsen. La Raza recommended a huge public works program for the border with long-term pub lic investment. The program not only should include construction and renovation of sewers and LOCATION: In the heart of student living on University Oaks. Cripple Creek is on the shuttle bus route and is so popular it-has been 100% occupied since its inception. Investors can enter their condo in a lease pool and be assured of leasing them. PRICE: Starting as low as $39,950, Cripple Creek is affordable for even the most discriminating budget. VALUE: A large part of the cost of an Aggie's educa tion can be returned through tax benefits and equity. [sKa mm 904 University Oaks #56 (409) 764-8682 (409) 846-5741 Models Open Daily Developed by Stanford Associates. Inc streets, transportation funding and similar projects, but also comprehensive educational programs, the report said. La Raza also recommended: • Development and careful, equitable management of bor der region water resources re- a uired for a dependable, clean, isease-free water supply for personal, agricultural and in dustrial use. • Policies ensuring that con cerns of workers are given the same priorities as those of busi nesses. • A greater U.S. interest in helping the Mexican economy, which is closely tiedwith that of American border cities. La Raza officials said Presi dent Reagan’s Southwest Bor der Action Group, which has at tempted to bolster the border economy by expediting various types of federal grants and as sistance, had failed. “Whatever the effectiveness of the present federal efforts, most agree that even the best di saster aid, whether for the long drawn-out disaster of the peso devaluations or the recent freeze (in the Rio Grande Val ley), can provide temporary re lief at best,” Yzaguirre said. The council’s report stated the 1982 peso devaluations S raphically illustrated the bor er economy’s over reliance on retail trade. “Local businesses were thriv ing on the brisk sales to Mexi cans who, confident of a strong peso supported by oil revenues, made regular shopping excur sions to the Uniteti Stales for groceries and other consumer f loods, which were often of a ligher quality than those to be found in Mexico,” theRaait port slated. “After three devaluationsb tween February and Decemb 1982, the peso’s value from less than 25 per di about 147 per dollar, maiiiij American goods up to fnj times more expensive to can buyers.” Alpha Delta Pi presents Playday Dance Saturday, Feb. 18 th Ramada Inn Ballroom 8:00 p.m. Tickets $ 3.00 Music by The Executives S w* ** ** ** »m i At the same lime, said, groceries and goods Mexican side of the borderl* came live times cheaper (d Americans. Surgeon sentenced in tax fraud United Press International AUSTIN — A surgeon* the government claims owesit: U.S. Treasury more than! million was sentenced Tb day to four years in prisons: fined $ 10,000 for tax fraud. U.S. District Court Jt James Nowlin imposed these tence on Dr. John A. Garcia,ti of Austin, who was convicted January of two counts of fib false income tax returns 1975 and 1976. Garcia, who still faces Ins nal Revenue Service civil pen: ties, said he would appeal!, conviction and sentence, was released on bond. Travis County ream showed that between 1967a:: 1978, the federal governw filed liens against Garcia tot ing more than $970,000. Pena ties and interest have pusk the total to more than ll nr lion. During his four-day trial income lax evasion, proser# said Garcia overstated 1 due lions by more thi: $130,000. Testimony showed h claimed deductions forcarst leased to his former wife i children as well as forEuropfi vacations. Garcia said he owed the® nothing because all of his a penditures were business n lated and that manyofhisil ductions were based on at transactions for which tk were no records. 2:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 The News Media In American Society — Fred Friendly, Professor Emeritus of Broadcast Journalism, Col umbia Graduate School of Journalism; former CBS network Presi- * P* 111, dent The Media As Business ' — Donald Kummerfeld, President, News America Publishing, Inc.; Director, News Corporation; former First Deputy Mayor, New 9:00 a.m. York City 12:45 p.m. W M — -— — Reed Irvine, Fo Media (AIM) Media versus Privacy — Arthur Miller, Professor of La' host, "Miller's Court" FRIDAY, f F International News — Frank Manitzas, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 ;ic News Reporting FRIDAY, FEI News Reporting litzas, Producer, Grenada in Retrospect — A Panel Discussion, Media Domestic News Reporting PANEL Michael I. 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