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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
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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.”
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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.
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