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Higher education
Human resources seen as key to competition
Associated Press .
AUSTIN — Texas must turn to
human resources to provide the eco
nomic viability and competition it
needs going into the 21st Century,
the Select Committee on Higher Ed
ucation was told Thursday.
“That is the primary task of this
4 committee, that is why we are differ
ent,” said Norman Hackertnan, for
mer president of the University of
Texas at Austin and of Rice Univer
sity, who is a committee member.
In stressing the need for research,
Hackerman said the state has no
choice but to push for advanced
technology in Texas universities and
colleges.
“We cannot wrest from the planet
all the things w'e need,” he said.
“In order for this region to re
main viable we have to have a very
important resources, resources such
as this state enjoyed for 70 years with
oil and gas. The obvious problem is
that these resources are not renewa
ble.
“There is one resource that is re
newable, which in technology is the
leveraging proponent, ancf that is
human resources,” Hackerman said.
Hackerman said development of
human resources should be the main
interest of the committee “so that it
in effect provides for this region
those capabilities and technology
which make for economic viability
and competitiveness.”
Hackerman said universities are
the sole source of scientists and engi
neers “and that is why we must
maintain an adequate supply of sci
entists and engineers.
“Without that, we do not have the
slightest chance of remaining in the
economic race,” Hackerman said.
Hackerman warned that the com
mittee should not get too deeply in
volved in the dollars and cents of the
Texas higher education system. Ear
lier two accounting firms urged the
committee to provide for manage
ment audits in universities and col
leges to maintain close fiscal control.
“One thing we have to do is be
very careful in what you do in orga
nizing that it does not impede tne
education process itself,” Hacker-
man said, r ou don’t want to mess
up the system.”
“We need accountability, but ac
countability has to be done in such a
way not to impede the process of
learning,” he said.
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HOUSTON — A Houston city
[councilman is proposing a ban on
smoking at sporting events in the
city’s enclosed arenas such as the
Summit and Astrodome, but a col
league says that may ignite some
Icontroversy among smokers.
Councilman Jim VVestmoreiand, a
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lordinance Wednesday, says banning
[smoking is good for public health.
But Councilman Frank Mancuso,
la cigar-smoker''and former profes-
jsional baseball player, said smoking
pat sporting events is common.
“It is just like popcorn and beer at
la ballgame — a lot of people won’t
want to do without it,” he argued.
Houston ordinances currently
prohibit smoking in the baggage
claim areas of public airports and in
elevators, grocery stores, theaters
and hospitals.
In Dallas, the city council unani
mously approved an ordinance
Wednesday making smoking illegal
in retail establishments with 500 or
more square feet of floor space. The
new ordinance, which takes effect
Feb.6, requires restaurants with 50
or more seats to set aside an unspeci
fied number of tables for non-smok
ers and to prohibit smoking in com
mon areas, such as restrooms and
around cash registers.
Westmoreland said a recent sur
vey shows only 28 percent of all Tex
ans are smokers.
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — President Mi
guel de la Madrid, who offers only
rare glimpses of his private life, said
in an interview published Thursday
that he is “cold in the mind and
warm in the heart.”
He said he prefers a beer to a
sleeping pill, swims one to three
limes a week, and likes such authors
as Mexican novelists Carlos Fuentes
and Juan Rulfo, Colombian Nobel
Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Mar
quez and Jorge Luis Borges of Ar
gentina.
The 50-year-old president also
said: “Sometimes they say to me, this
poor president whose turn came in
such a difficult era. . . But I think
that this also is a special challenge,
that stimulates me to use greater tal
ent, imagination, will and activity.”
He said being president is a perma
nent learning experience.
De la Madrid took office in De
cember 1982 when Mexico already
had dropped into its worst recession
in half a century. Political and eco
nomic troubles have continued
throughout his stay in office, compli
cated this September by the killer
earthquake that devastated sections
of Mexico City.
The president, who projects a
fairly colorless image in public ap
pearances, was asked about those
who say he meets people with little
enthusiasm, too rigid and distant.
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“Because I know that in
my country there are
more positive things than
negative, it bothers me
that the contrary impres
sion is given....”
— President Miguel de la
Madrid.
along very easily and they with me,”
was his brief reply.
De la Madrid said he does not get
depressed and sleeps well, but Tie
does get tired at the end of some
days.
The president said he tries to
exercise one-half hour daily, “more
for keeping fit than for fun.” He
said that includes walking, running
or gymnastics as well as swimming
one to three times each week.
“As my time is very limited I don’t
practice tedms or pair sports,” he
said. “I don’t play tennis. I do gym
nastics, I practice swimming, I’ll sud
denly play volleyball with my sons,
with rny children, here in Mexico
Gity or in the house we’ve had for
many years in Cuautla.”
De la Madrid has four sons and a
daughter, ranging in age from 11 to
2(i. Cuautla. is a mountain resort in
Morelos state, just to to the south
west of the capital.
He said he “fortunately” has time
to talk to his children.
“Normally, in addition to Satur
days and Sundays, I go to eat in my
house two times, and m the meal we
have a chance to talk. And since I
now have relatively grown children,
I now see them more frequently at
night, and there we chat or watch
television, and there is an opportu
nity to be in contact with them.
Los Pinos, the presidential resi
dence, also includes an office com
plex where he spends much of his
working dav.
De la Madrid said his taste in
reading is varied.
“1 try to read the classics from
time to time, the Greeks, the Ro
mans, the Spanish, the English, the
great figures. The classical for that is
classical, because it is of a perma
nent, eternal value, because it speaks
of human nature that, in the end, is
a constant in time. I like as well the
modern, Borges, Garcia Marquez,
(Peruvian novelist. Mario) Vargas
Llosa,” de la Madrid said.
He also said he is not hostile to the
news media but is bothered by its
tendency to emphasize the negative.
“Because I know that in my coun
try there are more positive things
than negative, it bothers me that the
contrary impression is given; it both
ers me that there might be yellow
journalism for a desire to increase,
circulation.”
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