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Dallas ballet warped
needs money
to stay active
DALLAS (AP) — Only six months
after troupe members took to the
streets to solicit $500,000 in dona
tions, the Dallas Ballet Company
says it again faces extinction unless
$180,000 can be raised by Thursday.
Ballet board President Karl Zavit-
kovsky and general manager Philip
Semark said Monday the company
will fold if the money isn’t found.
“We’re not crying wolf,” Zavit-
kovsky said. “It’s a very real situa
tion. There are people who have \A/^>i|f'j/ r A
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a time problem now.”
The announcement came only
two weeks after the company hired
Russian defector Andrei Ustinov.
If they are able to raise the money
by Thursday, ballet officials will
need more than $500,000 to con
tinue through Christmas.
“We have struggled very hard ev
ery year and raised about $2 million
every year and barely kept our head
above water,” Zavitkovsky said. "We
haven’t been able to effectively re
duce our debt.”
The $180,000 would pay the sala
ries of dancers and staff and orches
tra members and pay productior
costs for “Gala U.S.A.,” which is
scheduled to open next week star
ring Ustinov.
The company paid its 33 dancers
half their salaries last week. The ad
ministrative staff was paid Monday,
four days late, and also received half
pay. Semark has yet to be paid for
the current pay period, officials said.
“We have $550,000 in renewal
gifts (pending) at this time,” Semark
said. “Renewals are usually pretty
easy (to obtain). I think we will make
it.”
The company, beset with financial
problems since 1983, has an accu
mulated bank debt of $800,000 and
owes vendors $300,000, Zavitkovsky
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A&M official: Texas remains deficient
in market for international business
By Judy Black
Reporter
The tremendous presence of Jap
anese business in Texas should make
the state government take notice of
Texas’ deficiencies in the interna
tional business market, says an offi
cial for the Texas A&M Center for
International Business Studies advi
sory board.
“Currently, as far as efforts by the
state, we rank right above Rhode Is
land,” board President John A. Ad
ams Jr. says. “So we’re basically at
the bottom of the list.”
He says that a few years ago the
state budget for trade development
was reduced.
“This hurts businesses because
they are by and large on their own,”
Adams says. “We (businesses) don’t
want a lot of government interfer
ence, but we do want basic assistance
— breaking the ice, trade leads,
trade meetings, trade conferences
and trade missions.
“By trade missions I don’t mean a
holiday. I mean a functioning mis
sion where businessmen use the
market to go to Brazil, Mexico, Ja-
“We (businesses) don’t want a lot of government inter
ference, but we do want basic assistance...”
— John A. Adams Jr., president of A&M Center for
International Studies advisory board
pan and Germany in order to try to
find new markets for their prod
ucts.”
The private sector is more active
in promoting international business
in Texas, mainly because of the in
dependence and psychology of the
state, Adams says.
He says that a city’s chamber of
commerce is more likely to work to
promote international business than
the state.
Because the Odessa chamber of
commerce took a group of men to
five countries, tooling equipment
that would have been lying idle in
Odessa instead is producing spe
cialty products for German compa
nies and shipping them out of
Odessa, he says.
Adams says that this is an individ
ual, isolated case and that it took a
lot of effort to accomplish, but it can
be done.
The United States overall has
been rather vigorous in promoting
international business, he says, but
still remains behind Japan and Ger
many.
“The efforts of primarily the Jap
anese and secondly the Germans, be
cause of the policy of their govern
ments and because government and
business are so closely linked, are
doing a lot more,” Adams says.“The
Japanese have JETRO (Japanese Ex
port Trade Organization) in Hous
ton and have clearly targeted Texas
as a potential boom and growth area.
They know in time the economy will
bounce back.”
He says that because the economy
has taken a downturn, the state gov
ernment has taken notice.
“When the energy business
booming in Texas, other smaller or
less glamorous or less capital-inten
sive operations don’t seem to' be
nearly as important,” Adams says.“-
Now they are becoming important
because of the need to diversify the
state’s economy.
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Paul Simon picks Texas campaign chairman
AUSTIN (AP) — Democratic presidential can
didate Paul Simon on Tuesday tapped as his
Texas campaign chairman former congressman
Bob Krueger, who said the stock market crash
shows the nation needs the Illinois senator in the
White House.
Krueger said Simon’s record on the economy
and federal budget proves he is more in tune
with the times than is President Reagan or any of
the other presidential hopefuls.
“As a long-time critic of Reaganomics, he’s
going to look better and better, given this current
stock market,” Krueger said in a meeting with re
porters. “Paul Simon recognized a long time ago
that he’s a pay-as-you-go Democrat. He is a genu
ine co-sponsor of a balanced budget amendment
(to the Constitution). I think those are popular
positions in Texas.”
Krueger said that while Simon hails from a
northern state, the senator’s background and ex
perience should be big advantages with Texas
Democrats who will go to the polls on “Super
Tuesday” next March.
“After the mystique of Hollywood, people will
be ready for rural Illinois,” he said. “They want
the real thing. And that’s what they’re going to
get.”
Krueger, who unsuccessfully sought the Dem
ocratic U.S. Senate nomination in 1984, served in
the U.S. House with Simon. Krueger earlier said
he had narrowed his favorites among the Demo
cratic hopefuls to Simon and Missouri Rep. Rich
ard Gephardt.
“I could support any Democratic candidate,”
he said Tuesday. “I think Paul Simon has got the
qualities of heart as well as mind to be a fine pres
ident. That’s not to say anything against Dick Ge
phardt.”
During a brief news conference, Simon pre
dicted that he will do well in the Texas primary
on March 8 despite an admittedly slow start. Cur
rent polls show that Simon still has a fairly good
chance to become the next Democratic opponent
for president.
He likened his position in Texas now to his po
sition in Iowa months ago, immediately after de
claring his candidacy, when he trailed several
other Democrats.
But two recent polls in Iowa show him ahead
there now, he said.
“Our campaign in Texas right now is just
barely getting launched,” he said. “The first Des
Moines (Iowa) Register poll showed me with 1
percent. I assume a poll in Texas right now
would not show me much higher than that, if any
higher.”
Saying he hoped to appeal to a wide base of
Texas Democrats, Simon predicted that the mo
mentum after his showings in the early primaries
would improve his standing in the South and
Texas before Super Tuesday.
“I think you’re going to see in the state of
Texas that we’re going to make good, solid pro
gress,” he said. “We’re building a base. When the
momentum comes from Iowa, New Hampshire,
Minnesota and South Dakota into Super Tues
day, I think you’re going to see Paul Simon doing
very well in Texas.”
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