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Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday, April 13, 1988 Director: Texas commerce has exciting’ outlook By Jerry Bolz Reporter Texas has a larger state product than all but 10 nations and two states — California and New York — the deputy director of the Texas De partment of Commerce said Tues day night. “We’re the only state in the nation that has it’s own foreign policy,” Roger W. Wallace said, referring to Texas relations with Mexico. Texas is going to be an exciting place to live in the next 15 to 20 years, he said. Roger W. Wallace discussed Texas’ position in the world econ omy at an event sponsored by the Jordon Fellows. “In terms of exports, Texas is still in a Third World mode,” he said. “We want to stimulate the manufac turing and service sectors in the state.” Texas, Wallace said, needs to de velop a mass of internationally minded business people. Bill Luttrel, director of the Office of International Business Devel opment of the TDOC, agreed that Texas will be a center for business in the future. “Texas has seen almost a seven fold increase in direct investment, and now has $37 billion of foreign direct investment,” he said. Texas has many resources that at tract foreign money — primarily oil — he said. The downturn in oil prices showed Texans how they are af fected by activities overseas, and that our economy needs to be guided and controlled, Luttrel said. That is the main reason the TDOC was organized in 1987, he said. “Because of the large market in Texas, we have always looked in ward, especially in manufacturing,” Luttrel said. Foreign direct investment is grow ing faster than national investment, leading Texas to look to interna tional markets. “We want to attract foreign invest ment that will make Texas products competitive in the marketplace and that will stay here. We want quality investment,” he said. TDOC is currently emphasizing growth in petrachemical, manufac turing, biomedics, agriculture and high-tech industries. They are focus ing on attracting investment from Western Europe, Canada, Mexico and other South and Central Ameri can countries, and the Pacific rim, which includes Japan. “I look forward to saying I was in volved in bringing Texas to where it will be at the turn of the century,” Luttrel said. Both speakers stressed that stu dents interested in international business should travel abroad and learn other languages. “My recommendation is to get out and travel,” Wallace said. “Go abroad, and do it now. Living in a foreign culture is the most impor tant thing for anyone interested in international business.” He commented that the average Peace Corps worker is probably bet ter prepared for the international scene than a Harvard business grad uate. “Developing linguistics will be paramount in developing an edge in international business,” Luttrel said. Learning a language well gives a bet ter perspective of how to commu nicate and do business overseas, he said. In Advance Students plan anti-apartheid march Texas A&M’s Students Against Apartheid will sponsor an anti apartheid march Thursday to protest the University’s $4.1 mil lion in investments in companies with holdings in South Africa. Derek Kalahar, the group’s public relations officer, said ev eryone is invited to join the march, which will begin at 12:30 p.m. Thursday in front of the Systems Administration Building. Kalahar, a freshman journa lism major, said the group is hop ing to have several hundred peo ple participate in the march. "We’re hoping for a few hun dred, hopefully more than that,’ he said. “We had one last seme, ter — it was a couple of hundrtd poeple. We think we can whole lot better this time,becatu of the publicity generated by tin shanty.” The participants will mart! from the front of campus to4 anti-apartheid shanty near it* Academic Building, then to Rad. der Fountain. When the marchers readul* fountain, Kalahar said, there be several speakers whowertr, vited by SAA to address the issm of apartheid and divestment. targi laims Houston task force! to review slayings of elderly people HOUSTON (AP) — Police have organized a special task force of de tectives to review every slaying of an elderly person since the beginning of 1987 in an effort to determine if a serial killer is responsible for any of the 39 slayings. Police have cleared 18 of those deaths dating back to last year, but homicide Sgt. Sharon Durham said the new task force will examine all of the cases for any common denomi nators that may have been missed before. There has been no evidence to in dicate a serial killer is involved in the spate of murders of older people, of ficials said Monday. There have been 14 such murders in the past year alone. Durham said that although sus pects in some cases may be in jail, they may have associates who use the same methods. weekend arrest of is the killing of 81-yraJ Formation of the taskforcu| announced at the time policn ported the pect in Beulah Jolivet J olivet’s body was found ini ransacked house Apri Dervl Wayne Madison, a [J prison parolee who recently I done yard work and odd jobs fu livet, was being held without i after being charged with a mu rder. Police allege that Madison killed (olivet while robbinght her home. An autopsy showed sbei stabbed, strangled and beatenos head. Homicide Sgt. Ronnie Doslt Madison was arrested after am: ties learned that he hadsdds property taken from the tit home. Boulter gets Republican Senate nominatio ODi ufa< |d I e pro< *3.99 1 WITH COUPON Good for 4 per coupon! I I OFFER VALID AT THE FOLLOWING SWENSEN’S Culpepper Plaza Expires 4/30/88 s % PLEASE PRESENT WHEN ORDERING SPECIAL OH PROMOt ION ONL C0U ; present when ordering good only with coupon during specified dates not valid with . OR PROMO 1 ION ONL COUPON PER CUSTOMER VISIT UNI ESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED VOID WHERE H ANY OTHER DISCOUNT O RE PROHIBITED BY LAW AUSTIN (AP) — Texas voters put the finishing touches on the No vember ballot Tuesday, with Am arillo Congressman Beau Boulter defeating businessman Wes Gil breath in their runoff for the Re publican U.S. Senate nomination. Gilbreath conceded about 9:30 p.m. Three-term Democratic Sen. Lloyd Bentsen congratulated Boulter and said he looked forward “to running against him in the fall.” Republicans also were completing their ballot for a Railroad Commis sion seat, where former state Rep. Ed Emmett held a commanding lead over Dallas petroleum engineer P.S. “Sam” Ervin, a former Democrat. With 55 percent of the vote counted, Emmett led 63.6 percent to 36.4 per cent. In the GOP race for a Texas Su preme Court seat, Dallas appeals court Judge Nathan Hecht outpaced Houston lawyer Ronald Block, 59.1 percent to 40.9 percent. Democrats decided all their statewide primaries on March 8, and the Republican Senate race gar nered most of the attention during the runoff campaign. With 55 percent of the vote counted. Boulter led with 64.1 per cent of the vote to Gilbreath’s 35.9, according to the Texas secretary of state’s office. Gilbreath, 59, a millionaire, had said he was ready to spend $750,000 to win the nomination. Boulter, 46, Brazos County gives Sims commissioner nomination In Brazos County’s only primary runoff Tuesday, Randy Sims, of Bryan, was elected to be the Republi can nominee for precinct 3 county commissioner. Sims defeated L.G. Crum, of Col lege Station, with 56 percent of the 1,800 votes cast in the Brazos County GOP runoff. In statewide GOP runoffs, local voters supported Houston business man Wes Gilbreath to challenge U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen in the general election, giving him 54 percent of the vote; but early statewide returns showed Rep. Beau Boulter leading. For the GOP nomination for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commis sion, Brazos County returns matched early returns from around the state, with Ed Emmit winning a substantial victory over Sam Ervtn. Emmit received 65 percent of the vote in Brazos County. In the GOP runoff for a seat on the state Supreme Court, the choice of Brazos County voters apparently wasn’t the statewide favorite. Local voters gave Ronald Block 64 percent of the vote, but Texas returns had Nathan Hecht leading Block. Statewide Democratic runoffs at tracted less than a third of the num ber who turned out for the COP vote with 486 local Democrats cast ing ballots. Brazos County Democrats sup ported John Welch as their U.S. Representative nominee for district 6. [breed t (horities can ticket. 1 support the ticket' B I he governor also predicteJjH se ' .cm.Iis i... Ins |).nt\ tlmiall. r 1 "^ 1 ' “Texas is a iwn-partv slate.iBr 11 ^ an all-time* high. The growths!B s sm party is clear. The momenic* building. 1 he victoriesareco!JHB vva the November electiotltfr® 1 Bush is g< nng in he our p.iir- p en ' 11 ' dential nominee. George BustB run very hard and very c .■ Texas,” Clements said. picked up the endorsements of the other two primary candidates who failed to make the runoff, Milton Fox and Edwin “Ned” Snead. The Hecht-Block court race will finalize the Republicans’ “reform slate” for the fall election. The COP is contesting five for Supreme Court seats with two candidates — Chief Justice Tom Phillips and Justice Bar bara Culver — running as incum bents, having been appointed by Gov. Bill Clements. Clements vowed Tuesday night to work for the entire GOP ticket this fall, saying Texas truly has become a two-party state. “I feel good about the Republican chances in November,” Clements said. “I feel good about our Republi- In other runoff races, ainl congressional nominations tel ing decided. Panhandle Republicans si'l close early race between fornicl arillo Chamber of Comment:* dent Larry Milner and Bob!T Pampa for the U.S. House ■ I cated by Boulter. Democrat i state Sen. Bill Sarpaliuslastmcl In one of two Democraticr. I attorney Wayne Walker oft* and teacher Richard Konr l Houston were running nel j neck for a chance to face22ik1 trict incumbent Rep. ToniDcb| In the6th District,contrac | “Pat” Kendrick of Joshua i farmer John E. Welch of "-i chie. 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