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
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ransacked house Apri
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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.
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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
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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
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