Monday, August 29, 1988/The Battalion/Page 7
Foreign firms
take over
companies
Warped
by Scott McCullar
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New study may put Texas
on top of health research
GALVESTON (AP) —University
of Texas researchers will soon
launch a study they hope will estab
lish the state as a national leader in
minority mental health research.
Backed by a $2.5-million federal
grant, researchers at the UT Health
Science Center in Houston and the
UT Medical Branch in Galveston
have set up the Texas Minority Men
tal Health Research Center, sched
uled to open Thursday.
Targeting equal numbers of His-
panics, blacks and whites, center re
searchers will fan out in the Houston
and Galveston area and across south
Texas in coming months, said Fer
nando M. Trevino, center director
and UTMB associate professor of
reventive medicine and community
ealth. i
They will interview 1,000 or more
adolescent school children picked at
random for a two-year study and fol
low members of 150 or more fami
lies in a three-year investigation.
Among other things, scientists
hope to determine the incidence of
psychiatric problems among minori
ties, whether current diagnostic pro
cedures are appropriate for mi
nority patients and now to provide
good mental health services to mi
nority groups.
“The results of these research
projects will provide essential infor
mation which will allow policy-mak
ers, health educators and health care
providers to more effectively ad
dress the needs of minority popula
tions in the United States,” Charles
E. Holzer III told the Houston
Chronicle.
“One of the things I hope will
come out of this is that (Texas) legis
lators will become increasingly aware
of the importance of mental health
services and of the difference they
can make with a greater commit
ment to such services,” Holzer said.
Holzer, a UTMB associate profes
sor of psychiatry and behavioral sci
ences, and Robert E. Roberts, a UT
Health Science Center professor of
behavioral sciences, epidemiology
and international health, are co-di-
rectors of the new center.
The Texas scientists competed
with researchers at 21 other univer
sities for the prized National Insti
tute of Mental Health grant.
“It’s a big first for Texas,” said
Trevino. “It’s something we hope
will put mental health research in
the forefront in Texas and put
Texas in the forefront in the na
tion.”
Texas is near the bottom of the list
of states in expenditures for mental
health services and provides vir
tually no such services for children,
Holzer said.
DALLAS (AP) — A growing num
ber of U.S. defense electronics com
panies have found themselves de
fenseless against takeover-hungry
defense contractors, a newspaper re
ported.
More than a dozen U.S. defense
electronics companies have been ac
quired by other companies since Au
gust 1987, including four of Texas’
largest defense equipment manufac
turers, the Dallas Morning News re
ported in its Sunday editions.
The level of takeover activity also
has raised national security questions
among some U.S. defense exec
utives, who fear too much of Ameri
ca’s defense technology base many
fall into the hands of foreign own
ership, although the Pentagon re
views each foreign takeover.
“It’s interesting there have been
foreigners picking up companies in
areas that are relatively sensitive,”
said Byron K. Callan, defense elec
tronics analyst with Prudential
Bache Capital Securities in New
York.
“It could emerge as a broader na
tional issue,” he said. “And it’s inter
esting to see the Defense Depart
ment allow some of these
(takeovers).”
Most of the buyers have been
manufacturers of aircraft, tanks and
other big-ticket military items that
expect an increasing number of Pen
tagon contracts despite tightening
pursestrings.
As defense spending slows down,
the military is increasingly upgrad
ing existing equipment with electro
nics.
The latest Texas company to fall
into a takeover tug-of-war was Varo
Inc., based in the Dallas suburb of
Garland, that makes night-vision sys
tems, power systems, missile launch
ers, laser-targeting devices and ad
vanced military microcircuits.
Varo last week agreed to be ac
quired by Imo Delaval Inc., a Law-
renceville, N.J., instruments and
controls manufacturer, for $ 113 mil
lion. An unfriendly suitor, United
Scientific Holdings PLC of London,
however, said it was prepared to of
fer at least $ 117 million.
James F. Gero, chairman and
chief executive officer of Varo, said
he believes foreign companies are at
tracted to the U.S. defense market
because of several factors, including
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