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WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen.
Phil Gramm says a free trade
agreement with Mexico will turn im
poverished border communities into
prospering, bustling hubs of com
merce.
But Sen. Dennis DeConcini says
he’s afraid an increase in trade could
bring more people and pollution to a
region where raw sewage is dumped
into precious water supplies and res
idents cope with diseases more com
mon in the Third World than the
United States.
“We just cannot afford to do any
thing that would magnify the bad
environment that’s on the border al
ready,” says DeConcini, D-Ariz. “I
don’t believe you could get an
agreement without the environment
playing a major role.”
But Mexico’s commerce secretary,
Jaime Serra Puche, said last week
that environmental issues would not
be on the table when Mexico and the
United States negotiate an
agreement to eliminate tariffs and
other trade restraints. He and U.S.
Trade Representative Carla Hills
said environmental questions can be
addressed outside the free trade ne
gotiations.
While border states like Texas
and Arizona are the gateways to eco
nomic opportunities south of the
border, their border cities will feel
the effects of the increase in trade in
a number of conflicting ways, with
the net effect ambiguous, according
to the International Trade Commis-
Gramm, R-Texas, said he believes
that the prosperity that comes with
in trade
an increase
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Medal
of Honor winner Louis Richard
Rocco is ready to go to war again.
The retired Army medic, physi
cian assistant, counselor of veterans
and one-time politician is back in the
military, ready to save wounded sol
diers in the battlefields of the Per
sian Gulf War.
“I volunteered for it,” Rocco said.
“I feel very strongly that they need
experienced people. They need peo
ple who have been in combat before.
“Believe it or not, there are a lot of
retirees that want to go.”
After hearing on television that
the military was calling up former
physician assistants, 52-year-old
Rocco volunteered. Last month he
headed to San Antonio and Fort
Sam Houston to start getting recerti
fied.
“I had never even given thought
(to) coming back to the service,” the
chief warrant officer said. “I guess
it’s destiny.”
After 22 years in the Army, Rocco
left in 1978 but remained involved
with veterans by heading counseling
programs and becoming director of
New Mexico’s Veterans Affairs De
partment.
He later ran for lieutenant gover
nor of New Mexico but lost in the
Democratic primary in June 1990.
“I wasn’t well-versed in politics,
and as a result I was soundly de
feated,” Rocco said with a laugh.
While clearing up campaign debts
and trying to figure out what to do
next, Rocco heard about the mili
tary’s need for physician assistants.
Now he’s doing laboratory work
and auditing classes. He’ll find out in
the coming months whether he’ll be
sent to the Middle East.
In the meantime, Rocco is trying
to help young people in the many
Army medicine classes at Fort Sam
Houston by telling them about his
war experiences.
“The medics carry a heavy load,”
he said. “They’re not doctors, but
they’re expected to perform like
ide ~
doctors under fire.”
Rocco did two tours of duty in
Vietnam in the mid- and late-1960s
and won the Medal of Honor for
saving five lives as a medic during
the conflict. He later became a physi
cian’s assistant, a position requiring
more education and training.
Rocco said the you&g people
training to be physician assistants
and medics are “wide-eyed” when he
speaks to them. “It sort of brings the
message home of why they’re there,”
he said.
He tells them about the harsh rea
lities of war.
“There will be a lot of confusion, a
lot of noise ... there will be a lot of
people screaming,” he said. One of
the toughest jobs, Rocco said, is stay
ing calm and deciding which pa
tients to care for first.
“It’s a little different than reading
it from the books,” he said. “You will
be scared. There’s no question you
will have a lot of fear.”
And, he said, he warns students
that some fears may not emerge un
til years later, in tne form of post-
traumatic stress disorder.
Rocco said he expects a big differ
ence between Vietnam and the Per
sian Gulf War to be the threat in the
Middle East of chemical or biological
warfare.
“It can develop into a nightmare
because there will be an enormous
amount of casualties,” he said.
Another difference, Rocco said, is
the possibility more wounds will
come from rocket and artillery fire,
rather than from smaller weapons
common in Vietnam.
Aside from enjoying his return to
medical studies, Rocco said, he likes
getting back into the familiar mili
tary life.
“It’s been a ball,” he said, explain
ing that he has met up with several
old friends from his Vietnam days.
“It’s like old home week.”
As for his family and close
friends, his three grown children
and his girlfriend are adjusting to
Rocco’s rejoining the military.
“They’re proud that I’m in,” he
said.
PRE-LAW SOCIETY
Meeting
Wed. Jan. 13
7:00 p.m.
226 MSC
South Texas College
of Law
revenue to address pollution prob
lems.
“The thing that’s causing pollut-
The reason the Rio
ion is poverty.
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free trade agreement will lie thaitl
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The reason the Rio Grande is the most pollutii
river in North America is because the Mexicans
are dumping raw sewage into it. ... Free trait
will help the environment, not hurt
Grande is the most polluted river in
North America is because the Mexi
cans are dumping raw sewage into
it,” Gramm said.
clean air and clean water provision
Free trade will help the envirot
ment, not hurt it.”
American Airlines, pilot!
reach contract agreement
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP)
— American Airlines pilots would
receive annual 4 percent raises
under a three-year contract ex
pected to be ratified this week, a
union spokesman said Sunday.
A tentative accord reached Sat
urday between the airline and the
Allied Pilots Association would
provide annual increases each
Aug. 31, union spokesman Wally
Pitts told The Associated Press
Sunday.
In addition, each of the nearly
9,000 pilots covered by the pact
would receive a lump-sum retro
active raise of 8 percent dating to
Jan. 1, 1990, Pitts said. That 8
percent would also apply to the
pilots’ pensions, he said.
After the first increase, Ameri
can MD-80 captains would earn
more than their counterparts at
Delta Air Lines, Pitts said. All
American pilots would make
more than their Delta colleagues
by the end of the contract, he
said.
Pitts said the contract also
would eliminate retirement and
vacation disparities between se
nior pilots and those hired after
November, 1983. All pilots would
reach top pay range after 6 years,
he added.
Union directors are expected
to approve the agreement this
week, said Allied Pilots spokes
man Tom Hunt.
“I think this is something that
American and the pilots can all
live with,” he said.
The contract replaces one thai
expired more than a year ago and
ends 16 months of talks. TheNa
tional Mediation Board has been
moderating the pilots’ contract
negotiations at a Washington ho
tel since Jan. 7.
T alks broke down Jan. 30
when the union rejected an offer
that would have increased Ameri
can’s cockpit costs by more than
$1 billion over four years. The
breakdown raised the prospect of
a 30-day cooling period that, un
der the bargaining terms, would
be reejmred before a strike.
Mediator Harry Bickford
pushed the two sides back to the
table Monday and kept them
there virtually around-the-c.od
Thursday and Friday. In
statements announcing the
agreement, the sides called Bick
ford’s efforts “extraordinary."
However, Bickford said he
never doubted an agreemem
would be reached.
The two sides left a handful of
issues, including pilot contribu
tions to American’s health plan
and retiree medical coverage, to
be decided by an arbitrator.
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