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The Battalion
Monday, January 25, 1993
A&M puts millions into economy
By SHELIA VELA
77ie Battalion
The Texas A&M University
system pumped an estimated $530
million into the Bryan-College
Station economy last year.
"We are proud to continue be
ing a significant factor in the con
tinuing economic vitality of the
Bryan-College Station area, as
well as in educational, cultural
and other endeavors that have
positive impacts on the region,"
University President Dr. William
H. Mobley said in a released state
ment.
Mobley requested an in-house
study which revealed A&M's eco
nomic contribution to the local
community and businesses.
The study includes Texas A&M
students, employees, campus visi
tors and families.
About 40,000 University stu-
"We are proud to continue
being a significant factor in
the continuing economic
vitality of the Bryan-College
Station area ..."
-Dr. William H. Mobley
University President
dents contributed an estimated
$150.5 million to the local econo
my. The expenditures ranged
from food and housing to cloth
ing, supplies and recreation.
The salaries of A&M's 19,000
permanent and part-time employ
ees directly affected the economy
through deposits in local banks
and other
financial in
stitutions as
well as pur-
chases
made by
employees
and their
families.
Keith
Storm, store
manager of
Wal-Mart
in College Station, said A&M has
had an "absolutely, very positive
economic impact" on the store.
Storm said most of the store's cus
tomer base is students, and the
store is structured to accommo
date them. "A&M is predomi
nately why we are here, and why
we do as well as we do," he said.
Professors, employees and fami
lies of TAMU System members
are all regular customers to the
store, he said.
Tami Wood, marketing director
of Post Oak Mall, said A&M has
had a positive economic impact
on mall merchants. She said one
out of every five mall customers
are A&M faculty or students.
The University also draws
many visitors to the Bryan-Col
lege Station area. Last year, cam
pus visitors contributed about
$21.9 million to the Bryan-College
Station community.
Wood said A&M home football
games also bring many visitors to
the mall.
Defunct Soviet Union's seeks buyer of space technology
Sale opens window for bargains, debate
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON - The United
States can bolster the Russian
economy and help launch Ameri
ca's efforts in private and public
space technology by buying old
Soviet space crafts and industrial
products, a published report said
Sunday.
But U.S. officials say cheap
Russian technology undercuts the
U.S. space industry and, among
other things, puts people out of
work. The Houston Post reported.
The collapse of the Soviet
Union left its space program, con
sidered America's chief space ri
val for decades, in a quandary.
Since then, different facets of the
Soviet program have become
semiprivate organizations at
tempting to sell rocket-launch ser
vices, retrievable orbiters and re
entry vehicles on the free market.
The director of one such com
pany, NPO Energia, was in Hous
ton recently to push a re-entry
craft that NASA might buy as an
escape ship from Space Station
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negotiate a deal with the company
despite calls for cutbacks on the
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Still, some Americans worry
that if the United States doesn't
buy Russian space products now,
the Japanese or Europeans may
snatch the bargains we turn
down.
U.S. Rep. Ralph M. Hall, D-
Rockwall, chairman of the House
Space Subcommittee, plans a se
ries of hearings early this year to
discuss laws and policies that pre
vent U.S. firms and the govern
ment from using Russian technol
ogy-
"1 think that needs to be
changed. We need to lease or pur
chase Russian equipment, includ
ing, their space station," Hall said.
Russian space officials are said
to feel "intense resentment of the
U.S. State Department" over trade
barriers, according to an October
report to Congress from the Con
gressional Research Office.
"They are not desperately seek
ing saviors, but avidly believe
they have a lot to offer and do not
understand what is taking Ameri
ca so long to take advantage of the
opportunities," Marcia S. Smith,
space technology expert and au
thor of the report, wrote after a
week of interviews with top space
officials in Moscow.
Longstanding federal direc
tives have prevented U.S. compa
nies from putting satellites on
Russian rockets, for instance. One
concern is the Russians could
learn U.S. defense technology se
crets.
"I don't think it's a Cold War
law. It's a protectionist law,"
Michelle Moore, a program man
ager for Space Commerce Corp., a
Houston partner to several Russ
ian firms.
Rice University space policy
expert Nathan Goldman said Rus
sians carry no research-and-devel-
opment costs from old Soviet bud
gets and thus can undercut pri
vate Western prices by two-thirds.
"There certainly in the past
would have been a slightly differ
ent flavor because of the Cold
War concerns. But my personal
opinion is if we're going to ac
complish the major events we've
been advocating, it's going to
have to be with international co
operation," said Donald R. Rud
dy, a top NASA official in charge
of U.S.Russian space programs.
Already NASA is collaborating
with Russia on space health stud
ies, an astronaut-cosmonaut ex
change and putting U.S. instru
ments on a Russian Mars probe,
he said.
"I know that Congress can
drag its feet, but I wouldn't do it if
I were them," Yury P. Semenov,
director of NPO Energia, said.
Already an estimated 30 per
cent of the 800,000 former Soviet
aerospace workers have left the
industry.
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