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Monday • April 24,1
Laredo residents split over A&M
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□ Debate on whether TAMILI should
be transferred to the UT system con
tinues to evoke conflicting opinions.
LAREDO(AP) — Tiny Texas A&M Internation
al University, once ignored by those far from
South Texas, now finds itself in the middle of a
tug-of-war between the mammoth Texas A&M and
University of Texas systems.
“It has been a dream converted to a nightmare,”
TAMIU president Leo Sayavedra said of the power
struggle. “The timing couldn’t be worse.
“It’s bizarre,” he said. “I think somehow the
university is caught in an environment in which it
has no control.”
The controversy erupted last month when Sen.
Judith Zaffirini, a Laredo Democrat and a UT
graduate, introduced legislation that would trans
fer TAMIU to the UT system.
Some say the split is along socioeconomic lines,
with the city’s powerful bankers leading the
charge for UT while the folks closer to Laredo’s
agrarian roots cling to A&M.
But supporters of the UT bill say it’s not about
class. They say the opposition is a small but vocal
and well-organized group. The UT measure, they
contend, has united the city as never before.
Supporters point to various polls that show resi
dents backing the proposed switch to UT and extol
endorsements ranging from the Laredo Chamber
of Commerce to the City Council.
Critics say a more sensitive, new A&M Board of
Regents and administration is in place and are skep
tical of whether the UT System could do any better.
The measure passed in the Senate and is
ing in a House committee. If thwarted, itcoitij
come law by riding on the back of legislation
would put the Baylor College of Dentistry in
las in the Texas A&M University System.
“We’re going to fight until whatever free !
over, and then we’ll skate on ice,” said A&MCln
cellor Barry Thompson, adding they haveagr
deal invested in the university.
TAMIU has about 2,000 students, butenrolint
is projected to more than triple in the next!
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Monetary Fund releases
positive global survey of
economic status.
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global economy should enjoy its
strongest growth in seven years
in 1995, but that bright prospect
is threatened by the recent weak
ness of the dollar and the turmoil
in the Mexican economy, the In
ternational Monetary Fund
said Sunday.
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economic conditions, the IMF pre
dicted that the economic recovery
would gather steam in most of the
world, although it forecast a sig
nificant slowdown in the United
States this year and next.
In its new economic forecast,
the IMF predicted that the world
economy would expand by 3.8
$ percent this year and
an even better 4.2
percent in 1996.
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best rates since a 4.6
percent surge in
1988. Global econom
ic output grew by 3.7
percent last year, up sharply from
2.5 percent in 1993.
It predicted that growth in
Germany would accelerate slight
ly to 3.2 percent this year. But it
estimated that the Japanese
economy would continue to strug
gle with a subpar 1.8 percent
growth rate as exporters sufe
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growth of 5.6 percent this yea:
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tions about a country’s situacf
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