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Almost 75% of the $100 billion in U.S. trade with Mexico is delivered by truck, and most of that cargo travels through Texas. The major route is Interstate 35, running north-south through several of the state's major cities--San Antonio, Austin and Dallas-Forth Worth. Specialized trucking firms called drayage companies haul goods in a narrow strip of U.S. territory along the border, where they exchange cargoes for transshipment to border plants or destinations deeper in America. The majority of trucks are Mexican because U.S. companies, afraid of theft and corruption, are reluctant to send their trucks into...
...could cost states $6 billion because the provision is tacked onto this year's major highway spending bill. Another reason: the popular bill, which passed the House without opposition and the Senate on a 80-16 vote, is likely to withstand a veto anyway. In a few weeks, reports Austin bureau chief S.C. Gwynne, workers will begin posting signs raising the state speed limit to 70 mph over 77,000 miles of Texas highways. A number of like-minded Western states are giving motorists freer rein: Kansas, Nevada and Wyoming will raise the limit to 75 mph, while Oklahoma...
Third-year Harvard Law School students debated First Amendment issues concerning obscenity on the Internet in a moot court competition held last night in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall...
INSTEAD OF LASHING OUT VIOLENTLY, maybe activists like Carver should evaluate their own methods of ranching and develop more ecologically sound techniques. Ultimately, these ranchers have more to fear from Big Business than they do from the Federal Government or the country's environmentalists. BRIAN H. ZYGO, Austin, Texas Via E-mail...
Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. discussed the criminal system, the issue of race and the role of the media in the O.J. Simpson trial before an audience of about 200 people at the Law School's Austin Hall Saturday...