Show US industry using cheap Mexican labor CIUDAD JUAREZ Mexico (AP) — American industry battered by foreign competition is fighting back — with Mexicans Tens of thousands of Mexican women are stitching together blue jeans clipping together electronic gear and assembling small automobile parts in a string of 620 factories most of them American-owne- d that stretches along the Mexican side of the US border from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific The workers are paid one tenth or less of what Americans would receive and the products are shipped almost low-pric- ed duty-fre- e Despite a slowdown caused by the economists and US recession businessmen say this special program industrial partnership of can only expand Some see it as a vital American weapon in the economic wars of the coming decades “If the United States did not have these assembly plants we would lose the competitive edge on the world market’’ said Edward George an econom US-Mexic- an ist at the University of Texas at El Paso who has studied the system of “maquiladoras” a Spanish word for assembly plants The National Bank of Mexico forecasts that the number of Mexicans employed in the maquiladoras will leap from the current 135000 to almost 500000 by 1990 “I think the future is unlimited” Carlos Riquelme former president of a national association of maquiladoras told a reporter “I see the whole border area becoming a center of technology and industry in the 1990s” One sign of growth: the population of n this city on the Rio Grande has doubled to 800000 in just 14 years dust-blow- Ciudad Juarez now has 130 ma- quiladoras with 45000 workers US labr unions complain the Mexicans are taking jobs away from Americans But George and other economists survival of the maintain the long-rang- e — and their US companies involved — would be threatened if employees Souvenirs to finance papal visit to Britain Monday April 5 1982 er part of the manufacturing process was not carried out by cheap unskilled labor The mushrooming of the border factories is also causing some alarm south of the border Mexican nationalists see it as a new kind of American invasion and some labor activists complain of exploitation by US multinationals Under the program begun in 1965 facwith just 12 plants foreign-owne- d tories can import components from abroad without paying Mexican customs duty assemble the parts into televisions clothing or other products then ship them back to the originating country- Companies taking advantage of this lucrative system include RCA General Motors Farah Hughes Aircraft AMF and General Instrument Eighty percent of the maquiladora workers are women They were found to be more dextrous and patient with work — and some say assembly-lin- e less complaining than Mexican men Up to 60 TV channels LONDON (AP) — The Roman Catholic Church in Britain has joined forces with American entrepreneur Mark McCormack to market 250 different souvenirs for the upcoming visit of Pope John Paul II — the first time church officials have used souvenir sales to help pay for a papal tour visit starting May With John Paul’s 28 expected to cost $108 million the British Catholic hierarchy hired McCormack to mar- ket papal mementos and provide business ex pertise The souvenirs will range in price frory a plastic bag to a $2250 platinurf '! medallion Cleveland-baseInternationa McCormack’s Management Group whose clients include s ace Bjorn Borg golfer Arnold Palmer aid n boxer Muhammad Ali stands to make $2 Obsr-ver from the deal according to London’s newspaper McCormack a Yale Law School graduate formed IMG in 1959 With 400 employees it’s now the largest sports marketing and maiage-meorganization in the world With 13 offices in 10 countries IMG prcluces films and television programs includiig the Wimbledon tennis tournament It repesents about 500 professional athletes in nearV every field of sports Richard Crow an IMG executive inLondon would not disclose how much the iompany expects to make from the souvenirsales but said it was “looking reasonably heathy” Standard-Examin- $2795 Complete 10 Foot Antenna AZEL Mount six-da- y 120° LNA 45-ce- nt Spacecom Satellite Receiver d tei-ni- Model SHR-10- 0 mil-io- Factory Direct nt Call or write today ! 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