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BRUSSELS Islamic ex-tremists struck Tuesday inthe heart of Europe, killingat least 31 people andwounding scores of othersin back-to-back bombings ofthe Brussels airport andsubway that again laid barethe continents vulnerabilityto suicide squads.

Bloodied and dazed trav-elers staggered from the air-port after two explosions at least one blamed on a sui-cide attacker and anotherreportedly on a suitcasebomb tore throughcrowds checking in for

morning flights. About 40minutes later, another blaststruck subway commutersin central Brussels near theMaelbeek station, which sitsamid the European Com-mission headquarters.

Authorities released aphoto taken from closed-cir-cuit TV footage of threemen pushing luggage carts,saying two of them appar-ently were the suicidebombers and that the third dressed in a light-coloredcoat, black hat and glasses was at large. They urgedthe public to contact them ifthey recognized him. Thetwo men believed to be thesuicide attackers apparentlywere wearing dark gloves

on their left hands.In police raids across

Brussels, authorities laterfound a nail-filled bomb,chemical products and anIslamic State flag in a housein the Schaerbeek neighbor-hood, the state prosecutorsoffice said in a statement.

In its claim of responsib-ility, the Islamic State groupsaid its members detonatedsuicide vests both at the air-port and in the subway,where many passengers fledto safety down dark tunnelsfilled with hazy smoke fromthe explosion in a train pull-ing away from the platform.

European security offi-

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

BACK-TO-BACK BOMBINGS

A man walks by solidarity messages written in chalk outside the stock exchange in Brussels on Tuesday. Explosions, at least one likely caused by a suicide bomber, rocked the Brussels airport and subway sys-tem Tuesday, prompting a lockdown of the Belgian capital and heightened security across Europe. At least 34 people were reported dead.

Photo by Geert Vanden Wijngaert | AP

In this photo provided by Georgian Public Broadcaster, injured women are seen in Brussels Airport inBelgium after explosions were heard Tuesday. A developing situation left a number dead in explosionsthat ripped through the departure hall at Brussels airport Tuesday, police said.

Photo by Ketevan Kardava / Georgian Public Broadcaster | AP

Islamic State claims responsibilityfor attack that kills at least 34

By RAF CASERT AND RAPHAEL SATTER

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The same week Presi-dent Obama makes thefirst trip to Cuba by anAmerican president in al-most 90 years, The RollingStones will play a free con-cert in Havana the firstopen-air show there by aBritish rock band.

But changing times inthe Communist countryhavent stopped tens ofthousands from fleeing theisland and saying gimme

CBP

Cubansflock toTexasborder

Refugees fearchanges to policy

By JULIN AGUILARTEXAS TRIBUNE

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Diocese of Laredo Bish-op James A. Tamayo hashalted construction of theCatholic Student Center, aproject that the Brothers ofSt. John and a host of Lare-do citizens and communityleaders have been trying to

get off theground forthe past twoyears.

The cen-ter, locatedon privateland adja-cent to TexasA&M Inter-

national University, wouldsupport thousands of stu-dents during a critical,transitional time in theirlives and help them discov-er their vocations, accord-

ing to the projects advo-cates.

The Brothers of St.John, who spearheaded theproject, held a ground-breaking ceremony for thecenter in fall 2013. As thebrothers raised more mon-ey and secured a bankloan, another groundbreak-ing blessing was scheduledin spring 2015. But beforeconstruction was set tostart, Tamayo, who did notattend the 2013 ground-breaking, stopped the pro-

ject. Its unclear why, but ac-

cording to the projects do-nors and supporters, Ta-mayo said the agreementwas null and void becausehe was under duresswhen he signed a docu-ment with the brothers in2009 to allow for the cam-pus ministrys formation.

Nonetheless, the broth-ers exchanged correspond-ence with Tamayo for at

DIOCESE OF LAREDO

Ministry scandal

TAMAYO

Newman Club Laredo members pray Friday morning after meetingat the site of the Catholic Campus Ministry Center at TAMIU. Morethan two years after a ground breaking ceremony was held, con-struction for the center has not begun.

Photo by Cuate Santos | Laredo Morning Times

Bishop halts campus projectBy PHILIP BALLI, JUDITH RAYO

AND GABRIELA A. TREVIOTHE ZAPATA TIMES

RAY KECKRAY KECK DENNIS NIXONDENNIS NIXONDIANA DIANA

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Spanish Book Club. 68 p.m. La-redo Public Library Calton. For moreinformation, call Sylvia Reash at 763-1810.

Holi: Festival of Colors. 25 p.m.TAMIUs Senator Zaffirini Student Suc-cess Center Green. Open to the TAMIUstudent community. For more informa-tion, contact Triana Gonzalez at 956-326-2565 or email triana.gonzalez@ta-miu.edu.

THURSDAY, MARCH 24Easter Party. 24 p.m. LBV-Inner

City Library, 202 W. Plum St. Enjoyfree food, an egg hunt, crafts, a pet-ting zoo, egg decorations, races andmore. Call 956-795-2400 x2521 formore information.

Preschool Read & Play. 11a.m.12 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Sali-nas Branch Library, 1920 Palo BlancoSt. Story time and crafts for preschool-ers. For more information, contact Pris-cilla Garcia at priscilla@laredolibrary.orgor 795-2400 x2403.

Family Story Time & Crafts. 45p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas BranchLibrary, 1920 Palo Blanco St. For moreinformation, contact Priscilla Garcia atpriscilla@laredolibrary.org or 795-2400x2403.

Solo organ performance by Dr.Colin Campbell. 12:151 p.m. TAMIUsCenter of Fine & Performing Arts Re-cital Hall. Free and open to the TAMIUcommunity. For more information, callDr. Campbell at 956-326-3071 or emailcolin.campbell@tamiu.edu.

FRIDAY, MARCH 25Lamar Bruni Vergara Planetarium

show. 57 p.m. TAMIU. The showingsinclude Seven Wonders and Earth tothe Universe. Open to the public. Ad-mission for children and TAMIU facultyand staff is $4. General admission is$5 for adults. For more information,contact Claudia Herrera at 956-326-2463 or email at claudia.herrera@ta-miu.edu.

SATURDAY, MARCH 26Lamar Bruni Vergara Planetarium

show. 26 p.m. TAMIU. The showingsinclude Zula Patrol at 2 p.m., SevenWonders at 3 p.m., Violet Universeat 4 p.m., and Pink Floyds Dark Sideof the Moon at 5 p.m. Open to thepublic. Admission for children and TA-MIU faculty and staff is $4. Generaladmission is $5 for adults. For moreinformation, contact Claudia Herrera at956-326-2463 or email at claudia.her-rera@tamiu.edu.

MONDAY, MARCH 28Mexico Lindo. 7 p.m. Laredo Lit-

tle Theatre, 4802 Thomas Ave. $10.Presented by the Gabriela Mendoza-Garcia Ballet Folklorico. This concertfeatures regional folkloric dances ofMexico. Children and adults will per-form dances from the Mexican statesof Nayarit, Jalisco, Sinaloa and Vera-cruz. In addition, the adult companywill premier Chicano Power! Dances ofPolitical Expression which is the mostrecent scholarly and choreographicwork of the director. Here, the dancerswill portray the music and dances ofthose involved with the Chicano move-ment.

Chess Club. Every Monday from46 p.m. LBV Inner City Branch Li-brary. Free for all ages and skill levels.Basic instruction is offered. For moreinformation call John at 956-795-2400x2520.

TUESDAY, MARCH 29Mexico Lindo. 3 p.m. Laredo Lit-

tle Theatre, 4802 Thomas Ave. $10.Presented by the Gabriela Mendoza-Garcia Ballet Folklorico. This concertfeatures regional folkloric dances ofMexico. Children and adults will per-form dances from the Mexican statesof Nayarit, Jalisco, Sinaloa and Vera-cruz. In addition, the adult companywill premier Chicano Power! Dances ofPolitical Expression which is the mostrecent scholarly and choreographicwork of the director. Here, the dancerswill portray the music and dances ofthose involved with the Chicano move-ment.

Knitting Circle. 13 p.m. McKen-drick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library,1920 Palo Blanco St. Please bring yarnand knitting needles. For more infor-mation, contact Analiza Perez-Gomezat analiza@laredolibrary.org or 795-2400 x2403.

Crochet for Kids. 45 p.m.McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Li-brary, 1920 Palo Blanco St. Pleasebring yarn and a crochet needle. Formore information, contact Analiza Pe-rez-Gomez at analiza@laredolibrary.org

CALENDARASSOCIATED PRESS

Today is Wednesday, March23, the 83rd day of 2016. Thereare 283 days left in the year.The Jewish holiday Purim be-gins at sunset.

Todays Highlight in His-tory:

On March 23, 1775, PatrickHenry delivered an address tothe Virginia Provincial Con-vention in which he is said tohave declared, Give me liber-ty, or give me death!

On this date:In 1792, Joseph Haydns

Symphony No. 94 in G Major(the Surprise symphony)had its first public perform-ance in London.

In 1806, explorers Meriweth-er Lewis and William Clark,having reached the Pacificcoast, began their journeyback east.

In 1914, the first installmentof The Perils of Pauline, thelegendary silent film serialstarring Pearl White, pre-miered in the greater NewYork City area.

In 1919, Benito Mussolinifounded his Fascist politicalmovement in Milan, Italy.

In 1933, the German Reich-stag adopted the Enabling Act,which effectively grantedAdolf Hitler dictatorial pow-ers.

In 1942, the first Japanese-Americans evacuated by theU.S. Army during World WarII arrived at the internmentcamp in Manzanar, California.

In 1956, Pakistan became anIslamic republic.

In 1965, Americas first two-person space mission tookplace as Gemini 3 blasted offwith astronauts Virgil I. Gris-som and John W. Youngaboard for a nearly 5-hourflight.

In 1973, before sentencing agroup of Watergate break-indefendants, Chief U.S. DistrictJudge John J. Sirica readaloud a letter hed receivedfrom James W. McCord Jr.which said there had beenpolitical pressure to pleadguilty and remain silent.

In 1996, Taiwan held its firstdirect presidential elections;incumbent Lee Teng-hui (leedung-hway) was the victor.

In 2001, Russias orbitingMir space station ended its 15-year odyssey with a plannedfiery plunge into the South Pa-cific.

Ten years ago: U.S. andBritish forces freed threeChristian peace activists one Briton and two Canadians near Baghdad, ending afour-month hostage ordealthat saw an American in thegroup killed.

Five years ago: AcademyAward-winning actress Eliza-beth Taylor died in Los An-geles at age 79.

One year ago: Sen. TedCruz launched his bid for theRepublican presidential nomi-nation at Liberty University, aChristian school in Lynch-burg, Virginia, founded by thelate Rev. Jerry Falwell.

Todays Birthdays: Come-dian Marty Allen is 94. SirRoger Bannister (the runnerwho broke the 4-minute milein 1954) is 87. Movie directorMark Rydell is 87. Singer Cha-ka Khan is 63. Actress Aman-da Plummer is 59. Actress Ma-rin Hinkle is 50. BandleaderReggie Watts (TV: The LateLate Show With James Cor-den) is 44. Actor RandallPark is 42. Actress Keri Rus-sell is 40. Gossip columnist-blogger Perez Hilton is 38.

Thought for Today:When people say, Shes goteverything, Ive got one an-swer I havent had tomor-row. Elizabeth Taylor(1932-2011).

TODAY IN HISTORY

HUNTSVILLE A Texas man on deathrow for killing a worker who was on hisproperty looking for city code violations wasput to death Tuesday.

Adam Ward was given a lethal injectionfor shooting and killing Michael Walker, acode enforcement officer who was takingphotos of junk piled outside the Ward familyhome in Commerce. Ward insisted the shoot-ing was in self-defense, but the 44-year-oldWalker only had a camera and a cellphone.

Wards attorneys, both at his trial and lat-er for his appeals, described him as delusion-al and mentally ill. Hours before his execu-tion, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an ap-peal that argued his mental illness shouldhave disqualified him from the death penalty.

Ward was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m.

CDT Tuesday after being given a lethal doseof pentobarbital. He became the ninth con-victed killer executed this year nationallyand the fifth in Texas, which carries out cap-ital punishment more than any other state.

In their appeal to the Supreme Court,Wards attorneys argued the high courtsban on executing mentally impaired prison-ers should be extended to include inmateslike Ward who have a severe mental illnessand that putting him to death would be un-constitutional because of evolving sentimentagainst executing the mentally ill.

The justices have ruled mentally impairedpeople, generally those with an IQ below 70,may not be executed. State attorneys, whosaid evidence showed Wards IQ as high as123, said the late appeal did not raise a newissue, meaning it was improper and withoutmerit.

AROUND TEXAS

Convicted killer Adam Kelly Ward is photographed Feb. 10 in a visiting cage outside death row at the Texas Department ofCriminal Justice Polunsky Unit near Livingston, Texas. Ward, 33, fatally shot code enforcement officer Michael Walker inCommerce, Texas, in 2005. Walker was taking pictures of Wards home, where rubbish was hoarded inside and outside.

Photo by Michael Graczyk | AP

33-year-old executedBy MICHAEL GRACZYK

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1 dead, gunman injured inshooting at Wal-Mart

KAUFMAN Authorities sayone person was killed and thegunman wounded in a shootinginside a Dallas-area Wal-Martstore. Donald Ray Coleman, 55,shot 59-year-old Wal-Mart em-ployee John Morgan multipletimes Tuesday morning in thegarden center of the store inKaufman. Coleman, who thenshot himself in the head, is hos-pitalized in critical condition.

Texas child fatally struck by car at day care

HOUSTON Officials say a 4-year-old boy has died after an 81-year-old woman picking him upfrom a Houston day care didntrealize he wasnt in her sportutility vehicle and he was struck.The boy was struck Tuesday out-side KD Learning Center. Whenthe driver got out of the movingvehicle to try to help the boy, thevehicle continued in reverse,slamming into the day care.

School named aftergeneral picks new nameDALLAS Students at a mid-

dle school who last month votedto drop a Confederate generalsname as the moniker for theirschool have chosen a new name.Students at John B. Hood MiddleSchool voted to change its nameto Piedmont Global Academy onMonday. Piedmont is a housingaddition in the area known asPleasant Grove, southeast ofdowntown Dallas.

SMU fraternity shut downfor health, safety issues

DALLAS National officialswith the Lambda Chi Alpha fra-ternity say theyve shut downtheir chapter at Southern Metho-dist University for at least fiveyears due to health and safety is-sues. The national fraternity sus-pended the SMU chapter citingmultiple operational and newmember incidents that violatedthe oaths and rules of our frater-nity.

Mayor quits, operationsmanager suspended

MERTZON The mayor of aWest Texas town has quit andthe operations manager was sus-pended amid a public corruptioncase involving theft allegations.

Mertzon Mayor Carol Shaw re-signed Monday night. Jim Rosefaces charges of theft by a publicservant and official oppression.

Council members in Mertzon,a town of about 800, suspendedRose with pay.

Fort Worth hail could cost$600M in damage

FORT WORTH A tradegroup says it estimates that dam-age caused by hailstorms thatrolled through the Fort Worth ar-ea last week will reach $600 mil-lion in auto and property claims.Mark Hanna, a spokesman forthe Insurance Council of Texas,estimates $300 million came fromvehicle damage and that at least50,000 vehicles were damaged.

Compiled from AP reports

Obama calls for buryinglast remnant of Cold War

HAVANA Capping his re-markable visit to Cuba, Presi-dent Barack Obama on Tuesdaydeclared an end to the last rem-nant of the Cold War in theAmericas and openly urged theCuban people to pursue a moredemocratic future for this com-munist nation 90 miles from theFlorida coast.

With Cuban President RaulCastro watching from a balcony,Obama said the governmentshould not fear citizens whospeak freely and vote for theirown leaders. And with Cubanswatching on tightly controlledstate television, Obama said theywould be the ones to determinetheir countrys future, not theUnited States.

Many suggested that I comehere and ask the people of Cubato tear something down, Obamasaid. But Im appealing to theyoung people of Cuba who will

lift something up, build some-thing new.

On the streets of Havana, thepresidents address sparked ex-traordinarily rare public discus-sions about democracy, and someanger with Cubas leaders. Cu-bans are used to complaining bit-

terly about economic matters butrarely speak publicly about anydesire for political change, par-ticularly in conversations withforeign journalists.

Later, Obama sat beside Cas-tro at a baseball game.

Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE WORLD

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, President Barack Obama and Cuban PresidentRaul Castro attend an exhibition game between the Cuban national baseball teamand MLBs Tampa Bay Devil Rays at the Estado Latinoamericano in Havana, Cuba.

Photo by Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images

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PALATKA, Fla. Themother of a 4-year-old boywho shot her as they wereriding in a pickup truckshould face a misdemean-or charge, authorities saidTuesday as they releaseddetails of the shooting forthe first time.

The mother, 31-year-oldJamie Gilt, put a loaded.45-caliber handgun under-neath the front seat of herpickup on March 8 and theweapon slid into the backseat where her son Lanewas riding in a child

booster seat, PutnamCounty Sheriff s Capt. Ga-tor DeLoach said.

The boy had recentlylearned how to unbucklehimself, got out of his seatand picked up the gun. Hefired through the frontseat, hitting his mother inthe back. There was also adinosaur toy on the floornear where the gun wouldhave slid, according to apolice report.

She felt somethingstrike her in the back,then noticed the wind-shield of her truck wasbroken, DeLoach said.

The bullet had exited

through her chest andgone through the wind-shield. The child was unin-jured.

Gilt was hospitalizedbut DeLoach wasnt sureof her current condition orwhether she was stillthere. Investigators gaveher time to recuperate be-fore interviewing her atthe hospital last Tuesday.

Gilt was apparently agun lover who made nu-merous social media post-ings about gun rights, in-cluding one about teachingher 4-year-old to shoot. De-Loach wouldnt talk aboutthat at a news conference,

saying investigators onlyfocused narrowly on whathappened March 8. Hewouldnt confirm Giltsgun advocacy or the re-ports that she had taughtLane how to shoot.

A community Facebookpage listed under JamieGilt for Gun Sense wasfilled with posts advocat-ing for gun rights, includ-ing a quote that said Myright to protect my childwith my gun trumps yourfear of my gun.

After the shooting, thepage appeared to be inun-dated with mocking com-ments from other Face-

book users.The Associated Press

was unable to verifywhether the page, whichhas since been takendown, belonged to Gilt.

Authorities said theyare recommending acharge of allowing a childaccess to a firearm, whichis punishable by up to 180days in jail, DeLoach said.It will be up to prosecu-tors, who are reviewingthe case, to decide whetherto file the charge or anyothers.

Gilt has not been arrest-ed. A message left for herwas not immediately re-

turned. The gun, which was not

in a holster and didnthave the safety lock on,was a Springfield X Com-pact, according to the sher-iff s offense report. It waslegally owned.

The states child welfareagency is also investigat-ing. DeLoach said he ex-pected the agency thisweek to interview the boy,who is in the custody ofrelatives.

The Department of Chil-dren and Families said ina statement it was not ableto comment further due toconfidentiality laws.

Authorities want charge for mom shot by sonBy JASON DEARENASSOCIATED PRESS

ATLANTA A kitch-en worker died after shewas apparently trappedinside of a walk-in freez-er for about 13 hours at adowntown Atlanta hotel,police said Tuesday.

A search for the wom-an began when she didntreturn home after hershift at the Westin Peach-tree Plaza, one of thecitys most recognizableskyscrapers with its cy-lindrical shape. Investiga-tors reviewed hotel sur-veillance video, and theybelieve she may have en-tered the freezer about 8p.m. Monday. She wasfound shortly after 9 a.m.Tuesday, Atlanta policeLt. Charles Hamptonsaid.

The Fulton CountyMedical Examiners Of-fice identified the womanas Carolyn Robinson, 61,of East Point.

There was evidencethe woman tried to getout of the freezer, butHampton didnt elaborate

on what led investigatorsto believe that.

It appears that therewas some type of mecha-nism to allow anyonewho was inside to be ableto exit, Hampton said.He wasnt sure if it wasworking properly.

Right now there doesnot appear to be any foulplay, Hampton said.

The U.S. OccupationalSafety and Health Admin-istration is investigating,spokesman MichaelDAquino said in anemail.

The hotel said in astatement it was devastat-ed by the tragic loss of itslong-time worker.

We are working close-ly with the authorities intheir investigation, andwe are providing whatev-er support that we canfor her family, the state-ment said.

Police plan to wait foran autopsy to determinewhether the woman hadany type of medical con-dition that may have pre-vented her from gettingout, Hampton said.

Woman founddead in freezer

By JEFF MARTINASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON Re-publican presidential can-didate Ted Cruz said Tues-day that surveillance inMuslim neighborhoods inthe U.S. must be intensi-fied following the deadlybombings on Brussels air-port and subway.

Echoing his rival Do-nald Trump, Cruz said theU.S. should stop the flow ofrefugees from countrieswhere the Islamic Statemilitant group has a sig-nificant presence. The Is-lamic State took credit forthe Brussels attacks thatkilled dozens Tuesday andwounded many more.

We need to empowerlaw enforcement to patroland secure Muslim neigh-borhoods before they be-come radicalized, theTexas senator said in astatement.

The Council on Ameri-can-Islamic Relations, thenations largest Muslimcivil rights and advocacyorganization, condemnedCruzs call for surveil-lance, saying it sends analarming message toAmerican-Muslims who

increasinglyfear for theirfuture in thisnation and toall Ameri-cans whovalue theConstitutionand religious

liberties. Trump, who spoke to

Fox News as developmentsin Brussels were unfold-ing, said he had warnedabout such attacks. Brus-sels was a beautiful city, abeautiful place with zerocrime, and now its a di-saster city. A total disas-ter, he said.

In December, followingattacks in Paris and SanBernardino, California,Trump called for a tempo-rary and conditional banon Muslims coming to theUnited States. He de-scribed Brussels as ahellhole because of itsradical elements and theirconnection to the Paris at-tacks.

Both Cruz and Demo-cratic front-runner HillaryClinton criticized Trumpfor saying Monday thatNATO is costing us a for-tune and the U.S. shoulddiminish its role in the

coming years. Cruz saidthe suggestion of with-drawing from NATO is apre-emptive surrender.

Speaking to CNN, Clin-ton called NATO the bestinternational defense alli-ance, I think, ever. Shereasserted her view thatthe U.S. should embrace,rather than alienate, Mus-lim communities, sayingwe want them to reportit; we want them to bepart of protecting the Unit-ed States.

Democratic hopeful Ber-nie Sanders, campaigningin Arizona on Tuesday,said boosting national se-curity and protecting civilrights must go hand-in-hand. He said he stronglydisagrees with calls bysome Republicans forheightened domestic sur-veillance of Muslims.

That would be uncon-stitutional it would bewrong, Sanders said.

Asked about Cruzscomment, none of a half-dozen conservative HouseRepublicans meeting withreporters Tuesday criti-cized him and most spokeof the need to keep thecountry safe.

Nearly every neighbor-

hood is patrolled. Thatswhat local law enforce-ment does, said Rep. TimHuelskamp, R-Kan., whohas endorsed Cruz. Hesaid he didnt know specif-ically what Cruz was re-ferring to.

We need to do every-thing that makes goodcommon sense, thats inthe best interests of na-tional security, but obvi-ously it needs to be donein a way thats consistentwith the Constitution,said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

Its an interestingquestion. Its the jazzykind you guys like on apresidential front-runner.Thats a cool question,said Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va.He criticized reporters fornot asking Democrats ifthey have plans to keepthe country safe.

I believe in the FirstAmendment, the SecondAmendment, every one ofthem, but we also knowthat in this country, weregoing to have to step up se-curity in every neighbor-hood across America,said Rep. Matt Salmon, anArizona Republican whohas endorsed Cruz.

Cruz calls for Muslim scrutinyBy VIVIAN SALAMAASSOCIATED PRESS

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The phrase almostcompletes itself: Midlife crisis. Its the stage inthe middle of the jour-ney when people feelyouth vanishing, theirprospects narrowing anddeath approaching. Sothey become undone.The red Corvette pops upin the driveway. Stupidi-ty reigns.

Theres only one prob-lem with the clich. Itisnt true.

In fact, there is al-most no hard evidencefor midlife crisis at all,other than a few smallpilot studies conducteddecades ago, BarbaraBradley Hagerty writesin her new book, LifeReimagined. The vastbulk of the researchshows that there may bea pause, or a shifting ofgears in the 40s or 50s,but this shift can be ex-hilarating, rather thanterrifying.

Bradley Hagerty looksat some of the features ofpeople who turn midlifeinto a rebirth. Theybreak routines, becauseautopilot is death.They choose purposeover happiness havinga clear sense of purposeeven reduces the risk ofAlzheimers. They put re-lationships at the fore-ground, as career oftenrecedes.

Life Reimaginedpaints a portrait of mid-dle age that is far fromgrim and decelerating.Midlife begins to seemlike the second big phaseof decision-making. Youridentity has beenformed; you know whoyou are; youve built upyour resources; and nowyou have the chance totake the big risks pre-cisely because your foun-dation is already secure.

The theologian KarlBarth described midlifein precisely this way. Atmiddle age, he wrote,the sowing is behind;now is the time to reap.The run has been taken;now is the time to leap.Preparation has beenmade; now is the timefor the venture of thework itself.

The middle-aged per-son, Barth continued,can see death in the dis-tance, but moves with ameasured haste to getbig new things donewhile there is still time.

What Barth wrote dec-ades ago is even truer to-day. People are healthyand energetic longer. Wehave presidential candi-dates running for theirfirst term in office at age68, 69 and 74. Greaterlongevity is changing thenarrative structure oflife itself.

The elongation of vitallife has changed thephases of life. The mostobvious change is theemergence of the odys-sey years. People be-tween age 20 and theearly 30s can now take alittle more time to try onnew career options, newcities and new partners.

However, another pro-found but more hiddenchange is the alteredshape of middle age.What could have beenconsidered the beginningof a descent is now a po-tential turning point the turning point youare most equipped totake full advantage of.

It is the moment whenyou can look back onyour life so far and see itwith different eyes.Hopefully youve built upsome wisdom, which, asthe psychologists defineit, means seeing the

world with more compas-sion, grasping opposingideas at the same time,tolerating ambiguity andreacting with equanimi-ty to the small setbacksof life.

By middle age youmight begin to see, retro-spectively, the dominantmotifs that have beenrunning through yourvarious decisions. Youmight begin to see howall your different com-mitments can be inte-grated into one meaningand purpose. You mightsee the social problemyour past has made youuniquely equipped totackle. You might haveenough clarity by now toorient your life around atrue north on some ulti-mate horizon.

Lincoln, for example,found in midlife that ev-erything so far had pre-pared him to preservethe Union and end slav-ery. The rest of us donthave causes that grand,but plenty of peoplebring their life to apoint. They dive fully in-to existing commitments,or embrace new ones.

Either way, with a lit-tle maturity, theyre lesslikely by middle age tobe blinded by ego, morelikely to know what it isthey actually desire,more likely to get out oftheir own way, and may-be a little less likely, giv-en all the judgments thathave been made, to careabout what other peoplethink.

The people who findmeaning at this stage of-ten realize the way up isdown.

They get off that su-pervisors perch and putthemselves in direct con-tact with the people theycan help the most. Theyaccept that certain glori-ous youthful dreamswont be realized, butother, more relationaljobs turn out to be morefulfilling.

They achieve a kind oftranquillity, not becausetheyve decided to donothing, but becausetheyve achieved focusand purity of will. Theyhave enough self-confi-dence, and impatience, tosay no to some things sothey can say yes to oth-ers.

From this perspective,middle age is kind of in-spiring. Many of lifespossibilities are nowclosed, but limitation isoften liberating. The re-maining possibilities canbe seized more bravely,and lived more deeply.

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What couldhave beenconsidered thebeginning of adescent isnow apotentialturning point the turningpoint you aremostequipped totake fulladvantage of.

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CLASSIC DOONESBURY | GARRY TRUDEAU

My public school experi-ences were uneventful fromthe standpoint of trouble.I was never paddled (yep,that was the method in the1950s). I always knew if I gotin trouble, whatever punish-ment dealt would lead to adouble dose at home.

In school all four Webbboys had pretty much trou-ble free school years.

However, as you get olderand advance to your senioryear in high school, there isa tendency to feel a bit priv-ileged and untouchable.

As seniors in those hal-cyon 1950s, we decided itwas entirely appropriateand clever to do a skit im-personating the teachers.Some producer-director-script writer decided Ishould portray a marriedcoach who was carrying onan affair with a held-oversenior girl. She was alsomarried and her husbandwas in U.S. military servicein Korea.

Of course, every kid inhigh school knew of the af-fair. So did many parents.As things played out, appar-ently the only people whodid not know were the highschool principal, the districtsuperintendent and thecoachs wife.

One big, popular eventnear the end of the schoolyear was an all-school partyheld in the gymnasium andopen to the public.

There was no dancing after all the First Baptistminister put a huge crimpin the junior-senior prom bypreaching about the evils ofa boy and a girl in holdingeach other close while slow-ly gliding around the floor.So, there was mixing, min-gling and the aforemen-tioned skits.

Our senior skit topped offthe night as we set upchairs in a circle for themodel teachers meeting.As it turned out, my seatwas on the side of the circlethat put my back to the au-dience. Per the script, theprincipal introduced eachteacher.

I had studied coachsmovement and mannerismswell and when my namewas called, I rose and turn-ed slightly toward the crowdand waved, saying, Hellogirls! Out of the corner ofmy eye I saw Coach and hispretty wife, whod justweeks before given birth totheir first child. When Imade my greeting, shelooked at her philanderinghubby with a witheringglare. Since the coachscheating was actually well-known among town folks,

there was a lot of laughter. Each teacher was

called on to speak in themeeting. When it camemy turn, I suggested we be-gin a girls softball teamthat would travel and playall over the globe and, ofcourse, I (the coach) wouldtravel with the team.

That drew big laughterand a killer look from Wi-fey to Coach.

Upon my arrival atschool Monday morning,several fellow students sug-gested I might be in trouble.That made me nervous butthe morning passed withoutincident. I went to lunchthen to my class on thirdfloor thinking perhaps Idescaped trouble.

No sooner had I sat downthan a girl from the princi-pals office, came in andsummoned me to his office.There were lots of laughsand oooos from my class-mates.

Down the stairs we wentto the first floor where weremet at the door by the prin-cipal and he informed methe superintendent wantedto see me. The principal es-corted me and we sat acrossthe desk from the superin-tendent who was big and(everyone said) looked like abulldog.

He proceeded to talk tome very loudly and forceful-ly, occasionally poundinghis desk for emphasis. This

chewing lasted for almostan hour and included thestatement: You have a spot-less record and its neargraduation, or Id considerexpelling you. The superin-tendent told me that mypunishment was to shakethe coachs hand and apol-ogize. The coach was sum-moned and I did as I wastold.

A few weeks later, somesubstantiation was given tomy performance and thecoachs contract was not re-newed, which was done inschools instead of firing.

I graduated and went tocollege. After two years Iran out of money anddropped out of school tomake enough to continuemy education. I took a jobas news editor of my home-town paper.

One of my regular week-ly beats was to visit withthe superintendent andgather school news. He wascordial and I managed togive the schools considera-ble news coverage. The su-per and I became friendly.

One day, he looked at meand said, You know, Willis,there was an incident whenyou were a senior. I waswrong.

That was it, but it didwonders for me.

Willis Webb is a retiredcommunity newspaper editor-publisher of more than 50years experience.

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Portraying philanderingcoach got me in trouble

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cials have been bracing fora major attack for weeksand warned that IS was ac-tively preparing to strike.The arrest Friday of SalahAbdeslam, a key suspect inthe Nov. 13 attacks in Paris,heightened those fears, asinvestigators said manymore people were involvedthan originally thought andthat some are still on theloose.

In this time of tragedy,this black moment for ourcountry, I appeal to every-one to remain calm but alsoto show solidarity, said Bel-gian Prime Minister Char-les Michel, who announcedthree days of mourning inhis countrys deadliest ter-ror strike.

Last year it was Paris.Today it is Brussels. Its thesame attacks, said FrenchPresident Francois Hol-lande.

Belgium raised its terroralert to the highest level,shut the airport throughWednesday and ordered acity-wide lockdown, deploy-ing about 500 soldiers ontoBrussels largely emptystreets to bolster policecheckpoints. France andBelgium both reinforcedborder security.

Medical officials treatingthe wounded said some vic-tims lost limbs, while otherssuffered burns or deepgashes from shattered glassor suspected nails packed inwith explosives. Among themost seriously woundedwere several children.

The bombings came bare-ly four months after suicideattackers based in BrusselsMolenbeek district slaugh-tered 130 people at Parisnightspots, and intelligenceagencies had warned formonths a follow-up strikewas inevitable. Those fearsincreased following Abdes-lams arrest in Molenbeek,along with police admis-sions that others suspectedof links to the Paris attackswere at large.

A high-level Belgian judi-cial official said a connec-tion by Abdeslam to Tues-days attacks is a lead topursue. The official spokeon condition of anonymitybecause the investigationwas ongoing.

Abdeslam has told investi-gators he was planning to

restart something fromBrussels, said Belgian For-eign Minister Didier Reyn-ders. He said Sunday thatauthorities took the claimseriously because we founda lot of weapons, heavyweapons in the first investi-gations and we have seen anew network of peoplearound him in Brussels.

While they knew thatsome kind of extremist actwas being prepared in Eu-rope, they were surprisedby the size of Tuesdays at-tacks, said Belgian InteriorMinister Jan Jambon.

It was always possiblethat more attacks could hap-pen, but we never couldhave imagined something ofthis scale, he said.

Officials at the airport inthe Brussels suburb of Za-ventem said police had dis-covered a Kalashnikov as-sault rifle and an explosives-packed vest abandoned atthe facility, offering one po-tential lead for forensic evi-dence. Bomb disposal ex-perts safely dismantled that

explosive device.Shockwaves from the at-

tacks crossed the Atlantic,where city and airport offi-cials at several U.S. cities in-creased security force de-ployments and raised secu-rity levels. A U.S.administration official saidAmerican intelligence offi-cers were working with Eu-ropean counterparts to tryto identify the apparentlyskilled bomb-maker or mak-ers involved in the Brusselsattacks and to identify anylinks to bombs used in Pa-ris.

The official, who wasntauthorized to speak publiclyon the investigations anddemanded anonymity, toldThe Associated Press that atleast one of the bombs atthe airport was suspected tohave been packed into asuitcase left in the depar-tures hall.

Three intelligence offi-cials in Iraq told the APthat they had warned Euro-pean colleagues last monthof IS plans to attack air-

ports and trains, althoughBelgium wasnt specified asa likely target. The officials,who monitor activities inthe IS stronghold of Raqqa,said Brussels may have be-come a target because of thearrest of Abdeslam.

One of the officials allof whom spoke on conditionof anonymity because theywere not authorized to talkabout their knowledge of ISoperations said Iraqi in-telligence officials believethat three other IS activistsremain at large in Brusselsand are plotting other sui-cide-bomb attacks.

European leaders alreadystruggling to cope with awave of migration from thewar-torn Middle East saidthey must rely on better an-ti-terrorist intelligence workto identify an enemy thatwears no uniform and seeksthe softest of targets. Theyemphasized that Europemust remain tolerant toMuslims as they seek toidentify the Islamic Stateneedles in that ever-growing

haystack.Leaders of the 28-nation

bloc said in a joint state-ment that Tuesdays assaulton Brussels only strength-ens our resolve to defendEuropean values and toler-ance from the attacks of theintolerant.

The United Nations leadofficial for Middle East refu-gees, Amin Awad, warnedthat Europe faced an in-creasing risk of racist retal-iation against Muslim im-migrant communities. Anysort of hostilities because ofthe Brussels attack or Parisattack is misplaced, Awadsaid.

Reflecting the trauma ofthe moment, Belgian offi-cials offered uncertain casu-alty totals at both the air-port and subway, where po-lice conducted controlledexplosions on suspiciousabandoned packages that ul-timately were found to con-tain no explosives.

Belgiums health minister,Maggie de Block, said 11people were killed and 81 in-

jured at the airport, wherethousands of passengerswere waiting to check lug-gage and collect boardingcards.

Video posted on socialmedia showed people cower-ing on the ground in thewake of the blasts, the airacrid with smoke, windowsof shops and the terminalentrance shattered, and fall-en ceiling tiles littering theblood-streaked floor.

Some witnesses describedhearing two distinct blasts,with shouts apparently inArabic from at least one at-tacker before the second,bigger explosion.

Zach Mouzoun, who ar-rived on a flight from Gene-va about 10 minutes beforethe airport blasts, told BFMtelevision that pipes rup-tured, sending a cascade ofwater mixing with victimsblood.

It was atrocious. Theceilings collapsed. Therewas blood everywhere, in-jured people, bags every-where, he said.

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shelter to American immi-gration officials at Texasland ports.

From October 2015 toFebruary 2016, more than18,500 Cubans arrived atTexas Laredo field office ofU.S. Customs and BorderProtection, which includesports from Del Rio toBrownsville. If that trendcontinues, it will shatterlast years numbers for thesame ports, when a record28,371 crossed. During the2015 fiscal year, more than43,150 arrived at the 20CBP field offices in theUnited States that processimmigrants. More thanhalf 25,800 arrived inonly the first five monthsof the current fiscal year.

The presidents visit toCuba Monday was the lat-est step in his mission an-nounced in late 2014 to nor-malize relations with theCastro regime.

Ive come to Havana to

extend the hand of friend-ship to the Cuban people,Obama said in a statementMonday. Im here to burythe last vestige of the ColdWar in the Americas andto forge a new era of un-derstanding to help im-prove the daily lives of theCuban people.

But many Cubans fearthe so-called improve-ment will include abolish-ing a long-standing U.S.policy that welcomes Cu-ban refugees who arrive atports of entry and allowsthem to seek legal perma-nent residency status,known as a green card, af-ter one year. The policy isan amended version of the1966 Cuban AdjustmentAct, which some lawmak-ers call unfair and outdat-ed.

In December, U.S. Rep.Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo,said the policy should berepealed. Hes since signed

on to a House bill by U.S.Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla.,that would end the immedi-ate eligibility of all Cubansfor the Refugee AssistanceProgram, instead limitingit to fleeing persecution.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn,R-Texas, agreed with Cuel-lar and said the policy isoutdated and isnt fair toimmigrants from othercountries who have to waitmuch longer for legal sta-tus.

But U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz,R-Texas, who has made hisfathers story of fleeing Cu-ba a centerpiece of hiscampaign for the WhiteHouse, said the act shouldonly be repealed when Cu-ba is a free country.

Asked about the refugeecurrent surge in his homestate and how Cuban poli-cy differs from the amnes-ty he says the Obama ad-ministration willinglygives to millions of undocu-

mented immigrants, aCruz aide offered up aquote Cruz gave in October2015.

The (Cuban AdjustmentAct) is a recognition of theoppressive communist re-gime in Cuba that engagesin political repression,torture and murder, Cruzsaid then. I look forwardto the day when the CubanAdjustment Act is no long-er necessary because a freeCuba will have returned.

But Cruz was quick topounce on Obamas visit toCuba, saying the trip willonly prop up the dictator-ship.

The White House keepssaying that this trip willchart a new course for peo-ple-to-people relations, butall that Obamas appease-ment of the Castro dictator-ship has done so far is cre-ate a channel for insidedeals between large corpo-rations and the Cuban mil-

itary, which holds all thekeys to the islands econo-my," he said in an opinionpiece published in Politico.

The states GOP leader-ship has also remainedlargely silent on the latestsurge. Asked about the in-flux in February, Gov. GregAbbotts office declinedcomment but insteademailed a recording of re-marks he gave in the RioGrande Valley when askedabout the Cubans. Abbottsaid then challenges ex-isted because the federalgovernment wasnt doingits job to secure the borderand Texas would step upand fill in the gaps.

But Cubans arrive at in-land ports and do not enterillegally like the thousandsof undocumented immi-grants from Central Amer-ica that have poured intoTexas since 2014. Abbottsoffice didnt respond onMonday when asked to

clarify his remarks.Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick,

who toured the border ear-lier this month, also de-clined to comment, as didthe office of House SpeakerJoe Straus.

Ira Mehlman, a spokes-man for the Federation forAmerican Immigration Re-form, or FAIR, which takesa hard line on illegal immi-gration and also seeks tolimit legal migration, saidthe Cuban Adjustment Actshould have been repealeddecades ago.

Most of the migrantscoming from Cuba are notcoming because of politicalrepression, they are com-ing for economic reasonsjust like most of the othermigrants, he said. Itsperfectly understandablefrom their perspective, butthe consequences forAmerican workers andAmerican taxpayers is sig-nificant.

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least nine months, trying tomove the project forward.U.S. District Judge DianaSaldana, acting in her indi-vidual capacity, got involvedby serving as a mediator.

In a statement to LMT,TAMIU President Ray Kecksaid he has heard the bish-op is being prudent and thatTamayo fears the centersoperating costs.

This simply cannot bethe case, Keck said. Nei-ther our experience in Lare-do nor university experienc-es throughout the nationjustify those fears. The over-whelming support to buildthis center reflects a deepcommunity commitment toLaredos youth.

Catholic centers operateon every university campusin the country, a combina-tion of student effort andcommunity support.

Keck said he was cluelesswhy Tamayo claimed hewas under duress when hesigned the 2009 agreement.

Frankly, I think its anabsurd remark, he said.

Tamayo did not returnseveral requests for com-ment. The Brothers of St.John also could not bereached for comment.

On Friday, Keck notifiedthe TAMIU faculty and stu-dent body via email of theprojects delay.

A tragedy for us allAs 2015 came to a close,

hope that Tamayo would al-low construction to start be-gan to fade. A number ofthe projects donors uponhearing no progress was be-ing made signed off on aletter sent to Tamayo onDec. 16.

To (abandon the project)would be a tragedy for usall, the letter states. Be-cause the deliberations havecontinued for such a longtime, and because the issueshave become almost impen-etrably muddled, we askthat you honor the 2009signed agreement.

If we do not hear fromyou by December 25, we willunderstand your silence asa refusal to honor the con-tract now in place.

The group did not hearfrom Tamayo.

Its unclear what reper-cussions, if any, could occurif Tamayo does not honorthe agreement. Diocese ofLaredo attorney John Ka-zen did not respond to re-quests for comment.

In a last ditch effort, threeprominent Laredoans sent aletter Jan. 8 to Italian Arch-bishop Carlo Maria Vigan,who was the apostolic nun-cio, or the Vaticans ambas-sador to the U.S., until re-cently. Keck, Dennis Nixon,CEO of IBC-Laredo andchairman of InternationalBancshares Corp., and Sal-daa signed the letter.

We are now on the brinkof a major scandal in ourcommunity, the letterstates. At this juncture, ex-cept for the group of donorswho wrote the bishop, nei-ther students nor local citi-zens are aware of his ac-tions to stop this project.

We feel that time isof the essence, and that thismatter cannot be containedindefinitely.

The trio concernedover the future of the youthof the local diocese askedVigan for his guidance andcounsel.

We believe that any fur-ther delay in constructionwill only harm this commu-nity and holy church, theletter states.

Vigan responded to theletter, telling the group thatthey needed to work withthe bishop, according toKeck.

Having no luck with Viga-n, the group can now onlyappeal to the Vatican, butNixon said he thinks thatprocess would take years.

The bishop has completesay on what goes on hereand theres not much, cur-rently, we can do about it,Nixon said. Its a situationwithout an answer.

Nixon added that the hin-drance of the project is a bigloss for the community.

I am baffled by the bish-ops behavior and I cantspeak to his reasons be-cause he refuses to commu-nicate, Nixon said.

Saldaa did not respondto requests for comment.

BeginningsThe Brothers of St. John,

along with Tamayo, started

to build upon the idea of theproject in 2006.

The Catholic center wasgoing to be built on landthat businessman and phi-lanthropist David Killam do-nated. In October 2012, theBrothers of St. John, a localpriory based at 505 CenturyDrive South, near Independ-ence Hills Regional Park,told LMT it had raisedabout half the funds neededto build a church and cam-pus ministry center.

Laredo Morning Timesreported if $2.3 million ofthe $4.2 million was collect-ed in time, construction forthe church and ministrywould be complete in 2014.

Among the original fea-tures of the project were achapel that seats 300 people,a five-stories-tall bell tower,a student lounge, a dormito-ry for eight student resi-dents and a student-run ca-f.

John Sharp, Texas A&MUniversity System chancel-lor, delivered a keynotespeech at a luncheon in Oc-tober 2012 at a campus min-istry event announcing theproject.

It is a unique thing,said Sharp, who spokeabout the construction of aCatholic campus ministrycenter on the College Sta-tion universitys campus. Itwill do dramatic things forthis community and thisuniversity.

The Brothers of St. John,led by Fr. Michael ThereseScheerger, has been run-ning the Catholic CampusMinistry for the Diocese ofLaredo for over 17 years.

It was founded in the be-lief that the young adults de-sire to know, love and serveGod, the ministrys websitestates. Its mission is "totouch the hearts and mindsof the young adults of Lare-do, at the most critical mo-ments in their lives, andbring them to faith, hopeand love in the person of Je-sus Christ, Scheerger, dio-cesan head of campus min-istry, is quoted as saying onthe website.

The brothers are alsoknown in the communityfor hosting adoration, com-munity, theology and ser-vice, or ACTS, retreats.

A focal point for thecity

What excited Scheergermost about the Catholic Stu-dent Center is the infras-tructure it would provideLaredo for the next 200 to300 years.

(The center) would pro-vide a structure for youngadults of Laredo to discovertheir vocations, he saidduring the projects an-nouncement in 2012. Ithink thats the most excit-ing thing about it on a long-term scale.

Sharp said the centerwould be a focal point ofboth the university and thecity.

This is a special place,and its going to be madereally special once itsbuilt, he said.

About five years afterScheerger came up with theidea of the center, Tamayoand the brothers signed anagreement to form the min-istry.

The agreement stated thebrothers would be in chargeof the ministry and thenconveyed to the diocese five

years after the completionof construction, with thebrothers continuing to over-see and implement the cam-pus ministry on a long-termbasis.

Keck said problems withTamayo began since dayone.

During the process of de-signing the ministry, Kecksaid Tamayo was not satis-fied with the plans and pro-posed changes.

Such changes includeminimizing the ministry,with the end result of hav-ing no chapel at all.

"The plans changed manytimes between the ground-breaking and the final haltto all effort, Keck said in astatement to LMT. Eachtime the bishop raised anobjection, the brothers re-vised the plan, submitting anew version. In a shorttime, the bishop would de-mand another change. Andanother. Another revision.And another.

Then mediation to try todiscover what was at theroot of the endless insist-ence on alterations.

Finally the brothers ac-cepted the truth. The bishopdoesnt want this to hap-pen.

He added there were oth-er plans in place in additionto the ministry, such as adormitory.

Nancy Blair, who led a fi-nance committee for theproject, said she andScheerger met with a dioce-san construction committeein April. She said they toldTamayo and the committeethat enough money hadbeen raised to complete con-struction.

The project is fully fund-ed, Blair said. (Construc-tion) needs to happen.

Hope remainsKeck said he feels stu-

dents will have a difficulttime comprehending whythe Catholic Student Centeris not moving forward.

Upon hearing news of thedelay, students have begunto voice their disappoint-ment.

Many said they areshocked and saddened.

Lorena Abrego, memberof the Newman Club at TA-MIU, said she still has faiththe project will move for-ward.

Weve been good at keep-ing our hope, she said.

For a time in 2014, mem-bers of the Newman Clubconvened on the grounds ofthe future Catholic centerfor a monthly Mass.

Kassandra Gomez, asophomore at TAMIU, saidFriday it hurt to see theempty plot of land wherethe center would be built.She envisioned seeing theministry standing theresoon.

I cried when I found outabout this, she said.

She urged anyone respon-sible for completing the pro-ject to keep in mind theyouth of Laredo.

This is really unfair,she said. We are told it willhappen and once we are soclose to the end, we are toldit wont. It brings youdown.

Although there is no setdate as to when this projectmay move forward, studentssaid they continue to praythe ministry will be com-pleted.

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Por otra parte se estarrifando un Kit de Pachangaque consta de un kilo de car-ne, una bolsa de pollo, surti-do de bebidas, y una bolsade carbn. Costo: 50 pesos.

B&G CLUB DE ZAPATA PIDE APOYO

El Boys and Girls Clubde Zapata tiene proyectadauna bsqueda de cascaronesde pascua para sus integran-tes el viernes 25 de marzo.Por esta razn estn solicitan-do el apoyo de los padres defamilia y comunidad en gene-ral para que donen cascaro-nes de pascua o snacks. In-formes en el 956-765-3892.

FIESTAEl Gobierno de Nueva

Ciudad Guerrero, Mxico, invi-ta a disfrutar los eventos porlas Vacaciones de SemanaSanta 2016 el viernes 25 demarzo a partir de las 10 a.m.en el Parque Nuevo Amane-cer.

BRAVO FESTLa ciudad de Miguel

Alemn, Mxico, invita alevento Bravo Fest del 25 al27 de marzo en las mrgenesdel Ro Bravo, debajo delpuente internacional que co-necta con Roma, Texas.

El festival tiene como ob-jetivo promover el turismo lo-cal y regional, especialmenteen el Valle de Texas.

ZCISDZapata County ISD in-

forma que el viernes 25 demarzo y el lunes 28 de mar-zo no habr clases. Igualmen-te se informa que los exme-nes STAAR empezarn a apli-carse la semana entrante.

El martes 29 de marzocorresponde a English I para9 grado y jueves 31 de mar-zo corresponder a English IIpara 10 grado.

Se sugiere que los estu-diantes se duerman tempranola noche anterior. El da delexamen estar prohibido quelleven dispositivos de mediossean telfonos celulares,iPods, MP3s, etc.

Aquellos alumnos que notengan exmenes debern re-portarse a la Cafetera deZHS a las 12:30 p.m.

ATENCIN AL AUTISMOSegunda Carrera/Ca-

minata 5K y carrera infantilpara sensibilizar sobre el au-tismo. La carrera inicia en Za-pata County Court House en7th Avenue y Boulevard Hidal-go, el 2 de abril a las 8 a.m.

Los interesados podrnpre-registrarse con un costode 10 dlares en lnea en elsitio de Internet en active-.com o en la Cmara de Co-mercio del Condado de Zapa-ta en 800 North Hwy.

El registro tendr un costode 20 dlares el da del even-to. Los menores participandoen la carrera para nios ten-drn un costo de registro de5 dlares para nios de 10aos y menores.

Se premiar a los tres pri-meros lugares de cada cate-gora en la carrera de 5K,tanto hombres como mujeres.Lo 10 finalistas en la carrerade nios tambin sern pre-miados.

RECOLECCIN DEMEDICAMENTOS

La Coalicin Comunita-ria del Condado de Zapata yla DEA realizarn el eventonacional Pill Take Back el 30de abril, de 10 a.m. a 2 p.m.en el Palacio de Justicia delCondado de Zapata.

Ribereaen Breve

A fin de abordar los problemasque conlleva la prdida de grandesextensiones de tierra, el Texas Agri-cultural Land Trust (TALT por sussiglas en ingls), llevar a cabo unseminario gratuito denominadoGoing, Going, Gone: Impact of Lossof Rural Land on Water, Wildlifeand Agriculture (Se va, se va, sefue: el impacto de la prdida de tie-rras rurales en el agua, la vida sil-vestre y la agricultura), en CorpusChristi, a mediados de abril.

Est dirigido a propietarios detierras, abogados, asesores inmobi-liarios, profesionales en recursosnaturales, y funcionarios de la ciu-dad o el condado, en el sur de Te-xas.

El seminario se enfocar en c-mo las tendencias en la prdida delas tierras impactan la calidad delagua y la vida silvestre, y as comola capacidad de los propietarios pa-ra administrar la propiedad y here-dar las tierras familiares a las futu-ras generaciones. Tambin se vernlos beneficios pblicos de la conser-vacin de tierras privadas destacan-do programas exitosos que ayudana los propietarios a conservar su

tierra mientras proporcionan fuen-tes de agua municipal.

De 1997 al 2012, Texas experimen-t una prdida neta de alrededor 1,1millones de acres de granjas de pro-piedad privada, ranchos y bosques,como resultado de la tendencia deprdida de tierras rurales y frag-mentacin, de acuerdo al estudioTexas Land Trends hecho por TexasA&M Institute of Renewable Natu-ral Resources (IRNR por sus siglasen ingls).

sta dramtica prdida y frag-mentacin de granjas de propiedadprivada, ranchos y bosques tam-bin conocida como tierras de la-bor est afectando a la economarural, la conservacin del agua y

otros recursos naturales, y el asegu-ramiento de la comida de la na-cin, dijo Roel Lpez, director delIRNR. Seas o no el propietario deuna tierra de labor, todos tenemosun inters en resolver estas situa-ciones ahora y para el futuro de lostejanos.

Por su parte, Blair Fitzimons, ofi-cial en jefe ejecutivo de TALT, co-ment que se trata de tierras quecaptan, limpian y almacenan lalluvia que al final se convierte en elagua que bebemos proporcionanlos alimentos que comemos, lim-pian el aire que respiramos y pro-porcionan un hbitat para la vidasilvestre.

Asegur que consider que para

que las tierras privadas continenproporcionando tales beneficios p-blicos, se debe asegurar que las fa-milias las sigan administrando.

Durante el seminario se presen-tarn temas como: Datos actualiza-dos del estudio Texas Land TrendsStudy; El impacto de la fragmenta-cin en la calidad del agua del roNueces; Minimizando el impactodel desarrollo del gas y el petrleo;Soluciones de ganar-ganar: asegu-rando las fuentes de agua munici-pal a travs de la proteccin de tie-rras privadas en Nueva York, Cali-fornia y Ohio; y, El usufructo de laconservacin: una herramienta pa-ra salvar las tierras familiares.

Going, Going, Gone: Impact ofLoss of Rural Land on Water, Wildli-fe and Agriculture se llevar a ca-bo el 15 de abril de 9 a.m. a 2 p.m.,en el Hotel Omni sobre ShorelineDrive en Corpus Christi.

El registro se abrir a las 8:30a.m. del mismo da. Para quienes seregistren antes del 8 de abril en supaquete se incluir servicio de ali-mentos.

Para ms detalles se puede visi-tar www.txaglandtrust.org. Para re-gistrarse se debe llamar al (210) 826-0074.

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Accin de rescateESPECIAL PARA TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

sta dramtica prdida y fragmentacin de(tierras de labor) est afectando la economarural, conservacin del agua, otros recursosnaturales, y el aseguramiento de la comida.ROEL LPEZ, DIRECTOR DEL IRNR

Zfrontera PGINA 7AMIRCOLES 23 DE MARZO DE 2016

Siete personas fallecierondespus de un enfrentamientoarmado contra elementos de lamarina en Nueva Ciudad Gue-rrero, Mxico, el fin de sema-na.

El reporte del Grupo de Co-ordinacin Tamaulipas indicaque los marinos fueron agredi-dos por supuestos integrantesde un grupo delincuencial queopera en la regin Riberea.El comunicado no aclara a qugrupo se refiere, pero identifi-ca a dos de las vctimas comoMiguel ngel Lpez Zrate, deSinaloa, Mxico, y Jos LuisLuna Garza, de Nuevo Len,Mxico.

Los hechos ocurrieron el s-bado a la altura del kilmetro15 de la carretera Nueva Ciu-dad Guerrero con los lmitesdel municipio de Pars, NuevoLen.

Los oficiales de marina rea-lizaban un recorrido cuandosupuestos civiles armados abordo de varios vehculos em-pezaron a atacarlos, por locual respondieron a la agre-sin.

Perdieron la vida siete hom-bres, cuyos cuerpos quedaronsobre una brecha ubicada a al-rededor de tres kilmetros delpunto inicial de la agresin, seexplica en un comunicado.

El resto de los agresores sedio a la fuga dejando abando-nadas varias armas largas,municiones y otros objetos.

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Cuando llegan a otorgar-se derechos a las clases des-posedas, de inmediato gru-pos opositores buscan res-tringirlos o anularlos atravs de argucias legales ovolverlos letra muerta co-mo un hecho sucedido enTamaulipas.

A finales del siglo XIX,Porfirio Daz contenda poruna ensima reeleccinpresidencial. Durante sudictadura el campo prospe-raba y continuaba como

una fuente importante deriqueza. Pocos hacendadoseran los dueos de extensoslatifundios donde la activi-dad productiva se concen-traba en un alto nmero depeones.

Como mecanismo pararetenerlos se utilizaba laprctica denominada tien-da de raya, que consistaen adelantar salarios y fiarproductos bsicos, lo quehaca que los empleados tu-vieran enormes deudas queles comprometa a prestarsus servicios por largotiempo en condiciones de

desventaja. En algn momento el r-

gimen porfirista decide en-mendar estas prcticas enla Constitucin. El Estado(mexicano) no puede per-mitir ningn contrato,pacto o convenio que tengapor objeto el menoscabo, laprdida o el irrevocable sa-crificio de la libertad delhombre, ya sea por causade trabajo, de educacin ode voto religioso, de acuer-do a un decreto fechado el10 de junio de 1893.

El gobernador de Ta-maulipas, Alejandro Prieto

toma con reserva las modi-ficaciones y propone meca-nismos que disminuyan losalcances del nuevo precep-to. Para tal efecto, recurreal Congreso de la Unin pa-ra que las entidades legis-len sobre los peones.

Sin embargo, su propues-ta es duramente criticada.Al leer la iniciativa del go-bierno tamaulipeco, propo-niendo, encubiertamente, lavuelta a la esclavitud legalde los jornaleros, se com-prende desde luego quedebe estar del todo domina-do por los propietarios del

territorio del estado, deacuerdo al diario El Uni-versal en 1895.

Prieto pasa por alto queal porfiriato le interesaguardar apariencias. Expli-ca Friedrich Katz: En 1894el gobernador de Tamauli-pas propuso instituir lostrabajos forzados pero-habra acabado con el mi-to del trabajo libre y las au-toridades nacionales seopusieron rotundamente.

(Con permiso del autor, se-gn fuera publicado en LaRazn de Tampico, Mxico,el 11 marzo 2016)

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Alana Montes, de Zapata, se ubic como campeona de Levantamiento de Pesas en Texas, por segundo ao consecutivo encompetencia del Texas High School Womens Powerlifting Association. Montes rompi el rcord en su propio peso, y recibireconocimiento como la mejor levantadora de pesas libra por libra en tres categoras.

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BOCA RATON, Fla. The proverbial dam block-ing the Dallas Cowboys infree agency has finally bro-ken and the team is nowbracing for the potentialrush of three new players.

Two are pretty much se-cured.

The Cowboys signed for-mer Washington Redskinsrunning back Alfred Morristo a two-year, $3.5 milliondeal Tuesday, per his agentSean Stellato. He has achance to earn up to $5.5million with incentives.

The Oakland Raiders de-clined to match a three-year,$8.55 million offer sheet torestricted free agent defen-sive end Benson Mayowa,clearing the path for him toofficially join the Cowboyson Wednesday.

And the team is close toadding former San DiegoChargers cornerback Pa-trick Robinson. A three-year deal is only being heldup by confusion regardinghis representation, per asource.

Morris, a two-time ProBowler, gives the Cowboys astarting-caliber runningback to pair with DarrenMcFadden.

In four seasons in Wash-

ington, Morris, 27, startedall 64 games, rushing for4,713 yards and 29 touch-downs on 1,078 attempts.Only Adrian Peterson of theMinnesota Vikings hasrushed for more yards thanMorris over the past fouryears.

He has been very goodagainst the Cowboys, rush-ing 152 times for 710 rush-ing yards and seven touch-downs in eight careergames.

Morris was best as a roo-kie in 2012, finishing with1,613 rushing yards and 13touchdowns on 335 carries.He had career lows last sea-son with 202 carries for 751

yards and one touchdown,but he is still younger thanMcFadden, who turns 29this summer.

Morris would give theCowboys an option in caseMcFadden falls off from lastyears surprising seasonwhen he rushed for 1,089yards and three touch-downs on 239 carries.

Most important, Morrisgives Dallas another provenback in the teams quest toget back to the run-dom-inant attack they were in2014 when they finished sec-ond in the league in rush-ing.

Vice-president StephenJones said the Cowboys

could still take a runningback in upcoming NFLdraft.

The looming additionMayowa helps the Cowboysaddress a huge need at de-fensive end.

With Randy Gregory fac-ing a four-game suspensionto start the 2016 season andGreg Hardy, Jack Crawfordand Jeremy Mincey as un-restricted free agents, theCowboys had no bodies andno depth at the position.

DeMarcus Lawrence,who is coming off back sur-gery, is the only proven per-former under contract.

The Raiders had untilWednesday to match the of-

fer sheet, but didnt waitthat long to make the deci-sion. Oakland had givenMayowa the right-of-first re-fusal tender worth $1.671million so they wont re-ceive any compensationfrom the Cowboys for May-owa.

Mayowa has just twosacks and three starts thepast three seasons for theRaiders. But he is just 24years old and the Cowboyssee him as a player on therise.

The addition of Mayowawont prevent the Cowboysfrom targeting the positionin the NFL draft. OhioStates Joey Bosa has been

projected by many to betaken by the Cowboys withthe fourth overall pick.

A potential deal withRobinson could also seal thefate of cornerback BrandonCarr, who could be asked totake a pay cut or be cut forsalary cap reasons.

Robinson is the third cor-nerback the Cowboys havehad visit in free agency,joining Nolan Carroll andLeon Hall.

But he is first to sign.Carroll eventually re-

signed with the Philadel-phia Eagles on a one-yeardeal for $3 million.

Hall came in last weekon a visit, but left without adeal.

Robinsons presenceshould crystallize thingswith Carr, who could be asalary cap casualty becauseof his $9.1 million base sala-ry and $13.8 million cap hit.

Robinson started 10games in 2015, recording 49tackles and an interception.He had had eight pass de-flections.

Carr hasnt had an inter-ception since 2013. He alsohad just six pass deflectionsin 2015.

Robinson gives the Cow-boys veteran cornerbacktrio that includes MorrisClaiborne and OrlandoScandrick. The Cowboyswould like to keep Carr be-cause of the need have anabundance of cornerbacks,but only at a reduced price.He called the Cowboys bluffon a potential salary reduc-tion last year.

This time they hold allthe cards.

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: DALLAS COWBOYS

RB Morris joins CowboysDallas

signs twoplayersBy CLARENCE E. HILL JR.

FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM

Former Washington running back Alfred Morris joined the Cowboys on a two-year deal. The 27 year old started every game in his first fourseasons racking up 4,713 yards rushing and 29 touchdowns.

File photo by Tim Sharp | AP

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2016 THE ZAPATA TIMES 9A

LOS ANGELES Thegovernment has been ada-mant for weeks: FBI inves-tigators need to unlock anencrypted iPhone used byone of the San Bernardinoattackers, and Apple Inc.was the only one thatcould do it.

In a stunning reversalon Monday, federal prose-cutors asked a judge tohalt a much-anticipatedhearing on their efforts toforce Apple to unlock thephone. The FBI may havefound another way, andApples cooperation mayno longer be needed, ac-cording to court papers fil-ed late Monday, less than24 hours before Tuesdayshearing.

An outside party cameforward over the weekendand showed the FBI a pos-sible method to access thedata on Syed Rizwan Fa-rooks encrypted phone,according to the filing.

Testing is required todetermine whether it is aviable method that will notcompromise data on Fa-rooks iPhone, the filingsaid. If the method is via-ble, it should eliminate theneed for the assistancefrom Apple.

If its viable, that alsomeans the government hassignificantly underminedits arguments against Ap-ple, said Kristen Eichen-

sehr, a visiting law profes-sor at the University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles.

If they found anotherway into the phone, thatdoesnt just weaken theircase. It means they cantsatisfy the legal standardto sustain the courts or-der, said Eichensehr, re-ferring to MagistrateJudge Sheri Pyms Feb. 16ruling compelling Apple tocreate software that woulddisable security featureson the phone.

Pym granted the gov-ernments request to post-pone Tuesdays argumentsin the case and stayed herprevious order. She or-dered the government tofile a status report byApril 5.

The development raisedmore questions than it an-swered. Its unclear who ishelping the FBI with thephone and why it took solong for a possible solutionto be identified.

One thing seems clear that the governmentlikely would not have dis-closed it had found anoth-er possible way to unlockthe phone unless it was al-most certain the methodwould work, said RobertCattanach, a former U.S.Department of Justice at-torney who handles cyber-security cases for the Dor-sey & Whitney law firm.

He said the disclosurealone weakens the govern-ments case by introducingdoubt that it could only ac-

cess the phone with Ap-ples help. Theyve creat-ed ambiguity in a placewhere theyve previouslysaid there is none, hesaid.

In a conference callwith reporters, Apple at-torneys said its prematureto declare victory in thecase because authoritiescould come back in a fewweeks and insist they stillneed the companys help.The attorneys spoke underan Apple policy thatwouldnt allow them to bequoted by name.

The company hopes thegovernment will tell Appleabout whatever method ituses to access the phonesencrypted files. But the at-torneys said it may be upto the FBI to decide wheth-er to share the informa-tion.

Lawmakers, civil rights

advocates and other techcompanies have criticizedthe FBI for not doing moreto try to crack the iPhoneitself before seeking toforce Apples hand.

To me, it suggests thateither the FBI doesnt un-derstand the technology orthey werent giving us thewhole truth when theysaid there is no other pos-sible way of examiningthe phone without Appleshelp, said Alex Abdo, staffattorney for the AmericanCivil Liberties Union.Both of those are scary tome.

The ACLU has filed acourt brief supporting Ap-ples position.

Prosecutors have arguedthat the phone used by Fa-rook probably containsevidence of the Dec. 2 at-tack in which the countyfood inspector and his

wife, Tashfeen Malik,slaughtered 14 at a holidayluncheon attended bymany of his work col-leagues. The two werekilled in a police shootouthours later.

The FBI has said thecouple was inspired by theIslamic State group. Inves-tigators still are trying topiece together what hap-pened and find out if therewere collaborators.

The couple destroyedother phones they left be-hind, and the FBI has beenunable to circumvent thepasscode needed to unlockthe iPhone, which is own-ed by San BernardinoCounty and was given toFarook for his job.

Apple has argued thatthe government was seek-ing dangerous powerthat exceeds the authorityof the All Writs Act of 1789it cited, and violates thecompanys constitutionalrights, harms the Applebrand and threatens thetrust of its customers toprotect their privacy. The18th-century law has beenused on other cases to re-quire third parties to helplaw enforcement in investi-gations.

Its not clear what meth-od the government nowwants to test. But even asthe FBI has insisted thatonly Apple is able to pro-vide the help it needs,some technical expertshave argued there are oth-er options.

The most viable methodinvolves making a copy ofthe iPhones flash memorydrive, said JonathanZdziarski, a computer ex-pert who specializes iniPhone forensics. Thatwould allow investigatorsto make multiple tries atguessing the iPhonespasscode. A security fea-ture in the phone is de-signed to automaticallyerase the data if someonemakes 10 wrong guesses ina row.

But if that happens,Zdziarski said, investiga-tors could theoretically re-store the data from thebackup copy they have cre-ated.

The data itself would re-main encrypted until thephone is unlocked, but itwould remain viable whileinvestigators continued toguess the passcode, he add-ed.

Its a lot more involvedthan it sounds, Zdziarskicautioned, and no one hasdemonstrated that it wouldwork in this case.

Some experts have alsosuggested that investiga-tors could use lasers andacid to deconstruct thephones memory chip, inorder to physically exam-ine the encrypted data andthe encryption algorithm,in hopes of cracking thecode. But hardware ex-perts say that method hasa high risk of destroyingthe memory during theprocess.

FBI may be able to unlock iPhoneBy BRANDON BAILEY

AND AMANDA LEE MYERSASSOCIATED PRESS

This Feb. 17 file photo shows an iPhone. Apples cooperation mayno longer be needed to unlock a suspected terrorists iPhone.

Photo by Carolyn Kaster | AP file

U.S. stock indexesclosed mostly lower Tues-day as airlines, cruisecompanies and travelbooking sites fell followingthe deadly bombings inBelgium.

News of the attacks,which killed at least 31people, pulled the broadermarket lower for much ofthe morning. An early af-ternoon rally erased someof the losses, but the re-bound didnt hold.

Oil drilling companiesalso slumped following adownbeat forecast on drill-ing. Health care and tech-nology stocks gainedground.

The last-minute slidesnapped a four-day win-ning streak for the mar-ket. Trading was relativelylight, reflecting the Easterholiday weekend. It alsosignaled that traders werenot rattled by the potentialmarket implications of theattack.

This is the new invest-

ing normal now, saidChris Gaffney, president ofEverBank World Markets.Youre going to havethese big tragic events, soI dont think investors arereally too concerned withit long-term.

The Dow Jones indus-trial average lost 41.30points, or 0.2 percent, to17,582.57. The Standard &Poors 500 index dipped1.80 points, or 0.1 percent,to 2,049.80. The Nasdaqcomposite added 12.79points, or 0.3 percent, to4,821.66.

The three main U.S.stock indexes headed low-er early on Tuesday astraders digested the newsthat bombs had struck theBrussels airport and oneof the citys metro sta-tions. Belgium raised itsterror alert to the highestlevel. Airports across Eu-rope tightened security.The Islamic State groupclaimed responsibility forthe attacks.

The major Europeanstock markets declinedearly on, but ultimately

closed higher. Germanys DAX rose 0.4

percent, while the CAC-40in France edged up 0.1percent. The FTSE 100 in-dex of leading Britishshares was up 0.1 percent.Belgiums BEL 20 indexrose 0.2 percent.

What happens is inves-tors and traders go in andstart to bottom-fish on sec-tors that have sold off,said Quincy Krosby, mar-ket strategist at PrudentialFinancial. It flies in theface of the headlines andthe human cost of theseterrorist attacks, but thestock markets tend to turnaround.

In the U.S., travel-relat-ed companies slumpedand never quite recovered.

Royal Caribbean Cruis-es shed $2.24, or 2.9 per-cent, to $75.99, while Car-nival lost $1.03, or 2.1 per-cent, to $48.75.

American AirlinesGroup fell 71 cents, or 1.6percent, to $42.76, whileDelta Air Lines fell 73cents, or 1.5 percent, to$49.39.

Travel companiesstocks drop after attack

By ALEX VEIGAASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON Feder-al health regulators willadd their strongest warn-ing labels to the most wide-ly prescribed painkillers,part of a multi-pronged gov-ernment campaign to steman epidemic of abuse anddeath tied to drugs like Vi-codin and Percocet.

The Food and Drug Ad-ministration announcedTuesday plans to add aboxed warning the mostserious type to all imme-diate-release opioid pain-killers, including some 175branded and generic drugs.

Those medications,which often combine oxyco-done with lower-grade med-ications, are among themost commonly used drugsin the U.S. and account for90 percent of all opioidpainkillers prescribed.Roughly three years ago theFDA added similar warn-ings to long-acting opioiddrugs like OxyContin,which slowly release theirdoses over 12 hours or

more. Now both immediateand extended-release for-mulations will highlight therisks of addiction, abuse,overdose and death.

The long-awaited chang-es come as federal and stateofficials struggle to curb awave of overdoses fueled bythe overprescribing of med-ications and a steady sup-ply of cheap heroin.

Were at a time whenthe unfathomable tragediesresulting from addiction,overdose and death have be-come one of the most ur-gent and devastating publichealth crises facing ourcountry, FDA Commission-er Dr. Robert Califf said ona call with reporters. Icant stress enough howcritical it is for prescribersto have the most current in-formation.

But lawmakers fromstates that have been rav-aged by opioid addictionsaid such labeling changeshave done little to helptheir communities.

Unfortunately, it hastaken FDA far too long toaddress the grave risks of

these drugs that haveclaimed the lives of thou-sands this year alone, saidSen. Edward Markey, D-Mass.

Opioids are a class ofpowerful and highly addic-tive drugs that include bothprescription drugs like co-deine and hydrocodone, aswell as illegal narcotics,like heroin.

Deaths linked to misuseand abuse of prescriptionopioids climbed to 19,000 in2014, the highest figure onrecord, according to theCenters for Disease Controland Prevention. Heroin andopioid painkillers combinedcaused 28,650 fatal overdos-es.

Doctors are not requiredto follow the FDAs instruc-ti