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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 FREE A HEARST PUBLICATION ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM HAWKS MOVE TO 3-1 ZAPATA ROLLS PAST CARRIZO SPRINGS 48-8, 9A An anonymous tip led federal agents to arrest a suspected drug mule and seize 31 marijuana bundles, according to court records obtained Tuesday. Jose Luis Villalba-Cardenas was charged with possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance. U.S. Border Patrol agents seized 359 pounds of marijuana with an estimat- ed street value of $287,200. The incident took place Sept. 14. That day, Border Patrol agents as- signed to Zapata County responded to a tip of a white Ford pickup loaded with marijuana bundles at the inter- section of U.S. 83 and Chele Road. Agents said they responded imme- diately to the area and observed the pickup driving south along U.S. 83. The pickup was speeding but slowed down once agents began following it, according to court documents. Agents then activated their emer- gency lights and pulled over the sus- pected vehicle. Agents said they no- ticed a marijuana odor when the driv- er rolled down his window. Authorities then noticed marijuana bundles in the rear seat of the pickup. Identified as the driver, Villalba- Cardenas opted not to talk to law en- forcement. (César G. Rodriguez may be reached at 728-2568 or cesar@lmton- line.com) US BORDER PATROL Marijuana bust Anonymous tip leads to arrest in Zapata County By CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZ THE ZAPATA TIMES not to university pres- idents or deans. The system hired an out- side firm to investi- gate the handling of recommendation let- ters. A UT System report about letters sent by legislators to Powers found no wrongdoing but also showed that applicants with rec- ommendations were accepted at much higher rates. After that report was released, addi- tional information came to the system’s attention, Cigarroa said. It prompted the decision to conduct an external review. In another case, Ci- garroa forwarded a letter of recommenda- tion to Powers noting that the person mak- ing the request, John D. Alexander Jr., is on the board of Robert J. Kleberg Jr. & Helen C. Kleberg Foundation, a foundation that gave $4.4 million to the UT System in 2013, ac- cording to tax records. Jenny LaCoste-Ca- puto, a UT System spokeswoman said that “it had been com- mon practice in the past when recommen- dation letters came to the chancellor’s office to forward those to the institutions, with no expectation that those candidates receive any special considera- tion.” UT-Austin spokes- man Gary Susswein said Powers handled the correspondence the same way he han- dled letters sent di- rectly to him. “The president has a general policy of for- warding references and recommendations he gets to the Office of Admissions or the ap- propriate college,” Susswein said. AUSTIN — Records show the outgoing chancellor of the Uni- versity of Texas Sys- tem has forwarded let- ters of recommenda- tion from influential people to UT-Austin’s president advocating admission of about 40 students since 2009. The letters ob- tained by the Austin Ameri- can- States- man show Francisco Cigarroa forwarded letters to UT-Austin President Bill Powers and would sometimes add hand- written notes as a hint about the prominence of the person making the request. For instance, when a person close to George Sealy, the exec- utive vice president of Sealy & Smith Foun- dation, a charitable or- ganization that has do- nated about $800 mil- lion to the UT Medical Branch at Galveston over the years was re- jected, he appealed to Cigarroa. The Chan- cellor then forwarded the letter to Powers, with a handwritten note that read “on Sealy Foundation” and added a copy of the response letter to Sealy, with an assur- ance that the “out- standing young man” would receive “careful consideration.” Cigarroa disavowed the practice in recent months amid ques- tions of possible favor- itism, and last month he sent a letter in- structing his staff to forward letters the ad- missions committee, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM Chancellor advocated for students System’s outgoing head forwarded letters to UT president ASSOCIATED PRESS CIGARROA CAMERON COUNTY — One recent evening, the sound of a rapid succession of gunshots echoed across a freshly shorn field of cotton near the Rio Grande and carried into the home of Pa- mela Taylor, who sat on her couch, smiling. The gunfire came from some heavily armed civil- ians who call themselves “American Patriots” and set up camp about a month ago on an adjacent ranch to pa- trol for unauthorized immi- grants crossing from Mexi- co. Taylor, a sprightly octoge- narian and English war bride who immigrated dec- ades ago, seethed when the government installed a sec- tion of rust-colored border fence north of her 2-acre plot. Far from slowing illicit traffic, she argued, the fence concentrated the flow of people through her prop- erty. Since the Patriots ar- rived, however, the nightly disturbances have all but disappeared, she said. As the sounds from vari- ous caliber guns rang out from the encampment, called Camp Lonestar, Tay- lor announced plans to host a barbecue for the men as a token of her appreciation. “We haven’t had a single person come across since they’ve been here,” Taylor said of the men. “It’s nice to get a good night sleep.” If Taylor is resting easy these days, some of her neighbors and law enforce- ment agencies who patrol the area are troubled by the US-MEXICO BORDER ‘AMERICAN PATRIOTS’ KC Massey, left, and John Forester patrol the border wall along the Rio Grande River on Wednesday, Sept. 10, in Brownsville, Texas, on property owned by Rusty Monsees. Photo by Bob Own/San Antonio Express-News Armed civilians patrol along Rio Grande By AARON NELSEN SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS See BORDER PAGE 11A LUBBOCK, Texas — El Niño appears to be on its way. The long-awaited weather pat- tern that brings rain to Texas is forecast to arrive next month, National Weather Service mete- orologist Victor Murphy in Fort Worth said. El Niño raises the chances in many parts of the state for abundant rain through February, which would raise lake levels statewide and im- prove soil moisture, he said. But the region around Wichi- ta Falls along the Oklahoma border is likely to miss out on the wet weather pattern. Parts of that region are in exceptional drought, the worst stage on the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map, and many nearby are in extreme drought. The city itself hasn’t fallen out of the two driest categories in about four years. “The farther north you go, the smaller the impact of El Ni- ño,” said state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon, a profes- sor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University. The current Texas drought began in October 2010, and 2011 was the state’s driest ever. Sub- sequent years have not brought enough rain to quench the dry- ness. There had been no real relief statewide until the past week, when heavy rains from a storm system and Hurricane Odile’s remnants swept across much of the state. “Its’ been a drought-ender in a couple of places, but there’s a lot of places it’s not been,” Niel- sen-Gammon said. When droughts begin, the first symptom is dry soil. The last is lakes drying up. But when drought begins to im- prove, the first sign is improved soil moisture, which allows more water to run into lakes. That has happened in some parts of the state but not others, with lake levels across the state at 64.1 full on Tuesday. The usu- al capacity for this time of year is 79 percent. Agriculture officials see the soil moisture levels rising from the recent rains in the Central Gulf Coast, Central Texas, the Rio Grande Valley, South Plains and far West Texas, said Travis Miller, associate director of state WEATHER El Niño to help state out of drought By BETSY BLANEY ASSOCIATED PRESS This June 4 aerial photograph shows Lake Travis, Texas. El Niño, the weather pat- tern that brings rain to Texas, is forecast to arrive next month. Photo by Lower Colorado River Authority | AP See EL NIÑO PAGE 12A

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WEDNESDAYSEPTEMBER 24, 2014

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HAWKS MOVE TO 3-1ZAPATA ROLLS PAST CARRIZO SPRINGS 48-8, 9A

An anonymous tip led federalagents to arrest a suspected drugmule and seize 31 marijuana bundles,according to court records obtainedTuesday.

Jose Luis Villalba-Cardenas wascharged with possess with intent todistribute a controlled substance. U.S.Border Patrol agents seized 359pounds of marijuana with an estimat-

ed street value of $287,200. The incident took place Sept. 14.

That day, Border Patrol agents as-signed to Zapata County responded toa tip of a white Ford pickup loadedwith marijuana bundles at the inter-section of U.S. 83 and Chele Road.

Agents said they responded imme-diately to the area and observed thepickup driving south along U.S. 83.The pickup was speeding but sloweddown once agents began following it,according to court documents.

Agents then activated their emer-gency lights and pulled over the sus-pected vehicle. Agents said they no-ticed a marijuana odor when the driv-er rolled down his window.Authorities then noticed marijuanabundles in the rear seat of the pickup.

Identified as the driver, Villalba-Cardenas opted not to talk to law en-forcement.

(César G. Rodriguez may bereached at 728-2568 or [email protected])

US BORDER PATROL

Marijuana bustAnonymous tip leads to arrest in Zapata County

By CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZTHE ZAPATA TIMES

not to university pres-idents or deans. Thesystem hired an out-side firm to investi-gate the handling ofrecommendation let-ters.

A UT System reportabout letters sent bylegislators to Powersfound no wrongdoingbut also showed thatapplicants with rec-ommendations wereaccepted at muchhigher rates.

After that reportwas released, addi-tional informationcame to the system’sattention, Cigarroasaid. It prompted thedecision to conduct anexternal review.

In another case, Ci-garroa forwarded aletter of recommenda-tion to Powers notingthat the person mak-ing the request, JohnD. Alexander Jr., is onthe board of Robert J.Kleberg Jr. & Helen C.Kleberg Foundation, afoundation that gave$4.4 million to the UTSystem in 2013, ac-cording to tax records.

Jenny LaCoste-Ca-puto, a UT Systemspokeswoman saidthat “it had been com-mon practice in thepast when recommen-dation letters came tothe chancellor’s officeto forward those to theinstitutions, with noexpectation that thosecandidates receive anyspecial considera-tion.”

UT-Austin spokes-man Gary Sussweinsaid Powers handledthe correspondencethe same way he han-dled letters sent di-rectly to him.

“The president hasa general policy of for-warding referencesand recommendationshe gets to the Office ofAdmissions or the ap-propriate college,”Susswein said.

AUSTIN — Recordsshow the outgoingchancellor of the Uni-versity of Texas Sys-tem has forwarded let-ters of recommenda-tion from influentialpeople to UT-Austin’spresident advocatingadmission of about 40students since 2009.

Thelettersob-tainedby theAustinAmeri-can-States-manshow

Francisco Cigarroaforwarded letters toUT-Austin PresidentBill Powers and wouldsometimes add hand-written notes as a hintabout the prominenceof the person makingthe request.

For instance, whena person close toGeorge Sealy, the exec-utive vice president ofSealy & Smith Foun-dation, a charitable or-ganization that has do-nated about $800 mil-lion to the UT MedicalBranch at Galvestonover the years was re-jected, he appealed toCigarroa. The Chan-cellor then forwardedthe letter to Powers,with a handwrittennote that read “onSealy Foundation”and added a copy ofthe response letter toSealy, with an assur-ance that the “out-standing young man”would receive “carefulconsideration.”

Cigarroa disavowedthe practice in recentmonths amid ques-tions of possible favor-itism, and last monthhe sent a letter in-structing his staff toforward letters the ad-missions committee,

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM

Chancelloradvocated

for studentsSystem’s outgoing head

forwarded letters to UT presidentASSOCIATED PRESS

CIGARROA

CAMERON COUNTY —One recent evening, thesound of a rapid successionof gunshots echoed across afreshly shorn field of cottonnear the Rio Grande andcarried into the home of Pa-mela Taylor, who sat on hercouch, smiling.

The gunfire came from

some heavily armed civil-ians who call themselves“American Patriots” and setup camp about a month agoon an adjacent ranch to pa-trol for unauthorized immi-grants crossing from Mexi-co.

Taylor, a sprightly octoge-narian and English warbride who immigrated dec-ades ago, seethed when thegovernment installed a sec-tion of rust-colored border

fence north of her 2-acreplot. Far from slowing illicittraffic, she argued, thefence concentrated the flowof people through her prop-erty. Since the Patriots ar-rived, however, the nightlydisturbances have all butdisappeared, she said.

As the sounds from vari-ous caliber guns rang outfrom the encampment,called Camp Lonestar, Tay-lor announced plans to host

a barbecue for the men as atoken of her appreciation.

“We haven’t had a singleperson come across sincethey’ve been here,” Taylorsaid of the men. “It’s nice toget a good night sleep.”

If Taylor is resting easythese days, some of herneighbors and law enforce-ment agencies who patrolthe area are troubled by the

US-MEXICO BORDER

‘AMERICAN PATRIOTS’

KC Massey, left, and John Forester patrol the border wall along the Rio Grande River on Wednesday, Sept. 10, in Brownsville, Texas, on propertyowned by Rusty Monsees.

Photo by Bob Own/San Antonio Express-News

Armed civilians patrol along Rio GrandeBy AARON NELSEN

SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

See BORDER PAGE 11A

LUBBOCK, Texas — El Niñoappears to be on its way.

The long-awaited weather pat-tern that brings rain to Texas isforecast to arrive next month,National Weather Service mete-orologist Victor Murphy in FortWorth said. El Niño raises thechances in many parts of thestate for abundant rain throughFebruary, which would raiselake levels statewide and im-prove soil moisture, he said.

But the region around Wichi-ta Falls along the Oklahomaborder is likely to miss out onthe wet weather pattern. Partsof that region are in exceptionaldrought, the worst stage on theweekly U.S. Drought Monitormap, and many nearby are in

extreme drought. The city itselfhasn’t fallen out of the twodriest categories in about fouryears.

“The farther north you go,the smaller the impact of El Ni-ño,” said state climatologistJohn Nielsen-Gammon, a profes-sor of atmospheric sciences atTexas A&M University.

The current Texas droughtbegan in October 2010, and 2011was the state’s driest ever. Sub-sequent years have not broughtenough rain to quench the dry-ness.

There had been no real reliefstatewide until the past week,when heavy rains from a stormsystem and Hurricane Odile’sremnants swept across much ofthe state.

“Its’ been a drought-ender ina couple of places, but there’s a

lot of places it’s not been,” Niel-sen-Gammon said.

When droughts begin, thefirst symptom is dry soil. Thelast is lakes drying up. Butwhen drought begins to im-prove, the first sign is improvedsoil moisture, which allowsmore water to run into lakes.That has happened in someparts of the state but not others,with lake levels across the stateat 64.1 full on Tuesday. The usu-al capacity for this time of yearis 79 percent.

Agriculture officials see thesoil moisture levels rising fromthe recent rains in the CentralGulf Coast, Central Texas, theRio Grande Valley, South Plainsand far West Texas, said TravisMiller, associate director of state

WEATHER

El Niño to help state out of droughtBy BETSY BLANEYASSOCIATED PRESS

This June 4 aerial photograph shows Lake Travis, Texas. El Niño, the weather pat-tern that brings rain to Texas, is forecast to arrive next month.

Photo by Lower Colorado River Authority | AP

See EL NIÑO PAGE 12A

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 25Grief support group. Noon to

1:30 p.m. First United MethodistChurch, 1220 McClelland Ave. Free andopen to public. Contact Patricia Cisne-ros at 722-1674 or [email protected].

Villa de San Agustin de LaredoGenealogical Society meeting. 3 p.m.to 5 p.m. St. John Newmann Church,Parish Hall. Presentation of “Peru andthe Legacy of the Incas,” by SylviaReasch. Contact Sanjuanita Martinez-Hunter at 722-3497.

Planetarium movies. From 5p.m. to 8 p.m. At 6 p.m. Wonders ofthe Universe, at 7 p.m. Lamps of At-lantis, $5 general admissions, $4 chil-dren under age of 12 and TAMIU Stu-dents with ID. Lamar Bruni VergaraPlanetarium, TAMIU. Contact ClaudiaHerrera at [email protected] more information. Or go to thewebsite Tamiu.edu/planetarium.

Los Amigos Duplicate BridgeClub. 1:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the LaredoCountry Club. For more information,contact Beverly Cantu at 727-0589.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 26Planetarium movies. From 6 p.m.

to 7 p.m. at 7 p.m. Stars of Pharoahs.$5 General Admission. $4 Children 12and under & TAMIU Students with IDat the Lamar Bruni Vergara Planetari-um, TAMIU. Contact Claudia Herrera [email protected]. Or go thewebsite at www.tamiu.edu/planetarium.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 27Meeting of the new American

Legion Post 850. 6:30 p.m. Knights ofColumbus home, 1720 Houston St. Vet-erans interested in joining the groupshould attend the meeting and bring acopy of your DD214 and $30 for a full-year membership. For more informa-tion, call Javier Aranda at 722-3434 orFrancisco Perez at 220-7858

SUNDAY, SEPT. 28Semi-annual all-you-can-eat spa-

ghetti lunch. From 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.First United Methodist Church. ContactSue Webber at [email protected].

MONDAY, SEPT. 29Monthly meeting of Laredo Par-

kinson’s Disease Support Group. 6:30p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Laredo Medical Cen-ter, Tower B, First Floor CommunityCenter. Patients, caregivers and familymembers invited. Free info pamphletsavailable in Spanish and English. CallRichard Renner (English) at 645-8649or Juan Gonzalez (Spanish) at 237-0666.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 13rd Annual Youth Domestic Vio-

lence Conference. 6:00 p.m. - 8:00pm. UTHSC Laredo Regional Campus,1937 E. Bustamante, Laredo, Texas. Foradditional information and to registercall Area Health Education Center at(956)712-0037.

THURSDAY, OCT. 2Grief support group. Noon to

1:30 p.m. First United MethodistChurch, 1220 McClelland Ave. Free andopen to public. Contact Patricia Cisne-ros at 722-1674 or [email protected].

Los Amigos Duplicate BridgeClub. From 1:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. LaredoCountry Club. For more information,contact Beverly Cantu at 727-0589.

18thAnnualDomestic ViolenceConference. 8:00 a.m.- 5:30 pm. TexasA&M International University, StudentCenter.For additional information andto register call Area Health EducationCenter at (956)712-0037.

SUNDAY, OCT. 55th Annual Blessing of All Ani-

mals. From 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. St. Peter’sPlaza (Matamoros Street and MainAvenue). For more information contactBerta "Birdie" Torres at [email protected] or call Birdie at 286-7866.

MONDAY, OCT. 6“Conversations with the Sisters”.

From 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. It will be heldat Lamar Bruni Vergara Education Cen-ter at 1000 Mier. Contact Rosanne Pa-lacios at [email protected] more information.

TUESDAY, OCT. 7The Alzheimer’s support group.

Will meet at 7 pm. Laredo MedicalCenter. If you have any questions,please leave a message at 956-693-9991.

(Submit calendar items at lmton-line.com/calendar/submit or by email-ing [email protected].)

CALENDARASSOCIATED PRESS

Today is Wednesday, Sept.24, the 267th day of 2014. Thereare 98 days left in the year.The Jewish New Year, RoshHashanah, begins at sunset.

Today’s Highlight in His-tory:

On Sept. 24, 1789, PresidentGeorge Washington signed aJudiciary Act establishingAmerica’s federal court sys-tem and creating the post ofattorney general.

On this date:In 1869, thousands of busi-

nessmen were ruined in aWall Street panic known as“Black Friday” after finan-ciers Jay Gould and JamesFisk attempted to corner thegold market.

In 1934, Babe Ruth made hisfarewell appearance as a play-er with the New York Yankeesin a game against the BostonRed Sox. (The Sox won, 5-0.)

In 1948, Mildred Gillars, ac-cused of being Nazi wartimeradio propagandist “Axis Sal-ly,” pleaded not guilty inWashington, D.C. to charges oftreason. (Gillars, later convict-ed, ended up serving 12 yearsin prison.)

In 1960, the USS Enterprise,the first nuclear-powered air-craft carrier, was launched atNewport News, Virginia.

In 1964, the situation come-dy “The Munsters” premieredon CBS television.

In 1976, former hostage Pa-tricia Hearst was sentenced toseven years in prison for herpart in a 1974 bank robbery inSan Francisco carried out bythe Symbionese LiberationArmy.

In 1988, Canadian sprinterBen Johnson won the men’s100-meter dash at the Seoul(sohl) Summer Olympics —but he was disqualified threedays later for using anabolicsteroids.

In 1991, children’s authorTheodor Seuss Geisel (GY’-zul), better known as “Dr.Seuss,” died in La Jolla, Cali-fornia, at age 87.

Ten years ago: Iraq’s inter-im prime minister, Ayad Alla-wi (EE’-yahd ah-LAH’-wee),appealed to world leaders atthe U.N. General Assembly tounite behind his country’s ef-fort to rein in spiraling vio-lence, lighten the foreign debtand improve security ahead ofthe January elections.

Five years ago: With Presi-dent Barack Obama presiding,the U.N. Security Councilunanimously endorsed asweeping strategy aimed athalting the spread of nuclearweapons and ultimately elimi-nating them.

One year ago: Tea partyconservative Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, began an old-style fil-ibuster lasting nearly 22 hoursover President Barack Oba-ma’s health care law.

Today’s Birthdays:Rhythm-and-blues singer Son-ny Turner (The Platters) is 75.Singer Barbara Allbut Brown(The Angels) is 74. SingerPhyllis “Jiggs” Allbut Sirico(The Angels) is 72. Singer Ger-ry Marsden (Gerry and thePacemakers) is 72. News an-chor Lou Dobbs is 69. Pro andCollege Football Hall of FamerJoe Greene is 68. Actor Gor-don Clapp is 66. SongwriterHolly Knight is 58. FormerU.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy II,D-Mass., is 62. Actor KevinSorbo is 56. Actress-writer NiaVardalos is 52.

Thought for Today:“There was never a nationgreat until it came to theknowledge that it had no-where in the world to go forhelp.” — Charles Dudley War-ner, American author and edi-tor (1829-1900).

TODAY IN HISTORY

EL PASO — Health officials say an addi-tional 45 infants may have been exposed to aWest Texas hospital worker infected with tu-berculosis, bringing the total number of chil-dren potentially exposed to the disease to751.

The El Paso Department of Public Heathsaid Tuesday that it received a list of another45 infants at Providence Memorial Hospitalin El Paso. Authorities have said the infantswere exposed to the worker from September2013 to August.

More than 350 appointments have beenmade for babies to be tested, officials said.The families of the 45 infants are being noti-fied.

Norma Hernandez, the mother of a 9-month-old boy exposed to TB, says her trust

in the health care system is shattered. “I’mafraid to even bring him to the doctor be-cause now I don’t know whether he’ll be ex-posed to something else,” she said at theparking lot of the El Paso Department ofPublic Health, where children are being test-ed for tuberculosis.

Health officials say the hospital employeetested positive for TB late August and wasplaced on leave. They are testing all those po-tentially exposed as far back as September2013, three months before the worker exhib-ited the first symptoms of the disease. Citingprivacy laws, the hospital has not said why ittook so long to test this person.

Lee B. Richman, founder of the New Jer-sey Medical School Global Tuberculosis In-stitute in Newark, says very few people getinfected because it takes a lot of exposureover long periods of time to be infected.

AROUND TEXAS

Ines Jimenez holds her daughter Chelsea Jimenez as she talks to reporters at the El Paso Department of Public Health in ElPaso on Tuesday. Jimenez’s baby and about 750 other infants were exposed to a healthcare worker infected with tuber-culosis over the past year prompting health authorities to screen all those children for the disease.

Photo by Juan Carlos Llorca | AP

More infants exposed to TBBy JUAN CARLOS LLORCA

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Immigrant centerto hold up to 2,400

DILLEY — U.S. Immigrationand Customs Enforcement an-nounced Tuesday that a fourthcenter to house families appre-hended while crossing the South-west border into the U.S. willeventually hold 2,400 people inTexas.

ICE will operate the residen-tial facility when it opens in No-vember in Dilley, Texas, about 70miles southwest of San Antonio.It will house immigrant adultswith children caught enteringthe country illegally.

The South Texas Family Resi-dential Center will be the fourthsuch facility. It’s meant to expe-dite their return to their homecountries and deter others fromembarking on the journey, ac-cording to a statement from ICE.

The facility, like others forfamilies, will provide medicalcare, social workers, educationalservices and access to legal coun-sel, according to ICE.

Prosecutors: Man usedcocaine to buy votes

McALLEN — Federal prosecu-tors say a 47-year-old man pro-vided cocaine to secure votes forschool board candidates in SouthTexas.

A federal judge in McAllen onMonday scheduled the arraign-ment of Francisco “Frankie”Garcia of Donna for next month.He’s facing voter fraud and othercharges.

The Monitor newspaper re-ports that an indictment allegesGarcia paid voters by givingthem a “dime bag” of cocaine.Others were paid $10 for theirvotes in the 2012 Donna schoolboard elections.

FBI agents arrested Garcialast week in Illinois.

He’s the latest to be implicatedin a conspiracy to buy votes forthe school board elections. Threewomen pleaded guilty earlierthis year to voter fraud.

A phone listing in Donna forGarcia could not be found.

South Texas city adoptsstricter tattoo policy

BALCONES HEIGHTS — ASan Antonio-area city hasbanned visible tattoos for munic-ipal employees at work fourmonths after an off-duty officerwas killed outside his tattoo par-lor.

The Balcones Heights CityCouncil approved the ordinanceMonday night. It’s based on asimilar measure used by the SanAntonio Police Department.

Three men have been arrestedand charged with murder in theMay shooting death of Officer Ju-lian Pesina (puh-SEE’-nuh). Theofficer had a number of tattoosand investigators are looking in-to whether his slaying was relat-ed to gang activity.

KENS-TV reports BalconesHeights Mayor Pro Temp JackBurton says the new policycomes in response to the killing.

Tattoos must not be visiblewhen any Balcones Heights mu-nicipal worker is on duty.

— Compiled from AP reports

Traffic resumes onhighway hit by landslideOSO, Wash. — Traffic was for

the most part flowing freely intwo directions on a state high-way that was blocked by a hugelandslide six months ago inWashington state that killed 43people.

State Highway 530 reopened totwo-way, 50-mph traffic Mondaynight. On Tuesday, vehicles weretravelling mostly without prob-lems.

The highway was realignedand raised as much as 20 feet inplaces. As part of a $28 millionproject funded by federal emer-gency money, crews also in-stalled six new culverts.

The deadly landslide struckabout 55 miles north of Seattleon March 22.

Driver charged in fatalDelaware bus crash

NEW CASTLE, Del. — Dela-

ware State Police have chargedthe driver of a tour bus thatcrashed in New Castle, killingtwo passengers and injuring doz-ens.

Troopers said Tuesday that 56-year-old Jinli Zhao of Flushing,New York, has been charged

with two counts of the operationof a vehicle causing death of an-other person.

Fifty-four-year-old Hua’y Chenof New York City and 30-year-oldIdil Bahsi of Istanbul, Turkey,were killed in Sunday’s crash.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE NATION

One of two new 2-year-old twin polar bears, Suka or Sakari, swims inside the Po-lar Bear Odyssey display at the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory on Tuesday inSt. Paul, Minn. The bears were born in November 2012 at the Toledo Zoo in Ohio.

Photo by Leila Navidi/The Star Tribune | AP

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BROWNSVILLE — Thecommercial rocket launch-es that could begin as earlyas 2016 in the southern-most tip of Texas will be acritical step toward oneday establishing a humanpresence on Mars, SpaceXfounder and CEO ElonMusk said Monday.

With waves from theGulf of Mexico crashingjust over the dunes andcrabs skittering around atent erected for thegroundbreaking, Musksaid he expects SpaceX toinvest $100 million in theworld’s first commercialorbital spaceport duringthe next three to fouryears.

The commercial satellitelaunch revenue Musk anti-cipates generating at theBoca Chica Beach site eastof Brownsville will fuelCalifornia-based SpaceX’sreal objective.

“The long-term goal is tocreate technology neces-sary to take humanity be-yond Earth,” Musk said.“To take humanity to Marsand establish a base onMars. So it could very wellbe that the first personthat departs for another

planet will depart fromthis location.”

Beginning as early asthe third quarter of 2016,Musk said he expects thespaceport to handle atleast 12 rocket launchesper year. SpaceX will con-tinue using governmentlaunch sites in Florida andCalifornia, but Musk saidits manifest would outpacethe available launch win-dows at those existingsites.

Gov. Rick Perry, on handfor the ceremony, an-nounced a $4.4 milliongrant from the TexasEmerging TechnologyFund to the University of

Texas at Brownsville thatwill be matched by the Uni-versity of Texas System totest and commercialize anew communications sys-tem at laboratories at theSpaceX Boca Chica com-plex.

“The future of SouthTexas takes off right be-hind me,” Perry said.

Perry is also providing$2.3 million from the TexasEnterprise Fund towardthe spaceport and an addi-tional $13 million from theSpaceport Trust Fund.

The U.S. Department ofCommerce announcedMonday that it had award-ed $1.2 million to the Uni-

versity of Texas at Browns-ville for a high-tech busi-ness incubation facilitythat could foster a clusterof space industry business-es.

SpaceX is expected tocreate 300 jobs at the site,and Musk said he expectedother companies to settlethere.

SpaceX already providesresupply missions for theInternational Space Sta-tion with its unmannedDragon capsule, most re-cently on Sunday. Lastweek, SpaceX and Boeingwon contracts to carry U.S.astronauts to the space sta-tion beginning in 2016 or2017. Musk said he expectsthose NASA missions tocontinue to launch fromFlorida. NASA has notlaunched its own crewssince the end of the shuttleprogram in 2011.

Musk said he would liketo fly to Mars one day butthat his goals are not abouttourism. He said the ques-tion is whether humans be-come a less vulnerablemulti-planet species.

“I think the importantthing is to develop thetechnology that will enableultimately anyone to moveto Mars if they really wantto,” he said.

SpaceX breaks groundBy CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A sign indicating the future site of the SpaceX launch site is shownwhere people gathered for the SpaceX ground breaking ceremony.

Photo by Yvette Vela/The Brownsville Herald | AP

HOUSTON — The num-ber of Texas residents seek-ing federal permission topurchase firearms hasdropped 18 percent this yearas fears of tougher regula-tions subside.

Experts attribute theslowdown to waning fears ofstricter federal regulations,The Houston Chronicle re-ported. Gun sales spikedacross the nation after theNewtown, Connecticut, ele-mentary school massacre in2012.

Texans submitted nearly

1.1 million requests to theU.S. Bureau of Alcohol, To-bacco, Firearms and Explo-sives from January to Au-gust 2013. That number hasdropped to about 910,000 forthe same period this year.The bureau conducts com-puterized checks to deter-mine if a person has certaincriminal convictions or oth-er issues that would prohib-it the gun purchase.

“Some of the concernover certain types of fire-arms just disappearing mayhave been satisfied,” saidAlice Tripp of the TexasState Rifle Association.

“Some of the concern hasrelaxed since nothing fromCongress has happened.Various types of firearmsand ammunition are still be-ing made. Nobody hasknocked on your door andtaken anything.”

Still, a spokeswoman forthe bureau’s Houston officesays it’s too early to know adefinite reason for the de-cline.

“One of the possibilitiesis people are getting theirguns somewhere else,” saidSpecial Agent NicoleStrong.

Jeremy Alcede, CEO of

Tactical Firearms in Katy,also said the decline is dueto eased tensions overwhether President BarackObama or other lawmakerswould push for stricter gunlaws. He said his sales in2013 jumped from an aver-age to $1 million per monthto $1 million per week. Al-cede says customers put offmaking mortgage and carpayments in order to buyguns.

“We had a huge influx,”Alcede said. “Obama hasbeen the gun industry’s bestsalesman four years in arow.”

Requests for gun purchases dropASSOCIATED PRESS

DALLAS — A Texasschool district temporari-ly removed seven booksfrom its approved booklist for high school stu-dents after parents com-plained at a school boardmeeting about sex scenesand references to rape,abuse and abortion.

Highland Park Super-intendent Dawson Orrsaid the books will be re-viewed by committees ofparents, teachers andstudents, a process thatcould take months.

“I made the decision— given the volume andthe tenor and just thecontinual escalation ofthis issue — that wewould pause, take thetime to go ahead and cre-ate the reconsiderationcommittees and do thework,” Orr told The Dal-las Morning News.

Teachers can choosefrom more than 200books on the highschool’s approved booklist, each reviewed by acommittee of teachersand parents. They some-times send permissionslips for books with ma-ture content. Parentswho object to a book canrequest another optionfor their children andformally ask to have itremoved from the list.

One parent who raisedobjections, Tavia Hunt,said she doesn’t want hersophomore daughter orany students to feel un-comfortable in Englishclass because of sexscenes, but said thebooks should be allowedin the library.

“This is not about ban-ning books. No one is ad-

vocating that,” Huntsaid. “We want the kidsto have access to thebooks in the library. Theproblem is having ob-scene literature mandato-ry in the classroom andfor discussion.”

One of the seven re-moved books is “TheGlass Castle: A Memoir”by Jeannette Walls, aboutgrowing up in povertywith a father who spenthis money on alcoholand a mother who be-came homeless.

Walls is scheduled tobe the keynote speaker atthe district’s annual liter-ary festival in February.She said she was heart-broken to learn her bookwas temporarily re-moved and that teenagereaders have told her thebook gave them courageto seek help.

“My book has ugly ele-ments to it, but it’s abouthope and resilience, andI don’t know why thatwouldn’t be an importantmessage,” she said.“Sometimes you have towalk through the muckto get to the message.”

But she said that sherespects parents who aretrying to protect theirchildren.

The other books thatwere removed are: “TheArt of Racing in theRain” by Garth Stein;“The Working Poor: In-visible in America” byDavid K. Shipler; “Sidd-hartha” by HermannHesse; “The AbsolutelyTrue Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sher-man Alexie; “An Abun-dance of Katherines” byJohn Green; and “Songof Solomon” by ToniMorrison.

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The Obama administra-tion has offered no credi-ble legal authorization fora war against IslamicState, and Congress plain-ly will not provide one.What’s going on here,asks the shade of JamesMadison? Has the UnitedStates completely lost thepart of the Constitutionthat imagines Congressand thus the people as acheck on the president’swar powers? And if so,does it matter?

We can dispense quick-ly with the justificationsthat the administrationhas proffered in a piece-meal and somewhat em-barrassed fashion. The2002 authorization for theuse of military force forthe Iraq War says that thepresident can “protect thenational security of theUnited States against thethreat posed by Iraq.” Butin bombing Islamic State,the United States isn’tprotecting itself againstthe threat “by” Iraq. It’sprotecting Iraqi residentsfrom a threat “against”Iraq. Unless you think“by” and “against” meanthe same thing, the 2002authorization doesn’t ap-ply. This is to say nothingof the fact that the Obamaadministration sought therepeal of the 2002 authori-zation before relying on it.

The 2001 authorizationis less applicable still. Init, Congress told the presi-dent he could make waron anyone he determinesto have “planned, author-ized, committed, or aided”the Sept. 11 attacks. TheGeorge W. Bush and Oba-ma demonstrations havevastly expanded this lan-guage to cover al-Qaida af-filiates and spinoffs thatdidn’t exist in 2001. Buteven these extensionsdon’t cover Islamic State,which is not only unaffil-iated with al-Qaida but al-so at war with its affiliatein Syria, known as theNusra Front.

That leaves the last ref-uge of the believer in in-herent presidential power:Article 2 of the Constitu-tion, which makes thepresident commander inchief. As a candidate, Oba-ma harshly criticized theBush administration’snear pathological relianceon the idea that thisclause trumped all otherlegal restraints on thepresident when he wasprotecting the country. Aspresident, Obama has re-lied on inherent presiden-tial powers to an unprece-dented degree.

At its maximum, com-mander-in-chief powergives the president the au-thority to use force in na-tional self-defense withoutwaiting for Congress.America’s national inter-ests would certainly beimplicated by the rise ofan Islamic State statelet.But the U.S. is not defend-ing itself against IslamicState in any meaningfulsense. The brutal deathsof several journalists area moral outrage, not a na-tional security crisis. Oba-ma has not given a credi-ble public argument aboutwhy bombing IslamicState is an act of self-de-fensive war. Even if itwere, the War Powers Res-olution should then startticking — and the admin-istration won’t acknowl-edge that it applies at all.

So what, if anything,does the Obama adminis-tration believe authorizesits newest war? There aretwo real possibilities, andboth are legally and mor-ally preposterous. One isthat the administrationessentially believes that ifit is bombing from the airor pushing a button from

afar - as in a drone strikeor a cyberattack - it isn’tgoing to war and doesn’tneed legal justification.

Before you laugh at thepreposterous idea that airwar isn’t war, recall thatthe administration actual-ly made an analogous ar-gument when it ignoredthe War Powers Resolu-tion during the Libyabombing. Somehow theidea that U.S. groundtroops won’t be involvedis supposed to transfer thecategory into somethingelse — a humanitarian in-tervention or just globalpolice work. The experi-ence of continual dronestrikes in countries withwhich the U.S. is not atwar may have strength-ened this perspective overthe last six years.

The other possibility isthat the Obama adminis-tration secretly believesthat, if it’s killing jihadis,then it’s covered by the2001 and 2002 authoriza-tions as a kind of generalcatchall. This is legally in-defensible, because thoseauthorizations were spe-cific to al-Qaida and Iraqrespectively. Morally it’sworse still, veering dan-gerously close to thesince-refuted Bush-era no-tion that the U.S. is in aglobal war against radicalIslam. Again, however, thepractice of constant dronestrikes may well have cre-ated this unconsciousnorm in the minds of theadministration’s actors.

What of it? Should theabsence of a credible legalauthorization for this warbother us? After all, thedecision to go to war is of-ten wrapped in only athin tissue of justification- should the war on Islam-ic State be any different?

The answer is yes, andfor a specific reason. It’strue that declaring war onanother country oftenseems arbitrary as a mat-ter of international law.But that’s a different ques-tion from whether the U.S.government is followingits internal constitutionalrestraints in choosingwar. The U.S. Constitutionis designed to require thatCongress take an activerole in the decision to goto war — because thegreat majority of theframers believed that a re-public should go to waronly when the public sup-ported that action.

Today’s Congress ac-tively wants to avoid en-dorsing the war on Islam-ic State, in large part be-cause it fears that, if putplainly before the Ameri-can people, the war wouldbe unpopular. Yes, Demo-crats fear alienating theirbase at the midterms —but that’s just a cynicalway of saying that con-gressional Democratswant to avoid confrontingpublic opinion. At thesame time, Congresswants the president to beable to go forward.

This sets a dangerousprecedent. This Congressmay be winking at thepresident and telling himto proceed without au-thorization. But futurepresidents may want to goto war even when only asmall part of the popula-tion approves — andthey’ll be able to say thateven the liberal BarackObama started a full-scalewar entirely on his own.This moves us one clickfurther away from the ide-al of a republic that goesto war only when the pub-lic approves.

Noah Feldman, aBloomberg View column-ist, is a professor of consti-tutional and internationallaw at Harvard and theauthor of six books, mostrecently “Cool War: TheFuture of Global Competi-tion.”

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CLASSIC DOONESBURY | GARRY TRUDEAU

Shortly before I retired asassistant director of theFBI’s Criminal InvestigativeDivision in April, I watcheda bizarre kidnapping un-fold. An older man wastased, beaten and zip-tied,then forcibly taken from hishome in Wake Forest, N.C.The victim was the father ofa local prosecutor who’dhelped try members of a vi-olent, nationwide gang.

Hundreds of FBI, stateand local law enforcementpersonnel worked tirelesslyto find the victim and kid-nappers. Once we identified

potential conspirators, wequickly requested and se-cured the legal authority tointercept phone calls andtext messages on multipledevices.

That led us to the victim,just minutes before his lifewas to end. He’d beenlocked in a closet in a va-cant public housing projectapartment in Atlanta, quiet-ly awaiting his own execu-tion.

Last week, Apple and An-droid announced that theirnew operating systems willbe encrypted by default.That means the companieswon’t be able to unlockphones and iPads to reveal

the photos, e-mails and re-cordings stored within.

It also means law enforce-ment officials won’t be ableto look at the range of datastored on the device, evenwith a court-approved war-rant. Had this technologybeen used by the conspir-ators in our case, our victimwould be dead. The perpe-trators would likely be free-ly plotting their next re-venge attack.

Law enforcement officialsrely on all kinds of tools tosolve crimes and bringcriminals to justice. Most in-vestigations don’t rely solelyon information from onesource. But without each

and every important pieceof the investigative puzzle,criminals may walk free.

As Apple and Androidtrumpet their victories overlaw enforcement efforts, ourcitizenry, our Congress andour media ought to startmanaging expectationsabout future law enforce-ment and national securitysuccess. If our technologiesare designed to keep impor-tant information of thehands of our government,we all might start thinkingabout how safe and securewe will be when the mosttech-savvy, dedicated crimi-nals exponentially increasetheir own success rates?

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We saved a kidnapped manBy RONALD T. HOSKO

SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON POST

AUSTIN, Texas — It’s al-ways therapeutic to findthere are readers who sharesome of my interests. Some-times it’s surprising, bor-dering on troubling.

Turns out I’m not the on-ly one around here in-trigued by orphan signs stillin place where businessesused to be.

A few weeks back, Iopened the bidding withthree: signs at the long-goneSt. Elmo-Tel on South Con-gress Avenue and MarimontCafeteria on West 38thStreet, and the more recent-ly gone Lamar Village onNorth Lamar Boulevard. Iwas pleased to report thatdevelopers at the St. Elmo-Tel and Lamar Village de-velopments plan to incorpo-

rate the old signs into thenew projects.

Before I tell you aboutsome other orphan signs, Ican give you some goodnews about the Marimontsign. Turns out that now-va-cant lot will be home to anew Pioneer Bank.

Grant Buck, the bank’smarketing director, says theMarimont sign won’t re-main where it is but “wewill try to incorporate it in-to the architecture of thenew building.”

Now on to some other or-

phan signs. There is one onEast 38th Street, a fewblocks east of Interstate 35,and it needs a bit of a ca-veat. The sign marked twobusinesses. One is still thereunder a different name. Oneis gone. Guess which iswhich: Delwood Cleaners &Laundry or Stork DiaperService?

Correct, the diaper ser-vice is gone.

Ken Clapham, whose sonowns the business, nowcalled Royal Touch Clean-ers, told me the story of thesign. It’s been there a longtime but had been lamina-ted over for many years andcarried the Royal Touchname. About two years agoit was renovated back to itsoriginal state.

“We decided to try to takeit back to the original,” Cla-pham said. Thanks; nicemove, nice sign.

Another orphan signcomes with a wistful note.Many folks fondly remem-ber Artz Rib House onSouth Lamar Boulevard,which closed in 2012. Thebuilding’s gone, but the signremains. The south sidepromises “Live Music.” Thenorth side encourages us to“Work Less.”

On the day I went by,there were two wilting bou-quets of flowers and a hand-written note on the chain-link fence. Former ownerArt Blondin died Aug. 30.

“Rest in Peace, Art,” thenote said. “Thanks for themusic and BBQ.”

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Orphan signs find new homes

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Eric Frein obsessivelycollected military memor-abilia, dismissed his fel-low war re-enactors as dil-ettantes, and took his hob-by so seriously that hespoke French during asimulated Vietnam War-era interrogation, accord-ing to a filmmaker who in-terviewed the man nowsuspected of ambushing aPennsylvania State Policebarracks.

Frein appears in an up-coming documentaryabout Vietnam re-enactorscalled “Vietnam Apprecia-tion Day,” identifying him-self by name and sayingthat re-enactments are“about teaching the publicand showing the equip-ment that was used, talk-ing about the history of itall.”

Frein, 31, is chargedwith killing Cpl. BryonDickson and injuring an-other trooper in the Sept.12 ambush outside a ruralbarracks. He has managedto elude hundreds of lawenforcement officials look-ing for him in the heavilywooded Pocono Moun-tains of northeasternPennsylvania.

The documentary’s di-rector, Patrick Bresnan,recalled Frein as odd andaloof, segregating himselffrom the other re-enact-ors.

Frein and two of hisfriends “kind of viewedthe other re-enactors as,in their words, playingcowboys and Indians,”Bresnan told The Associ-ated Press on Tuesday.“‘They are playing war,’ iswhat he says, ‘and we’rehere because we want topreserve the history ofwar and we want to meetveterans and we want tocatalogue their stories.’”

Frein made sure everydetail of his look was justright, Bresnan said, andlost himself in the simu-lated battles that featuredauthentic period military

rifles firing blanks.“If you saw Eric go

through the woods, it wasvery scary,” he said. “Hewas absolutely seriouswhen he was goingthrough the brush, hunt-ing Viet Cong at these re-enactments.”

The director added hedid not feel Frein posedan actual threat.

“With Eric and hisfriends, they are so muchmore educated than theaverage re-enactor that wefigured they were toosmart to harm anyone,”he said.

Police have called Freina survivalist with a ven-detta against law enforce-ment. They believe he’shiding in the woods wherehe grew up and his par-ents still live. But therewas no indication Tues-day that authorities are

imminently close to catch-ing him.

Frein attended EastStroudsburg Universityfor one semester as a his-tory student in 2005 andthen again for two semes-ters in 2011 and 2012 as achemistry major, but hedidn’t graduate, said Bren-da Friday, a universityspokeswoman. He also at-tended classes off and onat Northampton Commu-nity College from 2008 to2013 but never received adegree, said spokeswomanHeidi Butler.

Frein once worked as apart-time, seasonal em-ployee at the Boy Scoutsof America’s Camp Minsiin the Poconos, accordingto Craig Poland, scout ex-ecutive with the MinsiTrails Council.

As the search for Freincontinued, NBC’s “Today”

show aired footage from“Vietnam AppreciationDay.” In one clip, Freintalked about the difficultterrain where one of there-enactments took place— an eerie prelude to thereal-life manhunt playingout in the area aroundCanadensis, where author-ities have been closingroads and residents havebeen unable to get back totheir homes due to theheavy police presence.

Though Bresnan lastsaw Frein in 2011, the di-rector remembered Freinand his friends clearly.

“They really identifiedwith the soldiers of Viet-nam because they cameback to the U.S. and wererejects from society,” Bres-nan said. “Eric and hisfriends definitely identi-fied with the underdogsand rejects.”

Filmmaker speaks outBy MICHAEL RUBINKAM

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Residents of Snow Hill Road wait to get back in their homes as law enforcement personnel continue tosearch for Eric Frein, the suspect in an ambush, on Monday.

Photo by Sean Simmers/PennLive.com | AP

FERGUSON, Mo. — An-ger spilled over Tuesdayafter fire destroyed one oftwo memorials on thestreet where MichaelBrown was killed, a sitethat has become sacred tomany in Ferguson andothers nationwide focusedon interactions betweenminorities and police.

How the fire happenedwasn’t immediately clear,but it stoked fresh resent-ment among those whoquestion whether theshooting of the unarmed,black 18-year-old by awhite Ferguson police of-ficer on Aug. 9 is beingadequately investigated.

“It’s the same as ifsomebody came and dese-crated a grave,” AnthonyLevine of Florissant, an-other St. Louis suburb,said as he studied thecharred scene and shookhis head.

Many who gathered atthe site Tuesday blamedpolice for the blaze, evenas the chief said officersdid everything they couldto keep the stuffed ani-mals and other itemsfrom burning.

More than six weeks af-ter Brown’s death, resi-

dents and others remainupset about the way hisbody lay in the street formore than four hourswhile police investigatedthe shooting. Many insisthe was trying to surren-der, with his hands up.

They’re also angry thatthe officer who shot him,Darren Wilson, remainsfree and on paid adminis-trative leave while a stategrand jury weighs wheth-er Wilson should facecriminal charges. TheJustice Department alsois investigating.

The memorial fire andensuing outcry was a re-minder of the simmeringtensions that have onlydeepened since Brown’sdeath, which promptedseveral nights of riots andprotests in the predomin-antly black suburb wherejust three blacks serve ona 53-officer force.

Two memorials wereput up the day Brown waskilled. The one not dam-aged by fire is in the mid-dle of Canfield Drive — anarrow band of stuffedanimals, crosses, hand-made signs and otheritems at the exact spotwhere Brown was shot.

The smaller memorialthat burned sat a few feetaway with teddy bears.

Fire destroysmemorial

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end with cooler and wetterconditions, there were fearsTuesday that winds couldbe similar to when theblaze doubled in size aweek ago.

“We are just as con-cerned as were last week,but with the increased per-sonnel we are optimisticthat we can reduce any typeof wind effect,” state fireBattalion Chief Chris Chris-topherson said. “This is thehighest priority fire in thenation. We’re hopeful thatwe can combat it.”

About 2,700 people re-main under evacuation or-ders, fire officials said. Thefire also continued tothreaten a key University ofCalifornia, Berkeley re-search station that is hometo scores of experiments ontrees, plants and other wild-life.

The blaze spread beyondCalifornia as the NationalWeather Service said a“dense smoke advisory” re-mained in effect Tuesdayabout 50 miles away in Re-no, Nevada, and aroundLake Tahoe, which is about15 miles from the fire.

Those winds sent the airquality index into the “haz-ardous” level for generalpopulations in Auburnnortheast of Sacramento aswell as the Roseville andRockville areas.

A man charged withstarting the fire, Wayne Al-len Huntsman, 37, pleadednot guilty to arson on Fri-day. He remains in the ElDorado County jail on $10million bail.

SAN FRANCISCO —Nearly 2,000 firefighterswere added Tuesday to bat-tle a massive Northern Cal-ifornia wildfire threateningthousands of homes in an-ticipation of erratic windsand hotter temperaturesthat could undo their pro-gress.

Almost 7,400 firefightersare on the scene as crewsnearly doubled containmentovernight of the King Fireeast of Sacramento that hasscorched 139 square miles.With containment now at 35percent, crews focused onexpanding contingencylines and putting out hotspots. But a red-flag warn-ing with wind gusts of up to35 mph, along with dry heatand low humidity, couldstoke the flames and sendembers flying ahead of theblaze.

“We’re not sitting backand waiting. We have crewstrying to get those contain-ment lines strengthened,”state fire Battalion ChiefScott McLean said. “Ourawareness is heightened aswe’re continuing to work ashard and safely as we canto try to mitigate this fire.”

The wildfire, which start-ed on Sept. 13, continues tothreaten about 21,000 struc-tures, more than halfhomes. It has destroyed 10homes and 22 outbuildingsin the White Meadows areaof Pollock Pines.

While firefighters madeprogress during the week-

Flames from a controlled burn engulf a hillside as a firefighter watcheswhile fighting the King Fire on Tuesday in Mosquito, Calif. Almost 7,400firefighters are on the scene.

Photo by Marcio Jose Sanchez | AP

Manpoweradded to fightCali wildfire

By TERRY COLLINSASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — U.S. health offi-cials Tuesday laid out worst-caseand best-case scenarios for theEbola epidemic in West Africa,warning that the number of in-fected people could explode to atleast 1.4 million by mid-January— or peak well below that, if ef-forts to control the outbreak areramped up.

The widely varying projectionsby the Centers for Disease Controland Prevention were based onconditions in late August and donot take into account a recent in-ternational surge in medical aidfor the stricken region. That bursthas given health authorities rea-son for some optimism.

“I’m confident the most direprojections are not going to cometo pass,” CDC chief Dr. Tom Frie-den said in releasing the report.

About 5,800 illnesses and over2,800 deaths have been countedsince the first cases were reportedsix months ago. But internationalhealth authorities have warnedthat the crisis is probably farworse in reality, with many corps-es and infected people hidden orunreported.

The CDC, for example, estimat-ed that the real number of cases,reported and unreported, couldreach 21,000 by Sept. 30 in just twoof the hardest-hit countries, Liber-ia and Sierra Leone.

In its worst-case scenario, theCDC said the number of illnessesin those nations could hit 1.4 mil-lion by Jan. 20.

But the CDC also said that theepidemic in both countries couldbe almost ended by Jan. 20, by ag-gressively isolating the sick, ei-

ther in hospitals or at home,and by taking steps to reducethe spread of the disease duringburials.

“A surge now can break theback of the epidemic,” Friedensaid.

The CDC did not give an esti-mate of how many Ebola casesoverall could be expected underthe best-case scenario. But itsaid the number of new casesper day could be fewer than 300by mid-January, instead of thethousands feared under thegrimmer projections.

The World Health Organiza-tion released its own estimatesTuesday, also warning that casescould soar dramatically. TheU.N. agency, whose estimateswere published online by theNew England Journal of Medi-cine, said 21,000 people could beinfected in Guinea, Liberia andSierra Leone by early Novem-ber.

WHO said the death rate hasbeen about 70 percent amonghospitalized patients.

Guessing the epidemic’s path— especially long-term — is dif-ficult, experts said.

“This is a bit like weatherforecasting. We can do it a fewdays in advance, but looking afew weeks or months ahead isvery difficult,” said ChristopherDye, WHO director of strategyand co-author of the organiza-tion’s study. He added: “We’rebeginning to see some signs inthe response that gives us hopethis increase in cases won’t hap-pen.”

Last week, the U.S. an-nounced it would build morethan a dozen medical centers inLiberia and send 3,000 troops.

Britain and France have alsopledged to build treatment centersin Sierra Leone and Guinea, andthe World Bank and UNICEF havesent more than $1 million worthof supplies to the region.

Sierra Leone on Sunday com-pleted a three-day lockdown inwhat was believed to be the mostdramatic disease-control measuretaken since the plague was ravag-ing Europe in the Middle Ages.The nation’s president said it wasso successful that a second one isbeing considered.

In an indication that the crisisis worse than the official numberssuggest, health teams that wentdoor-to-door in Sierra Leone iden-tified 130 confirmed cases of Ebo-la and 70 suspected cases. In addi-tion, 92 bodies were found, thoughit was not clear how many hadEbola.

The CDC’s worst-case numbersseem “somewhat pessimistic” andflawed for not accounting for theinfection-control efforts alreadyunderway, said Dr. Richard Wen-zel, a Virginia CommonwealthUniversity scientist who formerlyled the International Society forInfectious Diseases.

Another outside expert ques-tioned WHO’s projections andsaid Ebola’s spread would ulti-mately be slowed not only by con-tainment measures but by chang-es in people’s behavior.

“Ebola outbreaks usually endwhen people stop touching thesick,” said Dr. Armand Sprecher,an infectious-disease specialist atDoctors Without Borders.

Local health officials havelaunched campaigns to educatepeople about Ebola’s symptomsand to warn them not to touch thesick or the dead.

US warns that Ebola couldinfect 1.4 million people

By MIKE STOBBE AND MARIA CHENGASSOCIATED PRESS

ARVADA, Colo. —Hundreds of studentswalked out of classroomsaround suburban Denveron Tuesday in protestover a conservative-ledschool board proposal tofocus history educationon topics that promotecitizenship, patriotismand respect for authority,providing a show of civildisobedience that thenew standards wouldaim to downplay.

The youth protest inthe state’s second-largestschool district follows asick-out from teachersthat shut down two highschools in the politicallyand economically diversearea that has become akey political battle-ground.

Student participantssaid their demonstrationwas organized by wordof mouth and socialmedia. Many waivedAmerican flags and car-ried signs, includingmessages that read“There is nothing morepatriotic than protest.”

“I don’t think my edu-cation should be cen-

sored. We should be ableto know what happenedin our past,” said ToriLeu, a 17-year-old stu-dent who protested atRalston Valley HighSchool in Arvada.

The school board pro-posal that triggered thewalkout calls of instruc-tional materials that pre-sent positive aspects ofthe nation and its heri-tage. It would establish acommittee to regularlyreview texts and courseplans, starting with Ad-vanced Placement histo-ry, to make sure materi-als “promote citizenship,patriotism, essentialsand benefits of the free-market system, respectfor authority and respectfor individual rights”and don’t “encourage orcondone civil disorder,social strike or disregardof the law.”

The proposal from Ju-lie Williams, part of theboard’s conservative ma-jority, has not been votedon and was put on holdlast week. She didn’t re-turn a call from The As-sociated Press seekingcomment Tuesday, butpreviously told Chalk-beat Colorado, a schoolnews website, that she

recognizes there are neg-ative events that are partof U.S. history that needto be taught.

“There are things wemay not be proud of asAmericans,” she said.“But we shouldn’t be en-couraging our kids tothink that America is abad place.”

A student demonstra-tor, Tyrone G. Parks, asenior at Arvada HighSchool, said Tuesdaythat the nation’s founda-tion was built on civilprotest, “and everythingthat we’ve done is whatallowed us to be at thispoint today. And if youtake that from us, youtake away everythingthat America was builtoff of.”

The proposal comesfrom an elected boardwith three conservativemembers who took officein November. The othertwo board members wereelected in 2011 and op-pose the new plan, whichwas drafted in responseto a national frameworkfor teaching history thatsupporters say encourag-es discussion and criticalthinking. Detractors,however, fear it could putan outsize emphasis on

the nation’s problems. Tension over high

school education hascropped up recently inTexas, where conserva-tive school board offi-cials are facing criticismover new textbooks.Meanwhile, in SouthCarolina, conservativeshave called on an educa-tion oversight committeeto ask the College Board,which oversees Ad-vanced Placement cours-es, to rewrite theirframework to make surethere is no ideological bi-as.

Participating studentswere not punished,school district spokeswo-man Lynn Setzer said.They will receive unex-cused absences from un-less their parents call torelay permission formissed classes, Setzersaid.

Superintendent DanMcMinimee has metwith some of the stu-dents and renewed hisoffer to continue discus-sions on the issue. “I re-spect the right of our stu-dents to express theiropinions in a peacefulmanner,” he said. “I do,however, prefer that ourstudents stay in class.”

Students walk out in protestBy COLLEEN SLEVIN AND P.

SOLOMON BANDAASSOCIATED PRESS

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —A man wearing his workuniform started shootingat his former colleaguesinside a UPS sorting facil-ity in Alabama a day afterhe was fired from the com-pany, killing a supervisorand another employee be-fore committing suicide,police said Tuesday.

Neither the gunman norhis two victims have beennamed, and Lt. Sean Ed-wards said police werestill trying to reach theirfamilies.

UPS spokesman SteveGaut would not say whatthe shooter’s job dutieshad been.

The UPS warehouse, asand-colored building sit-ting on a hill with compa-ny logos on the front andside, is used to sort pack-ages and send them out ontrucks. About 80 drivershad already left on theirroutes, and a small num-ber remained when the

shooter drove up in a pri-vate vehicle Tuesdaymorning and walked in-side through a truck dockdoor in the back of thebuilding, Gaut said.

The building has a park-ing lot surrounded bybarbed wire.

The man was wearing aUPS uniform and openedfire either in or near someoffices inside the ware-house in an industrial ar-ea just north of the Bir-mingham airport, Bir-mingham Police ChiefA.C. Roper told reporters.

The gunman had appar-ently shot himself by thetime officers got inside thewarehouse, Roper said. Noone else was hurt.

“When these peoplecame here to work, theyhad no idea this would betheir last day on earth,”Roper said.

Edwards said the shoot-er had been armed with ahandgun.

Atlanta-based UPS saidin a brief statement thatthe shooting happened

around 9:40 a.m. CDT. Thecompany added that it isfully cooperating with theinvestigation.

Employees who were atthe warehouse when theshooting happened werebeing taken to another lo-cation so that they couldbe interviewed by investi-gators and provided withcounseling, Roper said.

Late Tuesday morning,a long line of police carswith their lights flashingleft the area as part of amotorcade with a whiteschool bus. Also, a wreck-er with a police escort leftthe scene towing a darkred Honda SUV.

Vonderrick Rogers liveson the same street as theUPS facility and said hedrove past the buildingshortly after it happened.There were already 10 to15 police officers on thescene with more arriving,he said.

“Cops were jittering andrunning around like theywere ready to go grabsomebody,” he said.

Police: Gunman fired before shootingBy JAY REEVES

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Police converge on a home in the Argo area of Birmingham, Ala., in connection with the investigationinto an earlier shooting at the UPS service center in the city’s Inglenook community Tuesday.

Photo by Joe Songer/AL.com | AP

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UNITED NATIONS — Inthe first international testfor his climate-change strat-egy, President Barack Oba-ma pressed world leadersTuesday to follow the Unit-ed States’ lead on the issue,even as a United Nationssummit revealed the manyobstacles that still stand inthe way of wider agree-ments to reduce heat-trap-ping pollution.

“The United States hasmade ambitious invest-ments in clean energy andambitious reductions in ourcarbon emissions,” Obamasaid. “Today I call on allcountries to join us, notnext year or the year afterthat, but right now. Becauseno nation can meet thisglobal threat alone.”

But none of the pledgesmade at Tuesday’s one-daymeeting was binding. Thelargest-ever gathering ofworld leaders to discuss cli-mate was designed to laythe groundwork for a newglobal climate-change trea-ty. It also revealed the sharpdifferences that dividecountries on matters suchas deforestation, carbon pol-lution and methane leaksfrom oil and gas produc-tion:

Brazil, home to theAmazon rainforest, said itwould not sign a pledge tohalt deforestation by 2030.

The United States de-cided not to join 73 coun-tries in supporting a priceon carbon, which Congresshas indicated it would re-ject.

And minutes after Oba-ma said “nobody gets apass,” Chinese Vice Pre-mier Zhang Gaoli insistedthe world treat developingnations, including China,differently than developednations, allowing them torelease more heat-trappingpollution. China, the No. 1carbon-polluting nation,signed on in support ofpricing carbon and vowedto stop the rise of carbon-dioxide emissions as soonas possible.

“Today we must set the

world on a new course,”said United Nations Secre-tary-General Ban Ki-Moon,who added that pricing car-bon was critical. “Climatechange is the defining issueof our age. It is defining ourpresent. Our response willdefine our future.”

In some ways, the sum-mit, which was part of theannual U.N. General As-sembly, answered that call.

The European Unionsaid its member nationsnext month were set to ap-prove a plan that would cutgreenhouse gases back to 40percent below 1990 levels by2030. The EU also called forusing renewable energy for27 percent of the bloc’s pow-er needs and increasing en-ergy efficiency by 30 per-cent.

The United States willnot release its new emis-sions targets until earlynext year.

“There were not thatmany surprises,” said Con-nie Hedegaard, the top cli-mate official for the Euro-

pean Commission, referringto Obama’s speech.

Hedegaard said the first-ever limits on carbon frompower plants, proposed byObama back in June, were“a good signal to send, butafter today we will stillhave to wait until firstquarter of 2015 to see howambitious the United Stateswill be.”

By 2020, China will re-duce its emissions pergross domestic product by45 percent from 2005 levels,Zhang said. But because ec-onomic growth in Chinahas more than tripled since2005, that means Chinesecarbon pollution can con-tinue to soar. Still, outsideenvironmentalists hailedthe country’s promises be-cause they went beyondany of China’s previousstatements.

More than 150 countriesset the first-ever deadline toend deforestation by 2030,but that goal was throwninto doubt when Brazil saidit would not join. Forests

are important because theyabsorb the main green-house gas, carbon dioxide.The United States, Canadaand the entire EuropeanUnion signed onto a decla-ration to halve forest lossby 2020 and eliminate defor-estation entirely by 2030.

If the forest goal is met,the U.N. says it would bethe equivalent of taking ev-ery car in the world off theroad. A group of compa-nies, countries and nonprof-its also pledged to restoremore than 1 million squaremiles of forest worldwide by2030. Norway promised tospend $350 million to pro-tect forests in Peru and an-other $100 million in Liber-ia.

World leaders pledged tospend at least $5 billionmaking the world more sus-tainable. France promised$1 billion. Korea pledged$100 million. Others, likeChile, pledged cuts ingreenhouse gas emissionsby 2020.

A 2009 agreement called

the Copenhagen Accordcalled for developed coun-tries to contribute $10 bil-lion a year in 2010 and scaleit up to $100 billion a yearby 2020 to help developingcountries cut emissions andadapt to a changing climate.

Venezuelan President Ni-colas Maduro chastised“polluting powers” for caus-ing an “evil of such plane-tary dimensions” and thentrying to barter their wayout of their responsibilities.

Seychelles PresidentJames Michel called smallisland nations like his “vic-tims of this pollution” andsaid it was up to the coun-tries that burn the mostcoal, oil and gas to do themost.

“If they don’t do some-thing, the Earth will notsurvive, and that will be theend of us all,” Michel saidin an interview before thestart of the summit.

Ban, actor Leonardo Di-Caprio, former U.S. VicePresident Al Gore and sci-entist Rajendra K. Pachauri

warned that time wasshort. By 2020, Ban said,the world must reducegreenhouse gases to pre-vent an escalating level ofwarming. Five years ago,leaders pledged to keepworld temperatures fromincreasing by another 2 de-grees Fahrenheit (3.6 de-grees Celsius).

Pachauri, who headed aNobel Prize-winning panelof scientists that studied theissue, and Ban told worldleaders the effects of globalwarming are already here,pointing to a U.N. buildingthat flooded during the dev-astating Superstorm Sandyin 2012. Pachauri said itwill get worse withdroughts, storms and foodand water shortages. Heforesaw even more violentclimate-driven conflicts.

And, Pachauri said, “asteady rise in our deathtoll, especially among theworld’s poorest. How onEarth can we leave our chil-dren with a world likethis?”

Obama urges world to follow US on climateBy DINA CAPPIELLO AND SETH

BORENSTEINASSOCIATED PRESS

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LAREDO09/25— Concierto “Mu-

sic on the Menu”, de 12 p.m.a 1 p.m. en el Salón de Reci-tales del Center for the Fineand Performing Arts de TA-MIU. Evento gratuito.

09/25— Planetario La-mar Bruni Vergara presenta“Wonders of the Universe”, alas 6 p.m.; “Lamps of Atlan-tis”, a las 7 p.m.; Costo: 5 dó-lares, general; y, 4 dólares aniños menores de 12 años.

09/25— VOLEIBOL: Elequipo Dutsdevil de TAMIU re-cibe a Newman University alas 7 p.m. en el Kinesiologyand Convocation Building deTAMIU.

09/25— El guitarristaTony Morris ofrecerá un con-cierto a las 7:30 p.m. en elPrivate David B. Barkeley Can-tu Veterans Memorial Chapeldel Campus Fort McIntosh deLCC. Evento gratuito.

09/26— Planetario La-mar Bruni Vergara de TAMIUpresenta: “Stars of Pharoahs”a las 7 p.m. Costo: 5 dólares(general) y 4 dólares niñosde 12 años y menores.

09/27— VOLEIBOL: Elequipo Dustdevil de TAMIU re-cibe a Oklahoma PanhandleState University al mediodíaen Kinesiology and Convoca-tion Building de TAMIU.

09/27— Segundo Con-cierto “Caring Loving Giving”de United Way, a las 8 p.m.en el Salón del Laredo CivicCenter. Costo: 40 dólares. In-formes en el 723-9113.

09/28— Evento ‘Todo elSpaguetti que Pueda Comer’de 12 p.m. a 1:30 p.m. enFirst United Methodist ChurchUnited Methodist.

NUEVA CIUDAD GUERRERO,MÉXICO

0925— FIT 2014 presenta“Mariatrix Show, TamaulipasMúsica” a las 6 p.m. en laPlaza Principal. Evento gratui-to.

0926— FIT 2014 presenta“Horacio Leal, Saxofón en lasCalles” a las 6 p.m. en la Pla-za Principal. Evento gratuito.

0928— FIT 2014 presenta“Guitarras Sin Límite” a las 6p.m. en la Plaza Principal.Evento gratuito.

0929— FIT 2014 presenta“Nina Felina, Teatro” a las 6p.m. en la Plaza Principal.Evento gratuito.

MIGUEL ALEMÁN, MÉXICO0926— FIT 2014 presenta

“Mariatrix Show, TamaulipasMúsica” a las 5 p.m. en laPlaza Principal. Evento gratui-to.

0927— FIT 2014 presenta“Horacio Leal, Saxofón en lasCalles” a las 5 p.m. en la Pla-za Principal. Evento gratuito.

0930— FIT 2014 presenta“Nina Felina, Teatro” a las 5p.m. en la Plaza Principal.Evento gratuito.

CAMARGO, MÉXICO0927— FIT 2014 presenta

“Mariatrix Show, TamaulipasMúsica” a las 8 p.m. en laPlaza Principal. Evento gratui-to.

0928— FIT 2014 presenta“Horacio Leal, Saxofón en lasCalles” a las 8 p.m. en la Pla-za Principal. Evento gratuito.

DÍAZ ORDAZ, MÉXICO0926— FIT 2014 presenta

“Nina Felina, Teatro” a las 5p.m. en la Plaza Damas Leo-nas. Evento gratuito.

NUEVO LAREDO, MÉXICO09/27— Estación Palabra

‘Gabriel García Márquez’ pre-senta “Bazar de Arte” a las10 a.m.; “100 Thousand Poetsfor Change” a las 10 a.m.;Festival Infantil a las 2 p.m.Entrada gratuita a todos loseventos.

09/27— Programa “Leo…Luego Existo” presenta la Lec-tura en Voz Alta con Juan Ig-nacio Aranda, y textos deLaura Esquivel, a las 4 p.m.en el Auditorio de EstaciónPalabra. Entrada gratuita.

Agendaen Breve

DILLEY — Funcionarios federa-les anunciaron que el Servicio deInmigración y Control de Aduanasabrirá un cuarto centro para alber-gar a familias detenidas al cruzarilegalmente la frontera con Méxi-

co.Las autoridades informaron el

martes que el ICE operará la insta-lación residencial cuando abra ennoviembre en Dilley, unos 112 kiló-metros (70 millas) al suroeste deSan Antonio, y que albergará a in-migrantes que ingresaron a Esta-

dos Unidos sin autorización consus hijos.

La instalación, llamada Centrode Residencia Familiar del Sur deTexas, será el cuarto que se abreen meses recientes para albergar aestas personas y tiene por fin ace-lerar su regreso a sus países de

origen. Los otros centros operanen Karnes City, Texas; Artesia,Nuevo México, y Leesport, Penn-sylvania.

Las autoridades dicen que elcentro albergará inicialmente 480personas, pero con el tiempo ten-drá capacidad para 2.400.

TEXAS

Cuarto albergueASSOCIATED PRESS

PÁGINA 8A Zfrontera MIÉRCOLES 24 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2014

Ganaderos de la re-gión del Municipio deDíaz Ordaz, afectadospor contingencias, sonlos principales benefi-ciados con la adquisi-ción Seguro SatelitalPecuario por un montode 18 millones de pesos.

Fue en Díaz Ordazdonde el Subsecretariode Desarrollo Pecuarioy Forestal, FranciscoBonilla López, hizo en-trega de beneficios a 43productores pecuarios.

La inversión en elpunto fue de medio mi-llón de pesos, apoyo quepermitirá a los ganade-ros comprar alimentopara sus hatos.

El seguro está diseña-do para gente de esca-sos recursos que no ten-gan más de 20 hectáreasde pasto y que cuentencon hasta 60 unidadesanimal.

Las unidades animaldeben estar debidamen-te registradas en la Uni-dad Pecuaria.

Argelio Flores Gá-mez, en representacióndel Presidente Munici-pal de Díaz Ordaz, Jor-ge Longoria Olivares,agradeció el apoyo delGobierno de Tamauli-pas.

“Le damos las gra-cias al Gobernador delEstado que nos estéapoyando, en especial ala ganadería, y seguire-mos trabajando en coor-dinación con los tres ór-denes de gobierno enbeneficio del campo yde Tamaulipas”, mani-festó Flores.

Por su parte, el Presi-dente de la AsociaciónGanadera en Díaz Or-daz, Martín GarcíaMagdaleno, dijo que“los productores deGustavo Díaz Ordaz ex-presan su agradeci-miento por los estímu-los que los ganaderosestán recibiendo porconcepto de Seguro Pe-cuario Satelital”.

TAMAULIPAS

Danseguro

porriesgoAsignan medio

millón para Díaz Ordaz

TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

Del 25 de septiembre al 5 de oc-tubre se celebrará el Festival In-ternacional Tamaulipas en los 43municipios de Tamaulipas.

Por primera ocasión la entradaa todos los eventos será gratuita.

Considerada “la gran fiestacultural”, el evento organizadopor el Instituto Tamaulipeco parala Cultura y las Artes (ITCA) in-vita a disfrutar las propuestas ar-tísticas y culturales para toda lafamilia en espacios públicos con

acceso libre.En esta edición, el FIT 2014 re-

cibe como país invitado de honora la República Oriental del Uru-guay y al Estado Libre y Sobera-no Yucatán.

Las presentaciones musicalesque se ofrecerán por parte del ta-

lento de esta entidad corren acargo de las voces románticas deArmando Manzanero y MaríaMedina; Maricarmen Pérez y Je-sús Armando con “Cantares delMayab”; la agrupación Los Jugla-res, Jorge Buenfil y La OrquestaTípica Yukalpetén mostrarán la

“Fiesta en Yucatán” a lado delBallet Folklórico del Estado deYucatán.

Los tamaulipecos conoceránademás las propuestas para tea-tro como Silkateatro Andante yLa Rendija con “Don Quijote, his-torias andantes. Teatro para unaactriz y un mundo de objetos”;además Saas Tun presentará“Mestiza Power” y “Piedra de llu-via”.

Conozca los detalles para ciu-dades cercana a Usted visitandofit.gob.mx.

CULTURA

FIT 2014 inicia el viernes en TamaulipasTIEMPO DE ZAPATA

El FIT 2014 recibe como país invitado dehonor a Uruguay y al Estado de Yucatán.

Promover la Agenda EnergéticaTamaulipas, es el objetivo de una girade trabajo que realiza el Gobernadorde Tamaulipas, Egidio Torre Cantú,por algunas ciudades de Texas, comoBeeville y San Antonio.

“La mejor forma para hacer las co-sas, es hacerlas en equipo y por esoestamos aquí”, dijo Torre al reunirsecon Robert McKinley, Vicepresidentedel Instituto de Desarrollo Económi-co de la Universidad de Texas en SanAntonio (UTSA).

Torre sostuvo que su deseo es te-ner una mejor articulación con UT-SA, institución directamente vincula-da con la industria petrolera del Ea-gle Ford Shale Consortium.

“Tamaulipas es el líder en el temaenergético y lo que se viene será lomás grande de nuestras vidas”, dijo

McKinley. “El Producto Interno Bru-to de Tamaulipas se duplicará en lasiguiente década por la ReformaEnergética y eso traerá muchos bene-ficios a la comunidad”.

Durante el recorrido se visitaronlas instalaciones del Marathon Oil enel Eagle Ford Shale.

El objetivo de Tamaulipas es llevarla delantera en la forma de capitalhumano, para que cuando las empre-sas busquen trabajadores, volteen ha-cia el sur, indica un comunicado deprensa.

Torre presentó las acciones de laAgenda Energética de Tamaulipasque tiene como objetivo de prever ac-ciones, conjuntar esfuerzos y asegu-rar que las inversiones que se reali-cen en este sector respeten criteriosde sustentabilidad y se reflejen en unincremento en la calidad de vida delos habitantes de nuestro estado.

Agregó que las áreas clave de lasacciones a realizar son el capital hu-mano, la investigación y el desarrollotecnológico, infraestructura estratégi-ca, promoción de inversiones, la sos-tenibilidad ambiental y la gestión deriesgos, entre otros.

El Gobernador sostuvo que Texasha sido un punto de referencia vitalcon el resurgimiento de la explota-ción de petróleo y gas en Texas.

En el comunicado del Gobierno deTamaulipas, se indica que hoy en día,Texas se posiciona como estado líderen materia energética. Texas reporta116.000 empleos de tiempo completorelacionados a los hidrocarburos enlos últimos tres años. En cuanto a im-pactos económicos en la región deEagle Ford Shale se estiman 28.000millones de dólares en 2013 y para el2022 el gobierno local estima más de2.000 millones de dólares de ingresos.

DESARROLLO

FORTALECEN EQUIPOTEXAS-TAMAULIPAS

A fin de promocionar la Agenda Energética de Tamaulipas en Texas, el Gobernador de la entidad mexicana, Egidio Torre Cantú, al centro,visitó las instalaciones del Marathon Oil en el Eagle Ford Shale en Beeville.

Foto de cortesía | Gobierno de Tamaulipas

Visualizan similitudes en agenda energéticaTIEMPO DE ZAPATA

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Sports&OutdoorsWEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2014 ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM

The Hawks footballteam continued to rollthrough their preseasonschedule, picking up an-other victory on Friday.Zapata’s Alex Solis scoredtwo touchdowns andracked up 129 yards onthe night to help theHawks beat CarrizoSprings 48-8 on the road.

Solis rushed for eightyards on one carry butdid most of his damage inthe air to break awayfrom the Hawks’ groundgame. He caught threepasses for 121 yards andtwo touchdowns. KrisHinkel caught one passfor 49 yards.

Senior quarterbackRaul Ruiz completed justfour passes but racked up170 yards against theWildcats, who had a hardtime getting into the endzone as the Hawks heldthem to one touchdownon the night.

Zapata moves to 3-1 onthe season with their on-ly blemish coming at thehands of Laredo Cigarroa(2-1) to open the season.

The Hawks have rolledoff three consecutive vic-tories as they head intoFriday’s game againstFalfurrias (2-2).

Zapata took a 13-0 leadin the opening quarterand was able to add ascore each quarter to putthe game away early. TheHawks added 14 morepoints before halftimeand held a 27-8 lead head-ing into the locker room.

The defense allowedCarrizo Springs (1-4) onlyscore in the second quar-ter after the Wildcats opt-ed for the two-point con-version. That would beall they could do for theremainder of the game asthe Hawks’ defense suffo-cated any comeback inthe second half as Zapataheld Carrizo Springsscoreless.

The Hawks ground at-tack was led by the legsof junior running backOrlando Villarreal whohad 10 carries for 109yards on the ground. Hislongest run was a 63-yardtouchdown while CarlosGutierrez added 59 yardson four carries with ascore.

Carrizo Springs con-trolled the clock and hadthe ball the majority ofthe time at 31:29 out ofthe total 48 minutes butwere not able to convertthat into points. Zapatawas efficient with theclock scoring at will toopen the game and onlyran 37 plays compared toCarrizo Springs’ 71.

The Hawks did a greatjob of containing runningback Ernest Flores whowas the only viablethreat on the field. Herushed for 127 yards on21 carries.

Zapata showed theirversatility on offensewith a balanced scoringattack that had fiveHawks get in to the scor-ing act with Solis andRuiz leading the waywith two touchdownsapiece. Picking up onetouchdown each wasJorge Molina, Gutierrezand Villarreal.

Kicker Franco Arcemade all four extra-pointattempts as he let the ballsail through the uprights.

Clara Sandoval canbe reached at [email protected].

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: ZAPATA HAWKS

Hawks rollZapata trounces Carrizo Springs,

Hawks improve to 3-1 in 2014By CLARA SANDOVAL

LAREDO MORNING TIMES

NCAA FOOTBALL: TEXAS LONGHORNS

TEXAS’ STRONG KICKS NINTH PLAYER OFF TEAM

File photo by Eric Gay | AP

Texas coachCharlie Strong,center, dismissedjunior tackleKennedy Estellefrom the teamfor an undis-closed rules vio-lation, the ninthplayer he has re-moved in hisfirst season.

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BAGHDAD — In theirSyrian strongholds, extre-mists from the Islamic Stategroup had been moving intocivilian apartment buildingsfor cover days before theU.S. and its allies beganpounding them before dawnTuesday, activists say. It’sjust one sign of the difficul-ties in trying to destroy thegroup by relying mainly onairstrikes.

Breaking the militants’hold over the cities theyhave captured in both Iraqand Syria will be complicat-ed because the group caneasily melt into the popula-tion. In the Iraqi city of Mo-sul, the extremists haveenough support among themainly Sunni Muslim pop-ulation that they have re-duced the presence of theirfighters in the streets with-out apparent worry abouttheir grip on power.

Another problem is thatthere are no allied forces onthe ground poised to movein to control territoryshould the militants retreatunder the aerial bombard-ment.

That’s particularly thecase in Syria, where rebelsopposed to the Islamic Stategroup have been almostcompletely driven from ar-eas it controls. Across abroad stretch of eastern Sy-ria, the only forces thatcould conceivably capitalizeon the airstrikes at the mo-ment are a few remainingunits of President BasharAssad’s military, holed up inisolated bases in the Deir el-Zour and Hassakeh areas.But the Obama administra-tion says it still wants As-sad’s ouster and doesn’twant to help him regainground.

So far, the coalition alsohas resisted calls by Kurdsin Syria for arms, trainingand air cover. Those Kur-dish forces, fighting in agroup known as the YPG,had successfully pushedback the Islamic Stategroup for two years in a

band of territory that hugsthe Syrian-Turkish borderin the north and northwest.In recent days, however, theextremists have made gainsin the area near the town ofKobani, forcing more than130,000 people — mostlyKurds — to flee into Turkey.

A spokesman for thefighters said they could notmatch the firepower of themilitants, who seized armsand armored vehicles fromIraqi forces fleeing their ad-vance in June.

The U.S. and its allieshave been carrying out air-strikes in Iraq for weeks,and Iraqi governmentforces, Shiite militiamenand Iraqi Kurdish fightersmoved in to retake two sitesin the north after bombard-ments pushed back the ex-tremists: the Mosul damand the besieged village ofAmirli.

So far, the strikes havenot targeted large urban ar-eas such as Mosul, Fallujahand Tikrit, where breakingthe extremists’ grip is hard-er and the risk of civilianscasualties is higher. In asign of their confidence, Is-lamic State group fightersparaded 30 captured Iraqisoldiers in pickup trucks

through the streets of Fallu-jah on Tuesday, only hoursafter the coalition strikesacross the border in Syria.

The opening salvo in Sy-ria by the U.S. and Arab na-tions blasted key govern-ment buildings held by Is-lamic State fighters in theirde facto capital of Raqqa aswell as the group’s check-points and bases around theeast. Syrian activist groupsreported dozens of extremistfighters killed with seeming-ly few civilian casualties, al-though precise numberswere impossible to get.

But many of the build-ings hit in the strikes werealready empty, said RamiAbdurrahman, head of theLondon-based Syrian Ob-servatory for HumanRights, which monitors theconflict through activists inSyria. Most of the deathscame in strikes on a train-ing camp and on check-points outside cities, hesaid.

For days before, militantfighters in Raqqa meltedaway among the city’s civil-ians, said Abu Ibrahim al-Raqqawi, who oversees an-other secret collective of ac-tivists. “They are takingapartments in civilian build-

ings, so you have six flatsfull of Daesh fighters, andfour flats of ordinary peo-ple,” he said, using the Ara-bic acronym for the IslamicState group.

Many of the militantssent their wives and chil-dren to nearby villages con-sidered to be safer. Fightershave been appearing morerarely in the daytime andinstead gather in publicplaces like coffee shops atnight, al-Raqqawi said, cit-ing activists still in the city.

In Mosul — the largestIraqi city in the territoryacross Syria and Iraq that isheld by the group — resi-dents say street patrols havebeen reduced because of theconsiderable support for themilitants among the city’smainly Sunni Muslim pop-ulation. There is deep re-sentment of the Shiite-dom-inated government in Bagh-dad and the Kurds, whoseself-ruled area is nearby.

“When you’re in a city,the population can be ascreen for you — you canhide behind it,” said Mi-chael Knights, an Iraq ex-pert with the WashingtonInstitute for Near East Stud-ies.

The problem comes if res-

idents move away from thegroup or lose their fear of it,he said. “Then a highly pop-ulated city becomes a dan-gerous place; there are amillion eyes, a million in-formants, a million peoplewho can pick up an AK-47.”

The governor of Ninevahprovince, where Mosul isthe capital, is trying to orga-nize a militia of Mosul resi-dents against the IslamicState group. The official,Atheel al-Nujaifi, wasamong those who fled thecity when the militants firstoverran it in June. Now heoperates from an office inIrbil, the capital of the Kur-dish autonomous zone.

A recent statement post-ed on al-Nujaifi’s officialwebsite announced the planfor the so-called Mosul Bat-talions: “We will soon startthe process of registeringvolunteers from Mosul towork toward liberating thecity.”

The Battalions claim tobe operating already, an-nouncing on social mediathere have been attacks onIslamic State group fighters,although it is impossible toconfirm the statement’s au-thenticity.

Mosul residents tell The

Associated Press that anumber of armed factionshave formed in recentweeks, often made up of for-mer soldiers seeking toavenge colleagues killed bythe militants. The groupshave used roadside bombsand guns with silencers inattacks on the extremists,according to the residentswho spoke on condition ofanonymity because theywere concerned for theirsafety.

In Syria, the long-dividedrebel factions are trying toposition themselves to capi-talize on any damagewreaked on the IslamicState group. Some haveformed united “operationrooms,” hoping to be a vehi-cle for aid the U.S. haspromised to the rebels tofight the extremists. Mostprominent among them isone called the “EuphratesVolcano,” grouping moder-ate rebel factions and Syr-ian Kurds.

Rebels east of the Syriancapital of Damascus suc-cessfully pushed back Islam-ic State fighters from theirvillages and towns in thespring, said an activist whois part of a rebel groupcalled the Brigades of theHabib Moustafa. The groupis a more moderate factionthat is also seeking aid andtraining from the West.

The activist, who spokeon condition of anonymitybecause he feared retalia-tion, said the rebels’ strate-gy first involved uniting re-bel groups in an area east ofDamascus known as theGhouta against the IslamicState group. The main re-sistance they encounteredwas in areas where resi-dents supported the extre-mists. So the rebel factionslaunched a campaign to re-duce support, distributingpamphlets that explainedcrimes committed by the ji-hadis and asking Muslimpreachers to talk aboutatrocities in their sermons.

“We need to raise aware-ness to break the people’ssympathy for them,” the ac-tivist said.

Airstrikes alone may not do the trickBy VIVIAN SALAMA AND DIAA HADID

ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this June 25, 2014 file photo, a Kurdish peshmerga fighter carries his weapon walks onto his base, where two flags of the militant extre-mist Islamic State group are seen on a building, right, and water tower, left, at the front line with the militants in Tuz Khormato.

Photo by Hussein Malla/file | AP

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armed outsiders, roamingthe neighborhood and fir-ing guns.

In La Posada, a neigh-borhood a block from thePatriot encampment andcomprised largely of Span-ish-speaking families,some citizens, some not,residents are used to thewhite-and-green U.S. Bor-der Patrol vehicles perchedatop levees. But a swell ofillegal immigration in theRio Grande Valley thissummer, including unprec-edented numbers of unac-companied children, hasprompted a dramatic in-crease in law enforcement.

Border Patrol now hasmore than 3,000 agents inits Rio Grande Valley sec-tor, a number that’s grow-ing. Gov. Rick Perry de-ployed between 900 and1,000 National Guard mem-bers, while the Depart-ment of Public Safety isspending $1.3 million perweek for additional statetroopers on the border.

Yet, it’s the presence ofarmed civilians, most fromout of state, with question-able training and no legalauthority or formal coordi-nation with law enforce-ment agencies that hascaused the biggest stir onthis stretch of border.

While some landownerswelcome the Patriots,Camp Lonestar and its in-congruous band of volun-teers have put law enforce-ment agencies and La Po-sada residents on edge.

“If they aren’t allowed todo the job of Border Patrol,then what are they doingthere, hunting people?”said Maria Cordero, whosehome is within view of thecamp. “What will happen ifthey chase someonethrough the neighborhood?There are children here.”

Cordero, a communityorganizer in La Posada,worries a stray bullet froma poorly aimed rifle inCamp Lonestar could in-jure her 3-year-old daugh-ter — or worse. Some ofCordero’s neighbors alsonoticed the camouflaged

men but mistook them forNational Guard. When sheinforms her neighbors thatthe men actually are a mi-litia camped out a blockaway, the news is met withdisbelief and anger.

“I thought the shootingwas from the cartel in Ma-tamoros,” said Polo Rojas,a La Posada resident. “Ofcourse I’m not OK withthese guys. They’re rac-ist.”

Inside the campEven though the men at

Camp Lonestar appearedto be Caucasian, they saidtheir mission is not moti-vated by race but by bor-der security.

Men from Texas, Indi-ana, Louisiana and Ohiosleep in tents on a 20-acreranch owned by Cuban“Rusty” Monsees, a can-tankerous landowner givento rants against social ills,the government and inparticular illegal immigra-tion.

Monsees invited a smallgroup of men to set up abase of operations on hisranch about a month ago.Others arrived after learn-ing of the encampment viasocial media.

Assorted tents arepitched around a small,low-slung building thatserves as the commandcenter and usually is off-limits to media. Mounds ofdirt piled chest high shieldthe building from immi-nent attack by cartel oper-atives, said Kevin “KC”Massey, an electricianfrom the Texas Panhandle.

“This is a war zone, butI can’t sit at home withany good conscience know-ing what’s happening onthe border,” Massey said.“What life am I going tohave when my home isoverrun?”

Knife-toting, sunburnedmen with nicknames like“Jesus,” with shoulder-length hair and bushybeard, and “Two Gone,”missing two front teeth,

eat biscuits and gravy forbreakfast, swat at mosqui-toes, and shower and usethe bathroom outside.

Fiercely independent,the Patriots abhor compar-isons to citizen militia,which they say lack princi-pals and discipline. Still, ahierarchy clearly hasemerged in the camp, withthe men deferring to Mas-sey or Chris Detwiler, aformer Marine from Indi-ana.

The risks are real, Mas-sey said, driving his Kawa-saki Mule up to the borderfence. Details about thecamp and its volunteersare kept secret to keepdanger to a minimum, hesaid.

To demonstrate hownear the threat is, hepointed to the letters CDGfor Cartel Del Gulfo, orGulf Cartel, etched into thefence. The Patriots spraypainted their own messageover the letters in fluores-cent orange: “Don’t TreadOn Me.”

“You know how gangstag over each others’signs?” Massey said.“Same thing here.”

Massey parked atop abluff, overlooking a fre-quent crossing point thePatriots had named CartelBeach. Although Masseysaid he had detained immi-grants, he has found thatstanding on the banks ofthe river with a rifle slungover his shoulder usuallyis enough to scare peopleback to Mexico.

“We’re showing this canbe done without doing any-thing illegal or immoral,”he said. “I haven’t had topoint my weapon.”

With the area secure,John Foerster, a Browns-ville native and a felonconvicted of burglary,scribbled a message in thedirt that only borderagents would understand,he said.

Patriots described a“flawless” working part-nership with Border Pa-trol, and Massey offeredthe phone numbers of su-

pervisors and tower oper-ators programmed into hiscellphone as evidence.

“You don’t get thosefrom the phone book,”Massey said.

In yet another exampleof their good-natured asso-ciation, Massey said, bor-der agents nicknamed themen Rusty’s Rangers. Butin the aftermath of ashooting incident severalweeks ago, the Patriotshave found themselves in-creasingly at odds withlaw enforcement.

“We don’t know whothese people are or howmany are out there,” Cam-eron County Sheriff OmarLucio said. “It’s a real con-cern because they don’tknow the area, the cus-toms, the people or the lan-guage.”

On Aug. 29, an agent inpursuit of immigrantsstumbled upon Forester,who was armed with a ri-fle. The agent fired severalrounds at close range, andthough Forester was un-harmed, relations withBorder Patrol have cooledsince. Cameron Countysheriff ’s investigators re-sponded to the shooting,and the FBI is reviewingthe Sheriff ’s Departmentinvestigation.

In response to Patriotcomments, Border Patrolhas flatly denied coordina-tion of any kind with pri-vate groups or organiza-tions. The agency noted ina statement that interdict-ing narcotics and deter-ring and apprehending im-migrants requires highlytrained personnel — Bor-der Patrol agents receivemore than four months ofspecialized training.

“Taking justice into yourown hands really weighson the law enforcementcommunity,” said Raul Or-tiz, deputy chief patrolagent for the Rio GrandeValley sector of the BorderPatrol. “The militia is justan accident waiting to hap-pen.”

The Patriots, however,dispute formal pronounce-

ments by Border Patrol of-ficials. In a video providedto the San Antonio Ex-press-News by MatthewLeber and American Patri-ots the III percent, an al-leged border agent dressedin uniform and wearing amask declares his full sup-port for the armed citizenson the border. Leberwouldn’t say where thevideo was shot.

A Border Patrol spokes-man said the video re-mains under investigationand couldn’t verify wheth-er the masked person is aborder agent.

At Camp Lonestar, themen still are reeling fromthe shooting incident. Afew of them “chickenedout” and left camp, Foer-ster said, and Border Pa-trol authorities have con-fined Patriot movement toless than 100 yards of riv-erfront.

There have been otherbrushes with law enforce-ment since.

Steven Brooks, a Patriotfrom Ohio, was arrestedearlier this month on athird-degree felony chargeafter he left a 9 mm hand-gun in the bathroom of aStripes Convenience Store.He remains in jail. A fel-low Patriot, RichardSmith, attempted to claimownership of the weaponto protect Brooks, whodoes not have a license tocarry a concealed hand-gun.

Smith was charged witha misdemeanor for makinga false report to CameronCounty sheriff ’s investiga-tors.

A short video posted onFacebook of Patriots mem-bers tying up three sus-pected undocumented im-migrants raises other legalquestions about the deten-tion of immigrants by menunauthorized to enforceimmigration law.

“Unless these immi-grants pose some threat ofviolence, they cannot bedetained against theirwill,” said Geary Reamey,a professor at St. Mary’s

School of Law. “These guysare probably violating sev-eral criminal laws them-selves, the most obviouswould be kidnapping.”

Amid a rising chorus ofopposition from Democratsand pressure from con-cerned law enforcementagencies, Lt. Gov. DavidDewhurst recommend thatborder militia groups jointhe Texas National Guardto avoid another “friendlyfire” incident.

For now, the Patriotshave an ardent supporterin Larry Smith, Republi-can candidate for U.S. Con-gressional District 34,which encompasses aswath of border. Smith ap-plauded the “dedicatedAmericans” he met atCamp Lonestar whose ef-forts in the Rio GrandeValley dovetail nicely withhis own hard-line stanceon border security.

“These guys aren’t cow-boys,” Smith said. “If Bor-der Patrol had broughtthem into the fold, theshooting could have beenprevented.”

But Cordero fears thatwith pressure mounting,the Patriots could decide topatrol the streets of La Po-sada, a situation rife withpotential conflict.

It’s been nearly 20 yearssince Cordero left herhome in Durango, Mexico,for Brownsville, and muchhas changed. Myriad tacti-cal infrastructure andmanpower have trans-formed the border, and im-migrants still cross here.

More than 248,000 immi-grants have been detainedin the Rio Grande Valleyso far this year. Somenights she can hear peoplerunning through the alleybehind her home.

“I crossed there,” Corde-ro said of the property nowoccupied by Camp Lone-star. “If someone wouldhave stopped me with agun, I wouldn’t have hadthe chance to be produc-tive for this country.”

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NEW YORK — Coke,Pepsi and Dr Pepper saidTuesday they’ll work to re-duce the calories Americansget from beverages by 20percent over the next dec-ade by more aggressivelymarketing smaller sizes,bottled water and dietdrinks.

The announcement wasmade at the Clinton GlobalInitiative in New York Cityand comes as the country’sthree biggest soda makersface pressure over the roleof sugary drinks in fuelingobesity rates.

In many ways, the com-mitment follows the way

customers’ tastes are al-ready changing: People havebeen moving away from so-da on their own for severalyears. In response, Coca-Co-la Co. and PepsiCo Inc. havebeen pushing smaller cansand bottles, which tend tobe more profitable and arepositioned as a way to con-trol portions. They’ve alsorolled out flavored versionsof Dasani and Aquafina, re-spectively, as demand forbottled water has grown.

John Sicher, publisher ofthe industry tracker Bever-age Digest, said the commit-ment announced Tuesdayappears to be a response tothe growth challenges thecompanies are facing, inpart because of health con-

cerns. Between 2000 and2013, Beverage Digest esti-mates the calories peoplegot from drinks fell by 12percent.

Susan Neely, president ofthe American Beverage As-sociation, said the commit-ment with the Alliance for aHealthier Generation is in-tended to take such trends“to an ambitious new level.”She said the companies willfocus their efforts on com-munities where there hastraditionally been less inter-est in lower-calorie drinks.

On stage at the event, for-mer President Bill Clintonnoted that drinks can makeup a greater share of dailycalorie intake for lower-in-come people.

The initiative could alsobe a way for the industry toget out in front of cam-paigns for more aggressivetactics to fight obesity. TheAmerican Beverage Associ-ation has spent millions ofdollars campaigning againsttaxes and other measuresintended to reduce con-sumption of sugary drinks.In the San Francisco BayArea, for instance, it is nowworking to defeat a pro-posed tax set to go beforevoters in November.

Instead of such govern-ment measures, the bever-age association has toutedthe need for greater aware-ness about choices and theneed to balance calorie in-take with physical activity.

That will be one componentof its new push, with an adcampaign called “Mixify”aimed at teens set to startairing nationally on TV thisweek.

The association alsonoted companies will pro-vide calorie counts on plac-es such as vending ma-chines. A federal regulationis expected to soon requiresuch disclosures, but Neelysaid beverage makers willgo farther by providingsome sort of additional“nudge” for people to makebetter choices.

The association said itwill hire an independentevaluator to track its pro-gress.

It isn’t the first time the

industry has partnered withthe Alliance for a HealthierGeneration. In 2006, theAmerican Beverage Associ-ation also announced anagreement with the organi-zation to remove full-caloriesoft drinks from schools.That came after the threatof legal action by the Centerfor Science in the Public In-terest, said Jeff Cronin, aspokesman for the nutritionadvocacy group based inWashington, D.C.

Michael Jacobson, execu-tive director of CSPI, saidthe announcement shows“the industry is seeing thewriting on the wall” andthat it’s a way for the indus-try to burnish its reputa-tion.

Soda makers to reduce calorie consumptionBy CANDICE CHOIASSOCIATED PRESS

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operations for Texas AgriLife ExtensionService and a former drought specialistthere.

The drought map, released on Thurs-days, will show improvement this weekbecause of the recent rains. The currentmap shows about 43 percent of the statein no drought stage.

West Texas, where conditions are typ-ically the state’s driest, has gotten abovenormal rainfall, with Lubbock at 106percent of normal and Amarillo about102 percent of normal. Many lakes’ lev-els have risen by double digits in the re-gion.

Austin has gotten 75 percent of normalrainfall for the year.

Drought in the Dallas-Fort Worth area,southeast of Wichita Falls, is likely tofall into a drier category next week, hav-ing gotten just 61 percent of normalrainfall for the year. Lake levels in thearea are at lows not seen in 25 years; ElNiño is expected to help there, Murphysaid.

El Niño, a flow of unusually warmsurface waters from the Pacific Oceantoward and along the western coast ofSouth America, changes rain and tem-perature patterns around the world andusually raises global temperatures.

EL NIÑOContinued from Page 1A

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —A suspect has been charged inthe disappearance of a Univer-sity of Virginia student, but theman has not been apprehend-ed, police said Tuesday night.

Charlottesville Police ChiefTimothy Longo said at a newsconference that officers ob-tained an arrest warrantcharging Jesse Leroy MatthewJr., 32, with abduction with in-tent to defile.

Police have said they believeMatthew was the last personseen with 18-year-old HannahGraham, who disappearedearly the morning of Sept. 13.

Matthew was last seen Sat-urday when he stopped by thepolice station to ask for a law-yer. Police say he sped away af-terward, losing officers whohad him under surveillanceand prompting authorities toissue two arrest warrants forreckless driving.

Longo said police, who havesearched Matthew’s car once

and his apartment twice,decided they had proba-ble cause to charge himin Graham’s disappear-ance. He declined to saywhat new informationpolice had, and he didnot take questions.

Officials said earlierthat they took clothing duringtheir second search of Mat-thew’s apartment Monday, butthey would not elaborate onthe importance of the items.

Police first searched theapartment Monday, and policeCapt. Gary Pleasants said in-formation that came up duringthe investigation led to a sec-ond search. He would not givedetails about the clothing orelaborate on the search.

As of Tuesday afternoon, thestate lab was still analyzingevidence it has received fromthe Charlottesville Police De-partment, which included near-ly two dozen items and eight“known samples that we woulduse for comparison purposes,”said Jeffrey Ban, director of

the Department of Fo-rensic Science’s CentralLaboratory in Rich-mond.

Ban said that the de-partment has expeditedthe case and hoped toprovide authorities withresults in the “very near

future.” But he noted the labcould spend hours or even awhole day on a single piece ofevidence that may have multi-ple stains or hairs on it. He al-so said it is standard procedureto test any samples againstthose in their database, includ-ing those from other missingpersons cases in the centralVirginia area.

Matthew is a patient techni-cian in the operating room atthe university’s medical center.Police have not offered any de-tails about how he and Gra-ham, a sophomore from north-ern Virginia, may be connect-ed.

Authorities on Tuesday re-leased an updated wanted post-er reflecting the new charge

against Matthew. It says the 6-foot-2, 270-pound man was lastreported driving his sister’s1997 light blue Nissan Sentra,and notes that he is said tohave contacts in Virginia, Ma-ryland, New York, Pennsylva-nia and Washington, D.C.

Police said they have fo-cused on Graham’s movementsthe night of Sept. 12 and intoearly Sept. 13. Graham metfriends at a restaurant for din-ner, stopped by two parties atoff-campus housing units andleft the second party alone, po-lice have said.

Surveillance videos showedher walking, and at somepoints running, past a pub anda service station and then ontothe Downtown Mall, a seven-block pedestrian strip linedwith shops and restaurants.

According to family mem-bers and police, Graham is analpine skier and plays the altosaxophone. Organizers of acandlelight vigil last week atthe university handed out herfavorite candy, Starburst.

Suspect charged in caseASSOCIATED PRESS

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