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Now that the Texas gover-nor has signed into law a billallowing the carrying ofhandguns on higher educa-tion campuses, college offi-cials will have to figure outhow they will implement thelaw.

The “campuscarry” law,which takes ef-fect in August2016, allowshigher educa-tion institu-tions to createreasonable

rules and regulations againstcarrying handguns, including

establishing gun-free zones.However, the regulations can-not “have the effect of gener-ally prohibiting license hold-ers from carrying concealedhandguns on the campus,”the law states.

Ray Keck, Texas A&M In-ternational University presi-dent, said Monday that theTexas A&M University Sys-

tem will begin working on aplan to implement the newlaw.

“Our goal will be to imple-ment the law in a mannerconsistent with the Legisla-ture’s intent, enhancing thesafety and well-being of every-one,” Keck said in a state-

‘CAMPUS CARRY’

Colleges’ reactionsSchools have a year to decide how to implement law

By JUDITH RAYOTHE ZAPATA TIMES

KECK

See CAMPUS CARRY PAGE 10A

MIAMI — Vowing to winthe Republican presidentialnomination on his ownmerits, Jeb Bush launcheda White House bid monthsin the making Mondaywith a promise to stay trueto his beliefs — easier said

than done in a bristlingprimary contest where hisconservative credentialswill be sharply challenged.

“Not a one of us de-serves the job by right ofresume, party, seniority,family, or family narrative.It’s nobody’s turn,” Bushsaid, confronting criticswho suggest he simplyseeks to inherit the office

already held by his fatherand brother. “It’s everybo-dy’s test, and it’s wide open— exactly as a contest forpresident should be.”

Bush sought to turn theprime argument againsthis candidacy on its head,casting himself as the trueWashington outsider whilelashing out at competitorsin both parties as being

part of the problem. Heopened his campaign at arally near his south Flor-ida home at Miami DadeCollege, an institution witha large and diverse studentbody that symbolizes thenation he seeks to lead.

“The presidency shouldnot be passed on from one

2016 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY

Jeb Bush announces run

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush waves before announcing his bid forthe Republican presidential nomination, at Miami Dade College.

Photo by Lynne Sladky | AP

By STEVE PEOPLES AND BRENDAN FARRINGTON

ASSOCIATED PRESS

See BUSH PAGE 10A

MCALLEN — When former Gov. Rick Per-ry ordered a big reinforcement of security atthe Mexico border in 2011, Texas bought sixnew gunboats that can fire 900 rounds a min-ute and clock highway speeds. But the boats,which cost $580,000 each, spent more timedocked than patrolling the Rio Grande.

That was a small price tag compared withwhat Texas is about to spend. The new Re-publican governor, Greg Abbott, this monthapproved $800 million for border securityover the next two years — more than doubleany similar period during Perry’s 14 years inoffice.

On Texas’ shopping list is a second $7.5million high-altitude plane to scan the border,a new border crime data center, a 5,000-acretraining facility for border law-enforcementagencies and grants for year-round helicopterflights. The state also wants to hire two dozenTexas Rangers to investigate public corrup-tion along the border and 250 new state troop-ers as a down payment on a permanent forcealong the border.

Other states along the nearly 2,000-mileSouthwest border — New Mexico, Arizonaand California — do not come remotely closeto the resources Texas has committed. AndTexas is doing so long after last year’s surgein undocumented immigrants crossing theborder has subsided.

TEXAS-MEXICO BORDER

In this July 24, 2014 file photo, troopers patrol on theRio Grand along the border, in Mission, Texas.

Photo by Eric Gay | AP file

What theborder

bill can doIs Texas spending $800M tocreate its own border patrol?

By SETH ROBBINS AND PAUL J. WEBERASSOCIATED PRESS

See BORDER PAGE 10A

DALLAS — TropicalStorm Bill moved slowly overinland Texas on Tuesday,bringing another round ofheavy rains to a state wearyfrom recent deadly floods,evacuations and washed-out

roads.The storm came ashore

shortly before noon alongMatagorda Island with maxi-mum sustained winds of 60mph, according to the Na-tional Hurricane Center inMiami.

Personnel from the Feder-al Emergency Management

Agency who were sent toTexas and Oklahoma after se-vere flooding over MemorialDay weekend will remain inthe region to help prepare forTropical Storm Bill and helpclean up in its aftermath,White House spokesmanJosh Earnest said Tuesday.

“I’m not afraid; we’ve had

so many storms,” said MariaCedillo, who stopped by fish-ing boats docked in CorpusChristi on Tuesday to buycrabs. “When there’s a bigone coming we move out. Butthis isn’t one of them.”

According to projections

TROPICAL STORM BILL

MORE RAIN ACROSS STATE

A woman walks back from watching the waves roll over the end of the 29th Street Galveston rock groin Tuesday, in Galveston, Texas as Tropical StormBill makes landfall near Matagorda Bay on the Texas Gulf coast.

Photo by Rachel Denny Clow/Corpus Christi Caller-Times | AP

Texas communities brace for more severe weatherBy DAVID WARRENASSOCIATED PRESS

See WEATHER PAGE 10A

PAGE 2A Zin brief WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2015

Wednesday, June 17Planetarium shows at TAMIU La-

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Thursday, June 18Elysian Social Club will be host-

ing its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m.Herlinda Nieto-Dubuisson at 956-285-3126.

Planetarium shows at TAMIU La-mar Bruni Vergara Planetarium from 2to 5 p.m. 3 p.m.: Cosmic Adventures; 4p.m.: The Secret of the CardboardRocket; 5 p.m.: Secrets of the Sun.General admission is $3. Call 956-326-DOME (3663).

Saturday, June 20Planetarium shows at TAMIU La-

mar Bruni Vergara Planetarium from 1to 5 p.m. 2 p.m.: Accidental Astronaut(Matinee Show – $1 less); 3 p.m.: Cos-mic Adventures; 4 p.m.: Attack of theSpace Pirates; 5 p.m.: Led Zeppelin.General admission is $4 for childrenand $5 for adults. Admission is $4 forTAMIU students, faculty and staff. Call956-326-DOME (3663).

Operation Feed the Homeless –Summer Feast. Jarvis Plaza at 3 p.m.There will also be a used book sale toraise funds for future events. For moreinformation visit Operation Feed theHomeless – Summer Feast on Face-book.

The Elysian Social Club will besponsoring its annual Fathers’ DayScholarship Fundraiser Dance at theLaredo Civic Center Ballroom. ContactHerlinda Nieto-Dubuisson at 285-3126.

Tuesday, June 23Planetarium shows at TAMIU La-

mar Bruni Vergara Planetarium from 2to 5 p.m. 3 p.m.: Cosmic Adventures; 4p.m.: The Secret of the CardboardRocket; 5 p.m.: Secrets of the Sun.General admission is $3. Call 956-326-DOME (3663).

Wednesday, June 24Planetarium shows at TAMIU La-

mar Bruni Vergara Planetarium from 2to 5 p.m. 3 p.m.: Cosmic Adventures; 4p.m.: The Secret of the CardboardRocket; 5 p.m.: Secrets of the Sun.General admission is $3. Call 956-326-DOME (3663).

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Spanish Book Club from 6-8 p.m.at the Laredo Public Library on CaltonRoad. Call Sylvia Reash at 763-1810

Saturday, June 27Planetarium shows at TAMIU La-

mar Bruni Vergara Planetarium from 1to 5 p.m. 2 p.m.: Accidental Astronaut(Matinee Show – $1 less); 3 p.m.: Cos-mic Adventures; 4 p.m.: Attack of theSpace Pirates; 5 p.m.: Led Zeppelin.General admission is $4 for childrenand $5 for adults. Admission is $4 forTAMIU students, faculty and staff. Call956-326-DOME (3663).

Tuesday, June 30Planetarium shows at TAMIU La-

mar Bruni Vergara Planetarium from 2to 5 p.m. 3 p.m.: Cosmic Adventures; 4p.m.: The Secret of the CardboardRocket; 5 p.m.: Secrets of the Sun.General admission is $3. Call 956-326-DOME (3663).

Thursday, July 2Renacer Couple’s Club meeting at

Northtown Professional Plaza, 6999McPherson Rd. Suite 221, from 6:30 to9 p.m. Free and open to the public.Contact Rosario Navarro at rossnavar-ro83@gmail.com.

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Today is Wednesday, June17, the 168th day of 2015. Thereare 197 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in His-tory:

On June 17, 1775, the Revo-lutionary War Battle of Bun-ker Hill resulted in a costlyvictory for the British, whosuffered heavy losses.

On this date:In 1885, the Statue of Liber-

ty arrived in New York Har-bor aboard the French ship Is-ere.

In 1928, Amelia Earhart em-barked on a trans-Atlanticflight from Newfoundland toWales with pilots WilmerStultz and Louis Gordon, be-coming the first woman tomake the trip as a passenger.

In 1944, the Republic of Ice-land was established.

In 1953, U.S. Supreme CourtJustice William O. Douglasstayed the execution of Juliusand Ethel Rosenberg, original-ly set for the next day, the cou-ple’s 14th wedding anniver-sary. (They were put to deathJune 19.)

In 1961, Soviet ballet dancerRudolf Nureyev defected to theWest while his troupe was inParis.

In 1972, President RichardM. Nixon’s eventual downfallbegan with the arrest of fiveburglars inside Democraticnational headquarters inWashington D.C.’s Watergatecomplex.

In 1985, Discovery Channelmade its cable TV debut.

In 1992, President GeorgeH.W. Bush and Russian Presi-dent Boris Yeltsin signed abreakthrough arms-reductionagreement.

In 1994, after leading policeon a slow-speed chase onSouthern California freeways,O.J. Simpson was arrested andcharged with murder in theslayings of his ex-wife, Nicole,and her friend, Ronald Gold-man. (Simpson was later ac-quitted in a criminal trial, butheld liable in a civil trial.)

Ten years ago: The na-tion’s Roman Catholic bishopsagreed to a five-year extensionon their unprecedented policyof permanently barring sex-ually abusive clergy fromchurch work.

Five years ago: BP chiefexecutive Tony Hayward tolda congressional hearing hewas “deeply sorry” for theDeepwater Horizon oil spill,but infuriated lawmakers ashe disclaimed knowledge ofany of the myriad problemsleading up to the disaster.

One year ago: The Obamaadministration announcedthat U.S. special forces hadseized Ahmed Abu Khattala,described as a “key leader” inthe deadly Benghazi, Libya, at-tack, and that he was on hisway to face trial in the U.S. forthe fiery assault that killed theU.S. ambassador and threeother Americans. (Abu Khatta-la has since pleaded not guiltyin federal court.)

Today’s Birthdays: ActorPeter Lupus is 83. Singer Bar-ry Manilow is 72. FormerHouse Speaker Newt Gingrichis 72. Comedian Joe Piscopo is64. Movie producer-director-writer Bobby Farrelly is 57.Actor Thomas Haden Churchis 54. Olympic gold-medalspeed skater Dan Jansen is 50.Actor-comedian Will Forte is45. Latin pop singer PaulinaRubio is 44. Tennis player Ven-us Williams is 35. Rapper Ken-drick Lamar is 28. Actor Da-mani Roberts is 19.

Thought for Today:“When all men think alike, noone thinks very much.” —Walter Lippmann, Americanjournalist (1889-1974).

TODAY IN HISTORY

Declaring “a new era of job growth in thestate of Texas,” Gov. Greg Abbott on Mondaysigned a $2.56 billion bill cutting the franchisetax rate paid by businesses by 25 percent.

Abbott signed House Bill 32, from state Rep.Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, at the Austin of-fice of AMD, a California-based chipmaker,which he described as one of the largest pay-ers of the state’s franchise tax in the Austinarea.

“I want AMD to know that because AMD isdoing business in the state of Texas, you justgot a tax cut,” Abbott said. Joining Abbott atthe signing was one of the bill’s Senate co-sponsors, Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, aswell as several House Republicans who sup-ported the bill.

Abbott also signed three other bills Mondayrelated to a $3.8 billion tax relief deal reachednear the end of this year’s legislative session,including Senate Bill 1, which will cover theloss of tax revenue by school districts if Texasvoters approve raising the homestead exemp-tion by $10,000 in November. Abbott alsosigned House Bill 7, which eliminates certainoccupational fees collected on a wide range ofprofessions including chiropractors, dentists,interior designers and real estate brokers.

“Now with this package provided by theTexas Legislature, it’s going to be so easy tosell Texas,” said Abbott, who is gearing up totravel the country in the near future to woobusinesses in other states.

Following the bill signing, AMD officialsshowed Abbott a prototype of the Oculus Rift,a virtual reality system.

AROUND TEXAS

Gov. Greg Abbott tries out an Oculus Rift virtual reality system at AMD’s Austin office after signing a bill cutting the busi-ness franchise tax rate.

Photo by Aman Batheja | Texas Tribune

Abbott predicts growthBy AMAN BATHEJA

TEXAS TRIBUNE

Gunfire kills boy, 16, shots fired into his home

KILLEEN — Killeen police aretrying to determine who targeteda house in a drive-by shootingthat left a 16-year-old residentdead.

Investigators on Tuesday iden-tified the victim as Darrient LeeGrant of Killeen. Grant attendedGateway High School in Killeen.

No suspects have been arrest-ed in the shooting before dawnSunday as the teen was insidehis home.

Man convicted in 2014killing of store owner

CORPUS CHRISTI — A SouthTexas man could face executionafter being convicted in the fatalshooting of a Corpus Christi con-venience store owner during arobbery.

The penalty phase continuedTuesday for 27-year-old DanielGarcia. A Nueces County jury onMonday convicted Garcia of cap-ital murder.

Two brothers die after pulled from surf

CORPUS CHRISTI — Twobrothers from San Antonio havedied after being washed awayfrom shore while playing in thesurf at Padre Island.

Corpus Christi police identi-fied the apparent drowning vic-tims as 10-year-old Adrian Torresand 14-year-old Eric Torres.

Investigators say the siblingswere with family and in shallowwater when both turned up mis-sing Sunday afternoon.

Nearly 100 Houston city-owned vehicles damaged

HOUSTON — Nearly 100 city-owned vehicles in Houston weredamaged or destroyed in the Me-morial Day weekend flooding.The list includes police patrolcars, ambulances and firetrucks.As many as 16 of those vehicleswere flooded while parked at theHouston City Hall Annex garage.A worker apparently failed to de-ploy a flood gate in time.

9-year-old fatally shot in hunting incident

DECATUR — A 9-year-old boyhas died after authorities say hewas accidentally shot in thechest by his grandfather whowas hunting in Wise County.

Dallas-Fort Worth media out-lets report Callen Little was acci-dentally shot and killed around10 a.m. on Saturday. According toWise County Sheriff David Walk-er, the boy ended up in the pathof his grandfather’s shotgunwhen he left the hunting stand.

San Antonio bus killerdraws 40-year sentenceSAN ANTONIO — A 21-year-

old San Antonio man has plead-ed guilty to murder in the fatalshooting aboard a city transitbus of a man he didn’t know.

Zachary Gonzales agreed tothe plea in return for a 40-yearprison sentence. He could havebeen sentenced to life imprison-ment.

— Compiled from AP reports

Second shark attacksminutes after first

OAK ISLAND, N.C. — Para-medics Peter Joyce and JackBaker had just returned fromtreating their first-ever shark at-tack victim when the radiocrackled: A second person hadjust been attacked.

They restocked their depletedsupply of tourniquets and drovethrough a torrential downpour.They found a teenager lying on anarrow band of sand, the hightide washing over him.

A 12-year-old girl lost her armbelow the elbow and suffered aleg injury in the first attack Sun-day afternoon. A 16-year-old boylost his arm in the second attack.

Kirk Kerkorian, Las Vegas casino mogul, dies

LAS VEGAS — BillionaireKirk Kerkorian, an eighth-gradedropout who built Las Vegas’biggest hotels, tried to take over

Chrysler and bought and soldMGM at a profit three times, hasdied. He was 98. He died Mondaynight in Beverly Hills.

The reserved, unpretentiousKerkorian spent much of his lifetrying to stay out of the spotlightand rarely gave interviews. He

called himself a “small-town boywho got lucky.”

He shunned glitzy Hollywoodparties. Rather than arrive at anevent by limousine, he oftendrove himself in a Mercury sta-tion wagon.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE NATION

Emergency responders assist a teenage girl at the scene of a shark attack in OakIsland, N.C., Sunday. Mayor Betty Wallace of Oak Island, a seaside town borderedto the south by the Atlantic Ocean, said that hours after the teenage girl sufferedsevere injuries in a shark attack Sunday a teenage boy was also severely injured.

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2015 National THE ZAPATA TIMES 3A

WASHINGTON — TheDonald is running for pres-ident.

Real-estate mogul andreality-television star Do-nald Trump said Tuesdayhe will seek the Republi-can nomination for presi-dent. He’s the 12th high-profile Republican to enterthe 2016 race, with more tocome in the weeks ahead.

“All of my life, I haveheard, a truly successfulperson, a really successfulperson, and even a modest-ly successful person, can-not run for public office.Just can’t happen,” Trumpsaid. “Yet that’s the kind ofmindset you need to makethis country great again.

“So, ladies and gentle-men, I am officially run-ning for president of theUnited States, and we aregoing to make our countrygreat again,” he said.

Trump made the an-nouncement at the mid-town Manhattan tower thatbears his name before asmall crowd of supporters,some wearing campaignshirts saying “Make Amer-ica Great Again!” and “NoMore Career Politicians.”A few held homemadesigns: “Trump knows busi-ness” and “Donald, we

need you.”Trump has teased presi-

dential runs before, buthas always backed out. Butin preparation for the 2016campaign, Trump decidednot renew his contractwith NBC for his realityshow, “The Apprentice.”He cannot appear on thenetwork and run for presi-dent at the same time.

After forming a presi-dential exploratory com-mittee in March, Trumphas also hired political op-eratives on the ground inIowa, New Hampshire andSouth Carolina. He has al-so been a frequent visitorto the early voting states inrecent months.

He joins a GOP 2016class that offers voters alittle bit of everything.

There is the top tier, agroup that includes formerFlorida Gov. Jeb Bush, whoformally launched his can-didacy Monday. There arethe single-issue candidatessuch as South CarolinaSen. Lindsey Graham, whotalks about national securi-ty and little else.

And there is Trump, abusinessman, television ce-lebrity and a master of self-promotion who is posi-tioned to have a greaterimpact on the earlymonths of the Republicanpresidential primary con-test than many GOP lead-

ers would like.That could mean taking

part in the GOP presiden-tial primary debates. He’sdoing just well enough inearly public opinion pollsso that he may earn aplace on stage at the firstevent in August.

“Selfishly, the networkswould put me on because Iget great ratings,” Trumpsaid in a recent interviewwith The Associated Press.

Trump will also be re-quired to release a person-al financial disclosure thatwould reveal intimate de-tails about his personal fi-nances. The disclosurewould include his networth, sources of income,liabilities and assets. Hewould have to reveal thesame information for hiswife and dependent chil-dren.

Trump is ready to do so.On Tuesday, he was expect-ed to share details abouthis personal finances thatreveal a net worth of $9 bil-lion, according to a personclose to his potential cam-paign who spoke on thecondition of anonymity soas not to pre-empt the an-nouncement.

The financial disclosure,required of all candidatesfor president, was thoughtto be the final obstacleblocking Trump fromlaunching a 2016 campaign.

Developer Donald Trump delivers remarks during his announcement that he will run for president ofthe United States, in the lobby of Trump Tower, New York, Tuesday.

Photo by Richard Drew | AP

Trump runs for presidentBy JONATHAN LEMIRE AND STEVE PEOPLES

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Ra-chel Dolezal, born to whiteparents, self-identifies asblack — a decision that il-lustrates how fluid identitycan be in a diversifyingAmerica, as the rigid ra-cial structures that havedefined most of this coun-try’s history seem, forsome, to be softening.

Dolezal resigned as theleader of the NAACP’sSpokane, Washington,branch after questions sur-faced about her racialidentity. When asked di-rectly on NBC’s “Today”show Tuesday whether sheis “an African-Americanwoman,” Dolezal replied,“I identify as black.”

Her parents identifiedher as white with a traceof Native American heri-tage, and her mother,Ruthanne Dolezal, has saidRachel began to “disguiseherself” as black after herparents adopted four blackchildren more than a dec-ade ago.

Dolezal isn’t the firstperson to make this typeof change. Millions ofAmericans changed racialor ethnic identities be-tween the 2000 and 2010censuses, even thoughtheir choices may havecontradicted what theirskin color appeared to be,or who their parents saidthey are.

“It forces us to reallyquestion whether or notthis biological basis foridentity is a smart path tocontinue down in the fu-ture,” said Camille GearRich, a University ofSouthern California lawand sociology professorwho writes about electiverace choices.

Americans have becomecomfortable with peopleself-identifying their race,Rich said, “but often thatinvocation of identitybased on a biological claimisn’t backed up by any-thing else after the claimis made.”

In the United States,

there is an expectationthat people would have abiological connection to aracial or an ethnic identitythey are claiming, saidNikki Khanna, a Universi-ty of Vermont sociologyprofessor. She co-authoreda 2010 study that found in-creasing numbers of bira-cial adults were choosingto self-identify as multira-cial or black instead ofwhite.

“There really is no bio-logical basis to race, butwhat I’m saying is that inour society the everydayperson tends to think racemust have some link to an-cestry,” Khanna said. “Sowe expect that when peo-ple self-identify with a par-ticular group they musthave some ancestral linkto that group.”

In the past, race was de-termined mostly by whatother people thought a per-son was. For example, theCensus Bureau’s enumer-ators would determine ontheir own what a person’srace was, and classifythem as such. By the 1960sand 1970s, census officialswere allowing people toself-identify.

Currently, the CensusBureau allows people tochoose a racial category, oreven multiple categories,to which they think theybelong. The census identi-fies races as white; blackor African-American;American Indian or Alas-ka Native; Asian; NativeHawaiian or Other PacificIslander; and “some other

race” for those claimingmore than one race. Thereis also a Hispanic ethniccategory.

People have been usingthat freedom since theearly 2000s to move backand forth. They switchedbetween races, moved frommultiple races to a singlerace or back, or decided toadd or drop Hispanic eth-nicity from their identi-fiers on census forms.

Last year, a studyshowed that 1 in 16 people— or approximately 9.8million of 162 million —who responded to both the2000 and 2010 censusesgave different answerswhen it came to race andethnicity. In addition, inthe 2010 census, more than21.7 million — at least 1 in14 — went beyond thestandard labels and wrotein such terms as “Arab,”“Haitian,” “Mexican” and“multiracial.”

Dolezal, 37, said Tues-day that published ac-counts described her firstas “transracial,” then “bi-racial,” then as “a blackwoman.” “I never correct-ed that,” she conceded,adding that “it’s more com-plex than being true orfalse in that particular in-stance.”

She and her parentshave disagreed about herbackstory. Dolezal says shestarted identifying asblack around age 5, whenshe drew self-portraitswith a brown crayon. Hermother told Fox News onTuesday that’s not true.

Is race becoming fluid?

In this image released by NBC News, former NAACP leader Ra-chel Dolezal appears on the "Today" show set on Tuesday.

Photo by Anthony Quintano/NBC | AP

By JESSE J. HOLLANDASSOCIATED PRESS

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Last week, the Con-gressional Democrats de-feated the underpinningsof the Trans-Pacific Part-nership trade agreement.Let’s count up the thingsthese Democrats willhave done if this policystands.

Impoverish theworld’s poor. There’s anargument over what tradeagreements do to workersin the nation’s rich coun-tries, but there is no ques-tion they have a positiveimpact on people in thepoorer ones.

The North AmericanFree Trade Agreement,for example, probablydidn’t affect the Ameri-can economy too much.But the Mexican econo-my has taken off. Withmore opportunities, Mex-ican workers feel lessneed to sneak into theU.S. As Fareed Zakariahas pointed out, a regimethat was anti-Americanhas turned into one thatis pro-American.

In Asia, the American-led open trade era hascreated the greatest re-duction in poverty in hu-man history. The Pacifictrade deal would lift theliving standards of thepoorest Asians, especiallythe 90 million people ofVietnam.

As Tyler Cowen, aneconomist at George Ma-son University, wrote inhis Marginal Revolutionblog: “Do you get thatprogressives? Poorestcountry, biggest gainer.Isn’t that what we arelooking for?”

Damage the Ameri-can economy. Accordingto a survey by the Univer-sity of Chicago’s BoothSchool of Business, 83percent of the nation’sleading economists be-lieve that trade deals havebeen good for most Amer-icans. That’s not quite thelevel of consensus onman-made global warm-ing, but it is close.

That’s because freetrade is not a zero-sumgame. The global poorbenefit the most, but mostpeople in rich countriesbenefit, too. As JasonFurman, the chairman ofPresident Barack Oba-ma’s Council of EconomicAdvisers, pointed out in aspeech at the BrookingsInstitution, since WorldWar II, reductions in U.S.tariffs have contributedan additional 7.3 percentto American incomes.

Trade treaties have ledto significant growth inAmerican manufacturingexports. According toFurman, export-intensiveindustries pay workersup to 18 percent morethan nonexport-intensiveones. Rising imports alsogive American consumersaccess to a wider range ofinexpensive products,leading to huge standardof living increases forthose down the incomescale. The authoritativestudy on Pacific tradedeal, by Peter Petri, Mi-chael Plummer and FanZhai, suggests it wouldraise U.S. incomes by 0.4percent per year by 2025.

Stifle future innova-tion. Democrats point outthat some workers havebeen hurt by trade deals.And that’s true. Mostmanufacturing job losseshave been caused by tech-

nological improvements.But those manufactur-

ing jobs aren’t comingback. The best way for-ward is to increase thenumber of high-qualityjobs in the service sector.The Pacific trade dealwould help. The treaty isnot mostly about reduc-ing tariffs on goods. Thatwork has mostly beendone. It’s mostly about es-tablishing rules for a pos-tindustrial global econo-my, rules having to dowith intellectual property,investment, antitrust andenvironmental protec-tion. Service-sector indus-tries like these are whereAmerica is strongest,where the opportunitiesfor innovation are themost exciting and wherewages are already 20 per-cent higher than in man-ufacturing.

Imperil world peace.The Pacific region will ei-ther be organized byAmerican rules or Chi-nese rules. By votingagainst the trade deal,Democrats went a longway toward guaranteeingthat Chinese rules willdominate.

As various people havenoted, the Democraticvote last week was a min-iversion of the effort todestroy the League of Na-tions after World War I. Itdamaged an institutionthat might head off fu-ture conflict.

The arguments Demo-crats use against the dealare small and inadequate.Some Democrats are sus-picious because it wasnegotiated in secret.(They seem to have notrouble with the Iraniannuclear treaty, which isalso negotiated in secret).

Others worry that thetreaty would allow corpo-rations to sue govern-ments. But these proce-dures are already inplace, and as researchfrom the Center for Stra-tegic and InternatioanlStudies has demonstrat-ed, the concerns are vast-ly overblown. They most-ly protect companiesfrom authoritarian gov-ernments who seek to ex-propriate their property.

In reality, the opposi-tion to the trade pact ispart of a long tradition ofpopulist reaction. Wheneconomic stress rises,there is a strong tempta-tion to pull inward. TheRepublican Tea Partiersare suspicious of all glob-al diplomatic arrange-ments. The Democrats’version of the Tea Par-tiers are suspicious of allglobal economic arrange-ments.

It would be nice if Hill-ary Clinton emerged anddefended the treaty,which she helped orga-nize.

Rejecting the Trans-Pa-cific Partnership willhurt economies from theU.S. to Japan to Vietnam.It will send yet anothersignal that America canno longer be counted onas the world’s leading na-tion.

(David Brooks is a col-umnist for The New YorkTimes.)

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Democratsturn into Tea

Party withtrade defeat

“DAVID BROOKS

Democrats went against ideals when they shot down agreement

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DOONESBURY | GARRY TRUDEAU

At community newspa-pers, often the editor-pub-lisher is the principalnewsperson, the main adsalesman and, usually bydefault, the photographer.

In that role, all too of-ten, you see things you’dreally rather not see.

One particularly dis-turbing result of witness-ing these acts of blood andgore and, all too often, theabsolutely horrible side ofhumankind, is that youare force fed death in itsmost grisly forms.

At one point in time,car wreck photos were astaple of communitynewspaper front pages.When you’re all things atthe paper, including chiefcook and bottle washer,you take the path of leastresistance to puttingsomething that “sells” onpage one.

Unfortunately, bloodand gore “sells.” If youdon’t believe it, the nexttime you’re driving downthe highway and there’san accident scene, look atthe slowed traffic on theopposite side from the ac-cident. The rubberneckerswill be craning to see ifthere’s anything grue-some and sensational toview.

Back in the day, as weold newsmen-storytellerssay, I shot lots of wreckphotos and, more often

than not, the investigatingofficers would ask me forprints of the wreck, shotfrom every angle. Statetroopers weren’t issuedcameras in those days. Iunderstand that most noware equipped with cam-eras with which to aug-ment accident investiga-tion.

In all probability, I’vetold the story of the time Iwitnessed a shooting look-ing over the shoulder ofthe shooter.

I was into a habit Iknew “big city news pho-togs” had and that was tohang out with the policebecause, sooner or later,you were going to get acrime scene shot that youthought was worthy of aPulitzer Prize.

In Rosenberg one Satur-day night, I was coffeeingup with the cops at thestation when a call camein that there’d been ashooting death at a canti-na. I accompanied an offi-cer to the club “to securethe scene” for the crimelab guys who would bejust moments behind.

The killer, who’dstabbed the victim with apocketknife, was holding

several bar patrons at bayagainst one wall, whenthe officer and I arrivedthrough the front door.Quickly, the killer turnedtoward us and began toadvance. Despite severalwarnings to drop theknife, he kept advancingmenacingly. As I lookedover the officer’s shoulder,he promptly put three bul-lets in a triangle in theshooter’s chest. Omi-gawd!!

Perhaps two years later,I was covering a sportsbanquet at Dulles HighSchool in Stafford.

The speaker was a heroof mine, Bill Yeoman, whowas then the coach at thecollege where I attainedmy degree, the Universityof Houston. He’d revolu-tionized college footballby instituting the Veer of-fense and his Cougarswere chewing up giantchunks of yardage with arunning game that dis-guised the ultimate hand-off to the point of com-pletely fooling the de-fense.

Yeoman was hailed as agenius. I loved it.

So, came the night ofthe Dulles banquet and Itook my trusty Yashica Dcamera to the dinner toget photos, especially ofthe famed coach. I se-cured a seat at a tableclose to the head table,

but off to one side, so Icould get up and shootphotos without disturbingtoo many people.

Yeoman was introducedand got a rousing wel-come. After all, Stafford,Missouri City and SugarLand (which comprisedthe Dulles school district)were back fence neigh-bors to Houston.

After he got comfort-ably into the speech, I gotup and eased up to oneside of the speaker’s podi-um and I saw Yeoman’shead turn in my directionas he said, “That’s my badside.” Of course, that pro-duced uproarious laugh-ter from the audience anda red face for me.

Undeterred, however, Itook about five steps to-ward the other side ofYeoman, which evokedeven more uproarioushoo-hawing from the audi-ence and a red face fromYeoman. To which thegood-natured coach said,“Touché.”

I’d done a rare one-upon the great coach.

Humor shots are muchbetter than blood andgore, no matter what youthink your readers want.

Willis Webb is a retiredcommunity newspaper edi-tor-publisher of more than50 years experience. He canbe reached by email atwwwebb1937@att.net.

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Taking photos of wrecks,shootings and ‘my bad side’

As a community newspaper editor, Willis Webb’s responsibilities often bled intoother fields. In this column, he remembers his time spent as a photographer

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2015 National THE ZAPATA TIMES 5A

DANNEMORA, N.Y. —Search teams hindered bycool, rainy weathercombed through woods foran 11th day trying to trackdown two escaped murder-ers on Tuesday as one offi-cial raised doubts the es-capees relied solely on anow-jailed prison workerto help them get away af-ter their breakout.

More than 800 law en-forcement officers who aresearching for convicts Da-vid Sweat and RichardMatt shifted their focuseastward along Route 374leading from the village ofDannemora, home of theClinton Correctional Fa-cility, in far northern New

York.State police said Tues-

day the manhunt will beexpanded beyond whereit’s been most intense, 16square miles of woods,fields and swamps arounda road where search dogscaught the scent of bothmen and searchers foundevidence indicating theymay have spent timethere.

Clinton County SheriffDavid Favro said rain hasbeen washing away anyscent dogs might find andinterfering with thermalimaging devices beingused to detect body heat.

Matt and Sweat escapedJune 6 from the maxi-mum-security prison nearthe Canadian border.

Sweat, 35, was serving a

life sentence without pa-role in the killing of asheriff ’s deputy. Matt, 48,was doing 25 years to lifefor the kidnap, torture and

hacksaw dismembermentof his former boss.

Meanwhile, the prisonworker charged with help-ing the killers flee by pro-

viding them with hacksawblades, chisels and othertools was visited in jailTuesday by her husband,also a prison worker.

Favro described JoyceMitchell as “composed”during the morning visitwith her husband, LyleMitchell.

Prosecutors say JoyceMitchell, a prison tailor-ing shop instructor whobefriended the inmates,had agreed to be the get-away driver but backedout because she still lovedher husband and feltguilty for participating.

District Attorney An-drew Wylie said Mondaythat there was no evidencethe men had a Plan B onceMitchell backed out, andno vehicles have been re-

ported stolen in the area.That has led searchers tobelieve the men are stillnear the prison.

But Favro said Tuesdaythat while he has “no con-crete information,” hedoesn’t believe the escap-ees would have countedonly on Mitchell for thesuccess of their “elabo-rate, well-thought-out es-cape plan.”

“My theory — my theo-ry only — is that she wasPlan B,” he said. “I wouldhave viewed her as bag-gage, almost, for them tobe able to escape into free-dom because she’s leavingbehind a family and a hus-band.”

He said investigatorswon’t be certain until thefugitives are caught.

Weather hinders hunt for loose killers on Day 11

New York state troopers patrol an area for two inmates that escap-ed from Clinton Correctional Facility over a week ago.

Photo by Jacob Hannah/New York Times | AP

By RODRIQUE NGOWIASSOCIATED PRESS

BERKELEY, Calif. — A21st-birthday party thrownby a group of visiting Irishcollege students turnedtragic early Tuesday whenthe fifth-floor balcony theywere crammed onto col-lapsed with a sharp crack,spilling them about 50 feetonto the pavement. Six peo-ple were killed and sevenseriously injured.

Police and fire and build-ing officials were workingto figure out why the smallbalcony broke loose fromthe stucco apartment housea couple of blocks from thecampus of the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. Butone structural engineersaid it may have been over-loaded if, as city officialssaid, it was holding 13 peo-ple.

High school student Ja-son Biswas’ family nearbywas awakened by the noise.

“They thought there wasan earthquake, but then welooked out the window andsaw seven or eight people

on the ground,” the 16-year-old said. “There were pilesof blood everywhere.”

Five of the dead were 21-year-olds from Ireland whowere in the country on so-called J-1 visas that enableyoung people to work andtravel in the U.S. over thesummer, while the sixth vic-tim was from California,authorities said.

The accident brought anoutpouring of grief in Ire-land from the prime minis-ter on down, with the coun-try’s consul general in SanFrancisco calling it a “na-tional tragedy.”

Police had gotten a com-plaint about a loud party inthe apartment about anhour before the accident buthad not yet arrived whenthe metal-rail balcony gaveway just after 12:30 a.m.,spokesman Byron Whitesaid. It landed on thefourth-floor balcony just be-neath it, leaving the pave-ment strewn with rubbleand the red plastic cupsthat are practically stan-dard at college parties.

“I just heard a bang anda lot of shouting,” said Dan

Sullivan, a 21-year-old stu-dent from Ireland who wasasleep in the five-storybuilding. Mark Neville, an-other Irish student in thebuilding, said: “I walked outand I saw rubble on thestreet and a bunch of Irishstudents crying.”

The U.S. government’s J-1program brings 100,000 col-lege students to this coun-try every year, many ofthem landing jobs at re-sorts, summer camps andother attractions. The SanFrancisco Bay area is espe-cially popular with Irish

students, about 700 of whomare working and playinghere this summer, accord-ing to Ireland’s Consul Gen-eral Philip Grant. Manywork at Fisherman’s Wharfand other tourist sites.

Sinead Loftus, 21, who at-tends Trinity College Du-blin and is living this sum-mer in a different apart-ment in Berkeley, saidBerkeley is “the Irish hub.”In fact, she said, “I’ve heardpeople complain there aretoo many people from Ire-land here.”

“It’s student-friendly, it’s

warm and it’s a lot cheaperthan San Francisco,” shesaid.

Investigators will look atsuch things as whether thebalcony was built to code,whether it was overloadedand whether rain or otherweather weakened it, saidKevin Moore, chairman ofthe structural standardscommittee of the StructuralEngineers Association ofCalifornia.

Berkeley officials said thebuilding code would haverequired the balcony tohold at least 60 pounds persquare foot. Its exact dimen-sions were not released, butGrace Kang, a structuralengineer and spokeswomanfor Pacific Earthquake En-gineering Research Centerat Berkeley, said it looked toher to be 4 by 6 feet, or 24square feet. That wouldmean it was supposed tohold at least 1,440 pounds.

She said it appearedsmall for the crowd that hadapparently gathered on it,Kang said.

“They were packed likesardines, and then theywere moving,” Kang said.

When people “are movingabout a lot or dancing, thatimpact load may further ex-acerbate” the strain.

Also, the apartmenthouse appeared to havebeen wood-frame construc-tion, and the balcony wascantilevered out from thebuilding, with no additionalsupport beneath. Both canmake a balcony more vul-nerable to dry rot andweathering in general,Kang said.

In the meantime, city in-spectors barred use of thebuilding’s other balconieswhile they are checked forsafety.

The Library Gardensapartment complex, com-pleted in 2007, is in a livelypart of downtown Berkeleyclose to the campus and is apopular place for studentsto live. Several tenantsreached by telephone said itis well-maintained.

Berkeley Police Chief Mi-chael Neeham said the re-sponse to the noise com-plaint had been given a low-er priority after policereceived a call of shots firedelsewhere.

Six killed in California balcony collapse during party

Workers look at a fourth floor balcony railing as it rests on the bal-cony below at the Library Gardens apartment Tuesday.

Photo by Jeff Chiu | AP

By KRISTIN J. BENDER AND MARTHA MENDOZA

ASSOCIATED PRESS

6A THE ZAPATA TIMES International WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2015

CAIRO — An Egyptiancourt on Tuesday confirmedthe death sentence of oustedIslamist President Mo-hammed Morsi over a massprison break during thecountry’s 2011 uprising,making him the first leaderin Egypt’s modern historyto potentially face execu-tion.

While this is the firstdeath sentence for Morsi,courts have handed outhundreds of similar sen-tences against Islamists inmass trials since his 2013overthrow and a masscrackdown on dissent.

The ruling, which will beautomatically reviewed byEgypt’s highest appealscourt, brought no immedi-ate outcry on the streets asthousands remain imprison-ed, though the country facesthreats from Islamic extre-mists, including an affiliateof the Islamic State group.

It is not clear if Morsiwill be executed. EgyptianPresident Abdel-Fattah el-

Sissi, who led the military’souster of Morsi, repeatedlyhas defended the independ-ence of the judiciary, thoughtheir mass rulings havefaced international criti-cism.

Meanwhile, former auto-crat Hosni Mubarak, over-thrown in Egypt’s 2011 re-volt and detained since, haseventually been cleared ofcorruption charges. He nowonly faces a November re-trial on charges over thekillings of protesters afterinitially receiving a life sen-tence.

Morsi, who served a yearas Egypt’s first freely electedpresident, appeared in courtTuesday in a blue prisonuniform, enclosed in a cageseparate from other defend-ants held in a glass-coveredcage covered in mesh wire.He first raised his arms tocameras and those in thecourtroom. He listened tothe verdict with a slightsmile, but said nothing.

Judge Shaaban al-Shami,who led a panel of threejudges, issued the ruling af-ter he consulted with

Egypt’s Mufti, a religiousauthority affiliated with thejudiciary. The Mufti’s opin-ion must be sought in allcapital punishment cases.

“The court panel hasunanimously agreed thatthere is no room for lenien-cy or mercy for the defend-ants,” al-Shami said. He saidthe Mufti sanctioned thedeath sentences undercrimes of “haraba,” an Is-lamic term for banditry,

bloodshed and waging waron God and society.

The judge also confirmeddeath sentences for five im-prisoned members of Mor-si’s Muslim Brotherhood, in-cluding Mohammed Badie,the group’s leader, and Saadel-Katatni, the head of itsshort-lived political party.Another 21 imprisoned de-fendants received life sen-tences, which in Egypt isequivalent to 25 years in

si is already serving a 20-year sentence for his part inthe killings in 2012 of protes-ters outside his palace whenhe was still president.

The verdict drew immedi-ate international condemna-tion. United Nations Secre-tary-General Ban Ki-moonexpressed deep concernover verdicts he said “maywell have a negative impacton the prospects for long-term stability in Egypt,”U.N. deputy spokesman Far-han Haq said. White Housespokesman Josh Earnestsaid the U.S., a major pro-vider of military assistanceto Egypt, was “deeply trou-bled” by the verdict, withoutsaying if it would affectAmerican aid.

The Geneva-based Inter-national Commission of Ju-rists also called on Egyptianauthorities to end the impo-sition of mass death sen-tences in “grossly unfair”trials.

Earlier Tuesday, the samejudge sentenced Morsi tolife in prison over charges ofconspiring with foreigngroups, including Hamas.

prison. Another 93 defendants

tried in absentia, includingEgyptian-born cleric Yous-sef el-Qaradawi, were sen-tenced to death, though theywill be automatically retriedonce they are in custody.They also include 70 Palesti-nians, at least two of whomwere killed in Israeli air-strikes in Gaza the pastyears.

Defendants were foundguilty of conspiring and at-tempting to kill police offi-cers in the mass breakouttargeting three Egyptianprisons, enabling some20,000 inmates to flee, caus-ing chaos and breachingEgypt’s borders with the Ga-za Strip. This was done withthe help of Palestinian Ha-mas militant group, Leba-non’s Hezbollah and Sinaiextremists, al-Shami said.

The breakout freed Mor-si, who had been arrestedsoon after the 2011 protestsstarted. He later rode on theBrotherhood’s popularityamong conservatives and Is-lamists to become the coun-try’s president in 2012. Mor-

Egypt court confirms ex-president’s death sentence

Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood chant slogans against theEgyptian court ruling of the death sentence for Mohammed Morsi.

Photo by Belal Darder | AP

By SARAH EL DEEBASSOCIATED PRESS

LUXEMBOURG — Euro-pean Union nations failed tobridge differences Tuesdayover an emergency plan toshare the burden of thethousands of refugees cross-ing the Mediterranean Sea,while on the French-Italianborder, police in riot gearforcibly removed dozens ofmigrants.

Around 100,000 migrantshave entered Europe so farthis year, with some 2,000dead or missing duringtheir perilous quest to reachthe continent. Italy andGreece have borne thebrunt of the surge, withmany more migrants ex-pected to arrive from Junethrough to September.

At talks in Luxembourg,EU interior ministers dis-agreed over how 40,000 newrefugees arriving in Italyand Greece should be splitup equitably among the 28-

nation bloc to ease the loadon the two southern na-tions.

“There is a divergence ofviews on this matter. Thereis no common view onwhether it should be volun-tary or compulsory,” Lat-vian Interior Minister Ri-hards Kozlovskis, whosecountry currently holds theEU’s rotating presidency,said after the meeting.

Past voluntary efforts tohost migrants have provedinadequate. The currentplan to relocate Syrians andEritreans over the next twoyears is politically explosive,however, since it would le-gally set in stone each EUcountry’s commitment tohost a certain number ofrefugees. Only about 10 ofthe EU’s 28 nations supportthe scheme and even thosethat do want changes inhow the refugee distributionis calculated.

“We know that there issignificant resistance in

His French counterpart,Bernard Cazaneuve, deniedthat France had closed itsborder at Ventimiglia.

“When migrants crossborders and it is establishedthat they arrived in Italy,then it is only normal thatthey return to Italy,” Caza-neuve said in Luxembourg.

In Greece, hundreds ofSyrian and Iraqi refugees,including women and chil-dren, protested Monday onthe eastern island of Lesvos,demanding better livingconditions and faster pro-cessing of their asylum reg-istrations. They also want tobe housed separately fromAfghan arrivals after a fightbroke out in one of the is-land’s camps.

Lesvos has borne thebrunt of a huge influx of mi-grants from the MiddleEast, Asia and Africa cross-ing from Turkey to nearbyGreek islands. More than50,000 migrants have arrivedin Greece so far this year.

Brussels on June 25-26, andinterior ministers will takethe issue up again at theirnext meeting in July.

“Relocation will onlywork if all member statesparticipate. Only with abinding system can wemake sure that every mem-ber state takes a share of theresponsibility,” said the EU’stop migration official, Dimi-tris Avramopoulos.

Earlier Tuesday, police inVentimiglia on Italy’s bor-der with France removed afew dozen African migrantswho had been camping outfor days in hopes of contin-uing farther north.

Some migrants protested,grabbing onto signposts,while others had to be car-ried off by their legs andarms — a violent scene un-derlining Italy’s contentionthat the rest of Europe mustdo more to deal with the mi-grant crisis. Migrants ondangerous rocks jutting outinto the sea were left alone.

“We are human beings.We are not animals,” saidSaddam, a Sudanese mi-grant who watched the po-lice operation Tuesday andonly gave his first name. “Iknow we are black and wecome from Africa, but weare still humans.”

Alfano said the scene inVentimiglia was “a punchin the eye for those who re-fuse to see.”

some member states to anobligatory measure,” Ger-man Chancellor AngelaMerkel said in Berlin.

The emergency reloca-tion plan was drawn up af-ter 800 migrants were fearedto have drowned trying toreach Italy in April. No oth-er alternatives were present-ed at the talks, officials said.EU leaders will now discussthe plan when they meet in

EU nations fail to bridge divide over refugee plan

A migrant kneels in prayer, in Ventimiglia, at the Italian-French bor-der Tuesday.

Photo by Lionel Cironneau | AP

By LORNE COOKASSOCIATED PRESS

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2015 Zentertainment PAGE 7A

NEW YORK — The com-edy education of Judd Apa-tow began with unusual ac-cess to great comic minds,which he pried for straight-forward instruction: Howdo you tell a joke?

Growing up on Long Is-land as a comedy nerd be-fore there was such athing, Apatow managed toland interviews with thelikes of Jerry Seinfeld, JayLeno and Steve Allen, mostof whom turned up expect-ing something other than a15-year-old kid with a highschool radio show.

It was a foundational be-ginning for what became acareer that has done a lotto define comedy in the last20 years, from “The LarrySanders Show” to “Freaksand Geeks,” from “The Ca-ble Guy” to “The 40 Year-Old Virgin.”

In a new book, “Sick inthe Head: ConversationsAbout Life and Comedy,”out Tuesday, Apatow, 47, re-turns to those high-schoolinterviews (he kept thetapes) to publish them, aswell as add new, more re-cent talks with many oth-

ers (Louis C.K., Jon Stew-art, Chris Rock). Proceedsgo to Dave Eggers’ 826,which provides free litera-cy programs to kids.

The conversations centeron comedy but grow intomore expansive and intim-ate reflections on life fromsome of the sharpest, mostthoughtful minds around.The intervening decades re-veal less about Apatow’smuch-improved standingthan his continuing come-dy-nerd curiosity and hisongoing pleasure in whatStewart calls “the joy of thefunny.”

Here are excerpts from arecent Associated Press in-terview with Apatow:

On His First TimePerforming StandupThe first time I did

standup, I said to the audi-

ence: “Hey, I don’t knowhow to respond to hecklersso I’d like you to heckle meso I can learn how to doit.” And then the wholecrowd started cursing meout. I used to have a tape ofit and on the tape youcould hear my friend, Ke-vin Weltmann, screamingat people to shut up be-cause they wouldn’t stopcursing me out. So theywould curse for a while,then I would take a longpause and say, “See, I don’tknow what to say. I gottathink of something to say.”

On His First PayingGig

Rosanne (Barr) gave methe job that changed mylife the most because shewas the first person to payme well. That was the day Irealized I could afford valet

parking. I always say mon-ey doesn’t really changemuch in life once you canpay for valet parking.

On Working WithComedians

For me to sit in a restau-rant talking to Steve Mar-tin, it feels very other-worldly. I always wanted tobe part of those groups ofcomedians, like SecondCity. I wasn’t able to join“Saturday Night Live” orSecond City, but in my ownway, I was able to createmy own groups of funnypeople that worked togeth-er a lot. That was alwaysthe dream. It wasn’t for meto be successful, it wasreally for me to collaboratewith people I respected. Ijust loved comedy peopleand I wanted to be aroundthem.

Judd Apatow reflects in new book

This book cover image released by Random House shows, "Sick inthe Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy," by Judd Apatow.The book was released on Tuesday.

Photo courtesy of Random House | AP

By JAKE COYLEASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Consider:a reality show that spot-lights the struggling middleclass by handing families acash windfall plus the op-tion to help another deserv-ing family to some, or evenall, of that $100,000 gift.

Is this a chance for view-ers to meet remarkable fam-ilies who can use a littlehelp and yet are drawn tohelp others?

Or, as some are beefing,is this cruel, manipulativeand “poverty porn”?

CBS’ “The Briefcase” (to-night at 8 p.m. EDT) has setoff a firestorm among cer-tain TV critics and the22,000-and-counting signersof a website petition whosebattle cry is: “Don’t let CBSexploit the poor and profitfrom this!”

The petitionistas are fewin number when comparedwith last week’s 4.9 millionviewers of the show, butthey have made a lot ofnoise, with a hearty assistfrom unquestioning mediaoutlets.

Reality-TV veteran DavidBroome (“The Biggest Los-er”) is the creator, executiveproducer and an on-camerahost of “The Briefcase,” andhe’s flabbergasted by theknives drawn against it.

“It’s as if the mission wasto turn this into a class sto-ry: Poverty-stricken familiespitted against each other ina ‘Hunger Games’ scena-rio,” he marvels.

On the contrary, whilethe families are quite variedon the surface (for instance,a Bible-Belt family is pairedwith a Boston family head-ed by an interracial same-sex couple), the series huntsfor common ground, while

its participants spend the al-lotted 72 hours weighing afundamental life issue: theirown needs measuredagainst those of others.

“It not only provides anopportunity to receive ablessing, but also the oppor-tunity to bless someoneelse,” says Broome. “Theshow is so little about themoney! That gets you in thedoor, but then things gofrom there. If it was allabout the money, I’d justgive $100,000 to a family andsee what they do with it.”

This week’s show fea-tures Rich and Espy Mata,both teachers and first-gen-eration Mexican-Americansliving in Los Angeles whohave two children, play in amariachi band and run amariachi conservatory forlocal youngsters to keepthem off the streets. Mean-while, the Matas are barelygetting by and heavily indebt.

So are Cara and MarkMelanson, who live nearBoston. The parents of four,Mark is a firefighter and Ca-ra is studying to earn a lawdegree so she can advocatefor children.

These families, like theothers on “The Briefcase,”originally thought theywould be taking part in adocumentary “about mid-dle-class families strugglingto make ends meet who alsofeel that helping others isimportant, and who findstrength in their religiousfaith,” says Broome.

Only later is the brief-case, and what it represents,sprung on them.

“From the start,” says Ca-ra, “I told the producers, ‘Ijust want to be very clear:We’re not poor. Our debt isvery real, our struggles arevery real. But I don’t wantto come off as crying thatwe don’t have anything.’The producers said, ‘No, wefeel like your struggles arerelatable.’”

“We wouldn’t have soughtout an opportunity to be ontelevision,” says Leila Bai-ley-Stewart, who, like herpartner, Tanya, works in thenonprofit field and lives inBoston, where they are rais-ing their two nephews (and,like the Melansons, had notspoken publicly beforeabout their experience on“The Briefcase”).

‘Briefcase’ helps families

This image shows the Bailey Family, from the Dorchester neigh-borhood of Boston, who are participants in "The Briefcase."

Photo courtesy of CBS | AP

By FRAZIER MOOREASSOCIATED PRESS

8A THE ZAPATA TIMES WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2015

SAN FRANCISCO —Twitter’s lame-duck CEODick Costolo says he is leav-ing the company stockedwith new features that willboost revenue and helpmake the short-messagingservice useful to more peo-ple.

“We have things rollingout this fall that I am overthe moon about and can’twait for people to see,” Cos-tolo said Tuesday during anappearance at a Bloombergtechnology conference.

Twitter will have a differ-

Dorsey for his “clarity ofthinking” about the short-messaging service whilestressing that the companyintends to interview othercandidates.

Costolo said the decisionto search for a new CEOprompted Twitter’s board todecide after a three-hourmeeting that he should stepaside next month to avoiddistractions and specula-tion. If he had remainedCEO while the board lookedfor his successor, Costolosaid he would have been“walking around with atimer on his head. We justthought that was going to

be ridiculous.”Twitter’s next CEO will

have the leeway to makechanges, but “we like thestrategy that is in place,”Costolo said. The endorse-ment of Twitter’s currentplans echoed comments thatboth Costolo and Dorseymade last week after thecompany revealed the CEOswitch.

Investors evidently wouldlike to the company to pur-sue a different direction.Twitter’s shares gained 15cents to $34.82 on Monday,slightly below their pricebefore Costolo’s departurewas announced.

ent leader bythe timethose prod-ucts appearbecause Cos-tolo is endinghis nearlyfive-yearreign as CEO

on July 1 as part of a shake-up announced last week.Twitter co-founder JackDorsey is stepping in as in-terim CEO while the SanFrancisco company’s boardsearches for a permanentreplacement.

Without providing fur-ther details, Costolo said theupcoming features will cre-

ate engaging experiencesthat appeal to broad audi-ences. He also indicated thenew features will generatemore advertising.

If Costolo’s predictionspan out, it would addresssome of the problems thathave caused many investorsto sour on Twitter and con-tributed to the company’schange in command. Twit-ter’s stock has fallen bymore than 30 percent sincethe late April release of adisappointing first-quarterearnings report.

Although Twitter hasmore than 300 million users,the service’s growth has

slowed in recent yearslargely because its systemof showing bursts of oftendisjointed information hasproven too confusing and te-dious to many people com-ing back after they open ac-counts. The company alsohas an uninterrupted histo-ry of losses since Dorseysent out the service’s firsttweet in March 2006.

Dorsey, who served asTwitter’s CEO in its earlyyears before being ousted in2008, is believed to be inter-ested in taking on the jobagain permanently.

Costolo, who will remainon Twitter’s board, praised

Twitter’s lame-duck CEO excited about changesBy MICHAEL LIEDTKE

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COSTOLO

NEW YORK — Twenty-First Century Fox saidTuesday that Rupert Mur-doch will turn over morepower to his sons Jamesand Lachlan on July 1.

James Murdoch, 42,will become CEO and La-chlan Murdoch, 43, willbecome executive co-chairman of the companythat day. News of the Mur-doch brothers’ promotionsat Fox emerged last weekbut the timing had notbeen confirmed.

Twenty-First CenturyFox’s holdings include FoxNews Channel, Fox broad-cast network and the 20thCentury Fox movie studio.Corporate functions aswell as TV and film oper-ations will jointly reportto the Murdoch brothers,the company said.

Eighty-four year-oldRupert Murdoch has beenCEO of the company since1979 and chairman since

1991. He is also the execu-tive chairman at NewsCorp., the company thatnow contains The WallStreet Journal and NewYork Post newspapers andbook publisher Harper-Collins.

Chase Carey, presidentand co-chief operating of-

ficer, will stay with Twen-ty-First Century Fox untilJune 30, 2016 as its execu-tive vice chairman.

In March 2014 the com-pany named James as co-chief operating officer andLachlan was promoted tononexecutive co-chair-man.

Sons take new post July 1

News Corp. Exeuctive Chairman Rupert Murdoch, center, and hissons, Lachlan, left, and James Murdoch in March 2014.

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DETROIT — Toyota isadding nearly 1.4 millioncars, trucks and SUVs to agrowing recall for air bagsthat can explode with toomuch force.

The company says it’sexpanding a previous re-call after Takata Corp. ofJapan agreed in May todouble the size of its airbag inflator recall to 33.8million.

Vehicles added to a pas-senger air bag inflator re-call include the 2003 to2007 Corolla and Matrix,2005 and 2006 Tundra pick-up, 2005 to 2007 SequoiaSUV and the 2003 to 2007Lexus SC430 convertible.

The propellant in someTakata inflators can burntoo quickly, blowing aparta metal canister and send-ing shrapnel into the pas-senger compartment. Theproblem has been blamedfor at least seven deathsand more than 100 inju-ries.

Last month Takata bow-ed to pressure from theNational Highway TrafficSafety Administration anddeclared many of its prod-ucts defective, agreeing todouble the number of airbag inflators being re-

called. It’s now the largestauto recall in U.S. history.Some cars are equippedwith both driver and pas-senger air bags made by

Takata. The recall expan-sion brings to 2.9 millionthe number of Toyota andLexus vehicles being re-called in the U.S.

In this Feb. 5, 2007 file photo, a 2007 Toyota Corolla sedan and Matrix wagons sit on the lot at aToyota dealership in the southeast Denver suburb of Centennial, Colo.

Photo by David Zalubowski | AP file

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Sports&OutdoorsWEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2015 ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM

ST. LOUIS — Federallaw enforcement author-ities are investigatingwhether the St. Louis Car-dinals illegally hacked in-to a computer database ofthe Houston Astros to ob-tain information on play-ers, a person familiar withthe situation said Tuesdayin an unusual case involv-ing two former division ri-vals in Major LeagueBaseball.

The person spoke oncondition of anonymitybecause MLB, law enforce-ment officials and the twoteams were not disclosingdetails of the investigationthat were first reported byThe New York Times. TheTimes said the FBI andJustice Department wereinvestigating whether Car-dinals’ front-office offi-cials were behind the ef-fort to steal informationfrom the Astros’ database,called Ground Control.

“Major League Baseballhas been aware of and hasfully cooperated with thefederal investigation intothe illegal breach of theHouston Astros’ baseballoperations database,”MLB said in a statement.“Once the investigativeprocess has been complet-ed by federal law enforce-ment officials, we willevaluate the next stepsand will make decisionspromptly.”

The Cardinals and As-tros said they were alsocooperating with the in-vestigation but declinedfurther comment.

Astros manager A.J.Hinch said his team wouldfocus on baseball. Houstonheld a two-game lead atopthe American LeagueWest entering the day.

“Obviously from thebaseball perspective we’lldeal with the baseball andall other questions will goelsewhere,” Hinch said.

His counterpart in St.Louis, Mike Matheny,

sounded a similar toneand said the case at thispoint wouldn’t be a dis-traction for his first-placeCardinals, who have thebest record in baseball.He said he’d been un-aware of the investigationuntil he “got pulled out ofthe weight room” Tuesdaymorning.

The Astros and Cardi-nals were rivals in the Na-tional League Central un-til Houston moved to theAmerican League in 2012,but there is a prominentconnection between thetwo: The Astros hired for-mer Cardinals scoutingand player developmentexecutive Jeff Luhnow asgeneral manager in De-cember 2011, and he hashelped lead turn the teamfrom a laughingstock thatinto a contender.

The Astros rely heavilyon sabermetrics in theirevaluation of players andhave been open about thefact that they use an on-line database to housetheir proprietary informa-tion. Last year, the Hous-ton Chronicle had a de-tailed report on GroundControl, noting the teameven had a director of de-cision sciences and thateverything from statisticsto contract information toscouting reports werestored at a web addressprotected by a password.

MLB: ST. LOUIS CARDINALS

The St. Louis Cardinals are being investigated for a possible hack-ing scandal involving the database of the Houston Astros.

Photo by Scott Kane | AP

Hackingscandal rocks

MLBBy R.B. FALLSTROM AND JIM SALTER

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The stars and the scrubs aliketook a spin with the Stanley Cupbefore it finally wound up inJoel Quenneville’s hands. TheBlackhawks coach wouldn’t haveit any other way.

The last team standing hadjust put away a tough youngTampa Bay squad 2-0 in Game 6and earned the right to call itselfa dynasty after winning its thirdNHL title in six seasons. But on-ly minutes later, Quenneville re-called the sting they all felt bare-ly a year ago, when the Los An-geles Kings elbowed Chicago outof their way by converting a for-tunate bounce in overtime ofGame 7 of the Western Confer-ence finals.

When Quenneville gatheredthe team before this season, thefirst thing he told his playerswas, “It’s going to be a battle anda war just to try to make theplayoffs.”

“I’m fortunate to be aroundthem,” Quenneville added. “Iwalked into a team ready to go.They took off and they keep go-ing. ... They make guys aroundthem better, play the right way,send the right message. Newguys coming into the team, theysee that’s the message, how im-portant winning is to the team,to the players, to the town, to the

organization. It’s infectious.”The Blackhawks climb back

toward the top began with theend of the lockout in 2005, whenformer player and then-generalmanager Dale Tallon quit pursu-ing draft picks and free agentswith wide bodies and narrowskill sets, instead rolling the diceon two skinny kids — Toews in2006 and Kane in 2007 — whohardly looked the part of All-Stars and Olympians they wereabout to become.

Quenneville came aboard fourgames into the 2008 season andBowman, whose shrewd person-nel moves have kept the Hawkson top during the salary cap era,joined the next year.

By then, the Hawks had al-ready surrendered the league’slongest consecutive playoffstreak — making 28 appearancesin a row, until 1997 — and failedto make the postseason in nineof the 10 previous campaigns.But Toews and Kane gave theHawks more than a burst ofyouth and energy. Teaming upwith Keith and Brent Seabrook— two of the league’s top attack-ing defensemen, already in thefold — they also gave Chicagoone of the most potent offensesin the league. The problem, atleast at first, was how few peoplein town noticed there was a re-vival under way.

Average attendance jumped

7,000 seats by the end of the 2008-09 season. The product on theice was reflected in the fast-climbing value of the franchise.The season after that broughtthe first of the three StanleyCups during the current run,giving one of the NHL’s “Origi-nal Six” some recent history fi-nally worth boasting about. Aquiet gesture at the end of thislatest title demonstrated justhow much the Hawks have re-turned the warm embrace thecity holds them in now.

Considered one of the worstfranchises in sports less than adecade ago, the Blackhawks haveremade the franchise into themodel of professionalism. Theylooked lucky to be in the series,let alone up 3-2 headed intoGame 6. Once the puck dropped,though, the same team thatlooked tired and out of syncsomehow kicked their game intoanother gear.

Tampa Bay’s leader StevenStamkos, who hopes to lead theLightning into that same tier forseasons to come, couldn’t helpbut admire how Chicago had ac-complished the feat.

“They know how to win inthese situations,” he said. “It’spretty impressive what they’vedone... It just seems that whatev-er reason, we didn’t get bounces.

“But,” he said finally, “youearn those.”

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A new dynasty

Chicago forwards Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane celebrate after defeating the Lightning in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup onMonday as the Blackhawks won their third title in six years.

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by the National WeatherService, average rainfallthrough noon Wednesdayfor portions of Texas willbe 3 to 6 inches, but someisolated areas could seeup to 12 inches. Arkansasand Oklahoma could getup to 9 inches of rain inthe coming days, and Mis-souri could get more than7. After last month’s his-toric rains and floods, theforecast was expected tocomplicate ongoing flood-containment efforts.

Major flooding could oc-cur along the Trinity Riv-er as it extends throughEast Texas, according tothe weather service, withone portion northeast ofHouston nearly 4 feetabove flood stage Tuesday.The Guadalupe Rivernorth of Corpus Christialso is swollen as it ranmore than 5 feet aboveflood stage.

“We’re more vulnerableto flooding right now thanusual because we just gotthrough the wettestmonth on record,” Texasstate climatologist JohnNielsen-Gammon said.

Galveston County offi-cials already have direct-ed voluntary evacuationof the low-lying BolivarPeninsula, where Hurri-cane Ike wiped out moststructures in 2008. Schooldistricts from Galveston

to the Houston suburbscanceled Tuesday’s classesand the Coast Guardclosed waterways and pro-hibited the use of smallervessels. The NationalWeather Service has is-sued flash flood warningsfor many coastal areasand tornado warnings forother areas.

The ground remainswaterlogged in manyparts of Texas so it’s un-able to absorb much morerain, he said, and that in-creases the likelihood offlooding.

Nielsen-Gammon saidit’s not unusual for tropi-cal storms to swarm Tex-as in June, but he notesit’s the early-seasonstorms that are responsib-le for about a third of “ex-treme rainfall events,”meaning 20 inches ormore of rain.

An average statewiderainfall of nearly 9 incheswas recorded in May, hesaid, which is more than 2inches above the previousrecord.

Memorial Day weekendstorms brought wide-spread flooding to Oklaho-ma and Texas, killingmore than 30 people. Atone point last month, 11inches of rain fell in someparts of the Houston area,resulting in flooding thatdamaged thousands of

cane likes over the oceanis what we have over landright now,” said Shepherd,one of the principals whoconducted the research.

On Monday, portions ofthe Red River were nearor above flood stage as itruns between Oklahomaand Texas and then ex-tends into Louisiana.Meanwhile, the TrinityRiver was above floodstage in many areas ofEast Texas.

Lake levels across Okla-homa remain high fromMay rainfall, which hasforecasters watching riv-ers in Arkansas ahead ofthe tropical system.

“We have had time torecover but not a wholelot,” said NWS hydrologistTabitha Clarke in NorthLittle Rock, Arkansas.“(The tropical system) isgoing over areas that arealready sensitive. ... It’skind of a perfect storm.There are a lot of thingslining up.”

Shepherd said it won’tbe immediately known ifthe brown ocean effectholds true for this stormbut an indicator will bewhether it forms an eyewhile well inland. He cau-tioned that often it’s notthe larger categorystorms that produce themost rainfall, but insteadsmaller tropical storms.

homes and other structur-es and forced motorists toabandon at least 2,500 ve-hicles across Houston.

Rafael Lemaitre, spokes-man for the Federal Emer-gency Management Agen-cy, said FEMA has paidnearly $38 million thisyear in Texas flood insur-ance claims, with the vastmajority associated withlast month’s deluge.

More than 10 inches ofrain fell over a 30-day pe-riod across nearly the en-tire central and easternportions of Texas — fromthe Panhandle south tothe Mexico border. Isolat-ed areas received 15 tomore than 20 inches.

Those wet conditionscould help strengthen thestorm, according to Mar-shall Shepherd, directorof atmospheric sciences atthe University of Georgia.

While tropical stormsusually gather powerfrom the warm waters ofthe ocean and then weak-en once they move overland, NASA-funded re-search has shown somestorms can actuallystrengthen over land bydrawing from the evapora-tion of abundant soilmoisture, Shepherd said.The phenomenon isknown as the “brownocean” effect.

“All the things a hurri-

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So why is Texas settingup what appears to be aparallel border patrolalongside the federal force?

“Google ‘cartel crime inMexico’ and just put a timeperiod of the last week, andyou’ll see some dramaticinstances of what the car-tels are doing in Mexicoright now,” Abbott told re-porters this month follow-ing the legislative session.“The first obligation of gov-ernment is to keep peoplesafe and that means ensur-ing that this ongoing cartelactivity, which is not abat-ing whatsoever, gains noroot at all in the state ofTexas.”

The 320-mile Rio GrandeValley sector of the borderwas ground zero last yearfor a wave of Central Amer-ican migrants, mostly un-accompanied minors andwomen with children. TheValley sector accounted for53 percent of all migrantscaptured in the Southwestduring the fiscal year end-ing September.

That alarmed Texas Re-publicans, who called for acrackdown during the elec-tion campaign last year.But the number of mi-grants caught is down 44percent in the first eightmonths of this fiscal year.

Raul Ortiz, deputy chiefof the federal border pa-trol’s Rio Grande Valleysector, attributed the de-crease mainly to beefed-uplaw enforcement on theMexican side, especiallyalong its own borders withCentral America. He alsogave a nod to the Texas De-partment of Public Safety,or DPS, and other law en-forcement for helping.

Critics worry that theborder buildup is open-end-ed, with little accountingfor how the money will bespent and whether it willbe effective.

Republican lawmakers inthe final weeks of the legis-lative session stripped lan-guage from the bill Abbottsigned that would have re-quired monthly updatesand crime data from a newoversight board. The panelis only tasked with givinglawmakers a single reportby 2017.

“In a third-grade class-room or with DPS, if youhave no metrics and noway to evaluate success,you are wasting your mon-ey,” Dallas Democraticstate Rep. Rafael Anchia

said. In one report, the Texas

public safety agency de-fined a secure border as“interdiction of all people,drugs and other contra-band.”

“That is so far from real-ity,” said Adam Isacson, alongtime border analyst atthe Washington Office OnLatin America, a human-rights advocacy group.“Even the most secure sec-tors of the border still havethousands of people getthrough.”

Texas officials say theyhave tracked more than $2billion in drug seizures,mostly marijuana, and dis-covered more than 150stash houses used by hu-man smugglers in the pastyear alone.

But it is has not alwaysbeen clear what DPS hasgotten for its money.

Records provided to TheAssociated Press in 2013showed that the state’s newgunboats on the RioGrande were used as littleas one day a week ordocked for repairs duringthe first year of deploy-ment.

At the time, agency lead-ers said that the boatsspent about 30 percentmore time in the waterthan what records suggest-ed. DPS spokesman TomVinger said this month thatthose records are dated andthe boats now conductround-the-clock operations,performing more than 1,400missions in the last yearalone.

Down in the Rio GrandeValley, Texas troopers arestationed about every quar-ter mile inland from theborder along Highway 83.The heavy trooper presencehas alarmed the large com-munity of immigrants liv-ing permanently in the ar-ea, many of whom crossedillegally years ago, saidEfren Olivares, a lawyer forthe South Texas CivilRights project.

“Local police are used tointeracting with undocu-mented people,” Olivaressaid. “But with DPS it’sparticularly bad becausemost are not from here.”

Other locals see improve-ments in safety. Othal EBrand Jr., president of thewater district that suppliesthe McAllen area, said em-ployees used to be threat-ened by smugglers but nowwork safely night and day.

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ment. “The law asks thatwe consult with students,staff and faculty duringthe implementation pro-cess, and we will makesure those voices areheard.

“We will have the neces-sary rules and policies inplace by the time legisla-tion goes into effect.”

Keck said he was hesi-tant to commit to any pos-sible gun-free zones yet be-cause “he didn’t know theissues.”

“We haven’t gonethrough the process of dis-cussing it with the com-munity,” he said. “The de-tails have to be workedout.”

Laredo Community Col-lege officials could not bereached for comment Mon-day. They previously saidif the bill passed, the col-lege would take precau-tionary measures to en-sure the safety of its stu-dents.

“LCC has been monitor-ing the state legislation ac-tivity, and we have provid-ed our employees withsafety trainings on how todeal with campus emer-gencies, as well as educat-ed incoming students dur-ing our orientations aboutsafety issues such as theissue of having guns oncampus,” said Vincent So-lis, LCC vice president for

through this to understandit,” he said. “Like mostchanges, it’s easy to befrightened before it hap-pens.”

TAMIU senior LeonelSalinas approved of thenew law.

“I completely agree withthe bill. If somebody feelsthe need to take the extrameasure of safety, theyhave that right,” he said.“Again, the bill is to carryconcealed (firearms), andeach campus can createtheir own rules as towhere people will be al-lowed to carry.”

(Judith Rayo may bereached at 728-2567 orjrayo@lmtonline.com)

instruction and studentservices, in a statement.

Myrna Rodriguez, a se-nior at TAMIU, said shewas unsure how she feltabout the new law.

“Allowing guns on cam-pus changes everything,”she said.

Rodriguez said she wasconcerned with studentsusing handguns to intimi-date professors.

“If a student gets a badgrade, will it come downto a student using itagainst the professor?” shesaid.

Keck said it was normalfor individuals to be afraidof something new.

“I think we have to live

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liberal to the next,” he de-clared in a jab at Democrat-ic favorite Hillary RodhamClinton.

And he said: “We are notgoing to clean up the messin Washington by electingthe people who eitherhelped create it or haveproven incapable of fixingit.”

That was an indirect butunmistakable swipe at Re-publican presidential rivalsin the Senate. Among themis his political protege,Florida Sen. Marco Rubio,who welcomed Bush intothe 2016 contest earlier inthe day.

Bush enters a 2016 Re-publican contest that willtest both his vision of con-servatism and his ability todistance himself from fam-ily.

Neither his father, for-mer President George H.W.Bush, nor his brother, for-mer President George W.Bush, attended Monday’sannouncement. The familywas represented instead byJeb Bush’s mother and for-mer first lady, BarbaraBush, who once said thatthe country didn’t need yetanother Bush as president,and by his son George P.Bush, recently elected Tex-as land commissioner.

Before the event, theBush campaign came outwith a logo — Jeb! — thatconspicuously leaves outthe Bush surname.

Bush, whose wife is Mex-ican-born, addressed thepacked college arena inEnglish and Spanish, anunusual twist for a politicalspeech aimed at a nationalaudience.

“In any language, mymessage will be an optimis-tic one because I am cer-tain that we can make thedecades just ahead thegreatest time ever to bealive in this world,” hesaid. “I will campaign as I

would serve, going every-where, speaking to every-one, keeping my word, fac-ing the issues withoutflinching,”

In the past six months,Bush has made clear hewill remain committed tohis core beliefs in the cam-paign to come — even if hispositions on immigrationand education standardsare deeply unpopularamong the conservativebase of the party that playsan outsized role in the GOPprimaries.

Tea party leader MarkMeckler on Monday saidBush’s positions on educa-tion and immigration are“a nonstarter with manyconservatives.”

“There are two politicaldynasties eyeing 2016,” saidMeckler, a co-founder of theTea Party Patriots, one ofthe movement’s largest or-ganizations, and now lead-er of Citizens for Self-Gov-ernance. “And before con-servatives try to beatHillary, they first need tobeat Bush.”

Yet a defiant Bush hasshowed little willingness toplacate his party’s rightwing.

Instead, he aimed hismessage on Monday at thebroader swath of the electo-rate that will ultimately de-cide the November 2016general election. Minorityvoters, in particular, havefueled Democratic victoriesin the last two presidentialelections. Of the five peopleon the speaking programbefore Bush, just one was awhite male.

He was not planning toaddress immigration onMonday, but protesters lefthim little choice. Just as heintroduced his mother, agroup of several people re-moved their outer shirts,revealing yellow T-shirtsthat spelled out: “Legal sta-tus is not enough.”

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RECAUDACIÓN DE FONDOSEl Boys and Girls Club

del Condado de Zapata seencuentra recaudando fon-dos para sus programas ju-veniles y eventos programa-dos para el 2015. Interesa-dos en apoyar la causa, lacompañía Tupperware se en-cuentra ofreciendo que porcada producto Tupperwareque se compre, un 40 porciento de las ventas se des-tinará directamente al clubde Zapata. Le meta es re-caudar 3.000 dólares. Pidainformes llamando al (956)765-3892.

CAMPAMENTO DE VERANODel 9 de junio al 2 de

julio, tendrá lugar un Cam-pamento de Verano, para losestudiantes de ZCISD desdepreescolar a quinto año. Lassesiones serán de 8 a.m. a12 p.m. y de 12 p.m. a 4p.m.

El desayuno y el almuer-zo serán proporcionados. Nohabrá transporte.

El campamento es gratui-to, sin embargo, los estu-diantes deberán cumplir conlas normativas de fin de añopara ser elegibles.

Las solicitudes de ingresodeberán ser entregadas an-tes del 14 de mayo.

Para más informaciónpuede llamar a Gerardo Gar-cía al (956) 765-6917; a Da-lia García, al (956) 765-4332; a Ana Martínez, al(956) 765-5611.

TORNEO DE GOLFZapata Lions Club in-

vita al Segundo Torneo deGolf Leobardo Martinez Jr.Scholarship, el sábado 20 dejunio en Los Ebanos GolfCourse. El estilo es 3 MenFlorida Scramble. Donaciónes de 65 dólares y 10 dóla-res por Mulligans. Registro alas 8 a.m., inicio a las 9a.m. Informes llamando alcampo de golf al (956) 765-8336 o con Lioan EduardoMartinez en el (956) 765-8449 y/o Lion Aaron Cruz al(956) 240-3408.

FESTIVAL DE LA LIBERTADRIO GRANDE CITY —

El 2015 Rio Grande CityFreedom Fest se realizará elviernes 26 de junio, a partirde las 6 p.m. en el ParqueMunicipal Basilio Villarreal.Presentación de MarshallLaw, Palominos y Jack In-gram. Habrá comida gratis,puestos, juegos infantilesgratis y fuegos artificiales.Costo en preventa: 15 dóla-res; el día del evento a 25dólares. Evento a beneficiodel Rio Grande City Boysand Girls Youth Club.

EXHIBICIÓN DE ARTEEl Boys and Girls Club

de Zapata tendrá una exhibi-ción de arte, el sábado 27de junio, de 1 p.m. a 4 p.m.

La participación es exclu-siva para integrantes delclub. Las personas que gus-ten inscribirse llamen al(956) 765-3892.

DESFILE DE MODASMIGUEL ALEMAN —

Damas representantes de laFundación “Vive en Paz yHaz el Bien” invitan a unDesfile de Modas que se lle-vará a cabo el 8 de julio enel Casino Milenium. La fun-dación que lucha contra elcáncer, espera que con eldesfile de modas se recau-den fondos que les permiti-rán continuar con su misión.

CAMINATASe realizará la Tercer

Carrera Anual “5K MemorialRun”, el 18 de julio a partirde las 8 a.m., frente a alPalacio de Justicia sobre 7thy calle Hidalgo.

El costo de inscripciónanticipada es de 15 dólares,mientras que el día del ven-to se podrá inscribir, de 7a.m. a 7:45 a.m., por uncosto de 20 dólares.

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MCALLEN— Texas ha comen-zado una serie de gastos mayorespara aumentar la seguridad de sufrontera con México, lo que hagenerado interrogantes en tornoa si el estado está creando su pro-pia patrulla fronteriza.

El nuevo gobernador republi-

cano Greg Abbottaprobó este mes ungasto por 800 millo-nes de dólares paraseguridad fronteri-za que serán em-pleados en los pró-ximos dos años,más del doble de lo

que se destinó en un periodo si-

milar en los últimos 14 años ba-jo el gobierno de Rick Perry.

Texas usará este dinero en unmomento en el que el númerode inmigrantes que cruzan lafrontera sin autorización dismi-nuye.

Entre los artículos que hacomprado el estado para la fron-tera destacan un segundo avión

espía de 7,5 millones de dólares,un centro de entrenamiento de2.023 hectáreas (5.000 acres), asícomo la contratación de 24 inves-tigadores contra la corrupción y250 policías estatales.

Los críticos señalan que haypocos registros de cómo se estágastando el dinero o si la inver-sión es efectiva.

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PHOENIX, Arizona— Unhombre fue acusado de ayu-dar a planear un ataque enTexas contra una exhibiciónde caricaturas del profeta Ma-homa que se saldó con lamuerte de dos atacantes elmes pasado.

La acusación presentada enun tribunal de Phoenix la se-mana pasada sostiene que Ab-dul Malik Abdul Kareem al-bergó en su casa a los tres ata-cantes a principios de enero yles dio las armas utilizadas enel ataque del 3 de mayo.

Nadir Soofi y Elton Sim-pson eran compañeros decuarto en Phoenix y conduje-ron a Garland, para atacar laexposición de caricaturas quelos musulmanes consideranofensivas. Ambos murieron amanos de la policía luego deque abrieran fuego afuera dela sede, causando lesiones aun guardia de seguridad. Nin-guno de los asistentes al acto,que se llevaba a cabo en unsuburbio de Dallas, resultó he-rido.

Kareem practicó tiro conSimpson y Soofi en un áreaapartada del desierto en lasafueras de Phoenix entre ene-ro y mayo, señala la acusa-ción. También alojó a loshombres para hablar de la ex-posición y el plan para viajara Texas y cometer el ataque,señala el documento.

Kareem, también conocidocomo Decarus Thomas, estáacusado de complicidad, ha-cer declaraciones falsas ytransportar armas de fuegode un estado a otro con la in-tención de cometer un cri-men.

Fue detenido por el FBI el11 de junio y el martes tieneprogramada una audienciaante la corte en Phoenix.

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Remoto y extenso, el no-reste costero del virreinatonovohispano permanecemal guarnecido. Justo ahíse registra la presencia depiratas. Aunque esporádicasy diversas, sus huellas invi-tan a seguirlas.

ContextoEn 1568, el inglés John

Hawkins, huye del puertode Veracruz. Navega haciael norte con maltrecha flota.Tanto escasean los víveres,que el 8 de octubre desem-barca a 114 compinches enla barra de Ostiones, muni-cipio de Altamira, Tamauli-pas, México. Hambrientos e

indefensos, los fuereños cru-zan por tierras de aboríge-nes.

“Visto por ellos […] cuándesfallecidos estábamos, nosindicaron […] el rumbo quehabríamos de tomar para ira Pueblo Viejo, Veracruz,que después vimos estaba a10 leguas”, dice Miles Phi-llips, del grupo que busca elsur.

“Llegados al río (Pánu-co)”, sigue Job Hortop. “Vi-nieron a nosotros los espa-ñoles […] Conocían que éra-mos de los que habíanpeleado contra sus paisa-nos” en Veracruz, y van“presos a [la villa de] Pánu-co […] De allí nos enviarona México, que está a noven-ta leguas”, juzgándolos laInquisición por herejes lute-ranos.

“En el río Pánuco hay unpez como un ternero, que[…] llaman mallatín (o ma-natí); he comido de él y sabecasi a tocino”, dijo Hortop.

LitoralesMás adelante, cerca de

Haití, la isla de la Tortugada refugio a bucaneros queforman los Hermanos de laCosta. Destaca en dicha co-fradía el holandés LaurentGraff, “Lorencillo”. Cobraéste triste fama por asolarlos puertos de Campeche yVeracruz al transcurrir elúltimo tercio del siglo XVII.

Con el piloto RicardoQuadre al frente, en la boca-na del Pánuco secuaces de“Lorencillo” hacen lo suyo.Llegan el 23 de abril de 1684a bordo de la fragata “Pres-bíteros” y cuatro balandras,asestándole tremendo golpea Pueblo Viejo, por entoncesúnica villa en la ribera ex-trema.

El 8 de mayo acude la Ar-mada de Barlovento, que so-mete y captura a 104 malhe-chores. Terminan 90 “ahe-rrojados en parte segura”de la urbe jarocha para re-

mitirlos a España, aplicán-dose “en capitanes o cabe-zas la pena de horca” el 14de junio, asientan los docu-mentos respectivos. Y aña-den: “Con todo y el castigoejemplar pronto habíanvuelto los enemigos a entraren” la misma población“con cuatro embarcacio-nes”, ante la falta de “casti-llo o fortín en que poder de-fenderse” aquellos litorales.

MareaSe dice que son explota-

dores. Adquiere por ellopertinencia la noticia queproporciona fray Vicente deSanta María. “En las ribe-ras del río Bravo se halló[…] el año de [17]47 […] cier-ta nación de […] mulatos”,“descendientes de los africa-nos”. “En los tiempos de sunumerosa gentilidad […] de-cían que […] habían venidosus mayores […] hombres

solos, negros enteramente,en no poco número”.

“El arribo de estos ne-gros […] no puede atribuir-se […] a los tiempos anterio-res al descubrimiento delNuevo Mundo y […] es ne-cesario creer que de las is-las del” Golfo de México “ode algunas de las coloniasestablecidas en el continen-te por otras naciones euro-peas, arribaron a él”, indicaSanta María.

Conjetura: “O […] algu-nos europeos, por algúncontratiempo, arribaron conellos a la playa […] y ellosse deshicieron de sus amos,quitándoles la vida y que-dándose solos, o […] por de-rrota [naufragio] de algunaembarcación que los condu-cía, ellos solos se salvaron,con la casualidad de habersido traídos por la […] ma-rea a estas costas”.

(Publicado con permisodel autor, como aparece en LaRazón, Tampico, México.)

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Nota del editor: El histo-riador narra cómo surge y sedesarrolla la piratería en Ta-maulipas y la región.

Durante los últimos 13 meses,se han neutralizado a 14 delos 15 objetivos primarios

que tenía por objetivo la Estrategiade Seguridad Gobierno de la Repú-blica y el Gobierno de Tamaulipas,anunciaron autoridades estatales.

Durante una reunión itinerantedel Grupo de Coordinación Tamau-lipas, junto al Gobernador EgidioTorre Cantú, en el municipio de El

Mante, se analizaron los logroscontra la actividad criminal.

De acuerdo con el análisis, los 14elementos neutralizados pertene-cen a los dos principales grupos de-lictivos que operan en el estado, se-ñala un comunicado.

Asimismo, se citó la neutraliza-ción de 150 operadores regionalesque se desempeñaban como jefes deplaza, jefes de estacas y jefes dehalcones por parte de esos dos gru-pos delictivos, añade el comunica-

do.Durante la reunión, en la que

también participaron presidentesmunicipales de Tamaulipas, ellosseñalaron que “la inseguridad haestado disminuyendo notablementeen los últimos dos años”, indica elreporte.

La estrategia continuará en vi-gor para seguir fomentando la se-guridad en el Estado para que el“combate de la delincuencia vayaen crecimiento”, finaliza.

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Elementos del orden y autoridades estatales se reunieron para analizar la Estrategia de Seguridad puesta en marcha en Tamaulipas ysus resultados, en el municipio de El Mante, el lunes.

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