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A man who was recently caught transportingillegal immigrants in Zapata County thought hewas doing a good deed, according to court docu-ments.

Homeland Security Investigations specialagents identified him as Rogelio Alberto Mi-reles. He agreed to speak to authorities aboutthe failed human smuggling attempt he was al-legedly involved in, records state.

“During Mireles’ interview, he stated that heknowingly picked up the (undocumented peo-ple) from the side of the road because he was be-ing a humanitarian,” states the criminal com-plaint filed July 9.

Mireles and co-defendant Hector Leonel Tris-tan, who acted as a scout, were charged withtransporting illegal immigrants, according tocourt documents.

Mireles told agents he was not being paid fortransporting the immigrants. Tristan, however,admitted to being the scout during the failedsmuggling attempt, according to court docu-ments.

“Tristan stated Mireles was going to pay him$200 to help him in this smuggling at-

ZAPATA COUNTY

Man caughttransportingimmigrants

Mireles claims he thought he was doing a good deed

By CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZTHE ZAPATA TIMES

See ZAPATA PAGE 13A

A Zapata man accused of transporting illegalimmigrants led Laredo police on a chase thatended with a crash in an east part of town.

Yovani Yanez, 19, was chargedwith evading arrest with vehicle,striking an unattended vehicleand three counts of smuggling ofpersons.

Police said the case unfolded atabout 3 a.m. Wednesday when anofficer attempted to pull over asuspicious Chevy S-10 in the 6000block of Olmos Drive.

A chase ensued through South and East Lare-do when the driver refused to stop, said Investi-gator Joe E. Baeza, LPD spokesman.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection heli-copter assisted authorities on the ground, re-ports state.

Police said the chase ended with the Chevy

LPD

Man leadspolice on

chase19-year-old Zapatan accused oftransporting illegal immigrants

By CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZTHE ZAPATA TIMES

YANEZ

See CHASE PAGE 13A

A Zapata woman and herbrother are one step closer toreceiving compensation ofmore than $11.6 million inminerals they inherited fromtheir grandmother that werewrongfully being collected byConocoPhillips.

Minerva Clementina Rami-

rez and Leon Oscar RamirezJr. filed a suit against Conoco-Phillips in November 2010 inthe 49th District Court in Za-pata County to recover theirshare of minerals producedby the company.

They inherited the rightsto the minerals from theirgrandmother, Leonor V. Rami-rez.

Leonor Ramirez’s children

include Leon Oscar RamirezSr., Ileana Ramirez and Rodol-fo Ramirez.

In a section of her will, Le-onor Ramirez left all of herright, title and interest in andto the Las Piedras ranch –1,058 acres of land situated inZapata County – to her son,Leon Oscar Ramirez Sr., dur-ing the term of his naturallife.

However, upon his death,Leonor Ramirez stated in thewill that the title shall pass tohis children in equal shares.

Pursuant to her will, LeonOscar Ramirez Sr. became alife tenant, meaning he wasonly entitled to enjoy the sur-face of the land and not thecorpus, which includes the

49TH DISTRICT COURT

$11.6M in mineralsZapata siblings close to winning Conoco suit

By PHILIP BALLITHE ZAPATA TIMES

See MINERALS PAGE 13A

Republican presidentialcandidate Donald Trumpspent about three hours visit-ing Laredo on Thursday, host-ing two short news confer-ences where he discussed ille-gal immigration and thecountry’s need for more bor-der security.

The candidate’s visit wasfirst planned as a meetingwith local and federal law en-forcement officials, but the lo-cal Border Patrol union can-celed plans at the last minuteto accompany him.

He was previously sched-uled to meet with the unionand other law enforcemententities, such as U.S. Customsand Border Protection, Immi-gration and Customs Enforce-ment, Laredo Police Depart-

ment, Drug Enforcement Ad-ministration and the Bureauof Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire-arms and Explosives.

A change in the itineraryTrump landed at the Lare-

do International Airportahead of schedule Thursday,met by Laredo Mayor PeteSaenz and other local offi-cials.

Supporters and protestersof Trump’s campaign tried tocatch a glimpse of him be-hind the gated airport tarmacas he exited his private jet.

Trump, best known as abillionaire, real estate moguland TV personality before hispresidential campaign, hadexpressed a day earlier his

LAREDO

TRUMP’S BORDER VISIT

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the media on Thursday afternoon at Paseo Real in Laredo.

Photo by Danny Zaragoza | Laredo Morning Times

Presidential candidatespends 3 hours in Texas

By KENDRA ABLAZATHE ZAPATA TIMES

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump listens to members ofthe media at a press conference Thursday afternoon at the World TradeInternational Bridge.

Photo by Cuate Santos | Laredo Morning Times

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PAGE 2A Zin brief SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2015

Saturday, July 256th Annual Cat Appreciation Day

from 2 – 3 p.m. Registration and judg-ing of Live Cat Categories 2 – 2:30p.m. and Photo/Cell Phone Categories2 – 3 p.m. at Petco north, 2450 Mon-arch Dr. $1 donation for each partici-pating category. Donations will go to-ward projects to protect free-roamingcommunity cats including a Trap, Neu-ter, and Return Program. For more de-tails, call Birdie at 286-7866.

Planetarium shows at TAMIU La-mar Bruni Vergara Planetarium from 2to 5 p.m. 2 p.m.: Accidental Astro-nauts; 3 p.m.: Wonders of the Uni-verse; 4 p.m.: New Horizons; 5 p.m.:Led Zeppelin. General admission is $3.Call 956-326-DOME (3663).

The Webb County Tax Office,1110 Victoria St., Suite 107, will beopen from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., andthe dealer line will be open from 10a.m. to 12:30 p.m. All services will beprovided. For more information call thetax office at 523-4200.

Sunday, July 26Operation Feed the Homeless. 3

p.m. at Jarvis Plaza. The Laredo FreeThinkers is organizing this event. Freefood, good fun and free literature. SeeFacebook page, Operation Feed theHomeless-Summer Feast for more in-formation.

Tuesday, July 28Planetarium shows at TAMIU La-

mar Bruni Vergara Planetarium from 3to 5 p.m. 3 p.m.: Accidental Astronaut;4 p.m.: Extreme Planets; 5 p.m.: ZulaPatrol: Under the Weather. General ad-mission is $3. Call 956-326-DOME(3663).

Wednesday, July 29Planetarium shows at TAMIU La-

mar Bruni Vergara Planetarium from 3to 5 p.m. 3 p.m.: Accidental Astronaut;4 p.m.: Extreme Planets; 5 p.m.: ZulaPatrol: Under the Weather. General ad-mission is $3. Call 956-326-DOME(3663).

Thursday, July 30Spanish Book Club from 6 – 8

p.m. at the Laredo Public Library onCalton Road. Contact Sylvia Reash at763-1810.

Planetarium shows at TAMIU La-mar Bruni Vergara Planetarium from 3to 5 p.m. 3 p.m.: Accidental Astronaut;4 p.m.: Extreme Planets; 5 p.m.: ZulaPatrol: Under the Weather. General ad-mission is $3. Call 956-326-DOME(3663).

Saturday, August 1Planetarium shows at TAMIU La-

mar Bruni Vergara Planetarium from 2to 5 p.m. 2 p.m.: Accidental Astro-nauts; 3 p.m.: Wonders of the Uni-verse; 4 p.m.: New Horizons; 5 p.m.:Led Zeppelin. General admission is $3.Call 956-326-DOME (3663).

Used book sale at First UnitedMethodist Church, 1220 McClellandAve. Hardcovers $1, paperbacks $.50,magazines and children’s books $.25.Open from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thepublic is welcome.

Tuesday, August 4Grief Support Group “The Com-

fort Café” meets the first Tuesday ofevery month at 6:30 p.m. at Danny’sRestaurant, 2406 Jacaman Road. Forthose 18 and older who are experienc-ing the loss of a loved one. ContactYeseenia Dickey at 740-9374 or emailher at yeseniadickey@gmail.com to re-serve a seat or for more information.

Thursday, August 6Renacer 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.

Tuesday, August 11Texas A&M International Universi-

ty is hosting no-cost, one-day work-shops for K-5 educators interested inteaching computer science. Curriculumguide and supplies will be provided.Contact Dr. Pat Abrego at TAMIU at326-2302.

Thursday, August 13Inspire Social Business Club

meeting at Northtown Professional Pla-za, 6999 McPherson Rd. Suite 211, at6:30 p.m. The public can discussideas, hear keynote speakers and sup-port one another in business ventures.Contact Victor Navarro at vnavar-ro@texaslakeinc.com.

CALENDARASSOCIATED PRESS

Today is Saturday, July 25,the 206th day of 2015. Thereare 159 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in His-tory:

On July 25, 1965, Bob Dylandrew boos from some specta-tors at the Newport Folk Fes-tival as he performed with arock band. (The cause of thenegative reaction is in dispute,with some citing Dylan’s useof an electric guitar, othersblaming poor audio qualityand still others complainingabout the shortness of Dylan’sset.)

On this date:In 1554, Queen Mary I of

England married Philip II, fu-ture King of Spain.

In 1814, the Battle of Lun-dy’s Lane, one of the bloodiestbattles of the War of 1812, tookplace in present-day NiagaraFalls, Ontario, with no clearvictor.

In 1934, Austrian ChancellorEngelbert Dollfuss was assas-sinated by pro-Nazi Austriansin a failed coup attempt.

In 1943, Benito Mussoliniwas dismissed as premier ofItaly by King Victor Emma-nuel III, and placed under ar-rest. (However, Mussolini waslater rescued by the Nazis, andre-asserted his authority.)

In 1952, Puerto Rico becamea self-governing common-wealth of the United States.

In 1975, the musical “A Cho-rus Line” opened on Broad-way at the Shubert Theatre,beginning a run of 6,137 per-formances.

In 1985, a spokeswoman forRock Hudson confirmed thatthe actor, hospitalized in Paris,was suffering from AIDS.(Hudson died in October 1985.)

In 2000, a New York-boundAir France Concorde crashedoutside Paris shortly aftertakeoff, killing all 109 peopleon board and four people onthe ground; it was the first-ev-er crash of the supersonic jet.

Ten years ago: The AFL-CIO splintered as the ServiceEmployees InternationalUnion and the Teamsters an-nounced they were leaving thelabor federation.

Five years ago: The onlinewhistleblower Wikileaks post-ed some 90,000 leaked U.S. mil-itary records that amounted toa blow-by-blow account of theAfghanistan war, includingunreported incidents of Af-ghan civilian killings as wellas covert operations againstTaliban figures.

One year ago: PresidentBarack Obama met at theWhite House with the presi-dents of Guatemala, Hondurasand El Salvador; afterward, heurged the leaders and congres-sional Republicans to helpease the influx of minors andmigrant families crossing thesouthwest border of the Unit-ed States.

Today’s Birthdays: Ac-tress Barbara Harris is 80.Folk-pop singer-musicianBruce Woodley (The Seekers)is 73. Model-actress Iman is 60.Cartoonist Ray Billingsley(“Curtis”) is 58. Rock musicianThurston Moore (Sonic Youth)is 57. Country singer MartyBrown is 50. Actor Matt Le-Blanc is 48. Actor D.B. Wood-side is 46. Actress MiriamShor is 44. Actor David Den-man is 42. Actor James Laffer-ty is 30. Actress Shantel Van-Santen is 30. Classical singerFaryl Smith is 20. Actor PierceGagnon is 10.

Thought for Today: “Ad-vertising is a valuable eco-nomic factor because it is thecheapest way of selling goods,particularly if the goods areworthless.” — Sinclair Lewis,American author (1885-1951).

TODAY IN HISTORY

HEMPSTEAD — A black woman founddead in a Southeast Texas jail three days af-ter a traffic-stop confrontation with a whiteofficer hanged herself using a clear plasticbag tied into a slip knot, according to an au-topsy report released Friday.

The medical examiner’s report, which theWaller County District Attorney’s Officemade public, corroborates findings prosecu-tors detailed a day earlier about the death of28-year-old Sandra Bland.

Authorities have said the bag was tied toan overhead steel partition of the jail cellwhere Bland died. The “circular area” of thebag formed by the slip knot was about 61/2inches in diameter, wrote Dr. Sara Doyle,who signed the report.

The report released Friday did not address

toxicology, saying only that blood and urineand other specimens have been sent for addi-tional tests. Prosecutors have said resultscould take weeks.

Preliminary results show Bland had mari-juana in her system, a finding that could be“relevant to her state of mind,” assistant dis-trict attorney Warren Diepraam has said.

Diepraam said there were “approximately25 to 30 horizontal faint ... linear superficialincised wounds” up to an inch long on herbody. He said they were likely self-inflicted,weeks earlier.

Relatives and supporters have disputedthat the death could have been a suicide.Waller County officials have said there is noevidence to suggest otherwise but have wel-comed an investigation led by the FBI andinvolving numerous local and state agencies.

Bland died three days after her arrest.

AROUND TEXAS

Warren Diepraam, the first assistant district attorney of Waller County, speaks about the results of Sandra Bland’s autopsyreport during a news conference. An autopsy of Bland, who died in a Texas jail cell three days after a minor traffic stop,showed injuries that were consistent with suicide, and not with someone else having killed her, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Photo by Ilana Panich-Linsman/New York Times | AP

Autopsy details releasedBy MICHAEL GRACZYK

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Convicted sex offender onMost Wanted list caughtHOUSTON — A man on the

Texas 10 Most Wanted convictedsex offender list has been cap-tured at a home in Houston.

Cox in 1994 was convicted ofaggravated sexual assault of achild after an incident in DallasCounty involving a 9-year-oldgirl. He was sentenced to 10years in prison. Cox in 2004 wasconvicted in Harris County ofpossession of a controlled sub-stance.

Dallas-area woman pleadsguilty to Medicaid fraudDALLAS — A Dallas-area

woman has pleaded guilty in a$1.6 million Medicaid scam overfalse claims using the names oflegitimate counselors.

Brenda Ward of Cedar Hillfaces up to 10 years in federalprison and a $250,000 fine.

Ward on Friday pleaded guiltyto health care fraud. She’s freepending sentencing later.

Man who surrendered in2011 slaying gets 25 years

CORPUS CHRISTI — A manwho last winter called 911 to sur-render over a 2011 slaying inCorpus Christi has been sen-tenced to 25 years in prison. Ter-ry Lynn Smith of Beaumontpleaded guilty to murder in theplea deal Thursday. Beaumontpolice in January arrested Smithafter he called, from a halfwayhouse, to claim responsibility forthe September 2011 stabbingdeath of Patricia Duling, 51.

1 dead, 3 hurt in stabbingattack at apartment

DALLAS — Dallas police sayone person has been killed andthree others hurt in a stabbingattack at an apartment.

Police did not immediately re-lease the name of the man whodied at the scene or conditions ofthe woman and two men hospi-talized Friday. Dallas police aretrying to determine what led tothe stabbings Thursday night.

2 brothers die after pulled from family’s pool

HOUSTON — Houston policesay two brothers drowned in thefamily’s swimming pool whenthey became entangled in a tentthat also went in the water.

Police on Friday identified thevictims as 6-year-old Alvaro Ra-miro and 9-year-old Gonzalo Ra-miro. Both were pronounceddead Thursday night at a Hous-ton hospital. Police say the boyswere left with a nanny whiletheir mother ran errands.

Inmate in drug case dies,police say hanged selfHOUSTON — Officials say an

inmate has died at the HoustonCity Jail after he apparentlyhanged himself using his clothes.

Houston police on Friday said38-year-old Hung Do died of anapparent suicide.

Do’s body was discoveredThursday afternoon in the cellhe shared with other inmates.

— Compiled from AP reports

Robot’s cross-countryhitchhike off to slow start

BOSTON — A robot’s hitch-hiking journey across the U.S. isoff to a slow start.

The robot named hitchBOTcaught its first ride in Marble-head, Massachusetts, last week,bound for San Francisco, but itstill hasn’t left the state.

Instead, it has bounced aroundthe Boston area and was brieflytaken to sea. On Friday, the hu-manoid robot is expected to at-tend a Red Sox game.

The robot is immobile and re-lies on strangers to transport itfrom place to place. It’s the cre-ation of two researchers in Cana-da who wanted to study how peo-ple interact with robots.

Jacket worn by RingoStarr sells for $46K

BOSTON — The black wooldouble-breasted suit jacket thatRingo Starr wore in the 1965

Beatles movie “Help!” has sold atauction for more than $46,500.

Boston-based RR Auction an-nounced Friday that the jacketwith soft gray vertical pinstripes,six black buttons, and the name“Ringo” sewn inside was part ofthe online Marvels of Modern

Music auction that closed Thurs-day.

RR said the buyer is “a toprock ’n’ roll collector in Rhode Is-land,” but did not disclose aname. Other items sold in theauction included a Hamer guitar.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE NATION

HitchBOT co-creator David Harris Smith adjusts its position as co-creator FraukeZeller, right, says farewell as the hitchhiking robot starts its journey July 17 inMarblehead, Mass. HitchBOT is beginning its’ first cross-country hitchhiking trip.

Photo by Stephan Savoia | AP

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SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2015 State THE ZAPATA TIMES 3A

With an eye on keepingup with demographicchanges and competingwith other states andcountries, the Texas High-er Education Coordinat-ing Board adopted a newoverarching goal Thurs-day: Get 60 percent of Tex-ans between 25 and 34 apostsecondary degree orcertificate by 2030.

That will be a difficulttask — only 38 percent ofTexans in that demo-graphic currently havesuch a degree.

The benchmark was setin the coordinatingboard’s 15-year strategicplan, which the boardunanimously approved atits regular meeting Thurs-day. The plan, called60x30TX, was written by acommittee of business andhigher education leaders,who expressed concernsthat the state is falling be-hind other states andcountries.

If Texas were its owncountry, it would rankfifth in the world in edu-cational attainmentamong residents between

55 and 64 years old, com-mittee members said. Butit falls to 25th in theworld for people betweenthe ages of 25 and 34.

In addition, educationalattainment is far loweramong black and Hispan-ic students. And Texashas the highest percent-age of black and Hispanicstudents in the country.

Finding ways to helpthose students get intocollege — and pay for it —will be vital to the state’sfuture, the agency said.

“It is an urgent matterfor Texas to increase ourknowledge and skills tosustain and become glob-ally competitive,” saidWoody Hunt, chairman ofthe committee that wrote

the plan. “To not do sohas serious economic con-sequences for the stateand our citizens.”

To succeed, the stateneeds 550,000 students toearn a certificate, associ-ate, bachelor’s or master’sdegree in Texas in 2030.In 2014, about 256,000 peo-ple achieved that goal.

“Being incremental is

not a solution,” saidHunt, executive chairmanof Hunt Companies.

Committee memberssaid the goal is reachable.The state’s current long-term plan, written in2000, aimed to have163,000 degrees awardedannually by 2015. Thestate achieved that in2015.

But other aspects of thecurrent plan, known asClosing the Gaps by 2015,have had mixed results.Its overarching goal wasto raise success levels forHispanics, blacks and oth-er underrepresentedgroups in higher educa-tion. In 2014, participationin higher education byHispanics rose, though ata slower rate than thebenchmarks set by the co-ordinating board. Mean-while, participation byblacks has stayed on tar-get over the last 15 years,but dropped in 2013 and2014, according to the co-ordinating board.

The plan approvedThursday urges more suc-cess with those demo-graphics. But it’s more ofa statement of goals thana list of desired actions.Still, its authors said theyare confident that stateleaders can figure out away to succeed.

“We have done our bestto be realistically ambi-tious,” said Larry Faulkn-er, vice chairman of thecommittee and formerpresident of the Universi-ty of Texas at Austin.

State wants 60 percent of adults with a degree by 2030By MATTHEW WATKINS

TEXAS TRIBUNE

Chelsea Stewart listens to a lecture in the College of Health Professions at Texas State University.

Photo by Callie Richmond | Texas Tribune

Adopting the “Villas delNorte: A String of Pearls on theRío Grande” as their theme toshowcase Laredo and its histo-ry, the Villa San Agustín de La-redo Genealogical Society willhost the 36th Annual TexasState Hispanic Genealogicaland Historical Conference, Oct.8–10, at the historic downtownLa Posada Hotel in Laredo.

The story of South Texas hasa unique narrative of its own totell. It all began with José deEscandón’s Villas del Norte(1749-1755). When completed in

1755, the all-civilian venture in-volved more than 20 settle-ments, including seven on thebanks of the lower Río Grande.The following towns sproutedfrom these Villas del Norte: La-redo, San Ygnacio, Zapata, Ro-ma, Rio Grande City, Hebbron-ville, Edinburg, McAllen, Pharr-San Juan-Alamo, Harlingen,Brownsville, and many others.Equally important, family rootsof many of today’s Mexican/Spanish-descent Texans beganhere.

Attendees to this conferencewill have the opportunity tolearn the true roots and history

of Laredo and these surround-ing areas. In addition to inter-esting presentations by notablespeakers, the conference will in-clude a “Villas de Norte Tour”to Roma, San Ygnacio, Zapata,and Laredo, a Cine Mejicano,lively entertainment, and a deli-cious Taste of Laredo Fiesta.Come join us to find out more!

For more information on theconference, contact SanjuanitaMartinez-Hunter, Ph.D. at 956-722-3497, or Sylvia J. Reash atsjre0348@yahoo.com, or visit thewebsite vsalgs.org, or Facebookpage Villa San Agustin de Lare-do Genealogical Society.

Annual Hispanic Genealogicalconference set for October

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Rusty’s Quick Lube is cele-brating its grand opening at9:30 a.m. today at 2705 SouthU.S. Hwy 83.

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WASHINGTON — Cur-rent quibbling over whatJeb Bush meant when hesaid it’s time to phase outand replace Medicare — asopposed to “attacking theseniors,” as one woman ata recent event bellowedout — will soon seemquaint against the realitiesof our future.

Never mind projectionsthat the program will onlybe able to finance 86 per-cent of its obligations by2030. Or that by 2050, thenumber declines to 80 per-cent, according to a recent-ly released Social Securityand Medicare Boards ofTrustees report.

These are relativelycomforting numbers com-pared to new projectionsfrom the Alzheimer’s Asso-ciation. By 2050, the groupsays, 16 million Americanswill have Alzheimer’s at acost of $1.1 trillion peryear, mostly to Medicareand Medicaid.

Today, by comparison,5.3 million have the dis-ease.

“Basically, it will bank-rupt Medicare,” said RobEgge, the Alzheimer’s As-sociation’s chief public pol-icy officer. I met with Eggeand chief science officerMaria Carrillo during theassociation’s recent inter-national conference inWashington.

The 2015 cost of care forAlzheimer’s and all otherdementias is estimated at$226 billion, with 68 per-cent being paid by Medi-care and Medicaid, saidEgge.

This total includes onlydirect costs for the care ofAlzheimer’s sufferers —there currently is no treat-ment — and doesn’t takeinto consideration unpaidcare by families. Withinthe next 10 years, 19 stateswill see at least a 40 per-cent increase in the num-ber of people affected.

Lest you feel over-whelmed by numbers —and demoralized by the re-duction of human suffer-ing to numerical values —suffice it to say that we arein a state of emergency.Yet, even with this obviousurgency, relatively few re-sources have been dedicat-ed to research for preven-tion and treatment com-pared to other chronicdiseases. This, despite thefact that Alzheimer’s is the6th leading cause of deathin the U.S., according tothe Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention.

Current federal fundingis less than $600 millionannually, while top scien-tists say they’ll need $2 bil-lion a year to meet the as-sociation’s 2025 goal of pre-vention and effectivetreatment. There’s causefor some hope. Last month,bipartisan House and Sen-ate subcommittees ap-proved increasing fundingto the National Institutesof Health for Alzheimer’sresearch by 50 percent and

60 percent, respectively. If this funding becomes

law — and the association’sgoals are met — costs couldbe reduced by $220 billionover the first five years and$367 billion in 2050 alone,according to an associationreport. Sixty percent ofthose savings would accrueto Medicare and Medicaid.

Among other scientificdevelopments reported thisweek, researchers have iso-lated a “common ancestor”among all forms of demen-tia, including Alzheimer’s,Parkinson’s and Lewy body.

“All are caused by mis-folding proteins,” Carrilloexplained to me. Two differ-ent “misfolded” proteins —amyloid beta and tau — aretoxic to brain cells.

I am sad to report theseproteins cannot be correct-ed with daily doses of asturdy zinfandel. There is,however, a new drug thatdelivers a molecule scien-tists have created to “chap-erone” these naughty pro-teins so that they fold cor-rectly.

Carrillo doesn’t want tooverstate the value of thisone-target-one-molecule ap-proach, though it is promis-ing. She suggests that even-tually we’ll treat Alzheim-er’s with a “cocktail” thatwill be created based on anindividual’s genetic make-up and other factors.

Other hope-inspiring de-velopments include six di-agnostic tools that, in com-bination, can be useful inpredicting Alzheimer’s.They include memory andthinking tests, as well asMRI scans that can mea-sure the thickness of thebrain’s right entorhinalcortex and the volume ofthe hippocampus, both ofwhich are important tomemory.

It is reassuring that bothpolicymakers and scientistsare committed to tacklingthese diseases before we’reall trying to rememberwhat we were trying to re-member. But women espe-cially should be interestedin the progress of dementiaresearch. For reasons un-known, women suffer Alz-heimer’s at a higher rate —two-thirds of today’s suffer-ers are women. And wom-en’s function declines twiceas fast as men’s. This fall,the association will issuean international call for re-search on why this is so.

In the meantime, Con-gress should waste no timein correcting the travesty oftoo-little funding for a dev-astating disease that de-mands our urgent atten-tion. Otherwise, what to doabout Medicare will be ren-dered irrelevant.

(Kathleen Parker’s emailaddress is kathleenpark-er@washpost.com.)

COLUMN

Medicareneeds some

medicine“KATHLEEN PARKER

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As Americans set out tothe beach this summer withtheir favorite novels inhand, federal officials arebeing asked to sue the na-tion’s largest bookseller,Amazon.com. Why? For nothaving higher prices.

A group of authors andcompeting booksellers re-cently petitioned the De-partment of Justice to openan antitrust investigationinto the activities of the on-line retailer. Their com-plaint, expressed in sepa-rate letters to DOJ from theAmerican Booksellers Asso-ciation and Authors United,is not that the firm chargestoo much for books, but toolittle.

Low book prices wouldhardly seem to top the listof problems facing Americatoday. And, the lawsuit advo-cates admit that Amazondoesn’t act like your typicalmonopolist. Rather thanrake in profits, the firm is“barely profitable,” AuthorsUnited says in 24-page docu-ment. “It excels in customerservice and in providinglow prices and wide selec-tion,” the document contin-ues. “The face it presents toconsumers is friendly andhelpful.”

That sounds more like atestimonial for Amazon, nottestimony against it. Never-theless, Amazon’s criticssay it is just too big. It holds

a monopoly over the bookbusiness in America, theyclaim, which threatens boththe marketplace for booksand freedom of speech itself.

It’s a scary assessment,but it’s simply not true.With more than 40 percentof total book sales in theU.S., including 65 percent ofe-books, the firm is the pre-eminent source of books forAmericans. Still, Amazon isa far cry from a monopoly.

Amazon, which just cele-brated its 20-year anniver-sary, rose from Silicon Val-ley startup to retail giantthrough a straightforwardstrategy of providing moreproducts to consumers atlower prices than the otherguys. It keeps growing onlyby continuing to providemore product and lowerprices; its position in themarket is by no meanslocked-in.

Once-dominant firmsranging from the Great At-lantic & Pacific Tea Compa-ny to IBM can attest to howquickly fortunes canchange. In the book worlditself, the demise of oncemighty Borders Booksserves as a constant re-minder of this fact.

And market position iseven more fluid in nascentmarkets such as that for e-books. Before Apple’s en-trance into that field, infact, Amazon “controlled”90 percent of the e-bookmarket. A quarter of thatshare was lost when Apple

jumped in in 2010. Apple ve-ry possibly would have tak-en an even bigger bite outof Amazon’s market had itnot itself been hamstrungby an ill-considered anti-trust suit.

Critics also complain thatAmazon has abused its mar-ket power in dealing withthe publishers who supplytheir books. Exhibit A fortheir case is the 2014 feudbetween Paris-based Ha-chette Book Group (ownerof Little-Brown and otherwell-known brands) over e-book pricing.

Hachette wanted to set itsown prices for the books itsold on Amazon.com; Ama-zon wanted to cap the priceat $9.99. For months the twowere at odds. During thistime, the Internet retailerdid all it could to discour-age sales of Hachette’sbooks on its site: eliminat-ing discounts, delaying de-livery time, refusing pre-publication orders, and eventelling customers to go else-where to buy Hachette ti-tles.

Amazon’s critics say suchsteps were disruptive to themarketplace, reducing Ha-chette’s book sales, and thesales of many individual au-thors, significantly. Andthere’s no doubt that Ama-zon has been aggressive inits dealings with Hachetteand others. But this kind of“disruption” is a goodthing. Amazon’s goal was tolower the price of e-books,

which after all are less cost-ly to produce than printedbooks. American consum-ers have been the primebeneficiaries of such pricepressure.

Moreover, while the Ha-chette dispute is typicallycited by Amazon’s critics asan example of the firmabusing market power,Amazon critics rarely men-tion that the supposed mo-nopolist failed in its effortsin that case: Hachette con-tinues to charge consumersmore for e-books on Ama-zon that the retailer wanted.

Some Amazon criticshave pooh-poohed the im-portance of lower prices.Douglas Preston, a techno-thriller writer who foundedAuthors United, has de-nounced “the sense of enti-tlement of the Americanconsumer” calling it a “Wal-Mart” mentality.

This view is not surpris-ing. No author wants to seehis work on the discount ta-ble. But for the consumer,Amazon’s strategy has beena boon, making tens of mil-lions of titles available tothe American people toread at home, at school oreven at the beach. For thegovernment to reverse thissuccess would be the worstplot twist yet.

(James L. Gattuso is a se-nior research fellow for regu-latory policy in the Roe Insti-tute for Economic PolicyStudies at The HeritageFoundation.)

COMMENTARY

Lawsuits and book pricesBy JAMES GATTUSO

TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON — Sar-casm rarely works for poli-ticians. Especially when it’snot entirely clear they’rebeing sarcastic. Which itwasn’t in the case of RonJohnson, the Republicansenator from Wisconsin,who gave a cringe-worthyinterview Monday.

While discussing theneed for school choice,Johnson castigated Demo-cratic politicians who sendtheir children to privateschools.

“They just don’t want tolet those idiot inner-citykids that they purport tobe so supportive of . . . theydon’t want to give them thesame opportunity theirown kids have,” Johnson

said. “It’s disgraceful.”Johnson’s office initially

insisted that a reporterwho asked about the sen-ator calling inner-city kids“idiots” had misheard hiscomments. But soon, John-son himself was on thephone explaining that “Iwas being, that quote is,I’m being very sarcastic inthat’s how liberals viewthese underprivileged

kids.” He went on: “That isnot my viewpoint in anyway.”

The problem is thatJohnson has built some-thing of a reputation forimpolitic comments.

Ron Johnson, for forget-ting that sarcasm is betterleft on the sidelines of poli-tics, you had the worstweek in Washington. Con-grats, or something.

WORST WEEK IN WASHINGTON

Comments get rep into troubleBy CHRIS CILLIZZA

THE WASHINGTON POST

SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2015 Nation THE ZAPATA TIMES 5A

LAFAYETTE, La. — Theman who killed two peopleand wounded nine others ata movie theater was somentally ill and violent thatyears ago, his wife hid hisguns and his family hadhim hospitalized againsthis will before obtaining acourt order to keep himaway.

John Russell Houser, 59,stood up about 20 minutesinto the “Trainwreck” mov-ie and fired first at two peo-ple sitting in front of him,then aimed his handgun atothers. Police said Fridaythey found 13 shell casings.

“They heard a couple ofpops and didn’t know whatit was,” said Randall Mann,whose 21-year-old daughter,Emily, was sitting in thesame row as the shooterThursday night.

She told her father thatshe did not hear the shoot-er say anything beforeopening fire. “And thenthey saw the muzzle flash-es, and that’s when theyknew what was going on.She hit the floor immediate-ly.”

Mann said his daughterand her friend escaped, un-injured but traumatized.

Police said Houser hadone additional magazine ofbullets as he tried to escape.Then, when he spotted po-lice officers outside, heturned around and pushedback through the fleeingcrowd. The officers tailedhim into the theater andheard a single shot beforefinding him dead inside.

Houser parked his 1995blue Lincoln Continental bythe theater’s exit door, anddisguises including glassesand wigs were found in asearch of his room at anearby Motel 6, police said.The license plate on the carhad also been switched.

“It is apparent that hewas intent on shooting andthen escaping,” LafayettePolice Chief Jim Craft said.

Police were looking atonline postings they be-

lieved Houser wrote tolearn more about him andtry to figure out his motive,superintendent Col. Mi-chael D. Edmonson said.

In the 1990s, he frequent-ly appeared on a local tele-vision call-in show, advocat-ing violence against peopleinvolved in abortions, saidCalvin Floyd, who hostedthe morning show onWLTZ-TV in Columbus,Georgia.

Houser, who was knownby the nickname Rusty, alsoespoused other radicalviews, including his opposi-tion to women in the work-place. Floyd describedHouser as an “angry man”who made “wild accusa-tions” about all sorts of top-ics, and said he put him onto counter a Democraticvoice because “he couldmake the phones ring.”

Houser owned a barcalled Rusty’s BuckheadPub but his liquor licensewas revoked in 2001 for

serving minors. To protest,he put up a banner thathad a swastika on it encir-cled by the words, “Wel-come to LaGrange,” accord-ing to a story in the La-Grange Daily News.

Houser told the newspa-per he was “completelyagainst” the Nazi philoso-phy but chose the symbolbecause it represented agovernment’s ability to dowhat it wants.

“The people who used it— the Nazis — they didwhat they damn wellpleased,” Houser told thenewspaper.

The two fatalities wereidentified as 21-year-oldMayci Breaux and 33-year-old Jillian Johnson. Breauxwas a radiology student ata nearby college. Johnsonran clothing and art bou-tiques, played in a rootsyrock band and planted fruittrees in her neighborhoodfor the homeless and herneighbors.

The wounded rangedfrom their late teens totheir late 60s. Two were re-leased from a hospital andthree others were in stablecondition. The condition ofthe others wasn’t immedi-ately available.

Theatergoers said thegunman sat alone and saidnothing before he stood upand opened fire at the 7:10p.m. showing of “Trainw-reck” at the Grand 16 thea-

ter. “We heard a loud pop we

thought was a firecracker,”Katie Domingue told TheAdvertiser. “He wasn’t say-ing anything. I didn’t hearanybody screaming either.”

Domingue said she andher fiance ran for the near-est exit, leaving behind hershoes and purse.

Stories of heroismemerged. A teacher jumpedin front of her colleague,taking a bullet for her, andthe second teacher pulled afire alarm to alert othermoviegoers, said Gov. Bob-by Jindal, who traveled tothe scene.

“Her friend literallyjumped over her and, byher account, actually savedher life,” Jindal said.

Houser studied account-ing in Georgia and earneda law degree at FaulknerUniversity in Alabama.There’s no record he everbecame a lawyer in eitherstate.

Theater gunman’s family called him mentally ill

Mason Matthews, 10, leaves a card at a makeshift memorial forshooting victim Jillian Johnson in Lafayette, Louisiana, on Friday.

Photo by Paul Kieu/The Daily Advertiser | AP

By MELINDA DESLATTE AND MICHAEL KUNZELMAN

ASSOCIATED PRESS

REPORTERestos óseos calcina-

dos fueron encontrados den-tro de una camioneta queestaba abandonada en un ca-mino vecinal por el centro deTamaulipas, México.

La camioneta HummerH3, modelo 2006, estabaabandonada, sin neumáticos,a la altura del Kilómetro 235de la Carretera San Fernan-do-Matamoros.

Los restos fueron ubica-dos en cuatro puntos alrede-dor de la unidad, los cualesestaban a flor de tierras, yotros semi-enterrados, indicael reporte. Los mismos estánsiendo analizados para detec-tar el ADN.

Autoridades no pudieronconfirmar si se trata de res-tos humanos, y si de ser así,a cuántas personas diferen-tes pertenecen.

Además elementos milita-res aseguraron ocho cartu-chos percutidos, dos cartu-chos útiles, dos cargadoresvacíos y tres envases de vi-drio de cerveza.

RECOMENDACIONESCerrar de forma ade-

cuada las residencias cuandolas familias salen de vacacio-nes, es el principal consejoque se encuentra brindado laSecretaría de Seguridad Pú-blica para evitar robos al pa-trimonio durante el periodovacacional.

Las recomendaciones in-cluyen asegurar puertas yventanas de la vivienda; darel número telefónico para ca-sos de emergencia a perso-nas de total confianza; des-conectar aparatos eléctricos;evitar almacenar combusti-bles innecesarios, ropa viejao periódicos; revisar las con-diciones mecánicas del vehí-culo; no llevar a menores deedad en el asiento delantero;respetar los límites de veloci-dad; no rebasar en curva nipor acotamientos; utilizar elcinturón de seguridad; no in-gerir bebidas alcohólicas; nomanejar cansado; no pararseen lugares despoblados.

Debido a las altastemperaturas que se viven enla región, la Secretaría deSalud de Tamaulipas invita ala población a tomar las me-didas necesarias para evitarintoxicación por ingestión dealimentos perecederos obien, falta de procedimientosde higiene.

Se debe tener especialcuidado y atención con ali-mentos, tales como carnescrudas, carnes frías, pesca-dos y mariscos, salsas cru-das y cocidas, ensaladas ver-des o de frutas, agua purifi-cada, agua purificada agranel, agua potable, aguasfrescas, hielo purificado, ali-mentos preparados, lechespasteurizadas y quesos fres-cos.

Asimismo se pide a losresidentes abstenerse de to-mar agua que no sea potableo clorada, evitar consumirpescados y mariscos crudos,no exponer los alimentos atemperatura ambiente e in-sistir en el lavado frecuente ycorrecto de manos, despuésde comer, antes de ir al bañoy al cambiar pañales; así co-mo lavar y desinfectar frutasy verduras, principalmente.

CORTE DE COMISIONADOSLa Corte de Comisio-

nados del Condado de Zapa-ta se reunirá el lunes 27 dejulio, de 9 a.m. a 12 p.m., enel Palacio de Justicia de laCiudad.

Para más información pu-de llamar a Roxy Elizondo al(956) 765-9920.

TORNEOEl Torneo Anual de

Pesca Infantil ‘Back to Scho-ol’ organizado por la Cámarade Comercio de Zapata, ensu quinta edición, se realizaráel sábado 22 de agosto. Elevento se realizará de 7 a.m.a 3 p.m. en Bravo Park Pond.

Agendaen Breve

El miércoles, el Representan-te de Texas, Richard Peña Ray-mond, anunció la creación delComité Asesor de Comercio deTexas-México para ayudar a ex-pandir las oportunidades entreEstados Unidos y México, conenfoque en la región fronterizade Laredo.

El comité incluirá a líderesde negocios locales y expertosen comercio como:

Eduardo Garza-Robles, fun-dador y propietario de Uni-Tra-de Forwarding and Logistics.Él servirá como presidente delcomité.

José Uribe, un asesor de co-mercio para importación-expor-tación que cuenta con 38 añosde experiencia en servicios gu-bernamentales, su empleo másreciente fue como asistente deldirector del puerto de entradapara el Puerto de Laredo.

Gilbert Narváez Jr., presi-dente y oficial en jefe de opera-ciones de Falcon Bank.

Minita Ramírez, vicepresi-denta de éxito en los estudian-tes en Texas A&M Internatio-nal University.

Ernesto Gaytán Palomo, fun-dador y propietario de Super

Transport Inter-national, queproporcionatransporte co-mercial entreEstados Unidos,

México y Cana-dá.

Eliza Rodríguez De La Gar-za, vicepresidenta de desarrollocomercial de Norteamérica yagente aduanal regional enKuehne + Nagel.

Raymond dijo que el propósi-to del comité es expandir el pa-pel de Laredo y el Condado deWebb como líder en comerciaal buscar un mayor desarrollocomercial internacional y ex-pandir el comercio entre Texas,Tamaulipas, Nuevo León y Coa-huila.

“Si continuamos expendien-do el comercio con ellos, lleva-rá a lazos económicos másfuertes entre Texas y México”,dijo Raymond en una declara-ción.

El comité se reunirá conRaymond y otros líderes de Te-xas y México a partir de la pró-xima semana, por lo menos dosveces al mes, señaló el repre-sentante estatal.

(Localice a Kendra Ablaza en728-2538 o en kablaza@lmtonli-ne.com)

REGIÓN FRONTERIZA

Trabajarán pormás oportunidades

POR KENDRA ABLAZATIEMPO DE ZAPATA

PEÑA RAYMONDComo herencia del Siglo XX Ta-maulipas aún conserva infinidad decruces gamadas. Pese a su cargaideológica, el lugar que ocupan lesprocura larga vida. Próximas al pri-mer centenario, de ellas casi nuncase habla en altos círculos locales.

Vayamos frente al perímetro nor-teño de la Plaza de Armas de Tam-pico, donde sobresale la Catedraldel puerto. Sucesivas mejoras pulensu estilo neoclásico. Recién abierto,el horizonte posrevolucionario in-cuba las de mayor aliento, impri-miéndole de paso distintivo sello:los pisos interiores quedan orna-mentados con numerosas esvásti-cas, únicas en México y buena par-te del mundo.

Entenderemos fácil los motivos siretrocedemos al 27 de septiembrede 1917. Prosiguen ese día temera-rias composturas en la plancha su-perior del referido edificio. Al pro-cederse sin las debidas precaucio-nes, el techo de pronto se desplomapor completo y provoca fuerte es-truendo. Bajo los escombros mue-ren el alarife Tiburcio Peña, su ayu-dante y devota anciana que rezaba

cerca del púlpito. Después un rayoimpacta en la torre poniente.

Urgidas de reparar la vieja pa-rroquia feligresas piden en 1922ayuda económica a Edward L. Do-heny. El magnate de la Huasteca Pe-troleum Company accede. Pero lariqueza extraída de nuestro subsue-lo le permite rebasar el simple re-medio de los estropicios.

Instruido por Doheny, EzequielOrdóñez dirige los trabajos que do-tan al templo de cúpula, vitrales,candiles de cristal, decoraciones in-tramuros en azul y oro, altar mayorde mármol italiano, así como otroscomplementos. Adentro se instalanpisos de granito que lucen crucesgamadas en los pasillos. El proyectofinalizó hacia 1931, develándose alu-siva placa.

Al transcurrir la posterior déca-da aparecen verdaderos clásicos dela historiografía tamaulipeca. Sor-prende que ninguno dedique ni bre-ves palabras al símbolo de marras.Cabe desprender que ello acontecie-ra por la entonces cercana II Gue-rra Mundial. Sin embargo, conclui-da esta última con la derrota con-tundente del EjeBerlín-Roma-Tokio, persiste el si-lencio. Aún textos impresos en fe-chas menos remotas son del todoomisos.

(Con permiso del autor, según fue-ra publicado en La Razón, Tampico,México)

COLUMNA

Tamaulipas conservacruces gamadas

Nota del Editor: Este es el primerode dos artículos sobre los cruces gama-das en Tamaulipas durante el SigloXX.

POR RAÚL SINENCIO CHÁVEZESPECIAL PARA TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

Donald Trump, aspirantea candidato presidencial porel Partido Republicano, pasóalrededor de tres horas visi-tando Laredo el jueves, en-cabezando dos breves confe-rencias de prensa donde ha-bló acerca de losinmigrantes indocumenta-dos viviendo en EstadosUnidos y la necesidad de laseguridad fronteriza para elpaís.

La visita del pre-candida-to fue planeada al inicio co-mo una reunión con oficia-les policíacos locales y fede-rales, pero agentes de lapatrulla fronteriza cancela-ron los planes de acompa-ñarlo antes de su arribo.

Él previamente tenía pro-gramado reunirse con elsindicato local de la PatrullaFronteriza y otras entidadespolicíacas tales como Adua-nas y Protección Fronterizade EU, Inmigración y Adua-nas, Departamento de Poli-cía de Laredo, Agencia Anti-drogas de EU y el Buró deAlcohol, Tabaco y Armas yExplosivos.

ItinerarioTrump aterrizó en el Ae-

ropuerto Internacional deLaredo antes de lo progra-mado el jueves, se reuniócon el Alcalde de Laredo Pe-te Saenz y otros oficiales lo-cales.

Seguidores y manifestan-tes contra la campaña deTrump intentaron verlo unpoco al colocarse detrás dela pista privada del aero-puerto, conforme descendíade su jet privado.

Trump, mejor conocidocomo un billonario, magna-te de bienes raíces y perso-nalidad de la televisión an-tes de su campaña en buscade la candidatura presiden-cia, un día antes expresó suemoción por su visita a La-redo, a través de Twitter.

Dijo que sintió “tal calu-rosa bienvenida” de todoslos que conoció a su arribo.

“Al aterrizar, muchas per-sonas en el aeropuerto esta-ban ondeando banderas deEstados Unidos y todos ellosestaban a favor de Trump yde lo que estoy haciendo”,dijo Trump.

El candidato dijo que novio a ningún oponente con-tra su campaña al momentode aterrizar.

MuroTrump dijo que fue invi-

tado a visitar Laredo por-que agentes de patrullafronteriza están teniendoproblemas con sus trabajos.

De acuerdo con Trump,sus planes de acompaña-miento fueron canceladosen el último minuto por ór-denes de Washington D.C.

“La Patrulla Fronterizame invitó, después cancela-ron porque francamente noquieren involucrarse”, dijoTrump. “La razón por laque me invitaron fue debidoal gran problema y al grancrimen”.

Durante una conferenciade prensa en el Puente delComercio Mundial, Trumpdijo que hay “un gran peli-gro en la frontera con ilega-les entrando”. Dijo que losproblemas de crimen y se-guridad a lo largo de lafrontera se resolverían si losagentes de patrulla fronteri-za se les permitieran hacersu trabajo.

El aspirante a candidatodijo que también escuchóevidencia de México envian-do criminales a través de la

frontera, y que otras perso-nas escucharon la mismaevidencia.

Durante la conferencia deprensa, no dijo o proporcio-nó a los medios la evidenciaespecífica que escuchó.

“Les hemos mostrado laevidencia”, dijo, a pesar deno señalar dónde o cómo.

Trump dijo que construirun muro a lo largo de algu-nas secciones de la fronteraentre Estados Unidos y Mé-xico es necesario. No men-cionó si siente que el muroes necesario en Laredo.

EncuestasEl jueves, Trump dijo que

lidera las encuestas entrelos aspirantes a ser candida-tos del Partido Republicanoe incluso cuenta con másvotantes hispanos que loapoyan.

De acuerdo con una en-cuesta de Washington Post-ABC News de la semana pa-sada, Trump fue el favoritocon el 24 por ciento de losrepublicanos registrados yde los independientes contendencias republicanas.

La semana pasada, OneAmerica News Networktambién reveló los resulta-dos de Republican and De-mocratic Presidential Po-lling Results for Nevada

— dos certámenes de belle-za de los que Trump es co-propietario — debido a losseñalamientos de Trump.Posteriormente Trump pre-sentó una demanda contraUnivision por daños, por lacantidad de 500 millones dedólares.

Otras compañías que hanconcluido lazos con las em-presas de Trump desde suanuncio de campaña inclu-yen a Macy’s y NBC Univer-sal.

Aún así, Trump tieneconfianza en que obtendrála nominación del GOP.

“Estoy en primer lugarpor mucho, parece”, dijoTrump el jueves. “Deseo co-rrer como Republicano.Creo que obtendré la nomi-nación. Lo veremos pronto”.

Dijo que parte de su pla-taforma de campaña es “tra-er de regreso empleos desdeChina y Japón y de cual-quier otro país que nos estámatando”. Dijo que los his-panos van a obtener esosempleos.

Sin embargo, su priori-dad como un pre-candidatopresidencial es fortalecer lasfronteras de EU.

“Después de eso, tendre-mos mucho tiempo para ha-blar acerca de eso (inmi-grantes indocumentadosquienes viven en los EU)”,dijo Trump.

2016, realizadas por GravisMarketing.

Estos resultados mues-tran que Trump tiene unaventaja general de 27.7 porciento. Él recibió 31.4 porciento del apoyo de hispa-nos en las encuestas, seña-lan los resultados.

Trump señaló estos nú-meros orgullosamente, peroevitó prolongar comentariosacerca de la impresión quecausaron sus comentariosen el anuncio de campaña,el 16 de junio, a la izquierdade hispanos.

El discurso de anuncioincluyó comentarios alta-mente provocativos acercade los mexicanos que emi-gran a Estados Unidos.

“Cuando México envía asu gente, no envían a losmejores”, dijo Trump elmes pasado… “Están en-viando a personas que tie-nen muchos problemas, ytraen sus problemas consi-go. Traen drogas. Traen cri-men. Traen violadores. Y al-gunos, asumo, son buenaspersonas”.

Cuando se el preguntó sise disculparía, Trump dijoque los hispanos no fueroninsultados por sus comenta-rios “porque la prensa ma-linterpretó mis palabras”.

El mes pasado, Univisiondijo que no transmitiríaMiss USA y Miss Universe

DONALD J. TRUMP RECORRIÓ LAREDO EL JUEVES

El aspirante a Candidato Presidencial por el Partido Republicano, Donald J. Trump, se dirige a los medios de comunicación, el jueves por latarde en Paseo Real, en Laredo.

Foto por Danny Zaragoza | Laredo Morning Times

Visita de tres horasHabló sobre seguridad fronteriza e impacto en votantes

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PÁGINA 6A Zfrontera SÁBADO 25 DE JULIO DE 2015

SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2015 Nation THE ZAPATA TIMES 7A

HUNTINGTON BEACH,Calif. — The term “sanctuarycity” has become a rallyingcry for conservative Republi-cans seeking stiffer immigra-tion laws. They characterizesuch places as havens wherethose in the country illegallyare protected from immigra-tion authorities.

The reality behind thephrase is that while some ci-ties actively thumb theirnoses at federal immigrationpolicies, many refuse to en-force them not because of anymoral obligation to immi-grants; they fear lawsuits.

Since the fatal shooting ofKathryn Steinle on a SanFrancisco pier allegedly byan immigrant who was re-leased from jail even thoughU.S. Immigration and Cus-toms Enforcement sought todeport him for a sixth time,the debate over how to han-dle cities and counties thatrefuse to cooperate with im-migration authorities hasreached a feverish pitch.

On Thursday, House Re-publicans passed a bill aimedat punishing cities that refuseto share information withfederal immigration author-ities, which the White Housethreatened to veto. While thebill doesn’t specifically ad-dress the release of immi-grants sought by federal au-thorities for deportation, theRepublicans are pitching oth-er legislation to do so.

The vote came after presi-dential hopeful DonaldTrump attacked illegal immi-gration on the campaigntrail.

While notably liberal SanFrancisco has openly de-clared itself a haven for allimmigrants regardless oftheir legal status, some of thecities and counties that havestopped detaining immi-grants for ICE are politicallyconservative and are not try-ing to shield residents fromdeportation.

The city of HuntingtonBeach, California, which ispredominantly white and Re-publican, stopped honoringthe hold requests last sum-

mer for purely legal reasons.A federal court ruling in Ore-gon said so-called immigra-tion detainers, which ask lo-cal police to hold immigrantssuspected of living in the U.S.illegally for up to 48 hours,were not sufficient reason tokeep someone in jail.

“We don’t have any policyor anything that prohibitsour folks from interactingwith ICE. We just follow thelaw,” said Police Chief RobertHandy, adding his officersdon’t generally ask about im-migration status because itdoesn’t relate to their cases,not because they’re protect-ing anyone. “If they go get awarrant, we’ll hold them inour jail. If they ask us to gohelp for a search warrant ona drug house, we’re going tohelp them.”

San Francisco declared it-self a sanctuary city morethan two decades ago andcontinues to advertise itselfas a place of refuge for immi-grants. In 1989, the citypassed an ordinance banningofficials from enforcing immi-gration laws or asking aboutimmigration status, unless re-quired by law or court order.In 2009, it began issuing mu-nicipal identification cardsthat can be used to obtain apublic library card and signup for parks programs.

Today, San Francisco isone of more than 200 jurisdic-tions that have stopped fullyhonoring detainers.

The localities span a broadspectrum on how far they goto welcome immigrants orwhether they’re trying to as-sist them at all. A big distinc-tion is the reasoning behindlocal detainer policies. Placeslike Cook County, Illinois, andSanta Clara County, Califor-nia, are trying to cultivatetrust of police in immigrantcommunities. Others, such asSan Bernardino and River-side counties in California,cite fear of getting sued.

“When you use the termsanctuary city, it implies apolicy decision that’s beenmade about how the cityshould engage with the immi-grant community, and mostof the detainer policies wereadopted to address the legal

concerns,” said Jennie Pas-quarella, a staff attorney withthe American Civil LibertiesUnion of Southern California.

Mark Krikorian, executivedirector of the anti-illegal im-migration Center for Immi-gration Cities, acknowledgedthe difference but said the neteffect was similar whether acity wanted to work with ICEor not.

“Some may cooperate herebut not there. Some maycooperate on certain mattersbut not other matters. Butany jurisdiction that does notcooperate fully with federalimmigration authoritiesseems to me qualifies as asanctuary city,” he said.

Last year, a spate of local-ities that had long workedclosely with ICE stopped hon-oring detainers in response tothe ruling in Oregon. In re-sponse, immigration author-ities said they would startasking police to simply notifythem when a suspected ille-gal immigrant is about to getreleased — not necessarilydetain them. They believe thenew approach, combinedwith a focus on more seriousoffenders, will lead to bettercollaboration from local lawenforcement.

In populous Southern Cali-fornia, immigration agentshave tended to work moreclosely with sheriff ’s depart-ments that run the countyjails, where most serious of-fenders wind up. Smaller cityjails like the one in Hunting-ton Beach usually serve asshort-term holding centersfor misdemeanor arrests.

In the Orange County jail,deputies regularly interviewimmigrants about their legalstatus as part of a close col-laboration with federal immi-gration agents. They tellthem when someone they’veflagged for possible deporta-tion is due to be released. Butthe agency doesn’t hold peo-ple on the detainers due to le-gal concerns, said Steve Kea,assistant sheriff of custodyoperations.

“We are not a ‘sanctuary’jurisdiction by any existingdefinition,” said OrangeCounty undersheriff JohnScott.

Some ‘sanctuary cities’fear lawsuits

By AMY TAXINASSOCIATED PRESS

DESERT CENTER, Calif. — A 50mile-stretch of a vital California in-terstate linking Los Angeles andPhoenix partially reopened Fridayafter flash flooding damaged severalbridges last weekend.

Traffic began moving again on thedesert stretch of Interstate 10 wherea surge of storm water barrelingdown a gully Sunday carved awaythe soil under concrete bridge sup-ports. The eastbound span buckledinto the gully and a driver was seri-ously injured.

The reopening is welcome newsfor travelers and truckers, but trafficbottlenecks will remain.

The California Department ofTransportation said delays as long ashalf an hour can be expected at peaktravel times, including Friday eve-nings and late Sunday afternoons.

Construction crews laboredaround the clock to meet an aggres-sive timetable for shoring up thewestbound span over Tex Wash. Oneof its two lanes is being used for traf-fic heading toward Arizona until theeastbound span is rebuilt.

The workers have focused on pour-ing concrete and placing new floodprotection boulders.

The damaged bridges crossed gul-lies that became swollen with rainwhen an unusually strong summerstorm dumped up to 7 inches in thearea near Desert Center, about 50miles west of California’s borderwith Arizona.

On the approach to Tex Wash, traf-fic heading east is using a specially

laid road across the median to con-nect to the westbound interstate. Onthe other side of the bridge, the traf-fic takes another connector back toeastbound lanes.

Repairs to the eastbound span willtake longer.

Since Sunday, traffic has beenforced to take a diversion of severalhours along smaller desert high-ways. Caltrans closed about 50 milesof interstate west of Tex Wash, to theoutskirts of Indio, as inspectorschecked the safety of other bridges.They found that bridges over threeother washes also suffered lessererosion damage.

The resulting detour has createdmajor headaches for people who relyon Interstate 10, but it has benefitedtowns along Interstate 8 to the south.Thousands more visitors havepassed through Yuma, Arizona, anormally sleepy city along the high-way to San Diego.

Caltrans was able to do the re-pairs quickly thanks to a $4.9 millionemergency contract with a privateconstruction firm — and a little helpfrom the federal government.

On Wednesday, Lt. Gov. GavinNewsom declared a state of emergen-cy in six counties affected by thestorms that were spawned by theremnants of a tropical storm thatslid north from the coast of Baja Cal-ifornia. With that declaration, theU.S. Department of Transportationoffered California $2 million inemergency funds.

Caltrans has not said how much itprojects the total repair and recon-struction costs will be.

A work crew works on fixing the crossover to allow traffic to resume on Interstate 10 nearDesert Center, California, on Friday. A 50 mile-stretch of a vital California interstate linkingLos Angeles and Phoenix partially reopened Friday after flash flooding damaged severalbridges last weekend. The California Department of Transportation said delays as long as halfan hour can be expected at peak travel times, including Friday evenings and late Sunday af-ternoons.

Photo by Patrick Breen/The Arizona Republic | AP

Road partially reopensASSOCIATED PRESS

8A THE ZAPATA TIMES International SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2015

WASHINGTON — Anew letter by intelligenceinvestigators to the JusticeDepartment says secretgovernment informationmay have been compro-mised in Hillary RodhamClinton’s private server, un-derscoring an inescapablereality for her presidentialcampaign: Email is forever.

Clinton, the former sec-retary of state and now theleading Democratic presi-dential candidate, wants tofocus on the economic is-sues she and her team be-lieve will drive the nextelection. But they remainunable to fully escape theswirling questions sur-rounding her decision torun her State Departmentcorrespondence through anunsecured system set up ather New York home.

The inspector general ofthe U.S. intelligence com-munity recently alerted theJustice Department to the

potential compromise ofclassified information aris-ing from Clinton’s server.The IG also sent a memo tomembers of Congress thathe had identified “poten-tially hundreds of classifiedemails” among the 30,000that Clinton had providedto the State Department —a concern the office said itraised with FBI counterin-telligence officials.

Though the probe is notcriminal and does not spe-cifically target Clinton, thelatest steps by governmentinvestigators only fuels thepartisan furor surroundingthe 55,000 pages of emailsalready under review bythe State Department.

For Clinton, the newsamounted to a major dis-traction on a day whenshe’d hoped to focus on un-veiling a new set of eco-nomic policies. Instead, sheopened her New York Cityspeech by addressing thecontroversy, decrying somereports as inaccurate.

Some media initially re-

ported that Justice Depart-ment had been asked toconsider a criminal investi-gation into whether shemishandled her emails.

“We are all accountableto the American people toget the facts right, and Iwill do my part but I’m al-so going to stay focused onthe issues,” she said.

It was not immediatelyclear whether the JusticeDepartment would investi-

gate the potential compro-mise highlighted by the in-telligence inspector gener-al, I. Charles McCullough.His letter didn’t suggestany wrongdoing by Clin-ton, according to U.S. offi-cials speaking on the condi-tion of anonymity becausethey were not authorized todiscuss the referral.

But the inspector gener-al’s office said it was con-cerned that “these emails

exist on at least one privateserver and thumb drivewith classified informationand those are not in thegovernment’s possession,”said Andrea Williams, aspokeswoman for McCul-lough. None of the emailswere marked as classifiedat the time they were sentor received, but someshould have been handledas such and sent on a se-cure computer network,said the letter sent to con-gressional oversight com-mittees.

Clinton has maintainedthat she never sent classi-fied information on herpersonal email account,which she said in Marchshe used as a matter of con-venience to limit her num-ber of electronic devices.

The State Departmenthas made public some ofthe emails involving Clin-ton, and is under court or-der to make regular fur-ther releases of such corre-spondence.

The aim is for the de-

partment to unveil all of55,000 pages of the emailsshe turned over by Jan. 29,2016. But a federal judgethis month chastised thedepartment for moving tooslowly in providing The As-sociated Press with thou-sands of emails submittedthrough the Freedom of In-formation Act.

Republicans are pushingClinton to turn over herserver to a third party for aforensic evaluation.

“Her poor judgment hasundermined our nationalsecurity, and it is time forher to finally do the rightthing,” said House SpeakerJohn Boehner.

Clinton spokesman NickMerill said she had fol-lowed “appropriate practic-es in dealing with classifiedmaterials.”

But there’s little disputeamong intelligence officialsthat Clinton should havebeen more careful with herinformation — though herbehavior was likely notcriminal.

New inquiry into Clinton emails fuels questions

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton speaks Friday at theNew York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Photo by Mary Altaffer | AP

By LISA LERER AND ERIC TUCKERASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — In astunning, public attack onhis own party leader, Re-publican Sen. Ted Cruz ac-cused Majority LeaderMitch McConnell of lying,and said he was no betterthan his Democratic prede-cessor and couldn’t betrusted.

Cruz, a Texan who isrunning for president butranks low in early polling,delivered the broadside in aspeech on the Senate floorFriday, an extraordinarydeparture from the normsof Senate behavior that de-mand courtesy and respect.

“Not only what he toldevery Republican senator,but what he told the pressover and over and overagain, was a simple lie,”Cruz said.

At issue were assurancesCruz claimed McConnell,

R-Ky., had given that therewas no deal to allow a voteto renew the federal Ex-port-Import Bank — a lit-tle-known federal agencythat has become a rallyingcry for conservatives. Cruzrose to deliver his remarksmoments after McConnellhad lined up a vote on theExport-Import Bank forcoming days.

“It saddens me to saythis. I sat in my office, Itold my staff the majorityleader looked me in the eyeand looked 54 Republicansin the eye. I cannot believehe would tell a flat-out lie,”Cruz said.

“We now know thatwhen the majority leaderlooks us in the eyes andmakes an explicit commit-ment that he is willing tosay things that he knowsare false.”

The majority leader wasnot on the Senate floorwhen Cruz issued his at-tack, and ignored reporters

who tried to ask him aboutit in the Capitol’s hallways.A spokesman said McCon-nell would have no re-sponse.

McConnell has long indi-

cated he would allow a voteon the Export-Import Bankas an amendment on thehighway bill, which is thecourse he’s now following.Senate supporters of the

Export-Import Bank havesaid they got that commit-ment from McConnell inthe course of debate on aseparate trade bill, thoughthere’s been some disputeabout what precisely wasagreed to.

No senator rose to de-fend McConnell on thefloor, as some Republicanssought to avoid engaging inthe dispute and giving Cruzstill more attention. Ques-tioned by reporters later,Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah,challenged Cruz’s criticismof McConnell, telling re-porters, “I think it’s wrongto disclose private informa-tion, especially when thedisclosure is not accurate.”

“Keep in mind, he’s run-ning for president,” Hatchadded. “People who run forpresident do some very in-teresting things.”

McConnell and Cruzhave never had a thrivingrelationship. The new ma-jority leader’s allies earlier

this year derided Cruz’sSenate record, complainingthat he often speaks outbut has missed importantdevelopments. After com-plaining about PresidentBarack Obama’s nomina-tion of Loretta Lynch as at-torney general, for exam-ple, Cruz skipped the finalvote on her confirmation.

Some close to McConnellcall Cruz “Mr. 1 percent,”referring to his share ofsupport in the crowdedrace for the GOP presiden-tial nomination. Recentpolls have him a few pointshigher among more than adozen contenders.

Cruz, for his part, hasgrown increasingly outspo-ken about his contempt forMcConnell and other Re-publicans, using his newlypublished book, “A Timefor Truth,” to attack hiscolleagues on variousfronts and accuse them offailing to stand up for theirprinciples.

Ted Cruz accuses leader Mitch McConnell of lying

Republican Presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaksduring a demonstration Thursday.

Photo by Luis M. Alvarez | AP

By ERICA WERNER AND LAURIE KELLMAN

ASSOCIATED PRESS

SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2015 THE ZAPATA TIMES 9A

10A THE ZAPATA TIMES International SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2015

ATHENS, Greece —Greece on Friday invitedthe International MonetaryFund to participate in itsnegotiations with Europeancreditors over a vital thirdbailout — talks that are ex-pected to start next week af-ter a few days’ delay andmust conclude beforeGreece faces another big re-payment Aug. 20.

Negotiators are now ex-pected to arrive in Athensover the weekend with talksprobably starting Monday,Greek officials said.

Athens is looking to se-cure yet another bailout —the third since its financesimploded in 2009 — worth85 billion euros ($93 billion)over three years. Withoutthe money, the countryfaces imminent bankruptcyand a probable exit from theshared euro currency.

The letter to the IMF,signed by Finance MinisterEuclid Tsakalotos, formallyrequests a new bailout fromthe fund. That is in accord-ance with the preliminarythird bailout agreementGreece struck with its Euro-pean partners on July 12,which called for IMF financ-ing and monitoring forGreece from March 2016 —when current IMF financ-ing ends.

The letter said Athens be-lieves it will take “severalquarters” before the Greekeconomy faces up to itschallenges “and returns to avigorous and sustainablepath to growth with fair-ness and social inclusion.”

“We look forward to con-tinued cooperation with theFund,” it added.

Greek governmentspokeswoman Olga Gerova-sili said the final third bail-out agreement will bebrought to Greece’s parlia-ment for approval on Aug.18.

“Clearly, the negotiationswill be constant until then,”she said Friday.

Greece has a debt repay-ment of around 3.2 billion

euros ($3.5 billion) to the Eu-ropean Central Bank onAug. 20.

Greece’s five-year finan-cial crisis took a dramaticturn for the worse this sum-mer, after talks between itsradical left-led governmentelected in January and thecountry’s creditors nearlycollapsed amid sharp dis-agreements over the re-forms required in return forthe rescue loans. The newbailout was only possible af-ter Prime Minister AlexisTsipras made a sharp U-turn from years of vehe-mently opposing furthercutbacks.

Since its first bailout in2010, Greece’s economy hasshrunk by a quarter, whileunemployment has rocketedto record peacetime highsand incomes have shrunkan average of 40 percent.Much of the pain has beenattributed to the incomecuts and tax hikes demand-ed by creditors.

It’s unclear to what ex-tent IMF participation com-plicates the latest bailouttalks. The fund has beencritical of many of the de-mands insisted upon byGreece’s European creditorsbut it also says Greeceneeds deep, meaningful debtrelief — something thatGermany and other Euro-pean nations are dead setagainst.

Gerovasili said the IMFposition on Greece’s crip-pling debt load — the high-est in the 19-country euro-zone — “is clearly some-thing we agree with.”

But she added the fund

“is tougher in negotiations,with harsher terms, and isnot very agreeable to us as anegotiator.”

Gerovasili dismissed re-ports that security concernsdelayed the talks Friday,blaming “technical issues”instead.

“Greece is a safe coun-try,” Gerovasili said. “Bothsides are trying to expeditethe start of talks.”

The final hurdle Greecehad to clear before talkscould restart came earlyThursday when Greek law-makers approved creditor-demanded judicial andbanking reforms. A weekearlier, parliament approvednew laws introducing steepsales tax increases. In spiteof a revolt from his own Syr-iza party, Tsipras managedto get both reforms passedwith the help of pro-Euro-pean opposition parties.

Top Greek banking andfinance ministry officialsmet with Greek businessleaders Friday to discussways of easing financialtransactions, which are be-ing restricted by the capitalcontrols introduced lastmonth.

Banks reopened Mondayafter being closed for morethan three weeks, albeit forlimited transactions. Dailywithdrawals at ATMs arestill limited to 60 euros ($65)per account holder, and theAthens Stock Exchange hasbeen closed indefinitely.

On Friday, authoritieseased the restrictions slight-ly, allowing Greeks to takeup to 2,000 euros ($2,200) orthe equivalent in foreigncurrency out of the countryper trip.

“With time, the situationis returning to normal. Weaim to have things return tothe way they were before,”Deputy Finance MinisterDimitris Mardas said.

Small Business Associ-ation Chairman GiorgosKavvathas said the dailylimit for businesses to trans-fer money abroad has beenraised to 100,000 euros($155,080) but Greek author-ities are vetting those mon-ey transfers.

Bailout talks near startBy MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS AND

NICHOLAS PAPHITISASSOCIATED PRESS

Greece’s Prime Minister AlexisTsipras laughs at a meeting withthe Greek president and otherpolitical party leaders Friday.

Photo by Thanassis Stavrakis | AP

NAIROBI, Kenya — Ful-filling the hopes of millionsof Kenyans, Barack Obamareturned to his father’shomeland Friday for thefirst time as U.S. president,a long sought visit by acountry that considers hima local son.

The president spent theevening reuniting with hisKenyan family, includinghis elderly step-grandmoth-er who made the trip to thecapital of Nairobi from herrural village. U.S. and Ken-yan flags lined the mainroad from Nairobi’s air-port, and billboards herald-ing Obama’s trip dotted thecity.

“I don’t think that Ken-yans think of Obama asAfrican-American. Theythink of him as Kenyan-American,” said EJ Hogen-doorn, deputy program di-rector for Africa at the In-ternational Crisis Group.

Obama’s link to Kenyais a father he barely knew,but whose influence cannonetheless be seen in hisson’s presidency.

Obama has spoken can-didly about growing upwithout his Kenyan-bornfather and feeling “theweight of that absence.” AWhite House initiative tosupport young men of col-or who face similar cir-cumstances has become aproject dear to Obama, onehe plans to continue afterleaving the White House.

In Africa, Obama hasused his late father’s strug-gle to overcome govern-ment corruption as a wayto push leaders to strength-en democracies. He’s ex-pected to make good gov-ernance and democracy-building a centerpiece ofhis two days of meetingsand speeches in Nairobi, aswell as a stop next week inEthiopia.

“In my father’s life, itwas partly tribalism andpatronage and nepotism inan independent Kenya thatfor a long stretch derailedhis career,” Obama said

during a 2009 trip to Gha-na, his first visit to Africaas president. “We knowthat this kind of corruptionis still a daily fact of life forfar too many.”

The president’s father,Barack Obama, Sr., leftKenya as a young man tostudy at the University ofHawaii. There, he metStanley Ann Dunham, awhite woman from Kansas.They would soon marryand have a son, who wasnamed after his father.

The elder Obama leftHawaii when he son wasjust two years old, first tocontinue his studies atHarvard, then to return toKenya. The future presi-dent and his father wouldsee each other just oncemore, when the son was 10years old. Obama’s fatherdied in a car crash in 1982,at age 46.

“I didn’t have a dad inthe house,” Obama saidlast year during a WhiteHouse event for My Broth-er’s Keeper, his initiativefor young men. “I was an-gry about it, even though Ididn’t necessarily realize itat the time.”

Obama’s first trip toKenya nearly 30 years agowas a quest to fill in thegaps in the story of his fa-ther’s life. In his memoir“Dreams From My Father,”Obama wrote that at thetime of his death, “my fa-ther remained a mystery tome, both more and lessthan a man.”

What Obama uncoveredwas a portrait of a talented,

but troubled man. An econ-omist for the Kenyan gov-ernment, the senior Oba-ma clashed with then-Pres-ident Jomo Kenyatta overtribal divisions and allega-tions of corruption. He wasultimately fired by thepresident, sending him intoa tailspin of financial prob-lems and heavy drinking.

The Kenyan leader Oba-ma will meet with thisweekend, Uhuru Kenyatta,is the son of the presidenthis father confronted dec-ades ago.

Obama met most of hisKenyan family for the firsttime on that initial trip tohis father’s home country.As he stepped off Air ForceOne Friday, he was greetedby half-sister Auma Oba-ma, pulling her into awarm embrace. The sib-lings then joined aboutthree dozen family mem-bers at a restaurant at thepresident’s hotel for a pri-vate dinner.

Logistical constraintsand security precautionsprevented Obama from vis-iting Kogelo, the villagewhere his father lived andis buried, on this trip.

Despite the intense focuson the American leader’slocal roots, the WhiteHouse has cast the trip asone focused on the relation-ship between the U.S. andKenya, not the presidentand his family. Officials sayObama’s agenda is heavilyfocused on trade and eco-nomic issues, as well as se-curity and counterterror-ism cooperation.

Obama goes to Kenya

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, right, watches as PresidentBarack Obama, center, hugs his half-sister Auma Obama, Friday.

Photo by Evan Vucci | AP

By JULIE PACEASSOCIATED PRESS

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SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2015 THE ZAPATA TIMES 11A

NEW YORK — Anthemis buying rival Cigna for$48 billion in a deal thatwould create the nation’slargest health insurer byenrollment, covering about53 million U.S patients.

In just three weeks,starting with Aetna’s $35billion bid for HumanaInc. on July 3, the land-scape of U.S. health carehas been altered in abuyout frenzy that couldtransform five massiveU.S. health companies intojust three, including Unit-edHealth Group.

Larger insurers havenegotiating power tosqueeze better rates fromdrug companies andhealth care providers. Butthe wave of consolidationcould lead to fewer choicesfor consumers in certainmarkets. Regulators scruti-nizing the two mega-dealswill be trying to assesswhether these combinedcompanies would have so

much power that theycould dominate marketsand drive already highhealth-care costs evenhigher.

Employer-sponsoredhealth insurance is grow-ing slowly and with the re-cent overhaul of the na-tion’s health care system,providers are jostling forthe largest share of themillions of people whohave signed up.

The deal announced Fri-day is valued at $54.2 bil-lion including debt. Share-holders of Cigna, based inBloomfield, Connecticut,will receive $103.40 pershare in cash and 0.5152shares of Anthem stock foreach of their shares. Thecompanies put the totalvalue at $188 per share.

Anthem CEO JosephSwedish said during a tele-conference Friday that thecombined company would“advance affordability,choice, access and quality.”

But the merger’s impactwill take time to be felt byconsumers, because in-surers have already final-

ized most of their plans forcoverage that starts inJanuary.

For now, industry ex-perts say there is relative-ly little overlap betweenthe two companies at thelocal level, where healthcare costs are set.

“What they do is createmore capable organiza-tions that can spread fixedcosts across a wider groupof people and ultimately, ifthey can do that, they canreally improve healthcare,” said Dan Mendel-son, CEO of AvelereHealth consultants. “Andthe reason why it doesn’thurt things competitivelyis because at the local mar-ket you’re not creatingconsolidation to a prob-lematic extent.”

But some lawmakerssaid the proposed mergersin health insurance raiseserious consumer con-cerns, and urged an exten-sive review by regulators.

“These mergers must beseriously scrutinized toensure that consumersand health care providers

are protected from mega-insurer market powerabuse,” said Sen. RichardBlumenthal, D-Conn.

Anthem’s combinationwith Cigna would create amuch broader base overwhich to spread costs andexpenses, and the technol-ogy investments it makeswould be extended overthe industry’s biggest cus-tomer pool.

Data and technology areplaying a growing role inmonitoring patients andcare. At a very basic level,that means things liketracking whether patientsare keeping up with theirimmunizations.

Insurers also are tryingto give consumers betterinformation on the costand quality of the carethey buy, based on theircoverage. Deductibles andother out-of-pocket costshave been rising for years.That leaves a growingnumber of consumers withbigger bills to pay beforemost of their insurancecoverage starts, so it canencourage more to shop

around.Anthem has said that a

tie-up with Cigna will helpbuild their company’sMedicare Advantage en-rollment in states like Tex-as and Florida. MedicareAdvantage plans are pri-vately run, fast-growingversions of the federally-funded program for peopleover age 65 and the dis-abled.

Anthem, based in Indi-anapolis, is currently thenation’s second-largesthealth insurer, while Cig-na ranks fourth in termsof enrollment. Anthem Inc.specializes in selling indi-vidual coverage and insur-ance to workers of smallbusinesses. It also hasgrown its governmentbusiness, which includesMedicare, Medicaid andcoverage of federal em-ployees.

Health insurance is Cig-na Corp.’s main business,but it also sells group dis-ability and life coverage inthe U.S., and it has a grow-ing international segmentthat Anthem lacks. Much

of Cigna’s health insur-ance business involvescoverage where the em-ployer pays the claims andthen hires Cigna to admin-ister the plan.

The deal is targeted toclose in the second half of2016. Cigna stockholdersstill need to approve theagreement, and Anthemshareholders need to ap-prove the issuance ofshares in the transaction.

Anthem stockholderswill own about 67 percentof the combined company,with Cigna shareholdersowning approximately 33percent.

The Anthem board willexpand to 14 members.Cigna’s President and CEODavid Cordani and four in-dependent directors fromCigna’s current board willjoin the nine currentmembers of Anthem’sboard.

Cordani will serve aspresident and chief operat-ing officer of the combinedcompany, with Anthem’sSwedish as chairman andCEO.

Mega-health deals bloom in July with $48M bidBy TOM MURPHY AND MICHELLE

CHAPMAN AND MATTHEW PERRONEASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The U.S.housing market has sizzled thissummer, lifting expectations thathome sales will finally help drivean economic expansion now in itsseventh year.

Or will it?Signs are emerging that hous-

ing’s momentum may be destinedto falter in coming months. Ana-lysts note that some of the keyfoundations needed to sustain abrisk pace of home-buying in thelong run appear to be missing.

The U.S. economy had only justbegun to derive strength fromhousing for the first time sincethe Great Recession began in2007. If home sales flag, thatstrength would fizzle.

The main problem is also thesimplest: There just aren’t enoughhomes available. Robust demandhas failed to draw many sellersinto the market. And few in theindustry foresee a flurry of homelistings arriving soon.

Other pressures will also likelyslow sales. Steadily rising homeprices can put ownership out ofreach for some. What’s more,builders are increasingly focusedon apartment construction ratherthan single-family homes.

And then there are mortgagerates, which have crept up fromrecent lows and made it incre-mentally harder for some would-be buyers already struggling to af-ford a purchase. Some buyers arerushing to finalize deals for fearthat rates will keep rising — atrend that could depress demandlater this year.

“What we fear is next is if in-terest rates rise and prices rise,”said Deborah Heffernan, a Bos-ton-area broker. “That combina-tion will definitely eliminate peo-ple from the market.”

Early this spring, buyers leapt

back into the market. Mortgagerates were just slightly abovetheir 2012 lows, and nearly twoyears of solid job growth had gen-erated millions of new paychecks.

Sales of existing homes havesurged 9.6 percent in the past 12months, according to the NationalAssociation of Realtors. In June,they hit an annual rate of 5.49 mil-lion, a pace last achieved beforethe recession began. And sales ofnew homes have jumped 21 per-cent through the first half of 2015,the government reported Friday.

But an unusual trend has takenhold: Stronger home sales haveyet to motivate many people toput their homes on the market.Listings for existing homes havebarely edged up in the past year.And the pace of home building re-mains subpar compared with pre-vious economic expansions.

With buyer demand outstrip-ping supply, the national mediansales price for homes last monthreached $236,400, the highest everrecorded, the Realtors said.

For many would-be buyers,those higher prices are managea-ble if mortgage rates remain ul-tra-low. In June, the average 30-year fixed mortgage was 3.8 per-cent. The average has sincetopped 4 percent as the FederalReserve has moved toward raisinga key interest rate from its near-zero level. When the Fed last pre-pared to curtail its stimulus ef-forts in 2013, rates spiked andhome sales sank.

Though only modestly up, thehigher mortgage rates are havinga dampening effect, according anindex of buyer demand releasedThursday by the national real es-tate brokerage Redfin. It expects aslowdown in the growth of salesand prices as buyers pursue lessexpensive homes.

“Interest rates are having an ef-fect,” said Nela Richardson, chiefeconomist at Redfin. “It’s making

buyers a bit more conservative.”In some key markets, prices

have begun to stagnate as buyersseem to be retreating. A majorityof homes in Chicago, Phoenix, LosAngeles, New York and Washing-ton, D.C., either lost value or basi-cally flat-lined during May, accord-ing to a study by Weiss Residen-tial Research.

Weiss’ analysis points to a con-tributing factor for the shortage ofavailable homes: Many homeown-ers can’t find affordable homesthemselves and so can’t list theirown properties for sale.

“The reason why demand ishigh relative to supply is thathomeowners are having a hardtime moving up,” said AllanWeiss, founder of Weiss Residen-tial Research. “There is gridlock.”

In addition, many Americansremain squeezed by sluggish payraises and have chosen to contin-ue to rent. And some who do wantto buy are unmoved by the limit-ed selection and have decided towait, said Tony Smith, a real es-tate broker in Charlotte, NorthCarolina.

“Buyers are leaving the marketbecause they don’t have anythingto buy,” Smith said. “Some ofthem get frustrated and sign an-other lease.”

Indeed, home ownership is de-clining, and renting has surged.Fewer than 64 percent of Ameri-cans own homes, the lowest levelsince 1989, according to the Cen-sus Bureau. The share of peopleunder age 35 who own hasdropped to around 35 percentfrom a high of 44 percent in 2004.

Marina Rodriguez, a 26 year-olddental hygienist, recently signed alease on a one-bedroom apartmentin suburban Chicago.

“The idea of buying is a littlescary — it’s a huge financial obli-gation,” she said. “I would ratherrent and travel and be year-to-yearthen be locked down.”

Housing market may falterBy JOSH BOAK

ASSOCIATED PRESS

DETROIT — Fiat Chryslerhas decided to recall about 1.4million cars and trucks in theU.S. just days after two hackersdetailed how they were able totake control of a Jeep CherokeeSUV over the Internet.

The company will updatesoftware to insulate the vehi-cles from being remotely con-trolled, and it implied that thehackers committed a crime,saying in a statement Fridaythat unauthorized remote ma-nipulation of a vehicle is acriminal act.

The recall affects vehicleswith 8.4-inch touchscreens in-cluding 2013 to 2015 Ram pick-ups and chassis cabs andDodge Viper sports cars. Alsocovered are 2014 and 2015Dodge Durango and JeepGrand Cherokee and CherokeeSUVs, as well as the 2015Chrysler 200 and 300, and theDodge Charger and Challenger.

All the vehicles have a cer-tain type of radio, indicatingthat the company may havefound and patched another ar-ea that’s vulnerable to hackers.The recall covers about 1 mil-lion more vehicles than thecompany had originally be-lieved were affected.

Fiat Chrysler says it also hastaken security measures on itsown vehicle network to preventhacking. Those measures re-quire no customer action andbecame effective on Thursday.

The company said it knowsof no incidents involving hack-ing of its vehicles except forthe one unveiled this week. Ini-tially the company didn’t issue

a recall, but said it would con-tact all affected customers

The fix is a response to a re-cent article in Wired magazineabout two well-known hackers,Charlie Miller and Chris Vala-sek, who remotely took controlof a Jeep Cherokee through itsUConnect entertainment sys-tem. They were able to changethe vehicle’s speed and controlthe brakes, radio, windshieldwipers, transmission and otherfeatures.

The Jeep incident was thelatest warning to the auto in-dustry, which is rapidly addingInternet-connected featureslike WiFi and navigation thatare convenient for drivers butmake the car more vulnerableto outside attacks. Earlier thisyear, BMW had to offer a soft-ware patch after hackers re-motely unlocked the doors ofits cars.

Miller has said he and Vala-sek first told FCA about theirresearch in October and havebeen in touch with the compa-ny several times since then.

Owners of the recalled vehi-cles will get a USB drive thatthey can use to update the soft-ware. Fiat Chrysler says it pro-vides added security featuresbeyond what’s been done onthe company’s vehicle network.

Customers can go to http://www.driveuconnect.com/soft-ware-update/ and punch intheir vehicle identificationnumber to find out if they’reincluded in the recall.

The company, known as FCAUS LLC, also said it has set upa team focused on best practic-es for software developmentand integration into vehicles.

Fiat Chryslerrecalls 1.4M cars

By TOM KRISHERASSOCIATED PRESS

PAGE 12A Zentertainment SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2015

NEW YORK — American audi-ences were introduced to Austra-lian actress Ruby Rose on thethird season of the Netflix series“Orange is the New Black,” andshe’s quickly become a breakoutstar.

Rose plays Stella, an inmate atthe women’s prison who hits it offwith Taylor Schilling’s lead char-acter, Piper. The series also starsLaverne Cox, Laura Prepon andUzo Uduba.

In a recent interview, Rose saidshe’s trailed by paparazzi, evenwhen she’s at the airport. Howev-er, the attention she’s gotten iswelcomed because “my main goalis always acting.”

“I had no opportunities before,”she said with a laugh. “I was find-ing it really hard to get in thedoor here. Really hard. I couldn’tget an agent, I couldn’t get a man-

ager, I couldn’t get an audition. Icouldn’t do anything, and yourhands are a little bit tied at thatpoint. You have a visa that saysit’s for entertainment and youhave no one that wants to repre-sent you.”

The 29-year-old is consideringpossible future projects, and saysthere’s a possibility she’ll returnfor the fourth season of “Orange.”

She talked about her experi-ence on the show in a recent in-terview with The AssociatedPress.

Associated Press: What was itlike to join the huge cast of “Or-ange is the New Black”?

Rose: I’ve never been in a sit-uation like that where I’ve gottento meet so many amazing womenthat are all so talented and inde-pendent and funny, and it’s a verysupernatural situation with thatmany talented people in one roomat one time, all getting along. It’sgreat. It was perfect.

AP: Is there anything aboutthe set that surprised you?

Rose: There’s a lot of re-pur-posing. ... There’s parts of the setwhere it’s someone’s bunk, butthen it’s someone else’s bunk af-ter four o’clock.

AP: You were a fan of the showbefore becoming a cast member.How did it feel to join the cast?

Rose: The only one I went like,‘Oh, what’s going on?’ was withLaura Prepon. She had the prisonoutfit, the glasses, the brows andthe hair. She was (her character)Alex walking down the corridor. Ijust went, ‘Hi! You’re really good-looking.’ She’s just so tall andstatuesque.

AP: Is there anyone you didn’thave scenes with that you wishyou did?

Rose: I did a lot of scenes withpretty much everyone. I think La-verne (Cox), maybe, I didn’t getany scenes with (her), but wehung out a lot, and whenever she

was there on the set, I would al-ways go and sit in her room.

AP: You also work as a discjockey. How do you balance thatwith acting?

Rose: I get these weekend op-portunities to travel to differentparts of the world and DJ, so it’sliterally the perfect mix. I have afantastic combination career. It’s ahobby, but it’s something I’vedone for the last 10 years and soit’s always going to be part of me.

AP: How did you start acting?Rose: I actually went to school

for acting when I finished highschool and about halfway throughthat first year, I ended up bookingMTV (in Australia) and so I pro-ceeded to do television presenting,I had a clothing brand and creat-ed my own radio station. ... I didall these crazy things and it wasalmost like they were all sidestepsto get me into the door with act-ing. ... I’m definitely where I wantto be now and it feels amazing.

Rose breaks out on ‘Orange is the New Black’By ALICIA RANCILIOASSOCIATED PRESS

Actress Ruby Rose attends Netflix’s“Orange is the New Black” ORANGE-CON Celebration at Skylight ClarksonSQ, in New York, on June 11. Rose playsStella, an inmate at the women’s pris-on who hits it off with Taylor Schilling’slead character, Piper.

Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/file | AP

SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2015 THE ZAPATA TIMES 13A

excitement via Twitter forhis visit to Laredo.

He said he felt “suchgreat warmth” from every-one he met upon arrival.

“We just landed, a lot ofpeople at the airport werewaving American flags andthey were all in favor ofTrump and what I’m do-ing,” Trump said.

The candidate said he didnot see any protesters whenhe landed.

Border safetyTrump said he was invit-

ed to visit Laredo becauseBorder Patrol agents arehaving problems carryingout their jobs.

According to Trump,their plans to accompanyhim were canceled at thelast minute per orders fromWashington, D.C.

“The Border Patrol invit-ed me then they cancelledbecause frankly they don’twant to get involved,”Trump said. “The reasonthey invited me was be-cause of the tremendousproblem and the tremen-dous crime.”

During a news conferenceat the World Trade Interna-tional Bridge, Trump saidthere is “tremendous dan-ger on the border with ille-gals coming in.” He saidcrime and safety issuesalong the border would goaway if Border Patrolagents were allowed to dotheir jobs.

The candidate said he al-so heard evidence of Mexicosending criminals acrossthe border, and that otherpeople heard that same evi-dence. He did not say orprovide the media withwhat specific evidence he

heard.“We’ll be showing you the

evidence,” he said, thoughhe did not specify where orhow.

Trump said building awall along some sections ofthe U.S.-Mexico border isnecessary. He did not men-tion whether he felt build-ing a wall was necessary inthe Laredo area.

Voter impactTrump said Thursday he

is leading the polls amongGOP presidential candi-dates and even has the mostHispanic voters backingthem.

According to a Washing-ton Post-ABC News pollfrom last week, Trump wasthe favorite of 24 percent ofregistered Republicans andRepublican-leaning inde-

pendents.One America News Net-

work also released lastweek 2016 Republican andDemocratic presidentialpolling results for Nevada,conducted by Gravis Mar-keting. Those resultsshowed Trump had an over-all lead of 27.7 percent. Hereceived 31.4 percent sup-port from polled Hispanics,the results said.

Trump proudly broughtthese poll numbers up, buthe avoided making lengthycomments about the im-pression his June 16 presi-dential campaign announce-ment left on Hispanics.

The announcementspeech included provocativecomments about Mexicanswho migrate to the U.S.

“When Mexico sends itspeople, they’re not sendingtheir best,” Trump said lastmonth. “… They’re sending

people that have lots ofproblems, and they’re bring-ing those problems with us.They’re bringing drugs.They’re bringing crime.They’re rapists. And some, Iassume, are good people.”

When asked if he shouldapologize, Trump said His-panics were not were notinsulted by his comments“because the press misin-terprets my words.”

Last month, Univisionsaid it would not air MissUSA and Miss Universe —two beauty pageants thatTrump co-owns — becauseof Trump’s remarks. Trumplater filed a lawsuit againstUnivision for $500 millionin damages.

Other companies thathave ended ties withTrump’s business venturessince his campaign an-nouncement include Macy’sand NBCUniversal.

Yet, Trump is confidenthe’ll get the GOP nomina-tion.

“I’m in first place by alot, it seems,” Trump saidThursday. “I want to run asa Republican. I think I’ll getthe nomination. We’ll seesoon enough.”

He said part of his cam-paign platform is to “takejobs back from China andJapan and every othercountry that’s killing us.”He said Hispanics are goingto get those jobs.

His priority as a presi-dential candidate, however,is to strengthen U.S. bor-ders.

“After that, we’re going tohave plenty of time to talkabout that (undocumentedimmigrants who live in theU.S.),” Trump said.

(Kendra Ablaza can bereached at 728-2538 or ka-blaza@lmtonline.com)

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“A lot of people at the airport were … all in favor of Trump and what I’m doing.”DONALD TRUMP

minerals.The corpus belonged to

the people that remain af-ter the life tenant, thechildren of Leon OscarRamirez Sr.

His children are theplaintiffs in the case.

After Leonor Ramirezdied, ConocoPhillips senta letter addressed to herson, Rodolfo Ramirez, onJuly 1, 1997.

In the letter, Conoco-Phillips recognizes thatthe minerals that once be-longed to Leonor did notbelong to any of her chil-dren but her grandchil-dren.

Enclosed with the letterwas a “stipulation of in-

screens.”The case and the vigor-

ous defense presented byConocoPhillips and itsteam of eight lawyers con-sumed a quarter of thework time of Alarcon forfour and a half years,court documents state.

Alarcon said Conoco-Phillips has already givennotice that they are goingto appeal the case.

If the Fourth Court ofAppeals in San Antonioaffirms the trial court’sdecision, then the plain-tiffs will receive the $11.6million.

(Philip Balli may bereached at 728-2528 orpballi@lmtonline.com)

(1/12 each).Their shares totaled

$9,432,070. In May, thetrial court awarded an ad-ditional $1,125,000 each inattorney’s fees to Minervaand Leon Oscar RamirezJr., bringing the totaljudgment to $11,682,070,which will be dividedequally among them.

“ConocoPhillips’ tacticin this case was to pre-sent a shopping cart fullof whitewash and shellgames, hoping to find agullible judge,” Alarconsaid. “Instead, they founda brilliant jurist in JudgeJoe Lopez, who quicklypicked up the argumentswere nothing but smoke

The motions specifical-ly requested summaryjudgment that the miner-al interest of each was a1/12 undivided mineralinterest devised to themin Leonor Ramirez’s will.

The motions also re-quested judgment that theoil and gas leases reliedon by ConocoPhillipswere invalid as to theirrespective mineral inter-est.

The trial court grantedthe amended motions forsummary judgment onDec. 6, 2012. The finaljudgment decreed thatMinerva and Leon OscarRamirez Jr. were the own-ers of 1/6 of the minerals

terest ownership of themineral estate,” which, ifsigned by Leonor’s chil-dren, intended to “correctthe title of record.”

Leonor’s children eachsigned the stipulation,wiping out the grandchil-dren’s claim to the miner-al interest in the process.

As a result, ConocoPhil-lips made a lot of moneythat rightfully belonged tothe plaintiffs, according toattorney Alberto Alarcon,who represented theplaintiffs in the case.

In December 2011, Mi-nerva and Leon Oscar Ra-mirez Jr. filed amendedmotions for partial sum-mary judgment.

MINERALS Continued from Page 1A

tempt,” states the complaint.Tristan further stated he and

Mireles planned the attempt thenight before. Tristan told agentshe needed the money because itwas hard for him to find workbecause he was recently releasedfrom prison, records show.

U.S. Border Patrol said they de-tained both men July 7 afteragents noticed several peoplerunning from the brush andjumping into the back of a whitepickup. Records state the menwere transporting eight immi-grants who had entered thecountry illegally.

(César G. Rodriguez may bereached at 728-2568 or ce-sar@lmtonline.com)

ZAPATAContinued from Page 1A

striking a Nissan Xterraparked on the side of thestreet of the 6400 block of

Creosote Loop.Authorities apprehended

Yanez and three suspected

immigrants who had en-tered the country illegally.Yanez was taken to the

Webb County Jail, wherehe remained Friday. Thethree immigrants were

turned over to U.S. BorderPatrol.

(César G. Rodriguez

may be reached at 728-2568or cesar@lmtonline.com)

CHASE Continued from Page 1A

AUSTIN — Some members of thePedernales Electric Cooperative areasking why a judge amended a jailsentence for a former cooperativeexecutive convicted in 2010 of theftand money laundering.

A state district judge sentencedBennie Fuelberg in early 2011 to fiveyears of probation that included 10,30-day jail terms that would haveforced jail time during his Julybirthday and on holidays, the AustinAmerican-Statesman reported.

A different judge issued an orderearlier this month delaying the 300-day jail term by two months.

Fuelberg is now slated to beginhis sentence Aug. 24 and to serve histime in shorter spurts of one to twoweeks. He’ll also have time off dur-ing the month of his birthday andon certain holidays.

Fuelberg was accused of funnel-ing members’ money to his brotherthrough the co-op’s former law firm.He served as the utility’s generalmanager for more than 30 years.

Longtime co-op member JohnWatson questioned the amended sen-tence order by state district JudgeAllan Garrett, who didn’t returnmultiple messages from the newspa-per seeking comment.

“It appears you modified the sen-tence without public notice or a pub-lic hearing,” Watson said in a letterto the judge. “The process as de-scribed seems procedurally ques-tionable to me. I wonder if you couldexplain why you acted in secret onthis matter.”

Other members also raised con-cerns at a co-op board meeting thisweek, the newspaper reported.

Fuelberg’s attorney Chris Guntersaid the order was modified in Juneafter a verbal discussion with Gar-rett.

“I had a conversation with thestate, and they agreed we could mod-ify the order,” Gunter said. “We hadto the put order in writing, and eachside approved the order as written.”

Judge fixessentence for

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AUSTIN — One of two felo-ny indictments against formerTexas Gov. Rick Perry wastossed out Friday, giving theRepublican presidential candi-date a potentially huge legalvictory in the face of flaggingpolling numbers for the 2016race.

The 3rd Court of Appeals inAustin sided with Perry’s pricylegal team, stating in a 96-pageruling that the charge of coer-cion of a public servant consti-tuted a violation of the formergovernor’s free speech rights.

Perry, who left office in Jan-uary, was indicted last Auguston the coercion charge and aseparate charge of abuse of of-ficial power, which wasn’t af-fected by the ruling.

For now, he’ll still have toface the abuse of power charge— which could tie him up incourt and eat into valuable on-the-ground campaigning timein the midst of his WhiteHouse run. But Perry’s lead at-torney, Tony Buzbee, down-played the future significanceof the case, just as his clienthas for months, saying it willhave “no impact whatsoever”on the campaign.

“One down, one to go,” Buz-

bee said at a Houston newsconference. "The court todaythrew out what we believe tobe the greater of the two charg-es.” He added that the abuse ofpower charge is “hanging by athread.”

Perry has spent more than$2 million on top defense law-yers — even though his 2016campaign has raised barelyhalf that much. Despite numer-ous visits to key early stateslike Iowa and New Hampshire,polls show Perry badly trailingin a crowded field.

He’s made just a single courtappearance in the case, whichstems from 2013, when Perrypublicly threatened, and thencarried out, a veto of $7.5 mil-lion in state funding for public

corruption prosecutors. Hismove came in the wake of theDemocrat who headed the in-vestigative unit, District Attor-ney Rosemary Lehmberg, re-buffing Perry’s calls to resignafter she was convicted ofdrunken driving.

The indictment was handeddown by a grand jury in Aus-tin, a liberal bastion in a statethat’s mostly conservative,leading Perry to characterizethe case as a political “witchhunt.” Still, his previous —and numerous — attempts tohave the Republican trial judgetoss the charges on constitu-tional grounds were rejected,prompting the appeal.

Michael McCrum, the SanAntonio-based special prosecu-tor leading the case, has longmaintained it deserves to go totrial. He said he wasn’t certainwhether he’d appeal Friday’sruling since it affects an un-derlying statue that will im-pact many cases, not just Per-ry’s.

“Obviously we’re ready toproceed to trial on the othercount,” McCrum said, thoughhe noted he doesn’t yet knowwhen such a trial would beginbecause Perry can appeal theabuse of power charge to theCourt of Criminal Appeals,Texas’ highest criminal court.

With that court on summer re-cess, doing so is “going tocause an extended delay,” hesaid.

“Insofar as the presidentialissue is involved,” McCrumsaid “anybody that’s consider-ing voting or donating to anycandidate, you’re not going toget any resolution anytimesoon.”

Buzbee said he considers theremaining charge nothingmore than a misdemeanor andsaid the Court of Criminal Ap-peals “will throw it out on itsface.” The abuse of official ca-pacity nonetheless has a maxi-mum sentence of 99 years inprison, while the voided coer-cion charge carried a 10-yearmaximum sentence.

Craig McDonald, the direc-tor of the left-leaning watchdoggroup Texans for Public Jus-tice that filed an initial com-plaint about Perry’s veto, notedthat Friday’s ruling came fromRepublican judges who couldhave quashed the whole case.Instead, he said, their decision“leaves a criminal indictmenthanging over Perry’s head.”

Perry’s presidential cam-paign offered no comment be-yond what Buzbee said. Perrywas in South Carolina onThursday but didn’t have anyannounced weekend events.

Court tosses 1 of Perry’s 2 indictments

In this July 13 photo, Rick Perryspeaks during a meet and greet.

Photo by Charlie Neibergall | AP file

By WILL WEISSERTASSOCIATED PRESS

FORT WORTH, Texas — Agag order in a criminal casearising from a shootout at abiker gathering in Waco is un-constitutional, overly broadand should be lifted, attorneysfor 16 media organizations ar-gued in a brief filed Fridaywith a Texas appeals court.

The Reporters Committeefor Freedom of the Press and15 other organizations, includ-ing The Associated Press, filedthe “friend of the court” briefin support of a motion by an

attorney for one of 177 peoplearrested after the shooting.

Nine people were killed and18 injured in the May 17 shoot-out that authorities say arosefrom an apparent confronta-tion between two motorcycleclubs.

The gag order was issued inthe criminal case of MatthewClendennen, the only arrestedbiker who has filed a lawsuitagainst local authorities alleg-ing he was arrested withoutprobable cause. All 177 peoplearrested initially were held ona $1 million bond on chargesof engaging in organized crim-

inal activity. Only three re-main in jail and there havebeen no indictments.

The gag order preventsthose involved in Clenden-nen’s criminal case from dis-cussing it with the media.

But the Reporters Commit-tee brief says the order “doesnot make clear whether thespeech restrictions apply toany discussion of the underly-ing incident generally, includ-ing the other pending crimi-nal cases,” or to Clendennen’scivil lawsuit.

The order was written byMcLennan County District At-

torney Abel Reyna, who isamong officials named inClendennen’s suit, and issuedby Reyna’s former law part-ner, District Judge Matt John-son. The judge also has issueda protective order preventingpublic release of a surveil-lance video of the scene.

In granting the gag order,Johnson said he was acting toprevent pretrial publicityfrom influencing potential ju-rors.

The brief argues the courtlacked specific findings to sup-port its conclusion that public-ity could taint the juror pool.

16 media groups fight Waco gag orderBy EMILY SCHMALLASSOCIATED PRESS

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MEXICO CITY — Eversince the powerful drug lordknown as El Chapo escapedfrom a maximum-securityprison through a mile-longtunnel that opened right in-to the shower of his cell,Mexico has been wonderinghow his accomplices gottheir hands on the blue-prints to operate with suchpinpoint precision.

The answer could bequite simple: They mayhave had them for years.

It turns out that the pris-on is a virtual replica of an-other lockup that El Chapo,whose real name is JoaquínGuzmán Loera, broke out ofin 2001 in an almost equallyaudacious escape.

In other words, he essen-tially broke out of the sameprison twice.

Authorities believe thatfor his first escape — bysome accounts, he broke outby sneaking out in a laun-dry cart — Guzmán had thehelp of a top prison securityofficial who went on to be-come a trusted member ofhis Sinaloa cartel.

Investigators think thatthe confederate, Dámaso Ló-pez, may have taken a copyof the blueprints for the oth-er prison when he left hisjob around the time of Guz-mán’s earlier escape, a se-nior Mexican law enforce-ment official said.

And since the layout ofthe two prisons is virtuallyidentical, and they werebuilt within a few years ofeach other, those blueprintscould have come in handywhen planning this month’sbreakout.

The official said that Ló-pez was now a prime sus-pect in the hunt for the peo-ple who planned and car-ried out this month’sescape. Beyond the possibleblueprints, López is be-lieved to have close knowl-edge of the layout of theprisons and security proce-dures. The tunnel makersmay have also had the GPScoordinates for Guzmán’sshower stall.

Authorities have so fardetained seven prison em-ployees, including four

whose job was to watchclosed-circuit televisionmonitors that showed Guz-mán’s cell and three guards.

But López remains atlarge.

López was charged withdrug trafficking in a 2011 in-dictment filed in federalcourt in Virginia, and in2013 he was described asGuzmán’s right-hand manand a senior lieutenant inthe Sinaloa cartel in a state-ment by the Treasury De-partment.

The tunnel that Guzmánused to escape included ven-tilation and lighting and ex-tended for about a mile, un-der the prison walls, endingin a shaft that opened in ahole about 20 inches by 20inches in the floor of the ti-ny shower of his cell.

There was little room forerror. Being off by a foot ortwo would have meant fail-ure.

"Certainly they neededthe blueprints," Interior Sec-retary Miguel Ángel Osorio

Chong said in a news con-ference last week, althoughhe did not say how Guz-mán’s henchmen may havegotten them.

The prison that he escap-ed from this month, aboutan hour’s drive from Mexi-co City, is known as Altipla-no, or Federal Social Re-adaptation Center No. 1, be-cause it was the first of anew set of modern prisons.Construction was completedin 1990, and the centeropened in 1991, according toa book by the prison’s firstdirector, Juan Pablo de Tavi-ra.

The prison that Guzmánescaped from in 2001 is Fed-eral Social ReadaptationCenter No. 2. Located nearGuadalajara and commonlyknown as Puente Grande, itwas constructed from 1990to 1993, according to thebook.

A third prison with thesame design near Matamo-ros on the border with Tex-as was finished in 1994.

The senior Mexican lawenforcement official, whospoke on the condition ofanonymity because the in-vestigation into Guzmán’s

escape is continuing, con-firmed that the design forthe three prisons was thesame.

Satellite images of theprisons show virtually iden-tical layouts. Informationavailable on governmentwebsites shows that theprisons were each designedto hold 724 inmates and thatthe facilities each comprise300,313 square feet.

After Guzmán’s escape,

Mexicans were flabbergast-ed this week when author-ities announced that a com-puter containing blueprintsto another high-securityjail, this one in Mexico City,had been stolen. Authoritiessaid the drawings were notthe final ones, but theywere reported to havemoved some prisoners todifferent cells to protectagainst possible breakoutplans.

Prison that held ‘El Chapo’ a replica of his formerBy WILLIAM NEUMAN

NEW YORK TIMES

In this July 14 photo, a journalist climbs a ladder to get out of thetunnel that according to authorities, drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo"Guzman used to escape from the Altiplano maximum security pris-on in Almoloya, west of Mexico City.

Photo by Eduardo Verdugo | AP

Sports&OutdoorsSATURDAY, JULY 25, 2015 ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM

Michael Irvin was not beingselfish when he told fellow Hallof Fame wide receiver TimBrown in 1994 to forget aboutplaying for his hometown Cow-boys.

Irvin was just being realistic."We were a runoriented of-

fense then and Troy (Aikman)was only completing 20 balls agame," explained Irvin on Fri-day in a telephone call. "I goteight of those balls, Jay (Nova-cek) would get six, D.J. (DarylJohnson) would get two out ofthe backfield, Emmitt (Smith)would get two. We were scram-bling to get Alvin (Harper) andKW (Kevin Williams) some balls.Where was Tim going to get any

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Former Cowboys WR Michael Irvin dis-cussed turning Tim Brown away in freeagency in the past.

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Irvinreflects

onBrownWR explains why hedrove Brown away

By RICK GOSSELINMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

Panama and Costa Rica have formallyasked for reviews of CONCACAF’S refer-ee procedures after both countries hadquestionable calls go against them late inGold Cup knockout round games against

regional power Mexico, according to aperson in CONCACAF with knowledge ofthe requests.

The person spoke on condition of ano-nymity Friday because he was not au-thorized to discuss the matter. CONCA-CAF had announced that the issue hadbeen added for discussion to the agenda

of Saturday’s executive committee meet-ing but did not detail the requests.

In the final minute of extra time inSunday’s quarterfinal, Mexico wasawarded a penalty kick with the gametied 0-0 and converted to beat Costa Rica.

CONCACAF GOLD CUP: MEXICO

Reviews underway

Mexico’s Michael Perez, left, tries to keep the ball inbounds as Panama’s Cecilio Waterman, second from left, defends on July 23.

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Panama, Costa Rica upset with Mexico’s victoriesBy RICARDO ZUNIGA

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Alvarado. The 22-year-olds havebeen shaky at times in the GoldCup, and they were unable toprevent Jamaica’s Darren Mat-tocks from heading in the firstgoal of Wednesday’s 2-1 loss on athrow-in.

“They have to go throughthese pains,” Klinsmann said,adding, “We’re going to do astep back here and there.”

He noted Brooks and Alvara-do had made for a winning pair-ing in their brief tenure togeth-er before the semifinal defeat,including breakthrough victo-ries in June exhibitions againstworld champion Germany andthe Netherlands, another Euro-

pean power.“Enormous, enormous talent”

is how he described the two.“We’re going to keep on devel-

oping young players, keep look-ing into the future,” Klinsmannsaid. “Two, three years down theroad — what does this team looklike? ... You have to keep devel-oping a team that you have inmind toward 2018 that’s hopeful-ly better than you did in Brazil.”

Panama, reeling from thechaotic finish to its semifinalloss to Mexico, will be withoutfive players because of suspen-sion or injury. On the verge ofvictory Wednesday, the Panama-nians, playing with 10 men,

were called for a disputed handball. Mexico tied the game onthe penalty kick and went on towin 2-1 after another penalty inextra time.

Midfielders Valentin Pimenteland Gabriel Gomez and forwardBlas Perez are hurt, while for-ward Luis Tejada and goalkeep-er Jaime Penedo were each sus-pended two games by CONCA-CAF on Friday. Penedo wasdisciplined for pushing the as-sistant referee after Wednesday’smatch. Tejada received a redcard, then was punished addi-tionally for not leaving the field

CHESTER, Pa. — Asked whatwinning the third-place game atthe CONCACAF Gold Cupwould mean, U.S. captain Mi-chael Bradley paused for a mo-ment, then said softly, “Notmuch.”

The midfielder quickly addedthat pride and competitivenesswould keep the Americans play-ing hard against a short-handedPanama squad, a promise re-peated often by his teammatesand coach Jurgen Klinsmann onFriday. Once the U.S. wasstunned by Jamaica in the semi-finals, cutting short its bid to re-peat as Gold Cup champion, Sat-urday’s third-place match wasleft to build momentum and tryout different lineups.

In many ways, those are al-ways objectives for Klinsmannas he seeks to develop a squadthat can contend against theworld’s best. For a coach in hisposition, the trick is to winenough in the short term tostick around to possibly seethrough those long-term results.

“We want to continue the pro-cess toward 2018,” he said aboutthe next World Cup. “This isYear 1 after the World Cup inBrazil, a year of rebuilding thepieces and bringing in young,new players, trying a lot ofthings out.”

Klinsmann specifically de-fended two young players, centerbacks John Brooks and Ventura

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TITLE HOPES DASHED

U.S. head soccer coach Jurgen Klinsmann and team USA is settling for the third-place match after their title hopes weredashed.

Photo by LM Otero | AP

USA to playfor 3rd place

By RACHEL COHENASSOCIATED PRESS

CANTON, Ohio — JuniorSeau’s daughter will not becommenting on her father en-tering the Pro Football Hall ofFame during the Aug. 8 induc-tions.

Citing previous policies onposthumous inductions, theHall has barred Sydney Seaufrom making a speech. Seau,

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Junior Seau stands with his daughter,Sydney, at his induction into the Char-gers Hall of Fame.

File photo by Denis Poroy | AP

Seau’sfamilyquieted

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“in a timely manner.”Panama’s federation also was

fined an undisclosed amount.In the Panamanians’ latest

criticism of CONCACAF, thefederation’s president, PedroChaluja, told reporters earlierFriday that “we feel that thatgame was fixed.”

“There are third parties withinterests, and we know that itcan’t be possible that the best-ranked referee in CONCACAFhas such a poor and suspiciousperformance in a game,” hesaid.

Coach Hernan Gomez saidChaluja’s reaction was “humannature” but wouldn’t add to thecriticism, saying “rules arerules.” CONCACAF confirmedFriday it would review re-quests from Panama and CostaRica — which lost to Mexico ona disputed call in the quarterfi-nals.

Gomez initially said that sixplayers were at risk of missingWorld Cup qualifiers because of

yellow card accumulation, butCONCACAF officials said yel-low cards in the Gold Cupwouldn’t affect qualifying.

Panama played some kickballduring Friday’s practice, seek-ing to add a lighthearted noteto a trying week.

Klinsmann plans to shake uphis lineup against Panama, butdidn’t offer any specifics otherthan to say DaMarcus Beasleywould play in the second half.The 33-year-old defender hadretired from international soc-cer only to agree to make him-self available for the Gold Cup.Klinsmann added him for theknockout rounds, but Beasleystrained a calf in his first prac-tice and has yet to play.

Klinsmann spoke to thesquad before Friday’s workoutabout Beasley’s contributions,and fellow players gave the de-fender a lengthy ovation. Thecoach hopes to send Beasley offwith a strong performance anda victory, but then again the

veteran of a U.S.-record fourWorld Cups isn’t ruling out an-other return to the nationalteam.

The Americans can still qual-ify for the 2017 ConfederationsCup even though they won’twin this tournament. As the2013 Gold Cup champs, the U.S.will face the winner of Sun-day’s title match between Mex-ico and Jamaica in a playoffOct. 9 for CONCACAF’s spot inthe most important warm-upfor the next World Cup.

The United States beat Pana-ma in the 2013 Gold Cup final,one of several stinging lossesdelivered by the Americans. Inqualifying for the 2014 WorldCup, the U.S. scored twice insecond-half stoppage time tocost the Panamanians a chanceto make it to Brazil.

The teams tied 1-1 in thegroup stage earlier in this tour-nament, a game with far moreon the line for Panama thanthe Americans.

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who committed suicidein 2012, is one of sevenmen being inducted thisyear.

In a statement fromJoe Horrigan, the execu-tive vice president andchief communicationsofficer for the Hall, a2010 policy was refer-enced on Friday.

“The policy of the ProFootball Hall of Famesince 2010 regarding in-dividuals enshrinedposthumously providesfor an expanded present-ing video (longer thanthe videos of living in-ductees) followed by thetraditional unveiling ofthe bronzed bust and noadditional comments

made from the podium,”Horrigan said.

The 2011 inductionused such a formatwhen former Los An-geles Rams star LesRichter was inductedposthumously.

In a New York Timesstory Friday, SydneySeau said: “It’s frustrat-ing because the induc-tion is for my father andfor the other players, butthen to not be able tospeak, it’s painful. I justwant to give the speechhe would have given.”

Seau, who played 20seasons as one of theNFL’s best linebackers,shot and killed himself.Doctors later diagnosed

Seau with traumaticbrain injury they be-lieved attributable toplaying football, parti-cuarly to hits to hishead.

His family also hassued the NFL.

But Sydney Seau toldthe Times none of thatwas planned in herspeech.

“It wasn’t going to beabout this mess,” shesaid. “My speech wassolely about him.”

The video presenta-tion will last about fiveminutes, longer than theusual videos by abouttwo minutes, the Hallsaid. Sydney Seau willappear in the video.

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balls?"It was just the reality. I love Tim. He and

I came in (to the NFL) together, and we’vealways been tight. We’ve talked about goinginto the Hall of Fame together. But I wasjust being flatout real with him. I told him,’Let’s take the emotions out of it about youwanting to come home and play for theCowboys. Let’s take a realistic look at this.We only have 20 passes, baby. There aren’tthat many balls to go around.’

"And it wasn’t like the formula wasn’tworking. You can’t make great decisionswithout information.

"I took in the information around the de-cision and saw there was no need to tamperwith anything. I was thinking, ’Tim, whatwe’ve got working is pretty good overthere.’ "

Brown mentioned the other day that hehad approached Irvin at the 1994 Pro Bowlabout the possibility of signing with theCowboys in free agency. Not only did Irvin

discourage the thought, Brown mused, heflat out rejected it and told him he was go-ing to call Jerry Jones to prevent any suchsigning from happening.

"I remember him looking at me like,’You’re joking, right?’ " Irvin said, "but Isaid, ’Listen, dude, I’m serious.’ "

The Cowboys would advance to the NFCtitle game in the 1994 season and win athird Super Bowl in the 1995 season. Brownwound up staying with the Raiders and fin-ished his career fifth on the NFL’s all-timereceiving list with 1,094 catches.

The talent was there. Just not the timing."If we were in today’s time, it would be

different," Irvin said. "Everybody is throw-ing the ball 60 times a game. I’d have toldhim, ’I’ve got 7-8 passes for you, Tim, be-cause I have 11-12 for me. C’mon over.’ Butat the time, the formula we had - we weregoing to the Super Bowl - there was nopoint in bringing in anything to interruptthat at that moment."

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Then in Wednesday’s semifinals,Panama led 1-0 when it was calledfor a hand ball in the box. Mexicoagain converted in stoppage time,then went on to win in extra time.

The person said Panama re-quested investigations into the ref-eree committee and its proce-dures, the people who assign refer-ees to games, all unspecified“suspicious matches,” and refereeMark Geiger.

In a separate letter, Costa Ricamade similar requests. It also re-quested that certain referees notbe assigned to its matches in thefuture.

CONCACAF said in a statement:“The confederation takes theseclaims extremely seriously andwill look into them immediately.”

Earlier Friday, the president ofthe Panamanian federation, PedroChaluja, told reporters that “wefeel that that game was fixed.”

“There are third parties with in-terests, and we know that it can’tbe possible that the best-rankedreferee in CONCACAF has such a

poor and suspicious performancein a game,” he said.

He also noted that “we knowthat there have been suspiciousand strange things going on inseveral matches in this Cup.”

On Thursday, the federation de-manded the removal of CONCA-CAF’s referee selection panel afterdescribing the officiating in theloss as “insulting and embarrass-ing.” The statement also accusedthe match officials of favoringMexico “in a vulgar and shame-less way.”

Two Panama players — forwardLuis Tejada and goalkeeper JaimePenedo — were each suspendedtwo games by CONCACAF on Fri-day. Penedo was disciplined forpushing the assistant referee afterWednesday’s match. Tejada re-ceived a red card, then was puni-shed additionally for not leavingthe field “in a timely manner.”

The federation was also fined anundisclosed amount “for teammisconduct both on and off thefield.”

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BOSTON — Organizers of Boston’s bidfor the 2024 Summer Olympics down-played the opposition that was already gal-vanizing against it, as well as the pros-pects of a voter referendum, according tothe documents that won over the U.S.Olympic Committee.

The full, unredacted version of the bidwas released Friday after city officials ear-lier this week called for their disclosure.

The documents reveal that organizerssaid a referendum was unlikely because itwould cost “in excess of a million dollars”to launch and would be too “burdensome”and “onerous” for opponents to accom-plish before 2018. Boston2024 also suggest-ed they were prepared to challenge anyreferendum effort on a variety of fronts,including the courts and legislature.

A citizen’s group earlier this month fil-ed a request to place a referendum on the2016 ballot that would effectively preventstate taxpayer dollars from being used onthe games. Boston 2024 has also said itsupports the idea of the ballot questionand has been working to submit a propos-al by the state’s Aug. 5 deadline.

“Boston 2024 is afraid of a ballot ques-tion, and they’ve outlined a detailed planto fight back against any effort to haveone,” said Evan Falchuk, a former guber-natorial candidate and an organizer of thecitizen-led ballot referendum.

Boston 2024 Chairman Steve Pagliucastressed the original bid book was simplya “proof of concept” that’s since been sup-planted by a more detailed and revisedJune proposal. “While it served that pur-pose well, it was not meant to be a final oroperable plan,” he said.

Opponents have countered that the orig-inal bid is still relevant because it provid-ed a basis of comparison and also shows

what promises organizers initially madeto the USOC.

“The release of Boston 2024’s unredact-ed bid documents confirm that the boost-ers have been saying one thing behindclosed doors, and an entirely differentthing to Massachusetts taxpayers,” saidthe No Boston Olympics group, a citizengroup that’s become the de facto voice ofopposition to the bid.

Boston 2024 released a partial version ofits winning bid in January, after the USOCpicked Boston over Los Angeles, San Fran-cisco and Washington D.C. But the private-ly funded organization declined to releasethe full version of the bid, citing “proprie-tary information” the USOC didn’t wantdisclosed.

Four of the six chapters of the originalbid have since been made public throughrecords requests; the final two chaptershad not been disclosed. Among the otherfindings in the previously undisclosedchapters, which focused on finances andpublic and political support:

— Organizers initially projected thegames to cost about $4.7 billion but run ata nearly $500 million deficit. Boston 2024’srevised proposal shows a $4.6 billion bud-get with a surplus of just over $200 mil-lion.

— Boston 2024 anticipated submitting araft of bills to the legislature to “facilitatepublic control of the land and infrastruc-ture” and streamline the permitting pro-cess, among other things.

— Bob Kraft, the New England Patriotsowner, was named as a member of Boston2024’s original board of directors. Boston2024 now says his name was erroneouslyincluded.

— Early polling found the idea faced“significant resistance” from older, bettereducated and mostly white Bostonians butenjoyed support among minorities andyouths.

Organizers of Boston’s bid for the games are scrambling to improve lackluster poll numbers ahead of aSeptember 2015 deadline to formally throw the city’s name into the mix to hold the games.

Photo by Charles Krupa | AP

Boston’s organizersdownplay opposition

By PHILIP MARCELOASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. PETERSBURG, Rus-sia — The FIFA corrup-tion crisis is hurting itssearch for new World Cupsponsors.

Targeting almost $6 bil-lion in revenue from the2018 tournament, FIFAhas not signed any newsponsors since last year’sWorld Cup in Brazil.

"Definitely the currentsituation does not help tofinalize any new agree-ment. That is a fact," FI-FA secretary general Je-rome Valcke said Fridayahead of this weekend’squalifying draw.

The first big event forhost Russia has broughthundreds of internationalmedia to St. Petersburg,offering a natural stagefor a sponsorship launch.However, Valcke said nomajor deals would becompleted until FIFA’s fu-ture is clearer - after SeppBlatter is replaced aspresident next year.

"I’m sure until the(presidential) election, un-til the 26th of February,there will not be majorannouncements," Valckesaid, adding that "at leasttwo major companies"have been in negotiatons.

Amid growing frustra-tion with FIFA since May27, when American andSwiss federal investiga-tions of alleged briberyand money-launderingwere revealed, current

sponsors have asked tomeet with FIFA manage-ment.

FIFA received a letterfrom sponsors this weekand will organize a brief-ing in August by its law-yers and marketing offi-cials, Valcke said.

Valcke spoke at a newsconference hours after Vi-sa said FIFA’s responsesto the recent crisis were"wholly inadequate."

"We believe no mea-ningful progress can bemade under FIFA’s exist-ing leadership," the Unit-ed States-based creditcard company said Thurs-day.

Long-time FIFA backerCoca-Cola and second-tiersponsor McDonald’s havealso broken ranks fromtheir traditional loyaltyby criticizing the footballbody’s handling of brib-ery allegations. Two of FI-FA’s eight vice presidentswere among 14 soccer andmarketing officials indict-ed in the United States inMay.

Blatter and Valcke areexpected targets in theU.S. Department of Jus-tice’s case.

FIFA’s slate of currentWorld Cup sponsors islooking thin as its seeksto fill 34 available slots fortwo-tournament packagestaking in the 2018 eventin Russia and the 2022tournament in Qatar.

Two top-tier sponsors,Dubai-based airline Emir-ates and Sony, were

among several commer-cial partners who did notrenew last year.

Only seven of 14 avail-able positions in FIFA’stop two commercial cate-gories have been filled,and none of the 20 slots ina new regional categorydesigned to increase reve-nue from the 2010-2014tournament cycle.

FIFA earned $1.63 bil-lion in marketing revenuetied to the 2014 tourna-ment in Brazil. Its total"event-related revenue" inthat four-year commercialperiod was more than $5.1billion, the governingbody’s accounts showedin March.

Valcke said the 2018tournament should beworth more and insistedFIFA was not behindschedule in signing dealsto meet its revenue tar-gets.

With some sponsorscommitted to other bigevents in 2016 - such asthe Olympics in Rio deJaneiro and the EuropeanChampionship - promo-tional campaigns tied tothe 2018 World Cup wouldtypically start after theyare finished, Valcke said.

Blatter’s right-handman since 2007 is unlikelyto clinch the new con-tracts. FIFA rules requirethe president to proposeappointing a secretarygeneral and a new leaderelected in February willwant to choose his ownperson, Valcke said.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter speaks during a news conference at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich,Switzerland on July 20.

Photo by Ennio Leanza | AP

Corruption halts sponsorsBy GRAHAM DUNBAR

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Dear Heloise: I wishparents/ employers wouldteach kids/employees toCOUNT BACK CHANGE.I think it would be a goodlesson and habit to get in-to.

If you buy an itemthat’s $1.49 total and paywith a $20 bill, you get$18.51 back in change.Please count it out for me.-- Ed in Mobile, Ala.

Let me count the waysto learn to count money!It starts in school (and athome) with basic arithme-tic. Parents can help chil-dren learn math andmake it fun even beforeschool age. When you getchange back from a trans-action, have the childcount the change. Whenyou leave a cash tip, askthem to count the amountleft on the table.

That said, employersmay have a certain waythey want change return-ed to the customer. Billsfirst, then coins, or viceversa. As a customer, youcan say politely, "Pleasegive me the bills first." --Heloise

PET PALDear Readers: Cheryl,

via email, sent in a pic-ture of her black-and-white 4-year-old cat, Pooh-pah -- the "love" of her day.When she is sitting in justa certain way, you can seeher two spots come to-gether to make a heart! Tosee Poohpah and our oth-er Pet Pals, visit my web-site, www.Heloise.com,and click on "Pet of theWeek." -- Heloise

CHEAP CAT TOYDear Heloise: I have

several house cats, andthey just love colorful,large craft "pipe cleaners."They form into all kindsof shapes. One cat lovestalking to his "toy," carry-ing it around and havinga great time. Such an in-expensive toy and morecherished than purchasedones. -- Ethel R., via email

“HELOISE

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