Hydrologic Technician Ryan Parker carries a water sample fromthe San Juan River on Tuesday, in Montezuma Creek, Utah. A spillcontaining lead and arsenic from an abandoned mine in Silverton,Colo., leaked and eventually flowed into the San Juan River, onAug. 5. The spill was caused by a team working for the EPA.

Photo by Matt York | AP

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— Townspeople affected bythe millions of gallons ofwaste spilled from anabandoned gold mine andnow flowing through theircommunities demandedclarity Tuesday about anylong-term threats to theirwater supply.

Colorado and New Mex-ico made disaster declara-tions for stretches of theAnimas and San Juan riv-ers and the Navajo Nationdeclared an emergency asthe waste spread morethan 100 miles down-stream, where it will reachLake Powell in Utah some-time this week.

EPA workers accidental-ly unleashed an estimated3 million gallons of orange-yellow waste, includinghigh concentrations of ar-senic, lead and other poten-tially toxic heavy metals,while inspecting the long-abandoned Gold King minenear Silverton, Colorado,on Aug. 5.

EPA Administrator GinaMcCarthy, who plans totour the damage personal-

ly, said Tuesday in Wash-ington, D.C., that she takesfull responsibility for thespill, which she said “painsme to no end.” She saidthe agency is workingaround the clock to assessthe environmental impact.

EPA officials said theshockingly bright plumehas already dissipated andthat the leading edge of thecontamination cannot beseen in the downstreamstretches of the San JuanRiver or Lake Powell.

So far, the Bureau ofReclamation has no plansto slow flows on the lowerColorado River, below LakePowell, where the water isa vital resource for parts ofCalifornia, Arizona, Neva-da, New Mexico and Utah.

Chris Watt, a bureauspokesman in Salt LakeCity, said his agency is test-ing the water at the re-quest of the EPA, and can’tdiscuss the impact withoutlearning the results.

None of this has easedconcerns or quelled angeramong people in the aridSouthwest who depend onthis water for their surviv-al.

MINING WASTE

POLLUTED WATERWAYS

Pete McKay, San Juan County commissioner in Colorado, looks at the site Monday where the Gold King Mine breach occurred, north ofSilverton, Colo. Local officials in towns downstream are demanding answers about possible long-term threats to the water supply.

Jon Austria/The Daily Times | AP

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The ZCISD Board ofTrustees accepted the re-signation of Superintend-ent Raul Nuques on Mon-day evening as well as ap-pointed an actingsuperintendent.

Trustees present wereRicardo Ramirez, ManuelGonzalez, Anselmo Trevi-ño, Dora Martinez, JoseFlores, Diego Gonzalezand Veronica Gonzalez.

Nuques was not presentwhen trustees voted 6 to 1

to approve his resignation.Veronica Gonzalez votedagainst.

In an unanimous vote,trustees also appointed Ro-berto Hein, who serves asa consultant for the dis-trict, to serve as acting su-perintendent.

Flores said Hein was ahigh school principal foreight years.

“I’m very happy that heis going to join us,” hesaid. “We felt we neededsomebody respectful tocome in at this time.”

Nuques’ resignation

was effective as of Monday.His contract was set to ex-pire June 2018.

After the vote, attorneyJuan Cruz read a jointstatement by Nuques andtrustees in regards to thevoluntary separationagreement.

“Both the ZCISD Boardof Trustees and Mr.Nuques believe that it isin ZCISD’s best intereststo allow Mr. Nuques’ resig-nation to be effective Aug.10 so that Mr. Nuques can

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For a second year in arow, Zapata County Inde-pendent School District’sFidel and Andrea R. Vil-larreal ElementarySchool was labeled “im-provement required,” ac-cording to recently re-leased accountability rat-ings.

“All faculty and stafffrom Villarreal Elemen-tary, stand up and be

proud,” said then-Super-intendent Raul Nuquesin an email to his col-leagues. “I can assureyou that you are on theroad to excellence.”

The district madegains with Zapata MiddleSchool, which was la-beled “improvement re-quired” last year. Thisyear, the school was la-beled “met standard.”

Nuques said the mid-

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HOUSTON — Six chil-dren who were fatally shotin their Houston homealong with two adults hadbeen temporarily removedby Child Protective Servic-es from the household in2013 after allegations ofabuse and a lack of super-vision.

The agency filed a law-suit in 2013 to remove thechildren. They were placedin foster care but were lat-er returned to the home.The case was dismissed in2014.

Texas Department ofFamily and Protective Ser-vices spokesman PatrickCrimmins said Tuesdaythat his agency can’t com-ment on why the JudgeGlenn Devlin dismissedthe lawsuit. A spokeswo-man for Devlin declinedcomment.

David Conley is chargedwith capital murder for thedeaths Saturday of the sixchildren, along with theirmother, Valerie Jackson,who was Conley’s ex-do-

mestic partner, and thewoman’s husband.

Carlos Sanchez, 40, wholived across the street fromthe family, recalled oncefinding the oldest child, 13-year-old Nathaniel, afterdark on a street in theneighborhood. The teenag-

HOUSTON HOMICIDE

David Conley makes his first court appearance Monday, in Houston.He is charged with capital murder in eight deaths.

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certaincircumstanceswhen we canmake entryand … wherewe can’t.Sometimes thelaw prohibitsthat.”SGT. CRAIG CLOPTON

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12The Webb County Heritage Foun-

dation will host a presentation andbook-signing on “Border Contraband: AHistory of Smuggling Across the RioGrande” by George T. Diaz from 6–8p.m. at the Villa Antigua Border Heri-tage Museum, 810 Zaragoza St. Bookswill be available for purchase. Contactthe WCHF at 956-727-0977 or visitwww.webbheritage.org or its Facebookpage.

St. Augustine High School willbegin its school year today. The firstday of school will be a half-day forstudents.

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.

Health Fair from 1–4 p.m. at In-ner City Branch Library, 202 W. PlumSt. Speak to health professionals attheir booths and learn more about lo-cal services that may benefit you.Giveaways available! For more informa-tion, contact John Hong at john@lare-dolibrary.org or 795-2400 x2521.

Azteca Economic Developmentpresents a series of small businessworkshops to help get your businessoff the ground. Learn Classes are freeand in English at the Goodwill on I-35and Mann Road from 6–8 p.m. Call726-4462 to register or for more infor-mation.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 14Veterans, their wives and their

children are invited to “Salute to Vet-erans” Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. atUnitrade Stadium, 6320 Sinatra Park-way. Call 235-0673.

South Texas Blood Bank blooddrive from 2–6 p.m., Stat EmergencyCenter, 2502 NE Bob Bullock Lp. StatCenter will donate $3 to the SouthTexas Food Bank for every pint collect-ed. Call Salo Otero, South Texas FoodBank, 324-2432.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 16Laredo Animal Protective Society

and Best Friends for Life are holdingtheir first annual rummage sale from8 a.m.–2 p.m. at 2500 GonzalezStreet. All proceeds will go to the con-struction of the Cat Village, a free-roaming community for cats and kit-tens.

MONDAY, AUGUST 17Beginning of staff development

for teachers in the Laredo and UnitedIndependent School districts.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18“Moving Forward in the Grief

Journey.” This workshop provides in-sight into what can keep one frommoving forward. From 6 to 7:30 p.m.at Laredo Public Library ConferenceRoom, 1120 E. Calton Rd. To registeror for questions contact 210-757-9425ext. 1703 or michelle.ramirez@gen-cure.org.

Azteca Economic Developmentpresents a series of small businessworkshops to help get your businessoff the ground. Classes are free and inEnglish at the Goodwill on I-35 andMann Road from 6–8 p.m. Call 726-4462 to register or for more informa-tion.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 20Azteca Economic Development

presents a series of small businessworkshops to help get your businessoff the ground. Classes are free and inEnglish at the Goodwill on I-35 andMann Road from 6–8 p.m. Call 726-4462 to register or for more informa-tion.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21South Texas Food Bank Empty

Bowls IX fundraiser, 6 p.m. dinner, 8p.m. concert, Laredo Energy Arena.Concert by Kansas. Table (of 10) spon-sorships start at $1,500, on sale fromSouth Texas Food Bank staff 324-2432.Concert tickets $10, $15, $25 availableat LEA box office and Ticketmaster.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22District Attorney Isidro “Chilo”

Alaniz and J’s Party Town invite you toa back-to-school supply drive from 10a.m. to 7 p.m. at J’s Party Town, 6516McPherson Rd. Show receipt of schoolsupplies and redeem it towards ridinggo-karts and paintball.

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Today is Wednesday, August12, the 224th day of 2015. Thereare 141 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in His-tory:

On August 12, 1985, theworld’s worst single-aircraftdisaster occurred as a crippledJapan Airlines Boeing 747 ona domestic flight crashed intoa mountain, killing 520 people.(Four people survived.)

On this date:In 1867, President Andrew

Johnson sparked a move toimpeach him as he defied Con-gress by suspending Secretaryof War Edwin M. Stanton.

In 1898, fighting in theSpanish-American War cameto an end.

In 1902, International Har-vester Co. was formed by amerger of McCormick Har-vesting Machine Co., DeeringHarvester Co. and several oth-er manufacturers.

In 1915, the novel “Of Hu-man Bondage,” by WilliamSomerset Maugham, was firstpublished in the United States,a day before it was released inEngland.

In 1939, the MGM moviemusical “The Wizard of Oz,”starring Judy Garland, had itsworld premiere at the StrandTheater in Oconomowoc, Wis-consin, three days before open-ing in Hollywood.

In 1944, during World WarII, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., el-dest son of Joseph and RoseFitzgerald Kennedy, was killedwith his co-pilot when theirexplosives-laden Navy planeblew up over England.

In 1953, the Soviet Unionconducted a secret test of itsfirst hydrogen bomb.

In 1960, the first ballooncommunications satellite —the Echo 1 — was launched bythe United States from CapeCanaveral.

In 1962, one day afterlaunching Andrian Nikolayevinto orbit, the Soviet Union al-so sent up cosmonaut PavelPopovich; both men landedsafely August 15.

In 1978, Pope Paul VI, whohad died August 6 at age 80,was buried in St. Peter’s Bas-ilica.

In 1981, IBM introduced itsfirst personal computer, themodel 5150, at a press confer-ence in New York.

In 1994, Woodstock ’94opened in Saugerties, NewYork.

Today’s Birthdays: For-mer Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., is 90. Actor George Ha-milton is 76. Actress DanaIvey is 74. Actress JenniferWarren is 74. Rock singer-mu-sician Mark Knopfler (DireStraits) is 66. Actor Jim Bea-ver is 65. Singer Kid Creole is65. Jazz musician Pat Methenyis 61. Actor Sam J. Jones is 61.Actor Bruce Greenwood is 59.Country singer Danny Shirleyis 59. Pop musician Roy Hay(Culture Club) is 54. RapperSir Mix-A-Lot is 52. Actor Pe-ter Krause is 50. Actor BrentSexton is 48. InternationalTennis Hall of Famer PeteSampras is 44. Actor-comedianMichael Ian Black is 44. Ac-tress Yvette Nicole Brown is44. Actress Rebecca Gayheartis 44. Actor Casey Affleck is40. Rock musician Bill Uechi(Save Ferris) is 40. ActressMaggie Lawson is 35. ActressDominique Swain is 35. Ac-tress Leah Pipes (TV: “TheOriginals”) is 27. Actress Ima-ni Hakim is 22.

Thought for Today: “Thesecret to life is meaninglessunless you discover it your-self.” — From “Of HumanBondage” by W. SomersetMaugham (1874-1965).

TODAY IN HISTORY

As people increasingly lean on computersto do their bidding — banking, exchangingmessages or sharing too many cat photos —the data generated must live somewhere.That’s why data centers, vast warehouses ofdigital information, are increasingly crop-ping up in Texas.

But those centers, packed with powerfulcomputers, suck huge amounts of energyfrom the power grid, costing tech companiesmillions of dollars in utility bills.

Now, the University of Texas at Austin andthe Japanese government are combiningforces to tackle that problem.

University and Japanese officials joinedTexas Secretary of State Carlos Cascos onTuesday to announce a roughly $13 millionproject aiming to make data centers more

energy efficient.“This project is urgently needed,” univer-

sity President Gregory Fenves said in astatement. “We are ever more dependent ondata, and at the same time, ever more con-scious of the need to utilize all sources of en-ergy.”

The effort will be hosted by the universi-ty’s 14-year-old Texas Advanced ComputingCenter, which supports research projectsacross the sciences and is home to one of themost powerful supercomputers in the coun-try. The project will give the center about $4million in additional computing capability,and researchers will examine the efficiencyof the equipment.

The Japanese government will foot the billfor virtually the entire project, which in-volves installing a 250-kilowatt solar farm topower the new computers on sunny days.

AROUND TEXAS

Texas Secretary of State Carlos Cascos speaks at a press conference at the University of Texas at Austin, where officials an-nounced a new partnership with the Japanese government aimed at boosting energy efficiency at data centers.

Photo by Gabriel Perez | The Texas Tribune

UT, Japan eye energyBy JIM MALEWITZ

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE

Inmate set to die forkilling mom gets reprieve

HUNTSVILLE — A 54-year-oldman set to die this week for hismother’s slaying more than 11years ago has won a reprieve.

Tracy Beatty had been sched-uled for lethal injection Thurs-day evening for the death of 62-year-old Carolyn Click in Novem-ber 2003. Beatty recently hadbeen paroled.

2 troopers wounded,suspect dead in shootout

ODESSA — One state trooperwas shot in the leg and anotherwas grazed in the hand in ashootout at a convenience storethat left a male suspect dead.

The shooting happened just af-ter 2 p.m. Tuesday.

Troopers were helping TexasRangers serve arrest warrantson a male aggravated assaultsuspect when the suspect re-fused. Gunfire erupted, killingthe suspect and wounding thetwo troopers.

Ex-officer charged over2013 armored car robbery

HOUSTON — A now-formerHouston officer has been accusedof helping pull off a 2013 ar-mored car robbery by monitor-ing police radios and later lyingabout it.

Joel Quezada was being heldTuesday pending an initial ap-pearance in federal court.

The 33-year-old Quezada facesa charge of extortion under colorof official right.

Houston police say bodyof girl, 9, found in bayou

HOUSTON — Police say a 9-year-old girl was found dead in abayou after she wandered out ofthe family’s apartment.

Investigators did not immedi-ately release the name of thechild discovered dead Tuesdaymorning.

Authorities say the girl’s fam-ily was looking for her when herbody was located in White OakBayou.

Communal spider websprawls on trees

ROWLETT — A sprawling spi-der web at a Dallas-area park hasattracted thousands of insectsand the attention of people curi-ous about arachnids.

Officials with the Texas A&MAgriLife Extension Service saythe communal web has emergedin Rowlett.

Thousands of spiders can beseen darting among the websthat extend up to 40 feet into thetrees.

Training at Fort Hood toclose some roads

FORT HOOD — Some roads inthe Fort Hood area will be closedfor about two weeks during atraining exercise called the Iron-horse Challenge.

Officials at the Central Texaspost say the closures beginWednesday. Civilian drivers canexpect to see an increase in mil-itary vehicle traffic in the area.

— Compiled from AP reports

Some prisoners say theywere beaten after escape

ALBANY, N.Y. — Inmates whoknew the two convicted killerswho escaped from a maximum-security prison in northern NewYork reported beatings by guardstrying to determine where thepair went, according to a legalservices group.

Prisoners’ Legal Services ofNew York has received severalcomplaints from inmates on thatClinton Correctional Facilityhonor block, who were latermoved to other prisons, manag-ing attorney James Bogin saidTuesday. Many were transferredand spent time in solitary con-finement and some are still mis-sing their clothes and other be-longings, he said.

Firm shuts plant overLegionnaires’ bacteriaRALEIGH, N.C. — Drugmaker

GlaxoSmithKline shut down a

plant Tuesday that produces in-haled medications after discover-ing the bacteria that causes Le-gionnaire’s disease, a potentiallyfatal form of pneumonia.

The manufacturing plant inZebulon, about 25 miles east ofRaleigh, was closed after routine

testing found the bacteria incooling towers. About 400 of the850 employees who work in Zebu-lon were told to stay away untilthe towers are cleaned, officialsfor the London-based companysaid.

— Combined from AP reports

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\South Korean college students talk with inmate Larry Swan, right, about his ex-perience caring for a cat, named Shaun, while in Larch Prison in Yacolt, Wash.The group visited the prison to learn about its cats-and-inmates program.

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2015 State THE ZAPATA TIMES 3A

AUSTIN — Rick Perryhas raised so little moneyfor his second-chance presi-dential bid that he’s stoppedpaying his campaign staff-ers, the kind of cash crisisthat could normally sink acandidate.

But the former Texasgovernor has well-fundedsuper PACs that say they’reready to step in and keephis message afloat at leastthrough Iowa, where Perryhas spent more time thanany other White Househopeful.

It’s the latest sign of howinfluential outside groups— armed with small cadresof million-dollar donors —are reshaping presidentialpolitics.

Perry raised only about$1 million in his first monthof campaigning, a sum thatisn’t enough to cover hispayroll. But a pair of pro-Perry outside groups, eachwith “Opportunity andFreedom” in its name,amassed almost $17 millionover the same period.

Those groups, both superpolitical action committees,are barred by federal rulesfrom talking directly to thecandidate they support.

But it became apparentrecently to Austin Barbour,the Republican operativewho leads them, how impor-tant their role would have tobecome. The groups beganspending money not just onadvertisements, but also onemployees who can fill rolesnormally left to the tradi-tional campaign.

They hired an Iowa direc-tor and deputy director, whonow are building out a su-per PAC-run ground gamein the state that weighs infirst in the presidentialnominating season. Barboursaid he’s prepared to hirestaff in other early primarystates, if necessary.

“We saw in the campaignfinance reports that theydidn’t raise as much as any-one would have liked, and

we knew what that meant— that they were going tohave to go lean and meanwhile we would need to di-versify what we were doingto help the governor,” Bar-bour said. “We’re buildingPerry’s Iowa team. There’snothing in the playbook thatsays we can’t do that as asuper PAC.”

Even with so much out-side help, money problemsplaguing Perry’s campaignthis early could leave futuredonors — as well as poten-tial primary voters — won-dering whether he can sur-vive for the long haul in thecrowded a GOP field.

“It’s the deterioration ofthe campaign and there’s nopretty face, no makeup youcan put on it,” said Bill Mill-er, a Texas-based GOP strat-egist. “It’s like a NASCARrace. He’s doesn’t have thepole position and now he

doesn’t even have a full tankof gas.”

Yet reports on Tuesday ofPerry’s money troublesprompted a longtime friendof the former governor togive the super PACs$100,000, Barbour said, de-clining to name the contrib-utor.

Perry’s official campaignis continuing as best it can,said Jeff Miller, his cam-paign manager. All but onestaff member has agreed tocontinue working withoutpay, and Perry will be inSouth Carolina later thisweek before returning to Io-wa next week, Miller said.

“Are we raising as muchmoney as we’d like to? No.Are we still going to contin-ue the governor’s regularvisits every week to earlystates? Yes,” Miller said. “Ifyou perform in these earlystates, how much money

you raise doesn’t matter.”Perry’s not alone in rely-

ing heavily on super PACs.Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jin-dal and former technologyexecutive Carly Fiorina alsoare leaning on outsidegroups to build name recog-nition. Former Pennsylva-nia Sen. Rick Santorum’sex-campaign manager andtwo other staff members re-cently left his financiallytroubled campaign to forma super PAC supportinghim.

In 2012, the support of asuper PAC helped formerHouse Speaker Newt Gin-grich win South Carolina’sprimary and continue com-peting for the presidency af-ter traditional campaignmoney dried up.

Word that Perry hasstopped paying campaignstaffers comes after he nar-rowly missed polling high

enough to make the mainevent at last week’s GOP de-bate, despite a rush of ex-pensive national TV adver-tising that sought to boosthis numbers and win him aplace on stage.

Perry spokeswoman LucyNashed says he’ll stay fo-cused on competing in Iowa,as well as the subsequentprimaries in New Hamp-shire and South Carolina.

His campaign’s Iowa statechairman, Sam Clovis, saidTuesday he would continueworking as a volunteer —and didn’t know any Iowacampaign staffers whoweren’t following suit.

“I know everything thereis to know about running acampaign with very littlemoney,” Clovis said.

Jamie Johnson, a Perrysenior campaign director inIowa, said he’d already “got-ten an offer from another

campaign — and I’m stay-ing.”

Donors can give $2,700maximum per election tocampaigns, but there are nolimits on what they can giveto super PACs. Dallas busi-nessmen Kelcy Warren andDarwin Deason gave a totalof $11 million to the superPACs backing Perry, eventhough Warren also servesas the finance chairman forPerry’s official campaign.

The groups would have towait 120 days to bringaboard anyone currentlywith the official Perry cam-paign. But Barbour said thegroups have hired differentpeople, while refusing to sayhow many are now on thesuper PAC payroll.

Opportunity and Free-dom has spent more than $2million so far on pro-Perryads and will continue to pro-vide such messaging.

Rick Perry may need his super PACsBy WILL WEISSERT AND

JULIE BYKOWICZASSOCIATED PRESS

Republican presidential candidate, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, waves to the crowd as he steps to the podium to speak at the RedState Gathering in Atlanta, on Aug. 7. Perryhas stopped paying his presidential campaign staff amid slow fundraising that has left his 2016 bid cash-starved after barely two months.

Photo by David Goldman | AP

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There are not manywholly new areas to openup in economic policy. Butrecent months have seen awave of innovative propos-als directed at improvingeconomic performance ingeneral and middle-classincomes in particular, notthrough government ac-tions but through man-dates or incentives de-signed to change businessdecisionmaking. The goalis to cause companies andtheir shareholders to oper-ate on longer time hori-zons and to more gener-ously share the fruits ofcorporate success withtheir workers, customersand other stakeholders.

There are stronggrounds for interest insuch approaches. After theevents of recent years, thecase for relying on specula-tive markets to drive thereal economy — to whatev-er extent it had validityc0151 is surely attenuated.Instances where successfulcompanies with strongmanagement teams andtrack records of invest-ment have been forced tocurtail investment plansby activist shareholdersare proper causes of con-cern. And all of us wouldlike to see middle-class in-comes do a better job ofkeeping up with productiv-ity gains than has been thecase in recent years.

Even as proposals forcorporate reform respondto legitimate policy imper-atives, they also tap intothe current zeitgeist in an-other way. Just as there iswidespread unhappinesswith market outcomes,confidence in governmentis at a low ebb. So the ideaof achieving reform notthrough traditional gov-ernment programs but al-tered business behavior ishighly appealing.

The debate on corporatebehavior is, I believe, a ve-ry valuable one that getsin a fundamental way athow American capitalismfunctions. In many aspects,it represents an overduerecognition of basic mar-ket principles. Businesseswill raise wages to thepoint where the costs ofraising them are balancedby reduced costs of recruit-ing and motivating work-ers. At that point, a fur-ther increase in wages willnot appreciably changetheir total costs but willcertainly matter to work-ers. So there is a strongcase for robust minimumwages.

There is also a strongcase for regulating aspectsof compensation. Usuallycompetition results in de-sirable economic arrange-ments, but not always, es-pecially when there arerisks of races to the bot-tom. A firm that tries tostand out by offering espe-cially attractive familyleave benefits, job securityor an egalitarian wage

structure may attract a dis-proportionately risk-averseworkforce. So there is astrong case for using man-dates to level the playingfield. Profit-sharing hasproven benefits in terms ofincreased productivity, buta firm that stands out byoffering profit-sharing mayencounter difficulties inrecruitment among waryworkers. So there is astrong case for providingcompanies with incentivesto choose this option.

Matters are not as clearas is often suggested re-garding short-term-driven“quarterly capitalism,”and I believe skepticism isappropriate toward argu-ments that horizonsshould be lengthened in allcases. A generation ago,Japan’s keiretsu system,which insulated corporatemanagement from shareprice pressure by tyinglarge companies together,was widely seen as a greatJapanese strength; yeteven apart from Japan’smanifest macroeconomicdifficulties, Japanese com-panies lacking market dis-cipline have squanderedleads in sectors rangingfrom electronics to auto-mobiles to informationtechnology. Managementsof companies that are dis-sipating the most value,such as General Motors be-fore it needed to be bailedout, have often been themost enthusiastic cham-pions of long-termism.Market participants whowillingly place huge valua-tions on many Silicon Val-ley companies that lackany profits and have littlerevenue may be placingtoo much, not too little,weight on the distant fu-ture. That, at least, is theimplication of the technol-ogy bubbles we have seen.

Corporations that arehoarding cash earningnothing in the bank or inTreasury bills would becheered, not jeered, by themarket if they could bepersuaded to put thosefunds to productive use.Most corporations are inthis situation. The chal-lenges are usually thatcompanies do not haveproductive uses availablefor the cash or that they dobut can’t convince inves-tors of those projects’ val-idity. Pushing corporationsto invest without havingprojects that are good can-didates for investment iswasteful. And stopping ordiscouraging them fromdistributing funds to share-holders is dangerous if itresults in mindless take-overs.

The real need is for acadre of trusted, tough-minded investors who cancredibly commit to strongmanagement teams andprovide assurances to abroader range of investorsso productive investmentscan get made. How thatcan best be accomplishedwhile maintaining marketdiscipline is the crucialchallenge going forward.

COMMENTARY

A long viewon corporate

reformBy LAWRENCE SUMMERS

SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON POST

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Six and a half days aweek, my summer retire-ment uniform is shortsand a shirt with necessarypocket and a collar prefer-able.

The other half day?That’s Sunday, of course,and that means church.Blessedly, this church israther informal althoughyou’ll see a suit and tiehere and there. Regularjeans are perfectly fine.

As for shoes, I’ve gone aroute I’d never followedbefore…sandals. They’releather and c-o-m-f-y, cush-ioned and cool. I do a goodsartorial imitation of mygood friend Murray Jud-son, co-publisher of ThePort Aransas South Jetty.That’s been his businessuniform for years. Ofcourse, he and mate Maryown the paper, so they canpretty much do as theyplease.

Unfortunately, I onlyowned (partly) one paper Ipublished and worked forother ownership, so theuniform of the day variedfrom coat and tie to slacksand a sport shirt.

But, I digress. Back tothe genesis of my shorts-wearing career.

Growing up as the son

of a rancher-cattle traderand a farm-raised mother,jeans were the order of theday. By the time I’dreached junior high, I dis-covered the teen-preferredjean was Levis.

Somehow, those didn’tfit me very well. Motherexplained to me that I was“long-waisted” like her.That meant that my near-six-foot frame boasted apants inseam of 30.5 inch-es. If the bottom half of mehad matched the top half, Iwould’ve been 6-2, 6-3 andhad an inseam of 34 or 35.

We lived on a farm/ranch until the end of mysecond-grade year whenwe move “to town.”

So, jeans have alwaysbeen an integral part ofmy wardrobe.

However, shorts werenot so cool when I wasyoung. They were regard-ed as “sissy.” Jeans oroveralls were fine.

As mentioned, we livedout in a rural area andwere close to the town ofDonie, which at that time

had its own school system.There was one school butit included grades 1-12.

I rode a bus to DonieSchool. Our house wasabout 100 yards from thebus stop where it turnedaround and head towardDonie. We were at the endof the line.

Each morning I trudgedto the bus stop. When itrained, the road was mud-dy. If it was spring, sum-mer or early fall, I didn’tcare because I could gobarefoot to school it thetemperature was above 60.

On this particularmorning, I was at the busstop and there was a largepuddle of water there froma rain the day before. Iwas playing by the puddleand fell down in it, ofcourse. I went screamingtoward the house tellingMother my plight. Shetook me in and told methat she hadn’t been ableto do laundry for a fewdays due to the rain (longexplanation for thisspace), and all I had wasshort pants. I moaned andcried and pleaded to stayhome.

“I can’t wear sissyshorts to school!” I de-clared. “The big boys will

pick on me and tease me!” She was having none of

it. So I trudged back downto the bus stop.

I got on the bus andthere were a few kids nearmy age on the bus. Theyjust looked at me and sti-fled snickers. All thewhile, I’m scared to deaththat someone — some big-ger someone — is going tocall me sissy.

Fear became reality as Iwalked onto the schoolgrounds from the bus.There were all the kidsgrades 1-12 and “the bigboys” began teasing meand calling me sissy. Ifthey’d been more literate,they might’ve called meLittle Lord Fauntleroy.

I alternately cried andfought all day. I was so re-lieved when I got homeand Mother informed meshe’d washed and ironed(wash-n-wear wasn’t in-vented then) my meagersupply of jeans.

I could walk tall andproud the next day at Do-nie School.

Willis Webb is a retiredcommunity newspaper edi-tor-publisher of more than50 years experience. He canbe reached by email atwwebb1937@att.net.

COLUMN

Shorts not good for school

The Colorado jury thatfound James Holmesguilty of murdering 12 peo-ple in an Aurora movietheater three years ago hasdecided against the deathpenalty, instead giving himlife without parole.

As long-time opponentsof the death penalty, wethink the jury was correctin sparing his life sincetaking a life undermines

the principle that killing iswrong.

But even those who fa-vor execution as punish-ment should recognizethat it would not havebeen right to executesomeone who is mentallyill, as Holmes so clearly is.

The jury of nine womenand three men, after delib-erating for less than sevenhours Friday, announced itwas not unanimous in fa-vor of execution as the law

requires for its imposition.Holmes, 27, a once-

promising neurosciencegraduate student, hadbeen on trial since Aprilfor one of the country’sworst mass shootings inrecent years. The savageryof his actions on the nightof July 20, 2012, when heturned a multiplex screen-ing of a new Batman filminto a slaughterhouse iswithout question. In addi-tion to the 12 people — in-

cluding a 6-year-old girl —who were killed, 70 peoplewere injured, some griev-ously. The pain of thesepeople — whose storiesmoved the jurors to tears— cannot be imagined orignored.

In sending Holmes toprison for the rest of hislife, the state has held himlegally responsible for hisactions. Executing thissick man would have beenwrong.

EDITORIAL

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A task force on Mondayrecommended the Universi-ty of Texas at Austin eitherrelocate statues of Confeder-ate leaders or add explana-tory plaques.

The 12-person advisorypanel of students, alumniand administrators issuedrecommendations to UT-Austin President GregoryFenves, who commissionedthe report in June, on thesame day three statuteswere vandalized.

The report suggested fiveoptions, four of which in-volve moving one or morestatues from the South Mallto a history center on cam-pus. A fifth option suggestedleaving the statues in placeand adding plaques to ex-plain historical context. Thepanel considered the place-ment of six statues on UT’scampus, four depicting Con-federate leaders includingPresident Jefferson Davis,one of U.S. President Wood-row Wilson and one of for-mer Texas Gov. JamesHogg.

Fenves will review the re-port before making a finaldecision, according to theuniversity.

“Statues have layers ofmeaning: aesthetic, histori-cal, aspirational, and educa-tional. History is not inno-cent; it is the living founda-tion for the present,” thereport said. “The universi-ty’s approach to changingand replacing monumentson campus should be con-servative but not uncriti-cal.”

A majority of the panelthought the Dolph BriscoeCenter for American Histo-ry is “a natural choice forrelocation” because it could“place the statues in appro-priate historical and educa-tional contexts, rather thanleaving the statues decon-textualized but holding aprominent place of honoron campus,” the report said.The panel also suggestedmoving the statues to cam-pus educational centers ded-icated to humanities, arts orsciences. Another proposedlocation was the LittlefieldHome, a Victorian-stylehouse built in 1893 for theformer Confederate soldierand UT regent George Lit-tlefield, who commissionedthe statues.

“It was a lot of healthydiscussion,” said Xavier Rot-nofsky, UT-Austin studentgovernment president and apanel member. “It was anacademic environment sowe set emotions aside andjust came and talked aboutthe history, the artistry andthe controversy.”

The five options suggest-ed by the panel were:

Leaving the statues,but adding an explanatoryplaque. The panel noted thismight continue to attractvandalism and could beconsidered “’airing ourdirty laundry’ in what is in-escapably the most promi-nent part of campus — theplace where graduation isheld; this would be ratherlike engaging in vigorousself-criticism on the univer-sity’s home page.”

Moving only the Davisstatue and an inscriptionhonoring the Confederacy.

Moving all six statuesand the inscription.

Moving just the fourConfederate leaders and theinscription.

Moving the statue ofWilson, three Confederateleaders and the inscription.

The task force was askednot to take cost into consid-

eration, said Gregory J. Vin-cent, the university’s vicepresident for diversity andcommunity engagement. IfFenves chooses to addplaques to the existing stat-ues, Vincent said the panelrecommended the signs“stick to the facts.”

“These were erected atduring a time of neo-Confed-erate ascension,” he said.“It was part of an opportu-nity to revise history to talkabout the power of the Con-federacy.”

The statues have been agrowing source of contro-versy at the university,which has Confederate lead-ers commemorated on itsSouth Mall. In March, thestudent assembly adopted aresolution asking UT to re-move the most controversialstatue of Davis. The nextmonth, that statue was van-dalized when someonetagged it with the phrase“Davis Must Fall.”

Fenves announced thecreation of the task force inJune, after another bout ofvandalism.

Three statues at the University of Texas at Austin that commemo-rate Confederate leaders were vandalized in June 2015.

Photo by Matthew Watkins | The Texas Tribune

Choices givenfor UT statues

By ALLY MUTNICK THE TEXAS TRIBUNE

ARLINGTON — Thebrother of a college footballplayer killed by police at aTexas car dealership ques-tioned Monday whetherdeadly force was needed inthe confrontation, whichcan’t be seen on video be-cause there were no sur-veillance cameras insidethe showroom.

Joshua Taylor, 23, toldThe Associated Press thathe’s not angry with policebut thinks “things couldhave been handled differ-ently.” He’s also perplexedby security footage show-ing his brother, ChristianTaylor, breaking into a carin the dealership lot andcrashing his vehicle intothe glass showroom beforepolice arrived.

The lack of video footagefrom inside the dealershipmakes it difficult to have aclear picture of how theevents leading up to the un-armed 19-year-old’s deathtranspired, Joshua Taylorsaid.

“It’s pretty much theirstory against somebodywho’s not here anymore,”he said. “It’s kind of hardto I guess justify or clarify,but at the end of the day Iknow my brother. I knowhe wouldn’t attack any offi-cer or anybody in author-ity at all, or attack anybodyfor that matter.”

In interviews with theAP, Taylor’s parents de-clined to talk about the fa-tal confrontation becausethey are waiting on addi-tional information from au-thorities.

Arlington police havesaid officers arriving to aburglary call early Fridayfound Christian Taylorroaming inside the show-room of the dealership. Po-lice have said the officerstold Taylor to surrender

and lie down on theground, but he refused.They saw him trying to es-cape the showroom andpursued him.

Police have said the inci-dent ended with officerBrad Miller shooting hisservice weapon four times,hitting Taylor at leasttwice. Miller, who joinedthe force last year and wasstill completing his fieldtraining, has been placedon administrative leave.

The officer with Miller— his field training officer,a nearly two-decade veter-an — used his Taser, butnot a gun.

In a recording of radiotraffic of the incident re-leased Monday, someonecan be heard saying,“We’ve got shots fired,”about two minutes after of-ficers say they’ve spotted aman inside the building.

Police say they are inves-tigating Taylor’s death as acriminal case and to deter-mine whether departmentrules were broken.

The shooting comesamid increased scrutiny

nationwide of police use offorce, particularly in casesinvolving black suspects.Taylor was black; Millerwas white.

About 35 demonstratorsgathered outside Arlingtonpolice headquarters Mon-day evening to protest theshooting. The group ex-pressed anger as theychanted the names of un-armed black men who havebeen shot by police.

There were no arrestsduring the demonstration.

Richard McCray, a cou-sin of Christian Taylor,says he worries about howhis five sons can be safefrom police. “What am Isupposed to tell them? Istill haven’t found thewords,” he said.

Taylor’s mother, TinaTaylor, said police have nottold the family what direct-ly preceded the shooting oftheir son, who graduatedfrom high school in Arling-ton last year and was play-ing football at Angelo StateUniversity in San Angelo.

Sgt. Christopher Cooksaid Monday that investiga-

tors cannot yet offer detailson the confrontation be-tween Taylor and police be-cause they have not com-pleted their interviews.

David Lancaster, generalmanager at Classic BuickGMC, said the showroomhas an alarm system butno video surveillance. Ar-lington police officers donot have body cameras, soauthorities have said thereis no video showing theconfrontation that led tothe shooting.

Joshua Taylor said hesaw his brother sleepingThursday night, just hoursbefore the incident. Chris-tian Taylor hadn’t indicat-ed that he planned to goout later.

Family and friends saythat what happened is espe-cially perplexing becauseChristian Taylor was agood student who had alsobecome quite spiritual.

His father, Adrian Tay-lor, said, “His relationshipwith God had escalated tothe point where he’d talkabout it so much, you’dthink he was a preacher.”

Brother not angry at policeBy JAMIE STENGLE AND

EMILY SCHMALL ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ramon Mejia writes with chalk on the pavement outside the Arlington Police Department during avigil for Christian Taylor, on Monday, in Arlington. Taylor was killed at a car dealership.

Photo by G.J. McCarthy/The Dallas Morning News | AP

Notice of Public Meeting to DiscussBudget and Proposed Tax Rate

The Zapata ISD will hold a public meeting at 6:00 AM 08/18/2015 in PDC Building 1702 17th St Zapata,Texas. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the school district’s budget that will determine the taxrate that will be adopted. Public participation in the discussion is invited.The tax rate that is ultimately adopted at this meeting or at a seperate meeting at a later date may not exceedthe proposed rate shown below unless the district publishes a revised notice containing the same informationand comparisons set out below and holds another public meeting to discuss the revised notice.

Maintenance Tax$1.040000/$100 (proposed rate for maintenance and operations)

School Debt Service TaxApproved by Local Voters $0.000000/$100 (proposed rate to pay bonded indebtedness)

Comparison of Proposed Budget with Last Year’s BudgetThe applicable percentage increase or decrease (or difference) in the amount budgeted in the preceding fiscalyear and the amount budgeted for the fiscal year that begins during the current tax year is indicated for eachof the following expenditure categories. Maintenance and operations 1.060000% increase or %decrease

Debt Service 0.000000% increase or %decrease Total expenditures 1.060000% increase or %decrease

Total Appraised Value and Total Taxable Value(as calculated under Section 26.04, Tax Code)

Preceding Tax Year Current Tax YearTotal appraised value* of all property $1,499,877,674 $1,236,449,987Total appraised value* of new property** $7,578,849 $11,992,521Total taxable value*** of all property $1,471,425,790 $1,212,906,265Total taxable value*** of new property** $7,578,849 $7,481,045*Appraised value is the amount shown on the appraisal roll and defi ned by Section 1.04(8), Tax Code.** “New property” is defi ned by Section 26.012(17), Tax Code.*** “Taxable value” is defi ned by Section 1.04(10), Tax Code.

Bonded IndebtednessTotal amount of outstanding and unpaid bonded indebtedness* $0

*Outstanding principal.

Comparison of Proposed Rates with Last Year’s RatesMaintenance & Interest & Local Revenue State RevenueOperations Sinking Fund* Total Per Student Per Student

Last Year’s Rate $1.040000 $0.000000* $1.040000 $4,518 $5,399Rate to Maintain Same Level of Maintenance & Operations Revenue & Pay Debt Service $1.040000 $0.000000* $1.040000 $3,889 $6,085Proposed Rate $1.040000 $0.000000* $1.040000 $3,856 $6,027*The Interest & Sinking Fund tax revenue is used to pay for bonded indebtedness on construction, equipment, or both. The bonds, and the tax rate necessary to pay those bonds, were approved by the voters of this district.

Comparison of Proposed Levy with Last Year’s Levy on Average ResidenceLast Year This Year

Average Market Value of Residences $75,847 $74,490Average Taxable Value of Residences $42,031 $35,709Last Year’s Rate Versus Proposed Rate per $100 Value $1.040000 $1.040000Taxes Due on Average Residence $437.12 $371.37Increase (Decrease) in Taxes $0.00 $-65.75Under state law, the dollar amount of school taxes imposed on the residence homestead of a person 65 years of age or older or of the surviving spouse of such a person, if the surviving spouse was 55 years of age or older when the person died, may not be increased above the amount paid in the fi rst yearafter the person turned 65, regardless of changes in tax rate or property value.Notice of Rollback Rate: The highest tax rate the district can adopt before requiring voter approval at an election is $1.000049. This election will be automatically held if the district adopts a rate in excess of the rollback rate of $1.000049.

Fund BalancesThe following estimated balances will remain at the end of the current fi scal year and are not encumberedwith or by a corresponding debt obligation, less estimated funds necessary for operating the district before receipt of the first state aid payment.Maintenance and Operations Fund Balance(s) $13,600,423Interest & Sinking Fund Balance(s) $991,896

6A THE ZAPATA TIMES Nation WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2015

FERGUSON, Mo. — Thereturn of an armed militiagroup patrolling thestreets of Ferguson drewcriticism Tuesday fromboth protesters and thecounty police chief over-seeing security amid ongo-ing demonstrations mark-ing the anniversary of 18-year-old Michael Brown’sshooting death.

St. Louis County PoliceChief Jon Belmar said theovernight presence of theOath Keepers, wearingcamouflage bulletproofvests and openly carryingrifles and pistols on WestFlorissant Avenue, the hubof marches and protestsfor the past several days,was “both unnecessaryand inflammatory.”

Belmar plans to askprosecutor Bob McCullochabout the legality ofarmed patrols by the far-right anti-government ac-tivist group, which largelycomprises past and pre-sent members of the mili-tary, first responders andpolice officers. But Missou-ri law allows anyone witha concealed carry permitto openly display a firearmanywhere in the state.

John Karriman, a repre-sentative of the group whoteaches at the MissouriSouthern State Universitypolice academy, said therewere five armed OathKeepers at the Mondaynight protests and that an-other 45 or so unarmed

group members were sta-tioned nearby to try tohelp keep the peace. Hesaid members plan to re-main in Ferguson “at leastthrough the end of theweek.”

“A handful of us werevisible,” Karriman, a for-mer police officer in Jo-plin, Missouri who ran un-successfully as a Libertar-ian Party candidate forcounty sheriff in south-west Missouri. “The rest ofus are behind the scenes.”

Oath Keepers previous-ly showed up in Fergusonin November after a grandjury declined to indict for-mer Ferguson officer Dar-ren Wilson in Brown’sdeath, saying they sta-tioned themselves alongseveral downtown rooftopsto protect businesses fromrioting and looters. Karri-man said the groupstepped in only after Mis-souri Gov. Jay Nixon de-clined to summon the Na-tional Guard in the after-math of the grand jurydecision.

County police orderedthem to leave then, butgroup members intermit-tently returned. The fivearmed Oath Keepers, all ofwhom appeared to bewhite, interacted freelywith police late Mondayand early Tuesday but en-dured catcalls and jeersfrom demonstrators.

Protest organizer Na-beehah Azeez called thepresence of the armedmen “a contradiction inhow things work.”

Armed civilians with a group known as the Oath Keepers arrivein Ferguson, Mo., on Tuesday.

Photo by Jeff Roberson | AP

Militia’s returnraises concern

By ALAN SCHER ZAGIERASSOCIATED PRESS

LOWER LAKE, Calif. —Wildfires are chargingthrough several states inthe parched West, scorch-ing homes and forcingpeople to flee. Flames areplaguing some Californiaresidents, who had toevacuate for the secondtime in recent weeks afterblazes exploded in size.

Here’s a look at wild-fires burning throughWestern states:

NORTHERN CALI-FORNIA: A NorthernCalifornia blaze morethan doubled in size over-night despite cooler tem-peratures and higher hu-midity.

The fire, which eruptedSunday several miles fromthe community of LowerLake, had burned nearly19 square miles, accordingto the California Depart-ment of Forestry and FireProtection.

For the second time inas many weeks, residentshad to evacuate theirhomes because of the un-contained fire lighting uprocky hills about 100miles north of San Fran-cisco.

More than 1,100 fire-fighters are battling theblaze that is threatening50 structures. No homeshave been destroyed, andno injuries have been re-ported.

Meanwhile, firefightershave nearly surroundedthe larger nearby blazethat started about twoweeks ago and has burned109 square miles. That firedestroyed 43 homes, butall evacuations have beenlifted.

SOUTHERN CALI-FORNIA: Crews madeheadway Tuesday againsta small wildfire in ruralRiverside County thatchased people from theirhomes and left one personburned.

The blaze sparked by aburning motor home hasbeen held to just under500 acres about halfwaybetween Temecula andPalm Desert, state fire of-ficials said. It is partiallycontained.

Evacuation orders re-

main for residences justeast of State Route 74, butit’s not clear how manyhomes or people are af-fected.

The blaze near Anzastarted in the motor homeand spread to vegetationMonday. One person inthe motor home sufferedburns, and three firefight-ers were taken to hospi-tals with minor injuries,officials said.

MONTANA: A fire hasburned about 3 squaremiles in heavy timber inGlacier National Park,prompting some trail andcampsite closures.

The flames spotted Sun-day afternoon were threat-ening a historic patrol ca-bin and come weeks aftera bigger blaze led visitorsto evacuate campsites andresorts in the park duringprime tourist season.

Crews are fighting thenew fire from the airTuesday because it is insuch remote, rugged ter-rain.

Problems with firefight-ing efforts could arisewith temperatures be-tween 95 and 100 degrees

expected Tuesday throughThursday and strongwinds Friday.

The older fire continuesto burn, remaining atnearly 7 square miles andmore than halfway con-tained.

ARIZONA: Authoritiessay a 10-square-mile wild-fire near the Arizona-Cali-fornia line that forced anevacuation order is now40 percent contained.

Officials said crews onTuesday worked to holdthe blaze in the HavasuNational Wildlife Refugeamid favorable weatherconditions and relativelylight winds.

Suppression actionscontinued on the perime-ter of the Willow Firewith firefighters improv-ing established fire linesand initiating mop-up.The fire broke out Satur-day.

Officials say the evac-uation order was liftedlate Monday morning for900 homes after crewsmade solid efforts in pro-tecting them and condi-tions there became morefavorable.

Byron Steward, emer-gency management coor-dinator for Mohave Coun-ty, says around 100 homesin the Topock area will re-main evacuated becausethey’re near 11 homesthat were burned Satur-day.

ELSEWHERE IN THEWEST:

A big wildfire burn-ing along the west shoreof Lake Chelan has grownto nearly 54 square miles,but firefighters were keep-ing it away from the com-munities of Holden Vil-lage and Stehekin.

A wildfire in LewisCounty, Washington,charred about 100 acresand was controlled Tues-day.

In Alaska, the fireseason has officially be-come the second biggeston record. More than 5.08million acres — or 7,940square miles — hasburned this year. Firespokesman Sam Harrelsays Alaska won’t beat the6.6 million acres burnedin 2004 because the statehas entered its seasonalwet period.

Blazes grow as fires roast WestASSOCIATED PRESS

A helicopter drops water on the Willow Fire in Mohave Valley, Arizona. Authorities said 300 firefightersare battling the fire amid strong winds and low humidity.

Photo by Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun | AP

Sports&OutdoorsWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2015 ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM

OXNARD, Calif. — If youare wondering why the Dal-las Cowboys signed GregHardy, look no further thanlast weekend’s Hall of Fameinduction of defensive endCharles Haley for the an-swer.

Haley was never accusedof domestic assault. Evenmore, there were no glaringlegal incidents on Haley’sledger during his 13-year ca-reer with the San Francisco49ers and the Cowboys thatincluded five Super Bowl ti-tles.

But he was also no choir-boy. He was mean to histeammates, an old-schoolbully most of the time. For-mer safety Darren Woodsonrecently recalled Haley asbeing "absolutely crazy." Hisformer wife diagnosed himwith manic depression,which he detailed in hisrousing Hall of Famespeech.

The Cowboys knew allwas not right with Haleyand that he was a toughplayer to deal with. But theytraded for him anyway inwhat owner Jerry Jonescalls one of the three great-est off-schedule moves thathelped turn the Cowboys in-to three-time Super Bowlchampions in the 1990s.

The first was the Her-schel Walker trade with theMinnesota Vikings, netting

the Cowboys a boatload ofdraft picks that became thefoundation of those titleteams.

The second was the ac-quisition of Haley in a tradewith the 49ers to give theCowboys the pass rusherthey lacked and the edgethey needed on defense towin their first title in 1992.

The third was the free-agent signing of cornerbackDeion Sanders, who keyedthe third Super Bowl title in1995.

"Each one of them im-pacted us to win a SuperBowl," Jones said. "Obvious-ly if we don’t make the Her-schel Walker trade then wehave a difficult time to pulla Super Bowl off to beginwith. There is no questionin my mind without Char-

les Haley we don’t win a Su-per Bowl. He was that in-strumental. It was prettyclear Deion was on the op-posing team and they winthe Super Bowl. We switchhim to our team and wewin the Super Bowl. That’sabout as clear as you cando. That’s in three cases."

This is where Hardycomes in. The Cowboysknow his history. Theyknow his issues. They havetheir eyes wide open. Theyalso know if they hope toturn last year’s 12-4 team in-to a champion this season,they needed an impact play-er on defense to put themover the top. They see Har-dy as the player who not on-ly could be a difference-maker on the field, but alsoone who can give them that

emotional and psychologicaledge they need to become achampion.

That was the samethought process they hadwith Haley.

"Charles Haley was thereason we won our first Su-per Bowl," former Cowboysguard Nate Newton said."He was our first SuperBowl. We needed that defen-sive impact much like thisteam needs now. It needssomebody that is going tocommand two or three guysin a certain situation. That’swhat they hope for withGreg Hardy."

Newton was not alone.Former Cowboys defensive

tackle Tony Casillas alsoreferenced Haley when talk-ing about Hardy’s potentialimpact on this team.

He is the pass rusherthey need. He will com-mand double teams, whichwill make his teammatesbetter. He also has that pas-sionate edge they hope willbecome contagious on de-fense.

The Cowboys feel fortu-nate to get Hardy. Much likeHaley, if Hardy didn’t havean issue in another place,he wouldn’t have been avail-able for the Cowboys. Jonessaid you need moves out-side the NFL draft, in termsof player acquisition, to helpput a team over the top.

"Those are additions thatdon’t come the normal way,"Jones said. "When you askabout a move like Hardy. it’sbecause the league is prettyscripted you are going to go.500. Things have to fall outof script for it to go good.

"We have seen Deion andCharles dictate a SuperBowl. Herschel Walker dic-tated a Super Bowl becauseof what you got in a trade."

The Cowboys believeHardy can have a cham-pionship impact or theywouldn’t have signed him.The key is making sure theonly trouble he gets into iswith opposing quarterbacks.

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: DALLAS COWBOYS

Hardy following HaleyBy CLARENCE E. HILL JR.

MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

The Cowboys are hoping the signing of defensive end Greg Hardy is similar to their acquisition of Hallof Famer Charles Haley in the 1990s.

Photo by Gus Ruelas | AP

FLORHAM PARK,N.J. — New York Jetsquarterback GenoSmith will be sidelinedat least 6-10 weeks afterbeing punched in thejaw by teammate Ike-mefuna Enemkpali.

Coach Todd Bowlesmade the announce-ment before trainingcamp practice Tuesday.

Enemkpali, an out-side linebacker in hissecond season, hasbeen released by theJets, according to Bow-les.

Bowles says Smithand Enemkpali got intoan “altercation” in theJets’ locker room Tues-day morning in whichSmith was “sucker-punched.” The coachadds that it had “noth-ing to do with football”and it was something“very childish,” with-out going into details.

Smith required sur-gery to repair the jaw.Ryan Fitzpatrick willassume the starting job.

LBbreaksSmith’s

jawBy DENNIS WASZAK JR.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

DECOMISOElementos Fuerza Ta-

maulipas logaron el decomi-so de casi 1.000 kilogramosde marihuana en MiguelAlemán, México.

Tras un reporte ciudada-no, que señalaba que variaspersonas descargaban pa-quetes de una camionetanegra, elementos de seguri-dad acudieron a la casa 127de calle Industria de laConstrucción de la ColoniaInfonavit Industrial, dondese decomisaron 935 kilos y500 gramos de marihuana.

Los policías estatales lo-calizaron la camioneta conredilas de tres toneladas. Lapuerta principal de la vi-vienda estaba abierta, per-mitiendo se observaran va-rios paquetes apilados, se-ñala un comunicado deprensa.

El vehículo y los narcóti-cos fueron puestos a dispo-sición del Ministerio Público.

REPORTEElementos policiales

logaron el decomiso de1.444 paquetes de marihua-na, que dieron un peso to-tal de 10 toneladas, a lolargo de la frontera chica.

Los decomisos se logra-ron en Miguel Alemán, Ca-margo, Gustavo Díaz Ordazy Río Bravo, México, desdeel 1 de enero al 30 de julio,de acuerdo con un comuni-cado de prensa.

En Miguel Alemán se lo-gró el decomiso de 5.364kilogramos; mientras enReynosa fueron 3.773 kilos;Río Bravo con 1.184 kilos y68 gramos; y Camargo con32 kilos y 500 gramos, se-ñala un comunicado deprensa.

Igualmente se logró eldecomiso de 1.184 dosis decocaína.

Durante los decomisosde narcóticos también selograron asegurar 1.582poncha llantas.

FIRMA DE LIBROSEl día de hoy, la Fun-

dación de la Herencia/Patri-monio del Condado deWebb organiza una presen-tación pública y firma de li-bros por parte de George T.Diaz, autor de “Border Con-traband: A History of Smug-gling Across the Rio Gran-de”, de 6 p.m. a 8 p.m. enel Museo Villa Antigua Bor-der Heritage, en 810 de ca-lle Zaragoza en Laredo. Ha-brá libros a la venta. Paramás información llame al(956) 727-0977 o visitewww.webbheritage.org or onfacebook.

DONACIÓN DE SANGREEl viernes, el Banco

de Alimentos del Sur de Te-xas organizará un centro dedonación de sangre en StatEmergency Center, en 2502de NE Bob Bullock Loop deLaredo, de 2 p.m. a 6 p.m.El centro donará 3 dólaresa STFB por cada recolec-ción durante el día. Más in-formación llamando al 324-2432.

TORNEOEl Torneo Anual de

Pesca Infantil ‘Back toSchool’ organizado por laCámara de Comercio de Za-pata, en su quinta edición,se realizará el sábado 22 deagosto. El evento se realiza-rá de 7 a.m. a 3 p.m. enBravo Park Pond.

Se están aceptando pa-trocinadores desde 300 dó-lares hasta 2.000 dólares.Para más información con-tacte a la Cámara de Co-mercio de Zapata, ubicadaen 601 N. US Hwy 83 o lla-mando al (956) 765-4871.

REGRESO A CLASESLos estudiantes asis-

tentes al Zapata County In-dependent School District,regresarán a la escuela, ellunes 24 de agosto.

Ribereñaen Breve

La Junta de Fideicomisarios deZCISD aceptó la renuncia del Su-perintendente Raúl Nuques, lanoche del lunes, igualmente asig-naron un superintendente interi-no.

Los fideicomisarios presentesfueron Ricardo Ramírez, ManuelGonzález, Anselmo Treviño, DoraMartínez, José Flores, DiegoGonzález y Verónica González.

Nuques no estaba presentecuando los fideicomisarios vota-ron 6 a 1 para aprobar su renun-cia. Verónica González votó encontra.

Por voto unánime, los fideico-misarios asignaron a RobertoHein, quien sirve como asesor del

distrito, como superinten-dente interno.

Flores dijo que Hein fuedirector de preparatoriapor ocho años.

“Estoy muy feliz de quese una a nosotros”, dijo.“Sentimos que necesitamosa alguien respetuoso en es-te momento”.

La renuncia de Nuques fueefectiva desde el lunes. Su contra-to se extendía a junio de 2018.

Después de votar, el abogadoJuan Cruz leyó una declaraciónconjunta por Nuques y los fidei-comisarios en relación al acuer-do de separación voluntaria.

Tanto la Junta de Fideicomisa-rios de ZCISD y el señor Nuquescreen que es para el mejor inte-rés de ZCISD permitir la renun-

cia del señor Nuques a par-tir del 10 de agoto, paraque de esa manera el señorNuques pueda buscar otrasoportunidades de empleo.Durante su periodo comosuperintendente el señorNuques ha servido a ZCISDbien. A nombre de todo el

distrito, la junta de fideicomisa-rios expresa su aprecio al señorRaúl Nuques por un trabajo bienhecho y por servir a este grandistrito escolar y sus maravillo-sos estudiantes, padres de familiay administrativos”, dijo.

La renuncia de Nuques llegódos meses después de que señala-ra que su relación con la junta decomisionados estaba “mejor quenunca”, incluso después de un in-cidente que involucró que azota-

ra una puerta durante una reu-nión.

Durante una reunión especialel 4 de julio de ZCISD, mientrasestaba en una sesión cerrada conlos fideicomisarios, Nuques azotóuna puerta mientras salía de laoficina.

Más tarde aclaró el incidente,diciendo que había “resbalado”mientras salía de la oficina car-gando dos carpetas.

Los fideicomisarios comenza-rán a buscar un superintendentepermanente “tan pronto comosea posible, de manera que no secompliquen las operaciones deldistrito”, dijo Cruz en la declara-ción conjunta.

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Por segundo año consecutivo, Fideland Andrea R. Villarreal ElementarySchool de Zapata County IndependentSchool District (ZCISD por sus siglas eninglés) fue clasificada en “requiere me-joras”, de acuerdo con las calificacionesescolares publicadas recientemente.

“Todos los maestros y personal de Vi-llarreal Elementary, levántense y esténorgullosos”, dijo el entonces Superinten-dente de ZCISD District, Raúl Nuquesen un correo electrónico a sus colegas.“Les puedo asegurar que están en cami-no a la excelencia”.

El distrito tuvo mejora en la secunda-ria Zapata Middle School, que fue eti-quetada con “requiere mejoras” el añopasado. Este año, la escuela fue etique-tada como “cumple con el estándar”.

Nuques dijo que la secundaria era elúnico campus en todo el distrito que su-bió en cada uno de los cuatro índices.

Los distritos y las escuelas recibenya sea una etiqueta de “cumple con elestándar” o “requiere mejoras” basadoen la capacidad de cumplir con los si-guientes índices: aprovechamiento estu-diantil, progreso estudiantil, cierre debrechas de desempeño y preparaciónpost secundaria.

Mientras el estado registra todo eldesempeño en los exámenes estatales,también conocidos como Evaluación dePreparación Académica de Texas, oSTARR (por sus siglas en inglés), tam-bién se evalúan las tasas de graduacióny sub-poblaciones, como educación es-pecial y estudiantes con inglés limitado.

Las escuelas Zapata High, BenavidesElementary, Zapata North y ZapataSouth Elementary también recibieronla calificación de “cumple con el están-dar”.

(Localice a Judith Rayo en el (956) 728-2567 o en jrayo@lmtonline.com)

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Primaria‘requieremejoras’

POR JUDITH RAYOTIEMPO DE ZAPATA

Recién organizado el Centro An-tirreleccionista de México, Fran-cisco I. Madero se va a promover-lo. Todavía sin candidatos, llega engira a tierras del Mayab y despuéscon destino a la Sultana del Norte,pisa suelo tamaulipeco.

“El País”, diario capitalino, ubi-ca a Madero en Progreso, Yucatán.Vía marítima, de ahí sale el 4 dejulio de 1909. Encabeza antes “im-portante reunión política” a la que“el pueblo en masa acudió […] consus entusiastas aclamaciones”. In-tegran la comitiva, la esposa deMadero, Sara Pérez, y Félix Pala-vicini.

“El 11 de los corrientes se cele-brará otro mitin […] en la capitalde Nuevo León”, añade el reporte.Ninguna referencia hace al tránsi-to por Tamaulipas.

Sabemos en cambio que pocoadelante trasponen la bocana delrío Pánuco y al desembarcar to-pan con pésimas arterias. “Las ca-lles principales” de Tampico “es-tán ya bastante quebradas y llenasde baches, aumentado […] el […]considerable número de enferme-dades alarmantes”, indica el 7 dejulio la corresponsalía de “ElPaís”.

Rumbo a los comicios federales,impera enorme inquietud. El ban-do oficialista acumula divisiones.Unánimes todos en que PorfirioDíaz se reelija al frente del poderejecutivo; para la vicepresidenciasólo unos respaldan a Ramón Co-rral, mientras los demás simpati-zan con Bernardo Reyes. Tamauli-pas resiente las consecuencias.

Respecto a Tampico, “el únicoque cuenta con inmensas simpa-tías es […] Corral, en cuyo honorhízose” el 9 el junio “colosal mani-festación popular”, afirma “ElPaís”.

“El País” reproduce asimismo:“Informa ‘El Imparcial’ que en la”

referida urbe porteña “se ha for-mado un club reyista, compuestode doscientas personas, en su ma-yoría menores de edad, y agregaque en aquella población no se to-ma en serio la candidatura del ge-neral [Bernardo] Reyes”, impulsa-da por “vagos, enemigos de latranquilidad pública”. Preside “ElApóstol de la Democracia” veladael 8 de julio de 1909 al interior delTeatro Apolo de Tampico, atrás dela ahora Catedral.

Presagio“A […] Tampico –publica “El

País”—acaban de llegar los CC.Francisco A. [sic] Madero y FélixPalavicini, propagandistas de laanti-reelección”. Prosigue: “Algu-nos periódicos dicen que el arribode estos caballeros […] fue untriunfo ruidosísimo; otros, como‘El Imparcial’, para no citar más,dicen que fue un fracaso”.

Parece improbable que la asam-blea desluciera. Termina sin dudafavoreciéndola enojosa circunstan-cia. Disciplinándose, Bernardo Re-yes está próximo a rechazar en de-

finitiva cualquier apetito vicepre-sidencial. Colgados de la brocha,avizoran los respectivos seguido-res posibilidades de refugio en fi-las del antirreleccionismo. Muchorevela que al evento tampiqueñoconcurra Alberto Aragón, propie-tario del coliseo, haciéndole segun-da Manuel de León, quienes inclu-so suben al proscenio. Lo anterior,porque ambos dirigen el club re-yista del estado, conforme mencio-na “El Imparcial” en nota aparte.

Descarta así Madero dedicarle aTamaulipas actos complementa-rios. Urgido de alcanzar territorioregiomontano, plaza fuerte del re-yismo al garete, aborda el Ferroca-rril del Golfo, sin detenerse enCiudad Victoria. “Irán a Monte-rrey, donde proyectan […] granmanifestación mañana domingo”11 de julio de 1909, concluye “ElPaís”. Madero y los exreyistas alfinal marchan unidos. Se cumpli-ría el presagio del Teatro Apolo.

(Con permiso del autor segúnfuera publicado en La Razón, Tam-pico, agosto 2015)

COLUMNA

Promueven evitar reelección en TamaulipasNota del Editor: El autor habla so-

bre la promoción del Centro Antirre-leccionista en el norte de México.

POR RAÚL SINENCIO CHÁVEZESPECIAL PARA TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

CULTURA

ENCUENTRO TEATRAL

El lunes dio inicio la trigésima cuarta edición del Encuentro Estatal de Teatro Rafael Solana en Tampico, México. Durante elencuentro se presentarán grupos teatrales de las ciudades de Ciudad Victoria, Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa y Tam-pico, México. Además se ofrecerán conferencias y seminarios impartidos por los maestros Rodolfo Obregón, Alberto Villar-real, David Jiménez, Alain Kerriou y Jorge Gayón.

Foto de cortesía | Gobierno de Tamaulipas

MCALLEN— Una organiza-ción católica de beneficencia queopera como un centro de apoyopara los inmigrantes en McAllen,dijo que consiguió que trabaja-dores de la ciudad montaran unacarpa grande porque la cantidadde personas utilizando el centropara pasar la noche ha aumenta-do considerablemente en el últi-

mo mes.La hermana Norma Pimentel,

directora ejecutiva de CatholicCharities del Valle de RíoGrande, dijo al diario The Mon-itor de McAllen que los 762 mi-grantes en el centro durante juliorepresentan un aumento del 29%frente al nivel máximo del añopasado.

Agregó que el aumento re-ciente comenzó a finales de junio.

Solicitó que se colocara una car-pa de 7,6 por 10 metros (25 por 35pies) para acomodar a otras 35personas y mantener a hombresseparados de mujeres y niños.

El portavoz de la PatrullaFronteriza, Omar Zamor, dijo quela agencia está capturando unpromedio mensual de 250 a 300personas que entran al país sinautorización más que en mesesrecientes.

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BEIJING — China rattledglobal financial marketsTuesday by devaluing itscurrency — an effort, inpart, to revive economicgrowth.

The yuan’s value de-clined 1.9 percent, its big-gest one-day drop in a dec-ade. The move could helpChinese companies by mak-ing their products less ex-pensive in global markets.U.S. stocks plummeted, part-ly on fears about a worsen-ing economic slowdown inChina.

WHAT EXACTLY DIDCHINA DO? China doesn’tlet its currency trade freelyin financial markets as theUnited States does. Instead,it links the yuan’s value tothe U.S. dollar. Then it re-stricts trading to a band 2percent above or below adaily target set by the Peo-ple’s Bank of China. OnTuesday, the central bankset the target 1.9 percent be-low Monday’s level — thebiggest one-day change in adecade. It also made a tech-nical change to give marketforces more influence in de-

termining the yuan’s value:Its daily target will now bebased on the previous day’sclosing value. That changewill allow the yuan to makebigger, faster moves up ordown and better reflect in-vestors’ outlook on the pros-pects for China and its cur-rency, said David Dollar, se-nior fellow at the BrookingsInstitution.

WHY DID CHINA DE-VALUE ITS CURRENCY?The People’s Bank of Chinasaid it acted because theyuan has been rising evenwhen market forces say itshould be falling. WorriedChinese have been movingmoney out of the country,putting downward pressureon the yuan. Yet the yuanhas remained up anywaybecause of its link to thedollar, which has been ris-ing. An overvalued yuanhas hurt Chinese exportersby making their productsmore expensive overseas. InJuly, Chinese exportsplunged 8.3 percent yearover year.

China’s economy alreadyneeded help. The economyis expected to grow lessthan 7 percent this year, itsslowest rate since 1990, andcould decelerate even more

next year. The stock markethas been in a freefall sinceJune.

“This move won’t solvesome of the pressing prob-lems China faces,” SungWon Sohn, an economist atCalifornia State UniversityChannel Islands, cautionedin a research note. “Thereis too much excess capacity,especially in basic industri-es like steel, aluminum ... Areal-estate bubble is aliveand well. Chinese banks areloaded with a lot of problemloans. The gyration in thestock market won’t goaway.”

HOW WILL CHINA’S

TRADING PARTNERSBE AFFECTED? Investorsfear the worst. U.S. stockssank Tuesday, draggeddown by falling shares insuch big exporters as Ca-terpillar and General Elec-tric. In theory, a weakeryuan could reduce exportsof U.S. goods to China, al-ready down nearly 5 per-cent this year throughJune.

But economists doubtthat a one-day 2 percentdrop in the yuan — a moveChina has called a one-timeevent — will do much dam-age to exports from theUnited States or other

countries. “Two percent is no big

deal,” said Mark Zandi,chief economist at Moody’sAnalytics. “Ten percentover the next few monthswould be a big deal.”

American politicians,who have long charged thatChina keeps its currencyartificially low to give its ex-porters an edge, denouncedthe devaluation.

“Today’s news that Chinahas yet again lowered thevalue of its currency is an-other harsh reminder thatwe cannot afford to sit idlyby as China refuses to playby the rules,” Ohio Republi-can Sen. Rob Portman saidin a statement.

But economists didn’t seeBeijing’s move as an effortto defy market forces andreduce the yuan to an artifi-cially low level. Rather, theyperceived an attempt byChina to catch up to an eco-nomic reality that dictates acheaper yuan. And the planto let market forces play abigger role in determiningthe yuan’s level is some-thing the U.S. governmentitself has called for.

In a statement, the U.S.Treasury Department said:“China has indicated that

the changes announced to-day are another step in itsmove to a more market-de-termined exchange rate. Wewill continue to monitorhow these changes are im-plemented and continue topress China on the pace ofits reforms.”

MIGHT THE FEDER-AL RESERVE DELAY ARATE HIKE? Probablynot. True, a cheaper yuanhurts U.S. exporters andlikely depresses U.S. infla-tion, which is already belowthe annual 2 percent ratethe Fed targets. But Tues-day’s move wasn’t bigenough by itself to makemuch difference. So the Fedis likely to go ahead, possi-bly at its September meet-ing, and raise the short-term rate it controls, whichhas been pinned near zerosince 2008. The U.S. econo-my grew at a steady 2.3 per-cent annual from Aprilthrough June, and U.S. un-employment has fallen to aseven-year low 5.3 percent.

If the U.S. economy con-tinues to look healthy, wroteJP Morgan Chase econo-mist Michael Feroli, “theyuan move will largely be asideshow ‘’ by September’sFed meeting.

What China’s devaluation means to the worldBy JOE MCDONALD AND

PAUL WISEMANASSOCIATED PRESS

China devalued its currency on Tuesday following a slump in trade,triggering the yuan’s biggest one-day decline in a decade.

Photo by Andy Wong | AP

SANTIAGO, Cuba — This500-year-old city smells offresh paint and varnish.

Residents stroll along a re-cently completed harbor pro-menade under gleaming newstreetlights, enjoying seabreezes while relaxing onnewly installed metal benches.

Missing are the tourists. Asforeign visitors flood Havanaand a select group of other co-lonial cities and beach resorts,Cuba’s second-largest city issuffering a tourist drought.

Santiago saw less than atenth of the tourist traffic inHavana last year and less thana 20th of the visitors to thebeach resort of Varadero evenamid large-scale governmentinvestment in renovating thecity for its 500th anniversarythis summer. Other Cubansare seeing similarly stagnantvisitor numbers despite thedramatic surge in overalltourism set off by the an-nouncement of detente be-tween the U.S. and Cuba.

That’s raising concerns thata rising tide of tourist dollarswill leave some areas of Cubabooming and others strug-gling against a backdrop ofbroader economic stagnation.

“They’re promoting Havanaand the center of the countrybut they’ve forgotten aboutSantiago,” said Gladys Dome-nech, who rents tourists aroom in her home in the his-toric center that features aterrace with a sweeping viewof the Caribbean.

The city sits about 500miles east of Havana on high-ways that narrow outside thecapital to horrifically ruttedroads clogged with horsecarts, bicyclists and straycows. The journey by roadcan last 15 hours, and farlonger in Cuba’s notoriouslyunreliable and uncomfortableinter-city buses. Train and do-mestic plane tickets are vir-tually impossible to obtainwithout waiting hours in linesthat may or may not end insatisfaction. There are onlythree flights a week from theU.S.

Cruise ships provide a

promising new potentialsource of visitors, althoughdockings here remain relative-ly rare.

“It’s tough for those who goto Havana and want to comehere,” said Virgen Maria Jer-ez, owner of an elegant pri-vate restaurant near Dome-nech’s home in central Santia-go. “Transport is vital andwe’re disconnected.”

Those who do reach Santia-go find a city rich with histo-ry but hampered by what vis-itors and residents alike callsubstandard accommodations,few high-quality restaurantsand a lack of fun things to doat night. Cuban officials saySantiago has roughly 1,500 ofCuba’s 60,000 hotel rooms, farfewer than it needs.

Santiago’s promoters la-ment that tourists are missingout on the city’s rich Afro-Cu-ban culture, its meanderingstreets, colonial architectureand its prized role as thehome of Cuban musicalgenres such as trova and son.

What’s more, it has aunique underwater park withseven ships sunk during theSpanish-American War, acces-

sible by small boat or a scubadive.

“It’s a treasure that we haveto show off,” said VicenteGonzalez, head of Santiago’sCenter for Cultural and Natu-ral Underwater Heritage.

Along with the new ocean-front malecon and the restora-tion of homes in the city’s his-toric center, the Cuban gov-ernment has built a newtheater and an artisanal brew-pub as part of a broader re-construction and improve-ment effort that began afterHurricane Sandy devastatedthe city in 2012.

Another potential draw,particularly for Americantourists, is the memorial toTheodore Roosevelt’s RoughRiders, who fought on thecity’s San Juan Hill in one ofthe most famous battles of theSpanish-American War thatfreed Cuba from Spanish rule.

But virtually every touristestablishment in the city clos-es at 10 p.m., leaving thestreets dark and silent.

Last year, Santiago had297,918 visitor-days, an indus-try measure of the number oftourists who arrived in the

city multiplied by the numberof days each stayed. That wasa 6 percent rise over 2013, butthe overall number remainstiny compared to flow of tour-ists in Havana, which hadnearly 3 million visitor days,or Varadero with 7.8 million,according to Jose Luis Perello,a professor of tourism at theUniversity of Havana.

Some advocates of U.S. trav-el to Cuba says they are opti-mistic about Santiago’s future,particularly since Americantourists remain barred frompure tourism and must parti-cipate mostly in cultural oreducational activities well-suited to historic sites likeSantiago.

“The city and the regionhave much to offer. It’s just aquestion of time before tour-ism in Santiago starts grow-ing,” said Tom Popper, head ofinsightCuba, one of the largestoperators of U.S. tours to Cu-ba.

“U.S. tourists can go to anypart of the Caribbean for thebeaches, but what they wantto see is the Cuba that theyhaven’t been able to see forgenerations.”

Boom prompts exclusion fearsBy ANDREA RODRIGUEZ

ASSOCIATED PRESS

People return to a farm with their horses after attending a rodeo in Santiago, Cuba. As foreign visitors flood Havanaand a group of other colonial cities and beach resorts, Cuba’s second-largest city is suffering a tourist drought.

Photo by Ramon Espinosa | AP

BOGOTA, Colombia — The crematedremains of Nobel Prize-winning novel-ist Gabriel Garcia Marquez are makingtheir return journey home to Colombiaand starting in December will be exhib-ited in the Caribbean city of Cartagenawhere he began his writing career.

The decision to permanently exhibitthe remains at colonial-era cloister in

the port city’s historicdowntown was the re-sult of an agreementreached between au-thorities and GarciaMarquez’s family, JuanCarlos Gossain, gover-nor of Bolivar state,told The AssociatedPress.

While books such as“100 Years of Solitude” are infused withGarcia Marquez’s reminiscences fromhis Colombian upbringing, many spec-ulated his ashes would remain in Mex-ico, where he lived for decades and re-ceived a state funeral following hisdeath in 2014 at the age of 87.

Colombian friends of the author, whois known almost universally as “Gabo,”celebrated the decision.

Garcia Marquez, who was born in abanana-growing hamlet near the Carib-bean, arrived in Cartagena in 1948 andimmediately landed a job as a journal-ist at local newspaper El Universalwhile continuing his law studies.

The walled city was the setting forone of his best-selling novels, “Love inthe Time of Cholera,” and his familystill maintains a seafront house thereas well as a foundation established bythe author to train Latin Americanjournalists.

“These first years in Cartagena werea transcendent moment in the youngwriter’s life,” fellow writer and long-time confidant Plinio Apuleyo Mendozatold The Associated Press. “Cartagenais at the center of the vast Caribbeanregion that was so linked to his life, hisexperiences and his work.”

The building where Garcia Mar-quez’s remains will be kept is ownedby the University of Cartagena. Gos-sain said a bronze bust of the authorsculpted by his friend, British artistKate Murray, will be part of the exhib-it.

Colombia tohost author’s

ashesBy LIBARDO CARDONA

ASSOCIATED PRESS

MARQUEZ

ACAPULCO, Mexico —Miguel Angel Jimenez, apolitical activist who playeda prominent early role inthe search for 43 studentsand other missing people insouthern Mexico, was slainover the weekend, an asso-ciate said Monday.

The bullet-ridden body ofJimenez, a member of theUnion of Towns and Organ-izations, or UPOEG for itsinitials in Spanish, wasfound in a car near a townwhere he had helped founda community police pro-gram.

UPOEGleader BrunoPlacido con-firmed thedeath andsaid Jimenezhad receivedthreats relat-ed to his

search efforts.Jimenez began organiz-

ing searches for 43 teach-ers’ college students whowent missing after theywere detained by police lastSeptember in Guerrerostate.

Prosecutors say corruptlocal police in the city ofIguala turned the studentsover to members of a drug

cartel, the Guerreros Uni-dos, who killed the studentsand incinerated their bod-ies.

But the searches Jime-nez led into the mountainssurrounding the city turn-ed up clandestine gravesfilled with other bodies.

Placido said the deaththreats may have comefrom Guerreros Unidos andJimenez had returned tohis hometown of Xaltian-guis in Guerrero to be safer.

Jimenez was found deadon the outskirts of Xaltian-guis, and relatives buriedhim there Sunday.

Jimenez played a keyrole in expanding the

search effort to includehundreds of other Igualaresidents whose relativesdisappeared during the car-tel’s reign of kidnappingsand killings.

While he gradually relin-quished leadership of thesearch efforts after Novem-ber, he continued to supplyinformation and said hehad new leads.

“He was always lookingfor somebody to help,” saidXitlali Miranda, one of theactivists in the Igualasearches. “He was one ofthe first people to say, ‘Ifthese aren’t the students(bodies), then who arethey?”’

In July, Mexico’s attor-ney general’s office con-firmed that at least 60 clan-destine graves with 129 bod-ies have been found so faron the outskirts of Iguala.Most of the bodies remainunidentified.

Jimenez also organizedcommunity police efforts tofight kidnappings, killingsand extortion by criminalgangs, and drives to docu-ment vote fraud in June’smidterm elections.

In an April interviewwith Kara Andrade, a doc-toral student at AmericanUniversity, Jimenez said hehad received death threatsfrom “people who are in-

volved in things and whoseinterests I have impacted.”

“They’ve chased me, inmy town (Xaltianguis)they’ve tailed and followedme from place to place,” Ji-menez said.

Still he kept up his activ-ism in Guerrero, a stateplagued by drug traffickingand cultivation, gang bat-tles, extortion, illegal log-ging and land disputes.

“I don’t do this becauseof me or the abuses we livenow. I do this for the nextgeneration and for my chil-dren,” Jimenez said. “Ifsomeone doesn’t sacrificethemselves right now, I askmyself who will?”

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dle school was the onlycampus district wide thatincreased in every one ofthe four indexes.

Districts and schools re-ceive either a “met stan-dard” or “improvement re-quired” label based on theability to meet four index-es: student achievement,student progress, closingperformance gaps and post-secondary readiness.

While the state tracksoverall performance onstate exams, also known as

the State of Texas Assess-ments of Academic Readi-ness, or STAAR, it alsoevaluates graduation ratesand subpopulations, likespecial education and limit-ed English proficient stu-dents

Zapata High, BenavidesElementary, Zapata Northand Zapata South Elemen-tary also received a “metstandard” rating.

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RALEIGH, N.C. —Months before the Rev. Mar-tin Luther King Jr. deliver-ed his famous “I Have aDream” speech to hundredsof thousands of people gath-ered in Washington in 1963,he fine-tuned his civil rightsmessage before a muchsmaller audience in NorthCarolina.

Reporters had coveredKing’s 55-minute speech at ahigh school gymnasium inRocky Mount on Nov. 27,1962, but a recording wasn’tknown to exist until Englishprofessor Jason Millerfound an aging reel-to-reeltape in a town library. Mill-er played it in public for thefirst time Tuesday at NorthCarolina State University.

“It is part civil rights ad-dress. It is part mass meet-ing. And it has the spirit ofa sermon,” Miller said.“And I never before heardDr. King combine all thosegenres into one particularmoment.”

King used the phrase “Ihave a dream” eight timesin his address to about 2,000people at Booker T. Wash-ington High School inRocky Mount, eight monthsbefore electrifying the na-tion with the same words atthe March on Washington.

He also referred to “the

sons of former slaves andthe sons of former slaveowners,” saying he dreamedthey would “meet at the ta-ble of brotherhood.” On theLincoln Memorial steps,King changed that to “sitdown together at the tableof brotherhood.” In both,“Let Freedom Ring” servedas his rallying cry.

“It’s not so much themessage of a man,” the Rev.William Barber, president ofthe state chapter of theNAACP, said Tuesday. “It’sthe message of a movement,which is why he kept deliv-ering it. It proves onceagain that the ‘I have adream’ portion was not agood climax to a speech formere applause, but an en-during call to hopeful resist-ance and a nonviolent chal-lenge to injustice.”

Miller discovered the re-cording while researching“Origins of the Dream,” hisbook exploring similaritiesbetween King’s speechesand the poetry of LangstonHughes. His ah-ha momentcame when he learnedthrough a newspaper storyabout a transcript of thespeech in state archives. Ifthere’s a transcript, thenthere must be a recording,he thought.

He sent emails and madecalls until he eventuallyheard back in the fall of2013 from the Braswell Pub-lic Library in Rocky Mount,where staff said a box withthe recording had myste-riously appeared on a deskone day. Handwriting on thebox described it as a record-ing of King’s speech, andsaid “please do not erase.”

King audiotape foundBy MARTHA WAGGONER

ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this Aug. 28, 1963, photo, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ges-tures during his “I Have a Dream” speech.

File | Associated Press

DENVER — Edible mar-ijuana products in Colora-do may soon come labeledwith a red stop sign, ac-cording to a draft of newrules released Wednesdayby state marijuana regula-tors.

The state may also banthe word “candy” from ed-ible pot products, even ifthey’re sweets such assuckers or gummy chews.

The new pot symbol —an octagon stop-sign shapewith the letters “THC” toindicate marijuana’s psy-choactive ingredient —would have to be on indi-vidual edible items, notjust labels. Liquid marijua-na products would be lim-ited to single-serve packag-ing — defined aa 10 milli-grams of THC.

Regulators rejected anearlier proposal to markedible pot with a weed-leafsymbol after a parents’group complained thesymbol would simply at-tract children, not dis-suade them from eatingthe products.

The proposed ruleswere released as the Col-orado Marijuana Enforce-ment Division works onnew guidelines for ediblemarijuana, which can bebaked into cookies orbrownies or added to a diz-

zying array of items fromsodas, to pasta sauces, togranolas.

The agency tried andfailed last year to imple-ment a requirement thatedible marijuana have adistinct look when outsideof its packaging, a require-ment passed by state law-makers last year amid con-cerns that some peoplewere accidentally eatingfood infused with marijua-na.

The state alreadybanned pot manufacturersfrom using cartoon charac-ters on packaging or mak-ing “look-alike” productssuch as candies designedto mimic common foods.But the state has seen spo-radic reports of people un-knowingly eating pot. Per-haps most famous was aman hospitalized after un-

knowingly eating pot-in-fused chocolate at the 2014Denver County Fair.

The new edible pot rulesface a public hearing be-fore final adoption.

Marijuana regulators inColorado have until Janu-ary to implement a 2014law requiring edible mari-juana to have a distinctlook when outside its pack-aging. The law was passedafter reports of people acci-dentally eating foods in-fused with marijuana.

The agency tried butfailed to come up withthose rules last year afterseveral meetings with potmanufacturers. The manu-facturers complained thatthe law would be unwieldywhen it comes to liquidproducts or anything be-sides hard candies or cook-ies.

‘Candy’ label faces banBy KRISTEN WYATTASSOCIATED PRESS

Edible marijuana products in Colorado may soon come labeledwith a red stop sign as the state is finalizing rules for packaging.

Photo by Brennan Linsley/file | AP

OXFORD, Miss. — Ayoung Mississippi couplewho are charged with at-tempting to join the IslamicState were ordered heldwithout bail Tuesday, pend-ing federal grand jury ac-tion on the charges.

Twenty-year-old JaelynDelshaun Young and 22-year-old Muhammad “Mo”Dakhlalla, who were arrest-ed at a Mississippi airportjust before boarding a flightwith tickets bound for Istan-bul, went before U.S. Magis-trate Judge S. Allan Alexan-der on Tuesday in Oxford.

Alexander denied bail,saying that even though thepair have never been introuble with the law andhave relatives willing tooversee their home confine-ment, she believed their de-sire to commit terrorism is“probably still there.”

During the two-day hear-ing, prosecutors had urgedAlexander to deny bail, cit-

ing state-ments Youngand Dakhlallamade to un-dercoveragents andhandwrittenfarewell let-ters they left

for their families sayingthey would never return.

Assistant U.S. AttorneyClay Joyner likened them toBoston Marathon bomberDzhokhar Tsarnaev, sayingthat like him, they couldcommit violence withknives, vehicles or home-made weapons.

“They don’t need a gunto do harm,” Joyner said.“They don’t need militarytraining to do harm. Whatthey need is a violent, extre-mist ideology, and that’s ex-actly what they have es-poused.”

Alexander agreed thattheir apparent methodicalplanning overcame a recom-mendation by federal courtpersonnel to allow pretrialrelease.

“It was a very calculated,step-by-step thing,” Alexan-der said of the planning thatled the pair to the GoldenTriangle Regional AirportSaturday morning. FBIagents arrested them there,filing criminal charges thatboth were attempting andconspiring to provide mate-rial support to a terroristgroup, a federal crime puni-shable by up to 20 years inprison and a fine of $250,000.

An FBI agent’s affidavitsaid both confessed theirplans after their arrest. De-fense attorneys declined tocomment after the hearing,but told Alexander the ma-terial didn’t prove eitherhad committed a crime.

The families of Youngand Dakhlalla were still try-ing to come to grips withthe accusations.

Dakhlalla’s family is “ab-solutely stunned” by his ar-rest, said Columbus lawyerDennis Harmon, who repre-sents the family. He saidTuesday they have beencooperating with the FBI.

Dakhlalla’s father, Oda H.Dakhlalla, is the longtimeimam of the Islamic Centerof Mississippi in Starkville,Harmon said, and has pre-viously been reported to bea native of Bethlehem, inthe West Bank. His NewJersey-born mother, LisaDakhlalla, has run a restau-rant in Starkville and soldMiddle Eastern food atfarmers’ markets. Harmonsaid Dakhlalla is the young-est of three sons and waspreparing to start graduateschool at Mississippi StateUniversity.

Harmon said the FBIsearched the Dakhlallahome over the weekend andthat the family “did not ex-pect this at all.”

Court papers say bothYoung and Dakhlalla areU.S. citizens. MississippiState University spokesmanSid Salter said records showDakhlalla graduated in Maywith a bachelor’s degree inpsychology, while StarkvilleHigh School confirmedTuesday that he graduated

from there in 2011.Salter said Young was en-

rolled until May as a sopho-more chemistry major buthas not enrolled for classessince. Young, originallyfrom Vicksburg, Mississip-pi, was a 2013 honors gradu-ate from Warren CentralHigh School, The VicksburgPost reported.

Young’s father, LeonceYoung, is a 17-year veteranof the Vicksburg Police De-partment. He and his wifewere present Tuesday forthe hearing, but declined tospeak to reporters after-ward. In court, prosecutorssaid Jaelyn Young had beentrying to convert her sisterto Islam as well.

The government says FBIagents began interacting on-line with Young in Mayabout her desire to travel toSyria to join the group. Itsays her Twitter page saidthe only thing keeping herfrom traveling to Syria washer need to earn money.

“I just want to be there,”she is quoted as saying. In

later conversations pep-pered with Arabic phrases,she said she planned a “nik-kah,” or Islamic marriageto Dakhlalla so they couldtravel without a chaperoneunder Islamic law.

In June, the first FBIagent referred Young to asecond agent posing as anIslamic State facilitator. Thecharging document saysYoung asked the secondagent for help crossing fromTurkey to Syria, saying,“We don’t know Turkey atall very well (I haven’t eventravelled outside U.S. be-fore.)”

Young touted her skills inmath and chemistry andsaid she and Dakhlallawanted to be medics treat-ing the injured. Later, thecharge says, she told thesecond FBI agent Dakhlallacould help with the IslamicState’s Internet media, say-ing he “really wants to cor-rect the falsehoods heardhere” and the “U.S. media isall lies when regarding” thegroup.

Pair arrested, accused of trying to join ISBy JEFF AMY

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Arnulfo Chapa Garza 89,passed away Friday, Aug. 7,2015, at Laredo Medical Cen-ter in Laredo, Texas.

Mr. Garza is preceded indeath by his wife, CarlotaSantos.

Mr. Garza is survived byher sons, †Osvaldo Chapa,Arnulfo (Miriam) Chapa,Ambrocio (Martha) Chapa,Alejandro (Norma) Chapa;daughters, Esther (Abel)Chapa, †Marta Cisneros,Nora Hilda (Armando) Cis-neros, Dora Alicia (Felipe)Morales, Olga Lidia (HectorMario) Serna, †Carlota(†Honorato) Cantu, Ludivi-na (Ken) Conway; 26 grand-children, 31 great-grandchil-dren, four great-great-grand-children; brothers andsisters and by numerous ne-phews, nieces, other familymembers and friends.

Visitation hours wereTuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, from6 p.m. to 9 p.m. with a wakeat 7 p.m. at Rose Garden Fu-neral Home.

A chapel service will beheld Wednesday, August 12,

2015, at 10 a.m. at Rose Gar-den Funeral Home. Grave-side service will follow atZapata County Cemetery at10:30 a.m.

Funeral arrangementsare under the direction ofRose Garden Funeral HomeDaniel A. Gonzalez, funeraldirector, 2102 N. U.S. Hwy.83, Zapata, Texas.

ARNULFO CHAPA-GARZA

May 23, 1926 to Aug. 7, 2015

The Navajos, whose sov-ereign nation covers partsof New Mexico, Utah andArizona, shut down waterintake systems and stoppeddiverting water from theSan Juan River. Navajo Na-tion President Russell Be-gaye told The AssociatedPress that regional EPA of-ficials told him the cleanupcould take decades.

“Decades. That is totally,completely unsettling,” Be-gaye said. “This is a hugeissue. This river, the SanJuan, is our lifeline, not on-ly in a spiritual sense butalso it’s an economic basethat sustains the peoplethat live along the river.You’re taking away the live-lihood and maybe taking itaway from them for dec-ades. ... That is just, to me,a disaster of a huge propor-tion. And we have yet tohear from the Obama ad-

ministration.”Heavy metals from Gold

King and other defunctmines in Colorado havebeen leaching out and kill-ing fish and other speciesfor decades as rain andsnowmelt spills frommining operations leftabandoned and exposed.The EPA has consideredmaking part of the AnimasRiver in Colorado a Super-fund site for a quarter-cen-tury.

It would have providedmore resources for a clean-up, but some in Coloradoopposed Superfund status,fearing the stigma and thefederal strings attached, sothe EPA agreed to allow lo-cal officials to lead cleanupefforts instead.

Now the Attorneys Gen-eral of Utah, New Mexicoand Colorado are coordinat-ing a response to ensure

“whatever remediation isnecessary occurs as quicklyas possible,” Utah AttorneyGeneral Sean Reyes said ina statement.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbertexpressed disappointmentwith the EPA’s initial hand-ling of the spill, but saidthe state has no plans forlegal action. New MexicoGov. Susana Martinez, how-ever, said she would nottake anything off the tableand that the EPA should beheld to the same standardsas industry.

“Right now we have peo-ple preparing for a lawsuitif that is what we need todo,” she said Tuesday.

Colorado Gov. John Hick-enlooper, himself a formergeologist, visited a contam-inated stretch of river Tues-day and said he hopes a“silver lining” to the disas-ter will be a more aggres-

sive state and federal effortto deal with mining’s “lega-cy of pollution” across theWest.

The EPA has said thecurrent flows too fast forthe contaminants to posean immediate health threat,and that the heavy metalswill likely be diluted overtime so that they don’t posea longer-term threat, either.

Still, as a precautionarymeasure, the agency saidstretches of the riverswould be closed for drink-ing water, recreation andother uses at least throughAug. 17.

Dissolved iron is whatturned the waste plume analarming orange-yellow, acolor familiar to old-timeminers who call it “yellowboy.”

“The water appearsworse aesthetically than itactually is, in terms of

health,” said Ron Cohen, acivil and environmental en-gineering professor at theColorado School of Mines.

Tests show some of themetals have settled to thebottom and would dissolveonly if conditions becameacidic, which Cohen saidisn’t likely. He advises leav-ing the metals where theysettle, and counting on nextspring’s mountain snow-melt to dilute them moreand flush them down-stream.

No die-off of wildlifealong the river has been de-tected. Federal officials sayall but one of a test batch offingerling trout deliberatelyexposed to the water sur-vived over the weekend.

As a precaution, stateand federal officials or-dered public water systemsto turn off intake valves asthe plume passes. Boaters

and fishing groups havebeen told to avoid affectedstretches of the Animasand San Juan rivers, whichare usually crowded withrafters and anglers in anormal summer.

Farmers also have beenforced to stop irrigating,endangering their crops,and recreational businessesreport losing thousands ofdollars.

“We had lots of tripsbooked. Right now we’rejust canceling by the day,”said Drew Beezley, co-own-er of 4 Corners Whitewaterin Durango, Colorado. Hesaid his dozen employeesare out of work, and he’slost about $10,000 in busi-ness since the spill.

“We don’t really knowwhat the future holds yet,”said Beezley. “We don’tknow if the rest of this sea-son is just scrapped.”

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er said he was runningaway. Sanchez took theboy home but was sur-prised by the reaction ofthe father, David Conley,after telling him his sonhad tried to run away.

Conley “didn’t say noth-ing. He just looked at me.The kid went inside,” San-chez said. “(Conley) wasalready in a differentworld.”

Conley, who has a vio-lent criminal history, facescapital murder charges af-ter his arrest Saturday forthe deaths of Nathaniel;his five siblings, 10-year-old Dewayne, 11-year-oldHonesty, 9-year-old Caleb,7-year-old Trinity; and 6-year-old Jonah; theirmother, Valerie Jackson,40; and her husband, De-Wayne Jackson, 50.

Conley, 48, stood hand-cuffed and shackled andsaid little during his firstcourt appearance Monday.His court appointed attor-ney, Joseph Scardino,didn’t return a phone callseeking comment.

The family memberswere all shot in the head.Nathaniel was believed to

be Conley’s son from hisrelationship with ValerieJackson; the other chil-dren were Valerie and De-wayne Jackson’s.

Harris County DistrictAttorney Devon Andersonsaid authorities werealerted to what was hap-pening in the family’shome on Saturday whenValerie Jackson sent atext to her mother, wholives in another state, say-ing she was being held atgunpoint.

Deputies forced theirway into the home laterSaturday but retreated af-ter Conley fired on them.Conley eventually gavehimself up, allowing depu-ties to enter the home andmake the gruesome dis-covery. Most of the victimshad been handcuffed andsome had been shot multi-ple times, police have said.

“My heart goes out tothat family, what they aresuffering today,” Ander-son said.

The Harris CountySheriff ’s Office has saidproblems between Conleyand Valerie Jacksonmight have led to the

shooting. The relationshipbetween them had recent-ly ended.

Last month, Conley wascharged with assault afterallegedly pushing ValerieJackson’s head againsttheir home’s refrigerator.In 2013, Conley wascharged with aggravatedassault for threateningJackson with a knife. Hepleaded guilty and wassentenced to nine monthsin the county jail.

Vilma Flores, 61, whowas the couple’s next doorneighbor, said she worriedabout the children as theywere sometimes left with-out adult supervision.Sanchez said he wouldsometimes see the young-est child, 6-year-old Jonah,playing in the street withhis siblings and no adultsaround.

Estella Olguin, a spokes-woman for Child Protec-tive Services, said heragency had been involvedwith the family, but shedeclined to offer details.

Sanchez and otherneighbors questioned whyauthorities didn’t go intothe home sooner Saturday,

knowing the family’s trou-bled history and Conley’sviolent criminal record.Neighbors said they sawdeputies come to thehome at least twice earlierin the day, knock on thefront door and leave whenno one answered.

Sgt. Craig Clopton, thelead investigator, saidSunday that he couldn’t“reveal the exact parame-ters of those decisions.”

“There are certain cir-cumstances when we canmake entry and certaincircumstances where wecan’t. Even though wewant to, sometimes thelaw prohibits that. ... Itwasn’t until officerslooked in the window andactually saw somebody in-jured that the decisionwas made that now wehave enough to go in.”

Investigators have de-clined to say when on Sat-urday the victims wereshot or if any were alivewhen deputies first triedto enter the home.

Anderson said her of-fice hasn’t yet decidedwhether to seek the deathpenalty against Conley.

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pursue other employmentopportunities. During histenure as superintendent,Mr. Nuques has servedZCISD well. On behalf ofthe entire district, theboard of trustees expressesits appreciation to Mr. RaulNuques for a job well doneand for serving this greatschool district and its won-derful students, parentsand administrators,” hesaid.

Nuques’ resignationcomes two months after hestated his relationship withthe board of trustees was“better than ever,” even af-ter an incident involvinghim slamming a door dur-ing a meeting.

During ZCISD’s June 4special called meeting,while meeting with trust-ees in closed session,Nuques slammed a door ashe was exiting the office.

He later clarified the in-cident, stating he had“slipped” as he was exitingthe office carrying twobinders.

Trustees will begin asearch for a permanent su-perintendent “as soon aspossible so as not to dis-rupt the district’s oper-ations,” Cruz said in thejoint statement by Nuquesand the board of trustees.

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The price of U.S. crudeoil has tumbled to its low-est level in more than sixyears.

Benchmark U.S. crudefell $1.88, or 4 percent, tosettle at $43.08 a barrel inNew York on Tuesday, itslowest close since Marchof 2009.

The latest slide came asOPEC said its productionrose to a three-year high.China also devalued itscurrency, suggesting eco-

nomic growth there wassofter and could cause low-er crude demand.

Falling pricesU.S. crude has been de-

clining since reaching ahigh this year of $61.43 onJune 10.

Crude is under pressureon several fronts. Big in-creases in production inthe U.S. and Canada, alongwith sizable gains in Iraqand elsewhere, havehelped increase supplies.

Saudi Arabia and otherOPEC nations kept pump-ing crude at high levelsand Iranian oil could soonreturn to the market afterbeing kept off by sanc-tions.

Meanwhile, worldwidedemand is not as strong asexpected because China’sgrowth has cooled and oth-er economies have becomemore energy efficient.

While drivers, shippersand airlines are enjoyingthe lower fuel pricesspurred by crude’s slump,the oil industry is re-

sponding to lower profitswith sharp cuts in spend-ing and employment.

In other futures energytrading, Brent crude, abenchmark for interna-tional oils used by manyU.S. refineries, declined$1.23, or 2.4 percent, to$49.18 a barrel in London.Wholesale gasoline closedunchanged at $1.694 a gal-lon, while heating oil fell2.9 cents to close at $1.563a gallon. Natural gas rose0.2 cents to close at $2.844per 1,000 cubic feet.

Oil price slides to 2009 levelBy ALEX VEIGA

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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