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AUSTIN, Texas — Ahomeless 17-year-old hasbeen arrested, and policesaid Friday he’ll becharged with murder inthe killing of a Universityof Texas dance majorwhose body was recoveredin the heart of the bus-tling campus — unnerv-ing one of the country’sbest-known schools.

Investigators said Mee-chaiel Criner wasn’t auniversity student andwasn’t believed to havebeen in Austin long. Aus-tin Police Chief Art Ace-

vedo said Criner couldface additional charges inthe slaying of 18-year-oldOregon-native HarukaWeiser.

“We are very certainthat the subject we havein custody ... is responsib-le for the death of thisbeautiful young woman,”Acevedo said at a campusnews conference.

Weiser was last seenleaving the campus dramabuilding Sunday night.Her body was found Tues-day in a creek near thealumni center and UT’siconic football stadium,

AUSTIN, TEXAS

Teen faces murder chargeSuspect connected inkilling of UT student

In this Thursday photo, mourners observe a moment of silence during a vigil for University of Texas at Austin student Haruka J. Weiser on thecampus in Austin, Texas. Weiser, an 18-year-old dance major, was identified as the homicide victim found in Waller Creek earlier in the week.

Photo by Rodolfo Gonzalez/Austin American-Statesman | AP

By WILL WEISSERTASSOCIATED PRESS

See TEEN PAGE 10A

DALLAS — It’s spring-time in Texas, whichmeans a time-honored tra-dition for wildflower lov-ers everywhere.

You know the drill:

Carefully wade into apatch of bluebonnets andsquat down for a photo,but don’t crush or pickthem. It’s against the law,right?

It’s one of those urbanlegends that sound justTexan enough to be real.

Everyone “knows” theLegislature has protectedthe state flower by mak-ing it a crime to damageit.

But don’t go planning aflower-picking party justyet. It may not be illegalto destroy the state flower,

but it’s almost certainlybad Texas karma.

“There’s a number ofmyths about our nativeplants, and that’s justone,” said Joe Marcus, aprogram manager at the

DALLAS

SPRINGTIME IN TEXAS

In this photo taken Tuesday, March 24, 2015, Allison Lemos arranges her children Araleigh Lemos, four months, and Chevy Lemos, 2, for aphoto in the bluebonnets in an area off Interstate 37 in Corpus Christi, Texas.

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

Bluebonnet myths and facts explainedBy CHARLES SCUDDER

THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

See SPRINGTIME PAGE 10A

DALLAS — Military of-ficials investigating an ap-parent murder-suicide thathappened Friday on a U.S.air base in Texas are try-ing to determine whetherthe gunman was author-ized to have a weapon onthe base, where the posses-sion of firearms is heavily

restricted.The gunman was an

airman who targeted hiscommander at Joint BaseSan Antonio-Lackland, ac-cording to a senior U.S. of-ficial who spoke to The As-sociated Press on condi-tion of anonymity becausehe wasn’t authorized topublicly discuss the shoot-

SAN ANTONIO SHOOTING

First responders and FBI agents gather near the scene of ashooting at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio.The gunman allegedly targeted his commander.

Photo by John Davenport/The San Antonio Express-News | AP

Airman shotcommander

at Texas baseOfficials investigating the apparent

murder-suicide and firearm usedBy DAVID WARRENASSOCIATED PRESS

See SHOOTING PAGE 10A

Technical issues last weekthat caused public school stu-dents to lose their answers onstate standardized exams affect-ed more than 14,000 computer-ized tests, Texas EducationCommissioner Mike Morathtold the State Board of Educa-tion on Wednesday.

Most of the exams in questionwere being taken by special-edu-cation students, he said during

a regularly scheduled update tothe 15-member elected board.

Problems surfaced last weekon the first day of the statewideadministration of the State ofTexas Assessments of AcademicReadiness, or STAAR, exam,helping fuel an ongoing back-lash against a standardized test-ing regime that many parentsand educators believe is alreadytoo stressful.

The Texas Education Agencylater confirmed that school dis-tricts across the state had re-

ported that students’ previouslyinput responses on online testshad disappeared after they hadlogged out — either voluntarilyor due to 30 minutes of inactiv-ity or a lost internet connection.Until Morath’s commentsWednesday, the agency had notrevealed how many exams wereaffected.

The number of exams impact-ed likely correlates to the num-ber of students impacted, al-

STATE OF TEXAS ASSESSMENTS OF ACADEMIC READINESS

Technical issues last week caused students to lose their answers on state stan-dardized exams, affecting more than 14,000 computerized tests.

Photo by Eric Von Seggern | AP

Computer glitch affectedmore than 14,000 exams

By KIAH COLLIERTEXAS TRIBUNE

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SATURDAY, APRIL 9Take a Deep Breath. 8 a.m.–12

p.m. UT Health Science Center’s Re-gional Campus, 1937 E. Bustamante St.Free. Focuses on lung disease. Healthinformation and hands-on demonstra-tions of physical, occupational and Wiitherapy; tai chi; gardening; maintaininghealthy teeth; healthy eating; andkeeping an environmentally healthyhome. At 10:30 a.m., a presentation oninterstitial lung disease by Anoop Nam-biar, M.D.

Lamar Bruni Vergara Planetariumshows. 1–5 p.m. TAMIU. “The LittleStar that Could,” “Origins of Life,”“New Horizons” and “Black Holes.”This event is open to the TAMIU com-munity and public. General admissionis $4 for children, TAMIU students, fac-ulty and staff, and $5 for adults. Mati-nee shows are $1 less. For more infor-mation, contact Claudia Herrera at956-326-2463 or email claudia.herre-ra@tamiu.edu.

SUNDAY, APRIL 10A performance of the classical

ballet “Giselle.” 3 p.m. LCC’s Guadalupeand Lilia Martinez Fine Arts Centertheater. The performance will featurethe talents of the Compania de DanzaNuevo Laredo. Free.

MONDAY, APRIL 11Laredo Stroke Support Group. 7

p.m. San Martin de Porres Church,Family Life Center. Meetings are heldthe second Monday of each month andare open to all stroke survivors, familyand caregivers. Everyone is welcomedto share their story, encourage andsupport others, and hear informativespeakers. For more information on thesupport groups, call 956-286-0641 or956-763-6132.

Faculty recital with Dr. MarthaSaywell and John Reimund. 7:30 p.m.Center for the Fine and PerformingArts Recital Hall at TAMIU. Free andopen to the public. For more informa-tion, contact Dr. Martha Saywell at956-326-2654 or email martha.say-well@tamiu.edu

Chess Club. Every Monday from4–6 p.m. LBV – Inner City Branch Li-brary. Free for all ages and skill levels.Basic instruction is offered. For moreinformation call John at 956-795-2400x2520.

TUESDAY, APRIL 12South Texas Food Bank annual

member agency conference. 9 a.m.–4p.m. International Bank of CommerceAnnex on Jacaman Road and Loop 20.Attending are agency coordinators andassistants.

Lamar Bruni Vergara Planetariumshows. 5–7 p.m. TAMIU. “Stars of thePharaohs” and “Wonders of the Uni-verse.” This event is open to the TAMIUcommunity and public. General admis-sion is $4 for children, TAMIU stu-dents, faculty and staff, and $5 foradults. For more information, contactClaudia Herrera at 956-326-2463 oremail claudia.herrera@tamiu.edu.

Knitting Circle. 1–3 p.m. McKen-drick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library,1920 Palo Blanco St. Please bring yarnand knitting needles. For more infor-mation, contact Analiza Perez-Gomezat analiza@laredolibrary.org or 795-2400 x2403.

Crochet for Kids. 4–5 p.m.McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Li-brary, 1920 Palo Blanco St. Pleasebring yarn and a crochet needle. Formore information, contact Analiza Pe-rez-Gomez at analiza@laredolibrary.orgor 795-2400 x2403.

Rock wall climbing. 4–5 p.m.LBV-Inner City Branch Library, 202 W.Plum St. Free. Take the challenge andclimb the rock wall! Fun exercise for allages. Must sign release form. For moreinformation, contact John Hong at795-2400 x2521.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13IBC Keynote Speaker Series. 7

p.m. TAMIU Student Center Ballroom,5201 University Blvd. Open to the pub-lic and free of charge. “Still Midnightin Mexico? Mexico’s Challenges, Jour-nalism and the Borderlands, and theNew American Narrative” presented byAlfredo Corchado, Mexico bureau chieffor the Dallas Morning News.

THURSDAY, APRIL 14TAMIU presents the Mariachi In-

ternational Recital. 7:30 p.m. TAMIU’sCenter for the Fine and PerformingArts Recital Hall. Admission requires aminimum $5 scholarship donation perperson. There is no charge for TAMIUstudents with ID and children under12. For more information, please con-tact Oswaldo Zapata at 956-326-3044.

CALENDARASSOCIATED PRESS

Today is Saturday, April 9,the 100th day of 2016. Thereare 266 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in His-tory:

On April 9, 1865, Confeder-ate Gen. Robert E. Lee surren-dered his army to Union Lt.Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appo-mattox Court House in Virgin-ia.

On this date:In 1413, the coronation of

England’s King Henry V tookplace in Westminster Abbey.

In 1682, French explorerRobert de La Salle claimed theMississippi River Basin forFrance.

In 1913, the first game wasplayed at Ebbets Field, thenewly built home of theBrooklyn Dodgers, who lost tothe Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0.

In 1940, during World WarII, Germany invaded Denmarkand Norway.

In 1942, American and Phi-lippine defenders on Bataancapitulated to Japanese forces;the surrender was followed bythe notorious Bataan DeathMarch.

In 1959, NASA presented itsfirst seven astronauts: ScottCarpenter, Gordon Cooper,John Glenn, Gus Grissom,Wally Schirra, Alan Shepardand Donald Slayton. ArchitectFrank Lloyd Wright, 91, diedin Phoenix, Arizona.

In 1965, the newly built As-trodome in Houston featuredits first baseball game, an ex-hibition between the Astrosand the New York Yankees,with President Lyndon B.Johnson in attendance. In1983, the space shuttle Chal-lenger ended its first missionwith a safe landing at Ed-wards Air Force Base in Cali-fornia.

In 1991, the Georgian Parlia-ment declared the republic’sindependence.

Ten years ago: More thanhalf a million people in tenstates rallied for immigrantrights.

Five years ago: A manarmed with several weaponsopened fire in a crowded shop-ping mall in the Netherlands,killing six people before com-mitting suicide.

One year ago: PresidentBarack Obama briefly visitedJamaica, where he met withCaribbean leaders and spokeat a town hall of young lead-ers; the president then flew toPanama City for a summit ofWestern Hemisphere nationsand a historic encounter withCuban President Raul Castro.

Today’s Birthdays: Play-boy magazine founder HughHefner is 90. Actress MichaelLearned is 77. Country singerMargo Smith is 74. Countrysinger Hal Ketchum is 63. Ac-tor Dennis Quaid is 62. Come-dian Jimmy Tingle is 61.Country musician Dave Innis(Restless Heart) is 57. Talkshow host Joe Scarborough(TV: “Morning Joe”) is 53. Ac-tress-sports reporter LisaGuerrero is 52. Actor MarkPellegrino is 51. Actress-modelPaulina Porizkova is 51. Ac-tress Cynthia Nixon is 50.Rock singer Gerard Way (MyChemical Romance) is 39.Rock musician Albert Ham-mond Jr. (The Strokes) is 36.Actor Charlie Hunnam is 36.Actor Jay Baruchel is 34. Ac-tress Leighton Meester is 30.Actor-singer Jesse McCartneyis 29. Actress Kristen Stewartis 26. Actress Elle Fanning is18.

Thought for Today:“Thinking is like loving or dy-ing. Each of us must do it forourselves.” — Josiah Royce,American philosopher (1855-1916).

TODAY IN HISTORY

SEATTLE — Federal scrutiny intensifiedon Washington state’s largest psychiatrichospital, whose history of attacks on patientsand staff and a failure to improve safety wasbrought into sharp relief when a patient ac-cused of killing a woman escaped from alower-security ward and was still on theloose two days later.

U.S. regulators are investigating a recentviolent attack on a hospital worker and a pa-tient-on-patient sexual assault at WesternState Hospital. A workplace inspection re-leased Thursday also found a series of mis-steps that posed safety risks, including un-locked rooms, unattended items that couldbe used as weapons and workers who aban-doned their posts instead of watching pa-tients.

The Centers for Medicare and MedicaidServices has repeatedly cited the facilityover safety concerns and threatened to cutmillions in federal funding. An agencyspokesman says the hospital is under addi-tional scrutiny over the escape and recentassaults.

Anthony Garver, 28, was at large Fridaybut last seen in the Spokane area where hisparents live. He and patient Mark AlexanderAdams, 58, crawled out a window of theirground-floor room Wednesday night.

Adams, who had been charged with do-mestic assault in 2014, was captured the nextmorning. Both he and Garver were foundtoo mentally ill to stand trial and a judge or-dered them held at the hospital as a dangerto themselves or others. Garver had beencharged with tying a woman to her bed withelectrical cords and slashing her throat.

AROUND THE NATION

This Oct. 8, 2015, file photo, shows the Western State Hospital in Lakewood, Wash. A violent ex-felon who escaped from theWashington state psychiatric hospital that’s under federal scrutiny over safety violations remained elusive Friday morning, aSpokane County Sheriff’s deputy said.

Photo by Ted S. Warren | AP file

Hospital failed to improveBy MARTHA BELLISLE

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Man gets 40 years forkilling mother

ELIZABETH, N.J. — A manconvicted of beating his motherto death with a dumbbell insidetheir New Jersey home has beensentenced to 40 years in prison.

Union County prosecutors sayJohn Quackenbush was sen-tenced Friday.

The 47-year-old Plainfield resi-dent was convicted in Februaryof killing 69-year-old Gail Vande-walle. Police found her body un-der a blanket in 2013.

Ex-coal CEO pays $250kfine while making appeal

CHARLESTON, W.Va. —While he appeals a decision thatserved him a one-year prisonsentence, former coal companyexecutive Don Blankenship haspaid his $250,000 fine.

According to a U.S. DistrictCourt filing, the wealthy ex-Mas-sey Energy CEO paid the fine inCharleston on Friday, plus a $25court fee.

SpaceX launches pop-uproom, lands rocket

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —SpaceX has resumed space sta-tion deliveries for NASA, launch-ing the first inflatable room everbuilt for astronauts. And in adouble triumph, the company al-so successfully landed its first-stage booster on an ocean plat-form for the first time.

SpaceX employees cheeredwildly and chanted “U.S.A.” afterthe booster touched down on thebarge.

Mobster pleads guilty toracketeering in NYC killing

NEW YORK — Federal prose-cutors in New York say a Gambi-no crime family associate haspleaded guilty to racketeering inconnection with a 2002 mob kill-ing.

U.S. Attorney Robert Caperssays the 43-year-old GennaroBruno pleaded guilty Friday inBrooklyn and admitted to mur-dering Martin Bosshart.

Mom, grandma charged inteen’s drug death

GREEN, Ohio — The motherand grandmother of a teen whodied from a suspected heroinoverdose were charged in hisdeath after authorities said theythink the mom and her son hadused the drug together.

Syringes, illegal drugs anddrug paraphernalia were foundin the hotel room where AndrewFrye, 16, was found dead in achair Wednesday night, author-ities said Friday.

LGBT group withdrawsinvite to Gov. Baker

BOSTON — A gay businessgroup has withdrawn an invita-tion to Republican Massachu-setts Gov. Charlie Baker, citinghis decision to speak at a week-end event featuring conservativeleaders and a Texas ministerwho has said God sent Adolf Hit-ler for the Jews.

— Compiled from AP reports

Smog-alert car ban jamsmetro, buses in MexicoMEXICO CITY — Mexico City

residents packed buses and sub-way trains and many walked orbiked to work Wednesday as au-thorities barred millions of vehi-cles from the streets due to a pol-lution alert.

Under new regulations im-posed after the capital recentlyexperienced its worst air-qualitycrisis in over a decade, 40 per-cent of cars were ordered off theroad after smog levels hit 11/2times acceptable limits Tuesday.

Pollution levels went downsomewhat Wednesday, and theEnvironmental Commission ofthe Megalopolis said only abouthalf that amount of vehicleswould be kept off the streetsThursday.

On any given day a fifth of allcars are supposed to stay home,but that doubles during a Phase1 alert. Until recently, newer andcleaner cars were exempt from

the driving ban. With 2 million of the capital’s

cars ordered out of circulationWednesday, fares were temporar-ily waved for some public trans-portation. Buses crawling alongthe central Reforma boulevardwere crowded during the morn-

ing rush hour. “Public transport is not suffi-

cient,” said Martin Colin, a 53-year-old taxi driver, pointing to abus jammed front-to-back withstanding commuters. “They looklike little sardines.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE WORLD

A man walks over what would usually be a very busy thoroughfare in Mexico City,Wednesday. City authorities have barred millions of vehicles from the streets dueto a pollution alert.

Photo by Dario Lopez-Mills | AP

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SEMINOLE, Okla. — In-vestigators on Friday ar-rested the aunt and uncleof a 9-year-old Oklahomaboy who went missing in2006, and were searchingthe couple’s rural proper-ty for his remains, the lo-cal prosecutor said.

Rex and Rebecca Clark

were taken into custody inthe disappearance of theirnephew and foster son,Colton Levi Clark, accord-ing to Assistant DistrictAttorney Paul Smith.Smith says the arrest war-rants allege first-degreemurder and child abuse,but said formal chargeswere pending.

Smith said Colton was

presumed dead, and thatinvestigators were search-ing the couple’s ruralSeminole County propertyfor his remains. Smithsaid it was unclear if theRexes had attorneys butwere scheduled to appearin court on Tuesday.

Colton was reportedmissing on April 20, 2006,prompting investigators to

launch a wide-scalesearch across 2,500 acresusing helicopters andsearch dogs. At the time,authorities said his auntreported that Coltondidn’t want to attend acounseling session, andinvestigators thought hemay have run away inpart because his backpackwas gone.

The case was formallyreopened in September,about five years after theOklahoma State Bureau ofInvestigation announced a$5,000 reward for informa-tion about the missingboy. OSBI officials said atthe time that Colton andhis older brother livedwith their aunt and uncleafter their parents termi-

nated their rights to theboys.

It wasn’t immediatelyclear Friday what led in-vestigators to the couple.Shortly after Colton disap-peared, authorities saidthey searched 2,500 acresaround his home andquestioned all of his rela-tives but failed to find anysign of him.

Missing boy presumed dead, relatives arrestedASSOCIATED PRESS

For the last 15 years, theL.C.C. Education Founda-tion has advocated on be-half of Laredo CommunityCollege and its students.

To honor their service,LCC has named them the2016 recipients of the Presi-dent’s Beacon Award.

Foundation trustees werehonored during a specialceremony on Tuesday at thePrivate David B. BarkeleyCantu Veterans MemorialChapel at the LCC FortMcIntosh Campus.

Over the last eight years,the LCC President’s BeaconAward has been bestowedon individuals or organiza-tions that have tirelesslydedicated themselves to as-sisting LCC and wider com-munities.

LCC President Juan L.Maldonado expressed hispleasure at being able tohonor the L.C.C. EducationFoundation.

“This organization trulyexemplifies the symbolismof the Beacon Award. Theyhave been a source of guid-ance and assistance to stu-dents and the college formany years now. They haveprovided student scholar-ships, purchased furnitureand equipment for the col-lege, and have contributedto the construction and im-provement of college facili-ties,” said Maldonado.

Founded in 2001, theL.C.C. Education Founda-

tion is a non-profit groupcomprised of 12 trusteeswho donate their time andenergy towards supportingthe mission of the college.

Members of the L.C.C.Education Foundation in-clude President Edward C.Sherwood, Vice PresidentCarlos D. Garcia, SecretaryJohn R. Campbell, Treasur-er David B. Hastings, andtrustees Vicente V. Garza,Eduardo Gonzalez, DanielleMarasco, Richard E. Sames,Millicent B. Slaughter, Susa-na Valencia and Antoinette

Vela.Since its inception, the

foundation has helped es-tablish endowments for stu-dent scholarships, spon-sored the college’s annualVeterans Day Observance,and dedicated granite com-memorative benches at bothcampuses.

The group establishes re-lationships with private do-nors in order to secure stu-dent scholarships, construc-tion and maintenance ofcampus buildings, infras-tructure improvements and

various other projects.“The foundation raises

about $500,000 annually.Since they began in 2001,they’ve raised $7.5 milliondollars with the sole pur-pose of serving LCC and itsstudents. It is a great honorfor me to be able to recog-nize them for their generos-ity and commitment to La-redo Community College,”said Maldonado.

Ray of Hope award

Also honored during theceremony were the recip-ients of the President’s Rayof Hope award.

The college presentedhigh school and college stu-dents from Laredo, Heb-bronville and Zapata withthe Ray of Hope Award fortheir strength of characterand service to community.

Nominated by theircounselors, two studentsfrom each high school andfrom LCC were presentedwith a $500 scholarship tohelp them pursue their

education at LCC.These students were se-

lected for the award fordemonstrating strong char-acter, leadership and a com-mitment to helping othersthrough community service.

Recipients of the 2015-2016 LCC President’s Ray ofHope Award are:

From J.B. AlexanderHigh School, Haley NicoleHernandez and Kristine M.Meza

From Cigarroa HighSchool, Josue Mendez andMiriam I. Salinas

From HebbronvilleHigh School, Claudia M.Avila and Anna Celeste Ve-la

From Lyndon B. John-son High School, EnriqueRico III and Alicia Toledo

From Raymond andTirza Martin High School,Crystal Liz Martinez andJakob David Venegas

From J.W. Nixon HighSchool, Victor O. Avina andLillian Marie Perales

From St. AugustineHigh School, Regina Floresand Rocio Garza

From United HighSchool, Neryth Jimenez andXavier Morin

From United SouthHigh School, Joanna Garciaand Maritza Ortiz

From Zapata HighSchool, Corina Taliz Piñaand Dea Zurita

From Laredo Commu-nity College, Arturo Arria-ga Jr. and Juan Carlos Sala-zar Torres

Two Zapata students receive LCC awardTHE ZAPATA TIMES

The recipients of the 2015-2016 LCC President’s Ray of Hope Award pose for a photo on Tuesday afternoon at the Private David B. Barke-ley Cantu Veteran’s Memorial Chapel in LCC Ft. Macintosh Campus.

Photo by Danny Zaragoza | The Zapata Times

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CLASSIC DOONESBURY | GARRY TRUDEAU

Donald Trump and TedCruz are successfullyfracking the RepublicanParty.

The loudest explosionsand most noxious fumesare coming from the crack-up of the tectonic platethat once supported theparty’s two great factions.The white, working-classvoters who are coming outfor Trump are on fire be-cause they’re convincedthat their alleged allies -the faction made up of theRepublican establishment,aka the country club set -have been duping them,pretending to care abouttheir economic, social andcultural complaints.

There’s another groupthat should be explodingin anger this year - inde-pendent and Democraticvoters who have put Demo-crats in the White Housefor 16 of the past 24 years.Their issues and theircomplaints also have beenblocked and thwarted byRepublican establishmentpuppeteers and their un-holy alliances.

The Republican estab-lishment didn’t dupe theDemocrats, but it has beat-en them repeatedly (andBernie Sanders-backingDemocrats are mad attheir party establishmentfor that). So while Demo-crats might enjoy watch-ing the GOP implosion,there is also pain and frus-tration in realizing thattheir opponents were justas cynical and precariousas they always thought.

The standard Democrat-ic understanding of the

modern Republican Partygoes something like this:

Since the turbulent1960s, Republicans havebeen very skilled at peel-ing white middle- andworking-class voters awayfrom their traditional andnatural protectors, theDemocrats. This beganwith Richard Nixon’sSouthern strategy, whichused race and antipathy tothe civil rights, anti-warand feminist movements topry away white votersfrom the Democratic Party.Watergate blew that planup. But Ronald Reagan re-fined the strategy by focus-ing on cultural wedge is-sues that turned Demo-cratic constituencies oneach other: affirmative ac-tion, welfare abuse, guncontrol, family values, andabortion, for example.

In this narrative, thereal Republican powers -big donors, congressionalleadership and the corpo-rate flank - conned whiteworking-class voters intoabandoning their econom-ic self-interest by sellingthem on trickle-down eco-nomics and the mysticalpowers of small govern-ment, and by appeasingthem with race-baitingand conservative positionson social and cultural is-sues.

The Republican elite ba-sically has gotten what itwanted out of the deal: taxrates and regulation havebeen contained, campaignfinance has been deregu-lated, corporate welfarehas expanded, free tradeand globalization haveflourished, and the 1 per-cent has done incrediblywell.

But, in this history, theenormous growth of eco-nomic inequality and thestagnation of lower- andmiddle-class incomes sincethe 1980s have proved thattrickle-down economicswas voodoo economics af-ter all. Working-class vot-ers were duped by voodoopolitics.

And now these voters fi-nally have realized they’vebeen had.

They are on the war-path, stoked by Trump’sauthoritarian promise totake care of the businessthey really care about it -keeping foreign workersout of the country, shuttingdown free trade that takesaway U.S. jobs, kicking asson crime and terrorism,and punishing the corrupttwo-party establishment.Social issue and religioustrue believers are equallyrebellious but they preferCruz.

Either way, the Republi-can establishment maynow rest in peace, at leastuntil all the king’s horsesand all the king’s men putHumpty Dumpty togetheragain. The Democraticnarrative is finally vindi-cated.

But if Republican voo-doo politics duped theirvoters in the tourist sec-tion and never gave themany upgrades, they havesucceeded in keeping Dem-ocratic and independentvoters at the gate.

For all the years Demo-crats have held the WhiteHouse since Reagan, theydon’t have a lot to show forit. Obamacare has beentheir most notable achieve-ment. Gay rights have ex-panded dramatically. But

Democratic ambitions toimprove the safety net,raise the minimum wage,address income inequality,enact stronger climatechange remedies, toughengun control, protect abor-tion rights and increaseinfrastructure spendinghave been frustrated quiteeffectively.

Republicans have ex-ploited their success at thestate level by controllingthe gerrymandering ofcongressional districts,thus multiplying theirclout in the House. Theyalso have vanquished mod-erates, centrists and theodd New England liberalfrom the party - the kindsof legislators eager andable to craft bipartisanprograms.

For their part, the Dem-ocrats haven’t been able toreconvert Reagan Demo-crats. Bernie Sanders’ ar-gument is that the partyhas been too beholden toits establishment - its bigdonors and corporatebackers. Hillary Clintonhopes that when the pri-maries are over, frustratedDemocrats will turn theirwrath on the Republicans.They have every reason todo just that.

The Democrats otherhope is that neither of therenegades who sabotagedthe GOP’s voodoo politicshave the mojo to attractvoters outside of their an-gry, conservative whitebase and are more likelyto scare them. If that hap-pens, we will soon find outwhether a fracked Republi-can Party still has themagic to paralyze its ene-mies in the Democratictribe.

COLUMN

GOP’s politics running outBy DICK MEYER

SCRIPPS WASHINGTON BUREAU

From the beginning,many and probably mostliberal policy wonks wereskeptical about BernieSanders. On many majorissues — including thesignature issues of hiscampaign, especially fi-nancial reform — heseemed to go for easy slo-gans over hard thinking.And his political theoryof change, his wavingaway of limits, seemed ut-terly unrealistic.

Some Sanders support-ers responded angrilywhen these concernswere raised, immediatelyaccusing anyone express-ing doubts about their he-ro of being corrupt if notactually criminal. But in-tolerance and cultishnessfrom some of a candi-date’s supporters are onething; what about thecandidate himself?

Unfortunately, in thepast few days the answerhas become all too clear:Sanders is starting tosound like his worst fol-lowers. Bernie is becom-ing a Bernie Bro.

Let me illustrate thepoint about issues bytalking about bank re-form.

The easy slogan here is“Break up the big banks.”It’s obvious why this slo-gan is appealing from apolitical point of view:Wall Street supplies anexcellent cast of villains.But were big banks reallyat the heart of the finan-cial crisis, and wouldbreaking them up protectus from future crises?

Many analysts con-cluded years ago that theanswers to both questionswere no. Predatory lend-

ing was largely carriedout by smaller, non-WallStreet institutions likeCountrywide Financial;the crisis itself was cen-tered not on big banksbut on “shadow banks”like Lehman Brothersthat weren’t necessarilythat big. And the finan-cial reform that PresidentBarack Obama signed in2010 made a real effort toaddress these problems. Itcould and should bemade stronger, butpounding the table aboutbig banks misses thepoint.

Yet going on about bigbanks is pretty much allSanders has done. On therare occasions on whichhe was asked for more de-tail, he didn’t seem tohave anything more to of-fer. And this absence ofsubstance beyond the slo-gans seems to be true ofhis positions across theboard.

You could argue thatpolicy details are unim-portant as long as a poli-tician has the right val-ues and character. As ithappens, I don’t agree.For one thing, a politic-ian’s policy specifics areoften a very importantclue to his or her truecharacter — I warnedabout George W. Bush’smendacity back whenmost journalists werestill portraying him as abluff, honest fellow, be-cause I actually looked athis tax proposals. For an-other, I consider a com-mitment to facing hardchoices as opposed to tak-ing the easy way out animportant value in itself.

But in any case, theway Sanders is campaign-ing raises serious charac-ter and values issues.

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Questioningthe Sanderscampaign

By PAUL KRUGMANNEW YORK TIMES

Sometimes the curtainis pulled aside, allowingus to see what’s going onin the often-opaque worldsof government and fi-nance. Such an occasionhas been happening withwhat’s being called thePanama Papers, releasedSunday by the Interna-tional Consortium of In-vestigative Journalists. It’sgoing to take not months,but years, to wadethrough the estimated 11million documents leakedfrom a Panamanian lawfirm that specializes incrafting tax shelters.

But initial disclosuresare both troubling and of-fer insight. "The docu-ments reference 12 cur-rent or former world lead-ers, as well as 128 otherpoliticians and public offi-cials," CNN reported. Im-plicated, in particular, areassociates of Russian Pres-ident Vladimir Putin; FI-FA, the global soccer gov-erning body, 40 of whoseofficials were indicted in2015 by the U.S. JusticeDepartment on corruptioncharges; and Iceland’sPrime Minister Sigmun-dur David Gunnlaugsson,who resigned Tuesday.

Panama is notorious formoney laundering, espe-cially of drug cartel pro-ceeds. Doing so is wrong.But it also should be putin context. People laundermoney gained through il-legal activities, or to avoid

high taxes. A fundamentalreform against corrup-tion, therefore, would beto reduce taxes and con-sider legalizing some ac-tivities that don’t involveharm to people.

Here’s a great example."Marijuana legalizationmay have accomplishedwhat the ’war on drugs’has failed to do — put thesqueeze on Mexican drugcartel activity," the SanFrancisco Chronicle re-cently reported. "The U.S.Border Patrol has released2015 data showing that thenumber of marijuana sei-zures throughout theSouthwest U.S./Mexicoborder has fallen to thelowest level in a decade.

"Mexican manufactur-ers of illegal marijuanabricks have driven downprices as residents in Cali-fornia, Colorado andWashington state nowhave safe access to reason-ably affordable medicalmarijuana and/or recre-ational cannabis." Priceshave dropped by as muchas two-thirds, to about $30a kilo.

More details will becoming out on the Pana-ma Papers. And some ac-tivities - robbery, murderand terrorism - alwayswill be illegal, and relatedmoney laundering oughtto be punished. But gov-ernment best can focus onreal crimes by reducing oreliminating punishment ofnonviolent, victimless of-fenses.

EDITORIAL

Power invitescorruption

THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2016 THE ZAPATA TIMES 5A

BECAS ZCISDSe informa a potencia-

les donadores de becas queel paquete conteniendo la car-ta del director, forma para do-nadores de becas y solicitu-des generales de becas, seestán entregando en ZapataHigh School. Hoy sábado 9 deabril es la fecha límite paraque donadores sometan laforma como donador de beca;en tanto que el 27 de abril sellevará a cabo la Noche deBecas a las 6 p.m. lo cual pe-mitirá que donadores y recep-tores se conozcan.

Igualmente se tiene consi-derado entregar certificadosde agradecimiento a los dona-dores. Informes llamando aJennifer Sánchez o PatriciaFlores al (956) 765-0280.

TORNEO DE PESCAEl sábado 23 de abril

se realizará el torneo de pes-ca Bass Champs Fishing Tour-nament, en Zapata CountyPublic Boat Ramp desde las 8a.m. hasta las 5 p.m.

TORNEO DE SÓFTBOLUn torneo de sóftbol

tendrá lugar el 23 de abril enZapata. Lo recaudado será afavor de Alejandro Cañedo,para la adquisición de unaprótesis ya que perdió unapierna en un accidente. Habráequipos femeninos y masculi-nos. Cuota 150 dólares. Infor-mes en 956-251-3075.

RECOLECCIÓN DEMEDICAMENTOS

La Coalición Comunita-ria del Condado de Zapata yla DEA realizarán el eventonacional Pill Take Back (reco-lección de medicamentos) el30 de abril, de 10 a.m. a 2p.m. en el Palacio de Justiciadel Condado de Zapata. Sebuscan medicamentos cadu-cos o que ya no se estén uti-lizando a fin de retirarlos deforma apropiada. Informes enla oficina de SCAN en el 765-3555.

CONCURSO DE DIBUJOEl Sistema DIF de Mi-

guel Alemán, México, invita alQuinto concurso de dibujo so-bre trabajo infantil. Habrá doscategorías (Categoría A paraniños y niñas de 6 a 12 añosde edad; y, Categoría B, paraniños y niñas de 13 a 17 añosde edad).

El dibujo se debe realizaren media cartulina blanca(35cm x 50cm), utilizar colo-res de madera, plumones,óleo, acuarela o colores decera, y anexar en un sobreuna descripción con una pro-puesta para eliminar las peo-res formas de trabajo infantil.La propuesta debe ser de dosa cuatro párrafos en letra demolde legible.

Incluir al reverso del dibujosu título, nombre completodel participante (como indicael acta de nacimiento), edad,grado escolar, nombre de laescuela, teléfono, domicilioparticular, y municipio.

La fecha límite para entre-gar el trabajo es el 13 de ma-yo en las oficinas del DIF-Mi-guel Alemán, calle Puerto deChetumal # 130 en la ColoniaJardines de San Germán. Másinformación llamando al 972-0155.

PRÉSTAMOS FSALos Condados de Ca-

meron, Hidalgo, Starr y Wi-llacy Counties fueron declara-dos elegibles para los présta-mos de emergencia antedesastres del Farm ServiceAgency (FSA). Aplica a agri-cultores que hayan perdido almenos 30 por ciento de suproducción o que hayan sufri-do cualquier perdida en pro-ducción o física causadas portormentas severas, vientosconstantes, tornados, e inun-daciones, en el periodo del 22al 31 de octubre del 2015.Las oficinas del FSA se ubicanen 2514 S. Veterans Blvd.,Suite 1 en Edinburg. Informesen el 956-381-0916 Ext. 2.

Ribereñaen Breve

AUSTIN — Un indigente de 17años ha sido arrestado y será acu-sado de homicidio por la muertede una estudiante de danza de laUniversidad de Texas cuyo cadáverapareció cerca del centro del cam-pus.

Los investigadores dijeron queMeechaiel Criner no era estudian-te de la universidad y aparente-mente había llegado hace poco aAustin. El jefe de policía Art Ace-vedo dijo que Criner podría enfren-tar cargos adicionales por la muer-te de Haruka Weiser, de 18 años.

“Estamos muy seguros de que elsujeto que tenemos preso... es elresponsable de la muerte de estabella joven”, dijo Acevedo en confe-rencia de prensa en el campus.

Weiser, de quien un ex profesordijo que tenía “alma de bailarina”,

fue vista por últimavez en el edificio deTeatro de la UT en elcampus de Austin al-rededor de las 9:30p.m. del domingo,cuando salía del edi-ficio de artes dramá-ticas.

“Nunca llegó a su dormitorioesa noche”, dijo el subdirector dela policía de Austin Troy Gay,quien habló durante una conferen-cia de prensa.

Sus compañeras de habitaciónreportaron su desaparición pocoantes del mediodía del día siguien-te, y el cuerpo sin vida de Weiserfue descubierto el martes en unarroyo cerca del centro de alumnosy el estadio de fútbol americano,un área llena de actividad día y no-che.

La ruta a su dormitorio la lleva-ba con frecuencia a lo largo del

arroyo donde fue en-contrado su cadáver,y Gay señaló que lasautoridades “cono-cían la dirección queella tomó” con baseen lo que ella escri-bió a una de sus ami-gas.

La policía difundió un video devigilancia en que aparecía un hom-bre caminando y empujando unabicicleta de mujer. Los bomberosreconocieron a Criner, con quienhabían hablado en relación con unincendio de basura el lunes. Unavecina de Austin que denunció elincendio también llamó a la policíaal ver el video, dijo Acevedo.

Criner no fue arrestado por elincendio sino llevado a un refugio.La policía lo arrestó allí el juevessin que opusiera resistencia. Ace-vedo dijo que su ropa era la delhombre en el video. Tenía una bici-

cleta de mujer, además del bolso yotras pertenencias de Weiser.

Acevedo se negó a especular so-bre los motivos y dijo que las auto-ridades tratan de determinar siCriner tenía prontuario criminal.

Greg Fenves, presidente de laUT, dijo que Weiser era originariade Portland, Oregon, y que “la in-concebible brutalidad en contra deHaruka es un ataque a nuestra fa-milia entera”.

No se han revelado detalles so-bre la causa de muerte de Weiser.Una autopsia mostró que fue ataca-da, pero Gay rechazó proporcionardetalles.

El homicidio de Weiser fue elprimero en el campus desde que elex infante de marina Charles Whit-man subió a la torre de la campa-na en la Universidad de Texas el 1de agosto de 1966 y mató a balazosa 16 personas, hiriendo a decenasmás.

UT AUSTIN

Luto en campusPOR WILL WEISSERT

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WEISER CRINER

PÁGINA 6A Zfrontera SÁBADO 9 DE ABRIL DE 2016

Por sus quince años de servicio a lacomunidad, el Presidente y CEO deIBC Bank-Zapata, Renato Ramírez, fuereconocido por la Junta de Directores

del Texas Civil RightsProject (Proyecto de losDerechos Humanos deTexas — TCRP, por sussiglas en inglés).

“Por su compromisopara ayudar a aquellosque no pueden hacerlo,a través de la represen-tación legal, ayuda eco-

nómica y educación”, indica un comu-nicado de prensa.

Ramírez ha sido parte activa de lacomunidad de Zapata desde 1983, sien-do parte del desarrollo de varios es-fuerzos sin fines de lucro entre loscuales destacan donaciones al Institu-to Nacional Hispano y el Zapata Boysand Girls Club.

“Su legado es celebrado a través delMonumento Tejano en Austin, proyec-to encabezado por él y que logró hacerrealidad”, dijo James Harrington, Di-rector Ejecutivo del TCRP.

Agregó que admira a Ramírez porlo que ha hecho en favor de otros ypor los derechos humanos.

Ramírez fue reconocido por la juntade directores debido a su “generosidady compasión, y ferviente defensor delos derechos civiles, hablando inclusi-ve contra los abusos y la discrimina-ción”, concluye el comunicado.

La misión del TCRP es promover lajusticia racial, social y económica através del litigio, educación y servi-cios sociales para personas que no sepuedan defender a sí mismos.

COMUNIDAD

Elogianservicio de

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RAMÍREZ

El cuerpo de una per-sona disecada se exhibíaen el Museo Darder enBanyoles, en Cataluña.Hacia finales del sigloXX, un médico españoldemanda que se suprimael denigrante espectácu-lo.

Los franceses Eduardoy Julio Verreaux concu-rren a la ceremonia deinhumación. Ellos gusta-ban de incorporarse a lasexpediciones de la mari-na francesa, con el fin derecolectar especímenes tí-picos en distantes latitu-des. Al retirarse los deu-

dos, los referidos herma-nos profanan y saqueanla tumba.

Apoderándose del ca-dáver recién sepultado,los Verreaux terminandisecándolo, llevándoseloa París. En 1831 lo inte-gran a una exposición de“materiales” del Áfricanegra en la Maison Ve-rreaux. Cuando ésta últi-ma cierra de manera de-finitiva, a finales de esemismo siglo, Darder com-pra al jefe tribal, presen-tándolo en Banyoles apartir de 1888. Darder ce-de a la ciudad su museoen 1916.

Alfonso Arcelín un mé-dico español de origenhaitiano, demanda aprincipio de la década de1990 que el hombre searetirado.

“Soy negro y me siento

insultado”, declaró Arce-lín.

Sumándose a la exigen-cia, el Centro Interafrica-no de Iniciativas Cultura-les programa protestasque tienen un impactomundial en los medios.

Instada por la Organi-zación de las NacionesUnidas, España repatrialos restos en el 2000. Bot-suana los recibe, dedicán-doles funerales en su par-que nacional de Tsholofe-lo. Como invitado asisteel doctor Arcelín, quienfallece en Cuba nueveaños después.

Similares casos aúnsubsisten en museos deantiguas potencias colo-nialistas, que alardean deavanzada cultura.

(Con permiso del autor,publicado en La Razón, el1 abril)

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Protesta motiva querepatríen restos

Nota del editor: Esta es lasegunda de dos partes sobrecuerpo disecado de un jefetribal.

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EDUCACIÓN

Personal y alumnos de Zapata County ISD participaron durante las Olimpiadas Especiales del Área 21 en la categoría deAtletismo. Estudiantes se sintieron motivados y alegres de poder demostrar sus habilidades.

Foto de cortesía | ZCISD

TRIUNFOOLÍMPICO

SOBREPISTA Alumnos del Zapata Independent School District mostra-

ron su entusiasmo al participar en una competencia en elmarco de las Olimpiadas Especiales del Área 21, en el ren-glón de atletismo.

Foto de cortesía | ZCISD

CONCIENTIZACIÓN

Foto de cortesía | ZCCC

El Zapata County Community Coalition celebró su junta mensual eljueves 7 de abril. El Juez del Condado de Zapata, Joe Rathmell, tuvoa su cargo la proclamación de abril como el Mes de la Concientiza-ción sobre el Alcohol. En la imagen se encuentra Rathmell y of-iciales del ZCCC y SCAN.

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2016 Zentertainment PAGE 7A

NEW YORK — Los An-geles rappers N.W.A.,whose legacy gained newlife with the hit movie“Straight Outta Comp-ton,” join the Rock andRoll Hall of Fame on Fri-day with a quartet of1970s era rock acts.

Cheap Trick, Chicago,Deep Purple and SteveMiller are also beinghonored at a ceremonyin Brooklyn’s BarclaysCenter.

N.W.A.’s rough-hewntales of life on the streetstilted the balance towardWest Coast rap in thelate 1980s on songs like“F—- the Police,” “Boyz-N-The Hood” and“Straight Outta Comp-ton.”

Following the act’sbreakup, Dr. Dre becameone of music’s most in-demand producers and abillionaire with a high-tech headphone company.Ice Cube moves betweenmusic and a successfulacting career.

Named for one of

N.W.A.’s best-knownsongs, the movie“Straight Outta Comp-ton” told the band’s storyand was one of the big-gest box office winners of2015.

Deep Purple’s induc-tion was hailed by heavymetal fans. Yet they enterthe hall amid some hardfeelings: the band’s cur-rent members refused toperform with RitchieBlackmore, the guitaristwho came up with thesignature riff for “Smokeon the Water.”

Miller came out of ablues background in SanFrancisco and later be-came a dependable au-thor of FM rock hits like“fly Like an Eagle,” “JetAirliner” and “JungleLove.”

Chicago was knownfor a brassy, jazz-rock fu-sion in its early days andsettled into a comfortablecareer penning pop hits.Among their favoriteswere “Saturday in thePark,” ‘’25 or 6 to 4,” ‘’IfYou Leave Me Now” and“Does Anyone ReallyKnow What Time it Is?”

NWA inductedto rock hall

By DAVID BAUDERASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — PBS’ doc-umentary on the life ofJackie Robinson gets mostinteresting when the glovesand bats are put away forgood.

The two-part film direct-ed by Ken Burns, SarahBurns and David McMahonairs Monday and Tuesday at9 p.m. EDT on most PBSstations. The first part de-tails Robinson’s early lifeand his baseball career,when he became the firstblack player in MajorLeague Baseball in 1947.The second part is morecomplex, showing Robinsonnavigating a civil rights erathat he helped put in mo-tion.

Burns’ team was nudgedinto making “Jackie Robin-son” by Jackie’s 93-year-oldwidow Rachel. They hadgotten to know each otherwhen Burns made his docu-mentary series on baseball,which aired in 1994. Shewanted Burns to make afilm solely on Robinson buthe didn’t have time, and twoattempts with other direc-tors didn’t work out.

Finally, Burns, his daugh-ter and son-in-law foundtime, although he gently re-minded her that “you can’tfire me.”

“You can tell in the mo-ments that she’s on (screen)that she wants you to un-derstand how complicatedthis was, that it wasn’t justthis simple mythology thatwe have,” he said.

The film illustrates howpressure had been buildingto integrate baseball, partic-ularly after blacks servedwith distinction in WorldWar II. Robinson was urgedto turn the other cheekwhen he endured tauntsand insults, and this took ef-fort — it wasn’t in Robin-son’s nature.

They cast doubt on a mo-ment that has been immor-

talized with a statue inBrooklyn. Early in Robin-son’s rookie year, teammatePee Wee Reese supposedlyput his arm around Robin-son to signal acceptance bya white player who grew upin Kentucky.

But there are real ques-tions about whether thishappened at all. It wouldhave required Reese, ashortstop, to cross the fieldto Robinson, who playedfirst base. There was nomention of it in newspaperaccounts of the game inCincinnati when it suppos-edly took place. Rachel Rob-inson had urged a differentstatue depicting the twoplayers shaking hands. Rob-inson himself indicated inan autobiography thatsomething like it had hap-pened — but a year later,when he played secondbase.

Burns also detailed thesupposed embrace in his1994 documentary series.

“It’s white people want-ing to have skin in thisgame,” Burns said. “We

want to feel that we weregood enough and forward-thinking enough. It’s a goodstory, but it’s mythology.”

After being traded to theNew York Giants in 1957,Robinson retired ratherthan play for the Dodgers’hated rivals. He became anexecutive at Chock Full ‘ONuts, and active in civilrights.

His post-baseball publiclife was complicated. As thefilm states at the opening ofthe second night, “Ameri-cans would see the realJackie Robinson, and theywould not always like him.”

Robinson was a Republi-can, a member of the partyof Lincoln, and supportedRichard Nixon in the 1960election against John F.Kennedy. During the cam-paign, he urged Nixon toreach out to the Rev. MartinLuther King Jr. when theminister was jailed. Nixondidn’t, but Kennedy did, andnarrowly won the electionwith newfound black sup-port.

After Democrat Lyndon

B. Johnson signed civilrights legislation, Robinsonsupported him in 1964 andurged other blacks to do thesame. He was essentiallythere at the birth of the Re-publicans’ strategy of ap-pealing to Southern whites,and Nixon snubbed him af-ter he was elected presidentin 1968.

Although he pushed forcivil rights progress andheld fundraisers at his Con-necticut home, Robinsonworked for a Republican inNew York Gov. Nelson Rock-efeller. He clashed with Mal-colm X and more militantblack activists. Twentyyears after he broke base-ball’s color barrier, someblacks called him an “UncleTom.”

All along, the Robinsonsdealt with the difficulties ofbeing parents in the 1960s.Jackie Robinson Jr. return-ed from Vietnam with adrug addiction that hestruggled for years to beat,and just as it seemed hehad, he died in a car acci-dent.

Robinson threw out thefirst pitch at the 1972 WorldSeries, and spoke out on theneed for baseball to hire ablack manager. He died of aheart attack shortly thereaf-ter at age 53.

The end of the film —and the end of Robinson’slife — is filled with pessi-mism. He realizes that henever had it made, that de-spite the progress he em-bodied, he was still a blackman in a white man’sworld, Burns said.

The filmmaker said hegets criticism, even hatemail, for talking about racefrequently in his projects,but said it’s an important,ongoing part of the Ameri-can story. He’s eager tomake a documentary onPresident Barack Obama,who is interviewed for“Jackie Robinson,” but fig-ures that needs 15 or 20years of perspective.

Robinson special set to airBy DAVID BAUDERASSOCIATED PRESS

In this March 5, 1964 file photo, former baseball star Jackie Rob-inson, center, appears with demonstrators in a civil rights march onthe capitol in Frankfort, Ky.

Photo by the Associated Press | AP file

8A THE ZAPATA TIMES International SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2016

BRUSSELS — The ar-rest Friday of five mensuspected of links to theBrussels bombings, in-cluding the last known fu-gitive in last year’s Parisattacks, raised new ques-tions about the extent ofthe Islamic State cell be-lieved to have carried outthe intertwined attacksthat left 162 people deadin two countries.

After weeks of specula-tion about a mysterious“man in the hat” who es-caped the Brussels at-tacks while three suicidebombers blew themselvesup, authorities werechecking whether thatman was indeed Mo-hamed Abrini, the lastidentified suspect at largefrom the Paris attacks un-til Friday. Another manarrested in a series ofraids, identified as OsamaK. by Belgian authorities,was linked to the Nov. 13Paris attacks by Frenchauthorities on March 22,hours after the Belgiumattacks.

Abrini and Osama K.are now suspected of play-ing a role in the two big-gest attacks carried outby the Islamic State groupin Europe over the pastyear, killing 130 people inParis and 32 in Brussels.French authorities renew-ed their call to arrest anarmed and dangerousAbrini within hours ofthe Brussels attacks.

“We are investigating ifAbrini can be positivelyidentified as the third per-son present during the at-tacks in Brussels Nation-al Airport, the so called‘man in the hat,”’ saidprosecutor Eric Van derSypt.

The man walked awayfrom the airport attack,where two suicide bomb-ers blew themselves up,killing 16. Authorities de-tained four other men on

Friday, including OsamaK., suspected of havingcontact with the suicidebomber who blew himselfup in the Brussels sub-way the same morning,killing another 16.

Osama K. was filmedby security cameras inthe City 2 shopping mallwhen the bags werebought that were used bythe suicide bombers whoattacked the airport.

Belgian prosecutorssaid Abrini’s fingerprintsand DNA were not onlyin a Renault Clio used inthe Nov. 13 attacks in Pa-ris, but also in an apart-ment in the Schaerbeekarea of Brussels used bythe Brussels bombers.

Friday’s detentionswere a rare success forBelgian authorities, whohave been accused formonths of mishandlingthe investigation. Boththe interior and justiceministers had offered toresign before the deten-tions.

Despite multiple ar-rests, Brussels remainsunder the second-highestterror alert, meaning anattack is considered like-ly.

Abrini’s precise role inthe Paris attacks has nev-er been clear, nor his fulllink to the Brussels at-tacks. Abrini is a 31-year-old Belgian-Moroccan,known as a petty crimi-nal before he was be-

lieved to have traveledlast summer to Syria,where his younger broth-er died in 2014 in the Is-lamic State’s notoriousfrancophone brigade.

Abrini went multipletimes to Birmingham,England, last year, meet-ing with several men sus-pected of terrorist activ-ity, a European securityofficial has told The Asso-ciated Press. The officialspoke on condition ofanonymity because hewas not authorized to pro-vide details on the inves-tigation. He said themeetings, including onelater last summer, tookplace in several locations,including cafes and apart-ments.

Abrini had not resur-faced since the emergenceof surveillance video plac-ing him in the convoywith the attackers headedto Paris. He had ties toAbdelhamid Abbaoud, theringleader of the Paris at-tacks who died in a policestandoff on Nov. 18, and isa childhood friend ofbrothers Salah and Bra-him Abdeslam, both sus-pects in the Paris attacks.

Friday was three weeksto the day that authoritiesarrested in another Brus-sels neighborhood SalahAbdeslam, who had beenon the run for fourmonths. Abdeslam isawaiting extradition toFrance.

Link made in Paris,Brussels attacks

By RAF CASERT AND JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Police investigate an area where terror suspect Mohamed Abriniwas arrested in Brussels on Friday.

Photo by Geert Vanden Wijngaert | AP

ROME — Keeping up itspress for the “truth” in thetorture and slaying of anItalian graduate student inCairo, the Italian govern-ment on Friday announcedit was recalling its ambas-sador from Egypt for ur-gent consultations afterItalian prosecutors ex-pressed disappointmentover Egyptian cooperation.

Foreign Minister PaoloGentiloni was recallingAmbassador MaurizioMassari from the Egyptiancapital for “urgent evalua-tion of more opportune ini-tiatives to relaunch thecommitment aimed at de-termining the truth aboutthe barbarous murder ofGiulio Regeni,” a ministrystatement said.

The 28-year-old student,who was researching Egyp-tian labor movements, dis-appeared on Jan. 25, thefifth anniversary on theEgyptian uprising, whenpolice and other Egyptiansecurity personnel wereout in force in Cairo to dis-courage protests. His bodywas found near a Cairohighway on Feb. 3.

Italian officials said anItalian autopsy found signsof “protracted” tortureover several days, and thatRegeni appears to havedied on Feb. 1 or 2.

Premier Matteo Renzitold reporters that decisionwas made “immediately”after Italian prosecutorsgave their assessment oftwo days of meetings thatwrapped up Friday withvisiting Egyptian investi-gators they had hopedwould deliver useful evi-dence.

“Italy, as you know,made a commitment to thefamily of Giulio Regeni

naturally, tothe memoryof Giulio Re-geni, but alsoto the dignityof all us, say-ing we’d onlystop in frontof the truth,”

Renzi said. Recalling theambassador to Rome“means Italy is confirmingthis commitment to itself,to the family,” the premiersaid.

A statement from theRome prosecutors’ officesaid it was still pressingthe Egyptians for turn overa list of Regeni’s cellphonetraffic “in very brief time.”

The Italian news agencyANSA said the Egyptianinvestigators didn’t bringto Rome the surveillancecamera video from nearthe metro station whereRegeni was last seen. Ital-ian prosecutors, and Ital-ian police who had gone toCairo, had repeatedly re-quested the images.

For its part Italy turnedover the results of the Ital-ian autopsy and what wasfound on Regeni’s comput-er, the Rome prosecutors’office said.

Egypt’s Foreign Minis-try spokesman AhmedAbu-Zeid said the ministry“hasn’t been officially noti-fied of the recalling of theItalian ambassador toEgypt to Rome for consul-tation or the reasons be-hind it.”

“The Foreign Ministryis waiting for the return ofthe Egyptian team to listento its evaluation” of whatcame out of the two days ofmeetings between bothsides’ investigators, he saidin a statement.

Italy has expressedmounting impatience withvarious Egyptian’s at-tempts to explain Regeni’s

death, including a latestone blaming the slaying ona robbery gang.

The Rome prosecutorsin their statement referredto that version, reiteratingthe “conviction that thereare no elements indicatingdirect involvement by aband of criminals in thetorture and death” of Rege-ni.

Egyptian authorities re-cently produced Regeni’spassport and student IDsthey said had been in thepossession of a criminalgang they contend were ab-ducting foreigners for rob-bery purposes. The gangmembers were killed in ashootout with Egyptian po-lice, Egyptian authoritiessaid.

Shortly after Regeni’sbody was found, Egyptianauthorities attributed thedeath to a road accident.

The Italian ministrydidn’t suggest what otherinitiatives the governmentmight take against Egypt,which is a big trading part-ner as well as an ally in an-ti-terrorism efforts. Italianenergy company ENI hasdecades-long extensivedealings with Egypt.

Last week, Regeni’s an-guished parents urged theItalian government to de-clare Egypt “unsafe” forItalians to visit, sayingtheir son was only one ofmany torture victims inthe north African country.Egypt’s Red Sea resorts fordecades had been a pop-ular destination for Italiantourists.

The head of the ItalianSenate foreign affairs com-mission, Pier FerdinandoCasini, said recalling theambassador not only had“high symbolic value,” butalso shows “Italy stronglydefends its national deco-rum and dignity.”

Italy recalls envoy toEgypt over slaying

By FRANCES D’EMILIOASSOCIATED PRESS

RENZI

MOSCOW — No one willface criminal charges overthe worst doping scandal inRussia’s history, the coun-try’s sports minister saidFriday.

A report in November bya World Anti-Doping Agen-cy commission alleged sys-tematic, state-sponsoreddrug use in Russian trackand field and a widespreadcover-up of doping.

The former head of theRussian track federationwas also accused of a rolein extorting 450,000 euros($500,000) from a marathonrunner and was laterbanned for life.

“The General Prosecu-tor’s office carefully exam-ined the report in questionand did not find a single le-gally supported fact toopen any kind of case,”Russian Sports Minister Vi-taly Mutko told sports por-tal Sportfakt.

The WADA report led toRussia being suspendedfrom international trackand field, including theOlympics.

Mutko also admittedRussia had been forced towithdraw players from its

national teams at majorcompetitions because of therisk they could test positivefor meldonium, a drug forpatients with heart diseasewhich was widely used as asupplement in Russiansports but was banned for2016. The ban prompted aspate of positive testsamong top Russian ath-letes, including Maria Sha-rapova.

Mutko’s comments camea day after almost the en-tire Russian national un-der-18 hockey team was cutfrom next week’s worldchampionships and re-placed with an apparentlyweaker under-17 squad.The change was announcedthe day before the under-18team had been expected tofly to the United States.

Mutko said some playershad taken meldoniumwhile it was still legal butthat Russian officialsfeared it could have re-mained in their bodies.

“If an athlete or a groupof athletes took it in Octo-ber or November, we don’tknow if it’ll be found or not(in testing),” Mutko said incomments reported by thestate news agency Tass.“We’re minimizing risks.”

Russian Hockey Federa-tion president VladislavTretiak had said the rosterchange was “tactical,” butthe federation admittedFriday the switch was ac-tually due to meldonium.

The federation claimedthat players stopped usingthe substance in the fall of2015 when WADA ruled itwould be banned for 2016.Removing the under-18team from the world cham-pionship was an attempt to“defend the rights of youngathletes,” it said.

It was the latest in astring of surprise teamchanges in Russian sportsin recent weeks.

The entire nationalmen’s curling team waschanged a day before itsworld championships, withthe Russian Curling Feder-ation denying a link to mel-donium. The replacementteam went on to lose nineof 11 games.

In volleyball, Russianclub Gazprom Yugradropped its top playersahead of the final of the Eu-ropean CEV Cup, which itlost. No explanation wasgiven.

UK Anti-Doping, de-clined to comment.

No charges made in scandalASSOCIATED PRESS

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2016 THE ZAPATA TIMES 9A

NEW YORK — A surgein the price of oil sent en-ergy companies higher onFriday, but U.S. stocks gotonly a small boost overallas retailers suffered biglosses.

Stocks rose in morningtrading as oil pricesclimbed, and the DowJones industrial averagejumped more than 150points early on. Retailersskidded as investors wor-ried about reports fromGap and L Brands. Bio-tech drugmakers returnedsome of their gains fromearlier in the week.

Oil prices climbedabout 7 percent this weekas the dollar got weaker.The price of oil has see-sawed as investors hopeenergy producing compa-nies will cut production.Experts aren’t sure thegains will last.

“If this fizzles out in aweek or so I think youcould see oil prices rollover,” said Steve Chiava-rone, associated portfoliomanager for Federated In-vestors.

The Dow picked up 35points, or 0.2 percent, to17,576.96. The Standard &Poor’s 500 index rose 5.69points, or 0.3 percent, to2,047.60. The Nasdaq com-posite index eked out again of 2.32 points, or lessthan 0.1 percent, to4,850.69.

Benchmark U.S. cruderose $2.46, or 6.6 percent,to $39.72 a barrel in NewYork. Brent crude, used toprice international oils,gained $2.51, or 6.4 per-cent, to $41.94 a barrel inLondon.

ConocoPhillips picked

up 92 cents, or 2.3 percent,to $41.23 and Murphy Oiladvanced $1.25, or 5.1 per-cent, to $25.69.

Oil prices recoveredthis week, and Chiavaronesaid that’s partly becausethe Federal Reserve isstressing that it will raiseinterest rates slowly. Thatmakes the dollar weaker,and investors think thatmeans demand for oil willgo up.

Gap said all three of itsmajor chains saw theirsales drop in March, andadded that levels of prod-uct inventory are high,which could lead to biggerdiscounts that will hurtits profits. Meanwhile LBrands said it will re-

structure its Victoria’s Se-cret brand and eliminateabout 200 corporate jobs.

Gap plunged $3.83, or13.8 percent, to $23.85 andL Brands stock lost $3.65,or 4.3 percent, to $80.50.The companies’ state-ments and their losseshurt companies that selleverything from athleticapparel to handbags towatches to departmentstore chains. Macy’s gaveup 94 cents, or 2.3 percent,to $39.68. Under Armourlost 87 cents, or 2 percent,to $43.54.

Analyst Simeon Siegelof Nomura Securities saidGap and L Brands both re-ported decent sales, andtheir problems don’t sug-

gest big trouble for retail-ers in general.

“Everything gets lump-ed in together,” he said.He added that retailstocks have made biggains recently. “For thepast few weeks we’ve hadthis incredible rally thatreally wasn’t predicatedon any results,” he said.

Pain drug maker De-pomed rose after activistinvestment firm Star-board Value disclosed a9.8 percent stake in thecompany, making it one ofDepomed’s largest share-holders. Last year HorizonPharma tried to buy De-pomed for about $1.1 bil-lion, or $33 per share, butDepomed fended off that

effort and Horizondropped it in November.Depomed’s stock jumped$1.95, or 13 percent, to$16.95.

Biotech drugmakers re-treated. Regeneron Phar-maceuticals lost $13.43, or3.2 percent, to $404.94 andBiogen declined $2.21, or0.8 percent, to $270.83.Those stocks logged theirbiggest gain in almost fiveyears on Wednesday, buthave suffered big lossessince July.

Specialty glass makerCorning said it will buyoptical components makerAlliance Fiber Optic Prod-ucts for $18.50 per share,or $305 million. Alliancestock surged $2.99, or 19.3

percent, to $18.45. Corningdipped 13 cents to $20.53.

Ruby Tuesday tumbled62 cents, or 11.9 percent,to $4.60. The restaurantchain’s earnings were dis-appointing and it cut itsforecasts. The company al-so said its chief financialofficer will leave to take ajob with another company.

The price of gold rose$6.30 to $1,242.50 an ounce.Silver gained 23 cents, or1.5 percent, to $15.38 anounce. Copper edged up 1cent to $2.02 a pound.

Energy prices rallied inlate February and marchas investors hoped thatmajor oil-producing na-tions will agree to freezeproduction levels in mid-April. But Chaivaronesaid they may be disap-pointed, and if a dealdoesn’t emerge, he thinksoil prices could fall backto around $30 a barrel.

In other energy trading,wholesale gasoline rose 8cents, or 6 percent, to$1.46 a gallon. Heating oiljumped 7 cents, or 6.6 per-cent, to $1.20 a gallon.Natural gas slipped 3cents to $1.99 per 1,000 cu-bic feet.

The yield on the 10-yearU.S. Treasury note rose to1.72 percent from 1.69 per-cent. The dollar rose to108.33 yen from 108.24 yen.The euro inched up to$1.1397 from $1.1377.

Stocks in Europe ral-lied. France’s CAC 40 rose1.4 percent and the FTSE100 in Britain climbed 1.1percent. Germany’s DAXadded 1 percent. Japan’sbenchmark Nikkei 225 in-dex finished 0.5 percenthigher. South Korea’s Kos-pi dipped 0.1 percent.Hong Kong’s Hang Sengrose 0.5 percent.

Indexes inch higher as oil prices jumpBy MARLEY JAY

ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this file photo, people pass a Wall Street subway stop, in New York’s Financial District. Stocks are rising in early trading, led by energycompanies as the price of crude oil turns sharply higher. Murphy Oil jumped 5 percent early Friday.

Photo by Richard Drew | AP file

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WASHINGTON — Self-driving cars are more like-ly to hurt than help publicsafety because of unsolvedtechnical issues, engineersand safety advocates toldthe government Friday,countering a push by inno-vators to speed govern-ment approval.

Even a trade associationfor automakers cautionedthe National HighwayTraffic Safety Administra-tion that a slower, more de-liberative approach may beneeded than the agency’saggressive plan to provideits guidance for deployingthe vehicles in just sixmonths. The decision toproduce the guidance wasannounced in January andofficials have promised tocomplete it by July.

There are risks to de-viating from the govern-

ment’s traditional processof issuing regulations andstandards, Paul Scullion,safety manager at the As-sociation of Global Auto-makers, said at a publicmeeting on self-drivingcars hosted by NHTSA.

Issuing new regulationstakes an average of eightyears, NHTSA has said.Regulations are also en-forceable, while guidanceis usually more generaland open to interpretation.

“While this process is of-ten time-consuming, theseprocedural safeguards arein place for valid reasons,”Scullion said. Working out-side that process might al-low the government to re-spond more quickly to rap-idly changing technology,but that approach wouldlikely come at the expenseof thoroughness, he said.

Mark Rosekind,NHTSA’s administrator,said the agency can’t wait

because early self-drivingtechnologies are already incars on the road, includingautomatic emergency brak-ing that can stop or reducespeed to avoid or mitigatea collision. Another safetyoption on some vehiclesautomatically steers vehi-cles back into their lanes ifthey start to drift withoutthe driver first using aturn signal.

“Everybody asks, ‘Whenare they going to beready?’ I keep sayingthey’re not coming; theyare here now,” Rosekindsaid.

Without federal instruc-tions, “people are just go-ing to keep putting stuffout on the road with noguidance on how do we dothis the right way.”

Rosekind emphasizedthat he sees self-drivingcars as game-changingtechnology that can some-day save the lives of many

of the more than 30,000people killed each year onthe nation’s roads.

A General Motors offi-cial recently told a Senatecommittee that the auto-maker expects to deployself-driving cars within afew years through a part-nership with the ride-shar-ing service Lyft. Google, apioneer in the developmentof self-driving cars, is push-ing Congress to giveNHTSA new powers togrant it special, expeditedpermission to sell carswithout steering wheels orpedals.

Until the technology hasadvanced beyond the pointwhere ordinary conditionsare problematic, “it is dan-gerous, impractical and amajor threat to the publichealth, safety and welfareto deploy them,” said MarkGolden, executive directorof the National Society ofProfessional Engineers.

Self-driving cars not yet readyBy JOAN LOWY

ASSOCIATED PRESS

10A THE ZAPATA TIMES SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2016

Lady Bird Johnson Wild-flower Center in Austin,who knows well howwe’re drawn to capturethe springtime sight.

Gina Rokas, tourism di-rector for the city of En-nis, laughs when shehears from The DallasMorning News the anti-picking myth. Ennis is theOfficial Bluebonnet Cityof Texas and brings inthousands of tourists forthe annual BluebonnetTrails Festival, which thisyear is April 15-17.

“We do hear that a lot,”she said, especially amongfolks from outside thestate. “It’s really sweetwhen they ask, ‘Can I justpick one because they’reso beautiful.”’

This is the 65th year forthe Ennis festival, Rokassaid, but it’s really takenoff in the last 10 yearssince the advent of socialmedia. Go to Ellis Countyduring peak-bloom (bestestimates say second weekof April this year, Rokassaid) and you’ll find bum-per-to-bumper trafficalong the trails as peopletry to get their perfectportrait.

Rokas said she jokeswith visitors who askabout picking the flowers,but she hopes peoplewon’t actually go throughwith it.

“We just say if everybo-dy’s picking them, theywon’t go back to seed,” Ro-

kas said. “It gives us anopportunity to tell themnot to trespass onto pri-vate property.”

Sgt. Lonny Haschel, aspokesman for the TexasDepartment of PublicSafety, said that while ac-tually picking the wild-flowers isn’t a crime, it’simportant to be safe whilesetting up for photos.

The grassy area near abusy highway might offera pretty backdrop, butmake sure to pull com-pletely off the roadway be-fore getting out for pho-tos.

“Obviously in the Met-roplex, you wouldn’t stopalong 635 anywhere,” hesaid. “You want to makesure people are safe.”

Haschel also said toavoid private property, be-cause picking bluebonnetsmay not be a crime, buttrespassing sure is. Par-ents should keep an eyeout for other dangers inwildflower patches aswell.

“Be careful with kids,because Texas is knownfor bluebonnets and fireants,” Haschel said. “Onceyou’re there, scout outwhat’s under the flowers.”

Marcus suggests findinga (safe) roadside slope,where photographers canarrange the picturesquepatchwork of blue andgreen behind their sub-jects without wading intothe patch.

“People are looking forthe perfect picture, theperfect angle, and theyend up destroying whatthey try to appreciate,”Marcus said.

Our statewide obsessionwith these little blue wild-flowers dates back over acentury, Marcus said. Thestate legislature first con-sidered picking a stateflower in the spring of1901, spurring fierce floordebate.

Some lawmakers con-sidered the cotton boll,harkening back to thestate’s Southern, cottonplantation roots. A repre-sentative from Uvaldesuggested the cactus forits hardiness and beauti-ful flowers, earning himthe nickname “CactusJack.”

In the end, the Sandy-land Bluebonnet of SouthTexas — which bloomstaller and earlier than itsNorth Texas cousin —won the honor. It wasn’tuntil the 1970s that thelegislature named all fiveor six species of Texas lu-pines as the state symbol.

Today, Marcus getsmessages from all overthe country from Tex-patshoping to grow bluebon-nets out-of-state. He’s evengotten emails from mili-tary service members inIraq and Afghanistan hop-ing to bring a little sliceof Texas to the EasternHemisphere.

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an area that hums withactivity day and night.

The slaying shook acampus that’s home toabout 50,000 students.University PresidentGreg Fenves called Weis-er’s slaying “horrifyingand incomprehensible”and described it as an at-tack on the entire schoolcommunity.

“It was unsettling,”said 20-year-old JasmineChavez, who was on UT’scentral mall area Fridaybut hails from Houston.“I feel better now thatthey’ve caught the guy.”

Police released surveil-lance video that showed aman they said was a sus-pect walking a women’sbicycle. Firefighters rec-ognized the man on thevideo as Criner, whomthey had spoken to inconnection with a trashfire near the UT campuson Monday. An Austinresident who reportedthe fire also called policewhen she saw the surveil-lance video, Acevedosaid.

Criner wasn’t arrestedfor the fire but was in-stead taken to a shelter.Police found him thereThursday and took himinto custody without in-cident. The arrest war-rant said his clothingmatched that of the manon the surveillance videoand that he was in pos-session of a women’sbike, as well as Weiser’sduffel bag and some ofher other belongings, in-cluding her laptop.

Acevedo wouldn’t spec-ulate on motive and said

authorities are still work-ing to determine Criner’scriminal record.

Texas Department ofFamily Protective Servic-es spokeswoman JulieMoody said Criner “hadbeen in Child ProtectiveServices care” but thatshe couldn’t elaborate onwhere, for how long orprovide any further de-tails, citing privacy rulesand the ongoing criminalinvestigation.

Police have not re-leased many details onCriner’s background,though a person with thesame name and birthdateas the suspect is listed indriver’s license recordsas having lived in Texar-kana, about 350 milesnortheast of Austin.

A 2014 article in a Tex-arkana high school pub-lication featured a Meec-chaiel Criner who de-scribed being bullied anddifficulties in foster careas a child, saying, “WhatI want to leave behind ismy name — I want themto know who MeechaielCriner is.”

Weiser’s autopsyshowed she had been as-saulted, but police haverefused to release furtherdetails about her death,except to say that theroute she took from herdorm to the drama build-ing often passed WallerCreek, where her bodywas found.

Fenves said increasedpolice patrols on campus,which have included Tex-as state troopers in cars,on bikes and on horse-back, would continue for

the time being. The De-partment of Public Safetyalso is conducting a secu-rity review on campus,including checking videomonitoring, lighting andbuilding security sys-tems

“We will honor Haru-ka’s life and what shestood for,” Fenves said.“We will take this as anoccasion to do as Haru-ka’s parents asked us todo, learn from this andmake this a better com-munity and a safer com-munity for everyone.”

The university saidthat Weiser’s was thefirst on-campus homicidesince former MarineCharles Whitmanclimbed to the top ofUT’s bell tower on Aug. 1,1966, and opened fire,killing 14 people andwounding scores of oth-ers. Authorities later de-termined Whitman alsokilled his wife and moth-er in the hours before hewent to the tower. A 17thdeath would be attribut-ed to Whitman in 2001when a Fort Worth mandied of injuries from theshooting.

Weiser’s family saidshe had planned to takeon a second, pre-med ma-jor soon and to travel toJapan this summer to seerelatives. In a statementFriday, it said “we are re-lieved to hear” an arresthad been made.

“We remain steadfastin our desire to honorHaruka’s memorythrough kindness andlove,” the family said“not violence.”

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ing. The commander over-saw a base K-9 unit, the offi-cial said.

A motive for the shootingand many other detailswere not released by author-ities Friday. Brig. Gen. Rob-ert LaBrutta, who overseesJoint Base San Antonio, de-clined to identify the men,saying their families mustfirst be notified. He alsostressed the shooting wasnot an act of terrorism.

Investigators from the AirForce and FBI are tracingtwo handguns found nearthe bodies of the two meninside a building that holdsclassrooms and offices.

Military-issued and per-sonal firearms are heavilyrestricted on the base andit’s not clear whether thegunman was authorized tohave a weapon, according toDan Hawkins, a spokesmanfor the base. Weapons areused for training purposesand carried by base securitypersonnel, Hawkins said,but personal firearms can-not be freely carried on thebase.

“Allowing everyone to car-ry personal firearms wouldmake the job of our security

professionals much moredifficult,” Hawkins said. Healso said security officersmust be notified if a person-al weapon is being broughtonto the installation and thefirearm must be registered,in addition to other require-ments.

The restrictions apply notonly to Lackland but also toFort Sam Houston, the Ran-dolph air base and anotherinstallation that compriseJoint Base San Antonio,which has more than 80,000full-time personnel and isthe home of Air Force basictraining.

The 2016 defense policybill signed by President Ba-rack Obama directed thePentagon to set up a processby which commanders ofU.S. military installationsand certain other command-ers at military reserve orrecruiting centers can au-thorize a member of thearmed forces to carry a fire-arm if “necessary as a per-sonal- or force-protectionmeasure.”

But Hawkins said thatcongressional legislationdid not alter firearms poli-cies already in place at

Joint Base San Antonio,and neither did the TexasLegislature’s decision lastyear to allow for the open-carry of handguns in thestate.

Friday’s shooting, whichthe San Antonio Express-News reports caused offi-cials to abruptly end a near-by military training paradewith thousands of specta-tors, is the latest to occur ata military facility in Texasin the last several years.

In January 2015, an Armyveteran and former clerk atthe veterans’ clinic at FortBliss in El Paso shot andkilled a psychologist, thenkilled himself. About a yearearlier, three soldiers werekilled and 16 wounded in anattack at Fort Hood nearKilleen by Army Spc. IvanA. Lopez, who also killedhimself.

And in the deadliest at-tack to occur at a U.S. mil-itary installation, 13 peoplewere killed and 31 werewounded in a mass shoot-ing in 2009 at Fort Hood. Ni-dal Hasan, a former U.S. Ar-my major, was convictedand sentenced to death inthat shooting.

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though TEA spokeswomanDebbie Ratcliffe said in anemail that "because 5thand 8th graders took twotests" last week, "theoreti-cally the same studentcould have been impactedtwice but hopefully thatdidn’t happen."

Of the 14,220 affected ex-ams, Ratcliffe said 8,778were STAAR A, which is

given to special-educationstudents. The rest wereregular and STAAR L ex-ams, which is given toEnglish language lear-ners.

Morath again describedthe problem as "simplyunacceptable" on Wednes-day, echoing a stronglyworded statement he is-sued last week that said

"Kids in the classroomshould never suffer frommistakes made by adults."

The state left the deci-sion of whether to retestaffected students up toschool districts. Some opt-ed to retest students, Mo-rath said Wednesday. Buthe said the exam scores ofaffected students wouldnot factor into school rat-

ings under the state’s ac-countability system.

If the problem isn’tsolved by May, Morathsaid the state would recon-sider its contract withEducational Testing Ser-vices, the New Jersey-based company it pickedlast year to develop andadminister the state-re-quired exams. The deci-

sion to hire ETS madewaves as London-basedPearson had held the con-tract since Texas beganrequiring state student as-sessments in the 1980s.

ETS did not immediate-ly respond to a request forcomment.

Morath said ETS wouldalso be financially penal-ized. The TEA is still de-

termining the amount ofthe penalty, Ratcliffe said.

"One of the primary rea-sons" for the problem wasa "timeout issue," she saidin an email.

"The system was set tolog someone off if he wasinactive for 30 minutes,"she said. "That timeoutlimit was adjusted as theweek went along."

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Sports&OutdoorsSATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2016 ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM

DALLAS — Troy Aik-man has plans of signifi-cance for his second half.

As the Hall of Famequarterback bears down onhis 50th birthday, he wantsto be an impact player onDallas’ philanthropic field.And as we all know, Aik-man likes to call the shots.

He believes he’s foundthe answer by signing onwith United Way of Metro-politan Dallas.

Aikman has committed$1 million to the nonprof-it’s Unite Forever Cam-paign in the Dallas organi-zation’s first donor-advisedfund.

This increasingly pop-ular form of giving allowsa donor to set up an ac-count managed by a charit-able organization but stayin the driver’s seat when it

comes to how the money isinvested and where it’s dis-tributed.

"I’m going to be 50 in No-vember - I have a hard timesaying that," Aikman saidat United Way’s headquar-ters in downtown Dallas."I’m looking to build some-thing that will have impactafter I’m gone. This ishome for me. My motiva-tion is real simple: I wantthe community of NorthTexas to know that philan-thropically, I’m still givingback."

Jennifer Sampson, CEOand president of UnitedWay, called it a "catalyticgift."

"We are in the earlystages of a public endow-ment campaign to raise$100 million," Sampsonsaid. "Troy very muchwanted to be a part of that

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: DALLAS COWBOYS

Aikman gives back

Former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman, left, was known for his stellar play on the field with receiver Michael Irvin, right, but has alsomade an impact off the field with donations to charity.

File photo by Sharon Ellman | AP

Troy Aikman donated $1 million to a Dallas-area United Way thisweek to the Unite Forever Campaign.

File photo by Patrick Smith | Getty

Dallas legend donates $1million to United Way

By CHERYL HALLTHE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

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LAS VEGAS — He re-turns to a familiar place,with an equally familiaropponent. Manny Pac-quiao is taking no chanc-es when he meets Tim-othy Bradley in whatcould be the last fight ofhis remarkable career.

There’s chatter in thebackground about a pos-sible rematch with FloydMayweather Jr., thoughthat appears very unlike-ly. Their hugely hypedfight last May was a dud,and Mayweather hasshown no interest — atleast publicly — inchanging his mind aboutretirement.

Pacquiao could beheaded there himself,even if he beats Bradleyin the rubber match oftheir series. He’s running

for the Senate in the Phi-lippines, a job that takesfar more time than hiscurrent position of con-gressman in his nativecountry, and polls makehim a favorite in nextmonth’s election.

Pacquiao might solidi-fy his position in thepolls with a win overBradley in Saturdaynight’s welterweight fightat the MGM Grand,where he met Mayweath-er last May. Everyoneloves a winner, thoughPacquiao is already be-loved by most people inthe Philippines as thebiggest sports hero thecountry has ever had.

Indeed, Bradley saidhe would be in Pac-quiao’s corner if he had avote.

“He’s shown over and

PROFESSIONAL BOXING

Boxers Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley Jr. face off for theWBO International Welterweight Title on Saturday.

Photo by John Gurzinski | Getty

Pacquiaoprepares for

BradleyLegendary boxer Pacquiao competes

in what could be his final fightBy TIM DAHLBERGASSOCIATED PRESS

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FORT WORTH — Jim-mie Johnson certainlyknows his way to VictoryLane at Texas MotorSpeedway.

Already with two winsthis season, Johnson isback in Texas, where hehas won the last threeNASCAR Sprint Cup racesand five of the last seven.

“It’s just this race track.I think tracks with an old-er surface; the bumpier itis, the more tire wear, it’sjust a condition that plays

into our wheelhouse,”Johnson said. “And we’vehit on some things hereover the last few trips andit consistently works forus and it continues to putspeed and longevity in thecar.”

But Johnson has neverhad to come from so farback in the field to win atthe high-banked, 1 1/2-mile track. Johnson willstart 11th on Saturdaynight in the Duck Com-mander 500.

Johnson started eighthor better is all six of hisvictories at Texas. In the

30 previous races there,only six of the winnersqualified worse than 10th,and the last was 11 racesago in 2010.

Still, Johnson has dom-inated in his No. 48 Chev-rolet at Texas, where hisrecord six Sprint Cupwins are twice as many asthe next closest driver —Carl Edwards, the polesit-ter. Johnson has led 1,023laps and has 19 top-10 fin-ishes, both records at thetrack starting its 20th sea-son of racing.

NASCAR SPRINT CUP: TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY

Jimmie Johnson and the rest of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers will compete at Texas MotorSpeedway in Fort Worth on Saturday night.

Photo by Ralph Lauer | AP

NASCAR heads to TexasBy STEPHEN HAWKINS

ASSOCIATED PRESS

See NASCAR PAGE 2B

OAKLAND — CoachSteve Kerr may be appre-hensive, believing hisGolden State Warriorsmay need a mental andphysical break before theplayoffs start more thanchasing the record formost wins in a season.

His young stars haveno such doubts. With aonce-in-a-lifetime chanceto set a record with 73wins by sweeping the fi-nal three games, theywant to seize the opportu-nity.

“Everything is gravy atthis point with coachKerr,” forward DraymondGreen said. “All he want-ed was the number oneseed. For a lot of guys inthe locker room, it’s notgravy. We put ourselvesin a position all year. ...To get this far and kind of

NBA: GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS

Warriors eye NBArecord of 73 wins

By JOSH DUBOWASSOCIATED PRESS

Golden State is looking to sweep their final three games of theseason to set a new NBA record with 73 wins in a single season.

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effort and has a long histo-ry with us. So it was an in-spiration and motivationfor us to think differentlyabout funding and fund-raising."

Aikman’s gift, which willbe announced at an eventin Klyde Warren Park onSaturday night, will fold in-to the Unite Forever capitalcampaign that waslaunched a year ago atUnited Way’s 90th anniver-sary celebration at AT&TStadium.

Unite Forever’s currenttally of more than $35 mil-lion includes two $5 mil-lion gifts - one from the 19grandchildren of CarolineRose Hunt in her honorand the other from Dianeand Hal Brierley.

—Aikman’s ties with Unit-

ed Way date back to hisearly playing days when hedid promotional spots forthe national organization.

More recently, he was co-chair of United Way’s 90thanniversary celebrationwith Charlotte Jones An-derson.

In 2011, he and Dr. Ken-neth Cooper launched theHealthy Zone Schools Rec-ognition Program, a part-nership between UnitedWay and the Cooper Insti-tute to fight childhoodobesity at the school level.

"Troy came to us andsaid, ’Can you work withme?’ " Sampson said. "Itwas an inspiration and mo-tivation for us to think dif-ferently about funding andfundraising. It’s a first forus and an exciting start forwhat I see as the future."

But it took nine monthsto make sure everyone wason board with the idea,which is a departure fromthe traditional way thatUnited Way takes in dona-tions, says Ed Galante, aretired Exxon Mobil execu-tive who’s co-chair of the

capital campaign."When Troy came to us

with the notion of a donor-advised fund, we didn’thave to be convinced - wejust wanted to make surethat we were comfortablethat we could deliver onthe promise that we’d bemaking to him as a donor,"Galante said.

"If you sit back and thinkabout it, it’s the equivalentof Troy’s own endowment.He has his own nest egghere that he’ll make grantsout of for decades to come.It’s the kind of gift that,frankly, I’m not sure we ev-er would have thought ofhad we not embarked onthe Unite Forever Cam-paign."

—For Aikman, it’s the next

chapter for his foundation,which he created in 1992,when he was 26, wearinghis first Super Bowl ringand wanting to do some-thing unique for kids.

He opened the first Aik-man’s End Zone at Chil-dren’s Medical Center inDallas in 1996. The interac-tive, therapeutic playroomwas quickly followed by amore extensive one at CookChildren’s Medical Centerin Fort Worth. The ideawas to give kids in the hos-pitals a taste of Disney-land.

In 2001, Garth Brookssaw what Aikman was do-ing and fell in love with theconcept. The country mu-sic legend thought it was aperfect match for his Team-mates for Kids Foundation.

Together, Aikman andBrooks built the Child LifeZone Network, with play-rooms in a dozen pediatrichospitals across the coun-try; a couple more are inthe pipeline. The one atMount Sinai Hospital inNew York has a full broad-cast studio.

Last year, Aikman decid-ed to concentrate on NorthTexas philanthropy andturned over his interests inthe Zone Network toBrooks.

"I never imagined itwould become what it’s be-come," Aikman said. "So 20years later, I’m real proudof it. I told Garth to takethe ball and go. That’swhat he’s doing."

—Mike Reilly, who guides

Aikman’s philanthropic ef-forts on a pro bono basis,suggested the donor-ad-vised fund to his longtimefriend.

"I told Troy, ’This is agreat next step for you. Youdon’t want the burden ofmanaging assets of thefoundation,’ " Reilly said.

"As a result of whatTroy’s doing, I think they’llraise well over $100 millionwith these designated giv-ing funds. You’re going tosee all sorts of people com-ing in with $1 million, $5million checks. He’s goingto make an even greaterimpact."

Aikman and Sampsonhave tossed around a num-ber of ideas about where todirect his funds, includingsome sort of tie-in with the

Zone Network. "I don’twant to completely getaway from what we’vedone with the kids in thehospitals," he says.

But another idea is atthe opposite end of the agespectrum - doing some-thing for seniors.

That’s been on his mindfor two decades, since heand his girlfriend at thetime happened into Fer-nando’s Travis in HighlandPark on a Tuesday night. Itwas packed with seniorsbeing entertained by a ladylounge singer.

"I enjoyed watching themdancing and having thetime of their lives," Aik-man said. "I talked withthe owner and he said thiswas a Tuesday night ritual.So every Tuesday nightthat she and I were free,we’d go.

"It made me think, ’OK,what can I provide thatthey’re not getting?’ I don’thave an answer yet, and Idon’t know that that’s ulti-mately where I’m going tomainly focus, but it issomething that has my in-terest."

Sampson says that what-ever Aikman zeros in on,she’s certain that one ofthe 103 agencies UnitedWay supports will providea good platform for his in-vestment.

And yes, she’s thrilledwith Aikman’s millionbucks. But there’s more tohis gift than money.

"He brings significantleadership. He’s a great civ-ic force in Dallas. But mostimportantly, he bringsheart power to our work,"she said. "We’re 91 yearsold now. If in the next 90years we have people likeTroy and other leaderswho push us to think dif-ferently, to be innovativeand entrepreneurial, theseemingly impossible couldbe possible in Dallas."

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Former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman has had ties to the United Way since his playing days but has also recently been co-chair ofUnited Way’s 90th anniversary celebration.

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Matt Kenseth also hasbeen impressive in Texas,matching Johnson’s markwith 13 top-five finishesand second to Johnson intop-10 finishes (17), lapsled (834) and average fin-ish (9.46).

Asked what he has no-ticed about Johnson’s suc-cess in the Lone StarState, Kenseth respondedthat the biggest thing isthat the six-time SprintCup champion is prettygood everywhere.

“He’s not too much of aslouch anywhere that Ican really think of,” Ken-seth said. “Nothing reallystands out special to here,really to me.”

Kenseth is 14th inpoints this season, withhis lone top-10 finish com-ing in the only race thathe didn’t lead any laps.

Kenseth missed Texaslast fall while serving thefirst of his two-race sus-pension for intentionallywrecking Joey Logano theprevious week. Beforethat, Kenseth had consec-utive finishes of 23rd and25th there, and his winswere back in 2002 and the2011 spring race.

“Haven’t done too wellhere in recent history, butbefore that it’s always

been a good track for us,”said Kenseth, who willstart ninth. “I like thechallenge of the differentends of the race track thatare different and the wornout pavement. I think thelow aero package is goingto be different.”

Some things to watchin the 31st Sprint Cuprace at Texas:

UNDER THE LIGHTSJoey Logano, who will

start second, said there is“nothing big” about mak-ing the transition to theracing at night for thefirst time this season.“Obviously, the morningsare a lot more relaxedthan what it is if you wereracing at one or twoo’clock, so obviously thatchanges it a little bit,” hesaid. “But it’s like youhave a night schedule anda daytime schedule forraces as a driver as yourprep stuff.”

STUFFED GOATLil’ Dale was a Nubian

goat born in Florida in2002 with a white No. 3marking on its otherwisebrown fur that resembledthe “3” made famous bythe late Dale Earnhardt.The goat that died lastyear will be immortalizedat Texas Motor Speedway.

TMS President Eddie Gos-sage struck an undis-closed deal with the goat’sowner to bring it back toTexas for permanent dis-play after taxidermy. Thegoat was revealed Friday,with Gossage saying Lil’Dale will serve as “partmascot, part good-luckcharm” at the track.

ON THE POLEEdwards is the seventh

different polesitter in sev-en Cup races this season.Edwards has three wins atTexas, the last when heswept the 2008 races, butnone of those victorieswere from the pole. Ed-wards and Johnson arethe only drivers withmore than two Cup winsat Texas.

KURT’S CREW CHIEFTony Gibson, crew chief

for driver Kurt Busch, isexpected to be on top ofthe No. 41 Chevrolet pitbox Saturday night aftermissing the first two daysof racing weekend. Stew-art-Haas Racing said Gib-son stayed home in NorthCarolina to care for hiswife, who is dealing withan unspecified illness.Johnny Klausmeierserved as interim crewchief while Busch quali-fied 21st.

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over that he is for the peo-ple and by the people andthat he’s a man of hisword,” Bradley said. “He’salways shown that charac-ter and that integrity andI think he’s the right manfor the job.”

Pacquiao has waffledabout whether this is hislast fight, saying he stillloves boxing but his fam-ily wants him to retire.Trainer Freddie Roachsaid he believes Pacquiaohas benefited from ayear’s rest after the May-weather fight and can goon at the age of 37, eventhough he hasn’t scored aknockout since 2009.

“He hasn’t slowed downat all,” Roach said. “Hestill has a couple fightsleft in him.”

Pacquiao weighed inFriday afternoon at 1451/2 pounds to 146 1/2 forBradley. The welterweightlimit is 147 pounds.

Pacquiao is guaranteed$7 million — a far cryfrom the $100 million orso he got to fight May-weather — to meet Bra-dley again in a pay-per-view fight that is strug-gling to get noticed. Withgood reason, becausethere’s still a hangoverfrom the Mayweather

fight and he and Bradleyhave already fought 24mostly non-descriptrounds.

“He will be remem-bered as one of the bestfighters who ever put onthe gloves,” Bradley said.“But I’m a different fight-er than I was in the firsttwo fights.”

Bradley won the first ofthose fights on a highlycontroversial decision,then faded in the laterrounds to lose the secondbout. He says he is rejuve-nated under new trainerTeddy Atlas, the longtimeESPN broadcaster who heconvinced to return toboxing to train him.

“Having Teddy is likehaving a cheat sheet. Heanalyzes fights,” Bradleysaid. “This fight will befought differently. I’m go-ing to be a lot smarterthan I was the first twofights.”

Pacquiao is a 2-1 favor-ite in his return to thering, which comes aftershoulder surgery and along rest in the Philip-pines. The winner of titlesin eight weight classes —the first one coming 17years ago at 112 pounds —he hasn’t had a knockoutsince 2009 though he was

on the receiving end ofone when he lost to JuanManuel Marquez.

“I feel it’s good that Ihad a long layoff,” saidPacquiao, who began hispro career as a 16-year-oldin 1995 in the Philippines.“It makes me hungryagain, makes me fresher.”

Not feeling quite asgood is promoter BobArum, who has struggledto sell the fight. Therewere tickets widely avail-able in the days leadingup to the bout, and pay-per-view projections havebeen scaled down.

Mayweather had trou-ble selling his last fight,too, drawing relativelymeager pay-per-viewnumbers for what mostconsidered a non-competi-tive bout against AndreBerto. The low numbersfor both fighters indicatefans are suffering fromhangover from buying theMayweather-Pacquiaofight.

Arum has tried to gen-erate more interest bytrumpeting a “No Trump”undercard of mostly His-panic fighters he said willstrike a blow for immi-grants.

“My Hispanic army ismarching,” Arum said.

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just tank it and say nevermind? Face it, we’ll prob-ably never get to this pointagain. That’s why it’s onlybeen done one time. Ithink most guys in thelocker room are all in.”

The Warriors (70-9)joined the 1995-96 ChicagoBulls as the only teams inNBA history to win 70games in a season by beat-ing San Antonio 112-101 onThursday night to securehome-court advantagethroughout the playoffs.

To break the mark of 72that Michael Jordan andthe Bulls set 20 years ago,the Warriors must sweep aweekend road trip toMemphis and San Antonioand then beat the Grizzliesagain in the season finalenext Wednesday night at

home.“With three games left

and 73 still there, it’s obvi-ously a lot to play for,”star Stephen Curry said.

The game against theSpurs figures to be thetoughest. The Warriorshave lost 33 straight regu-lar season games at SanAntonio, last winning onFeb. 14, 1997, when TimDuncan was still in col-lege. They did win one ofthree games there in theplayoffs in 2013, but lost intheir only trip to San An-tonio earlier this season.

Golden State will needto win there again to havea chance at setting the re-cord.

Kerr asked his players afew weeks ago if 73 winswas important to them.

When most said yes, hemade a pact with youngstars like Curry, Green,Klay Thompson and Har-rison Barnes that hewould not force them to sitas long as they were hon-est about their health.

“I want to finish outthese last three games,”Thompson said. “I pridemyself on playing everygame. I’m still young inmy career. I’m only 26.When I’m 36 I’ll be lookingto rest more.”

Kerr said he would dis-cuss the choice again withhis coaches and playersFriday on the plane ride toMemphis. He has giventime off recently to veter-ans like center AndrewBogut and guard ShaunLivingston. Other players

like sixth man Andre Igu-odala and backup centerFestus Ezeli have gottentime off because of inju-ries.

But no one on the youngcore has gotten a game offsince Curry missed agame with a sprained an-kle on March 1.

“I’m not sure they ac-tually need a rest physical-ly. But maybe a breakmentally will do themsome good,” Kerr said.“On the other hand, I’mpretty sure we’re not go-ing to be in this positionagain next year. You can’tkeep winning at this level.It’s a very unique situa-tion.”

Kerr knows well whatthe Warriors have accom-plished, having played all

82 games as a key reserveon the Bulls team that setthe mark. He has notedthe parallels of the toll the82-game grind takes latein a season and knowsthat what his Warriorsteam is aiming to do iseven harder than whatChicago did in breakingthe mark of 69 wins set bythe Los Angeles Lakers in1971-72.

“In ’96 we had to get to70,” Kerr said. “We have toget to 73. When you’retalking about an 82-gameseason, three games ishuge. This is a monumen-tal task if that’s whatwe’re calling it. Yes, I’mkind of confused with howwe should approach it.”

Green and Curry havebeen the most vocal play-

ers about wanting the re-cord, while some otherslike Iguodala and Boguthave downplayed its im-portance. Green made apoint this week of tellinghis teammates that theyshould feel free to sit out agame if they feel like theyneed a rest and not feel asif they are letting team-mates down.

“The goal is to win achampionship, and nobodyshould sacrifice that foranything in this regularseason,” Curry said. “Ifyou’re able to play, andfeel like you can go outthere and give what yougot, and continue to buildmomentum into the play-offs, then we’ll do it. Ithink that’s kind of themajority.”

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