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Border agents throughout the state warned not to talk to members of the media By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN AND ALICIA A. CALDWELL ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The surge in immigrant children caught crossing the southern border in Texas that has dominated headlines and risks becoming a political crisis for President Barack Obama and Congress includes a new threat facing Border Patrol agents: reporters. An assistant chief patrol agent, Eligio “Lee” Peña, warned more than 3,000 Border Patrol agents that journalists looking for information about
what Obama has described as a humanitarian crisis are likely to ask for information and “may try to disguise themselves.” The email, obtained by The Associated Press, said agents should not speak to reporters, on or off duty, without advanced permission and warned that anyone who does could be charged with a crime or disciplined administratively. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske told the AP on Friday he was not aware of Peña’s email warnings but said generally, “I am not a fan of telling people not to talk.” Kerlikowske, who has
pledged greater transparency since taking over the agency earlier this year, did not formally disavow the directive but added that Border Patrol agents should be focused on their jobs while on duty. Peña’s email was issued as national news organizations descended on the border to cover the immigration surge, especially children crossing the border alone from Central America. The problem has overwhelmed the Border Patrol. More than 47,000 children traveling alone have been
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Case unravels when kidnappers demand ransom for woman THE ZAPATA TIMES
Authorities arrested seven people accused of kidnapping an American citizen in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexican authorities announced during the week. Members of the Federal Police rescued the 27year-old woman Monday night, who authorities said had been held for eight days, according to a press release. The woman had been held in a neighborhood near a shopping mall in Reynosa. “She was rescued
when the kidnappers sought ransom. The woman was tied hand and foot,” the press release said.
Suspects Authorities identified the suspects as Erick Alan García Villarreal, 19; Jorge Arturo García Correa, 20; Jesús Antonio Hernández Villanueva, 25; Gerardo Avila Hernández, 30; Jorge Luis Flores Islas, 18 and Juan Osiel Navarro Alemán,
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Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl sits in a vehicle in eastern Afghanistan prior to his trade for five high-ranking Taliban leaders. He is now at Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio.
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A luxury house in the gated community of White Bluff teeters on a cliff about 75 feet above Lake Whitney in Whitney. The owner of a luxury house teetering on a crumbling 75-foot cliff over the lake has decided to burn the house and clear the lot of the debris.
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Debris falls as a house in the gated community of White Bluff is burned to save Lake Whitney from falling debris, on Friday. The house is built on a fault line and is gradually collapsing.
HITNEY — Charred debris from a luxury cliff-side home fell 75 feet into a lake below on Friday after fire crews set the $700,000 retreat ablaze rather than wait for it to crumble into the water as the land faltered around it. It took less than an hour for the fire to level the home above Lake Whitney, about 60 miles south of Fort
Worth. Flames consumed exterior walls after crews spread bales of hay and fuel to ignite flames throughout the expansive home. The ground around the home cracked and became unstable in recent months. Then a few days ago, part of the land gave way beneath the 4,000-square-foot home, leaving pieces of the house dangling off the side of a cliff. Authorities condemned the home and the owners,
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Army: Soldier ‘looked good’ after return By JUAN A. LOZANO ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN ANTONIO — Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl “looked good” after arriving back in the United States and is working daily with health professionals after being held by the Taliban for five years in Afghanistan, military officials said Friday. Bergdahl’s family has not joined him since he arrived at Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort
Sam Houston after midnight Friday, and Army officials would not say when relatives might show up. Maj. Gen. Joseph P. DiSalvo said during a news conference Friday that Bergdahl was in stable condition, “looked good” and showed “good comportment” after being transported to Texas from an Army medical facility in Germany. “The reintegration of
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1964 Zapata High School Class 50th reunion. Dinner at The Steak House on Wednesday, June 25. Call Dora Martinez at 324-1226 or Ninfa Gracia at 500-5219. TAMIU Planetarium shows. “The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket” 2 p.m.; “Earth, Moon and Sun” 3 p.m.; “Wonders of the Universe” 4 p.m.; and “Destination Saturn” 5 p.m. Admission $4 children and $5 adults. Premium shows $1 more. Call 326-3663.
Tuesday, June 17 TAMIU Planetarium shows. “The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket” 2 p.m.; “Earth, Moon and Sun” 3 p.m.; “Wonders of the Universe” 4 p.m.; and “Destination Saturn” 5 p.m. Admission $4 children and $5 adults. Premium shows $1 more. Call 326-3663. “The Calling” series of Bible talks. 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. Laredo Church of Christ Chapel, 1505 Calle del Norte, Suite 340. Contact Miguel Zuñiga at 286-9631 or mglzuñiga@yahoo.com.
Wednesday, June 18 1964 Zapata High School Class 50th reunion. Dinner at The Steak House on Wednesday, June 25. Call Dora Martinez at 324-1226 or Ninfa Gracia at 500-5219.
Thursday, June 19 Grief support group. Noon to 1:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1220 McClelland Ave. Free and open to public. Contact Patricia Cisneros at 722-1674 or pcisneros@mhm.org. TAMIU Planetarium shows. “The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket” 2 p.m.; “Earth, Moon and Sun” 3 p.m.; “Wonders of the Universe” 4 p.m.; and “Destination Saturn” 5 p.m. Admission $4 children and $5 adults. Premium shows $1 more. Call 326-3663. Los Amigos Duplicate Bridge Club. 1:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. Laredo Country Club. Call Beverly Cantu at 7270589. J.W. Nixon’s Class of 1989 selling tickets for 25th reunion. 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. 317 E. Calton Road #1. $25 per person for event on Friday, July 25 at Life Fair, Branding Iron; $25 per person for event on Saturday, July 26 at Embassy Suites.
Saturday, June 21 1964 Zapata High School Class 50th reunion. Dinner at The Steak House on Wednesday, June 25. Call Dora Martinez at 324-1226 or Ninfa Gracia at 500-5219. 3rd Annual 5K Run, Walk & Roll for Rehab to benefit Ruthe B. Cowl Rehabilitation Center. 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. North Central Park. $15 early registration (May 21-June 13) and $20 late registration day of event, from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m.. $10 kids ½ mile run (10 and under). Call 722-2431. South Texas Food Bank’s bucket brigade. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. HillsideMcPherson, McPherson-Shiloh, CaltonYeary, Springfield-Del Mar, GuadalupeMeadow, Saunders-Bartlett, ZacatecasZapata Highway and Arkansas-Clark. Volunteers collecting coins and dollars. Call Salo Otero at 324-2432. TAMIU Planetarium shows. “The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket” 2 p.m.; “Earth, Moon and Sun” 3 p.m.; “Wonders of the Universe” 4 p.m.; and “Destination Saturn” 5 p.m. Admission $4 children and $5 adults. Premium shows $1 more. Call 326-3663.
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Maria Eva Casco, left, and her son Christian Casco of El Salvador, sit at at the Greyhound bus terminal May 29, in Phoenix. Central American families arrested in Texas will continue to be flown to Arizona, and hundreds of unaccompanied minors a day are being shipped to a federal detention center in the southern part of the state.
US in talks about kids By CINDY CARCAMO AND REBECCA BRATEK LOS ANGELES TIMES
TUCSON, Ariz. — In an attempt to stem a wave of Central American children illegally crossing the United States alone into South Texas, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced Thursday that he was in contact with ambassadors in Latin America to discuss how to more quickly return those children to their home countries. “Those apprehended at our border are priorities for removal,” Johnson said during a Washington, D.C., news conference. “They are priorities for enforcement of our immigration laws regardless of age.” Johnson, who said he was in discussions with leaders in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico about faster repatriation, also announced other strategies to address the surge of unaccompanied children.
Confirmed tornado damages homes
No injuries reported in church fire in Fort Worth
Couple gets probation for neglected 4 children
BERTRAM — Severe weather spawned a tornado in Central Texas that damaged several homes and floodwaters that washed away a car and left its driver missing. The National Weather Service says a tornado tracked across rural Burnet County on Thursday night. The twister touched down near Briggs and traveled southwest toward Bertram.
FORT WORTH — An overnight fire has destroyed a North Texas church. Fort Worth firefighters early Friday extinguished the blaze at Greater Canaan Missionary Baptist Church. The building is a total loss. Authorities are trying to determine what sparked the fire that destroyed the $415,000 complex.
CORPUS CHRISTI — A jury spared a couple imprisonment after finding they neglected their newborn and three older children while living on a beach. The Nueces County jury deliberated two hours before sentencing Ryan and Heather Sanders to community supervision Friday.
3 brothers arrested in 2004 killing of teens BAYTOWN — Authorities say they’ve arrested three brothers for the slayings of two young rappers in 2004. David Lee Sanchez, 32, is charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of Juan Grimaldo and Fernando Salinas, both 19. Investigators say 35-yearold Jason Sanchez and 31-yearold Pedro Sanchez assaulted the teens before they were shot.
Wednesday, June 25 1964 Zapata High School Class 50th reunion. Dinner at The Steak House. Call Dora Martinez at 324-1226 or Ninfa Gracia at 500-5219.
Thursday, June 26 Grief support group. Noon to 1:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1220 McClelland Ave. Free and open to public. Contact Patricia Cisneros at 722-1674 or pcisneros@mhm.org. TAMIU Planetarium shows. “The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket” 2 p.m.; “Earth, Moon and Sun” 3 p.m.; “Wonders of the Universe” 4 p.m.; and “Destination Saturn” 5 p.m. Admission $4 children and $5 adults. Premium shows $1 more. Call 326-3663. Los Amigos Duplicate Bridge Club. 1:14 p.m. to 5 p.m. Laredo Country Club. Call Beverly Cantu at 7270589. Submit calendar items at lmtonline.com/calendar/submit or by emailing editorial@lmtonline.com with the event’s name, date and time, location and purpose and contact information. Items will run as space is available.
Through May, 47,000 children have entered the country alone this year. That’s already double from last year and the number is expected to go high as 90,000. Some of the initiatives announced by Johnson included beefing up staffing of federal officials to go after human smugglers and searching for additional facilities to temporarily house children. Johnson said that increase correlates with an overall rise in illegal immigration into the Rio Grande Valley of southern Texas. Most of those migrants are from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott requested $30 million from Homeland Security to pay for state resources that can be rushed to the Texas border. The Border Patrol is “overwhelmed,” he said, and needs the assistance quickly.
Lubbock County jail escapee caught in NM LUBBOCK — A jail trustee who fled while on work duty has been captured in New Mexico. Curry County, N.M., jail records show Randy Allen Williams was being held without bond Friday and faces return to Lubbock. Investigators say Williams, who turned 50 on Friday, fled from the jail garage on Tuesday by setting a fire behind the building.
Ex-Valley banker gets prison in $4.5M fraud McALLEN — A former Valley banker convicted of fraud has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and must repay nearly $4.5 million. A federal judge in McAllen on Thursday sentenced 65-year-old Sondra Tredaway of Mission. Tredaway managed a Texas State Bank branch in McAllen. She pleaded guilty in 2011 to bank fraud in what investigators say involved 58 fictitious loans from 1998 through 2010. — Compiled from AP reports
AROUND THE NATION IRS lost emails by official in tea party probe WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service says it has lost a trove of emails to and from a central figure in the agency’s tea party controversy. The IRS told congressional investigators Friday it cannot locate many of Lois Lerner’s emails prior to 2011 because her computer crashed that year. The IRS acknowledged last year that agents had improperly scrutinized applications for taxexempt status by tea party and other conservative groups.
Autopsy on executed inmate cites IV issue OKLAHOMA CITY — The team responsible for executing an Oklahoma inmate failed multiple times to insert an intravenous line into his body to deliver lethal drugs, even though the man’s veins were in good condi-
Today is Saturday, June 14, the 165th day of 2014. There are 200 days left in the year. This is Flag Day. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, adopted a resolution specifying that “the Flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation.” On this date: In 1775, the Continental Army, forerunner of the United States Army, was created. In 1801, former American Revolutionary War general and notorious turncoat Benedict Arnold died in London. In 1922, Warren G. Harding became the first president heard on radio, as Baltimore station WEAR broadcast his speech dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial at Fort McHenry. In 1934, Max Baer defeated Primo Carnera with an 11th round TKO to win the world heavyweight boxing championship in Long Island City, New York. In 1940, German troops entered Paris during World War II; the same day, the Nazis began transporting prisoners to the Auschwitz man-occupied Poland. In 1943, the U.S. Supreme Court, in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, ruled 6-3 that children in public schools could not be forced to salute the flag of the United States. In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure adding the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance. In 1967, the space probe Mariner 5 was launched from Cape Kennedy on a flight that took it past Venus. In 1972, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered a ban on continued domestic use of the pesticide DDT, to take effect at year’s end. In 1982, Argentine forces surrendered to British troops on the disputed Falkland Islands. In 1985, the 17-day hijack ordeal of TWA Flight 847 began as a pair of Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists seized the jetliner shortly after takeoff from Athens, Greece. In 1994, Academy Awardwinning composer Henry Mancini died in Beverly Hills, California, at age 70. Today’s Birthdays: Actress Marla Gibbs is 83. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., is 75. Writer Peter Mayle is 75. Actor Jack Bannon is 74. Country-rock musician Spooner Oldham is 71. Rock singer Rod Argent (The Zombies; Argent) is 69. Real estate mogul and TV personality Donald Trump is 68. Singer Janet Lennon (The Lennon Sisters) is 68. Rock musician Barry Melton is 67. Rock musician Alan White (Yes) is 65. Actor Eddie Mekka is 62. Actor Will Patton is 60. Olympic goldmedal speed skater Eric Heiden is 56. Singer Boy George is 53. Rock musician Chris DeGarmo is 51. Actress Traylor Howard is 48. Actress Yasmine Bleeth is 46. Actor Faizon Love is 46. Actor Stephen Wallem (TV: “Nurse Jackie”) is 46. International Tennis Hall of Famer Steffi Graf is 45. Thought for Today: “The flag is the embodiment not of sentiment, but of history.” — President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924).
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Food bank now has a van 2 charged in transporting immigrants SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The South Texas Food Bank has a colorfully-wrapped van that will be used as a mobile unit for rural-area citizens to apply for health and food benefits. The van, courtesy of the Le Fleur Transportation Company via a grant from State Rep. Richard Raymond (D-Laredo), was unveiled Friday at the South Texas Food Bank, 1907 Freight at Riverside. Raymond, Le Fleur’s Jacqui De Los Santos, Julissa Garibay and Marilda Gonzalez and South Texas Food Bank personnel were on hand. Rural citizens will apply for SNAP (formerly food stamps), Medicaid, CHIP and TANF benefits. “Our SNAP Outreach Program will use it in colonias that are literally in the ‘monte’. We are grateful to Rep. Raymond and Le Fleur,” STFB executive director Alfonso Casso said. The South Texas Food Bank, celebrating its 25th anniversary, opened in 1989 under the auspices of H-E-B as the Laredo Webb-County Food Bank distributing supplemental food to the unemployed, under-employed and those living on fixed incomes especially the elderly. It serves an impoverished eight-county area from Del Rio (Val Verde County) to Rio Grande City (Starr County) with a 30-plus percent poverty rate. The website is www.southtexasfoodbank.org and phone number (956) 726-3120. The South Texas Food Bank reached near record distribution fig-
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South Texas Food Bank personnel, LeFleur staff members and State Rep. Richard Raymond (D-Laredo) pose with mobile unit donated by LeFleur and Raymond for use by the food bank to help rural area residents apply for benefits. ures in April and May it was reported at the June monthly board meeting. Casso told the board 1,062,472 million pounds of product were given out in May and more than 31,000 families were served in April. The 1.06 million pounds is the highest since 1.23 million in May of 2011. It brings this fiscal year’s total to 6.4 million pounds, which is ahead of last year’s 5.9 million pounds. In April, the STFB served 31,208 families numbering 76,530 individuals. The figure was the highest this year
and tops since 33,096 in June of 2013. South Texas Food Bank programs adopt a family distributed to 449 families and the Commodity Supplemental Food Program for the elderly served 6,848 individuals but it has a waiting list of 1,426. Other program numbers for the month were SNAP Outreach, 325 applications representing 446 adults, 477 children; Kids Café at 19 sites, served an after school meal to 1,455 children Monday through Friday; and 171 picked up emergency bags, representing 302 adults and 269 children.
Man said illegally in US nabbed By CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZ THE ZAPATA TIMES
A man accused of being illegally in the country was arrested in Zapata County, according to court records obtained this week. A criminal complaint filed June 2 against Enrique Sanchez-Rosas
charges him with re-entry after deportation. He remains in federal custody on a $75,000 bond, court documents show. U.S. Border Patrol agents detained him near Zapata on May 29. After a brief interview, agents determined that Sanchez-Rosas was an undocumented person from Mexico.
Further investigation revealed that Sanchez-Rosas was previously removed from the United States on Feb. 27 at Laredo. He never received permission to re-enter the country after deportation, the complaint alleges. (César G. Rodriguez may be reached at 728-2568 or cesar@lmtonline.com)
A husband and wife suspected of moving illegal immigrants from Zapata to Laredo have been arrested, court records obtained this week show. David Solis and Jasmine Villegas are being charged with transporting illegal immigrants with a motor vehicle, according to a criminal complaint filed against them June 3. The arrest dates back to May 30. That day, U.S. Border Patrol received anonymous information about a possible human smuggling attempt involving a blue Dodge pickup. An agent observed a vehicle matching the description heading north on U.S. 83. Agents noticed that a blue tarp was covering the pickup’s bed. Suddenly, a black passenger car approached the Border Patrol unit as if attempting to crash into it, court records read. Authorities later identified the driver of the black car as Villegas. An agent attempted to stop the blue pickup but it failed to yield to the unit’s emergency lights. The agent turned off his emergency equipment because the unit was too far behind the Dodge. He then pulled over next to the black passenger car that had stopped on the side of the road. Villegas was detained there.
David Solis and Jasmine Villegas are being charged. Meanwhile, an assisting Border Patrol unit kept following the Dodge. Agents apprehended the driver who was identified as Solis. Air support assisted in apprehending the two passengers who had escaped. A total of seven illegal immigrants were detained. In a post-arrest interview, Solis claimed he was hired by a man identified as Juan. “He was tasked with driving the group of illegal immigrants from Zapata to Laredo. Solis stated he would be paid $200,” the complaint states. Solis went on to say that he did not stop for the marked unit because he did not want to go to jail. Villegas told authorities that her husband, Solis, instructed her to follow him to San Ygnacio. Villegas claimed that Solis told her to call him if there were “any cops on the road.” She stated she kept driving close to the unit because she panicked. “Villegas stated she was trying to distract the agent from his duties,” the complaint states. (César G. Rodriguez may be reached at 728-2568 or cesar@lmontline.com)
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The ocean could be the next step By LLEWELLYN KING HEARST NEWSPAPERS
Tens of millions of us will flock to the beach as summer rolls on. As we frolic along the shore we will also be awed by the relentless, eternal power of the ocean. This power has been tantalizing engineers since the dawn of the electric age in the 19th century. Those great tidal havens, the Bay of Fundy and the Bay of Biscay, have had electrical entrepreneurs salivating down through the years. Yet harnessing the ultimate renewable energy resource has lagged its two big renewable competitors, wind and solar. Both of the latter are now mature alternative energy generating sources, picking up an increasing part of the electricity market without producing any greenhouse gasses. Sean O’Neill, executive director of the Foundation for Ocean Renewables, says the technology has not been ready for large deployment, but it soon will be. There is increasing use of first-generation machines around the world, he adds. In the United States there are complex legal hurdles from activists, who worry that beaches could be impaired and their recreational value diminished, to the fascinating challenge of who in government is responsible for licensing this new use of the ocean. Contenders include the Department of the Interior, the Navy, the Coast Guard, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which controls the electric markets. What about fishing? The states will want a say with their coastal commissions. What about offshore shipping lanes and even recreational boating? The oceans are vast and they already are invaded by drilling rigs, wind turbines and undersea military activity, to say nothing of traditional marine uses like shipping, fishing and boating. Yet, so far, the problems have been technological rather than governmental. The sea is a great resource, but it is a hostile environment for mechanical and electrical equipment. At present, the nascent ocean energy industry is still sorting through a galaxy of devices for making electricity from ocean kinetic power. These show engineering imagination run riot — gloriously so. As many as 100 machines for harnessing the ocean are being developed around the world. They can be described as
This power has been tantalizing engineers since the dawn of the electric age age. gizmos, widgets, gadgets, devices, or dream machines. Machine design for ocean kinetic power is at the stage that flight was in the 1920s, and the devices are spectacular in a Rube Goldberg kind of way, at least to the eye of a non-engineer. There are big hinges, designed to flap in the waves, and buoys that pop up and down with the waves, generating electricity through a mechanism like one in a self-winding wristwatch. Just as a person jiggles a wristwatch and it winds, so too the waves jiggle the buoy and it turns a turbine, which makes electricity. There wildly diverse approaches including one, called an oscillating water column, that uses compressed air from wave action to turn a turbine. Another set of machines is destined to work on tides and can consist of helical turbines, which look like gigantic eggbeaters, or machines that look like wind turbines, but they are sunk in the tidal path or on strongly running rivers. The latter are being tested in New York City’s East River. Anadarko, an oil company, wants to put turbines miles deep in the Gulf Stream. Ireland and Scotland — the latter the world leader in the ocean power race — are generating electricity from the ocean on a small scale. At East Port and Lubec in Maine and Yakutat in Alaska, small plants are being installed. As solar power was first used in remote locations, the immediate appeal for ocean power is for remote locations, too. Settlements and villages in Alaska have the costliest electricity in the country. The Foundation for Ocean Renewables’ O’Neill estimates that tidal will be the salvation of many of Alaska’s remote villages; unlike wind and solar, it would be there 24/7 — in the dead of winter and in high summer. (Llewellyn King’s email is lking@kingpublishing.com.)
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Putting the GOP in a bad light AUSTIN — Texas Republicans probably hurt their effort to attract Hispanics by approving a harder-line immigration platform that removed the 2012 platform’s call for a guest worker program — the Texas Solution, it was called. But if this is what Texas Repubs believe and if they are willing to lose Hispanic votes over it, so be it. Politicians and political parties should stick with what they believe. Texas Democrats, of course, moved quickly to promote what they believe is the anti-Hispanic (and anti-gay and anti-other stuff Dems favor) slant of the platform OK’d by GOP delegates last week. Dem gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis’ team held a Tuesday conference call with journalists to chide the Repubs. On the call was state Rep. Mary Gonzalez, D-El Paso, who identifies as “pansexual,” who called the GOP platform “extreme” and “dangerous” and said it “really said that people like me need to have therapy in order to be fixed, that people
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like my family shouldn’t have the same access to education or they shouldn’t even really be here anymore.” Yes, Dems and Repubs differ on education, including how much to spend on it and whether public dollars should pay for private school tuition. Both sides claim their way would do the most good for the most kids. It’s rhetoric, it’s debatable and neither side’s version is the panacea they’d like you to believe it is. There’s nothing, however, to debate about Gonzalez’ effort to portray the GOP platform as evidence that Repubs believe “people like my family ... shouldn’t even really be here anymore.” The comment was an out-ofbounds, knee-jerk effort born of Dems’ desire to portray Repubs as racists. I can’t see into Republicans’ hearts (here is where Dems would insert a snar-
kism questioning whether there is such a thing), but I can see into their platform. It is devoid of any call for the deportation of all Hispanics, a procedure which would cost Texas Repubs their junior U.S. senator and the wife of the party’s gubernatorial nominee. The GOP platform supports legal immigration and opposes illegal immigration. “America is proudly a nation of immigrants,” the platform says, going on to bemoan what everybody agrees is a broken immigration system. There’s legitimate debate on the proper fix, but none that I’ve heard calls for deportation of legal residents, such as people in Gonzalez family. I asked how she came to the conclusion that Repubs believe people like her family “shouldn’t even really be here anymore.” “Some of their stances on immigration,” she said. “I come from an immigrant family, so really their views and really taking out the Texas Solution. I was just referring to my immigrant family.”
I asked if there are members of her family who are here illegally. She said there are not. “I was mostly talking about the rhetoric that they were not wanted here,” Gonzalez said. “I apologize for that.” I noted the GOP platform’s support of legal immigration and opposition to illegal immigration and asked Gonzalez if what she had said about her family might have been an exaggeration. “I think I was mostly talking about the rhetoric and saying they don’t want people like my family here. I’m sorry,” she said. Many Democrats want you to believe that many Republicans are racists. Many Republicans want you to believe that many Democrats want to replace our current form of government with a Kremlin-style Politburo. Fortunately, most voters know hypercooked hyperbole when they hear it. You do, don’t you? Ken Herman is a columnist for the Austin AmericanStatesman. E-mail: kherman@statesman.com.
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Eric was ‘cantored’ from high spot By CHRIS CILLIZZA THE WASHINGTON POST
In politics, it’s never good when your name becomes a verb. To wit: “Cantored” — meaning to be unexpectedly knocked from a high spot. As in Eric Cantor, who, until Tuesday night, was the second-most-powerful person in the Republican-controlled House and the favorite to be the next speaker. That all ended when Cantor lost — and lost badly — his primary fight against David Brat, an economics professor at Randolph-Macon College
who premised his entire campaign on the idea that the House majority leader wasn’t serving the people of Virginia’s 7th District. Never mind that Cantor outspent Brat by 40 to 1. Or that the Cantor campaign released an internal poll in the final week of the race that had him ahead of Brat by 34 points. Or that no House majority leader had ever been defeated in a primary. Cantor’s loss shook Washington in a way that few election results have in recent years. (This is largely because the proliferation of polling has made electoral surprises rare.) Within 24 hours of his defeat, Cantor
made clear that he wouldn’t try to run as a write-in candidate and that he would resign his leadership post by the end of next month. Cantor’s loss set off a broader debate within the GOP about how much power the tea party has — and how much it should have — at a time when Republicans want to keep the focus squarely on President Obama and congressional Democrats. Eric Cantor, even you will admit you had the worst week in Washington. Congrats, or something. Cillizza covers the White House for The Washington Post and writes The Fix, its politics blog.
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Immigration is a quandary for the GOP By NICHOLAS RICCARDI ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s startling primary loss this week to a tea party-backed opponent illustrates how the GOP finds itself paralyzed by immigration reform. The policy most party leaders agree is best for the Republican Party’s future is risky for most House Republicans seeking re-election in the fall. Almost all represent districts that are home to few minorities and they are in greater danger of losing to a primary challenger than to a Democrat in the general election. That leaves little incentive for the GOP-controlled House to even touch an immigration overhaul that would to grant citizenship to many of the 11 million people living in the country illegally. Economics professor David Brat hammered Cantor, R-Va., for purportedly backing “amnesty” for people in the U.S. illegally during his primary challenge. He called his unexpected victory a wake-up call that “immigration reform is DOA.” After Cantor’s defeat, Republicans are left in a quandary before the 2016 election — what to do about an issue that’s often a winner in primaries but could cripple the party in a White House race before a more diverse electorate. “Pain can be a good teaching tool sometimes,” said Mario H. Lopez, a Republican and executive director of the Hispanic Leadership Fund. “It may take another White House beat-down before some folks understand what kind of cliff they’re walking over.” Many people involved in the immigration debate have similar predictions about what will happen next: The House takes no action on an immigration overhaul, President Barack Obama makes good on his promise to ease deportations by executive action later this summer, and that inflames the GOP even more, dooming any bill in 2015. When the next presidential race gets underway, a broad field of the GOP’s presidential candidates will be competing for the support of primary voters who are far more opposed to an immigration overhaul than most Americans. To some Republicans,
that brings back memories of 2012, when Republican Mitt Romney adopted tough-on-illegal-immigration rhetoric to win the Republican presidential primaries. On Election Day, Hispanic and Asian voters overwhelmingly backed Obama. The lone policy recommendation of GOP’s postmortem on Romney’s loss was to pass immigration reform. While 14 Republican senators voted for an immigration overhaul that chamber passed last year, the measure was declared dead on arrival in the House. Republican lawmakers, many of whom were focused on the midterms, sought to avoid angering their base. Immigration skeptics argue that’s the right way for the party to appeal to the working class. “There aren’t enough rich people and there aren’t enough businesspeople to elect people to office,” said Roy Beck, president of Numbers USA, which advocates for less immigration and believes those in favor of an overhaul are catering to financial elites who want to import cheaper workers into the U.S. “They have to have wage-earners.” Immigrant rights groups complained that Cantor was part of the reason the overhaul died in the House, but as majority leader he opened the door
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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, on Wednesday. Cantor’s startling primary loss throws into stark relief the reason Republicans find themselves paralyzed by immigration. The policy most party leaders agree is best for the GOP’s future is risky for the vast majority of House Republicans seeking re-election in the fall. to narrower measures that would grant citizenship to people brought to the U.S. illegally as children. That was enough to fuel his primary challenger. It wasn’t immigration alone that doomed Cantor. The Virginia congressman sowed resentment by spending too much time focused on national issues as majority leader and not enough tending to his district. Others note that South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, a chief architect of the Senate’s
immigration overhaul, easily won his primary Tuesday night against a batch of tea party challengers. And yet, the message appears clear to Republicans in Congress. On Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner said a bill probably wouldn’t be possible this year. “Perception is reality in politics, and the perception among Republican members of Congress is going to be that (Cantor) lost because he took a
somewhat squishy stance on immigration,” said Republican pollster Glen Bolger, who expects similar caution among 2016 hopefuls. “You’ll see the volume turned way down on that,” Bolger said. “You’re going to see a lot more caution and a lot less risk-taking.” Among the 2016 prospects taking care with the issue is Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who has received a tepid reaction from some Republican activists for a proposal that
would let some people living in the U.S. illegally receive citizenship. He told reporters this week the immigration debate has become too charged. “We’re trapped in this rhetoric and we have to get beyond that,” Paul said. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio changed course on immigration in the wake of a backlash from GOP activists that followed his work as one of the eight co-authors of the Senate overhaul. He now argues the country shouldn’t consider creating a citizenship pathway until it secures its southern border. “That was true before last night,” Rubio said the day after Cantor lost. “That’s especially true now.” Matt Schlapp, a Republican consultant who worked for President George W. Bush, said the varying politics of immigration doom the prospects for any near-term action. After this year’s midterms, Democrats are sure to spend the next two years beating up on Republicans for the lack of movement, which in turn will lead the GOP to dig in deeper. “If we have divided government, the politics have to work for both parties,” Schlapp said. “Until we get these things worked out, this just isn’t going to happen.”
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Agenda en Breve ZAPATA 06/14— Club de Leones de Zapata tendrá venta de platillos de Pollo/Sausage de 11 a.m. a 2 p.m. en el Estacionamiento del Zapata Community Center. Donación: 7 dólares por platillo. 06/14— La Clase 1964 de Zapata High School se reunirá para celebrar los 50 años de haber graduado. El miércoles 25 de junio en el Steak House. Interesados en asistir a la cena pueden solicitar informes con Dora Martínez al (956) 324-1226 o con Ninfa Gracia al (956) 500-5219.
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Autoridades lograron el arresto de siete personas acusadas del secuestro de una ciudadana estadounidense en la Ciudad de Reynosa, Tamaulipas, revelaron oficiales del estado de Tamaulipas. El lunes por la noche, elementos de la Policía Federal lograron el rescate de una joven estadounidense de 27 años de edad, quien supuestamente fue privada de la libertad durante ocho días, señala un comunicado de prensa. Esa noche, el personal montó un operativo en las inmediaciones de
Autoridades mexicanas lograron el rescate de una ciudadana estadounidense secuestrada. Además se arrestó a siete personas, entre ellas una adolescente, como probables perpetradores del crimen. un centro comercial de esta ciudad. “La joven fue rescatada cuando sus plagiarios pretendían cobrar un rescate. La mujer fue atada de manos y pies”, argumenta un co-
NUEVO LAREDO, MÉXICO 06/15— Clausura de los Talleres de Ballet y Danzas de Maquila Creativa, Polivalente y Progreso en el Centro Cultural, a las 11 a.m. Entrada gratuita. 06/15— Exposición fotográfica “Una Mirada al Pasado”, en la Galería de Estación Palabra a las 12:30 p.m. Entrada gratuita. 06/15— Clausura de los Talleres de Ballet y Danzas de la Casa de la Cultura, dentro del Centro Cultural, a las 4 p.m. Entrada gratuita. 06/15— Grupo de Teatro Laberintus A.C. presenta “Invisible” a las 12 p.m. en el Teatro del IMSS, entre Reynosa y Belden. Costo 20 pesos. 06/17— El grupo de teatro Laberintus A.C estará presentando la obra de teatro “En el desierto no hay sirenas”, de Luis Edoardo Torres, a partir de las 7 p.m. en el teatro del IMSS, ubicado entre Reynosa y Belden. Costo 20 pesos.
municado. Los sospechosos de la ejecución del secuestro fueron identificados como Erick Alan García Villarreal, de 19 años; Jorge Arturo García Correa, de 20; Jesús Antonio Her-
nández Villanueva, de 25 y Gerardo Avila Hernández, de 30 años. Además se arrestó a Jorge Luis Flores Islas, de 18 años y Juan Osiel Navarro Alemán, de 29 años y a una adolescente de 14 años de edad, quienes supuestamente declararon haber proporcionado información sobre la presencia de las autoridades a los integrantes del presunto grupo de secuestradores, indica el comunicado. Los detenidos, dos vehículos y varios radios de comunicación fueron entregados al Ministerio Público, quien determinará su situación jurídica.
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LAREDO 06/14— Segunda carrera en el lodo “Sin Lodo, No Hay Gloria”, en los jardines del Stadio Uni-Trade, a partir de las 8:30 a.m. Evento gratuito para espectadores. Para más información llame al 956-7LEMURS (53-6877). 06/14— El Planetario Lamar Bruni Vergara de TAMIU estará proyectando “The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket” (El Secreto del Cohete de Cartón), a las 2 p.m.; “Earth, Moon and Sun” (Tierra, Luna y Sol) a las 3 p.m.; “Wonders of the Universe” (Maravillas del Universo), a las 4 p.m.; “Destination Saturn” (Destino Saturno), a las 5 p.m. Costo: 3 dólares niños y 4 dólares adultos. 06/14— El Club Social Elysian invita al Baile Anual por Día de los Padres, a partir de las 9 p.m. en el Salón del Laredo Civic Center. Música a cargo de ‘Calle 8’. Donación: 25 dólares. Ganancias se destinarán al Fondo de Becas. Informes al 764-0178 y 286-4253. 06/17— El Planetario Lamar Bruni Vergara de TAMIU estará proyectando “The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket” (El Secreto del Cohete de Cartón), a las 2 p.m.; “Earth, Moon and Sun” (Tierra, Luna y Sol) a las 3 p.m.; “Wonders of the Universe” (Maravillas del Universo), a las 4 p.m.; “Destination Saturn” (Destino Saturno), a las 5 p.m. Costo: 3 dólares niños y 4 dólares adultos. 06/17— “The Calling” (El Llamado) es una serie de charlas sobre La Biblia que se realiza de 6:30 p.m. a 7:45 p.m. en Laredo Church of Christ Chapel, 1505 Calle del Norte, Suite 340. Lleve su Biblia. 06/18— Clínica de Vacunación contra la Rabia, de 7 p.m. a 8 p.m. en el Laredo Animal Care Facility at 5202 Maher Avenue. Costo de vacuna, con registro y microchip, a 22 dólares.
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Un grupo de inmigrantes es liberado por las autoridades migratorias de Estados Unidos en una estación de autobuses en Phoenix el 28 de mayo de 2014. La Patrulla Fronteriza dijo que unos 400 inmigrantes fueron llevados de Texas a Arizona debido al alto número de detenciones en Texas de inmigrantes que cruzan la frontera sin autorización. Este grupo era de Texas y Georgia.
Buscan resolver demandas de abuso infantil POR LUIS ALONSO LUGO ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Las autoridades migratorias anunciaron el jueves que investigarán las denuncias sobre presuntos maltratos sufridos por niños centroamericanos bajo la custodia de la Policía Fronteriza y de Aduanas, pero sostuvieron que mantendrán su deportación como una prioridad. El comisionado de la Policía Fronteriza (CBP, por sus siglas en inglés) Gil Kerlikowske dijo haber ordenado una investigación sobre las 116 denuncias de maltratos incluidas en una queja interpuesta la víspera por
organizaciones no gubernamentales. El Proyecto Esperanza para los Derechos Migratorios y otras cuatro organizaciones sostienen que más del 80% de los niños bajo custodia recibieron alimentos y bebidas insuficientes, a la mitad se le negó atención médica y un 25% sufrió maltratos físicos. Al participar en una conferencia de prensa junto al secretario de seguridad nacional Jeh Johnson, los dos funcionarios rehusaron aportar detalles sobre la naturaleza de la investigación pese a que se les formularon preguntas específicas. Al menos 35.000 menores sin un acompañante adulto procedentes
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Guatemala, El Salvador y Honduras han llegado a la frontera de Estados Unidos durante los últimos ocho meses. Johnson dijo que “aquellos arrestados en nuestra frontera serán prioridad para ser deportados, serán prioridad para la aplicación de nuestras leyes migratorias, independientemente de su edad”. CBP mantiene a los menores durante 72 horas antes de referirlos al Departamento de Servicios Sociales, cuyos funcionarios se dedican a buscar el mejor entorno posible para los menores como reunificarlos con parientes o tutores autorizados en Estados Unidos.
A través de una nueva estrategia de seguridad pública el jueves se logró el decomiso de narcóticos, armas de fuego, granadas y municiones, anunciaron autoridades tamaulipecas. Un total de dos toneladas, 19 armas largas, siete granadas y 3.100 municiones fueron decomisadas durante dos operativos realizados por personal de la Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional, señala un comunicado. Fue en el municipio de Díaz Ordaz, Tamaulipas, donde militares aseguraron 2.041 kilogramos de marihuana, cinco armas largas, 26 cargadores y 2.753 cartuchos de diferentes calibres, dos granadas de mano y una camioneta Suburban con blindaje artesanal, tras un patrullaje de rutina. Matamoros, Tamaulipas, fue el lugar del segundo decomiso donde personal militar aseguró 14 armas largas, 347 cartuchos de diferentes calibres, 12 cargadores y cinco granadas de fragmentación, en el panteón del ejido Estación Sandoval. El armamento, narcóticos, municiones y vehículo fueron entregados a las autoridades correspondientes para futuras investigaciones.
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Describe utilidad y uso de telégrafo Esta es la segunda parte de dos donde el autor habla sobre el desarrollo de los sistemas telegráficos en Tamaulipas y la región y el alcance internacional que tuvo.
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Previo al uso del internet el sistema telegráfico tuvo su auge en México hacia 1800 y logró extenderse a Estados Unidos y Centroamérica. Los telegramas requieren de breve plazo de llegada. De esta manera se vuelve usual su uso. Sin embargo, muy pronto se ve la conveniencia de extender el servicio al extranjero.
Uso Luego “de cortas pláticas”, “el proyecto de establecer un cable submarino que uniera un punto cualquiera de nuestras costas en el Golfo de México con otro en las de Estados Unidos” cautiva a “Guillermo G. Norton, de Nueva York”. Los términos convenidos “resultan poco atractivos para” EU, que mete reversa, indica Francisco R. Calderón. “En […] 1875 Pedro Rincón, de
nacionalidad mexicana, manifestó poseer los medios necesarios para” ocuparse de la magna obra “en las […] condiciones aceptadas por Norton”, dice Calderón. “Pero, al enterarse […] de que se le exigiría examinar su contabilidad para comprobar que el dinero que exportaba libre de impuestos provenía [sólo] de los mensaje trasmitidos, resolvió pedir la anulación de la concesión y el reintegro de su fianza”.
Seguimiento El régimen porfiriano retoma el tema. Marcial Enrique Ocasio Meléndez explica que cierta firma angloamericana planea en 1880 “conectar Sudamérica y EU a través de estaciones de transmisión, una de las cuales estaría en Tampico, pero la conexión más importante estaría entre Matamoros y Veracruz”. “No mucho tiempo después se instaló una segunda línea de cable entre Tampico y La Habana, Cuba. La importancia de este nuevo sistema de comunicación fue vista como un gran paso para mejorar las relaciones comerciales entre Estados Unidos y México.
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Durante una ceremonia Homero de la Garza Taméz, Secretario de Desarrollo Social, hizo entrega de 500 escrituras.
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Un aproximado de 500 familias recibieron las escrituras de sus propiedades durante el programa “Escritura tu casa” en la ciudad fronteriza de Matamoros, México, anunciaron autoridades tamaulipecas el viernes. A través del programa y durante una ceremonia en la colonia “Agrícola oriental”, Homero de la Garza Tamez, Secretario de Desarrollo Social, hizo entrega de los documentos a los jefes de familia que estuvieron presentes durante el evento.
“La tranquilidad de las familias a través de un patrimonio seguro es una prioridad”, señaló de la Garza a la multitud. Además Carlos Montiel Saeb, titular del departamento ITAVU, que se han escriturado más de 20.000 predios, de los cuales, alrededor de 1.700 corresponden a Matamoros. Esta ciudad regularizará al menos 3.200 lotes adicionales, con asentamientos. “Hacia el final del sexenio se espera completar una meta de 40.000 escrituras, con lo que se abatirá considerablemente el rezago en esta materia”, señaló Montiel Saeb.
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Defeat leaves GOP void By DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Anticipating a swift shake-up in their leadership, House Republicans jockeyed for position on Wednesday after Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s stunning primary defeat to an underfunded and unknown political newcomer. On the morning after his loss to David Brat, an economics professor supported by the tea party, there was quiet pressure on Cantor to step down from his post as the Republicans’ second-ranking leader. He gave no public signal that he was considering doing so, although a meeting of the rank and file was set for late afternoon. Others did not wait for him to make his intentions known. Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, who serves as the party whip, was informing fellow Republicans he intended to run to succeed Cantor, officials said, and Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas also signaled an interest. Rep. Steve Scalise, RLa., was hoping to replace McCarthy in his current spot, officials said. Cantor met routinely in the Capitol during the day with Speaker John Boehner and other top leaders, but did not speak with reporters afterward. The maneuvering took place as Brat celebrated his triumph over Cantor in an upset that shocked the party establishment and handed tea party forces their largest victory of the primary season. “This is a miracle from God,” Brat said Tuesday night, in an appearance before supporters. But as he looked
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Pete Sessions, R-Texas, is one of several GOP members jockeying for position after Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s stunning primary defeat in the Virginia primary. ahead to November’s elections, he declined to spell out policy specifics. “I’m a Ph.D. in economics, and so you analyze every situation uniquely,” he told MSNBC in an interview in which he said he preferred to keep the focus on the “celebratory issues” of Tuesday’s results. The victory was by far the biggest of the 2014 campaign season for tea party forces, although last week they forced veteran Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran into a June 24 runoff and hope State Sen. Chris McDaniel will achieve victory then. Cantor’s defeat was the first primary setback for a senior leader in Congress in recent years. Former House Speaker Thomas Foley of Washington and Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota both lost their seats at the polls in the past two decades, but they fell to Republicans, not to challengers from within their own parties. Brat will face Democrat Jack Trammel in the fall, and begins as an overwhelming favorite. The district is solidly Republican, and Democratic officials said they do not anticipate
committing money or other resources as long as it remains a two-man race and Cantor does not decide to mount a write-in campaign. The outcome may well mark the end of Cantor’s political career, although at 51 he has plenty of time to attempt a future comeback. Aides did not respond Tuesday night when asked if the majority leader would run a write-in campaign in the fall. But the impact of Cantor’s surprise loss on the fate of immigration legislation in the current Congress seemed clearer still. Conservatives will now be emboldened in their opposition to legislation to create a path to citizenship for immigrants living in the country illegally, and party leaders who are more sympathetic to such legislation will likely be less willing to try. Many Republicans say the party can ill afford to stick to an uncompromising stand on the issue, given the increasing political influence of Hispanic voters. And a Democrat, Rep. Xavier Becerra of California, put it even more bluntly. “For Republicans in the House, my sense is they are now squeezed between doing things
the tea party way or doing things the American way,” he said in an appearance Wednesday morning on MSNBC. Appearing on the same network, Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican, said he was worried that the message from Cantor’s stunning loss may be even more congressional gridlock. Asked if he thought immigration legislation was dead, King replied, “I’m concerned that Ted Cruz supporters, Rand Paul supporters, are going to use this as an excuse” to shut down the government. “This is not conservatism to me,” King said. “Shutting down the government is not being conservative.” Cantor had been tugged by two warring forces in his party and in recent weeks sought to emphasize his opposition to far-reaching immigration legislation as Brat’s challenge gained force. Last month, a feisty crowd of Brat supporters booed Cantor in front of his family at a local party convention. Still, neither he nor other House leaders betrayed any serious concern that his tenure was in danger, and his allies leaked a private poll in recent days that claimed he had a comfortable lead over Brat. In the end, despite help from establishment groups, Cantor’s repudiation was complete in an area that first sent him to Congress in 2000. With votes counted in 99 percent of the precincts, 64,418 votes were cast, roughly a 37 percent increase over two years ago. Despite that, Cantor polled fewer votes than he did in 2012 — 28,631 this time, compared with 37,369 then.
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A black bear sow with two cubs is seen Wednesday, in Anchorage, Alaska. The bears have taken up residence in a busy part of midtown Anchorage.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Bears are active throughout Alaska, from Anchorage to Sitka, where one was killed after attempting to break into a kitchen after the homeowner baked a pizza. The homeowner, Natalie Allen, opened a window after the pizza was done and sat down to read a magazine Tuesday. That’s when she saw a bear at a high window, tearing at the screen with its claws. “I could see each and every one of those long claws!” Allen told the Daily Sitka Sentinel. The bear got a paw inside the kitchen, grabbed the spray hose off the sink and chewed off the nozzle. It then grabbed a bottle of dish soap and quickly put it down after taking a taste. Allen said she panicked and then scrambled on all fours to back bedroom, where she called police. “I said: ‘There’s a bear trying to get into my kitchen window!’ My heart was just pounding,” Allen said. She kept a wary eye out by cracking the bedroom door, and she ventured out once to get her elderly dachshund, Oscar, who slept through the ordeal — first on the sofa and then on the bed when Allen returned to the bedroom. By the time police arrived, the bear was gone. Wildlife officials
tracked and killed it for exhibiting bad behavior. State wildlife biologist Phil Mooney said the bear prowling in the afternoon and breaking into an occupied residence made it a danger to the public. In midtown Anchorage, KTVA reports a black bear and cubs have been seen repeatedly this week between the adjoining campuses of the University of Alaska Anchorage and Alaska Pacific University. Anchorage Police Chief Mark Mew said he ran into the bears on trails this week. The cubs were putting on a show, but people who gathered to watch were respectful of the bears, he said. “Everybody I saw was doing just the right thing,” Mew said. “A couple people just turned around and left, others stayed way back. Nobody is going to approach a sow with cubs. They knew to stay back.” The bears also went to Goose Lake, a popular beach near the campuses. Lifeguards cleared the beach without incident. University police say the bears are well-known to them. Lt. Mike Beckner tells the Anchorage television station that the mother bear doesn’t seem aggressive. “But you don’t want to go pet it. It’s one of those things. You have to use good common sense. We are in Alaska. There’s wildlife everywhere. But it’s got two cubs, so it could become aggressive if it needs to protect its children,” he said.
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Obama: US can do more By NEDRA PICKLER ASSOCIATED PRESS
CANNON BALL, N.D. — President Barack Obama on Friday became only the third U.S. sitting president in eight decades to set foot in Indian Country, encountering both the wonder of Native American culture and the struggle of tribal life on a breezewhipped afternoon in the prairie. Amid snapping flags and colorful, befeathered dancers, Obama declared that there was more the U.S. could do to help Native Americans. Obama drew attention to inroads his administration has made with tribes even as he promoted the need to help reservations create jobs, strengthen justice, and improve health and education. “Young people should be able to live, and work, and raise a family right here in the land of your fathers and mothers,” Obama told a crowd of about 1,800 during a Flag Day Celebration at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Citing legendary tribal chief Sitting Bull, Obama said: “Let’s put our minds together to build more economic opportunity in Indian country. Because every American, including every Native American deserves a chance to work hard and get ahead.” The president and first lady arrived by helicopter under sunny skies as native songs and dances at the Flag Day Celebration were already underway. The couple first met privately with tribal youth about their challenges growing up on the reservation that was home to Sitting Bull. Tribal government Chairman Dave Archambault praised Obama for helping correct “historic wrongs” involving tribal land disputes. “If Sitting Bull were here today, he would be honored, as I am, to have a president here talking to us,” he said. Obama and Michelle Obama appeared delighted as children, adolescents and adults in face paint and costumes stepped to native dances on the reservation’s
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Airliner punch could land man in prison By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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President Barack Obama watches Native American male dancers on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation on Friday, in Cannon Ball, N.D. powwow grounds. Obama nodded to the music and greeted some of the performers before speaking. Obama, who was adopted into the Crow Nation during his 2008 presidential campaign, said he found common cause with the young people he and his wife met in a reservation elementary school Friday. “They talked about the challenges of living in two worlds of being both native and American,” Obama said, an echo of his own observations in the past about being the son of a Kenyan father growing up in a white society. “Some bright young people like the ones we met today might look around them and sometimes wonder if the United States really is thinking about them, caring about them and has a place for them, too,” he said. “I said, you know, Michelle and I know what it feels like sometimes to go through tough times. We grew up at times feeling like we were on the outside looking in.” Today, the 2.3 million-acre reservation is home to about 850 residents who struggle with a lack of housing, health care and education, among other problems familiar on reservations nationwide. The Bureau of Indian Affairs reported in January that about 63 percent of able workers on Standing Rock were unemployed. With Native American poverty and unemployment more than
double the U.S. average, Obama promoted initiatives to spur tribal development and create new markets for Native American products and services. The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Friday that it would make $70 million available to improve tribal housing conditions, including money for mold removal. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell was also in Standing Rock on Friday to promote a plan to overhaul the Bureau of Indian Education, which is responsible for educating 48,000 Native American students in 23 states and is lagging behind other school systems by nearly every measure. Native American students have low scores on assessment tests and the highest dropout rate of any racial or ethnic group. Obama was visiting North Dakota en route to a weekend away in Palm Springs, California. In 2008, then-candidate Obama pledged to expand health services, improve education, combat methamphetamine dealers, promote economic development and improve housing on reservations. Democratic North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, who accompanied Obama to the reservation, said Obama’s trip was a “major step forward in our efforts to elevate the issues facing our Native American citizens to a national level.”
HONOLULU — A drunken passenger assaulted a flight attendant while flying from Japan to Honolulu, federal prosecutors said. Kenji Okamoto pleaded guilty Friday to interfering with the duties of a flight attendant by assaulting and intimidating him. According to a criminal complaint, Okamoto was flying first-class from Osaka for his honeymoon last month when flight attendants noticed he was drunk before takeoff and continued drinking alcoholic beverages during the flight. Okamoto got upset when one of the flight attendants wouldn’t take his meal tray away, the court document said. The flight attendant told him his hands were full. Okamoto allegedly “threw a roundhouse type punch” at a flight attendant who intervened in an attempt to diffuse the situation. Okamoto struck the flight attendant in his arms, which were raised to protect his head, the complaint said. The Delta Air Lines flight crew told authorities that Okamoto later apologized while crying, remained calm for the remainder of the flight and eventually fell asleep. After crew members restrained him in his seat, “Okamoto apologized for his actions by repeatedly saying ‘I’m sorry’ and bowed down on his knees and placed his head on the floor,” the complaint said. During an interview with authorities, Okamoto said he’s in the construction business and was “drinking heavily because
he was celebrating his honeymoon with his wife ... that he married on April 20, 2014,” the complaint said. Okamoto told authorities that before boarding the plane, he had four glasses of beer and one glass of wine and he continued drinking champagne and wine while on board. He said the incident happened “like a flash,” according to the court document, and that he doesn’t remember what exactly happened but that he was upset because he felt like he was being disrespected when the first flight attendant wouldn’t take his tray away. U.S. Magistrate Kevin Chang initially allowed Okamoto, 30, of Kyoto, to be released on $50,000 bond, but Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy Hino appealed, arguing that Okamoto didn’t disclose a previous conviction in Japan for assaulting a police officer. Hino’s appeal provided photos of the Okamoto’s near full-body tattoos, arguing that Okamoto is a flight risk and a danger. Delta banned Okamoto from flying on the airline, according to Hino’s appeal. U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright granted the appeal to keep him held without bail at the Honolulu Federal Detention Center. Because he was arrested at the airport, he never got to enjoy his honeymoon, which was to be spent at a luxury resort in east Honolulu, Hino said. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison when he’s sentenced on Sept. 22. His federal public defender, Salina Althof, declined to comment after the guilty plea hearing.
City seeks clues to shootings By BRIAN SKOLOFF AND EMAUN KASHFI ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Joshua Mitchell, right, is hugged by Reynolds’ assistant principal John Dixon during the graduation ceremony at Reynolds High School on Thursday, in Troutdale, Ore.
Parents of teen shooter apologize By STEVEN DUBOIS ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORTLAND, Ore. — The parents of a teenager who fatally shot a classmate at an Oregon high school released a statement Friday in which they apologized for their son’s actions, and said they never promoted violence or hatred. Michael Padgett and his ex-wife Kristina said they are at a loss for how and why the shooting occurred. The letter states they taught Jared Padgett and their other children the values of compassion, forgiveness, patience and love in Jesus Christ. “These were all natural attributes we observed within Jared daily,” the statement said. “Knowing that these are the values that we have taught our children, we are horrified and distraught by the actions perpetrated by our son.” The statement was hand-delivered Friday afternoon to KPTV, the FOX affiliate in Portland. It came three days after Jared Padgett, 15, opened fire after arriving at his high school east of Portland heavily armed. The freshman killed 14-year-old Emilio Hoffman in the boy’s locker room and another bullet grazed physical education teacher Todd Rispler. When confronted by officers, Padgett went into a bathroom and died from a self-inflicted gunshot, police said. Investigators have yet to reveal a possible motive, and the statement shed no light on what may have led the devout Mormon and aspiring serviceman to become a school shooter. The parents said they have cooperated with detectives through an interview process that has left them “deeply confused and shocked by the information delivered.” The statement did not elaborate. Included in the letters were apologies to Hoffman’s family and friends, Rispler and the community.
PHOENIX — Police say the investigation into a deadly priest shooting at a Roman Catholic church in Phoenix has been stymied by a lack of usable surveillance video and a vague account of the attack by a second severely injured clergyman. Still, investigators have been able to recover forensic evidence from the dead priest’s car and the crime scene that they are hopeful will lead them to a suspect. And they are going door to door in the neighborhood looking for witnesses who might have seen something. The investigation is playing out as parishioners are mourning the loss of the Rev. Kenneth Walker, 28, and praying for the recovery of the Rev. Joseph Terra, 56, who was so badly beaten in the Wednesday night attack in the rectory of their church that police were worried he wouldn’t survive the night. He remained in critical but stable condition. Police said Terra told them the next day the suspect was a white male in his 40s, but they acknowledge it was a “limited description.” “Unfortunately because of the severity of his injuries, he was only able to provide limited information about one particular suspect,” Phoenix police Sgt. Steve Martos said. In a recording of the 911 call released by police Friday, Terra can be heard breathing heavily and pausing as the dispatcher asked him what happened. “We have been broke into ... an assault,” Terra said. “Did he hit you on the head?” the dispatcher asked. “Yeah, I think he did,” Terra replied. “My assistant priest here is ... uh ... has been beaten.” “Is he breathing?” the dispatcher asked. “No, no he’s not,” Terra said as he is then instructed how to perform CPR. He was unable at the time to provide a description of who attacked him and fatally shot Walker.
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Mater Misericordiae (Mother of Mercy) Mission church member Kirsten Duarte, center, prays while Phoenix Police investigate a shooting at the church on Wednesday, in Phoenix. Police say one priest was shot to death and another was injured after an attack at the church in downtown Phoenix. “You have no description at all?” the dispatcher asked. “No,” Terra replied. Police and paramedics soon arrived on the scene, and Terra “pretty much just shut down then, went into survival mode,” Martos said Friday. He said detectives weren’t suspicious that Terra couldn’t describe his attacker at the time, but later was able to provide a limited description. “That’s not uncommon. You’re talking about an individual who was just severely attacked,” Martos said, adding that authorities didn’t think he would survive. “Especially with the vicious assault that he had just endured.” Martos said Terra was trying to save Walker’s life until authorities arrived, even as he himself lay critically wounded. “He’s doing everything he can because he’s the only one there,” Martos said. Detectives have collected surveillance video from buildings in the area, including government facilities near the state Capitol,
but they found nothing usable at this point because the cameras weren’t pointed at the church. Police are still unsure if there was only one suspect or whether robbery was the motive in the attack at the Mother of Mercy Mission, Martos said. He declined to say whether there was forced entry. Investigators have been able to rule out several theories, including speculation of a dispute between the priests. “There’s nothing to indicate that this is priest on priest or Father Terra getting into some argument or discussion with Father Walker,” Martos said. “We don’t believe that. The evidence that we have come across does not point in that direction at all.” Walker was born in upstate New York, had 10 siblings and was drawn to the priesthood after attending traditional Latin Mass with his family in high school. He later joined the seminary, made good grades and enjoyed playing soccer, said the Rev. Joseph Lee, academic dean at the Our Lady
of Guadalupe Seminary in Nebraska. Walker eventually joined a Catholic order that specializes in Latin Mass and became a priest in downtown Phoenix. He recently officiated a younger sibling’s wedding in Kansas — the last time he saw many relatives. Family members said they were overcome with emotion by the loss, but they took solace in the fact that the surviving priest was able to administer last rites. “For Catholics, receiving your last rites basically guarantees you’re going to heaven,” said Walker’s stepsister, Sasha Keys. “That’s one of the biggest reasons we have to smile.” In his application to the seminary, Walker spoke of his devotion to God and desire to be a priest. “The only vocation that I could be satisfied with, as a work,” he wrote, “would be one that would be ... dedicated to bringing people to salvation in whatever way God wills for me to do so. This work is best carried out by the priesthood.”
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BORDER found at the border since the start of the budget year in October. Peña did not describe what sorts of disguises could be employed by reporters. The issue has fueled the political debate in Washington about U.S. immigration policies, which contributed to this week’s stunning election defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va. Cantor’s opponent had said the Republican leader supported “amnesty” for immigrants in the U.S. illegally, and said the surprise election outcome effectively dooms any prospects for legal changes to American immigration laws. Obama has disputed this and urged Congress to act this summer. Agents in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley have made more than 173,000 arrests so far this budget year. Like the child border crossers, most of the immigrants trying to cross
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illegally are from Central America. The crush of children traveling alone and would-be immigrants traveling as families has prompted the Homeland Security Department to move both children and families to other Border Patrol sectors for processing. The children are later handed off to the Health and Human Services Department, where officials typically try to reunite them with parents or other relatives already in the United States. DHS has released an unspecified number of families with notices to appear at Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices near their final destinations within the United States. The Obama administration has declined to say how many people have been released and how many have reported as ordered. Kerlikowske said Friday he did not know those figures. The latest instruction
KIDNAPPING 29. Also arrested was a 14year-old who authorities said acted as a lookout for the group, the press re-
to border agents in South Texas is not the first time the Border Patrol has directed officials not to speak with reporters. Last year, the then-head of the Border Patrols’ Southwest border media division told public affairs officials that the agency would “no longer provide interviews, ride alongs, visits, etc., about the border, the state of the border and what have you.” In his Feb. 1, 2013, email, Bill Brooks advised that border officials should tell reporters that “you will have to see what you can do to get back to them” and then notify him. The most recent information lockdown has made the local representatives of the Border Patrol agents’ union the agency’s de facto spokesmen on conditions inside overcrowded stations and the logistical challenges of processing so many immigrants.
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lease stated. In addition to the seven arrests, police confiscated two vehicles and several radios.
The case has been transferred to the state attorney general’s office. (Translated by Mark Webber of the Times staff)
HOUSE Continued from Page 1A Robert and Denise Webb, consented to Friday’s burn. Authorities said destroying the house was better than waiting for it to topple into Lake Whitney. The cost of removing mounds of debris from the lake could prove prohibitive. Spectators in dozens of boats witnessed the demolition from a safe distance. Live television coverage shared the view of the spiraling black smoke coming from the gated resort community.
The Webbs purchased the home in 2012, but a few weeks ago were forced to remove their personal items and relocate. They expressed shock and sadness at losing their lake house. The Webbs, who also have a home along Florida’s Miami Beach, told WTSP-TV on Thursday that the deterioration of their property has been hard to watch. “You know, that’s my life there that we’re watching fall off,” Robert Webb
said the day before the demolition. Geologists and inspectors had told them before they purchased the land that the property was perfectly stable, “and so we bought it in good faith,” Webb said. The house, built in 2007, was to have been left to his grandchildren, he said. “It’s really tough, that house was special and I don’t even know why it was so special but it was special to me,” Denise Webb said.
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This photo taken Monday shows scaffolding being erected in preparation for the wedding today of Alex Steel, daughter of Aspen Institute chairman Robert Steel, at the top of Little Annie Basin, near Aspen, Colo. The elaborate wedding has raised eyebrows in tony and environmentally-conscious Aspen.
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ASPEN, Colo. — A wedding so elaborate it has raised eyebrows in tony and environmentally-conscious Aspen has sparked complaints from residents about the building of a dance floor, 27,000-square foot tent and a temporary chapel on a rural meadow. The Saturday ceremony will be held on private property in the Little Annie Basin near Aspen Mountain outside town. Neighbors have complained about the traffic and the carbon footprint impact and potential damage to the meadow, now zoned as “rural/remote.” Trucks have been making trip after trip to bring supplies to the site for the wedding of Alex Steel, daughter of Aspen Institute chairman Robert Steel. The Aspen Times reported that scaffolding
flooring, service tents and other temporary structures are being built on the meadow. At least one appears to have metal beams. Robert Steel declined to comment through a spokeswoman at the institute, which sponsors an annual summer ideas conference with world and national leaders. The property’s owner, family friend John Miller, who is also serving as wedding planner, acknowledged in a letter to the editor that the wedding has turned out to be a bigger project than he originally thought it would be. He said it was temporary though and urged his neighbors to show patience toward a family that has contributed much to the community. “Can we just live and let live, sit back and enjoy where we are privileged to live?” he wrote. The wedding will be ac-
cessed by a county road because there is still too much snow on another access road. Pitkin County officials at first considered requiring a temporary commercial permit for the ceremony, which is adjacent to U.S. Forest Service land. But because guests won’t be charged, officials concluded that they could not charge for a permit. Commissioner George Newman said the event shows you can be an “ugly American” in your own country. “It’s unfortunate people come to our county because of the beauty and bring their values with them while not caring or not understanding our values,” he told the Aspen Times. County commissioners will meet June 17 to discuss zoning and permitting changes to handle future big events in the resort area.
BERGDAHL Continued from Page 1A Sgt. Bergdahl is comprehensive. There is no set timeline,” said DiSalvo, who will be in charge of that process. As far as Bergdahl’s interaction with relatives, Col. Bradley Poppen, an Army psychologist, said a soldier typically determines when to reunite with his or her family. Poppen declined to release further details, citing the family’s request for privacy. Military officials declined to give details on what Bergdahl might remember about his capture or what he knows about the public uproar surrounding his capture and release. A three-vehicle convoy greeted Bergdahl at Fort Sam shortly after midnight Friday. Officials said he was able to walk on his own
and appeared “a little nervous,” as they said any sergeant would when greeted by a two-star general. In the short time he has been back on U.S. soil, Bergdahl has been on a bland diet and has shown a fondness for peanut butter, they said. Bergdahl also arrived speaking English, though officials indicated his speech had been impacted from being in captivity for so long. “Overall our assessment is that he did not have the opportunity the past five years to practice and speak his English,” said Col. Ronald Wood, who is in charge of Bergdahl’s medical care. Army officials briefed the media at a golf course near Fort Sam Houston and said no report-
ers would be allowed onto the base or in the hospital. Officials have kept a lid on details of Bergdahl’s condition out of concern that he not be rushed back into the public spotlight. The Idaho native was captured in Afghanistan in June 2009 and released by the Taliban on May 31 in a deal struck by the Obama administration in which five senior Taliban officials were released from detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Army has not formally begun a new review into the circumstances of Bergdahl’s capture and whether he walked away without leave or was deserting the Army when he was found and taken by insurgents. In a statement Friday, the Ar-
my said that after Bergdahl’s reintegration it would “continue its comprehensive review into the circumstances of his disappearance and captivity.” The answers to those questions will be key to whether Bergdahl will receive more than $300,000 in back pay owed to him since he disappeared. If he was determined to have been a prisoner of war, he also could receive roughly another $300,000 or more, if recommended and approved by Army leaders. Before his departure from Germany on Thursday, officials in Washington said Bergdahl would not receive the automatic Army promotion that would have taken effect this month if he were still in captivity. Now that he is back
in U.S. military control, any promotions would depend on his performance and achievement of certain training and education milestones. Bergdahl had been at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany since June 1, the day after the prisoner exchange. Many have criticized the Obama administration for agreeing to release five Taliban prisoners in exchange for Bergdahl. Some of Bergdahl’s former Army colleagues have accused him of deserting his post. Critics also have said the five Taliban members could return to the battlefield. Administration officials have told Congress that four of the five Taliban officials likely will rejoin the fight.
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2014 FIFA WORLD CUP: MEXICO 1, CAMEROON 0
El Tri wins opener
Spurs look to close at home By BRIAN MAHONEY ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Fans of the Mexican national team could breathe a sigh of relief after El Tri won its opener 1-0 on Friday. Two first half goals were both waved off on controversial offside calls, but Mexico eventually broke through in the second half.
Mexico holds off Cameroon in group stage By JIM VERTUNO ASSOCIATED PRESS
NATAL, Brazil — With torrential rain pouring down and two goals already contentiously disallowed, tens of thousands of soggy but boisterous Mexico fans were getting nervous. They had already started chanting for Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez, the striker benched in favor of Oribe Peralta, to come on and deliver a game winner. Seconds after the chant began, Peralta scored in the 61st minute to help Mexico to a 1-0 victory Friday and the three points it needed to have any chance of advancing from a tough Group A at the World Cup. Peralta’s goal gave Mexico its first win over an African
team at the World Cup and justified coach Miguel Herrera’s faith that he could deliver on the biggest stage in the world. A non-factor most of the first half, Peralta broke the deadlock with his left foot after Cameroon goalkeeper Charles Itandje parried Giovanni Dos Santos’ attempt from the edge of the area. The goal relieved the pressure that had been building steadily after Dos Santos had two goals disallowed in the first half, frustrating the Mexican team that was controlling the game with its speed and ball possession. “We could have scored more, but unfortunately we’re not used to these conditions,” Herrera said. “Frank-
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MIAMI — The San Antonio Spurs left Miami last June looking so human, Tim Duncan nearly in tears talking about how close they were to another championship. They don’t look human now. They look like a machine. Up 3-1 and shooting the ball at a level never seen in the NBA Finals, the Spurs headed home with a chance to wrap things up on Sunday night in Game 5. The Miami Heat, who were able to deny the Spurs last year, have two days to figure out what can possibly be done to do it again. “They’re a high-oil machine and they move the ball extremely well,” LeBron James said. “They put you in so many difficult positions. If you’re not right on time, right on target, they’re going to make you pay for it.” The Spurs won by 19 and 21 in the two games in Miami and are shooting 54.2 percent in the series. The NBA Finals record for a series of any length is 52.7 percent. No team has overcome a 3-1 deficit in the finals, and the Heat were so thoroughly manhandled in Miami that the only reason to think they could be the first is what they did in the past. Duncan said the memory of
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Mexico striker Javier Hernandez was benched in the second half in favor of Oribe Peralta, who put away the winning goal in the 61st minute.
2014 FIFA WORLD CUP: NETHERLANDS 5, SPAIN 1
Dutch stun Spain By MIKE CORDER File photo by Charlie Neibergall | AP
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Texas head coach Augie Garrido, second from left, has led the Longhorns back to the College World Series after they finished at the bottom of the Big 12 in 2013.
Two old coaches meet in CWS By ERIC OLSON ASSOCIATED PRESS
OMAHA, Neb. — Once again, the road has led to Omaha for Augie Garrido and Mike Gillespie. The two played college ball against each other before the Beatles came to America, and both played in the College World Series in the days when a few hundred people showed up to watch. They’ve coached in the CWS, and won national ti-
tles, as the event has grown into one of the nation’s great annual summer events. The 75-year-old Garrido’s Texas Longhorns meet the 74-year-old Gillespie’s UC Irvine Anteaters on Saturday, with both men hoping for at least one more hurrah in a city that has meant everything to them. The CWS’ night game matches Louisville (50-15) against Vanderbilt
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SALVADOR, Brazil — The Netherlands thrashed the world champions 5-1 Friday in the World Cup’s first shocker, toying with an aging Spanish team that has dominated global football for the past six years and avenging a loss in the 2010 final. Although Spain could still advance out of the group stage, the game may have signaled the end of the run by a generation of Spanish stars whose quick passing, “tiki-taka” style delighted the world and helped them win the last three major tournaments. Dutch strikers Robert Van Persie and Arjen Robben both scored twice, including Van Persie’s diving header off of an audacious 40yard pass. The ball looped over hapless Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas as Van Persie slid on his stomach on the wet grass before running to the side-
Gary Patterson’s TCU teams have gone a disappointing 11-14, including 6-12 in conference, in two seasons since joining the Big 12.
Frogs try to turn things around By RALPH D. RUSSO ASSOCIATED PRESS Photo by Manu Fernandez | AP
in Arena Fonte Nova on their feet the whole time. It was the worst loss for Spain in the game’s showcase tournament since a 6-1 defeat to Brazil in 1950. The victory was par-
FORT WORTH — Gary Patterson leans forward in his chair, then back. He shuffles papers. Picks up a file folder, taps it on the desk. Puts it down. Leans forward, then back. Then way forward, his head only a few inches off the desk. If the worst season in Patterson’s 14-year tenure as TCU’s coach had him seeking therapy, well, good luck getting him to lie on a couch.
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Fernando Torres (in air) and his Spanish teammates, a World Cup favorite, opened with a 5-1 loss. lines with his fists clenched to celebrate what is sure to be one of the goals of the tournament. Defender Stefan de Vrij also scored — his first international goal — in a dominating second half that had the orange-clad Dutch fans
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ticularly sweet for Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal, who was criticized for his decision to play five defenders. He insisted the formation had attacking potential as well as nullifying Spain’s fluent passing game. It did. And then some. Spain’s ball-control offense usually has other teams frustratingly trying to gain possession. This time, the Dutch fans were roaring “Ole” as their team passed the ball around and Spain chased them. Spain lost its first match in South Africa four years ago on its way to the title, and it could salvage tournament hopes with wins against Chile and Australia. Van Persie credited Van Gaal’s tactics of defending hard and firing long passes to Robben and himself. “We trained that way. And this is definitely down to him,” the Manchester United striker said of the coach who will take over at his club next season. “If you see how he prepared us, and how he predicted the game would go, and you see how it went — unbelievable.” Van Gaal, in turn, high-
lighted his forwards’ performances. “With strikers like Van Persie, Robben and Sneijder behind them, things like this can happen,” the coach said. It all started so well for Spain, with Xabi Alonso converting a 27th minute penalty. But it went downhill fast after Van Persie tied the game with a header shortly before half time. He connected with a perfectly weighted long pass by Daley Blind, one of a new generation of Dutch defenders flourishing under Van Gaal. “Unbelievable,” Van Persie said. “For the whole Netherlands, this is a dream come true.” Spain, which won the 2010 final thanks to an Andres Iniesta extra-time goal, exerted most of the pressure in the first half of the rematch. But they had no answer once the Dutch went ahead and continually hit them on the break. The final goal came after Robben weaved around Casillas — who was crawling on the grass in desperation — and fired into the untended net. His double was sweet revenge for Robben, who had a late chance saved by Casillas in the Johannesburg final
and has struggled to live it down. It was tough keeping track of the second-half barrage of Dutch goals. Robben scored in the 53rd minute, reaching high to control another long ball from Blind, cutting inside Gerard Pique and firing past Casillas. De Vrij — was called for the first-half penalty — bundled home a Sneijder free kick at the far post 11 minutes later, and Van Persie scored his second in the 72nd in a clinical display of counterattacking football. Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque sat stony faced on his bench at full time, while Van Gaal walked onto the pitch to hug his players. “This is a very delicate moment for us, and all of us have to find a way to solve it,” Del Bosque said. While Spain now has to regroup for its match against Chile on June 18, the Netherlands has to come back down to earth and then refocus for the next match, against Australia. “We don’t have anything yet. We’ve made a pretty start,” Van Gaal said. “If you beat Australia, then you’ve made a good start.”
WORLD SERIES Continued from Page 1B (46-19) after the showdown between the two veterans. “If you take our combined ages,” Garrido said with a laugh Friday, “we’re much older than the National League.” It’s been an improbable run to the CWS for both this time around. The Longhorns finished last in the Big 12 a year ago, and some of the folks in Austin were calling for the job of the winningest college coach of all time. Texas (43-19) improved to fifth this year, beat old rival Texas A&M two of three times in regionals and swept Houston in super regionals. “It means job security,” Garrido said. UC Irvine (40-23) lost eight of its last nine in the regular season and was one of the final four at-large teams picked for the NCAA tournament. The Anteaters went to Oregon State for regionals and won two of three against the No. 1 national seed, and they swept Oklahoma State on the road to reach the CWS. “They beat a team we couldn’t beat,” Garrido said, referring to Oklahoma State, “so that puts it in some perspective right off the bat. Coach Gillespie has been here and won the national championship before with USC. The game hasn’t changed. He’s one of the masterful coaches in the game. He’s a very daring coach. If you see his bases-
loaded squeeze bunts with two strikes, that takes a certain tenacity.” The afternoon game will mark the 25th time Garrido and Gillespie have coached against each other, with Garrido having won 15 of the previous 24. The most important of those was in 1995, when Garrido’s Cal State Fullerton team beat Gillespie’s Southern California Trojans 11-5 for the national championship. Garrido will be going for his sixth national title at this CWS. Gillespie is trying for his second; his first came in 1998 with USC. Their time together in the game dates to the late 1950s when Garrido played for Fresno State and Gillespie for USC. Gillespie said Garrido was a great player, but he remembers him more for his mouth. “Those were the days of heavy, heavy, heavy ragging,” Gillespie said. “Bench jockeying is a lost art. By rule you can’t do it anymore. We would play in these tournaments in the San Diego Marine Corps recruiting depot and stay in barracks. We’d be in the same barracks with Fresno State, and the lights would go out and the ragging would begin. And it was always Augie against the world, and he won. He’s almost in a class of his own when it comes to wit and one-liners.” Five things to watch as
the College World Series begins: PITCHING MATCHUPS UC Irvine will start Andrew Morales (11-2, 1.53 ERA) against Texas’ Nathan Thornhill (8-2, 1.57), and Louisville will go with Kyle Funkhouser (13-2, 1.73) against Vanderbilt’s Carson Fulmer (6-1, 1.78.) Sunday, TCU will start Preston Morrison (9-4, 1.32) against Texas Tech’s Chris Sadberry (5-3, 3.17) and Virginia will start Nathan Kirby (9-2, 1.73) against Mississippi’s Chris Ellis (10-2, 2.45). LONGHORNS KNOW OMAHA Texas is making its record 35th appearance in the CWS and its eighth since 2000. The Longhorns’ 82 wins in the CWS are a record. DANDY AGAINST VANDY Louisville has won three straight against Vanderbilt, most recently 11-7 in the third annual Battle of the Barrel Game on May 6. Cole Sturgeon had three doubles and scored four runs in that game. The Cardinals also swept Vanderbilt in a super regional last year. LOUISVILLE LARCENY The Cardinals are second nationally in stolen bases with 132. Sutton Whiting leads the team with 37 steals on 43 attempts. ON DECK Play begins Sunday in the other bracket, with TCU (4716) meeting Texas Tech (4519) in the afternoon and Virginia (49-14) facing Mississippi (46-19) at night.
MEXICO Continued from Page 1B ly, the refereeing took away two clear goals, but at the end of the day you’ve got to work for it, and we get to the next match with three points and very high spirits.” Tournament host and favorite Brazil leads the group after a 3-1 win over Croatia in the opening game. Mexico plays Brazil on Tuesday in Fortaleza. While the heat was expected to be an issue in this balmy coastal city, rain soaked the field at the new Arena das Dunas starting about four hours before the match and never let up, creating a cool day but a slick surface. Mexico players said the field held up well and the conditions favored their style of play. “We are ready to play in any type of circumstances,” Dos Santos said. “We worked the ball well and it was extraordinary to have the rain.” The rain never dampened the spirits of the Mexico fans who arrived hours early, dominated the announced crowd of 39,216 and kept up their cheers and taunts throughout the match.
“They made us feel like locals,” Herrera said, comparing the atmosphere with Mexico’s home stadium. “It felt a little bit like Azteca.” Those cheers were sounding nervous as the game remained scoreless deep into the second half. Dos Santos had twice put the ball in the net in the first half only to have both efforts called back. He was ruled offside in the 11th minute and his header from a corner in the 29th was denied when referee Wilmar Roldan apparently called a foul in front of Itandje. His work done, Peralta was taken off in the 74th minute for Hernandez, who nearly doubled Mexico’s lead minutes later. But Hernandez misfired a volley and sent it over the net. While a tough shot, the miss punctuated Hernandez’ scoring drought. Peralta, on the other hand, is growing in confidence and keen to add to the gold medal he picked up with Mexico at the London Olympics. “I want to score as many goals as possible,” Peralta said, “to take advantage of every opportunity that I get because I want to be a world champion again.”
Cameroon seldom tested Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa until forcing him to make a late victoryclinching save with a dive to his left to stop a header by Benjamin Moukandjo. The save was yet another big payoff for Herrera, who started Ochoa after the ’keeper had been a reserve at the last two World Cups. At the final whistle, Herrera kneeled, crossed himself and pumped his right fist. Cameroon coach Volker Finke stood with his arms crossed, scowling as the rain dripped off his face. For Cameroon, the lackluster performance will only magnify controversies back home over a player bonus pay dispute that delayed their arrival in Brazil, and will raise more questions about whether they’re a fractured team. The loss also leaves Cameroon needing a victory over group rival Croatia before closing first-round play against Brazil. “We have five days to recover,” Finke said. "We will analyze this together because the match against Croatia is very important if we want to stay alive.”
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San Antonio center Tiago Splitter and the Spurs routed the Heat in two games in Miami. A victory at home Sunday would hand the Spurs their fifth NBA title in 15 years. last season’s loss — the pain that’s driven the Spurs through this entire season — would “definitely come up” before Sunday. “As I said, we know the caliber team they are, and we have a lot of respect for what they’re able to do,” Duncan said. “They’re able to throw it another gear and they’re going to do just that. They don’t want this to be done.” Duncan probably meant “done” as in the series. Of course, it could also mean the era. Two off days were sure to be filled by talk of the Heat’s uncertain future, with James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh all eligible for free agency. Might such a one-sided beating convince James he had to leave to find a better roster elsewhere? Make him more resolute in his desire to stay and get the Heat back on top? The two-time champions have more urgent concerns now. “Did we expect to come here and lose two the way we did at home? No way,” Wade said. “But we also expect to go to San Antonio and put up a better effort and try to come out with another win. So we’ll get away from it (Friday), but we’ll still think about what we need to do to try to get another win to keep the series alive.” James simply acknowledged the obvious, that the Spurs were the better team, when they swept his Cleveland Cavaliers in 2007 for the last of their four NBA championships. But he wasn’t supposed to be on the wrong side of the talent differential once he bolted for Miami, where the Heat would build a Big Three for this decade that would rival what San Antonio’s did last decade.
But the Spurs go so far beyond Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili now. There’s Kawhi Leonard, who followed his career-high, 29-point night in Game 3 with 20 points and 14 rebounds Thursday and has done no worse than battled James to a draw over the last two games. Or Boris Diaw, who wasn’t even in the starting lineup until Game 3 and had eight points, nine rebounds and nine assists in Game 4, serving as one of the catalysts for the Spurs’ mesmerizing ball movement. Individual players get hot all the time. The Spurs are on a team-wide hot streak. “I just think we’re playing Spurs basketball,” Parker said. “We’re just moving the ball and we’re just playing the way we’ve been playing all season. We’d like to do a ’good to great,’ the extra pass, and we preach that, and right now we’re clicking.” It gets a little harder to keep that going when trying for that fourth win, the one the Spurs couldn’t quite get last year, when even the real freewheeling teams tend to tighten up a bit. “I mean, every closeout game is very difficult, for all the obvious reasons,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. Especially if James delivers as so often when the Heat faced elimination, from his 45-point game in Boston in the 2012 Eastern Conference finals, to a triple-double against the Spurs in Game 6 last year, followed by 37 points in Game 7. He may need to deliver something similar, or a championship reign could be over sooner than expected.
TCU Continued from Page 1B As it turns out, the fidgety 54-yearold wasn’t looking to deconstruct his psyche or his program after going 4-8 in 2013. “We didn’t need a wholesale change,” Patterson said. “TCU is not in that position.” The Horned Frogs are most definitely in unfamiliar territory, though, entering Year 3 as a member of the Big 12. In the four seasons before moving from the Mountain West Conference, TCU went 47-5 and won the Rose Bowl in 2011. Since the move, the Frogs are 11-14, 6-12 in conference, and it’s been one thing after another for Patterson. A stream of injuries, suspensions and off-field issues stretched thin a roster that was not quite Big 12-ready. And the Frogs often simply couldn’t catch a break. Four of last year’s losses were by three points or less. So what’s the winningest coach in the history of TCU to do? Nothing rash, but a music lover such as Patterson knows to stay relevant for the long haul, like Bruce Springsteen or U2, you have to be open to change. “I think we’re all searching for that all the time,” Patterson said in a recent interview. “You steal and you conform it to what you do. How do you re-invent so that you can still keep all the (good) things in place, but you give them a better outlook of what tomorrow’s going to be like.” What Patterson stole — so to speak — was a version of the spread offense that started with Mike Leach at Texas Tech and has been handed down and modified by programs such as Houston and Oklahoma State. Doug Meacham was hired away from Houston, where he was offensive coordinator last year after a long stint as an assistant at Oklahoma State, to run the TCU’s offense. Sonnie Cumbie, the former Texas Tech quarterback, came over from the Red Raiders to be co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. In their first two seasons in the Big 12, TCU has ranked eighth (2012) and ninth (2013) in total offense in the conference. Patterson, a former defensive coordinator, insists the switch was not simply a reaction to recent woes.
“This wasn’t one of those, ’Well, we had a 4-8 season. We’ve got to make a change on offense,”’ he said. “It was something I’d been thinking about for two years.” Whether TCU has the personnel to get the most out of the new offense this season remains to be seen. An uncertain situation at quarterback could get smoothed out when former Texas A&M quarterback Matt Joeckel transfers in. He should be eligible to play immediately. That could move last year’s starter, Trevone Boykin, to wide receiver, another position that needs a boost. The defense should be feisty as ever with eight starters back, including star pass rusher Devonte Fields, who was suspended for the first two games of last season and then missed a bunch more because of injuries. Patterson knew it would take time to build Big 12-quality depth. He’s also been dealing with a spate of player suspensions, departures and run-ins with the law the past two seasons. Former TCU quarterback Casey Pachall, in an interview with the Star-Telegram in Dallas, said the Frogs have had “zero leadership” among the players. “Nobody wants to step up and take charge of anything,” he told the newspaper in February. Patterson said his 2010 and ’11 teams — with quarterback Andy Dalton and linebacker Tank Carder— had such a solid core of upperclassmen to set the tone that younger players could stay in the background. “Sometimes, kids get invisible,” Patterson said. “You don’t necessarily not have great leadership. You just don’t have a whole bunch of guys left on your team that have been there before.” A two-year hiccup hasn’t shaken athletic director Chris Del Conte’s faith in Patterson. “I have full confidence in everything that Gary’s done,” Del Conte said. As for Patterson, he’s not searching for himself — just a few more points. “You’ve got to have an open mind (about) how you do things or it passes you up,” he said, “but you don’t want to get away from you as a person.”
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Dear Heloise: Every year, my two dogs fight FLEAS. I hate harsh chemical products, so I wondered if you have hints to help minimize these pests. — Mandy M. in California Unfortunately, our pets do sometimes bring these little pests into our homes. Here are a few hints from the Environmental Protection Agency on helping to keep fleas to a minimum in your home: Keep your pets inside the majority of the time, and have them go outside only to do their business. Wash pet bedding in hot water at least every two weeks. Make sure it’s clean. Comb your dogs regularly with a flea comb to check for and remove any adult fleas. Concentrate on the dogs’ necks and tails, where most fleas are found. Vacuum your home regularly (every day, if needed), particularly where your dogs like to sleep. This will help cap-
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ture eggs, larvae and adult fleas to prevent a full infestation. — Heloise SEWING SAVING Dear Heloise: I am an avid sewer. I am always on the lookout for good sources of material to use in my projects. When stores have clearance sales, I look at the quilts, tablecloths, shower curtains, etc., to see if any of the fabric matches things I want to sew. I recently bought a denim shower curtain for $8. I have already made three projects using the denim! — Peggy J., Fayetteville, Ark. MUSHROOM MAGIC Dear Heloise: Mushrooms are sold in small, plastic containers that work great for other things. I use them on the bathroom counter, nightstand, dresser and in drawers to keep small items, such as makeup, toiletries and jewelry, organized. — Betsy in Colorado
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