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Most say IS is important threat
Cases fanning fears
Less than half approve of Obama’s reactions
NYC doc diagnosed with virus; Mali gets first case By CONNIE CASS ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — The Ebola virus’s arrival in New York City and yet another West African nation — Mali — renewed questions Friday about whether stricter travel restrictions would help lock down the deadly disease. The governors of New
York and New Jersey went ahead and issued their own quarantine order. There was good news, too, as one of the two American nurses who caught Ebola from a patient headed home from the hos-
pital, stopping by the White House to get a celebratory hug from President Barack Obama. European nations pledged more money to fight the virus in Africa. A look at Ebola developments worldwide:
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By DEB RIECHMANN AND EMILY SWANSON ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Sixty-five percent of Americans now say the threat from the Islamic State group is very or even extremely important, and nearly half think the U.S. military response in Iraq and Syria has not gone far enough, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. Most want to see America’s partners step up their contribution to the fight, Less than half, 43 percent, approve of the way President Barack Obama is handling the danger posed by the extremist militants. Greg Franke, 24, of Columbia, South Carolina, was among the 55 percent of those who disapproved. Franke, a 24-year-old assistant editor at a research library, said he thought Obama was too hesitant in responding to the militants, who have employed brutal tactics to swiftly seize territory. “I understand the need to be hesitant, but this was a group that was marching across parts of the Middle East, which is already unstable,” Franke said. “I think it warranted a swift and more decisive response.” “I also think that his declaration that U.S. troops would not be involved was premature,” he said. “I don’t want U.S. troops involved. But I don’t think we need to close doors.” A majority, 66 percent, favor the airstrikes the United States has been launching against the militants, yet 65 percent of those surveyed say Obama has not clearly explained America’s goal in fighting the Islamic State group. The president met with his national security team on Friday to discuss the Islamic State and talk via video teleconference with U.S. officials at the American Embassy in Baghdad and consulates in Irbil and Basra. Here’s a look at the poll:
ZAPATA COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY
SHOWING FAMILY TIES
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Maria del Carmen Ramirez and Maria del Refugio Ramirez show images and documents, part of their family tree, during the Family Tree exhibition at the Zapata County Museum of History.
Info available on families who have lived here for generations By MALENA CHARUR THE ZAPATA TIMES
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Is enough being done? Forty-six percent said the U.S. military response has not gone far enough — up from 40 percent in September. Fifty-six percent said the military response from coun-
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In the image at left is Dolores Ramirez, daughter of Benito Ramirez. Dolores married Cosme Gonzalez, and the couple lived in a house built by Benito Ramirez.
amily histories of Zapata residents are now on display in an exhibit called Family Tree, presented for the second consecutive year at the Zapata County Museum of History.
In the two-day exhibit which ends today, members of the Genealogy Society of Nuevo Santander are presenting glimpses of the past through portraits, coats of arms, photographs of architecture and rural life and clothing, among other items. Exhibit time is 10
a.m. to 4 p.m., and is free. “The society’s mission is to help members recognize their families’ past because many people do not know how to start (organizing information),” explained Hildegardo E.Flores, mu-
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TEXAS HISTORY
Old French ship is being reassembled By MICHAEL GRACZYK ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — A frigate carrying French colonists to the New World that sank in a storm off the Texas coast more than 300 years ago is being reassembled into a display that archeologists hope will let people walk over the hull and feel like they are on the ship’s deck. The 1686 wreck of the 54-foot oak frigate La Belle — in an expedition led by famed Mississippi River explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle — is blamed for dooming France’s further exploration of what would become Texas and the American Southwest. But La Salle’s short-lived Fort St. Louis near the shipwreck site in Matagorda Bay, about 100
Photo by Eric Gay | AP
Peter Fix, chief conservator for Texas A&M University’s Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation, works to reassemble the 54-foot oak French frigate La Belle at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, on Wednesday. miles southwest of present-day Houston, also convinced Spain
to boost its presence in the region to ward off a feared French
territorial expansion. “In a very real way, it’s re-
sponsible for our Hispanic heritage we have today,” said Jim Bruseth, curator of the La Belle project at the Bullock Texas State History Museum. “They had nobody here, and it started the process of settling Texas. “History oftentimes turns on seemingly small events,” Bruseth said. “We have that actual ship, the remains of it here, that’s the icon of that event.” Beginning today, visitors to the Austin museum will be able to watch Bruseth and other archaeologists put the wrecked ship back together and talk with them as they work. The reassembly is expected to be complete by spring. “It’s going to be a lot of fun. It’s like a dinosaur, big and dy-
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