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Drug-smuggling attempt Agents seize 1,133pound load of pot THE ZAPATA TIMES

Border Patrol agents assigned to the Zapata Border Patrol Station halted a drug-smuggling attempt March 23.

Agents were patrolling near San Ygnacio when they came across a suspicious vehicle. As agents drove closer to the vehicle, they discovered it was abandoned.

They inspected the vehicle and discovered a total of 100 bundles inside of it.

“This detection of narcotics are the Border Patrol agents’ commitment towards the CBP mission of disrupting criminal organizations and ensuring the community is safe,” said Mario Martinez, chief patrol agent.

The contraband tested positive for marijuana. The narcotics had a total of weight of 1,133.5 pounds with an estimated street value of $906,805.

The marijuana was turned over to DEA.

Courtesy photo | Border Patrol

Border Patrol agents discovered more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana near San Ygnacio on March 23. The estimated street value of the narcotics is $906,805.

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LARGER THAN LIFE

Man receives 21-month jail sentence Suspect caught transporting nine illegal immigrants in Zapata County

By PHILIP BALLI THE ZAPATA TIMES

Photo by Lisa Krantz | San Antonio Express-News

Caroline Cavazos spends time with her husband, Army Gen. Richard Cavazos (retired), at the Army Residence Community in San Antonio on Feb. 2, 2016.

General reflects on military service

By SIG CHRISTENSON SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

As one version of the story goes, a crippling performance evaluation was pushing then-Brig.

Gen. Colin L. Powell’s military career toward a dead end when two higher-ranking commanders learned of it.

The two generals were

horrified to hear Powell tell them over dinner in 1982 that he planned to leave the Army. One of them was a legendary Texas war hero, Gen. Richard E. Cavazos, who decided to intervene.

It came as no surprise to those who knew Cavazos that he went out of

See GENERAL PAGE 5A

Courtesy photo | San Antonio Express-News

Army Gen. Richard Cavazos as a young soldier.

A man arrested in Zapata County for transporting nine illegal immigrants was sentenced to nearly two years in prison Tuesday in a Laredo federal court.

An indictment filed Oct. 27 charges Alejandro LealHernandez with conspiracy to transport illegal immigrants within the United States and two counts of transport and attempt to transport illegal immigrants for financial gain.

Leal-Hernandez pleaded guilty to all three counts of the indictment on Dec. 14.

U.S. District Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo sentenced him to 21 months in prison. She further ordered that Leal-Hernandez be placed on supervised release for one year following his incarceration.

Leal-Hernandez, who is not a U.S. citizen, will also be deported following his prison term.

The charges in his case date back to Oct. 10.

On that day, U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to

Reports state the agent observed what appeared to be a sleeve of a jacket or some other garment flapping in the bed of the Dodge … an area along Texas 16 near Zapata observed a black Dodge Ram at about 5:15 a.m., a criminal complaint filed Oct. 13 states.

Reports state the agent observed what appeared to be a sleeve of a jacket or some other garment flapping in the bed of the Dodge, according to the complaint.

Records add the agent noticed some inconsistencies with the pickup, such

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2016 REPUBLICAN PRIMARY ELECTION

No record of Rick Perry voting

By TERRI LANGFORD TEXAS TRIBUNE

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry may have stumped for Ted Cruz for president but there’s no record he voted in this year’s Republican primary in Texas. A spokesman for Perry suggested his ballot may have been lost in the mail.

Perry is registered to vote in Fayette County,

about 75 miles east of Austin, where he and his wife Anita moved after he stepped down as governor in 2015.

Fayette County Elections Administrator Dina Bell confirmed by email on Tuesday that Perry requested a mail-in ballot for the March 1 Republican primary and one was given to him on Feb. 1. Bell recalled that Perry showed

up in person to get it but her office never received the completed ballot.

"A voted ballot was never received from James Richard Perry," Bell wrote.

Jeff Miller, Perry’s former campaign manager, insists that Perry filled out the ballot and mailed it in.

"He says he voted," Miller said. "He sent it within 72 hours of receiving it."

On Jan. 25, Perry en-

dorsed Cruz for president after ending his own presidential bid in September.

Throughout late January and February, Perry served as a surrogate for Cruz on the campaign trail.

Cruz won the Texas primary with 44 percent of the vote, followed by 27 percent for billionaire Do-

See PERRY PAGE 5A

Photo by Patrick Svitek | Texas Tribune

Former Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz speak to reporters on Jan. 26, 2016, in Albia, Iowa.

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Zin brief CALENDAR

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2016

AROUND THE NATION

TODAY IN HISTORY

THURSDAY, MARCH 31

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Presentation by Moises Garza on DNA genealogical testing. 5:30–7:30 p.m. Laredo Public Library – Calton.

Hosted by the Villa San Agustin de Laredo Genealogical Society and the City of Laredo Public Library. Book signing and genealogical books for sale. For more information, call Sanjuanita Martinez-Hunter at 722-3497.

Preschool Read & Play. 11 a.m.–12 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco St. Story time and crafts for preschoolers. For more information, contact Priscilla Garcia at priscilla@laredolibrary.org or 795-2400 x2403.

Family Story Time & Crafts. 4–5 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco St. For more information, contact Priscilla Garcia at priscilla@laredolibrary.org or 795-2400 x2403.

Today is Wednesday, March 30, the 90th day of 2016. There are 276 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr.; also wounded were White House press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and a District of Columbia police officer, Thomas Delahanty.

On this date: In 1822, Florida became a United States territory.

In 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward reached agreement with Russia to purchase the territory of Alaska for $7.2 million.

In 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited denying citizens the right to vote and hold office on the basis of race, was declared in effect by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. Texas was readmitted to the Union.

In 1945, during World War II, the Soviet Union invaded Austria with the goal of taking Vienna, which it accomplished two weeks later.

In 1959, a narrowly divided U.S. Supreme Court, in Bartkus v. Illinois, ruled that a conviction in state court following an acquittal in federal court for the same crime did not constitute double jeopardy.

In 1964, the original version of the TV game show “Jeopardy!,” hosted by Art Fleming, premiered on NBC. In 1975, as the Vietnam War neared its end, Communist forces occupied the city of Da Nang. James Ruppert, 41, killed 11 members of his family at his mother’s home in Hamilton, Ohio, on Easter Sunday.

In 1991, Patricia Bowman of Jupiter, Florida, told authorities she’d been raped hours earlier by William Kennedy Smith, the nephew of Sen. Edward Kennedy, at the family’s Palm Beach estate. (Smith was acquitted at trial.)

In 2002, Britain’s Queen Mother Elizabeth died at Royal Lodge, Windsor, outside London; she was 101 years old.

Ten years ago: Major League Baseball began its investigation into alleged steroid use among players.

Five years ago: Tilikum, the killer whale that had drowned trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010 at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, resumed performing for the first time since the woman’s death.

One year ago: German officials confirmed that Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was once diagnosed with suicidal tendencies and received lengthy psychotherapy before receiving his pilot’s license; they believed Lubitz deliberately smashed his Airbus A320 into the French Alps, killing 150 people.

Today’s Birthdays: Game show host Peter Marshall is 90. Actor John Astin is 86. Actor-director Warren Beatty is 79. Rock musician Eric Clapton is 71. Actor Robbie Coltrane is 66. Rap artist MC Hammer is 53. Singer Tracy Chapman is 52. TV personality Piers Morgan is 51. Singer Celine Dion is 48. Actor Mark Consuelos is 45. Singer Norah Jones is 37. Country singer Justin Moore is 32. Actress Tessa Ferrer is 30. Country singer Thomas Rhett is 26.

Thought for Today: “We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.” — Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (1898-1983).

SATURDAY, APRIL 2 Book sale. 8:30 a.m.–1 p.m.

Widener Book Room, First United Methodist Church. Admission is free.

Everyone is invited.

The Laredo Northside Farmers Market will be held at the playground behind the trailhead facility at North Central Park on International Blvd. from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will a special games area for children. Small prizes will be awarded.

67th annual Flower and Art Show. 1–6 p.m. Fellowship Hall, First United Methodist Church. Admission fee of $3 per person. Everyone invited.

SUNDAY, APRIL 3 67th annual Flower and Art Show. 1–6 p.m. Fellowship Hall, First United Methodist Church. Admission fee of $3 per person. Everyone invited.

MONDAY, APRIL 4 Chess Club. Every Monday from 4–6 p.m. LBV – Inner City Branch Library. Free for all ages and skill levels.

Basic instruction is offered. For more information call John at 956-795-2400 x2520.

TUESDAY, APRIL 5 Community conversation on teen and young adult mental health. 6–8 p.m. Border Region Behavioral Health Center, 1500 Papas St. The purpose of this event is to encourage the community to voice concerns, ask questions and share information on available resources to help those afflicted with a mental illness and substance abuse problem. Presented by Area Health Education Center (AHEC), Border Region Behavioral Health Center and Texas Department of State Services Office of Border Health. For additional information, call 956-712-0037 or email hmedellin@mrgbahec.org.

Les Amis Birthday Club monthly meeting. 11:30 a.m. Ramada Plaza.

Hostesses are Olga Laurel, Ma. Olivia Salinas and Dora Rocha. Honoree is Leonor “Noni” Daves.

Knitting Circle. 1–3 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco St. Please bring yarn and knitting needles. For more information, contact Analiza Perez-Gomez at analiza@laredolibrary.org or 7952400 x2403.

Crochet for Kids. 4–5 p.m.

McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco St. Please bring yarn and a crochet needle. For more information, contact Analiza Perez-Gomez at analiza@laredolibrary.org or 795-2400 x2403.

Rock wall climbing. 4–5 p.m.

LBV-Inner City Branch Library, 202 W. Plum St. Free. Take the challenge and climb the rock wall! Fun exercise for all ages. Must sign release form. For more information, contact John Hong at 795-2400 x2521.

The Alzheimer’s Support Group.

7 p.m. Laredo Medical Center, building B, room 2. The support group is for family members and caregivers taking care of someone who has Alzheimer’s.

For information, please call 956-6939991.

THURSDAY, APRIL 7 Preschool Read & Play. 11 a.m.–12 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco St. Story time and crafts for preschoolers. For more information, contact Priscilla Garcia at priscilla@laredolibrary.org or 795-2400 x2403.

Family Story Time & Crafts. 4–5 p.m. McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco St. For more information, contact Priscilla Garcia at priscilla@laredolibrary.org or 795-2400 x2403.

Photo by Gerald Herbert | AP file

In this March 15, 2016 file photo, Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski listens at left as Trump speaks in Palm Beach, Florida. Florida police have charged Lewandowski with simple battery in connection with an incident earlier in the month involving a reporter.

Trump staffer charged

By STEVE PEOPLES AND TERRY SPENCER ASSOCIATED PRESS

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Police charged Donald Trump’s campaign manager with simple battery Tuesday as a videotaped altercation with a reporter transformed what was another messy campaign sideshow into a criminal court summons. Trump decried the charges.

Jupiter, Florida, police determined that probable cause existed to charge Corey Lewandowski, who has served as Trump’s most trusted political adviser for much of the past year. Police on Tuesday morning issued Lewandowski a notice to appear before a judge on May 4 for the misdemeanor charge, which carries up to a year in jail.

Speaking to reporters on his airplane in Wisconsin Tuesday, Trump said Lewandowski has been “very seriously maligned,” vow-

ing to stand by him.

“I can’t just stand by and watch a man’s life be destroyed,” Trump said. “I’m sticking up for a person because I’m not going to let a person’s life be destroyed. No jury, in my opinion, would convict a man and destroy a man’s life over what you witnessed.”

This injects a court battle into an already contentious Republican primary season just a week before a high-profile election in Wisconsin.

The Trump campaign released a statement declaring Lewandowski “absolutely innocent of this charge.”

“He will enter a plea of not guilty and looks forward to his day in court,” said the statement. “He is completely confident that he will be exonerated.”

Police charged Lewandowski after reviewing a surveillance video of the incident.

Gov. Scott tells Yale: Bring the Ivy League to Florida

Power plant first with solar-geothermal mix

Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke dies at 69

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants to convince one of the country’s most prestigious institutions to uproot and move south: Yale University.

Scott on Tuesday officially urged the Ivy League school to become part of a tax revolt and flee its current location in Connecticut and move its more than 12,000 students and 4,000 professors to the Sunshine State.

“That would be fun, wouldn’t it?” Scott said. “That would be a great day.”

The Republican governor explained he is targeting Yale because Connecticut state legislators are considering a bill that would tax Yale’s massive university endowment. Connecticut is currently struggling with a state budget deficit.

He promised Yale if it moved that Florida would greet the “world-renowned university” with open arms and would not impose any taxes on them.

STILLWATER, Nev. — Nevada’s governor, the premier of Italy and the director of the U.S. Energy Department’s renewable energy labs on Tuesday formally dedicated the final piece of the only hybrid power plant in the world producing renewable energy by combining geothermal with two kinds of solar power.

The Stillwater Hybrid Power Plant built by a U.S. subsidiary of an Italian company produces energy more efficiently through a complementary operation that relies on solar panels and a new solar thermal operation on the sunniest and hottest days when geothermal production is lower than average, company officials said.

“The lessons we are learning at this advanced geothermal-solar facility will be key to the development of other hybrid plants throughout the world,” said Francesco Starace, CEO of the Rome-based Enel.

NEW YORK — Patty Duke, who as a teen won an Oscar for playing Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker,” then maintained a long career while battling personal demons, has died at the age of 69.

The actress died early Tuesday morning of sepsis from a ruptured intestine, according to her agent, Mitchell Stubbs. She died in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, where she had lived for the past quarter-century, according to Teri Weigel, the publicist for her son, actor Sean Astin.

Duke astonished audiences as the young deaf-and-blind Keller first on Broadway, then in the acclaimed 1962 film version, appearing in both alongside Anne Bancroft as Helen’s teacher, Annie Sullivan (who won an Oscar of her own).

Then in 1963, Duke burst on the TV scene starring in her own sitcom, “The Patty Duke Show.”

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE WORLD Hijacking of Egypt plane ends peacefully LARNACA, Cyprus — An Egyptian wearing a fake explosives belt who hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight and forced it to land in Cyprus on Tuesday surrendered and was taken into custody after releasing all passengers and crew unharmed following an hours-long standoff.

Officials said early on that the hijacking was not an act of terrorism, and later that the man appeared to be psychologically unstable. However, the incident was likely to renew concerns about Egyptian airport security months after a Russian passenger plane was downed over the Sinai Peninsula in a bombing claimed by the Islamic State group.

“From the start, it was clear that this wasn’t an act of terrorism, and despite the fact that the individual appeared to be dangerous in terms of his behavior,

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Nayerah Atef, an Egyptian crew member of the hijacked domestic EgyptAir flight, is hugged by her family members upon the flight arrival at Cairo International airport, Egypt, Tuesday. we understood that this was a psychologically unstable person,” Cyprus’ Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides told reporters.

He said the man initially asked to speak with his Cypriot ex-wife, who police brought to

the airport.

“After that, he started asking for European Union representatives to assure him about matters that had no logical basis,” Kasoulides said.

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Man set to be executed in death of kids

By MICHAEL GRACZYK ASSOCIATED PRESS

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Enraged over his ex-wife going to police about his harassment and likely arrest, John David Battaglia used a May 2001 visit with their two young daughters to avenge his BATTAGLIA anger.

As their mother helplessly listened on the phone to one of the girls’ cries, he fatally shot them both at his Dallas apartment.

Hours later, the former accountant was at a nearby tattoo shop getting two large red roses inked on his left arm to commemorate 9year-old Faith and her 6year-old sister, Liberty.

When he walked outside, it took four officers to subdue him. A fully loaded revolver was found in his truck.

On Wednesday, the 60year-old is set for lethal injection. He’d be the 10th inmate executed this year nationally, the sixth in Texas.

“I don’t feel like I killed them,” Battaglia told The Dallas Morning News in 2014. “I am a little bit in the blank about what happened.” He also referred to

his slain daughters as his “best little friends” and told the newspaper he had photos of them displayed in his prison cell. He declined to speak with The Associated Press as his execution date neared.

An attorney seeking to represent Battaglia, who contended his court-appointed lawyer abandoned him after the U.S Supreme Court in January refused to review his case, said in an appeal to federal courts that the man is mentally ill. Attorney Gregory Gardner also argued Battaglia was entitled to a reprieve so he could get a fair hearing to determine if he’s incompe-

tent for execution.

But available evidence “does not come close” to suggesting Battaglia lacks an understanding that he’s about to be executed and why he’s set for punishment, the criteria the Supreme Court has established to determine competency for prisoners facing execution, according to Erich Dryden, an assistant Texas attorney general.

“His last-minute appeal amounts to a fishing expedition,” Dryden said.

Battaglia’s trial attorneys called no witnesses during the guilt-innocence portion of his capital murder trial in 2002, and a Dallas County

Texas Tech OKs guns in class

By MATTHEW WATKINS TEXAS TRIBUNE

Texas Tech University plans to ban guns in its recreation center, chapel and some dorms, but won’t prevent students with concealed handgun licenses from carrying in classrooms, the school announced Tuesday.

The policy, which was finalized by Interim President John Opperman, will be reviewed by the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents in April. Under state law, the board doesn’t have to approve the policy but can change it if it sees a need.

"I am confident we have submitted a set of

recommendations that respects the spirit of the law while reflecting input from our community," Opperman said.

Each university in Texas has been given the task of coming up with its own rules to comply with the state’s new campus carry law, which allows concealed handgun license holders to carry their guns in campus buildings. Schools are allowed to impose some limited gun-free zones, as long as those zones don’t have the cumulative effect of making it impossible to carry a weapon on campus. The law goes into effect Aug. 1.

That limited rule-making power has sparked de-

bate at colleges across the state. Many professors have urged their leaders to ban guns in classrooms and faculty offices. Others have asked to ban guns in dorms. But some supporters of the law have questioned whether those rules would violate the spirit of the law.

Tech seems to be trying to find a middle ground. Guns will be allowed in dorm rooms that are "suite style and apartment style," specifically the Carpenter Wells, Murray, Talkington and West Village residence halls, according to the policy. They will be banned in all other oncampus residencies.

Students who are as-

signed to rooms where a firearm is stored will be allowed to request a transfer to another room, the policy says.

Texas Tech officials indicated that they considered allowing faculty to ban guns in their individual offices. But administrators eventually decided against that.

"While this ’local option’ seemed reasonable to the committee, further research revealed that such personal decisions would violate the spirit of SB11 which allows only the president of the institution to declare gun-free zones," the policy says, referring to the law, Senate Bill 11.

jury deliberated only 19 minutes before convicting him. During the punishment phase, jurors heard defense testimony that Battaglia’s mental illness should convince them a life prison sentence would be appropriate. They did not agree.

“To think a father could just gun down his little girls, it was just unbelievable,” Howard Blackmon, the lead prosecutor in the case, recalled last week. “It was such a compelling case for the death penalty.”

Evidence showed that at the time of the shootings, Battaglia was on probation for a Christmas 1999 attack on his estranged wife Mary

Jean Pearle, the girls’ mother. Their divorce was finalized the following August.

Around Easter 2001, he called Pearle, swearing at her and calling her names, a violation of his probation.

She reported the incident to his probation officer and Battaglia learned on May 2, 2001, that an arrest warrant had been issued. That evening, Pearle left their daughters with him for a planned dinner. She soon received a message that one of the girls had called for her. Pearle returned the call and Battaglia put her on speakerphone, telling Faith to ask her mother: “Why do you want Daddy to go to jail?”

Museum to host book signing The Zapata County Museum of History is hosting a book signing by author Alfredo E. Cardenas.

Cardenas wrote “Baldo’s War,” a novel about the Plan of San Diego. The Plan of San Diego was drafted in 1915 by a group of unknown Mexican rebels in San Diego, a small town on the border of Duval and Jim Wells counties. The plan stated its

goal was to "attempt to overthrow the government in Southern United States.”

The book-signing will be Saturday, April 2 at 2 p.m. at 805 N. U.S. Highway 83.

The event is sponsored by the Nuevo Santander Genealogy Society.

For more information, contact Amparo MontesGutierrez at 765-8538 or at amparo0124@sbcglobal.com.

agreed to talk to authorities.

“Leal-Hernandez states that he was driving the (undocumented immigrants) from a stash house to a drop-off location before the

Hebbronville (Border Patrol) Checkpoint,” states the complaint (Philip Balli may be reached at 728-2528 or pballi@lmtonline.com)

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JAIL Continued from Page 1A as an aftermarket lift kit, lack of company logos, among other factors.

The agent activated the unit’s emergency lights to conduct an immigration in-

spection on the occupants of the Dodge.

Reports state the Dodge swerved in and out of the road.

Then, several people exit-

ed the Dodge and ran toward the brush, records state. Authorities caught up to the group, a total of 10 immigrants.

Authorities identified one

as the driver, Leal-Hernandez.

Homeland Security Investigations special agents responded to interview LealHernandez, who allegedly

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OTHER VIEWS

Idea list evokes ‘wise’ comments Every day I add to a numbered collection that I have labeled my “Column Ideas List.”

Things placed on the list are usually something I’ve read, in a newspaper or a book that tickled my fancy. Much of the time, items on the list come from newspapers and the list has now reached No. 11,413.

Occasionally, the item is a word about which I seem to know proper usage but is often difficult for me to give the Webster definition.

Newspaper stories are from major metropolitan publications in our major cities (mostly from The Houston Chronicle). Of course, many of those stories are about politicians, especially those that are dripping Texiz.

From this point on are samples from that list and my wisenheimer (Google it) musing at the time.

Political fawning, “worship” — We tend to place elected officials on a pedestal — I think that indicates we have a “desire for royalty.”

“Sleepy-tailed” — My mother’s description of all four of her sons early in the morning.

“Biled” — Dad’s explanation of fox-hunting campfire coffee.

“Sissified” — Dad’s remark of what I did to my first cup of coffee (age 12) with lots of cream and sugar. I’m still sissified, except it’s with special flavors of coffee (and creamers) we can buy in packages of one-cup lots.

“Prospered me” — L. Ray Webb’s reason for not selling a cow that had, over several years, produced half a dozen calves.

“She’s done prospered me too much.”

“Old booger man” — Country description of something “old” and “ugly” that rural farm-ranch parents used to scare their children from straying into dark, mysterious places.

— If you go in there the ‘old booger man’ will get you.

“All-World Domino Player.” — Coined by oldtimers in the early 20th Century who frequented a small town domino parlor and who could play straight dominos or 42 really well.

“We fix $6.00 haircuts.” — One of my favorite signs of all time.

“Politics is the province of moral invalids.” — From the James Lee

Burke novel The Neon Rain.

“Busier than a onearmed paper-hanger” or “Busier than a one-legged man at a rear-end kicking contest.”

“Grinning like a donkey eating cactus.” — Old country saying about a big smile, likely coined in the late 19th Century or early 20th Century.

“If it tastes good, spit it out.” — Attributed to nutritionist and exercise mogul Jack LaLanne. Rotund comedian Buddy Hackett has used it in some of his routines, saying it is his diet regimen.

“Invisible and bulletproof.” — Often used to describe men, particularly young men, who often do wild and crazy things without engaging whatever brains they have. “He thinks he’s invisible and bulletproof.”

“I worked from ‘can’ ‘til ‘can’t.’ — Ruth Thornton Webb.

“I think you’re peeing on my boots and calling it a rainstorm.” Meaning he thinks you’re misleading him or lying to him. — L. Ray Webb.

A pounding. — An event whereby church members bring “a pound” of something produced on their farm to help a preacher feed his family.

Rural churches did this frequently since most were small and the meager “collections” didn’t approach feeding a preacher and his family. So, a couple of times a year, the church would give their preacher “a pounding.” To my knowledge, this was continued until at least the mid-to-late-1950s.

Take off two weeks worth. — Old-fashioned instruction from customer to old-fashioned barber on hair length. Such barber shops have all but disappeared. It is acceptable now for men to get their hair “styled” and most places that provide such services are referred to as unisex hair salons. As a youngster, a frequent reference to barber shop “close cuts” was white sidewalls.

Willis Webb is a retired community newspaper editor-publisher of more than 50 years experience. He can be reached by email at wwebb1937@att.net.

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Republicans are embarrassed

By GARY STEIN SUN SENTINEL

A new poll shows 60 percent of Republicans are embarrassed by their party’s race for the White House.

I have a question about that. What’s wrong with the other 40 percent?

They aren’t embarrassed? Or aren’t they paying attention? Maybe they’re too busy watching something with more substance, like “The Bachelor.”

The garbage race keeps getting worse by the day.

If Donald Trump and Ted Cruz keep this up, hey, they could give politics a bad name.

I think it was last week they were going after each other’s wives. I’m not sure because every

day brings something else.

When the National Enquirer becomes a key player in the race, you know the Republicans have jumped the shark, so to speak.

This will probably continue all the way to the convention.

And you know what I think is going to happen?

I believe Republicans will try to take the nomination away from Donald Trump, because they know this total fraud will bring down their party.

House.

Personally, I don’t think Trump wants to be in the White House. He knows he is totally incapable of doing the job.

But he wants the publicity.

COLUMN

The sexual politics of 2016 In the middle of the Civil War a colonel named Robert McAllister from the 11th Regiment of New Jersey tried to improve the moral fiber of his men. A Presbyterian railroad contractor in private life, he lobbied and preached against profanity, drinking, prostitution and gambling. Some of the line officers in the regiment, from less genteel backgrounds, rebelled.

They formed an organization called the Independent Order of Trumps. In sort of a mischievous, laddie way, the Trumps championed boozing and whoring, cursing and card-playing.

In her book “The Gentlemen and the Roughs,” Lorien Foote notes that this wasn’t just a battle over pleasure. It was a contest between two different ideals of masculinity. McAllister’s was based on gentlemanly chivalry and self-restraint.

Trumpian masculinity was based on physical domination and sexual conquest.

“Perceptions of manliness were deeply intertwined with perceptions of social status,” Foote writes.

And so it is today.

These days we’re living through another great redefinition of masculinity. Today, both men and women are called upon to live up to the traditional ideals of both genders. So the ideal man, at least in polite society, gracefully achieves a series of balances. He is steady and strong, but also verbal and vulnerable. He is

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emotionally open and willing to cry, but also restrained and resilient. He is physical and also intellectual.

Today’s ideal man honors the women in his life in whatever they want to do.

He treats them with respect in the workplace and romance in the bedroom. He is successful in the competitive world of the marketplace but enthusiastic in the kitchen and gentle during kids’ bath time.

This new masculine ideal is an unalloyed improvement on all the earlier masculine ideals. It’s a great achievement of our culture.

But it is demanding and involves reconciling a difficult series of tensions. And it has sparked a bad-boy protest movement and counterculture, currently led by a group we might once again call the Independent Order of Trumps.

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is a revolution in manners, a rejection of the civility codes of the educated class. As part of this, he rejects the new and balanced masculine/ feminine ideal that has emerged over the past generation. Trump embraces a masculine identity — old in some ways, new in others — built upon unvarnished misogyny.

Trump’s misogyny is not the historical moralistic misogyny. Traditional misogyny blames women for the lustful, licentious and powerful urges that men sometimes feel in their presence.

In this misogyny, women are the powerful, disgusting corrupters — the vixens, sirens and monsters. This gynophobic misogyny demands that women be surrounded with taboos and purgation rituals, along with severe restrictions on behavior and dress.

Trump’s misogyny, on the other hand, has a commercial flavor. The central arena of life is male competition. Women are objects men use to win points in that competition. The purpose of a woman’s body is to reflect status on a man.

One way to emasculate a rival man is to insult or conquer his woman.

Writing for Slate, Frank Foer has one of the best (and most disgusting) compilations of Donald Trump’s history with women. Most of the episodes are pure dominance display.

For example, A.J. Benza was a writer who confessed that his girlfriend had left him for Trump. Trump called into a radio show he was appearing on to brag.

“I’ve been successful with your girlfriend, I’ll tell you that,” Trump said.

“While you were getting onto the plane to go to California thinking she was your girlfriend, she was some place that you wouldn’t have been very happy

with.”

When the commentator Tucker Carlson criticized him, Trump left voice mail bragging about how much more sex he gets. He told an interviewer that you have to treat women like dirt.

It’s not quite right to say that Trump is a throwback to midcentury sexism. At least in those days negative behavior toward women and family members was restrained by the chivalry code. Political candidates didn’t go attacking their rivals’ wives based on their looks. Trump’s objectification is uncontrolled. It’s pure ego competition with a pornogrified flavor.

In this way, Trump represents the spread of something brutal. He takes economic anxiety and turns it into sexual hostility. He effectively tells men: You may be struggling, but at least you’re better than women, Mexicans and Muslims.

I’ve grappled with understanding how much to blame Trump’s supporters for his rise. Many of them are victims of economic dislocation, and it is hard to fault them for seeking a change, of course, even if it is simplistic and ignorant.

But in the realm of cultural politics, Trump voters do need to be held to account. They are participating in a descent into darkness. They are supporting a degrading wrong. This is the world your daughters are going to grow up in.

David Brooks is a columnist for the New York Times.

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GENERAL Continued from Page 1A his way to keep Powell in the Army. The first and only Hispanic four-star general, he is now 85, living his last days, his onceencyclopedic mind ravaged by dementia.

It’s painful for those he led and mentored. Some weep when talking of it.

In recent interviews, they described Cavazos as loyal and fearless, a master tactician, an innovator, a charismatic soldier’s soldier. He served as a role model for every Hispanic general who came up through the ranks, retired Army Maj. Gen. Alfredo Valenzuela said.

In Powell’s autobiography, the man who became the first African-American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and, later, U.S. secretary of state, called Cavazos an Army legend who saved his career.

The other commander at the dinner table that night, now-retired Lt. Gen. Julius Becton Jr., recalled that Powell had a personality conflict with his supervisor and had suffered for it.

“And what got my attention, and it got Dick’s attention, too, was when Colin said he was probably going to put in his papers,” said Becton, of Fort Belvoir, Virginia, now 89.

Powell confirmed the account through a spokesman.

Cavazos, while he still has a firm handshake,

doesn’t talk much. He sat in his wheelchair in a San Antonio nursing home recently and stared gently at his wife, Caroline, as they held hands.

Asked about his father, a World War I veteran who worked on the legendary King Ranch, he replied, “I’m really taken by the building. It appeared out of nowhere.”

There are better days.

Caroline Cavazos, 83, is his constant companion, living a short walk away at the Army Residence Community on the Northeast Side. Each night, she helps put him to bed. He’s often anxious, so she climbs into bed and hugs him. In time, he falls asleep. “’He just wants to know that I’m here,” she explained. “We don’t talk much. I hug him. It’s amazing. I’m still in love with him.”

How Cavazos became a Hispanic icon was rooted in his childhood on the King Ranch and forged in Korea, where his fluency in Spanish helped him lead a once-shamed Puerto Rican Army National Guard regiment to combat distinction and where he risked his life to recover men left behind.

“He’s one of these kind of guys in the military, we used to say, ‘He looked good from the top’ — the commanders, his commanders, thought the world of him — and he

looked good from the bottom, because every troop thought the world of him,” said Charles Carden, one of his company commanders in Vietnam.

“He was such a good soldier,” added retired Gen. Gordon Sullivan, a former Army chief of staff. “He was born that way. He liked men, he liked combat soldiers. He was courageous, and they knew it, and they knew he couldn’t ask them to do anything that he wouldn’t do with them.”

‘Moral ascendancy’ Richard Edward Cavazos had a theory of leadership that he attributed to the great commanders of history. He called it “moral ascendancy” and said those who possessed it had an edge, an aura of superiority.

Cavazos had it — and it made him the best Army general in a century, said retired Lt. Gen. Marc Cisneros, who was one of Cavazos’ battalion commanders in the 2nd Armored Division at Fort Hood.

“He would talk about Gen. Lee, and that one of the reasons Gen. Lee was superior is because he had moral ascendancy over his Union generals,” said Cisneros, 76, of Corpus Christi. “If the troops had trust and that faith in you, that you were going to lead

PERRY Continued from Page 1A nald Trump.

From 1992 to 2014, Perry was registered to vote in Travis County, where he voted 61 times including 22 Republican primaries and primary runoff elections, records show.

Perry’s failure to vote in this year’s Texas primary could lead to more speculation that he is interested in running as an independent candidate for president. Miller ruled out

such a run last week and again on Tuesday after Perry’s name surfaced in conversations among some conservative activists searching for an independent candidate to support if Donald Trump wins the GOP nomination.

"He’s got no interest in running for the independent party," Miller said.

There are two key requirements in Texas for someone to run as an in-

dependent candidate for president.

First, a candidate would have had to abstain from voting in one of the state’s primaries because doing so would declare themselves as either a Democrat or Republican.

Second, a candidate would need to gather 79,939 signatures by May 9 from Texans who had also not voted in either of the primaries that year.

them well to victory, that’s moral ascendancy.”

Cavazos was the son of a Mexican-American cowhand. His father, Lauro Cavazos, came to Kingsville in 1912, fought as an Army artillery sergeant in World War I and became a foreman of the King Ranch’s Santa Gertrudis division in an era of intense racism.

Being handy with a rope, horses and guns came with the job. Tom Lea’s history of the ranch describes Lauro Cavazos as among the 16 “Kineños” and guests, including eight Army soldiers, who repulsed an hours-long attack by 58 cross-border raiders at a house in Norias in 1915 during an era of guerrilla violence spun off from the Mexican Revolution.

Lauro and Thomasa Quintanilla Cavazos were determined to give their children a life beyond the ranch and put all five of

them through college. Lauro Cavazos Jr. became the U.S. education secretary under President George H.W. Bush.

Dick Cavazos, their second son, got a degree in geology from Texas Tech University, playing football until breaking a leg in his senior year.

Studying alongside World War II veterans made an impression.

“He said if you weren’t a serious student after you got a look at them, you were when you did,” Vietnam journalist and author Joe Galloway said. “Those guys had lost five years of their lives, and they were in such a hurry to get it back and get on with their lives that they were total, zero-BS students. And you didn’t want to be sitting in a classroom with them if you were anything less than they were.”

Cavazos served in ROTC before entering the Army.

Eventually, he would lead

a brigade, a division and an Army corps and finally command all soldiers in the continental United States before retiring in 1984.

But first, he led a company in Korea and a battalion in Vietnam, where he learned that mistakes were as instructive as success.

In Korea, he dressed down a sergeant who shot an enemy soldier who could have been captured.

Cavazos then decided to lead the next patrol, and his adrenaline took over when he encountered a North Korean soldier who was carrying pots and pans — a cook, Cisneros said.

“And he said, ‘Guess what I did? I put that mother on full automatic and that was the end of it.’” Cisneros said. “Before you chew somebody out, you have to understand that you could probably be in that same situation.”

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Ribereña en Breve EXAMEN STAAR Zapata County ISD informa que el jueves 31 de marzo se aplicará el examen EOC English II del STAAR. Alumnos deben reportarse en su escuela respectiva a las 7:30 a.m., según el día que les corresponda. ZCISD ofrecerá desayuno a los estudiantes que lleguen temprano, y aunque estará prohibido que padres de familia lleven comida a sus hijos, sí se les puede proveer con una comida que no sea perecedera desde casa.

Finalmente se aclara que no habrá sesiones de tutoriales los días 30 de marzo y el 1 de abril.

ATENCIÓN AL AUTISMO Segunda Carrera/Caminata 5K y carrera para menores para sensibilizar sobre el autismo. La carrera inicia en Zapata County Court House en 7th Avenue y Boulevard Hidalgo, el 2 de abril a las 8 a.m.

Los interesados podrán pre-registrarse con un costo de 10 dólares en línea en el sitio de Internet en active.com o en la Cámara de Comercio del Condado de Zapata en 800 North Hwy. El registro tendrá un costo de 20 dólares el día del evento. Los menores participando en la carrera para niños tendrán un costo de registro de 5 dólares para niños de 10 años y menores.

Se premiará a los tres primeros lugares de cada categoría en la carrera de 5K, tanto hombres como mujeres. Lo 10 finalistas en la carrera de niños también serán premiados.

MIÉRCOLES 30 DE MARZO DE 2016

ELECCIONES TAMAULIPAS

Ocho nombres TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

El domingo concluyó el periodo para los interesados en contender por la gubernatura de Tamaulipas, en el proceso electoral que se realizará el domingo 5 de junio. El total es de ocho postulados, seis por partido político, uno en Coalición, y otro como independiente.

Esta semana corresponderá al consejo general del Instituto Electoral de Tamaulipas (IETAM) sesionar para “declarar válidos a quienes cumplieron con los requisitos establecidos en la ley”.

Los postulados y sus partidos, por orden de registro, son: Abdies Pineda Morin, por el Partido Encuentro Social (PES)

QUIÉNES SOLICITARON REGISTRO Abdies Pineda Morin, por el Partido Encuentro Social (PES) Baltazar Manuel Hinojosa Ochoa, en la coalición PRI-PVEM-PNA Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, por el Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) Gustavo Adolfo Cárdenas Gutiérrez, por el Partido Movimiento Ciudadano (PMC) Jorge Osvaldo Valdez Vargas, por el Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) Héctor Martín Garza González, por el Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (MORENA) José Francisco Chavira Martínez, como Candidato Independiente Armando Vera García, por el Partido del Trabajo (PT) (Fuente: IETAM)

Baltazar Manuel Hinojosa Ochoa, en la coalición PRIPVEM-PNA Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, por el Partido Acción Nacional (PAN)

Gustavo Adolfo Cárdenas Gutiérrez, por el Partido Movimiento Ciudadano (PMC) Jorge Osvaldo Valdez Vargas, por el Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD)

Héctor Martín Garza González, por el Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (MORENA) José Francisco Chavira Martínez, como Candidato Independiente Armando Vera García, por el Partido del Trabajo (PT) La sesión concluirá el jueves, y las campañas electorales para el caso de Gobernador darán inicio el domingo 3 de abril con duración de 60 días.

En tanto, el 31 de marzo concluye el periodo de registro para interesados en integrar Ayuntamiento y diputado local por el principio de mayoría relativa.

Las campañas para éste último caso darán inicio el 18 de abril, y tendrán duración de 45 días.

PATRULLA FRONTERIZA

ZCISD

PREMIAN ESFUERZO

Eran 100 paquetes con marihuana ESPECIAL PARA TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

REUNIÓN SOCIEDAD GENEALÓGICA La sociedad de genealogía Nuevo Santander Genealogy Society, tendrá su reunión el sábado 2 de abril, a las 2 p.m. en el salón del museo Zapata County Museum of History.

SEMANA EDUCACIÓN FINANCIERA El Consulado General de México en Laredo invita a la Semana de Educación Financiera (SEF) 2016 con el lema ¡Planea, ahorra, invierte y emprende!, que se llevará a cabo del 4 al 8 de abril de 2016, de 10 a.m. a 1 p.m., en la sala de espera del consulado, en 1612 Farragut St. de Laredo.

Durante el evento, funcionarios de diversas instituciones bancarias y financieras, como BBVA Compass, Wells Fargo, Inter National Bank, Falcon Bank, H&R Block, Neighborworks Laredo, IBC, entre otras, ofrecerán pláticas sobre cómo abrir una cuenta, cómo enviar dinero a México, cómo utilizar el crédito, cómo preparar los impuestos, cómo acceder a un crédito para comprar una casa, etc.

También se distribuirá el cuadernillo “Mexicanos en el Exterior. Información y herramientas financieras para ti y tu familia”, el cual contiene información para que los mexicanos que viven en Estados Unidos aprendan sobre opciones financieras para administrar sus recursos, consejos útiles para envíos de dinero y que obtengan todo el provecho de su patrimonio.

BECAS ZCISD Se informa a potenciales donadores de becas que el paquete conteniendo la carta del director, forma para donadores de becas y solicitudes generales de becas, se están entregando en Zapata High School. El 9 de abril es la fecha límite para que donadores sometan la forma como donador de beca.

Informes llamando a Jennifer Sánchez o Patricia Flores al (956) 765-0280.

Agentes evitan crucen drogas

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Estudiantes de Zapata North Elementary School fueron premiados gracias a tener Asistencia Perfecta. El Zapata County Independent School District informó que los alumnos tuvieron un día de actividades en instalaciones de la escuela.

Agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza asignados a la estación de Zapata detuvieron un intento de contrabando de drogas, la semana pasada.

Los agentes estaban patrullando un área cercana a San Ygnacio cuando se encontraron con un vehículo sospechoso. Cuando los agentes se acercaron al vehículo descubrieron que estaba abandonado.

Los agentes inspeccionaron la unidad y descubrieron un total de 100 paquetes en el interior del vehículo.

“Esta detección de narcóticos representa el compromiso de los agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza hacia la misión de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de detener a las organizaciones criminales y de asegurar que la comunidad esté a salvo”, dijo Mario Martínez, Agente en Jefe de Patrulla.

El contrabando resultó positivo a marihuana. Los narcóticos tenían un peso total de 1.133 libras con un valor estimado en las calles de 906.805 dólares.

La marihuana fue entregada a la Agencia para el Control de las Drogas (DEA).

EL SALVADOR

Ayudarán a salvadoreños en sur de Texas POR MELVA LAVÍN-CASTILLO TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

A fin de promocionar servicios consulares que beneficiarán a las personas y/o familias de El Salvador radicadas en Laredo, y ciudades circunvecinas, se llevará a cabo un consulado móvil el segundo sábado de abril.

Edna Úrsula Peña Peña, Cónsul General de El Salvador para el Sur de Texas, y la Cónsul Nancy Guevara, se encuentran promoviendo el evento que se realizará por segunda ocasión en el lapso de un año.

“El consulado móvil consiste en proporcionar a los salvadoreños que viven en la zona”, informó Peña.

La actividad ha sido programada para el sábado 9 de abril, de 9 a.m. a 4 p.m. en el restaurante El Sombrero Azul, 220 W. Calton Road.

“Estaremos recibiendo solicitudes para el pasaporte ordinario, tramitando los registros civiles –nacimiento, matrimonio y defunción que hayan ocurrido en el extranjero; autorizaciones para pasaporte y salida de menor de edad; asesoría para reinscripción al TPS; y atención a consultas consulares varias.

Explicó que el TPS se refiere al status temporal adquirido por salvadoreños en el 2001 y que se debe renovar cada 18 meses, y corresponde hacerlo en septiembre del 2016.

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Peña aclaró que los ciudadanos de El Salvador no tienen restricción alguna para acudir al consulado móvil.

“Precisamente venimos por esa población que carece de sus documentos, que se encuentra de forma irregular aquí en el Sur de Texas, y que sabemos que por tal razón no pueden desplazarse a otras ciudades por el temor en el que viven, pero que necesariamente requieren de un documento

de identidad para poder realizar trámites”, agregó Peña.

Los ciudadanos de El Salvador que asistan deben de ir preparados con ciertos documentos.

En el caso de el pasaporte, deben haber tenido un documento de identidad salvadoreño (lo cual puede ser el DUI) o bien presentar dos testigos de El Salvador y que posean un documento de identidad salvadoreño, que conozcan a la persona, y que tengan una partida (acta) de nacimiento legible; y fotografías tamaño pasaporte.

Es necesario aclarar que los precios de los trámites varian según del que se trate, Guevara explicó que los

documentos serán entregados físicamente en fecha posterior.

“Y, aunque no puedan realizar algún trámite en ése momento, los invitamos a acudir ya que se les puede asesorar y que cuando regresemos puedan realizar el trámite”, agregó Guevara.

Las oficinas se encuentran en 701 S. Broadway St. McAllen.

Para preguntas previo al evento los interesados pueden llamar al (956) 8001363 o (956) 800-1365.

Visite www.lmtenespanol.com para accesar a los requisitos completos para cada trámite.

(Localice a Melva LavínCastillo en el (956) 728-2569 o en mecastillo@lmtonline.com)

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Sports&Outdoors NCAA BASKETBALL: 2016 AP ALL-AMERICA TEAM

All-America team unveiled

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Michigan State’s Denzel Valentine, the Big Ten player of the year, averaged 19.4 points, 7.6 rebounds and 7.6 assists in 2016 as he was a unanimous selection for the AP All-America team.

OU’s Hield, MSU’s Valentine unanimous picks

By JIM O’CONNELL ASSOCIATED PRESS

Whenever talk of the best college basketball player this season came up so did two names: Denzel Valentine of Michigan State and Buddy Hield of Oklahoma.

They were unanimous selections Tuesday to The Associated Press’ 2015-16 All-America team.

Both led their teams to successful seasons and their numbers lifted them above all the other players.

Valentine, the Big Ten player of the year, averaged 19.4 points, 7.6 rebounds and 7.6 assists, while Hield, the player of the year in the Big 12, averaged 25 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.0 assists.

“I don’t know many guys that have improved in every aspect of the game like he has,” Spartans coach Tom Izzo said of the 6-foot-5 Valentine, the school’s first All-American since Draymond Green in 2012. His importance to Michigan State showed when he missed four games during the season with a knee injury.

Hield, Oklahoma’s first All-American since Blake Griffin in 2009, became a highlight reel staple with

his ability to shoot the ball from long range and with defenders right on him.

The 6-foot-4 Hield shot 46.4 percent from 3-point range.

“He has had a fantastic year and has been very consistent,” Sooners coach Lon Kruger said of the Bahamas native who was a third team selection last season.

“He worked hard and has that passion and focus that makes him what he is.”

In the age when one-anddones usually dominate the college basketball landscape, Valentine and Hield were joined on the AllAmerica team by fellow seniors Brice Johnson of North Carolina and Malcolm Brogdon of Virginia.

Sophomore Tyler Ulis of Kentucky rounded out the team. The 2013-14 team had four seniors and a freshman.

Valentine and Hield both received 65 first-team votes from the national media panel that selects the weekly poll.

The 5-foot-9 Ulis, the shortest All-American since 5-foot-9 Johnny O’Brien of Seattle in 1953, was the Southeastern Conference’s player and defensive player of the year. This is the second straight season Kentucky had an All-American,

with Willie Cauley-Stein making the team last season.

“It was a great year for us,” said Ulis, who received 43 first-team votes. “I felt like we went through a lot of ups and downs, had a lot of young players and guys learning how to play the right way. Everybody got better individually.”

The 6-foot-10 Johnson was a walking double-double for North Carolina, averaging 16.6 points and 10.6 rebounds, and he received 39 first-team votes.

“He’s always been a good rebounder. At times he’s been a great rebounder,” Tar Heels coach Roy Williams said. “One of the top two or three rebounders I’ve ever coached in 28 years. ... And not just how quick he jumps but how high he jumps, too.”

The last North Carolina first-teamer was Tyler Hansbrough, who was an All-American in 2008 and 2009.

Johnson and Brogdon gave the Atlantic Coast Conference two first-teamers for the first time since 2006 when J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams from Duke did it.

The 6-foot-5 Brogdon, who was on the second

team last season, was the ACC’s player and defensive player of the year. He averaged 18.7 points and 4.1 rebounds while shooting 40.9 percent from 3-point range.

“He’s a complete offensive player: dribble, pass, shoot. But you have to add his ability to play down the stretch. Clutch play, at the line, making big plays,” Cavaliers coach Tony Bennett said. “Then defensively, you’ve got to talk about his ability to guard, to rebound, to guard different players.”

The last Virginia player to be a first-team selection was Ralph Sampson, who was chosen three straight years, 1981-83.

Seven-foot sophomore Jakob Poeltl of Utah led the second team with 41 firstteam votes. He was joined

by LSU freshman Ben Simmons, Kansas senior Perry Ellis, Providence junior Kris Dunn and Iowa State senior Georges Niang.

The third team consists of Grayson Allen of Duke, Kevin “Yogi” Ferrell of Indiana, Jarrod Uthoff of Iowa, Kay Felder of Oakland and Jamal Murray of Kentucky.

The voting was done before the NCAA Tournament.

File photo by Sue Ogrocki | AP

Oklahoma guard Buddy Hield became the Sooners’ first AllAmerican since Blake Griffin in 2009 Tuesday after being a unanimous selection. The Big 12 player of the year averaged 25 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.0 assists.

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Apple remains in the dark

By TAMI ABDOLLAH ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The FBI’s announcement that it mysteriously hacked into an iPhone is a public setback for Apple Inc., as consumers suddenly discover they can’t keep their most personal information safe.

Meanwhile, Apple remains in the dark about how to restore the security of its flagship product.

The government said it was able to break into an iPhone used by a gunman in a mass shooting in California, but it didn’t say how. That puzzled Apple software engineers — and outside experts — about how the FBI broke the digital locks on the phone without Apple’s help. It also complicated Apple’s job repairing flaws that jeopardize its software.

The Justice Department’s announcement that it was dropping a legal fight to compel Apple to help it access the phone also took away any obvious legal avenues Apple might have used to learn how the FBI did it. The Justice Department declined through a spokeswoman to comment Tuesday.

A few clues have emerged. A senior law enforcement official told The Associated Press that the FBI managed to defeat an

Photo by Carolyn Kaster | AP file

The FBI’s announcement that it mysteriously hacked into an iPhone is a setback for Apple.

Apple security feature that threatened to delete the phone’s contents if the FBI failed to enter the correct passcode combination after 10 tries. That allowed the government to repeatedly and continuously test passcodes in what’s known as a brute-force attack until the right code is entered and the phone is unlocked.

It wasn’t clear how the FBI dealt with a related Apple security feature that introduces increasing time delays between guesses.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because this person was not authorized to discuss the technique publicly.

FBI Director James Comey has said with those features removed, the FBI could break into the phone in 26 minutes.

The FBI hacked into the iPhone used by gunman Syed Farook, who died

with his wife in a gun battle with police after they killed 14 people in December in San Bernardino. The iPhone, issued to Farook by his employer, the county health department, was found in a vehicle the day after the shooting.

The FBI is reviewing information from the iPhone, and it is unclear whether anything useful can be found.

Apple said in a statement Monday that the legal case to force its cooperation “should never have been brought,” and it promised to increase the security of its products.

CEO Tim Cook has said the Cupertino-based company is constantly trying to improve security for its users.

The FBI’s announcement — even without revealing precise details — that it had hacked the

iPhone was at odds with the government’s firm recommendations for nearly two decades that security researchers always work cooperatively and confidentially with software manufacturers before revealing that a product might be susceptible to hackers.

The aim is to ensure that American consumers stay as safe online as possible and prevent premature disclosures that might damage a U.S. company or the economy.

As far back as 2002, the Homeland Security Department ran a working group that included leading industry technology industry executives to advise the president on how to keep confidential discoveries by independent researchers that a company’s software could be hacked until it was already fixed. Even now, the Commerce Department has been trying to fine-tune those rules. The next meeting of a conference on the subject is April 8 in Chicago and it’s unclear how the FBI’s behavior in the current case might influence the government’s fragile relationship with technology companies or researchers. The industry’s rules are not legally binding, but the government’s top intelligence agency said in 2014 that such vulnerabilities should be reported to companies.

Ignition switch case reaches jury

By LARRY NEUMEISTER ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — A jury in a New York City trial stemming from the General Motors ignition switch controversy that resulted in millions of recalls ended its first day of deliberations Tuesday without reaching a verdict.

The jury deliberated in Manhattan federal court for more than two hours after hearing a lawyer for a Louisiana man and woman blame a defective ignition switch for a 2014 accident on a New Orleans bridge. A GM lawyer said there was no evidence the ignition switch was to blame.

The trial will be used as a blueprint to define legal boundaries for similar unsettled claims against the automaker, which has issued recalls affecting more than 30 million vehicles since early 2014.

Hundreds of claims remain against the automaker after GM revealed two years ago that it had continued to sell flawed vehicles for more than a decade after discovering an ignition switch defect in Chevy Cobalts and other small cars.

Under certain conditions, the ignition switch can slip out of the on posi-

tion, making it difficult to steer or stop as the car stalls. GM says it has fixed the problem.

Plaintiffs’ attorney Randall Jackson told jurors there was overwhelming evidence the defect was to blame in the crash.

He said a key chain pulled down by the weight of other keys might have pulled it out of position.

And he added that testimony that the car turned off during the accident was “all you need to hear.”

Jackson dismissed GM’s counterarguments, saying: “You will find they don’t make sense.”

General Motors attorney Mike Brock blamed the crash on ice, saying the car’s occupants had no serious injuries and nothing deserving of compensation at trial.

“This accident was not caused by a defective switch,” he said. Brock noted that the only damage to the car was scrapes on a bumper.

In September, GM announced it had settled 1,385 death and injury cases for $275 million and a class-action shareholders’ lawsuit for $300 million.

The company paid nearly $600 million to settle 399 claims made to a fund it established.

Reassurances from Fed send stocks up

By MARLEY JAY ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Stocks closed at their highest level of the year Tuesday as investors welcomed the latest signal from the Federal Reserve that it will move slowly to raise interest rates. Big names including Apple and Microsoft led technology stocks higher as the market made its biggest gain in two weeks.

Stocks rose after Yellen confirmed that the Fed isn’t in a hurry to raise interest rates. The Fed made similar points just two weeks ago, but since then, some members of the Fed’s decision making committee had said they thought it was time for rates to go higher. Yellen’s remarks boosted all corners of the market, and the price of gold rose along with stocks. Bond prices also rose and yields sank.

“A little bit of self-doubt started to enter the trading public’s mind,” said Sam Stovall, U.S. equity strategist for S&P Capital IQ. “She reassured investors.”

The Dow Jones industri-

al average rose 97.72 points, or 0.6 percent, to 17,633.11. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained 17.96 points, or 0.9 percent, to 2,055.01 Aided by the gains in tech stocks and in small cap stocks, the Nasdaq composite index climbed 79.84 points, or 1.7 percent, to 4,846.62.

Stocks were trading slightly lower before Yellen’s remarks, but they moved higher after the text of her comments was released. The price of gold climbed while bond yields fell and the dollar weakened. The yield on the 10year U.S. Treasury note slid to 1.80 percent from 1.89 percent. The euro rose to $1.1295 from $1.1200. The dollar slipped to 112.75 yen from 113.28 yen. Gold rose $15.70, or 1.3 percent, to $1,235.80 an ounce.

Apple climbed $2.51, or 2.4 percent, to $107.70 after the FBI dropped its legal efforts to force Apple to break into the iPhone used

by Syed Farook, who along with his wife killed 14 people in San Bernadino, California, in December. The FBI said it was able to hack into the phone, and asked a court to vacate an

Photo by Mark Lennihan | AP file

This July 16, 2013, file photo, shows a Wall Street street sign outside the New York Stock Exchange. order forcing Apple to help. Apple had been fighting the government’s efforts and said it will continue trying to make its products more secure.

Microsoft added $1.17, or 2.2 percent, to $54.71. Information technology company SAIC advanced $5.33, or 11.5 percent, to $51.88 after its fourth-quarter profit was far larger than analysts expected.

Utility and telecommunications stocks, which pay hefty dividends similar to bonds, also traded higher.

Financial stocks made only small gains and

lagged the market. They are able to charge more money on lending when interest rates are higher, so the Fed’s low-rate policy has hurt the sector. So has the weakening price of oil, because investors are worried that loans to energy companies won’t be repaid.

Bank of America fell 20 cents, or 1.5 percent, to $13.42 and Wells Fargo lost 65 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $48.05.

In her remarks to the Economic Club of New York, Yellen said the Fed expects to move slowly because the U.S. economy

and financial conditions have weakened over the last few months, and global pressures could harm the U.S. economy. Those concerns include the possibility of a broad economic slump, lower oil prices, and the shaky stock market.

The Fed cited similar reasons earlier this month, when it said it expected to raise rates twice this year, not four times.

Benchmark U.S. crude dropped $1.11, or 2.8 percent, to $38.28 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, used to price international oils, lost $1.13, or 2.8 percent, to $39.14 a barrel in London.

Home building companies rose after Lennar reported strong quarterly results, selling more homes at higher prices. Its stock gained $1.48, or 3.2 percent, to $48.18. Competitor D.R. Horton rose 90 cents, or 3 percent, to $30.72 and PulteGroup added 39 cents, or 2.2 percent, to $18.51.

Drugmaker Medivation fell after a group of legislators took aim at the company over the price of its prostate cancer treatment Xtandi. They urged federal

agencies to cut the price of Xtandi and asked for public hearings. Xtandi is Medivation’s only approved drug, and its average list price is about $129,000 a year. Sales topped $1 billion last year. Medivation stock shed $2.50, or 6.1 percent, to $38.75.

Retailer Conn’s skidded $3.84, or 24.5 percent, to $11.81 after its quarterly profit came up short of estimates and its 2016 forecasts disappointed investors.

In other commodities trading, heating oil fell two cents to $1.16 a gallon.

Natural gas rose 3 percent to $1.90 per 1,000 cubic feet. Silver picked up 4 cents to $15.23 an ounce.

Copper prices slumped 3 cents, or 1.4 percent, to $2.21 a pound.

Overseas markets were mixed. France’s CAC 40 added 0.9 percent and Germany’s DAX picked up 0.4 percent. The FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was little changed.

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.2 percent and South Korea’s Kospi added 0.6 percent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 0.1 percent.

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