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Crews remove General Robert E. Lee statue The unannounced removal was executed Thursday afternoon A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
DALLAS — Crews have removed a statue of Robert E. Lee from a pedestal and carted it away from a Dallas park named for the Confederate general. In an unannounced but expected move, a large crane was brought through the city by a police escort to Lee Park,
where it lifted the large statue from its pedestal late Thursday afternoon. City officials said in a statement that an art conservator monitored the proper handling of the statue, and police tactical officers with automatic rifles provided security. The statue was lowered onto a flatbed trailer for transport Statue continues on A10
Move shifts away from Obama-era agenda By Sadie Gurman ASSOCIATED PRE SS
calling on him to reconsider the ban. Sen. John McCain, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Friday he backed legislation that would bar the Trump administration from forcing transgender troops out of the
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Friday it will roll back an Obama-era program that aimed to help police departments build community trust, often after racially charged encounters, and focus it instead on helping cities arrest violent criminals and dismantle gangs. The move marked another shift away from Obama administration priorities and federal scrutiny of local law enforcement, which Attorney General Jeff Sessions believes can wrongly malign police departments and hurt officer morale. Police are a major constituency for the Trump administration as it espouses a law-and-order agenda. The program known as “collaborative reform” allowed cities to voluntarily seek assistance from the Justice Department on issues such as use-of-force and de-escalating confrontations on the street. Federal officials would then conduct wholesale investigations of the police departments and make non-binding recommendations for how they could improve, periodically monitoring their progress. Unlike the court-enforceable consent decrees that were a hallmark of the Obama administration’s efforts to overhaul troubled police agencies, the collaborative agreements run by the department’s Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS, office were largely optional, and some cities had found them helpful in repairing frayed relationships with the community. But the Justice Department under Sessions determined the program had become adversarial toward police and counter-productive to helping cities drive down violence, which Sessions views as the department’s top mission. “This is a course correction to ensure that resources go to agencies that require assistance rather than expensive, wideranging investigative assessments that go beyond the scope of technical assistance and support,” Sessions said in a statement. Cities will be able to seek
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Workers remove a statue of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from Robert E. Lee Park in Dallas on Thursday.
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TRANSGENDER TROOPS CAN RE-ENLIST IN MILITARY
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In this July 26 file photo, people with the Human Rights Campaign hold up “equality flags” during an event on Capitol Hill in Washington, in support of transgender members of the military.
McCain: We should welcome all those who are willing and able to serve By Richard Lardner and Lolita C. Baldor A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
WASHINGTON — New guidance released Friday by the Pentagon makes it clear that any transgender troops currently in the military can reenlist in the next several
months, even as the department debates how broadly to enforce a ban on their service ordered by President Donald Trump. In a memo to top military leaders, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said a high-level panel will determine how to implement Trump’s ban on trans-
Officials revamp police program
gender individuals in the military. Trump directed the military to indefinitely extend the ban on transgender individuals enlisting in the service, but he left it up to Mattis to decide if those currently serving should be allowed to stay. Members of Congress have already sent a letter to Trump
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Ryan: Majority in Congress support immigrants By Matthew Daly A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan majority in Congress supports protections for an estimated 800,000 immigrants brought to the United States as children and now here illegally, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Friday. In a radio interview, Ryan
said “there’s a sweet spot for this ... a majority in Congress” to protect young immigrants while also bolstering border security. Ryan’s comments come after President Donald Trump said this week he was “fairly close” to an agreement with congressional Democrats that would enshrine protections for young immigrants established by
former President Barack Obama. Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, said any legislation to protect “Dreamers” would be paired with measures to strengthen border security, which he called the “the root cause” of problems from widespread opioid addiction to violent gangs such as MS-13. “While we do this (legisla-
tive fix for young immigrants) we have a border problem we’ve got to fix,” Ryan told talk show host Vicki McKenna on Milwaukee’s WISN-AM. Conservatives have howled at Trump’s proposed deal, but Ryan and other GOP leaders insist there’s no formal agreement to enshrine protections for young immigrants. Ryan said he and other GOP leaders
“have leverage” to insist that any bill to protect young immigrants includes tough border protections. “We will not in good conscience fix a symptom of the problem without dealing with the root cause of the problem,” he said, adding that many Democrats agree with him. “I think Democrats get that. Ryan continues on A10
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Ray of Light Anxiety and Depression Support Group Meeting in Spanish. 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. Spanish group meets every 3rd Monday of the month. Holding Institute, 1102 Santa Maria Ave., classroom #1. Ray of Light Anxiety and Depression Support Group provides a forum for people with anxiety and/or depression to meet, talk, share experiences and learn more about the conditions. Support groups can help individuals make connections with others facing similar challenges. While a support group does not replace an individual's medical care, it can be a valuable resource to gain insight, strength, and hope. The support group welcomes adults suffering from anxiety and/ or depression to participate in free confidential support group meetings and social events. Contact information for a representative: Anna Maria Pulido Saldivar, gruporayitodeluz@gmail.com, 956-307-2014
Today is Saturday, Sept. 16, the 259th day of 2017. There are 106 days left in the year.
Today's Highlights in History: On September 16, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act. Samuel T. Rayburn of Texas was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 10 a.m. - noon. 1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25. Public is invited. Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions. Webb County Domestic Violence Coalition monthly luncheon. Noon. Laredo Medical Center’s Tower B, Conference Room, 1st floor. The monthly luncheon is open to those interested in learning more about resources available to help victims and their children who find themselves in dangerous situations. For more information, contact Sister Rosemary Welsh at 718-6810.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 21 Laredo Chapter of the Celiac Disease Foundation monthly meeting. 7:15 – 8:15 p.m. Laredo Medical Center, 1st floor, Tower B, Rm. #2 in the Community Center. The support group is intended to provide a warm and caring environment where people with Celiac Disease, their family members, caregivers and loved ones can share their experiences, methods of coping, recipes, product reviews, and insights into living with chronic illness. The support group also offers current and accurate information about Celiac Disease and gluten-related disorders, and appropriate community resource information. For more information, call the Celiac Disease Foundation at 818-716-1513 or email laredo@celiac.org.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 23 Joe A. Guerra Public Library and Villa Agustin de Laredo Genealogical Society sponsor speaker Renee Laperriere; The Gutierrez Family of Ocampo, Tamaulipas. 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Multipurpose room, Joe A Guerra Public Library off Calton. Open to the public. For more info, call Sylvia Reash at 763-1810. Monte Mucho Audubon Society Open House. 2-4 p.m. Laredo Public Library, 1st floor multipurpose room. Learn about our local colorful birds, how to set up feeding stations, and using binoculars. Free event; public is invited. Target audience: adults.
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A man watches a screen showing a graphic of a North Korean missile launch, at a railway station in Seoul on Friday.
UN SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS N. KOREA’S TEST UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council met in emergency session Friday after North Korea conducted its longest-ever test flight of a ballistic missile, to talk about what to do now that Kim Jong Un has ignored its latest round of sanctions. The intermediate-range weapon, launched early Friday from Sunan, the location of Pyongyang’s international airport, hurtled over U.S. ally Japan into the northern Pacific Ocean. It signaled both defiance of North Korea’s rivals and a big technological advance.
Mexico: 1 missing, 200 homes damaged after Hurricane Max MEXICO CITY — A person was missing and about 200 homes were reported damaged by water or wind in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero after Hurricane Max hit land east of Acapulco. Guerrero Gov. Hector Astudillo tweeted late Thursday that the disappearance and the damaged homes were in San Mar-
Japan’s U.N. Ambassador Koro Bessho told reporters as he headed into the closed-door council meeting that he was certain all 15 members “will be condemning this outrageous act.” “It is, of course, a grave threat to our own security but ... it is a real threat to the peace and security of the world as a whole,” he said. Bessho called on all countries to implement sanctions against North Korea, including measures adopted four days ago in response to Pyongyang’s sixth nuclear test, which it said was a hydrogen bomb.
cos, a township east of the resort city of Acapulco that lay in the storm’s path. Max degenerated into a broad area of low pressure Friday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center, but its remnants were still capable of dumping heavy rains over Guerrero and western Oaxaca states. Meanwhile farther out in the Pacific, Tropical Storm Norma was gathering strength and heading toward the Los Cabos resorts at the southern
tip of the Baja California peninsula. The hurricane center said Norma was “almost a hurricane” and centered about 275 miles south of Cabo San Lucas. It had winds of 70 mph and was edging northwest at about 2 mph. The forecast track could put it at hurricane strength west of Los Cabos in about three days. In the Atlantic Ocean, Jose re-strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane in the Atlantic. — Compiled from AP reports
SUNDAY, SEPT. 24 United Methodist Men Spaghetti Luncheon. Noon-1:30 p.m. 1220 McClelland Ave. All you can eat spaghetti, bread, salad, drink, and dessert. Public is invited. Free will donations accepted. Proceeds are used to support the church’s mission projects.
MONDAY, SEPT. 25 Laredo Parkinson's Disease Support Group monthly meeting. 6:30 p.m. Laredo Medical Center, 1st floor, Tower B in the Community Center. Meetings are held the last Monday of each month at the same time. The meeting is open to anyone with Parkinson's Disease, a friend or family member of a PD patient, and primary care givers of patients with PD who are interested in learning more about the disease. Pamphlets with more information in both English and Spanish are available at all support group meetings. For more information, call Richard Renner at 645-8649 or 2370666.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 10 a.m. - noon. 1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25. Public is invited. Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 28 Spanish Book Club. 6 - 8 p.m. Joe A Guerra Public Library off Calton Road. For more info, call Sylvia Reash a 763-1810.
AROUND THE NATION Attorney: Slender Man attacker descended into ‘madness’ WAUKESHA, Wis. — A Wisconsin girl accused of helping her friend stab their classmate nearly to death to please online horror character Slender Man was lonely, depressed and descended into “madness,” her attorney said Friday as she pleaded with a jury to send the girl to a mental hospital rather than prison. Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser lured classmate Payton Leutner into the woods at a park in Waukesha, a Milwaukee suburb, in 2014. Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier urged her on, according to investigators. A passing bicyclist found Leutner, who barely survived her wounds. All three girls were 12 at the time. Both Weier and Geyser told detectives they felt they had to
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Anissa Weier passes a note to her defense attorney during closing arguments in her case on Friday in Wisconsin.
kill Leutner to become Slender Man’s “proxies,” or servants, and protect their families from the demon’s wrath. Weier, now 15, pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide in a deal with prosecutors in August. But she claims she was mentally ill
during the attack and not responsible for her actions. A jury heard three days of testimony from psychologists and detectives. If the jury agrees she wasn’t responsible, she’ll be committed to a mental institution. If not, she faces prison. — Compiled from AP reports
On this date: In 1498, Tomas de Torquemada, notorious for his role in the Spanish Inquisition, died in Avila, Spain. In 1857, the song "Jingle Bells" by James Pierpont was copyrighted under its original title, "One Horse Open Sleigh." (The song, while considered a Christmastime classic, was actually written for Thanksgiving.) In 1893, more than 100,000 settlers swarmed onto a section of land in Oklahoma known as the "Cherokee Strip." In 1908, General Motors was founded in Flint, Michigan, by William C. Durant. In 1919, the American Legion received a national charter from Congress. In 1925, the Irving Berlin song "Always" (written for his future wife, Ellin Mackay) was published. In 1967, the TV series "Mannix," starring Mike Connors as a private investigator, premiered on CBS. In 1977, Maria Callas, the Americanborn prima donna famed for her lyric soprano and fiery temperament, died in Paris at age 53. In 1982, the massacre of between 1,200 and 1,400 Palestinian men, women and children at the hands of Israeli-allied Christian Phalange militiamen began in west Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. In 1987, two dozen countries signed the Montreal Protocol, a treaty designed to save the Earth's ozone layer by calling on nations to reduce emissions of harmful chemicals by the year 2000. Ten years ago: "The Sopranos" claimed its final Emmy award as best dramatic series; "30 Rock" won best comedy series. Five years ago: In appearances on Sunday news shows, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said there was no evidence that the attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, was premeditated. One year ago: After five years of promoting a false conspiracy theory about Barack Obama's birthplace, Republican Donald Trump abruptly reversed course, acknowledging that the president was born in America, but then claiming the "birther movement" was begun by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. (While the question of Obama's birthplace was raised by some backers of Clinton's primary campaign against Obama eight years earlier, Clinton had long denounced it as a "racist lie.") Today's Birthdays: Actress Janis Paige is 95. Actor George Chakiris is 85. Bluesman Billy Boy Arnold is 82. Movie director Jim McBride is 76. Actress Linda Miller is 75. Rhythmand-blues singer Betty Kelley (Martha & the Vandellas) is 73. Musician Kenney Jones (Small Faces; Faces; The Who) is 69. Actress Susan Ruttan is 69. Rock musician Ron Blair (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers; Mudcrutch) is 69. Actor Ed Begley Jr. is 68. Country singer David Bellamy (The Bellamy Brothers) is 67. Country singer-songwriter Phil Lee is 66. Actor-comedian Lenny Clarke is 64. Actor Kurt Fuller is 64. Jazz musician Earl Klugh is 64. Actor Christopher Rich is 64. Singer Frank Reed (The Chi-Lites) is 63. TV personality Mark McEwen is 63. Baseball Hall of Famer Robin Yount is 62. Actor Mickey Rourke is 61. Magician David Copperfield is 61. Country singer-songwriter Terry McBride is 59. Actress Jennifer Tilly is 59. Retired MLB All-Star pitcher Orel Hershiser is 59. Baseball Hall of Famer Tim Raines is 58. Singer Richard Marx is 54. Comedian Molly Shannon is 53. Singer Marc Anthony is 49. Comedian-actress Amy Poehler is 46. Actress Toks Olagundoye is 42. Country singer Matt Stillwell is 42. Singer Musiq is 40. Actor Michael Mosley is 39. Rapper Flo Rida is 38. Actress Alexis Bledel is 36. Actress Sabrina Bryan is 33. Actress Madeline Zima is 32. Actor Ian Harding is 31. Actress Kyla Pratt is 31. Actor Daren Kagasoff is 30. Rock singer Teddy Geiger is 29. Actress-dancer Bailey Buntain is 28. Rock singer-musician Nick Jonas (The Jonas Brothers) is 25. Actress Elena Kampouris is 20. Thought for Today: "Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom." — Bergen Evans, American lexicographer (19041978).
SATURDAY, SEPT. 30 Walk to End Alzheimer’s. Texas A&M International University. On-site registration begins at 7:30 a.m. in the walkway between the Student Center and the TAMIU’s Fine and Performing Arts Center. The walk begins at 9:30 a.m. after a brief opening ceremony at 9 a.m. Those who wish to register online and establish a fundraising team with family, friends, or co-workers can go to alz.org/walk and follow prompts to the Laredo walk.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 4 First United Methodist Church Used Book Sale. 10 a.m. - noon. 1220 McClelland Ave. Hard cover $1, paperback $0.50, magazines and children’s books, $0.25. Public is invited. Proceeds are used to support the church’s missions.
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AROUND TEXAS Man turns himself in on murder charge from 1963 SAN ANTONIO — A man who turned himself in for a 1962 fatal shooting in Texas was tired of having an arrest warrant haunting him and was weary of living under an assumed name, his attorney says. Pete Ortiz Jr., now 75, surrendered Wednesday to state Dis-
trict Judge Frank Castro. Ortiz was released on bond but must wear an ankle monitor. Ortiz was indicted in March 1963 on a murder-with-malice charge in the Dec. 22, 1962, fatal shooting of Joe Ovalle, a selfemployed sign painter who was killed in his driveway just before Christmas. Another man, Frank Juarez, also faced a murder-with-malice indictment in the killing and was convicted in April 1963. Juarez told author-
ities that he and Ortiz were hired for $1,000 by another man to kill Ovalle, who was allegedly an informant for federal narcotics agents. KSAT television station reports Castro asked Ortiz: “Where have you been all these 55 years?” “I work all the time,” Ortiz replied. “I work in the fields picking cotton. I followed the migrants to Wisconsin.” — Compiled from AP reports
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Son of day care operator convicted of abusing girl A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
EVERMAN, Texas — Court records show the 24-year-old son of a North Texas day care operator was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting a girl there for at least two years. The Fort Worth StarTelegram reports a Tarrant County jury convicted and sentenced Chance William Moore last month on a charge of continuous sexual abuse of a child. Two other charges — indecency fondling and aggravated sexual assault — are pending. Moore was arrested in 2016 after the now 12-yearold told her parents what
Texas DFPS spokeswoman Marissa Gonzales says the operator decided to close permanently.
was happening at the day care in Everman, near Fort Worth, and they contacted authorities. State Child Care Licensing officials ordered the day care to stop operations after Moore’s arrest. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services spokeswoman Marissa Gonzales says the operator decided to close permanently.
Austin official reprimanded over female co-workers By Maggie Astor NEW YORK TIME S NEWS SERVICE
An events manager for the city of Austin, Texas, who is known for overseeing the South by Southwest festival, has been formally reprimanded for refusing to meet with female city employees. The city opened an investigation in July after a business specialist at the Austin Center for Events complained that the manager, William Manno, had skipped meetings “because he believed a communications consultant in attendance had romantic feelings for him,” according to the Austin AmericanStatesman, which reported the story Thursday. Manno also “ended regular lunches with the communications consultant, telling her, ‘I’ve been told it is not appropriate for a married man to have lunch with a single lady.’”
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William Manno speaks about the results from the SXSW survey that are part of a comprehensive evaluation of events during the 2014 SXSW Festival time period.
He even discussed moving her and another woman to different jobs “because his wife objected to some of their interactions with him.” According to a July 10 memo obtained by the American-Statesman, the communications consultant told investigators
Teacher-student North Texas relationships dairy part of raw cases soar milk warning A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
AUSTIN, Texas — The number of cases of teachers accused of soliciting romantic relationships from students has increased for the ninth year in a row in Texas, with a state education official attributing the increase to more awareness of the issue. The Austin AmericanStatesman reports that in the one-year period that ended Sept. 1, the Texas Education Agency opened 302 cases against public teachers accused of having improper relation-
ships with students. That’s a 36 percent increase from the year before. Doug Phillips, TEA’s director of educator investigations, attributes the growth to increased vigilance among teachers and administrators of recognizing and reporting improper behavior. State lawmakers made curbing improper teacher-student relationships a priority during this year’s regular legislative session. He says, “We’ve amped up the pressure to report and we’ve made people more aware.”
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PARADISE, Texas — Experts say people who consumed raw milk or raw milk products from a North Texas dairy could have contracted an infectious disease and need to take antibiotics. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday issued the brucellosis warning involving K-Bar Dairy in Paradise, near Fort Worth. The Texas Department of State Health Services says K-Bar Dairy has complied with state law and is coop-
erating after two cows tested positive for the bacteria. CDC officials say anyone who consumed unpasteurized K-Bar Dairy products from June through Aug. 7 should take antibiotics to prevent infection. One Texas woman has gotten sick. Officials are also contacting K-Bar Dairy consumers from Alabama, Arkansas, California, Ohio, North Dakota and Tennessee. Brucellosis can cause fever, aches and fatigue. Long-term complications include arthritis, heart problems and meningitis.
that “she had told him she was not interested in him romantically and only sought to have lunches with him for mentoring purposes.” The reprimand was issued last month, and on Wednesday, the American-Statesman reported, Manno filed a grievance
disputing the findings. “Many of the statements included in the reprimand memo are based on misleading and incorrect information,” he wrote. Manno did not respond to an email and a voicemail message seeking comment Thursday evening.
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DENTON, Texas — Authorities say a woman was killed after her vehicle crashed into a school bus carrying a tennis team that was stopped at a red light in North Texas. McKinney police say the woman was driving her vehicle at a high rate of speed when she crashed late Thursday night into the Denton Independent School District bus on U.S. Highway 380.
Police said one student was taken to the hospital with minor scrapes and bruises. Denton school district spokesman Mario Zavala says the students on the bus were on Braswell High School’s tennis team and were returning from a match in McKinney. He says about 15 people were on the bus. Officials said the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Her name was not immediately released.
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Snowflakes pick and choose when to be offended By Christine Flowers P H ILA D E LPHI A DAI LY NEWS
Before Colin Kaepernick took a knee and became a movement, he was a pretty good football player. And then, he wasn’t anymore. Whether his foray into social activism coincided with his athletic devolution is debatable, but it is clear that we would not be talking about the fellow today if he were practicing his throws instead of scolding white society for being racist. And that’s his right, as many of his supporters have told me in the days, weeks and months since he became famous for kneeling. As far as protests go, it’s pretty tame stuff. But the people around Kaepernick are not quite as innocuous, including his girlfriend, Nessa Diab, who tweeted out a racist picture of Ray Lewis. Diab juxtaposed a photo of Lewis hugging Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti with a shot of Samuel L. Jackson’s slave hugging Leonardo DiCaprio’s master in "Django Unchained." The implication was unmistakable: Black athletes who don’t disrespect the flag or the national anthem are Uncle Toms, while people like Kaepernick are heroic. I don’t know about you, but I’m fed up with the politicization of sports. It was bad enough when Eagles fans started boycotting games because they didn’t like the fact that reformed dog torturer Michael Vick was on the team (and can I say he turned out to be one of the most decent and humble men to ever wear the green and white?). But now it’s really gotten out of hand, with people caring more about what happens off the field (or court, or ice) than on, and grafting their political grievances onto the games themselves. We have Colin K, weeping about the racism inherent in denying a job to a washed-up athlete with too much baggage (and a girlfriend who should be zipped up in one of them). We have ESPN giving the Arthur Ashe Courage Award to Caitlyn Jenner instead of a courageous teen who died of brain cancer, primarily because Jenner changed from male to female on a Diane Sawyer prime-time special. I have to say that if acquiring a set of breasts is considered courageous, half of Hollywood should have qualified for the award. And speaking of ESPN, the network has produced a cottage industry of hysterical, "you can’t make these up" gaffes that show just how far up the derriere of political correctness
they’ve traveled. First, there was the decision to remove a broadcaster named Robert Lee from covering a football game at the University of Virginia because they were worried that, in the wake of the tragedy in Charlottesville, it would seem tasteless. Robert Lee is Asian American and has about as much to do with the Confederate general as Vivien Leigh. Then there was the debacle of Sergio (I’m not making this up) Dipp, who spent his inaugural appearance on the network by rambling on about how wonderful diversity and immigrants and all that stuff is, when the people who are paying to watch a football game didn’t give a damn about the cultural heritage of the coach and just wanted to hear some marginally coherent commentary from the sideline. He explained his performance as follows: "All I wanted to do was to show some respect, making my debut as a minority on American national TV, the biggest stage out there, on the most heartfelt day in this great country made up by immigrants, but on some people’s perspective, it all went wrong." That "most heartfelt day" was 9/11 and frankly, it wasn’t a time to extol the virtues of immigrants, especially not at a football game. But ESPN has decided that it must now carry the water for the social justice warriors and inject its own view of how the world should be into the sports arena. So when Curt Schilling wrote, "A man is a man no matter what they call themselves. I don’t care what they are, who they sleep with, men’s room was designed for the penis, women’s not so much," he was immediately fired. But when Jemele Hill, another employee, tweets, "Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists," she gets a finger wagged in her face and the network comes out with "We have addressed this with Jemele and she realizes her actions were inappropriate." And she still gets a paycheck and a covert wink from the higher-ups. I wonder why Schilling wasn’t given the same consideration. I wonder why starring in a reality show is courageous. I wonder why worrying about triggering snowflakes with someone named Lee is an issue, and why some Dipp goes all Emma Lazarus on Monday Night Football. Christine Flowers is a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News.
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My husband shouldn’t have had a gun By Nancy Taylor WASHINGTON P O ST
Last year, I sent a donation of $358.16 to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. The amount was the sum of money that I received after selling my Ruger revolver. I never really wanted to own the revolver, but my husband thought I should be able to protect myself if someone entered our home when he was not around. I had my concerns about having the gun, but as anyone who’s ever been married will tell you, sometimes you just know when you’re not going to win. He persisted, and I relented. I believe my husband’s decision to end his life two years ago was made seconds before it happened. His fate was sealed only when he reached for one of his guns for the last time. Once the hammer started to fall, that was it. My husband struggled with mental illness and suicidal thoughts for some time, and not long before he died, he had his gun collection taken
away because of one such attempt. He had threatened to use a shotgun. He sat with it in front of our house for a while, forcing police to evacuate and lock down the neighborhood until they could talk him down. Eventually they did, and order was restored. The court intervened, and his guns were gone. I thought that was the end of it. With his guns gone, I thought we could start focusing on his well-being - and for a while, we did. But with the hired help of an expensive gun rights attorney, my husband regained his lawful status to purchase guns after just a five-year period. I was devastated and terrified. My husband had his guns taken away for a serious reason and should never have been able to buy and own them again. With each new purchase, I wondered if that would be the gun that killed him. A single gunshot doesn’t sound like it does in the movies. Once you hear it, you hear it everywhere always: a door
slamming shut, something falling from a high place, the same garbage truck that’s been outside your bedroom window every morning for decades. Suicides leave many victims behind to pick up the pieces and move forward the best we can. About nine out of 10 suicide attempts with a gun are lethal, more than those by any other means. In fact, half of all suicides are with a gun. The damage of a firearm is instantaneous. Like the tens of thousands who die by suicide with a gun every year, my husband didn’t have an opportunity to rethink or reverse his decision. No medical intervention could have done any good. I do not oppose the Second Amendment, but we desperately need to start changing the conversation about gun ownership in this country. My husband was a casualty of a jacked-up marketing fable that convinces men, women and children that their castles are unsafe unless they are guarded with guns.
Far more guns kill people in suicides, accidents, mistakes or fits of rage than from an intruder in the night. Families, partners and friends must acknowledge this reality when discussing having guns in the home. We also need politicians to support policies that give families the power they need to save their loved ones. Less than two months after my husband took his life with a gun he never should have had, California enacted a law that gives families and law enforcement an avenue to confiscate a person’s firearms and prohibit them from purchasing another one. With enough evidence provided by law enforcement or family members, a judge can issue a temporary emergency order to keep firearms out of reach. Only a few states have these laws, but they’ve already proved remarkably effective. California’s law came too late for my husband. In the end, he was killed by the one thing he thought could save us both.
COMMENTARY
Can the GOP survive Trump? By Ed Rogers WASHINGTON P O ST
Donald Trump is a political independent who got elected as a Republican. He has embraced plenty of Republican positions, but he has never asserted himself as party leader. To state the obvious, Trump’s presidency is creating fissures, not unity, within the Republican Party. It’s even fair to ask whether he wants to lead the Republican Party - or any party at all. President Trump is now mostly surrounded by able, committed advisers who - apart from Vice President Mike Pence - have never been party loyalists. The reason: Being part of a political party, much less its head, does not suit Trump. The White House flirts openly with the Freedom Caucus, whose sole function in Congress appears to be disrupting the
druthers of House Speaker Paul Ryan, RWis. Trump takes every opportunity to harass Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and insult incumbent Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. He made a deal last week on raising the debt ceiling and providing funds for Hurricane Harvey relief that stiff-armed his own party’s leaders and pleased “Chuck and Nancy” - the Democratic leaders Sen. Charles Schumer of New York and Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California. Trump does believe in some Republican principles. He favors low taxes, a strong national defense, pro-business regulation and limits on immigration. What’s more, none of his independence has hurt GOP coffers. The Republican National Committee is far ahead of the Democratic National Committee this year - $86.5 million to $42 million. But his flightiness has
created odd diversions from the GOP mainstream and openings for marginal political characters. In my home state of Alabama, the bible literalist Judge Roy Moore - who’s claim to fame is refusing to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from his court room may become Alabama’s next senator (Disclosure: I have contributed to Moore’s opponent, Sen. Luther Strange). And in Michigan, because it seems either no one else is seeking the office or they are just intimidated, pop singer Kid Rock could be the GOP’s nominee for U.S. Senate. All of which begs the question: How can the Republican Party and its ambivalent leader in the White House coexist? The first answer is that Trump could never become a Democrat. There’s no such thing as a Trump Democrat. So, what does it mean to have a mostly inde-
pendent president? And what will the consequences be in 2020, the next presidential election year? To be clear, Trump will run for reelection barring an earth-shaking change. And he will run as a Republican. But the Republican Party and the Republicans who run with him then won’t be the same as the party and the politicians who are around now. What we are witnessing today could be the most significant challenge to the two-party system since Teddy Roosevelt was nominated as the Bull Moose candidate in 1912. The question Republicans need to ask themselves is this: Will Trump act more in ways that diminish their party or expand it? Finding a way to persuade the volatile president to become a benefit to the GOP rather than its gadfly should be job No. 1 for a sizable portion of the Republican leadership.
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BOXING: CANELO ALVAREZ VS. GENNADY GOLOVKIN
NCAA FOOTBALL
Triple G, Canelo ready for big middleweight bout Gennady puts WBC, WBA, IBF titles on the line By Tim Dahlberg A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
LAS VEGAS — It’s the kind of fight Gennady Golovkin has been chasing from the moment he walked off an airplane six years ago to make his new home in Los Angeles. It’s the fight boxing fans have been waiting for almost as long. Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez meet Saturday night in a middleweight showdown that has been brewing for years. They do it in their prime, and they both bring the kind of power that could make for a night that will be talked about in boxing for years. Indeed they do, which is one reason Golovkin
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Boxers Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin face off for Golovkin’s WBC, WBA and IBF middleweight championships Saturday in Las Vegas.
has had trouble getting fighters in the ring. The fearsome slugger from Kazakhstan has stopped almost everyone put in the ring with him, win-
ning all 37 of his fights, 33 by knockout. But Alvarez packs power, too, and the redheaded Mexican is a savage counterpuncher
with a style that should match up perfectly against the onrushing Golovkin. Alvarez is already an established superstar, arguably the most popular athlete in Mexico. Golovkin, who won a silver medal in the 2004 Olympics, is hoping for the kind of performance that will finally win over fans not overly impressed by a 23-fight knockout streak of 18 middleweight title defenses. Between them they have 86 wins, against only one loss. That was by Alvarez (49-1-1, 34 knockouts) in 2013 against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a fight he acknowledged he was too young to take.
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: HOUSTON TEXANS
WATSON LEADS TEXANS TO WIN ON BIRTHDAY
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Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson earned his first victory of his professional career on his birthday Thursday night in Cincinnati.
Houston outlasts Cincinnati in Watson’s first pro start By Dale Robertson H OUSTO N CHRONI CLE
Happy birthday, Deshaun Watson! Happy day, Texans! The rookie quarterback Watson, who turned 22 Thursday, became the ninth quarterback to start for head coach Bill O'Brien in 50 regularseason games but was the first rookie – and the most celebrated by far, with good reason. His electric 49-yard touchdown scramble on a third-and-15 with 50 seconds left in the first half, reminiscent of the magic he worked in leading Clemson to the college national championship last season, propelled the Texans to a 13-9 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals that leveled their record at 1-1 and extended their winning streak in Cincinnati to four. "It's a dream come true," Watson admitted, "a moment I've been waiting all my life for." Asked about the touchdown run, he said, "I had to make a play."
Upset 29-7 at home by Jacksonville in their season opener Sunday, the twice-defending AFC South champions were clearly energized by Watson, whose late 11-yard scramble also set up a 42-yard Ka'imi Fairbairn field goal with 2:01 left that prevented the Bengals from stealing the victory. J.J. Watt made a crushing tackle on Bengals center Russell Bodine in the game's final desperate sandlot play, then screamed, "Game over!" It was his sixth of the game after he had just one against the Jaguars. "Dog fight, not pretty at all," Watt said. "But to come out with a win on the road, that's great. It's been a whirlwind... Very inspiring to see everybody step up. We came out and we had a mission. Nobody was happy with what happened Sunday." Watson struggled in the passing game with his team beset by serious offensive line and receiver/tight end issues. He got sacked three times, up-
ping the Texans' season total to 13, and threw for only 125 yards on 15-for-24 passing. "There's going to be growing pains," Watt said of Watson. "We've got to give him all the support we can. You work your way through it all as a team." The Bengals were themselves coming off a 20-0 loss to Pittsburgh in their season opener, also a home game in which quarterback Andy Dalton tossed four interceptions. Dalton played a lot cleaner this night, suffering no picks while throwing for 216 yards, but was unable to generate enough offense – nevermind points – to stave off an 0-2 start. The Bengals are the first team to fail to score a touchdown in two seasonopening home games since the 1939 Philadelphia Eagles. Dalton, the one-time Katy High School star, has a career 1-6 record facing the Texans, who have won eight of their last nine against Cincinnati but have failed to score more
than 13 points in any of the last four. The Bengals, in turn, have scored more than 20 just once in the last 10 meetings. Former Texans kicker Randy Bullock, another Houstonian, accounted for all of Cincinnati's scoring with second-quarter field goals of 39 and 29 yards and another in the third quarter from 30 yards away as the Texans defense played superbly in the red zone each time. It also thwarted the Bengals on the ground all evening, yielding only 82 rushing yards, 3.4 per attempt. Also, outside linebacker Jadeveon Clowney scooped up a first-quarter Jay Ross fumble forced by Kareem Jackson and sprinted 49 yards to the Cincinnati 20, but the Texans, stalling at the 8, had to settle for Fairbairn's 26-yard field goal. Watson, the 12th pick overall in the 2017 draft, had played the entire second half against the Jaguars after fourth-year pro Tom Savage was ineffective in his third career start.
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Quarterback Sam Ehlinger led Texas to a 56-0 win against San Jose State, and he and head coach Tom Herman head into a Saturday matchup at No. 4 USC.
No. 4 USC hosts Texas By Greg Beacham ASSOCIATED PRE SS
LOS ANGELES — Clay Helton knows a little something about big-time college football programs struggling to live up to sky-high expectations. So when the architect of Southern California’s return to excellence says he sees imminent signs of the same restoration in Tom Herman and Texas, the Longhorns’ fans should take heart. And the No. 4 Trojans (2-0) should be wary of Texas’ visit to the Coliseum on Saturday night for a marquee early-season showdown . Texas (1-1) “is a team that I think is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode,” Helton said. “With each game under Tom Herman, they’re going to get better and better. So we can’t have a letdown, or we’re going to get beat.” Helton spent several seasons behind the scenes at USC as a stabilizing force in the chaotic coaching tenures of Lane Kiffin and Steve Sarkisian. When Helton unexpectedly got the chance to lead the Trojans two years ago, the longtime assistant swiftly brought maturity and continuity to the talent-laden program, and wins have followed. The Trojans have won 11 straight games overall, including last season’s Rose Bowl. They’ve also won 11 straight at the Coliseum, where a sellout crowd of 92,348 will greet the Longhorns for the schools’ first meeting since Texas claimed the national title in the epic 2006 Rose Bowl . USC is the solid favorite in this matchup after its 42-24 rout of Stanford last week. Sam Darnold’s offense is running exceptionally well, racking up 91 points and 1,144 yards against strong opponents in its first two games. “To me, he is one of the better quarterbacks in the nation,” Texas linebacker Naashon Hughes said. “I’m pretty sure everyone else thinks that, too. He is great in the pocket. I didn’t think he could run that well at first, but after watching more film on him, he can move around pretty well. He makes his team better, which is what you ultimately want at quarterback.” Texas bounced back solidly last week from its embarrassing home loss to Maryland in its season opener, but USC presents a new level of challenge for Herman’s first team. With uncertainty at quarterback and questions on defense, the Longhorns will need a quantum leap to pull off the upset in LA.
Here are more things to watch when Texas meets USC in the Coliseum for the first time in 50 years: QB QUANDARY Texas quarterback Shane Buechele missed last week’s game with a sore shoulder, but returned to practice this week. Freshman Sam Ehlinger got his first career start and victory against San Jose State, but USC presents a larger challenge for an inexperienced passer. Former starter Jerrod Heard is now a receiver, but also could be a factor as a ball-carrier. TEXAS TESLA USC tailback Ronald Jones II is from the Dallas area, and his junior season is off to a phenomenal start. The “Texas Tesla” already has 275 yards and five touchdowns on the ground in two games, showcasing his improved physicality along with his usual speed. He has teamed with freshman Stephen Carr to provide a relentless rushing attack in USC’s first two games, and Texas’ run defense will have to prove its competence. CROSSED ROOTS Don’t be confused by the accents of these two coaches. Helton grew up in Texas, going to high school in the Houston suburbs before playing quarterback for Herman’s old team, the University of Houston. Herman is a product of the Los Angeles suburbs, growing up in Simi Valley and playing receiver at Cal Lutheran in Thousand Oaks. BALLHAWK HILL Texas defensive back Holton Hill already has three touchdowns this season on two interception returns and a blocked field goal return, becoming the brightest spot on an otherwise unremarkable defense. With his 6-foot-3, 200-pound frame, Hill is big enough to play with physical receivers and fast enough to stay with speedsters such as USC’s Deontay Burnett. Darnold may want to look elsewhere. FOR KICKS Both teams have concerns about their placekicking, which is something to keep in mind in a close game. Texas kicker Joshua Rowland is 0 for 3 on field goals, including one blocked kick returned for a touchdown. USC began the season with two kickers after the dismissal of Rose Bowl hero Matt Boermeester, but Michael Brown tore a knee ligament against Stanford, leaving the job in the hands of freshman Chase McGrath.
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RIBEREÑA EN BREVE GRUPO DE APOYO 1 Reunión del grupo de apoyo para ansiedad y depresión Ray of Light, de 6:30 p.m. a 8 p.m. el lunes 18 de septiembre. La reunión se lleva a cabo en español cada tercer lunes de mes y en inglés, cada primer lunes de mes en otro domicilio. Reunión se lleva a cabo en Holding Institute, 1102 de la avenida Santa María. Informes al 956-307-2014 ROMA FEST 2017 1 Festival Roma Fest 2017 “Decades”, el domingo 8 de octubre desde las 5 p.m. Desfile inicia en el Citizens State Bank.
CUARTA MESA DE GOBERNADORES FRONTERIZOS
Mandatarios celebran reunión Manifiestan voluntad de fortalecer Frontera Norte E SPECIAL PARA TIEMP O DE ZAPATA
CHIHUAHUA, México— En la cuarta Mesa de Gobernadores Fronterizos celebrada en Chihuaha, México, los mandatarios de Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Chihuahua, Sonora y Baja California, acordaron fortalecer la gestión de recursos para la seguridad fronteriza, solicitar la inclusión de las entidades del norte en la renegociación del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN) e implementar mecanismos ante posibles efectos de DACA. Asimismo, la gobernadora Claudia Pavlovich Arellano, de Sonora; y los gobernadores Francisco
FESTIVAL NUEVO SANTANDER 1 La Sociedad Genealógica Nueva Santander del Condado de Zapata invita al Festival Nuevo Santander el 13 y 14 de octubre de 10 a.m. a 4 p.m. en el Museo de Historia del Condado de Zapata. CAMINATA CONTRA CÁNCER 1 Walk All Over Cancer! en su cuarta caminata anual. Inscripciones en el Ayuntamiento llamando al 956-8491411 x 9241 o en el 956-844-1428. Caminata iniciará en Citizens State Bank o en el Centro Comuniario de Roma el sábado 21 de octubre. PAGO DE IMPUESTOS 1 Desde diciembre, los pagos por impuestos a la propiedad de la Ciudad de Roma deberán realizarse en la oficina de impuestos del Distrito Escolar de Roma, localizado en el 608 N. García St. PAGO EN LÍNEA
1 La Ciudad de Roma informa a sus residentes que a partir de ahora el servicio del agua puede pagarse en línea a cualquier hora las 24 horas del día. LLENADO DE APLICACIONES 1 La Ciudad de Roma ofrece el servicio de llenado de aplicaciones para CHIP, Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, Chip, Prenatal y otros. Contacte a Gaby Rodríguez para una cita en el centro comunitario o en su domicilio al 956-246-7177. LABORATORIO DE COMPUTACION 1 La Ciudad de Roma pone a disposición de la comunidad el Laboratorio Computacional que abre de lunes a viernes en horario de 1 p.m. a 5 p.m. en Historical Plaza, a un lado del City Hall. Informes en el 956-8491411.
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Jaime Rodríguez, Claudia Pavlovich, Javier Corral, Francisco Vega de Lamadrid, Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca enla reunión de gobernadores.
García Cabeza de Vaca, de Tamaulipas; Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, de Nuevo León; Javier Corral Jurado, de Chihuahua; y Francisco Vega Delamarid, de Baja California; manifestaron su voluntad de mantener y fortalecer la Alianza Es-
tratégica de Gobernadores de la Frontera Norte. Entre los acuerdos destacan gestionar de recursos federales en materia de seguridad, apoyo a la región fronteriza y a los migrantes, para las entidades que integran
la Alianza Estratégica, a través de los Fondos para Fronteras, de Apoyo al Migrante y de Fronteridad. Coordinar acciones de fortalecimiento de la agenda de seguridad pública de la región, entre ellas, solicitar una reunión de la gobernadora y los gobernadores con el Secretario de Gobernación, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong; y generar un nuevo acuerdo con la Federación para la reasignación de armamento decomisado a las entidades del norte. En el marco de la coyuntura de la relación con los países de América del Norte, se acordó solicitar que los gobernadores del norte de México sean
EXPOMEX
incluidos en la renegociación del TLCAN para valorar el impacto económico y social de cada una de las propuestas de modificación del tratado. Respecto a los posibles efectos que generen en la frontera mexicana las modificaciones al andamiaje legal de la Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia o DACA, anunciados por la Presidencia de Estados Unidos, los mandatarios urgieron a generar políticas y acciones transversales diseñadas con enfoque de juventud binacionales que aprovechen sus capacidades y experiencias adquiridas para que México sea una alternativa para ellos.
POLICÍA
DÍA DE LAREDO
Detienen a mujer con miles de dólares Por César G. Rodríguez TIEMP O DE ZAPATA
Foto de cortesía / Gobierno de Nuevo Laredo
El presidente de Nuevo Laredo, México, Enrique Rivas Cuéllar, segundo desde izquierda, el Cónsul de EU en Nuevo Laredo, Phillip Linderman, y el alcalde de la Ciudad de Laredo, Pete Sáenz, posan para una fotografía portando típicos atuendos mexicanos por la celebración de la Independencia de México.
Autoridades recorren exposición fronteriza TIEMP O DE ZAPATA
NUEVO LAREDO, México— Alcaldes y funcionarios de las ciudades hermanas Laredo y Nuevo Laredo, México dieron un recorrido por la feria durante un esfuerzo por acercar a las dos ciudades en el “Día dedicado a la ciudad de Laredo”, el jueves por la tarde. El Presidente Municipal Enrique Rivas y el Alcalde Pete Sáenz acompañados de sus respectivas esposas,
Adriana Herrera Zárate y Minerva Sáenz; la Directora de Comunicación y Turismo de Laredo Blasita López; el Cónsul de Estados Unidos Philip Linderman, los integrantes del Cabildo de Nuevo Laredo y la diputada local Brenda Cárdenas, estuvieron presentes durante el paseo por Expomex. El recorrido inició en el pasillo de expositores del interior del país, donde los visitantes aprovecharon para adquirir algunos artículos
mexicanos para posteriormente tomarse la foto del recuerdo con el tema alusivo a la Independencia de México. Rivas destacó que existe una gran disposición de ambos Laredos por fortalecer la región y volverla más competitiva, por lo que se trabaja de la mano con autoridades de Laredo y en esta ocasión se les invitó a disfrutar de los atractivos de Expomex. “Hacemos un llamado para que se disfrute de una sana convivencia, de
la artesanía, exposición ganadera, también la cuestión gastronómica”, dijo Rivas. Por su parte, Sáenz disfrutó el recorrido y la exposición artesanal, por lo que exhortó a los laredenses a venir a divertirse. Las autoridades de aprovecharon su visita en los juegos tradicionales del lugar, comola carrera de galgos en la que resultó vencedor el Cónsul de Estados Unidos en Nuevo Laredo Phillip Linderman.
Una revisión de rutina en el tráfico llevó al descubrimiento de varios miles de dólares el jueves por la tarde, de acuerdo a la policía de Laredo. Un oficial del Departamento de Policía de Laredo (LPD por sus siglas en inglés) detuvo un vehículo blanco Mercury Mountaineer en la cuadra 2300 de la calle Louisiana. La policía dijo que la conductora, fue detenida porque estaba utilizando un dispositivo electrónico de comunicación mientras operaba un vehículo motorizado. “Los oficiales notaron que la conductora estaba muy nerviosa”, dijo LPD en un comunicado. Entonces, las autoridades descubrieron una bolsa en el asiento trasero que contenía una gran suma de dinero. La policía entregó el dinero y a la mujer a los agentes especiales de Investigaciones de Seguridad Nacional. Un portavoz de Investigaciones de Seguridad Nacional dijo que el caso permanece activo.
COLUMNA
Nuestra plata de antaño Por Raúl Sinencio Chávez TIEMP O DE ZAPATA
México inicia la vida independiente con dificultades. Tantas, que al comercio exterior aporta escasos productos. Pero uno solo le da renombre, convirtiéndose en importante fuente de ingresos. Nos referimos a la plata, de gran aceptación mundial. Contaba nuestro país con ricos yacimientos de metales preciosos. Los argentíferos predominan. Desde el periodo novohispano, las vetas de Guanajuato, Zacatecas y otras más adquieren fama. Sin embargo, se impide que el producto salga en pasta o minerales a los mercados foráneos.
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Antigua moneda mexicana fabricada en plata.
Lo anterior alienta la emisión de bellas piezas numismáticas. Funciona al efecto la Casa de Moneda capitalina, primera en todo el continente americano. San Luis Potosí tiene la propia, sin quedarse atrás la de Zacatecas, por mencionar algunas. Buen porcentaje de la
plata amonedada va al extranjero. Pureza, gramaje, calidad y demás características distintivas le ganan reconocimiento en remotos e insospechados puntos del orbe. Si bien resellada con punzones, goza de curso legal incluso fronteras afuera. China encabeza la nómina de compradores, seguida de EUA, Francia, España, Inglaterra… Rumbo a los respectivos puertos, en ambos mares, desde el interior de la República parten valiosos cargamentos de manera periódica. Hay casos en que suman cuatro remesas anuales. Reciben el nombre de conductas, transportadas en cajones de madera. Para impedir robos en despoblado, llevan escolta militar, financiada por la
hacienda pública. Existen aparte remisiones a cargo de los particulares, realizadas bajo su cuenta y riesgo. Imperan caminos terrestres en pésimas condiciones. Por consiguiente, los traslados deben hacerse a lomo de mula. Cada bestia soporta hasta 150 kilogramos y puede recorrer 20 kilómetros diarios. Así las cosas, se requieren varias semanas de viaje y enormes recuas, conducidas por arrieros legendarios. A través del océano Pacífico se atienden los pedidos asiáticos. Por el golfo de México, al lado de Veracruz, Tamaulipas ofrece dos enclaves trasatlánticos. Sobre la margen sureña del río Bravo figura el de Matamoros. Fronterizo con la Unión
Americana, es renuente a los controles del gobierno. Las salidas de numerario en 1853 rondan ahí el “millón ¾ de pesos”, conducidos “a la ribera americana … sin pago de derechos”, afirma el vicecónsul británico. Para terminar, he aquí un dato curioso: Al construirse las escolleras, se hace necesario dragar en 1892 la bocana del Pánuco. Aun sin proponérselo, aquello registra tremendo giro cuando del fondo emergen monedas fechadas en 1847. El hallazgo nos recuerda cierto naufragio ocurrido entre 1846 y 1848, al ocupar Tampico huestes del Tío Sam. En tiendas destinadas a coleccionistas, cualquier peso rescatado alcanzaría hoy exorbitantes precios.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Rihanna, Chappelle to raise money for charity
‘Will & Grace’ is making its return By Jane Borden WASHINGTON P O ST
By Mesfin Fekadu A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
NEW YORK — At a Rihanna charity event, she will encourage you to drink heavily — so that you donate generously. The pop star played the role of slick bartender at her third Diamond Ball on Thursday night in New York City, encouraging the audience to drink up and donate money to her foundation at the same time. “The more you drink, the more inspired you’ll be to donate money ... and help kids around the world,” said Rihanna, the founder of the Clara Lionel Foundation, which promotes education and arts globally. The benefit raised more than $5 million. Dave Chappelle worked as Rihanna’s right-hand man. He first told jokes and later joined the auctioneer onstage, even purchasing a Retna art piece for $180,000. “I have the perfect wall for this,” he said. When selling two tickets to the Obama Foundation Fall Summit in Chicago, Chappelle said he would throw in his pocket square. It jumped from $200,000 to $201,000. It eventually sold for $275,000. Jay-Z, Beyonce, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx and Trevor Noah were some of the A-listers who attended the black-tie event, which included a video message from former President Barack Obama. He thanked Rihanna “for the great work” she’s doing with her foundation. “You’ve become a powerful force,” Obama said, in helping people find “hope” and “dignity.” Rihanna launched the
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In this 2016 file photo, Rihanna arrives at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas.
Clara Lionel Foundation in 2012 and named it after her grandparents Clara and Lionel Braithwaite. Many of her family members attended the event and posed for photos on the red carpet with the Grammy-winning singer. The foundation said at the event they were among the first responders to assist those affected by Hurricane Harvey, and that they’re currently strategizing how best to support victims of Hurricane Irma. The organization has a scholarship program and an oncology and nuclear medicine center in Barbados, where Rihanna was born and raised. “It’s exciting to come to New York for the first time. It’s the first Diamond Ball on the East Coast, and we’ve been dying to do something like this for a few years,” Rihanna said in an interview at Cipriani Wall Street. “Now is the perfect time. September is Fashion Week. Everybody is here. And we hope that they are in the mood to give back.”
Kendrick Lamar’s performance went into Friday morning, as he worked the stage excitedly with hits like “Humble,” “Alright” and “Loyalty,” which features Rihanna (she danced in the audience). Calvin Harris, who worked with Rihanna on the hits “We Found Love” and “This Is What You Came For,” followed with a fun DJ set. NFL player Victor Cruz, Latin singer Romeo Santos, entertainer La La Anthony and rappers Lil Kim, Cardi B., Future, Fabolous and Young Thug also attended the event. From the auction held Friday night, Rihanna’s organization raised $840,000. A necklace, featuring 16-carats of white diamonds set in 18-karat white gold, went for $130,000; a visit and tasting for four at the Petrus wine estate, along with lunch at the family’s private mansion in France, sold for $80,000; and a trip for 12 in the Maldives went for $100,000.
While discussing marriage equality on “Meet the Press” in 2012, Vice President Joe Biden said, “I think ‘Will & Grace’ probably did more to educate the American public than almost anything anybody has ever done so far.” This assertion is as much a part of the show’s legacy as actor Megan Mullally’s squeak is. And the idea that TV can lower prejudice is backed by science, in part through the 2006 study “Can One TV Show Make a Difference?” That’s not surprising. “Will & Grace,” which ran on NBC from 1998 to 2006, brought two charming gay men into millions of American living rooms — the first gay leads on a hit sitcom in history. But as the series returns Sept. 28, what can its impact be, in a world where gay marriage is legal, and New York City’s Pride parade sponsors include T-Mobile, Walmart and the Walt Disney Co.? The 2006 study, conducted by Edward Schiappa, Peter Gregg and Dean Hewes, was groundbreaking not for its conclusion but because it discovered how prejudices were reduced. The big news, according to Schiappa, was this finding, quoted from his study: “For those viewers with the fewest direct gay contacts, exposure to ‘Will & Grace’ appears to have the strongest potential influence on reducing sexual prejudice, while for those with many gay friends, there is no significant relationship between levels of prejudice and their exposure to the show.” Schiappa, the head of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, explained over email, “That is what
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This photo shows the starring cast of the "Will & Grace" series revival, all returning to their roles from the original show, from left: Sean Hayes, Megan Mullally, Debra Messing and Eric McCormack in Los Angeles on Sept. 7.
persuaded us that exposure to gay men on television was functioning in the same manner as interpersonal contact.” He and his team drew on the work of Gordon Allport, who in 1954 solidified research proving that contact between minority groups and majority groups can reduce prejudice in the latter. (There are qualifications to the contact, however, including that people must feel of equal status and must not be opposed by an outside authority.) Basically, Schiappa’s team determined that Allport’s theory applies to mass media. Their new theory, the Parasocial Contact Hypothesis, has been cited 399 times and counting in subsequent publications. The team confirmed the theory with follow-up studies on “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” and “Six Feet Under.” Schiappa explains: “Our work proved that viewers learned, and that learning reduced stereotypes. Will and Jack were quite different gay men, and the Fab 5 in ‘Queer Eye’ were all quite different. That taught viewers a lot about the category of gay men.”
Their work appeared in Newsweek before either of the studies was published. But minimizing homophobia was never the intention of “Will & Grace” creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan. “Our directive was to write a romantic comedy,” Kohan says. A traditional rom-com needs an obstacle to keep the man and woman apart. “The more insurmountable the obstacle,” Kohan explains, “the longer the show can go.” Making one of the two characters gay certainly provides an obstacle. Mutchnick adds, “If we had been trying to make social commentary, we definitely wouldn’t have lasted.” The duo was merely following the artist’s adage to write what you know. When asked whether they plan to continue tackling LGBT issues in the new version, Kohan replies, “Especially the B and T parts of those letters,” but clarifies, “not because it’s an expectation but because it makes for interesting stories, because it’s stuff that comes up in people’s lives in the writing room.”
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McDonald’s to switch out US rig count Happy Meal apple juice drops by 8 this week
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NEW YORK — The Happy Meal is getting a new apple juice. McDonald’s says it will swap out Minute Maid juice cartons for an organic one by Honest Kids. Both brands are made by the Coca-Cola Co., but the Honest Kids juice has half the calories and less sugar. The move is the latest by the fast-food company to try and appeal to customer’s changing tastes. It has removed, for example, artificial preservatives and other ingredients from its Chicken McNuggets. And over the years, McDonald’s has added apple slices and
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HOUSTON — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. fell by eight this week to 936. That’s up from the 506 rigs that were active a year ago. Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes said Friday that 749 rigs sought oil and 186 explored for natural gas this week. One was listed as miscellaneous. McDonald’s / AP
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Harvey clouds US economy as retail, factories take hits By Shobhana Chandra BL O O MBE RG
Hurricane Harvey is taking a swipe at the U.S. economy this quarter, though not all of the slowdown can be blamed on the storm. Three reports on Friday put the impact of the Texas flooding into focus: Retail sales fell last month, according to the Commerce Department; Harvey pushed down factory production in August, the Federal Reserve said; and concern about the economic and inflationary effects of Harvey and Hurricane Irma led consumer sentiment to fall in September, a University of Michigan survey showed. The fallout from the storms will take some momentum off thirdquarter growth and then probably boost activity later this year and into 2018, when rebuilding efforts are under way. The swings will make it tougher to gauge the underlying health of the economy for several months, though analysts expect steady hiring and healthier finances will sustain growth, albeit at a slower pace. “The third quarter is going to look very soft, and most of that will reflect the near-term impact of the storms,” said Richard Moody, chief economist at Re-
Among major oil- and gas-producing states, West Virginia added one rig. Louisiana and Texas each lost three rigs. Colorado, New Mexico and North Dakota each shed one. Alaska, California, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah and Wyoming were unchanged. The U.S. rig count peaked at 4,530 in 1981. It bottomed out in May of 2016 at 404.
The economy grew at a 3 percent annualized rate last quarter, the fastest in two years. Consumer spending, the biggest part of the economy, may now be hard pressed to match the 3.3 percent gain of the second quarter.
gions Financial Corp. in Birmingham, Alabama. While not all of the weakness in demand was related to Harvey, “it doesn’t mean the consumer fundamentals have suddenly deteriorated.” The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow tracking estimate of third-quarter growth eased to a 2.2 percent annual rate from 3 percent a week ago, while economists at Barclays Plc reduced their tracking projection to 2 percent from the previous day’s 2.6 percent. Michael Englund, chief economist at Action Economics LLC, cut his gross domestic product forecast to 2.6 percent from 3 percent, while raising it for the OctoberDecember period to 3 percent from 2.8 percent. The economy grew at a 3 percent annualized rate last quarter, the fastest in two years. Consumer spending, the biggest part of the economy, may now be hard pressed to match the 3.3 percent
gain of the second quarter. Weaker results at auto dealerships played a big role in the pullback in retail sales, partly reflecting the hurricane impact and also the ongoing slowdown in the industry. Purchases at vehicles and parts dealers dropped 1.6 percent in August after no change in July. Overall, only five of 13 major retail categories showed a decline last month, while furniture outlets and restaurants posted sales gains. Sales at nonstore retailers fell 1.1 percent in August following an upwardly revised 1.8 percent gain. Some of that may have been payback after Internet-driven purchases got a boost in July from Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime Day event. This, rather than the storm impact, may be “a more plausible alibi” for the sales setback, Michael Feroli, chief U.S. economist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York, said in a note.
“Rather than comb the data for apparent anomalies it may be fairer to say that after a very strong Q2 consumers are taking a bit of a breather this quarter,” Feroli wrote. The Commerce Department said in a special notice that it couldn’t isolate the effect of Hurricane Harvey on the data because it tracks activity on a national scale. The Fed, on the other hand, issued a note saying it made some assumptions about output in affected areas when actual data weren’t available, using procedures similar to previous major weather events. Factory output wavered in August after Harvey slammed into the nation’s energy heartland. The decline was the largest since May and reflected a 0.9 percent slump in the production of non-durable goods including chemicals and petroleum, the worst since January 2014. Even so, the steady pace of underlying demand in the U.S., combined with improving overseas markets, bodes well for the manufacturing outlook. The New York Fed’s so-called Empire State index on Friday showed factory activity in that area continued to expand strongly in September after reaching an almost three-year high last month.
Oil caps best week since July By Meenal Vamburkar BL OOMBERG
Oil had its biggest weekly gain since late July as Texas refineries recovering from Hurricane Harvey processed more crude and global demand forecasts brightened. Futures rose 5.1 percent this week in New York, settling just below the $50-a-barrel threshold that’s kept the industry in thrall. The increase was buoyed by higher demand forecasts from the International Energy Agency and expectations OPEC and its partners will extend output cuts beyond the March expiration date of their deal. “The narrative in the market is that demand has really picked up,” said John Kilduff, a partner at New York-based hedge Again Capital LLC. “As a result, we’ve gotten this push higher.” Nearly a quarter of U.S. refining capacity was shuttered in the wake of Harvey. Two weeks later, only three Gulf Coast refineries remain shut, according to the Department of Energy. The rest — including Motiva Enterprises LLC’s Port Arthur refinery, the nation’s largest -- are gradually coming back online, helping boost crude demand. At the same time, the Paris-based IEA said on Wednesday it expects global demand to climb this year by the most since 2015 while the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its partners were said to be discussing an extension of its deal to cut output be-
yond its March expiration. “People are looking for the price to go ahead and settle above $50 a barrel, but they need some more than just the current news,” Michael Lynch, president of Strategic Energy & Economic Research in Winchester, Massachusetts, said by telephone. “We need a couple good inventory reports or perhaps some bearish supply data from Libya or from the U.S. shale patch.” West Texas Intermediate futures for October delivery ended the session on the New York Mercantile Exchange at $49.89, unchanged from the highest close since July 31 on Thursday. Brent for November settlement closed 15 cents higher at $55.62 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. Prices advanced 3.4 percent this week. The global benchmark crude traded at a premium of $5.18 to November WTI. Meanwhile, the U.S. oil rig count fell for the fourth time in five weeks, according to Baker Hughes data released Friday. Rigs decreased by seven to 749. The decline included drops in Texas’ Permian and Eagle Ford shale basins. “The feel-good factor appears to have returned to the oil market,” said Stephen Brennock, an analyst at PVM Oil Associates Ltd. “Underpinning the prevailing sentiment is the positive afterglow of this week’s frenzy of bullish oil demand forecasts from the leading energy agencies.”
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FROM THE COVER Boy gets lawn-mowing gig at White House By Catherine Lucey and Ken Thomas A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
WASHINGTON — An 11-year-old boy in khaki shorts and a red polo shirt got the lawn-mowing gig of a lifetime Friday when President Donald Trump put him to work in the Rose Garden. Frank Giaccio, who goes by the initials FX, was so focused on doing his job that he didn’t even notice when Trump emerged from the White House to check out his
POLICE From page A1 assistance from the COPS office in areas such as active shooter training, how to prevent gun violence and officers safety and wellness. The department said the office will still offer information on “best practices,” but it will no longer provide the kind of lengthy investigations, town hall meetings and public audits it did in the past. Under the Obama administration, at least 15 departments sought reform through the collab-
FX said he normally charges $8 per lawn but decided to mow the White House lawn free of charge. work. FX, who lives in the Washington suburb of Falls Church, Virginia, kept right on pushing the mower in a long, straight row as Trump walked alongside him. When the boy finally paused, the president called him the “future of the country right here” and asked what he wants to be when he grows up.
“A Navy seal!” Trump exclaimed. “Well, he’ll make it.” Standing with FX and his father, Trump added: “We’ll bring them into the Oval Office. Maybe he’ll be president.” Just how did FX make it to the Rose Garden? The White House said FX had written to Trump to say he admires the president’s business acumen
orative reform process, many after deadly shootings involving police roiled the community. The department will end the collaborative reform agreements it had finished with seven cities. Seven other cities were still awaiting the department’s findings, including North Charleston, South Carolina, where a white police officer fatally shot a black man in the back as he fled following a traffic stop. The department indicated it would allow those cities to opt into the new assistance program.
Ron Davis, who ran the COPS office under Obama, said the old program was a way to help cities before their problems escalated to the point where they needed a costly court-appointed monitor to fix them. Other Justice Department grants provide training for things like mass shootings and fighting violence, he said. “It wasn’t adversarial. It wasn’t an investigation. It was assistance,” he said. “To take that way leaves those agencies kind of lacking the kind of support they need.”
RYAN From page A1 They understand that yes, we do need to secure our border; yes, we do have an opioid problem; yes, we do have an MS-13 problem; yes, we do actually agree that we have to do this,” Ryan said. Still, Ryan said partisan politics could complicate the issue. Democrats “will have to stomach” that an immigration bill is likely to be perceived as a political victory for Trump,
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Shown is Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin.
adding that it would be “a real mistake” for Democrats to oppose the bill simply because they dislike Trump. “If you are a politician
and you’re partisan and you don’t want to see him be successful, that will be a tough pill to swallow,” Ryan said. Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have said they reached agreement with Trump on legislation that would offer eventual citizenship to the immigrants in question. Republicans say talks focused on making permanent the protections offered under Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, commonly referred to as DACA.
and runs his own neighborhood lawn-care business. “It’s probably the biggest day of my life so far,” FX said afterward. He added that his day was “jam-packed” with media interviews, watering plants, mowing the lawn and visiting the Oval Office with his dad. “It was a lot bigger than I thought,” he said. FX said he normally charges $8 per lawn but decided to mow the White House lawn free of charge.
TROOPS From page A1 armed forces. McCain of Arizona said in a statement that any service member, including those who are transgender, who meets the standards for military readiness and medical fitness should be permitted to serve. “When less than 1 percent of Americans are volunteering to join the military, we should welcome all those who are willing and able to serve our country,” McCain said. The bill is an attempt to establish protections for transgender troops in law, cutting off Trump’s efforts to kick service members out based on their gender identity. Trump tweeted in July that he would ban transgender
STATUE From page A1 to an abandoned naval air station owned by the city on its western outskirts. It’s expected to remain there until city officials decide the statue’s future. The 14-foot-tall, 6-ton
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11-year-old Frank "FX" Giaccio, left, high fives U.S. President Donald Trump while mowing the grass in the Rose Garden of the White House on Friday in Washington, D.C.
troops from serving anywhere in the U.S. military. The directive caught the Pentagon flat-footed as defense officials struggled to explain what they called Trump’s guidance. About a month later the president issued more formal instructions, directing the Pentagon to indefinitely extend a ban on transgender individuals joining the military. But Trump also gave Mattis six months to come up with a policy on how to address those currently serving, leaving the door open to permitting their continued service. Mattis has said the Pentagon will develop a plan that “will promote military readiness, lethality and unit cohesion.” In his memo released Friday, Mattis said the
deputy defense secretary and the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs will lead a panel that will determine how the department will implement the ban. Outside experts may be included to provide additional advice. The Pentagon refused to release the memo, but provided a summary. According to the Pentagon, Mattis made clear in his memo that the current policies on transgender troops remain in effect. He said transgender individuals can continue to serve in the military and continue to receive any required medical care. That interim guidance laid out in the memo will stay in effect until Feb. 21, when the Pentagon must complete its final plan on how and when transgender individuals may serve in the military.
statue depicting Lee on horseback flanked by an anonymous Confederate soldier was erected in what was originally called Oak Lawn Park. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the statue in 1936 as part of the Texas Centennial celebration. The Dallas City Coun-
cil voted Sept. 6 to remove the statue but was met with a series of delays, including a brief court stay obtained by a pro-Confederacy group and a collision last Sunday between a semitrailer and a crane assigned to remove the statue. The driver of the semitrailer was killed in the crash.
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