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A&M prepares for resurgence of H1N1 World Health Organization raises level to six, indicating a worldwide pandemic
Rebekah Skelton The Battalion The H1N1 virus, also know as swine flu, is expected to return in full force this fall. The World Health Organization raised the pandemic level of novel influenza A, or H1N1, to Phase 6 on June 11, indicating a worldwide pandemic. “It reached pandemic proportions not because of its severity, but because of its infectivity,” said Brazos County Health Services Division Director Julie Anderson. “It’s easily spread. That’s how it reached global proportions in about four months.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of countries reporting cases of H1N1 has almost doubled since the pandemic was declared. “I don’t remember too many students who got the swine flu [last semester],” said former student body president Mark Gold, a senior biomedical science major. “This summer I’ve heard of a lot of people who got the swine flu in high population areas, like summer camps.” Swine flu is spread from person to person through respiratory droplets, which is
why it is important to wash your hands and clothes frequently, cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze and not eat or drink after anyone. “When we cough, sneeze, play with our noses and talk, we leave that droplet and other people breathe it in,” Anderson said. With so many people on campus every day, it is especially important to take the necessary precautions to avoid becoming infected with the virus. “Any time you get a group of people in a relatively confined space, and you have one person who has a particular illness,
it’s easy to get passed on,” said A.P. Beutel Health Center staff physician Ed Styduhar. “The majority of the people that come here, you are going to assume they would be in pretty good health. Those that don’t take care of themselves are going to be more prone to contract an illness then those that take care of themselves.” Swine flu symptoms are similar to symptoms of the seasonal flu. These symptoms include fever, lethargy, lack of appetite, coughing, sore throat, runny nose, nausea, See Flu on page 2
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Catching the spirit Fish camp welcomes class of 2013 Clockwise from top: Yell leaders have a yell practice on the first night of session B of Fish Camp, at Lakeview Methodist Conference Center in Palestine, Texas. Members of session B, blue group, Camp Dobiyanski, participate in a discussion group Saturday at Fish Camp. Senior yell leader Reagan Thompson does a backflip into a pool at Fish Camp Saturday. The yell leaders had a practice victory yell, using the pool as a substitute for Fish Pond.
Professor nominated for Obama’s staff Texas A&M nuclear engineering research professor Warren F. Miller Jr. has been nominated to serve as assistant secretary for nuclear energy and director of the office of civilian radioactive waste management to President Barack Obama. “The ASNE position requires oversight of the department’s nuclear energy research and development portfolio, which adds up to about $850 million and funds research
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at national laboratories and universities,” Miller said. “The [radioactive waste management] position requires oversight of the department’s programs to manage radioactive waste from defense and civilian nuclear reactor activities.” Though nominated for two positions, Miller could be appointed for one. Miller appeared for questioning before the Senate committee during a confirmation hearing July 28. “The committee now
needs to vote on the nomination and decide whether or not to send the nomination to the full Senate for confirmation,” Miller said. “This should happen over the next few weeks.” If chosen, Miller will serve for at least one presidential term. “I am honored to be nominated to a position of service to my country,” Miller said. “It will be a great challenge.” Alex Worsham, staff writer
Apartment fire displaces students A College Station apartment complex caught fire Sunday morning, displacing more than 30 residents. “Quite a few were students,” said College Station Fire Department public information officer Bart Humphreys. The fire started at 10 a.m. at the Pepper Tree Apartments on Longmire Drive in College Station, and was under control within an hour. No one was injured in the fire, but 16 units in the complex sustained damage. The American Red Cross and Texas A&M University’s Critical Incident Response Team responded to help the displaced residents. “They’re helping people who were displaced by the fire get the necessities they need,” Humphreys said. “The CIRT team also assists students if they lose books and things like that … to minimize the interruption in their educational experience.” The fire was caused by a child playing with a lighter, he said. Julie Rambin, staff writer
The Battalion The City of Bryan is launching the Be Green in Bryan program this fall. “This is a sustainability program designed to guide the city on projects and policies related to sustainability issues, waste and parks,” said sustainability programs coordinator Mary Strauss. “There are several different areas we’re trying to expand and research.” The sustainability programs office will have a series of free workshops on the second floor of the Bryan Public Library to teach residents about ways they can preserve resources.
Workshops Aug. 24, Rainwater Harvesting 101 Sept. 4, Worm Composting 101 Oct. 5, Greening Your Home 101 Nov. 5, Home Energy Efficiency Dec. 1, Green Living 101 “Green Living in December gives [residents] the basics to go green as their New Year’s resolution,” said Struass. In addition to the Green Living workshops, the sustainability programs office will provide a Be Green in Bryan training program on Oct. 24. This program will train its attendees to teach environmental sustainability to other groups. “The first step in going green is to educate yourself on what that means: meeting the needs of the present without affecting the future,” Strauss said. The program also has a twice-monthly segment on the City of Bryan television show Bryan Living and Learning. “We did a segment about eating locally, we talked about Camp Energy and we did a segment about the greenhouse See Green on page 2
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Six wins or bust for Aggies David Harris
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t about this time last year, Aggie fans were looking forward to the 2008 season with confidence. New coach Mike Sherman brought with him an NFL pedigree and gave the Aggie faithful a renewed sense of optimism based on the sheer fact that he was not Dennis Franchione. Well, following game one of the Sherman era, against Arkansas State, the program had endured, at Kyle Field mind you, the worst loss in its history, and it became painfully obvious to anybody with a pair of eyes that Aggie football’s cupboard was bare. The talent discrepancy between A&M and most of the Big 12 was frightful. The team looked slow. The defense couldn’t even spell “Wrecking Crew,” much less live up to its name. And, the offense was crippled by an inept line suffering from inexperience and injuries. There were historical blowouts at Kyle Field, there was a loss to Baylor and there was an embarrassment on national television against Texas. The ending result was 4-8, but it seemed so much worse than that. Is this what we have to look forward to during the era of Sherman? Is our talent level really this watered down? And, how is Texas A&M competing with Iowa State for the honor of being the worst team in the Big 12? Coach Sherman and the Aggies come into the 2009 season just hoping to improve. Sherman arrived in Aggieland and found that the team left over from Franchione’s butchery lacked the speed and talent to compete in the Big 12 South. Now, after an incoming freshman class that is full of much-needed speed and a 2010 class that is shaping up to be one of the best in the country, Aggie optimists are starting to drink the maroon kool-aid once more. If they’re smart, they’ll slowly put the cup down because, though Sherman is building something, this process is just beginning. This team is going to be young and inexperienced, to say the least. Upwards of seven freshmen could regularly see the field. For the future, that’s fine and dandy, but for now, it’s bad news. Who would’ve ever thought that Aggie football would be praying for a sixwin season? Well, six wins is the goal for this particular squad. Six wins means that they will get a bowl game with a national audience to show that Texas A&M football is, indeed, on the way up. It’s just that getting there seems unlikely given the cur-
rent circumstances. The defense will be improved, granted, but that is not saying much considering that the unit gave up almost 38 points per game last year. There are, however, some positives out there. Defensive lineman and linebacker Von Miller looks like he will be able to provide some semblance of a pass rush on the outside from the “Jack” position. Trent Hunter and Terrence Frederick will be looking to build on their impressive freshman seasons in the secondary. And, incoming freshmen Jonathan Stewart and Stephen Terrell will provide more talent to a unit that was severely lacking last season. However, in all honesty, who on this defense can shadow Robert Griffin of Baylor? Who is going to cover Dez Bryant when Oklahoma State invades Kyle in October? Who’s going to pressure Colt McCoy or Sam Bradford? Plain and simple, the defense is still too slow and too young to consistently keep up with the high-powered Big 12 South offenses. On the offensive side of the ball, things should get interesting. The skill position players actually stack up with that of the Big 12. Jerrod Johnson looks as if he will come into his own this season. Jeff Fuller has had an unbelievable off-season and, in just his sophomore season, should be a legitimate No. 1 receiver. “Jeff Fuller is a man amongst boys,” Johnson said. And, Cyrus Gray, Bradley Stephens and freshman Christine Michael comprise one of the top running back trios in the conference. As talented as that group is, the offensive line holds the key to a successful season, and this particular group was one of the worst in the country last season. Jerrod Johnson was running for his life before the ball was snapped. Running backs were getting hit in the backfield. They were slow and they could not move people off the line. Now, they are counting on a converted defensive lineman to play left tackle, and we are supposed to expect this offense to try and keep up with the likes of Texas Tech and Oklahoma State? The schedule, however, is something to take solace in. There are three winnable games at home to start the year off. They get the three weakest teams from the Big 12 North. And, they don’t have to play a true road game until Oct. 17. Nonetheless, I still envision this team going 5-7, good for last in the Big 12 South, with wins over New Mexico, Utah State, UAB, Iowa State and Kansas State. Sherman has this program going in the right direction. It is going to be a slow process, though. The Aggie fan should expect to endure a very long 2009 season. David Harris is a junior economics major. EDITOR’S NOTE: For a more optimistic outlook on this year’s football season, see Brett Sebastian’s column on page 4.
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Aggie sophomore defensive back Trent Hunter goes for the tackle against Kansas State in 2008. Hunter was one of several young players to emerge last year.
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Texas A&M junior quarterback Jerrod Johnson gets tackled by a player from Miami in 2008. Scenes like this became commonplace during A&M’s 4-8 2008 campaign.
Aggie football prepares for a redemption year David Harris The Battalion Winning at Texas A&M football has become a tradition ever since Jackie Sherrill took over the post in the early 1980s. Through the 1990s, conference championships were competed for every single year. Making a bowl wasn’t an accomplishment, rather it was an expectation. A score of 4-8 didn’t even enter the equation. But, last season, 4-8 happened. As did losses to Arkansas State and Baylor. And, after Texas blew the Aggies out on Thanksgiving, the season, what many called the most disheartening year in the program’s storied history, was finally over. “I put it on the players,” said junior quarterback Jerrod Johnson. “We haven’t performed the way we should.” In 2008, several players chose not to buy into first year head coach Mike Sherman’s schemes and philosophy. The team has stressed a major improvement in locker room chemistry. “You can blame a lot of last
year’s problems on transition, but it all starts with the players,” said junior offensive lineman Lucas Patterson. “The chemistry has improved greatly. There used to be groups and cliques, but those have dissipated.” The Aggie faithful, while frustrated with the lack of success, still remain faithful to their team through and through. “Last season was rough, said senior finance major Christopher Johnson. “But Aggies are always optimistic, and there’s nowhere else to go but up.” “I love our fans,” Jerrod Johnson said. “I love our student body. They expect us to do well. We’re confident in ourselves, our coaches and our team.” Sophomore defensive back Trent Hunter hopes the fans will recognize that the struggles of the past are in the past. “I think the fans need to come out with their heads held high,” Hunter said. “I think fans can appreciate the hard work we have put in, not for ourselves, but for them and the A&M program.”
Ssome are keeping their head up and expect good things from the future of the program. “Last year was an emotional rollercoaster,” said senior education major Carrie McKnight. “I expect the team to be a little more consistent this year and really go out there and prove to the Big 12 that we’re still here.” With the facilities that the school has provided, the fan base in place and the recruiting hotbeds of Dallas and Houston only a couple hours away, expectations for the team are always going to be lofty. “There’s a huge responsibility at hand in rebuilding this,” Sherman said. “I’ve realized that responsibility and understood it when I took the job.” Taking into account the team’s inexperience and last season’s showing, the expectations have lowered exponentially for 2009. But, the pieces have been put in place to start rebuilding the program back to its once storied state. “Brotherhood, togetherness,” Jerrod Johnson said. “It feels like we’ve got a special
bond; a different feel for the game. We’ve recruited speed and it’s going to be fun and exciting.” So, 11 years after the 1998 team won the Big 12 Championship, the Texas A&M football team faces quite possibly the most important season in recent memory given the state of the program. “I’m giving all I can every single day,” Hunter said. “Coach Sherman isn’t going to rest until we’re back.” While Sherman sees improvement in the team, the first thing he will acknowledge is still how far they have to go. “We’re very proud of our football team,” Sherman said. “They’ve been challenged and have accepted the challenge and so far have risen above my expectations as far as their commitment. They’ve had a great winter program, summer and now in springtime. I’m excited about them and what they are bringing to the table. But we still have a lot of work to do. We have to do it on the field on game day.”
Passing for perfection ■ Quarterback Jerrod Johnson prepares to lead the Aggies in 2009. David Harris The Battalion 2008 was a year of transition for the Texas A&M football team. Nowhere was this more evident than at the quarterback position. Senior Stephen McGee injured his shoulder in the second game of the season at New Mexico and sophomore Jerrod Johnson was thrust into the starting role. In 10 starts, Johnson threw for 2,435 yards and 21 touchdown passes. However, the team went 3-7 with him at the helm, and Johnson threw six interceptions in the last three games. “Those last games, he didn’t have a chance,” said Head Coach Mike Sherman. “He was running for his life. Nonetheless, he has to work on his ball security issues and making better decisions. Last year, we had too many untimely turnovers.” Johnson comes into the 2009 season as the favorite in a quarterback competition with sophomore Ryan Tannehill, a key receiver for the Aggie offense last season. “[Tannehill’s] gone through the summer workouts with our receivers,” Sherman said. “He and Jerrod are throwing every day. They’re working with those young kids on their own, getting them ready to play. I think Ryan is a quick study and I think he will compete and give this challenge everything he has.” Tannehill competed at quarterback for almost two weeks last season before becoming a wide receiver. “The competition is nothing new to me,” Johnson said. “Coach Sherman is
giving [Tannehill] the opportunity that he promised. I’m confident in what I can do.” Johnson, in his 12 games, took the all-time A&M record for passing touchdowns by a quarterback, with 21. Previously Dustin Long and Gary Kubiak held that record, with 19. Johnson ranks fifth on the all-time list in season passing yards, with 2,435. Johnson’s biggest weapon this fall will be sophomore wide receiver Jeff Fuller. Fuller led the Aggies with nine touchdowns in 50 receptions, enough to make him A&M’s all-time leader in receiving touchdowns. “Jeff really struggled in spring football a year ago, and then all of a sudden he comes out in the fall and really starts putting things together,” Sherman said. “Jeff Fuller has just scratched the surface as a receiver in this conference and in this division. There are so many things he can do so much better, and he will be so much better.” If Johnson does win the starting job, he is looking to provide some consistency to a position that demands it. This off-season, he has addressed all the things that flawed him in his first season in Coach Sherman’s pro-style, west coast offense. “Being in the west coast offense, I’ve got to get the ball out of my hands quicker,” Johnson said. “Jerrod has made a lot of progress,” Sherman said. “He has a much better grasp on the offense.” Johnson’s ties to the program go beyond his own time here. His father, Larry, played defensive back and receiver for the Aggies in the late 1970s. Larry Johnson passed away in December 2007 after a stroke, and during that period, Jerrod received many condolences from the Aggie family. “My dad played at A&M, so they had a good understanding of the situation,” John-
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Junior A&M quarterback Jerrod Johnson started in 2008 and is battling for that privilege in 2009. son said. “The Aggie family is strongest in situations such as that.” Now, with that behind him, Jerrod possesses a title that brings immense amounts of both scrutiny and praise: Texas A&M quarterback. The position will be looked at more closely given the current state of the program. And, with a full off-season under his belt, Johnson is looking forward to the pressure that will be placed upon his shoulders come September. “It comes with the territory,” Johnson said. “To play quarterback at A&M is, in and of itself, pressure-filled. But, going into the second year of the offense, I’m confident.”
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First football game The Texas A&M football game takes place Sept. 5 at 6 p.m. against New Mexico. A&M won last year’s game at New Mexico 28-22 for their first win of the year.
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s the 2009 football season approaches, many Aggies can’t help but feel a sense of dread. After the 4-8 disaster that was 2008, it is hard not to feel some sense of helplessness after all we had to endure last season. I remember vividly making a joke in the third quarter of the first game against Arkansas State. “If we don’t get this thing going we might actually lose this game,” which met with all kinds of laughter. Then again, that is the kind of arrogance that hasn’t exactly helped this program. A&M has had a sense of football entitlement for years, when in hindsight it is clear that there is a reason we were lucky to crack the top 25 on occasion. But the good news about hitting rock bottom is that one can’t go further down. The 2008 season was the culmination of several years of terrible football decisions, such as the focus on running the ball and sheer strength instead of speed and passing, as the rest of the Big 12 has gone. Many players had checked out in their final season, leaving the younger players to the fire. Some, like Trent Hunter,
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Race for the trophy ■ The Heisman competition carries over to 2009 with Bradford and McCoy. Brett Sebastian The Battalion In 2008, the Big 12 played host to three of the four prime Heisman trophy candidates. Texas Tech’s Graham Harrell, Texas’ Colt McWeand make it easySam to...BradCoy, Oklahoma’s ford, along with Florida’s Tim Tebow combined to run away with the Heisman voting. In the end Tebow, McCoy and Bradford were all finalists and made the trip to New York City for the Heisman presentation. Bradford won the Heisman, but while Harrell graduated, McCoy, Bradford and Tebow all opted to return to their campuses and make a final run at the national championship and the Heisman trophy. Because of that decision, the Big We make it easy to... 12 is now home to a Heisman finalist and a Heisman winner. They happen to be the quarterbacks of the conference’s two premier teams in Texas and Oklahoma, which have combined to win seven of the past nine Big 12 championships. Despite the high level of competition between the quarterbacks, the three have become friends over the course of their fight for one trophy. “If you had told me I would be friends with the Texas quarterback WeI first make it easy to eat... when came in I would have looked at you strange,” Bradford said. “Colt and I both see past the fact that we play at rival schools.” Regardless of how good their
2008 years were, both Texas coach Mack Brown and Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops believe their quarterbacks have room to improve. “I think Colt can improve,” Brown said. “He studied film so much to see every little glitch like he felt he had last year. So if there was a fumble, if there was an interception or incompletion, he’s looking at how he can get better.” “It’s going to be hard to improve on those stats,” Stoops said. “In the www. .com end,villagefoods we’re not concerned with statistics. It’s doing what you need to do and manage the game, avoid turnovers, make smart plays, be consistent like he has been, and not to force things.” While Tebow won the Heisman in 2007 and Bradford won in 2008, there is no clear-cut favorite for the trophy in 2009 outside of Bradford, McCoy and Tebow. The only player to win two Heismans is Archie Griffin, who won in 1974 and 1975 with Ohio State University. So much of a player’s www. villagefoods .com chances to win the trophy depend on their team’s performance in the regular season. The last Heisman winner to not have his team in the national championship game was former Southern California quarterback Carson Palmer, who won in 2002 while USC finished ranked No. 7. Bradford believes that winning a Heisman has as much to do with one’s team as individual performance. “It’s given to an individual when www. villagefoods it’s based on team .com performance,” Bradford said. “This award is for Gerald [McCoy] and Jermaine [Gresham] and the team just as much as it is for me.”
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Jeff Fuller and others, fought all the way to the end of the season, while putting up numbers and showing onthe-field determination that hadn’t been seen in College Station in years, if ever. Then, of course, there were the injuries, best characterized by Lee Grimes, who had such a list of injuries it seemed the man was being held together by duct tape and will power. But that was 2008, and that was rock bottom. Now it is 2009, and time to move up. After the disaster that was A&M’s 2008 non-conference schedule, it would seem hard to believe that the Aggies’ first three games this year are winnable, but they are. In 2008, many core players, who would later develop, were in their first few games. There was also a quarterback switch when Jerrod Johnson was suddenly thrust into the starting role. After a year in the furnace that is the Big 12, those games against New Mexico, Utah State and University of Alabama-Birmingham, all of which take place at Kyle Field, should be wins. The first real game comes against Arkansas. How A&M responds to that game will be crucial. After Arkansas comes the first of the three “unwinnables,” games A&M has against teams competing not just for the Big 12 championship but for the national championship. Oklahoma State, Oklahoma and Texas should not be counted on as wins. After those games, A&M should be a factor in all the rest. While it seems like years ago, A&M gave national championship contender Texas Tech
all the fight it could handle, and the Raiders always prepare for A&M, so the argument that the Aggies caught them by surprise doesn’t work. For those scared about the Baylor game, two factors are being forgotten. First of all, this game is in College Station, secondly, Baylor graduated the second overall pick in the 2009 NFL draft, offensive lineman Jason Smith, which gave the dreaded Robert Griffin all the time in the world to pick apart defenses. If you don’t think A&M will be fired up for this game, you don’t know this team’s mindset. Last year’s injury-riddled team with several players already checked out and adapting to a new system went 4-8. Now they have a healthy team, with good new recruits coming in, with everyone on board, along with a year of experience. This isn’t a team that Aggies should fear will finish last in the big 12 south by a mile. This is a team that can finish in the middle of the Big 12 south pack and end with six wins and go to a bowl. No one is saying this team is going to compete for titles, but this is a team on the rise. ESPN ranks next year’s recruiting class as 10th in the nation. The young players showed flashes of brilliance last year despite the muck, and Coach Sherman has the feel of a guy who can get this thing turned around. Brett Sebastian is the sports editor and a senior geography major. EDITOR’S NOTE: For a less optimistic outlook on this year’s football season, see David Harris’s column on page 3.
Patterson steps up on O-line David Harris The Battalion Texas A&M’s offensive line struggled throughout 2008, one year after having one of the better offensive lines in the nation with three NFL draft picks. Quarterbacks were frequently left vulnerable as the line gave up 39 sacks for the season. Running backs had trouble finding consistent holes to run through, averaging three yards per carry. The offensive line was just one of many aspects of a team that was lacking during a 4-8 campaign. The group struggled with inexperience and injuries. Players were heading onto the field every week with bumps and bruises. Players were being inserted into positions they were unaccustomed to. All of these inconsistencies resulted in a unit that ranked as one of the worst in the BCS, giving up 39 sacks. “On the offensive line, we just lacked the depth that we needed to get through a season,” said Head Coach
Mike Sherman. “You know, the guys that we played with, they gave us everything they had. I have no question about their effort, their toughness. At times it was good enough, and other Patterson times it wasn’t.” In order to add more depth, the coaching staff converted junior defensive lineman Lucas Patterson into an offensive lineman toward the end of the 2008 season. Patterson had 39 tackles during the 2008 season and has been named the starting left tackle going into two-a-day practices. “Coach Sherman told me that I could help up there,” said Patterson. “I was recruited to A&M as an offensive lineman. It’s made learning the footwork and technique a lot easier.” Patterson is assuming the role of leader by example. “Hard work and determination explains Lucas,” said sophomore safety
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Charges of corruption rise along border McALLEN, Texas — Corruption along the U.S.Mexican border takes many forms. It can start as simply as a smuggler’s $50 gift to the child of a reluctant federal agent, quickly escalating to out-andout bribes. “Everyone does it,� an agent, now in prison, recalls telling himself. Other times, county sheriffs greedily grab thousands from drug dealers. In a few instances, traffickers even place members in the applicant pool for sensitive border protection jobs. An Associated Press investigation has found U.S. law officers who work the border are being charged with criminal corruption in numbers not seen before, as drug and immigrant smugglers use money and sometimes sex to buy protection, and internal investigators crack down. Based on Freedom of Information Act requests, interviews with sentenced agents and a review of court records, the AP tallied corruption-related convictions against more than 80 enforcement officials at all levels — federal, state and local — since 2007, shortly after Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared war on the cartels that peddle up to $39 billion worth of drugs in the United States each year. “To get drugs into the United States the one you need to corrupt is the American authority, the American customs, the American police — not the Mexican. And that’s a subject, by the way, which hasn’t been addressed with sincerity,� the Mexican president said. Associated Press
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