BENTON, Calif. — The burly La-brador retriever sticks out hiswide snout to sniff the dirt anddusty air. He’s clearly excited

as he runs, yelping, through the highdesert of California’s Eastern Sierra re-gion.

“Buster, go find!” Paul Dostie com-mands.

They are a team, the black Lab andthe retired police officer. For years, theyhave worked together to unlock myster-ies — to find the bodies of fighting menwho fell long ago on foreign battlefields,or of victims of unsolved crimes or dis-appearances. In all, Dostie says that Bus-

UNLOCKING MYSTERIES

THE HELP OF A DOG

Buster hangs his tongue out during a break while searching an area near Bishop, Calif., on Sept. 20. For years, Buster and his owner Paul Dostiehave worked together to unlock mysteries, to find the bodies of fighting men, or of victims of unsolved crimes or disappearances.

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‘Cadaver dog’ work more accepted by cops, courts

An old newspaper and missing child poster sit on a table at the Plumas County Sheriff’s Depart-ment in Quincy, Calif., on Sept. 22. They are related to the case of Mark Wilson, who was 13when he disappeared in 1967.

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Firefights echoed in Nuevo Laredo, Mexicoover the weekend, leaving three dead and sev-eral detained in clashes between gunmen andthe Mexican military, according to the Tamau-lipas attorney general’s office.

The gun battles occurred following a recenttravel warning to Mexico issued by the U.S.Department of State on Oct. 10. U.S. citizensare urged to “defer non-essential travel” to Ta-maulipas, the warning states.

The warning goes on to mention four spe-cific cities in Tamaulipas, including Nuevo La-redo.

“Matamoros, Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo andCiudad Victoria have experienced numerousgun battles and attacks with explosive devicesin the past year. Violent conflicts between ri-val criminal elements and/or the Mexicanmilitary can occur in all parts of the regionand at all times of the day,” the warning reads.

Tamaulipas authorities said the first inci-dent took place Friday in Colonia La Joya inWest Nuevo Laredo. Mexican troops patrollingthe highway that leads to the Quetzalcóatl In-ternational Airport came under fire from apickup occupied by gunmen, authorities said.

Soldiers fought back, killing one manwhom authorities did not identify. Troops ar-rested Alfredo López Fernández, José MiguelAnastasio Quevedo and Yolanda MagdalenaLuna Beltrán. In addition, soldiers said theyseized one assault rifle, one handgun, onemagazine, a cartridge belt and a radio.

Shots fired echoed a second time at 3:30a.m., also Friday, in West Nuevo Laredo. Mex-ican troops said they came across a vehicle

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DALLAS — Texas, which sawthe first case of Ebola diagnosedin the U.S. and two more sincethen, has designated two con-tainment facilities in Galvestonand a Dallas suburb to treat anyfuture patients.

Gov. Rick Perry said Tuesdaythat the facilities, with speciallytrained staff and dedicatedspace, will take in those diag-

nosed with the disease, whichkilled a Liberian man visitingDallas and infected two nurseswho treated him.

“The goal is for these facili-ties to rival the most advancedunits in the world when itcomes to the quality of care andthe security and safety of thepersonnel in those facilities, aswell as in the general popula-tion,” Perry said at the Universi-ty of Texas Southwestern Medi-cal Center.

Methodist Health System isturning over an entire floor ofone of its facilities in the Dallassuburb of Richardson. UT South-western will provide doctors inspecialties including infectiousdiseases and critical care andnurses, while Parkland HospitalSystem will provide pharma-cists, nurses and lab techni-cians. Perry said the unit will beready to go within 24 hours and

TEXAS’ RESPONSE TO EBOLA

State names 2 units totreat future Ebola patients

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, right, talks with a lab manager Terry Juelich, wearing a bio-hazard suit, and Curtis Klages at the Galveston National Lab on Tuesday in Gal-veston, Texas.

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 22Molina Healthcare’s “Tour of

Giving," event. From 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.Iglesia Senda de Gloria, 125 E. Mendo-za Street in Colonia Pueblo Nuevo offHwy 359. Contact Leigh Woodward atleigh.woodward@molinahealthcare.com.

THURSDAY, OCT. 23Laredo Genealogical Society

presents “Ayer,” 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. atSt. John Neumann Catholic Church,Guadalupe Hall. Contact SanjuanitaHunter at 722-3497 for more informa-tion.

120th anniversary observance inLaredo: the Sisters of Mercy will pre-sent, “Band of Sisters” from 6 p.m. toTBA. TAMIU Center for Fine & Per-forming Art Theatre. Contact RosannePalacios at rosanne.palacios@mer-cy.net for more information.

Exhibit titled “Four Strokes ofColor”. From 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. La Po-sada Hotel. Contact Kike Lobo at elo-bo@laposadahotel.com or go to thewebsite anartegallery09.com.

Live classical music perform-ances by the Laredo Community Col-lege’s Performing Arts Department atthe Laredo Public Library’s Multi-Pur-pose Room, located at 1120 East Cal-ton Road. From 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.Contact Name: John Hong at john@la-redolibrary.org or visit the websitewww.laredolibrary.org.

FRIDAY, OCT. 24Planetarium movies. From 5

p.m. to 6 p.m. TAMIU Lamar BruniVergara Planetarium. Claudia Herreraat claudia.herrera@tamiu.edu, or visittamiu.edu/planetarium. At 6 p.m.Wonders of the Universe. At 7 p.m.Lamps of Atlantis.

Mass for Breast Cancer Survi-vors. 6 p.m. Holy Redeemer Church,1602 Garcia St.

30th Annual Update in Medi-cine Conference. Noon to 5 p.m.UTHSC Laredo Regional Campus.Geared for medical professionals, so-cial service providers, medical/nursingstudents and others interested inlearning the latest medical informationon cancer, diabetes, mental healthand other topics. For continuing edu-cation and other information call theArea Health Education Center at 712-0037.

Registration is now in progressfor the 35th Guajolote 10K Race. Reg-ister at Hamilton Trophies (1320 Gar-den), Hamilton Jewelry (607 Flores),or on-line at www.raceit.com, Guajo-lote 10K Race. For information, call(956) 724-9990 or (956) 722-9463.

SATURDAY, OCT. 2530th Annual Update in Medi-

cine Conference to be held at theUTHSC Laredo Regional Campus, 1937E. Bustamante from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.Geared for medical professionals, so-cial service providers, medical/nursingstudents and others interested inlearning the latest medical informationon cancer, diabetes, mental healthand other topics. For continuing edu-cation and other information call AreaHealth Education Center at 712-0037.

Lights in the Park LuminariaMemorial for breast cancer awareness.8 p.m. North Central Park, Interna-tional Boulevard.

UISD Annual Parent Festival. 8a.m. to 3 p.m. United High School,2811 United Ave. Event is free andopen to all UISD parents. ContactUISD Federal and State Programs De-partment or email : negutier-rez@uisd.net or visit www.uisd.net formore information.

Program addressing childrenand adolescent mental illness. From9.30am. to 12.30pm. Room 236 ofthe Student Center Auditorium at Tex-as A&M International University. Forreservations call Laura Kim at (956)794-3130.

Listen to live classical musicperformances by the Laredo Commu-nity College’s Performing Arts Depart-ment at the Laredo Public Library’sMulti-Purpose Room, located at 1120East Calton Road. From 11:00am to12:00pm. Contact John Hong atjohn@laredolibrary.org or visit thewebsite www.laredolibrary.org.

MONDAY, OCT. 27Monthly meeting of Laredo Par-

kinson’s Disease Support Group. At6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Laredo MedicalCenter, Tower B, First Floor Communi-ty Center. Patients, caregivers andfamily members invited. Free infopamphlets available in Spanish andEnglish. Call Richard Renner (English)at 645-8649 or Juan Gonzalez (Span-ish) at 237-0666.

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Today is Wednesday, Oct. 22,the 295th day of 2014. Thereare 70 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in His-tory: On Oct. 22, 1934, bankrobber Charles “Pretty Boy”Floyd was shot to death by fed-eral agents and local police ata farm near East Liverpool,Ohio.

On this date:In 1746, Princeton Universi-

ty was first chartered as theCollege of New Jersey.

In 1836, Sam Houston wasinaugurated as the first consti-tutionally elected president ofthe Republic of Texas.

In 1928, Republican presi-dential nominee HerbertHoover spoke of the “Ameri-can system of rugged individu-alism” in a speech at NewYork’s Madison Square Gar-den.

In 1962, President John F.Kennedy revealed the pres-ence of Soviet-built missilebases under construction inCuba and announced a quar-antine of all offensive militaryequipment being shipped tothe Communist island nation.

In 1964, Jean-Paul Sartrewas named winner of the No-bel Prize in literature, eventhough the French writer hadsaid he would decline theaward.

In 1981, the Professional AirTraffic Controllers Organiza-tion was decertified by the fed-eral government for its strikethe previous August.

In 1986, President RonaldReagan signed into law sweep-ing tax-overhaul legislation.

Ten years ago: In awrenching videotaped state-ment, aid worker MargaretHassan, kidnapped in Bagh-dad, begged the British gov-ernment to help save her bywithdrawing its troops fromIraq, saying these “might bemy last hours.” (Hassan wasapparently killed by her cap-tors a month later.)

Five years ago: Mortarsfired by Islamic militantsslammed into Somalia’s air-port as President Sheik SharifSheik Ahmed boarded a plane,sparking battles that killed atleast 24 people; the presidentwas unhurt.

One year ago: The UnitedStates defended drone strikestargeting al-Qaida operativesand others, rejecting reportsby Human Rights Watch andAmnesty International ques-tioning the legality of attacksthat the groups asserted hadkilled or wounded scores of ci-vilians in Yemen and Pakis-tan.

Today’s Birthdays: BlackPanthers co-founder BobbySeale is 78. Actor ChristopherLloyd is 76. Actor Derek Jaco-bi is 76. Actor Tony Roberts is75. Actress Catherine Deneuveis 71. Actor Jeff Goldblum is62. Movie director Bill Condonis 59. Actor Luis Guzman is57. Actor-comedian Bob Oden-kirk is 52. Olympic gold medalfigure skater Brian Boitano is51. Christian singer TobyMacis 50. Comedian Carlos Menciais 47. Country singer ShelbyLynne is 46. Reggae rapperShaggy is 46. Movie directorSpike Jonze is 45. Rapper Tra-cey Lee is 44. Actor Jesse Tyl-er Ferguson is 39. Actor Mi-chael Fishman is 33. Talkshow host Michael Essany is32. Rock musician Zac Hanson(Hanson) is 29. Actor JonathanLipnicki is 24.

Thought for Today:“There is no such thing as no-toriety in the United Statesthese days, let alone infamy.Celebrity is all.” — Christoph-er Hitchens, Anglo-Americanauthor and essayist (1949-2011).

TODAY IN HISTORY

HAVANA — When Martin Viera’s Chevro-let rolled out of the dealer’s lot, Harry Tru-man was president of the United States, gas-oline cost 27 cents a gallon and a 24-year-oldlefty named Tommy Lasorda was pitchingfor Almendares in the Cuban winter base-ball league.

That world is long gone, but the Chevy’sstill running on the streets of Havana — partof a fleet of classic cars that have become anicon of tourism in the socialist nation.

For decades, the cars slowly decayed. Butofficials in recent years have eased state con-trol over the economy by allowing limitedself-employment. So those lucky enough tohave a pre-revolutionary car can earn moneylegally by ferrying tourists — or Cubans cel-ebrating weddings — along Havana’s water-

front Malecon boulevard. That’s allowed many to paint and polish

their aging vehicles.Viera’s 1951 Chevrolet and Osmani Rodri-

guez’s 1954 Ford are now part of Havana’stourist draw.

Rodriguez, who has three daughters, saidthe opening to self-employment “was a greatbenefit for me. I bought an apartment to livein and really it improved my standard of liv-ing a lot.”

The cars may gleam on the outside, butthey’re often battered, rolling monuments toingenuity within. Many scavenge parts fromSoviet-era cars and trucks.

While the U.S. embargo that took effect in1961 stopped the flow of new cars, and mostparts, a few Cubans now manage to bring inreplacement parts when friends or familyvisit from the U.S.

AROUND THE WORLD

In this Oct. 15, 2014 photo, a man drives a classic American car on The Malecon in Havana, Cuba. This classic still runningon the streets of Havana is part of a fleet of classic cars that have become an icon of tourism in the socialist nation.

Photo by Franklin Reyes | AP

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Dead infants found inWinnipeg storage lockerWINNIPEG, Canada — The re-

mains of as many as four infantswere found in a storage locker inWinnipeg, Manitoba, yesterdayafter U-Haul International Inc.employees made a disturbing dis-covery.

Police were called to a storage-locker facility at 1 p.m. Monday,Winnipeg Police Constable EricHofley said. It is too early to saywhether foul play is involved,though concealing human re-mains is a crime, he said.

Congo doctor wins EUhuman rights prize

STRASBOURG, France — Eu-ropean lawmakers have awardedtheir top human rights prize toCongolese gynecologist DenisMukwege who campaignsagainst sexual violence targetingwomen in war. Mukwege, 59, setup the Panzi Hospital in easternCongo’s Bukavu and works withvictims of sexual violence there.

Bombings kill 9 peoplein Iraqi capital

BAGHDAD — Iraqi officialssay two separate bombings havekilled nine people in Baghdad,the latest victims in near-dailyattacks that have targeted thecountry’s capital.

Police officials say a bomb atan out-door market in the south-ern district of Abu Dashir, amostly Shiite neighborhood,killed four people and woundednine on Tuesday. They say a littlebit later, a bomb blast near asmall restaurant in central Bagh-dad killed five people and wound-ed 12.

Police in Macedonia arrest9 in helicopter scam

SKOPJE, Macedonia — Policein Macedonia have arrested aformer Defense Ministry officialand eight others for allegedlyembezzling $2.8 million from thegovernment by filing fake ex-penses related to a helicoptermaintenance program.

Jerusalem stone mayanswer questions

JERUSALEM — Israeli ar-chaeologists said Tuesday theyhave discovered a large stonewith Latin engravings that lendscredence to the theory that thereason Jews revolted against Ro-man rule nearly 2,000 ago wasbecause of their harsh treatment.

The inscription backs up his-torical accounts that Rome’sTenth Legion was present in Je-rusalem in the run-up to the re-volt.

North Korea frees1 of 3 Americans

WASHINGTON — Jeffrey E.Fowle, 1 of 3 Americans impris-oned by North Korea, has beenreleased and is on his way homeafter six months of captivity, U.S.officials said Tuesday.

A State Department spokeswo-man Marie Harf also said U.S. of-ficials were trying to secure therelease of the other two prison-ers. — Compiled from AP reports

N. America treated tosolar eclipse ThursdayCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —

North Americans, get set for thefourth and final eclipse of theyear.

On Thursday, most of NorthAmerica will have prime view-ing of a partial solar eclipse. Thenew moon will hide part of thesun from view. The best viewswill be in the U.S. Northwest andnorthern Canada, especiallyPrince of Wales Island. In theeastern half of the U.S., theeclipse will occur near sunset.

Sky gazers are urged to pro-tect their eyes with special fil-tered glasses. Regular sunglassesare not good enough.

This makes for two solar andtwo lunar eclipses this year.

Protocol breached duringmurder suspect’s release

BALTIMORE — Correctionsofficials say a breach in protocol

led to the accidental release of amurder suspect in Baltimore.

Thirty-year-old Rodriquez Pur-nell was released Friday fromthe Maryland Reception, Diag-nostic and Classification Center.

He was awaiting trial in the2013 shooting death of 27-year-old

Terrance Rheubottom. He alsohad been convicted of assaultinga corrections worker.

It said Purnell was let go be-cause procedures were not fol-lowed according to departmentpolicy. — Compiled from AP re-ports

AROUND THE NATION

An assault team from the Sevier County Sheriff’s Department and the UnitedStates Marshal Service prepare to raid a home that allegedly hosted a dog breed-ing operation in Kodak, Tenn., on Tuesday. Fifty dogs were taken from the home.

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DALLAS — A Texasman admitted Tuesday tosetting a backyard fire thatkilled his two young step-sons a quarter-century ago,bringing a surprising endto a long fight over wheth-er faulty fire science hadwrongfully imprisonedhim.

Ed Graf pleaded guilty totwo counts of murder evenas a jury in Waco was de-liberating during his re-trial. He took a plea dealthat carries a 60-year pris-on sentence but counts his28 years in custody as timeserved, making him imme-diately eligible to apply forparole.

Authorities have spentyears studying arson mur-der cases in Texas, wherethe 2004 execution of Cam-eron Todd Willingham forthe fire deaths of his threechildren has been ques-tioned by legal advocatesand fire experts amid ques-tions about the underlyingfire investigation science.Graf ’s case was one of thelongest and highest-profilebeing studied by expertsand officials in the state.

The State Fire Marshal’sOffice is working with theInnocence Project to reviewproblematic cases and hasflagged several as beingbased on faulty conclu-sions.

Jeff Blackburn, chiefcounsel of the InnocenceProject of Texas, said hedidn’t see Graf ’s case as asetback.

“The most importantthing is that we get the sci-ence right,” Blackburnsaid. “Not everybody whogot convicted on the basisof junk science is innocent.Not everybody who got con-victed on the basis of junkscience deserves an acquit-tal or a pardon, and this isproof of that.”

Prosecutors accused

Graf of locking his step-sons, ages 8 and 9, in abackyard shed in Hewitt in1986 and setting it on fire.They said he wanted to col-lect on life insurance poli-cies on them.

But a panel convened bythe State Fire Marshal’s Of-fice concluded that the twoinvestigators who testifiedagainst Graf in 1988 werewrong. The panel saidthose experts misinterpret-ed patterns on the wall andother evidence suggestingthe fire was an accident.The panel did not issue anopinion on whether Grafwas guilty.

Texas’ highest criminalcourt agreed with the paneland granted Graf a newtrial.

Graf repeatedly insistedhe was innocent, tellingThe Associated Press in ajailhouse interview twoyears ago that he thoughtthe boys may have set the

fire by accident. Witnessestestified at both of his trialthat Joby and Jason Grafliked to play with matches.

Prosecutors did not pre-sent any scientific evi-dence, but relied on wit-ness testimony suggestingGraf had embezzled moneyfrom a bank and was act-ing suspiciously before andafter his sons’ deaths.

Graf ’s ex-wife, ClareBradburn, had long insist-ed that she believed her ex-husband was guilty. Brad-burn said in court Tuesdaythat she had waited 28years for Graf to finallyplead guilty, the Waco Tri-bune-Herald reported.

According to the news-paper, the son they had to-gether, whose name waschanged from Edward GrafIII to Jacob Bradburn, toldGraf in court: “May Godhave mercy on your soulbecause no one on thisEarth should.”

Man admits setting1986 fire, killing 2 boys

By NOMAAN MERCHANTASSOCIATED PRESS

Ed Graf, center, looks at Don Youngblood, right, as defense attorneyMichelle Tuegel, left, looks on after pleading guilty to the murder ofhis two sons during his retrial Tuesday in Waco, Texas.

Photo by Jerry Larson/Waco Tribune Herald | AP

AUSTIN — Texas lead-ers are closer to privatiz-ing a much malignedNorth Texas psychiatricfacility despite concernsfrom mental health careadvocates.

The Austin American-Statesman reports stateofficials announced Mon-day that Tennessee-basedCorrect Care Solutionshas the winning bid to op-erate Terrell State Hospi-tal.

“In the event that thishappens, we’re honoredto be chosen as the suc-cessful vendor for thisproject,” company spokes-man Jeremy Barr said.

The state and companyare negotiating the dealand a decision on wheth-er to move forward withthe privatization shouldbe made by the year’send. State health officialssaid privatization mightbe the best way to im-prove the hospital, whichwas scrutinized following

a patient death.“We need to look at all

the options on how wecan deliver better care,”said Stephanie Goodman,spokeswoman for theHealth and Human Ser-vices Commission.

A 62-year-old Pittsburgwoman died at the facilityin 2013 after being re-strained for 55 hours. TheCenters for Medicare andMedicaid Services shortlythereafter cut off federalfunding because of poorconditions at the hospital.

State selects company torun psychiatric facility

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WASHINGTON — Na-tional Institutes of Healthsays the condition of thefirst nurse to be diagnosedwith Ebola after treatingan infected man at a Dal-las hospital has been up-graded to good.

The NIH said in a state-ment Tuesday afternoonthat Nina Pham’s clinicalstatus had been upgradedfrom fair. The statementsaid no other informationwas available.

The 26-year-old Phamarrived at the NIH Clini-cal Center in Bethesda,

Maryland, late Thursday.She had been flown therefrom Texas PresbyterianHospital in Dallas.

Pham is one of twonurses in Dallas who be-came infected with Ebolawhile treating Thomas Er-ic Duncan, who died of thedisease Oct. 8.

Condition of nurse withEbola upgraded to good

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TAKING A SPIN

Photo by Andrew Buckley/The Courier | AP

Skyler and Tayler Toth take a spin during Lake Houston United Methodist Church’s Pumpkin Patchand Festival on Saturday in Huffman, Texas.

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In political campaignsaround the country, atleast one proposal enjoysbipartisan support: ex-panding early childhoodeducation. In gubernato-rial races in Florida, Tex-as, Alabama, Michiganand Georgia, both theDemocratic and Republi-can candidates support ex-panding government pro-vision of “high-quality”pre-kindergarten educa-tion.

And why wouldn’t they?A raft of recent studiesclaim major benefits forchildren who start schoolearly.

The problem is, most ofthe studies that show bene-fits have major researchdesign flaws, one of whichis an inability to demon-strate long-term gains.And the few top-qualitystudies out there revealfew, if any, lasting benefits.

The best studies ran-domly assign children to“pre-k” (treatment) and“no pre-k” (control)groups, and then followthem for several years tosee if the pre-k childrenshow greater achievementgains than children with-out pre-k. This is the “goldstandard” in education re-search and the same typeof study used for testingprescription drugs.

A national study of thefederal Head Start pro-gram followed these rigor-ous protocols and found nolasting results. Children inHead Start show immedi-ate (although modest)gains during preschool,but during kindergartenand first grade the differ-ences disappear becausechildren without preschoolquickly catch up. This iscalled the “fade-out” prob-lem.

A recent randomizedstudy for the high-qualityTennessee programshowed the same result.

Though these resultsare well known amongpre-k evaluators, they of-ten explain them away, ar-guing that “fade out” iscaused by low qualitypre-k instruction. Theypoint to state-developedprograms in Oklahoma,New Jersey, Georgia andBoston, all of whichshowed much larger gainsduring the preschool yearthan Head Start programs.

The “high-quality” de-scriptor also occurs be-cause these state programsembed pre-k in the regularschool system with certi-fied teachers, all of whomhave at least a bachelor’sdegree. (The federal HeadStart programs does notrequire BAs.)

The problem is that allof these state pre-k studiesrelied upon a special non-random design that com-pares kindergarten chil-dren who finished pre-kthe previous year (thetreatment group) to chil-dren who are just startingpreschool (the controlgroup).

The design (called “re-gression continuity de-sign” or RDD for short) re-quires that the school sys-tem impose a strict agecutoff so that the treat-ment group is one yearolder, and it relies on sta-tistical methods to adjustfor the age difference be-tween the two groups ofchildren. Testing is done atthe beginning of the schoolyear. Any difference be-tween the two groups afteradjusting for the age differ-ence is assumed to be theresult of pre-k.

This non-random studydesign has two major flaws

that impair the tests’ relia-bility and prevent defini-tive conclusions. First andforemost, because both thetreatment and controlgroups have had preschool,these studies can’t exam-ine the critical “fade-out”problem. Randomizedstudies can follow thepre-k and no-pre-k childreninto grade school, wherethey can see whether thepre-k gains are lasting ornot. So far, no randomizedstudy has found lasting ef-fects, and the non-randomstate studies provide noclarification.

The second flaw is aproblem called “attrition,”meaning children whodrop out of the treatmentgroup. The control groupstudents who are juststarting pre-k can’t haveattrition by definition. Ac-cording to Department ofEducation standards forRDD designs, valid infer-ences require that attritionbe documented and resultsadjusted. The reason isthat program dropouts aremore likely to be disadvan-taged children with lowerskills and more socialproblems, and their testscores are inevitably lowerthan non-dropouts.

Oklahoma, New Jerseyand Georgia did not reportattrition rates, eventhough attrition from thetreatment group clearly oc-curred. For example, inthe Tulsa, Oklahoma,study, 26 percent of thecontrol group motherswere high school dropouts,compared to only 16 per-cent for the treatmentgroup. In Georgia, 26 per-cent of the control groupwere limited Englishspeakers compared to only8 percent of the treatmentgroup. Attrition from thetreatment group can ex-plain why Tulsa and Geor-gia reported such high testscores for children com-pleting preschool.

Two additional “highquality” programs havegarnered much attention,and both used randomizeddesigns. One is the PerryPreschool cost-benefit eval-uation by Nobel economistJames Heckman, whichdemonstrated significantsuccess, and the other isthe Abecedarian Project,which demonstrated signif-icant long term IQ gains.

There are several prob-lems relying on these stud-ies to support expandinguniversal preschool. Studyparticipants were all disad-vantaged African Ameri-can children; the programswere far more intensive —and costly — than the typeof pre-k in contemporarystate programs; and theprograms educated twosmall groups of children intwo communities morethan 40 years ago. More-over, a national experi-ment to replicate the Abe-cedarian concept, EarlyHead Start, has found fewsignificant long-term bene-fits, especially for the mostdisadvantaged children.

The reality is that theresearch on state preschoolprograms does not yet sup-port effectiveness for thetype of universal preschoolprograms being promotedtoday. It certainly does notsupport expensive govern-ment expansions of pre-school education as cur-rently envisioned, particu-larly for middle-classchildren with no demon-strable need for a “headstart.” We need muchmore high-quality rando-mized research studiesshowing large and long-term benefits, at reasona-ble costs, before any ex-pansion of pre-k can bejustified.

COMMENTARY

Doespreschoolhelp kids?

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CLASSIC DOONESBURY | GARRY TRUDEAU

Stop blaming nurses forthe potential spread of Ebo-la.

In the nationwide hyste-ria over the Ebola virus,many people are pointingfingers at two of the nurseswho risked their lives totake care of Thomas EricDuncan at Texas Health Re-sources Presbyterian Hospi-tal in Dallas.

But this scapegoatingdoes not help us focus onthe systemic obstacles thatmake it difficult for nursesto protect their patients, thepublic and themselves —whether against Ebola orany other dangerous virusor bacteria.

As the caregivers who

are with patients 24/7, bed-side nurses are the oneswho spot critical changes ina patient’s condition. Butrather than seeking nursesout to solicit informationabout a patient’s situation,too many physicians ignorethem.

In fact, many don’t evenread the nurses’ notes sec-tion of patients’ charts.

When I recently talked toa prominent patient safetyphysician at a major teach-ing hospital, he told me thatattending physicians andresidents in his institutionrefuse to use a nationallyrecommended communica-tion protocol known asSBAR (Situation, Back-ground, Assessment, Rec-ommendation), which is de-signed to facilitate the shar-

ing of information betweenphysicians and nurses.

Why? Because that’s aprotocol nurses use, anddoctors don’t want to use“nursing language,” he said.

Nurses are often silencedor even disciplined whenthey try to draw attention tomajor safety problems ormistakes— particularlythose made by medicalhigher-ups.

In 2010 in Texas, twonurses were fired — andone was actually prosecuted— when they reported thata physician in their hospitalwas engaging in seriousbreaches of safety.

Then there’s the issue ofprotective equipment. Dur-ing the SARS scare morethan 10 years ago, nurses’organizations warned that

hospitals weren’t providingnurses with the kind ofequipment (and training touse it) that would actuallyprotect them, as well astheir patients and the pub-lic.

Another contagious dis-ease and a decade later, andnurses have not been giveneither adequate gear ortraining in how to use it, asthe National Nurses Unitedunion recently noted.

Creating a safe workplacefor nurses — and otherhealth-care staff — is a non-negotiable condition of ask-ing them to risk their livesto care for patients.

This means not only pro-viding them with protectiveequipment and the trainingto use it, but also solicitingand welcoming their input.

COMMENTARY

Nurses need to be listened toBy SUZANNE GORDON

MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Amid the recent commo-tion over Ebola, it mighthave been easy to miss astory from Mexico: the Sept.26 mass kidnapping of 43student teachers in the cityof Iguala. Their disappear-ance and suspected mas-sacre should not fade fromAmericans’ attention, re-gardless of the health carecrisis at our doorstep.

Many politicians inWashington now view theEbola crisis as a national se-curity concern, along withimmigration and fears thatIslamic State jihadists could

exploit disorder in Mexicoto sneak into the UnitedStates. As American xeno-phobia rises, the U.S.-Mexi-co border becomes, again, afocal point of concern.

Mexico must not feed thefear mongering by further-ing its reputation for law-lessness. President EnriquePeña Nieto should step upand demonstrate clearlythat his government forcesmaintain sovereign controlover all Mexican territory.Mexicans, and the world,should expect nothing less.

Unfortunately, criminalgangs and drug cartels havemade Swiss cheese of that

notion. The mass kidnap-ping in Iguala, about 120miles south of Mexico City,exposes how drug gangs areimposing their will — notjust at the violence-plaguedborder but deep within theMexican heartland. The stu-dent teachers, all youngmen, had been involved in aprotest over national educa-tion reforms. The fact thatthe student teachers weredefending a corrupt statusquo, and had comman-deered buses as part of theirprotest, was no justificationfor what befell them.

Police believed to be un-der the control of a big drug

cartel in Guerrero stateopened fire to halt the pro-testers and then drove sur-vivors away. Authoritiessearching for them uncov-ered mass graves outsideIguala containing the re-mains of more than 28 peo-ple, but they appear unrelat-ed to the kidnappings.

The mayor of Iguala, acity of about 150,000, hasgone into hiding. His wife’sthree brothers have beenamong Mexico’s most-want-ed drug lords, linked to thenotorious Beltran Leyvacartel. The gang’s leader,Hector Beltran Leyva, wascaptured Oct. 1.

EDITORIAL

Mexico’s instability worsensDALLAS MORNING NEWS

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014 Nation THE ZAPATA TIMES 5A

ATLANTA — The govern-ment announced Tuesday thateveryone traveling to the Unit-ed States from Ebola-afflictedAfrican nations will have to bescreened at one of five airports,as officials took to the roadwith new guidelines to promotehead-to-toe protection forhealth workers who might be atrisk of contracting the disease.

Customs and Border Protec-tion officers at New York’s Ken-nedy, Newark Liberty, Washing-ton’s Dulles, Chicago’s O’Hareand Hartsfield-Jackson Atlantaairports had already startedscreening people arriving fromWest Africa, using no-touchthermometers to determine iftravelers have a temperature, asymptom of a possible Ebola in-fection.

Homeland Security SecretaryJeh Johnson said Tuesday thatnow everyone traveling fromLiberia, Sierra Leone or Gui-nea will have to land in the U.S.at one of the five airports andthen fly on to their destination.

About 94 percent of theroughly 150 people travelingdaily from West Africa to theU.S. arrive at the one of the fiveairports.

The move falls short of meet-ing demands by some electedofficials that the Obama admin-istration halt all travel fromWest Africa. Sen. ChuckSchumer, D-N.Y., described theaction as an “added layer ofprotection against Ebola enter-ing our country.”

It comes as the Centers forDisease Control worked tospread the word about its newprotective guidelines. The, ad-vice, released Monday night,had been avidly sought byhealth workers after two Dallasnurses became infected whilecaring for the first person diag-nosed with the virus in theUnited States.

It’s not clear exactly howthey became infected, but clear-ly there was some kind of prob-lem, CDC Director Dr. Tom

Frieden said.“The bottom line is the

guidelines didn’t work for thathospital,” he said.

CDC officials demonstratedthe recommended techniquesTuesday at a massive trainingat New York City’s Javits Cen-ter.

“We’re here today becauseone health care worker gettingEbola while caring for a patientis too many,” Dr. Arjun Sriniva-san told the gathering.

Earlier CDC guidelines hadbeen modeled on how Ebola pa-tients in Africa were treated,though that tends to be less in-tensive care done in roughersettings — like tents. They alsoallowed hospitals some flexibil-ity to use available coveringwhen dealing with suspectedEbola patients.

The new guidelines set afirmer standard, calling forfull-body garb and hoods thatprotect worker’s necks; settingrigorous rules for removal ofequipment and disinfection ofhands; and calling for a “sitemanager” to supervise the put-ting on and taking off of equip-ment.

They also call for healthworkers who may be involved

in an Ebola patient’s care to re-peatedly practice and demon-strate proficiency in donningand doffing gear — before everbeing allowed near a patient.

And they ask hospitals to es-tablish designated areas forputting on and taking off equip-ment, whether it’s a room adja-cent to an Ebola patient’s roomor a hallway area cordoned offwith a plastic sheet.

The CDC cannot require hos-pitals to follow the guidance;it’s merely official advice. Butthese are the rules hospitalsare following as they face thepossibility of encountering pa-tients with a deadly infectiousdisease that a few months agohad never been seen in thiscountry.

The president of a group rep-resenting 3 million registerednurses said she’s glad to finallysee better federal advice. Healthcare workers said the CDC’s oldguidance was confusing and in-adequate, and left them fearful-ly unprepared for how to dealwith an Ebola patient.

“Today’s guidance moves usforward,” said Pamela Cipria-no, president of the AmericanNurses Association, in a state-ment.

CDC releases revisedEbola gear guidelines

By MIKE STOBBE AND EMILY SCHMALLASSOCIATED PRESS

Registered nurse Keene Roadman stands fully dressed in personal protectiveequipment during a training class at the Rush University Medical Center inChicago on Oct. 16.

Photo by Charles Rex Arbogast/file | AP FAIRFAX, Va. — Authoritieshave brought additional chargesagainst the man accused of ab-ducting an 18-year-old college stu-dent in Virginia: the abduction,rape and attempted capital mur-der of a 26-year-old woman in aWashington, D.C. suburb.

A Circuit Court grand jury inFairfax County on Monday hand-ed up the new indictment againstJesse L. Matthew Jr., 32, who is al-ready in custody in the case ofHannah Graham, a University ofVirginia sophomore who disap-peared Sept. 13.

At a news conference Monday,Fairfax County Commonwealth’sAttorney Ray Morrogh declinedto discuss any details of the case,but did say the victim is cooperat-ing. Police had previously saidthat on Sept. 24, 2005, a 26-year-oldwoman was walking home fromthe grocery store about 10 p.m. ona Saturday night, when her assai-lant grabbed her from behind,dragged her into a wooded areabehind some townhomes, and sex-ually assaulted her.

The man fled the area when hewas startled by a passerby, policesaid.

Morrogh said he will seek abench warrant later this week re-questing that Matthew be broughtto Fairfax for an initial appear-ance, and he expected that to begranted. But no court date hasbeen set. Morrogh said he was notsure whether Matthew would be

tried first in Charlottesville or inFairfax.

“I’m willing to go first, last orwhenever,” Morrogh said.

Matthew’s attorney has repeat-edly refused to discuss his client,and a message on his law officetelephone on Monday said he wasnot taking questions in the case.

After an extensive search forGraham, law enforcement offi-cials found human remains onSaturday in a heavily wooded ar-ea that is dotted with farms,about 12 miles southwest of theCharlottesville campus of U.Va.They continued to search the areaMonday for additional evidence orclues.

The remains were taken to theVirginia Medical Examiner’s of-fice in Richmond to be identified.A spokesman in the office couldnot say Monday when the resultsof the forensic examination wouldbe completed.

Police let Graham’s parentsknow about the discovery beforethey publicly released the infor-mation.

One of the officials who madethe discovery said the remainswere found just as he and histeam were about to move to an-other site.

“We were on our way back toour vehicle and I just decided tokeep going,” Sgt. Dale Terry ofthe Chesterfield County Sheriff ’sDepartment told WRIC TV. “So weswept a different area and luckilywe just came upon what we cameupon. ... Divine intervention is theonly thing I can think of.”

Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh, left, with Fairfax City PoliceChief Carl Pardiny speaks during a news conference in Fairfax, Va., on Monday.

Photo by Matthew Barakat | AP

Suspect chargedin DC area rape

By MATTHEW BARAKATASSOCIATED PRESS

6A THE ZAPATA TIMES Nation WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Wyoming has be-come the latest state to allow same-sexunions, bringing the wave of legalizationsto a place where the 1998 beating death ofMatthew Shepard galvanized a nationalpush for gay rights.

Gay couples began to apply for mar-riage licenses Tuesday morning, albeit farmore quietly than in other states wherebans were recently struck down.

Hundreds of same-sex couples in Idahoand Nevada flooded clerk’s offices andcourthouses in recent weeks and marriedimmediately afterward to cheeringcrowds.

In Wyoming, however, only a handful ofcouples received licenses across the stateas the change went into effect.

In the state’s largest city, Cheyenne, twocouples were licensed right away, and Jen-nifer Mumaugh and A.J. McDaniel be-came the first gay couple to legally marryin the state’s most populous county.

Mumaugh said attitudes in Wyominghave shifted in recent years to be moreopen to gay couples. She said she expectedgay marriage to eventually become legal,but didn’t expect it to happen so quickly.

“With Wyoming being the EqualityState, it’s kind of like, ‘Well, duh,”’ shesaid. “But Wyoming does have a stigma.I’m surprised with the progress of thestate and that of the people throughout thestate over time.”

About 175 miles north, in Casper, DirkAndrews and Travis Gray were the first ofthree couples licensed after the state for-mally dropped its defense of a law defin-ing marriage as a union between one man

and one woman. They plan to marry in a ceremony in

few weeks and say they, too, have experi-enced support.

“Neighbors and friends have beengreat,” said Andrews, a kindergartenteacher. “Co-workers, for the most part, ifthey don’t agree, they just don’t talk aboutit, but they haven’t been mean or negativeabout it.”

Andrews and Gray, as well as Mu-maugh and McDaniel, had considered go-ing out of state to wed, but held off inhopes that gay marriage would finallycome to Wyoming, a state shadowed byShepard’s death for the last 16 years. Thegay college student was robbed, beatenand left tied to a fence in freezing weather.He died Oct. 12, days after the attack.

“There’s definitely people who are hold-ing up his memory and, I hope, feelinglike we’re coming a long way,” said Rev.Audette Fulbright, who has long perform-ed non-binding ceremonies for gay cou-ples in Cheyenne.

Wyoming has now joined several otherpolitically conservative states in allowinggay marriage after a series of recent courtrulings have struck down state bans asunconstitutional.

More than 30 states now recognizesame-sex unions, many coming in chang-es triggered by a U.S. Supreme Court deci-sion Oct. 6 that refused to hear appealsfrom states that wanted to defend gaymarriage bans.

Gay rights supporters have said banson same-sex unions are violations of 14thAmendment protections that guaranteeequal protection under the law and dueprocess. Opponents have said the issueshould be decided by states and voters.

Lalenya Yahnke, left, and Teasha Kahl apply for their marriage license Tuesday morning at the Na-trona County Clerk’s office in Casper.

Photo by Alan Rogers/Casper Star-Tribune | AP

Wyoming gay couplesget marriage licenses

By BOB MOENASSOCIATED PRESS

SWIFTWATER, Pa. —With two possible sightingsin four days, a mancharged in the deadly am-bush of a state police bar-racks appears to havemoved out of the deepwoods and into a moreheavily trafficked area ofthe Pocono Mountains.

The sightings led to an-other round of school clo-sures and a feeling amongsome residents that law en-forcement is spinning itswheels more than fiveweeks into the massivemanhunt.

Officials in the PoconoMountain School Districtcanceled classes shortly af-ter 5 a.m. Tuesday, revers-ing course after saying thenight before that schoolswould stay open. WendyFrable, a district spokeswo-man, said officials changedtheir minds because lawenforcement wasn’t search-ing on campus Mondaynight but had an extensivesearch presence thereTuesday morning.

“Our parents and staffare understandably con-cerned when they hear re-ports of possible sightingsanywhere near schools,”Superintendent ElizabethRobison said in a statementTuesday afternoon.

Authorities are lookingfor Eric Frein, 31, who’scharged with opening fireoutside the BloomingGrove state police barrackson Sept. 12, killing a troop-er and seriously woundinganother. The suspect hasbeen described as a self-taught survivalist and ex-pert marksman who hateslaw enforcement.

Police had spent weekssearching for Frein in thewoods around his parents’home in Canadensis, butshifted their primarysearch area about 5 milesto the southwest after awoman out for a walk Fri-day night reported seeing a

rifle-toting man with amud-covered face near Po-cono Mountain East HighSchool. Police said they be-lieve the man was Frein.

On Monday afternoon,an officer with PoconoMountain Regional Policespotted a man dressed ingreen in the woods nearthe Swiftwater post office,less than a half-mile fromthe school. That promptedan intense police search asstudents were headinghome for the day — a po-tentially volatile situationthat had some parents fum-ing.

With classes canceledTuesday, state police andthe FBI searched the schooldistrict’s Swiftwater cam-pus, clearing and securingthe high, junior high andelementary schools.

“Having law enforce-ment take the time to gothrough our schools tomake sure they are secureis very reassuring to meand should also be reassur-ing to the parents of ourstudents,” Robison said.

With Frein still on theloose, though, some resi-dents aren’t sure police areup to the task.

Hubert Harvey, 70, saidhe’s surprised Frein hasn’tbeen caught by now andbelieves authorities are“just wasting money andtime” by sending legions ofofficers into the woods day

after day.“They’re going about it

the wrong way,” he said.“What they need is a cou-ple of good guys who cantrack and a couple dogsand they will find him.”

James Fish, 72, of Swift-water, is skeptical thatFrein had even been spot-ted in the area.

“Obviously he’s a skilledsurvivor,” he said. “He’s go-ing to walk out so some la-dy can see him? That’s ri-diculous.”

Nevertheless, Fish saidhis wife was worried andupset. He reminded herthat Frein is believed to betargeting law enforcementand “average citizensaren’t too much at risk.”

The manhunt is nowconcentrated along theheavily trafficked Route 611corridor in the heart of thePoconos.

On Tuesday, police withdogs were seen searching aclothing collection binacross the street from apopular restaurant.

Up the road, 15-year-oldKat Nordstrom and herfriend Sam Ryan, 16, wereat Dunkin’ Donuts at atime when they’d normallybe in class.

Frein was the talk of thehigh school Monday, withsome students joking aboutthe situation “because theythink nothing is going tohappen,” Nordstrom said.

Schools scoured insearch for suspect

By MICHAEL RUBINKAMASSOCIATED PRESS

U.S. Marshals Service members aim their rifles toward the woodson Lower Swiftwater Road on Saturday in Swiftwater, Pa.

Photo by Butch Comegys/The Scranton Times-Tribune | AP

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014 Entertainment THE ZAPATA TIMES 7A

NEW YORK — At hisFashion Week runwayshow in September, Oscarde la Renta sat in his usualspot: in a chair right insidethe wings, where he couldcarefully inspect each mod-el just as she was about toemerge in one of his sump-tuous, impeccably con-structed designs.

At the end of the show,the legendary designer him-self emerged, supported bytwo of his models. He didn’twalk on his own, and didn’tgo far, but he was beamingfrom ear to ear. He gaveeach model a peck on thecheek, and then returned tothe wings, where modelsand staff could be heardcheering him enthusiasti-cally.

De la Renta, who dressedfirst ladies, socialites andHollywood stars for morethan four decades, diedMonday evening at his Con-necticut home at age 82, on-ly six weeks after that run-way show. But not beforeanother high-profile honorwas bestowed on him: Themost famous bride in theworld, Amal Alamuddin,wore a custom, off-the-shoulder de la Renta gownto wed George Clooney inVenice. Photos of the smil-ing designer perched on atable at the dress fitting ap-peared in Vogue.

De la Renta died sur-rounded by family, friendsand “more than a fewdogs,” according to a hand-written statement signed byhis stepdaughter Eliza ReedBolen and her husband,Alex Bolen. The statementdid not specify a cause ofdeath, but de la Renta hadspoken in the past of havingcancer.

“He died exactly as helived: with tremendousgrace, great dignity and ve-ry much on his ownterms,” the statement said.“While our hearts are bro-ken by the idea of life with-

out Oscar, he is still verymuch with us. ... All thatwe have done, and all thatwe will do, is informed byhis values and his spirit.”

The late ‘60s and early‘70s were a defining mo-ment in U.S. fashion as NewYork-based designers carvedout a look of their own thatwas finally taken seriouslyby Europeans. De la Rentaand his peers, including thelate Bill Blass, Halston andGeoffrey Beene, definedAmerican style then andnow.

De la Renta’s specialtywas eveningwear, though healso was known for chicdaytime suits favored by thewomen who would gatherat the Four Seasons or LeCirque at lunchtime. Hissignature looks were volu-minous skirts, exquisiteembroideries and rich col-ors.

Earlier this month, firstlady Michelle Obama nota-bly wore a de la Renta dressfor the first time. De la Ren-ta had criticized her severalyears earlier for not wear-ing an American label to astate dinner in 2011.

Among Obama’s prede-cessors favoring de la Renta

were Laura Bush, who worean icy blue gown by de laRenta to the 2005 inauguralball, and Hillary RodhamClinton, who wore a gold dela Renta in 1997.

“We will miss Oscar’sgenerous and warm person-ality, his charm, and hiswonderful talents.” Bushsaid in a statement. “ Wewill always remember himas the man who made wom-en look and feel beautiful.”

A statement from formerPresident Bill Clinton, Hill-ary Clinton, and ChelseaClinton and Marc Mezvin-sky, said: “Oscar’s remarka-ble eye was matched onlyby his generous heart. Hislegacy of philanthropy ex-tended from children in hishome country who nowhave access to educationand health care, to some ofNew York’s finest artistswhose creativity has beensustained through his sup-port.”

De la Renta made just asbig a name for himself onthe Hollywood red carpet —with actresses of all ages.Penelope Cruz and SandraBullock were among the ce-lebrities to don his femi-nine and opulent gowns.

His clothes even werewoven into episodes of “Sexand the City,” with its styleicon, Carrie Bradshaw, com-paring his designs to poetry.

One actress who wore ade la Renta gown to thisyear’s Oscars was JenniferGarner.

“Mr. de la Renta lovedwomen,” she said on Mon-day evening, wiping awaytears. “And you saw it in ev-ery design that he did. Hehonored women’s features,he honored our bodies. Hewasn’t afraid to pull backand let the woman be thestar of the look.”

De la Renta was alsodeeply admired by his fel-low designers. “He set thebar,” designer Dennis Bassosaid on Instagram Mondaynight. “But most of all hewas a refined elegant gen-tleman.”

De la Renta also is sur-vived by his son, Moises, adesigner at the company.

De la Renta’s first wife,French Vogue editor Fran-coise de Langlade, died in1983.

Oscar de la Renta,legendary designer, dead

By SHELLEY ACOCA AND JOCELYNNOVECK

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Designer Oscar de la Renta, right, and model Karlie Kloss are shown backstage before the presentationof the Oscar de la Renta Spring 2013 collection at Fashion Week in New York on Sept. 11, 2012. The de-signer, a favorite of socialites and movie stars alike, has died. He was 82.

Photo by Amanda Schwab/Starpix | AP

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.— Neil Diamond wroteand recorded his first stu-dio album of new materialin six years floating in theheady glow of new love.

The 73-year-old enter-tainer, who married forthe third time in 2012, sayshappiness with his newbride fueled his work on“Melody Road,” out Tues-day.

“There’s no better inspi-ration or motivation forwork than being in love.It’s what you dream of as acreative person,” Diamondsaid in a recent interview.“I was able to completethis album — start it,write it and complete it —under the spell of love, andI think it shows somehow.”

Not that he allowed hiswife, Katie McNeil, in onthe making of the songs.

A songwriter since theearly 1960s, Diamond hasbecome extremely disci-plined about his process.He writes every day, re-gardless of inspiration ordeadlines. He doesn’t listen

to, or play, any other musicwhile working on his ownmaterial, and he doesn’tpreview his songs for any-one until they’ve been re-corded.

His wife didn’t hear thealbum — even the songshe wrote for her — until itwas finished.

“I’m very strict withmyself now because I’mthe only one who’s lookingover my shoulder,” Dia-mond said. He spent 18months holed up making“Melody Road,” a collec-tion of 12 tracks he saystells the story of his lifeover the past 20 years.There are songs aboutheartache, about family,and several about findinglove.

Diamond is thoughtfulas he discusses his work.He says he really does suf-fer for his art.

“I’m locked in a roomand I should be with mygrandson or granddaught-ers and I can’t be,” he said.“I’ve missed out for thesake of my music and I un-derstand that, but itdoesn’t make it any easierto do.”

Neil Diamond performs on NBC’s "Today" show in New York onMonday.

Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision | AP

Love, disciplinefuel Neil

Diamond’slatest albumBy SANDY COHEN

ASSOCIATED PRESS

PREVENCIÓN DE IRASHa comenzado a

operar el programa estatalTemporada Invernal, quetiene como propósito im-plementar acciones de vigi-lancia epidemiológica ymedidas preventivas parahacer frente a las Infeccio-nes Respiratorias Agudas(IRAS).

Los grupos que presen-tan mayores riesgos decontraer la influenza sonlos adultos mayores de 65años y los niños menoresde 2 años de edad, muje-res embarazadas y perso-nas con algún tipo de en-fermedades crónicas notransmisibles, señaló Nor-berto Treviño García Man-zo, secretario de Salud, enun comunicado de prensadel Estado.

Las 12 JurisdiccionesSanitarias del estado cuen-tan con brigadas de vacu-nación, añadió Treviño Gar-cía Manzo.

“Los objetivos para estatemporada invernal son va-cunar al 100 por ciento delos niños de 6 a 59 mesesde vida y mayores de 60años”, se lee en el comuni-cado. “Vacunar al 100 porciento de la población deriesgo (embarazadas, per-sonas con VIH, diabetes,cardiópatas, obesos, asmá-ticos y personal de salud)”.

Asimismo la Secretariade Salud pide a la pobla-ción comenzar a utilizarropa abrigadora durante lasmañanas, evitar tener con-tacto con personas enfer-mas de las vías respirato-rias y llevar a cabo el há-bito de lavado de manos.

INAUGURAN CENTRO DE SALUD

El Centro de Salud300 de Tamaulipas haabierto sus puertas.

El nuevo Centro de Sa-lud, de una inversión demás de 6 millones de pe-sos, está ubicado en la co-lonia Emiliano Zapata de laciudad de Madero, Tamauli-pas, y beneficiará a másde 17.000 habitantes desectores.

En los 300 espacios seatienden al menos a300.000 personas, lo querepresenta una estimaciónde 4 millones de consultasanuales en diversos servi-cios como medicina gene-ral, curaciones y vacunas,programas de detecciónoportuna de cáncer, diver-sas campañas de salud,atención dental y farmaciaentre otros, señala un co-municado de prensa.

PUEBLO MÁGICOLa antigua ciudad de

Tula, Tamaulipas, celebratercer aniversario comoPueblo Mágico.

Tula, que fungió comocapital de Tamaulipas de1846 a 1947, logró el reco-nocimiento de la Secretaríade Turismo, como PuebloMágico en 2011, hecho trasel cual se invirtieron 95millones de pesos en infra-estructura turística, mejo-ramiento urbano y restau-ración de fachadas.

Asimismo se han impul-sado programas de capaci-tación para incrementar lacalidad y mejorar la expe-riencia del turismo, señalaun comunicado de prensa.

Para el festejo del ter-cer aniversario, el Presi-dente Municipal, Juan An-drés Díaz, con apoyo de laSecretaría de DesarrolloEconómico y Turismo orga-nizaron diversas activida-des, entre ellas un recorri-do para constatar los avan-ces de las obras deimagen urbana.

Díaz señaló que en 2015iniciarán un proyecto parael Cerro de la Cruz.

— Reportes coninformación del

Gobierno de Tamaulipas

Tamaulipas en Breve

Tiroteos fueron escuchados enNuevo Laredo, México, el fin de se-mana dejando tres personas muer-tas y varios detenidos en enfrenta-mientos realizados entre hombresarmados y militares mexicanos, deacuerdo a la Procuraduría Generalde Justicia del estado de Tamauli-pas.

Los enfrentamientos armadosaparecen después de una recientealerta de viaje a México emitidapor el Departamento de Estado el10 de octubre, donde se exhorta alos ciudadanos estadounidenses a“aplazar viajes no esenciales” aTamaulipas, se establece en laalerta.

La alerta menciona cuatro ciu-

dades específicas en Tamaulipas,incluyendo Nuevo Laredo.

“Matamoros, Reynosa, NuevoLaredo y Ciudad Victoria han ex-perimentado numerosos enfrenta-mientos armados y ataques con ar-tefactos explosivos el año pasado.Conflictos violentos entre elemen-tos rivales criminales y/o el ejérci-to mexicano pueden ocurrir en to-da la región y en cualquier mo-mento del día”, se lee en la alerta.

Las autoridades de Tamaulipasdijeron que el primer incidente tu-vo lugar el 17 de octubre en la co-lonia La Joya, al oeste de NuevoLaredo. Las tropas mexicanas quepatrullaban la carretera que con-duce al Aeropuerto InternacionalQuetzalcóatl se vieron bajo el fue-go que provenía de una camionetaocupada por hombres armados, di-

jeron las autoridades.Los soldados repelieron el fuego

dando muerte a un hombre aquien las autoridades no identifi-caron. Las tropas arrestaron a Al-fredo López Fernández, José Mi-guel Anastasio Quevedo y YolandaMagdalena Luna Beltrán. Además,los soldados dijeron que decomisa-ron un rifle de asalto, una pistola,un cargador, una cartuchera y unradio.

Los tiros volvieron a escucharseen una segunda ocasión a las 3:30a.m., el 17 de octubre al oeste deNuevo Laredo. Las tropas mexica-nas dijeron que se encontraroncon un vehículo cuyos ocupantesestaban actuando de manera sos-pechosa. Se iniciaron disparoscuando los soldados intentaron de-tener el vehículo.

La confrontación dejó a un hom-bre muerto y tres arrestados. Susnombres no fueron dados a cono-cer. Los militares decomisaron unrifle de asalto, una pistola, sietecargadores, 167 tiros de alto cali-bre, 50 dosis de cocaína, una bolsade marihuana y un vehículo.

Una tercera confrontación ar-mada dejó otro hombre muerto alas 8:30 p.m., el mismo día duranteun patrullaje en una ubicación queno fue dada a conocer en NuevoLaredo. Las autoridades dijeronque el ejército mexicano se defen-dió cuando fueron atacados. Lastropas confiscaron cuatro rifles deasalto, 23 cargadores, 420 cartu-chos útiles y un vehículo.

(Localice a César G. Rodríguez enel (956) 728-2568 o en crodri-guez@lmtonline.com)

NUEVO LAREDO, MÉXICO

Tiroteos fatalesPOR CÉSAR G. RODRÍGUEZ

TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

PÁGINA 8A Zfrontera MIÉRCOLES 22 DE OCTUBRE DE 2014

ATLANTA, Georgia— Las autorida-des federales estadounidenses comen-zaron a difundir nuevos protocolos quefomentan el uso de protección comple-ta para los trabajadores sanitarios queatienden a pacientes de ébola.

Las autoridades difundieron el lunespor la noche las recomendaciones, quelos trabajadores sanitarios exigían des-de que dos enfermeras en Dallas se in-fectaron del virus cuando atendían alprimer enfermo de ébola diagnosticadoen Estados Unidos.

Personal de los Centros de Control yPrevención de Enfermedades (CDC,por sus siglas en inglés) comenzaríanel martes las demostraciones de las téc-nicas recomendadas en un enormecentro de formación en el Centro Ja-vits de Nueva York, con una asistenciaesperada de miles de personas.

Las peticiones de nuevos estándaresse vieron impulsadas por los inespera-dos contagios este mes de dos enferme-ras del Hospital Presbiteriano de Saludde Texas. No está claro cómo se infec-taron las trabajadoras, pero se sabeque hubo algún problema, indicó el di-rector de los CDC, Tom Frieden.

Los nuevos protocolos son más es-trictos, requiriendo trajes de protec-ción y capuchas completas que cubranel cuello de los trabajadores e impo-niendo normas rigurosas para la reti-rada del equipo y la desinfección de lasmanos, además de introducir la figurade un supervisor para las maniobrasde colocar y quitar las protecciones.

También piden a los trabajadoresque pudieran participar en la atencióna enfermos de ébola que ensayen va-rias veces cómo se pone y se quita eltraje antes de acercarse a un paciente.

En cuanto a los hospitales, se pide ladesignación de zonas para colocar y re-tirar el equipo, ya sea una habitacióncontigua a la de un paciente de ébola ouna zona de pasillo acordonada conplásticos.

Los CDC no pueden obligar a loshospitales a seguir las guías, se tratasólo de recomendaciones oficialesEstasemana 50 personas que habían tenidocontacto con el paciente diagnosticadoen Estados Unidos, el liberiano Tho-mas Eric Duncan, completaron el pe-riodo de observación de 21 días y deja-ron de estar consideradas en riesgo dedesarrollar la enfermedad.

En Texas quedan unas 120 personasbajo observación por posibles sínto-mas, que terminan su cuarentena el 7de noviembre, indicó el alcalde de Da-llas, Mike Rawlings. Otras 140 personasestán siendo monitoreadas en Ohio porsu contacto o posible contacto con laenfermera Amber Vinson, según auto-ridades de Ohio.

ÉBOLA

EU emitenuevos

procesosPOR MIKE STOBBE Y EMILY SCHMALL

ASSOCIATED PRESS

El municipio de Camargo, Ta-maulipas, fue el escenario del de-comiso de toneladas de marihua-na, dijeron autoridades del Esta-do el lunes.

La Secretaría de la Defensa Na-cional, aseguró poco más de trestoneladas de marihuana en Ca-margo, tras labores de inteligen-cia ejecutadas en diferentes pun-tos de la ciudad, indicó un comu-nicado de prensa emitido por el

Grupo de Coordinación Tamauli-pas.

El decomiso fue constituido de3.165 kilogramos de marihuana y2 kilogramos de semilla del mis-mo narcótico, señala el comuni-cado.

“(El contrabando) fue descu-bierto por personal militar enuna vivienda ubicada en la calleCapitán García entre Guerrero yJiménez, en el sector centro deese municipio de la Ribereña”, selee en el comunicado.

RIBEREÑA

Incautan más de tres toneladas marihuanaTIEMPO DE ZAPATA

El Estado de Tamaulipasserá el espacio naturalque las mariposas Mo-narca elijan como lugar

para alimentarse y descansar, an-tes de llegar a su destino en Mi-choacán, México.

Por tal motivo se han estructu-rado Santuarios Naturales a lolargo del vecino Estado, donde lasmariposas podrán ser observadasdurante su trayecto, alimentándo-se o descansando, de acuerdo conHeberto Cavazos Lliteras, sub Se-cretario de Medio Ambiente.

De acuerdo con investigacionesreportadas por Tamaulipas estatemporada las mariposas comien-zan a encontrar una planta llama-da algodoncillo o chipuz (Asclepiacurassavica) e inician la puestade huevecillos en el estado. Loslugares más reconocidos por estehecho son Veracruz y Madero, Al-dama, Soto La Marina, San Fer-nando en la zona costera y en elcentro del Estado como GómezFarías, Güémez, Hidalgo y Victo-ria, además de la zona fronterizaen Río Bravo y Reynosa.

Para mediados de abril las ma-riposas monarca nacidas en Ta-maulipas, continúan su viaje ha-cia Estados Unidos para otra eta-pa y un nuevo el cicloreproductivo, que se repetirá almenos tres veces más entre lasnuevas generaciones, las cualescubrirán una distancia de 4.500kilómetros hasta llegar a los bos-ques de pino de Norteamérica.

Canadá, Estados Unidos y Mé-xico, tienen acuerdos internacio-nales para proteger la ruta de mi-

gración de las mariposas monar-cas.

Monitoreo permanenteAlrededor de los estados, que

como Tamaulipas, son paso natu-ral de las mariposas se iniciarontrabajos de coordinación para elmonitoreo de invierno entre laComisión Nacional de Áreas Na-turales Protegidas, los sectoreseducativos, organizaciones civilesy voluntarios en los años 2012 y2013, señaló Cavazos Lliteras. Conbase en ellos se ha identificandola ruta que siguen las mariposasmonarca durante su migración, yse ha educado al público sobre laimportancia de cuidar su entor-no.

La amplia geografía de Tamau-

lipas y su biodiversidad represen-tan un paso seguro para la Mari-posa Monarca, por ello se realizaun monitoreo constante en la ubi-cación de las colonias de esta es-pecie, señaló Alfonso Banda Val-dez, Dirección de Recursos Natu-rales y Manejo de ÁreasNaturales de la sub Secretaria deMedio Ambiente.

En años anteriores se llegarona realizar 45 recorridos en 18 co-munidades de 5 municipios delAltiplano tamaulipeco, entre ellosJaumave, Tula, Ocampo Busta-mante y Miquihuana.

Se ha detectado que en la ver-tiente de la Sierra Madre Orien-tal las mariposas encuentran co-mo alimentarse, abastecerse deagua y pernotar en la biodiversi-dad de Tamaulipas, señala un co-municado de prensa del estado.

MEDIO AMBIENTE

BELLEZA NATURAL

Una mariposa monarca fertiliza una margarita. El Estado de Tamaulipas es un lugar de descanso para las mariposas en sucamino a Michoacán, México.

Foto de cortesía | Gobierno de Tamaulipas

Mariposa monarca visitará TamaulipasTIEMPO DE ZAPATA

El Estado de Tamaulipas será el escenario de descanso de las Mariposas Monar-cas que viajan a Michoacán, México, procedentes de Canadá.

Foto de cortesía | Gobierno de Tamaulipas

Sports&OutdoorsWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014 ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM

The Zapata Lady Hawksare having a great weekafter picking another vic-tory in the district raceand earning state recogni-tion.

Zapata swept Hidalgo3-0 (25-5, 25-19, 25-11) tostay at the top of District16-4A pushing their dis-trict record to 9-1.

The usual suspectsfilled out the stat sheet asZapata’s three-headedmonster of Cassey Garcia,Alexis Alvarado and TereVillarreal led the offen-sive attack. Garcia fin-ished with a game-high 11kills followed by Alvarezwith eight and Villarrealwith seven.

The Lady Hawks didsome damage from theservice line with seven ac-es. Kaity Ramirez and Vil-larreal each had three ac-es while Alex Garcia add-ed another. Ramirez didmost of her damage withthe ball as she led theteam with 18 assists whileBrianna Gonzalez had 11.On the defensive end,Gonzalez had 16 digs andAlexa Garcia had eight forthe Lady Hawks.

Zapata can also cele-brate as the Lady Hawksare ranked No. 17 in thestate by the Texas Girls’Coaches Association inMonday’s polls. The LadyHawks have a 9-1 districtrecord and are 21-7 on theseason with two gamesleft.

FootballThe Hawks saw their

six-game winning streaksnapped Friday night in akey district game. Zapa-ta’s Hector Leduc missedan extra point in thefourth quarter as Kings-ville escaped with a 21-20victory. Zapata fell to 1-1in District 16-4A.

ZHS (6-2) got on thescoreboard early scoringtwo touchdowns in theopening quarter but had ahard time getting their of-fense going in the secondhalf. Orlando Villarreal(86 yards on 20 carries)finished Zapata’s drive

with a 2-yard touchdownwith 8:13 left in the firstquarter. Leduc made it 7-0with the extra point.

Three minutes later, Za-pata found the end zoneon a run by Rolando Iba-nez for a 6-yard touch-down with 5:43 left on theclock.

Zapata’s offense stalledfor the next two quartersjust as Kingsville foundtheir running game. Rog-er Arkadie scored twotouchdowns during thespan and Jesse Galindoadded another one in the

third quarter to give theBrahmas a 21-14 lead latein the third quarter.

The Hawks defensebuckled down and shutout Kingsville in thefourth quarter as Zapatamustered one last drive toget the ball into the redzone. Quarterback RaulRuiz (6-for-12, 81 yards)capped off the drive witha 4-yard run with 8:53 leftin the game but failed toconvert on the extra point.

Clara Sandoval canbe reached at sand-oval.clara@gmail.com

Lady Hawks up to No. 17 in pollBy CLARA SANDOVAL

THE ZAPATA TIMES

Cassey Garcia and the Lady Hawks are up to No. 17 in the TexasGirls’ Coaches Association poll released Monday.

File photo by Clara Sandoval | The Zapata Times

10A THE ZAPATA TIMES International WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014

HONG KONG — HongKong student leaders andgovernment officials talkedbut agreed on little Tuesdayas the city’s Beijing-backedleader reaffirmed his unwil-lingness to compromise onthe key demand of activistscamped in the streets nowfor a fourth week.

Chief Executive LeungChun-ying told reportersthat the government won’tlet the public nominate can-didates to run in inauguraldirect elections to succeedhim in 2017, as demandedby thousands of protestersoccupying thoroughfaresacross the city. But he addedthat there’s room to discusshow to form the key 1,200-member nominating com-mittee.

Leung said such changescould be covered in a sec-ond round of consultationsover the next severalmonths.

“How we should elect the1,200 so that the nominatingcommittee will be broadlyrepresentative - there’sroom for discussion there,”Leung said. “There’s roomto make the nominatingcommittee more democrat-ic, and this is one of thethings we very much wantto talk to not just the stu-dents but the community atlarge about.”

Soon after Leung spoketo The Associated Press andthree other news agencies,top officials from his gov-ernment began much-await-ed, televised talks with stu-dent leaders.

In opening remarks, stu-dent leader Alex Chow saidthat an August decision byChina’s legislature rulingout so-called civil nomina-tion and requiring the nom-inating committee has“emasculated” Hong Kong.

Chow and four other stu-

dent leaders, wearing blackT-shirts that said “FreedomNow!,” faced off against fivesenior government officialsin dark suits across a U-shaped table.

“We don’t want anoint-ment,” said Chow, secretary-general of the Hong KongFederation of Students, oneof three groups leading theprotests.

The student leaders ac-cused senior officials of“creating the current politi-cal problems” by submittinga report to Beijing on elec-toral reform that “misrepre-sented the views of theHong Kong people.”

“After suffering from teargas and police batons, thepeople of Hong Kong onlyhope that those with powerin Hong Kong’s governmentcan openly and sincerelysolve the problems that youhave created,” said LesterShum, the federation’s vicesecretary.

Chief Secretary CarrieLam, the government’s No.2 official, said the govern-ment would consider send-ing another report to Beij-

ing reflecting the protesters’views, though she repeated-ly chided the students forbeing “idealistic” ratherthan “pragmatic.”

The officials stuck to thegovernment line that HongKong’s mini-constitutioncannot be amended to ac-commodate protesters’ de-mands, while also sayingthat many others don’tshare their views.

“We hope you would un-derstand that there are a lotof people who are not inMong Kok, who are not inAdmiralty. There are manypeople at home who aren’tinsisting on civil nomina-tion,” said Justice SecretaryRimsky Yuen.

Both sides showed littlewillingness to compromise.Lam said she hoped for fur-ther talks though the stu-dents weren’t sure whetherthey would continue.

Thousands of people in-tently watched the meetingon giant screens in themain protest area in Admi-ralty, on a highway next tocity government headquar-ters. They cheered student

leaders who criticized thegovernment intransigence’sand booed Lam when shecommended police for exer-cising restraint.

Police armed with pepperspray and batons haveclashed violently in recentdays with protesters armedwith umbrellas and gogglesin the blue-collar district ofMong Kok over control ofthe streets. Nearly 300 peo-ple have been injured sincethe protest began. Policesaid 94 have been arrestedsince Oct. 3.

The protesters heaped onmore boos when the screenswent black after the talksended, reflecting what sever-al said was their overall dis-appointment with the meet-ing.

“The government didn’tdo anything,” said AlexChan, a 40-year-old technol-ogy consultant. “But it’s on-ly the start, the first time.Everybody has to find away to end this situation.”

Leung said one obstacleto resolving the conflict is alack of consensus as to whatwould end the occupation.

Hong Kong students,officials talk but don’t agree

By KELVIN CHAN AND JACK CHANGASSOCIATED PRESS

A pro-democracy student protester wipes her eyes as she watches with others a live broadcast of gov-ernment officials meeting with student protest organizers, in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong.

Photo by Wally Santana | AP

BELO HORIZONTE, Bra-zil — Brazil’s deadlockedpresidential race is the mostheated since the nation re-turned to democracy, andnowhere is the battle morebare-knuckled than in thestate where both candidateswere born.

Minas Gerais, which hasproduced more presidentsthan any other state in theglobe’s fifth-largest nation,is key to whether incum-bent Dilma Rousseff gets an-other four years in office orif challenger Aecio Nevesreturns the presidency tothe Brazil’s main oppositionparty after more than a dec-ade in the wilderness.

Because Minas Gerais isalso the country’s secondmost populous state withabout 20.5 million of Brazil’s203.3 people, the nation’svote for president on Sun-day hinges in large part onits voters.

“It’s the Ohio of Brazil,”said Mauricio Moura, aBrazilian pollster and pro-fessor of political strategy atGeorge Washington Univer-sity. “Brazil has never elect-ed a president who didn’twin in Minas Gerais.”

Minas Gerais is also deci-sive because of a diverse po-litical makeup that mirrorsBrazil overall. There isheavy support for Neves’center-right party in wealth-ier parts of the capital andthe south, and backing forRousseff’s Workers’ Party inthe poorer areas in thenorth and west that relymore on federal governmentsocial programs such assubsidized housing loansand a cash transfer arrange-ment paying families to en-sure their children stay inschool.

In first-round voting onOct. 5 Rousseff took justover 43 percent of the state’svotes to Neves’ nearly 40percent, even though Nevesserved two terms as gover-nor of Minas Gerais and leftoffice in 2010 with a 92-per-

cent approval rating.Since that first vote, both

campaigns have sharply fo-cused on the state. In a signof the growing acrimony, de-bate on the wide, palm tree-dotted streets of Belo Hori-zonte, long known for itsimpeccably polite citizens,has turned nasty.

Rousseff supporters haverevived five-year-old, unpro-ven media accusations thatNeves pushed and hit histhen-girlfriend and nowwife, Leticia. The couple de-nies the episode ever hap-pened.

Neves’ detractors alsocriticize him for building a$7 million regional airporton land his uncle owned inMinas Gerais. The candi-date says procedures werecorrectly followed and audi-tors have found nothingwrong with the choice ofland.

The political mentor ofthe 66-year-old Rousseff, for-mer President Luiz InacioLula da Silva, alluded to thealleged incident involvingNeves and his wife whileleading a rally in Belo Hori-zonte last weekend. He alsoused the term “daddy’s boy”to refer to the political pedi-gree and family wealth ofthe 54-year-old Neves, whose

grandfather Tancredo Neveswas elected in 1985 to beBrazil’s first president afterthe 21-year military dicta-torship, but died a day be-fore taking office.

“You can vote for whom-ever you want,” a man’svoice boomed from the gi-ant speakers on a Rousseffcampaign truck recentlycrawling through the streetsof Belo Horizonte, a colonialcity of about 2.4 million andthe Minas Gerais state cap-ital. “But do you want aman who beats his wife andbuilt an airport for his un-cle? It’s your choice, but Iam just saying.”

As the sound truck bear-ing Rousseff campaign ban-ners rolled around Belo Ho-rizonte insulting Neves, pe-destrians stared and peoplestepped out of hair salonsand other businesses towave their hands and shaketheir heads in disapproval.Some made obscene ges-tures.

“They are terrified of los-ing power and they arescared,” said Rafael Olivei-ra, a Neves supporter distri-buting flyers on the street.

But those Neves support-ers seem just as desperateto woo undecided votersand the 14 percent of the

electorate who cast first-round ballots for MarinaSilva, the former environ-ment minister since elimi-nated from the race. Silvanow backs Neves.

At a Neves support rallyin downtown Belo Hori-zonte last week, speakerscalled Rousseff a “fascist”and “terrorist”— an appar-ent reference to her time asa youthful Marxist guerrillain an armed organizationthat fought against Brazil’smilitary regime. Rousseffhas long maintained thatshe personally never partici-pated in violent acts.

In a poor rural area onthe capital’s outskirts, Ma-ria Lindaura Dos Santos re-cently hung clothes to dryoutside the house, a newlydeveloped area where thegovernment offers loans forlow-income families whowant to buy houses.

They still have no sewagesystem, but the new neigh-borhood is pulling through,she said.

“No one used to do any-thing for people in the vil-lages. But we have a house,and a bus stop nearby,” saidDos Santos, a Rousseff sup-porter. “They are the onlyones who remember we ex-ist.”

Fight for Brazil’sbattleground state heats up

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICONASSOCIATED PRESS

Supporters of Brazil’s President and Workers Party candidate Dilma Rousseff shout slogans in Belo Ho-rizonte, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, on Friday.

Photo by Adirana Gomez | AP

MOSCOW — The headof French oil giant TotalSA was killed at a Moscowairport when his corpo-rate jet collided with asnowplow whose driverwas drunk, Russian inves-tigators said Tuesday.

Total confirmed “withdeep regret and sadness”that Chairman and CEOChristophe de Margeriedied in the crash at Mos-cow’s Vnukovo airport.

The three other peopleon board, all of themFrench crew members, al-so died when the French-made Dassault Falcon 50hit the snowplow on take-off at 11:57 p.m. Monday.The plane crashed ontothe runway and burst intoflames, investigators said.

The driver, who was nothurt, was operating thesnowplow under the influ-ence of alcohol, TatyanaMorozova, an official withthe Investigative Commit-tee, Russia’s main investi-gative agency, told report-ers at the airport. She saidinvestigators are question-ing the driver and also airtraffic controllers and wit-nesses to the crash.

De Margerie, 63, was aregular fixture at interna-tional economic gather-ings and one of the Frenchbusiness community’smost outspoken and recog-nizable figures, with histrademark silver mous-tache.

He was a vocal critic ofsanctions against Russia,arguing that isolating Rus-sia was bad for the globaleconomy. He traveled regu-larly to Russia and recent-ly dined in Paris with aPutin ally who is underEU sanctions.

On Monday, de Marge-rie took part in a meetingof Russia’s Foreign Invest-ment Advisory Councilwith members of Russia’s

government and other in-ternational business exec-utives.

President Vladimir Pu-tin extended his condo-lences in a telegram sentto French President Fran-cois Hollande.

Putin said de Margerie“stood at the origins of themany major joint projectsthat have laid the basis forthe fruitful cooperation be-tween Russia and Francein the energy sphere formany years,” according toa text released by theKremlin.

Hollande expressed his“stupor and sadness” atthe news. In a statement,he praised de Margerie fordefending French industryglobally, and for his “inde-pendent character andoriginal personality.”

De Margerie had risenthrough the ranks at Total,serving in several posi-tions in the finance depart-ment and exploration andproduction division beforebecoming president of To-tal Middle East in 1995. Hebecame a member of To-tal’s policy-making execu-tive committee in 1999, be-came CEO in 2007, andadded the post of chair-man in 2010.

He was a central figurein Total’s role in the Unit-ed Nations oil-for-food pro-gram in Iraq in the 1990s.Total paid a fine in the U.S.in this case, though DeMargerie was acquitted oncorruption charges by aFrench court.

Paris-based Total is thefifth-largest publicly tradedintegrated internationaloil and gas company in theworld, with explorationand production operationsin more than 50 countries,according to a profile onthe company’s website.

Total shares opened low-er Tuesday morning afterthe news, then climbedslightly to 42.95 euros inearly Paris trading.

CEO killedin Russianplane crashBy LYNN BERRY

ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RI-CHELIEU, Quebec — Ayoung convert to Islamwho killed a Canadian sol-dier in a hit-and-run hadbeen on the radar of feder-al investigators, whofeared he had jihadist am-bitions and had seized hispassport, authorities saidTuesday.

The suspect was shotdead by police after achase in the Quebec city ofSaint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu.A second soldier sufferedminor injuries in Mon-day’s attack.

Public Safety MinisterSteven Blaney said the at-tack “clearly linked to ter-rorist ideology.” QuebecPolice spokesman Guy La-pointe said the act was de-liberate and that one of thetwo soldiers was in uni-form. Lapointe said therewere no other suspects atthis time.

An official who spokeon condition of anonymitybecause he was not au-thorized to speak publiclyabout the case identifiedthe suspect as Martin Cou-ture-Rouleau, 25.

The suspect was knownto authorities and recentlyhad his passport seized,RCMP Commissioner BobPaulson said. He was oneof 90 suspected extremistsin the country who intendto join fights abroad orwho have returned fromoverseas. However, it wasnot known whether thesuspect had any ties to Is-lamic militant groups.

“He was part of our in-vestigative efforts to tryand identify those peoplewho might commit a crim-inal act travelling abroad

for terrorist purposes,”Paulson said.

There was no answer atCouture-Rouleau’s singlestory white brick home inSaint-Jean-sur-Richelieu,Quebec, on Tuesday morn-ing, and no sign of police.

Neighbor Daniel Fortinsaid he had known Cou-ture-Rouleau, who livedwith his father, since hewas a child.

Fortin said over the pastyear or so, he grew out hisbeard and began wearingloose-fitting Muslim cloth-ing but that he never feltthreatened by him. Fortinsaid Couture-Roleau’s fa-ther was worried as he be-came increasingly radical-ized and “tried every-thing,” to help him.

Another neighbor, whodeclined to be named, saidshe didn’t know the familywell but saw police visitthe home on more thanone occasion over the pastfew months.

Prime Minister StephenHarper said the slain sol-dier, 53-year-old WarrantOfficer Patrice Vincent,was a 28-year veteran with“distinguished service.”

“Our thoughts andprayers are with his fam-ily members, his friendsand his colleagues,” theprime minister said.

“This was a despicableact of violence that strikesagainst not just this sol-dier and his colleagues butfrankly against our veryvalues as a civilized de-mocracy,” Harper said inParliament.

Lapointe said the othervictim is in stable condi-tion with minor injuries.

U.S. State Departmentspokeswoman Marie Harfcondemned the attack andsaid they are in touch withCanadian officials.

Terroristblamed incar attack

By BENJAMIN SHINGLER AND ROBGILLIES

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014 THE ZAPATA TIMES 11A

ter’s alerts have aided in the recovery ofthe remains of about 200 people.

“He’s a one-in-a-million dog,” Dostie says.Maybe, but he’s far from the only dog do-

ing this kind of work. Increasingly, law en-forcement investigators across the countryare putting their faith in dogs like Busterto help find remains — bodies, bones andblood from the missing and the murdered.Cadaver dogs, as these specially trained ca-nines are sometimes called, were used insearches after the terror attacks of Sept. 11,2001, and to help find victims of natural di-sasters, such as Hurricane Katrina.

More recently, these dogs have helpedconvict some murder suspects, even whenno body is found. Trainers and some foren-sic scientists say the dogs can detect hu-man residue that’s been left behind in atrunk, or on a blanket or tarp, or a tempo-rary grave of some sort. In some cases, thedogs also help pinpoint areas where air andsoil can be tested with increasingly sophis-ticated detection devices — though thesemethods have not been without controver-sy.

Proving what these dogs know isn’t easy.“If only Buster could talk,” Dostie quips,

as he works his dog through a wide patchof scraggly brush, about 50 miles east of Yo-semite National Park.

Near an old mine shaft, Buster eventual-ly zeroes in on a spot, then stops and barkswith more urgency. “Show me, Buster!”Dostie shouts.

In his younger days, Buster would liedown on a spot like this to indicate an“alert.” But having lost a leg to cancer, the12-year-old canine now prefers to poke hisnose in the direction of a particular spot inthe dirt, or at a rock, or whatever has setoff his nose.

As a reward, Dostie tosses Buster a bluerubber toy he’s been holding behind hisback while the dog searches. “Good boy,”he says.

To the untrained eye, it might seem thatBuster is simply barking for that toy.

But this routine has helped unearth theremains of everyone from crime victims tomissing Americans lost in World War IIbattles in Europe and on the south Pacificisland of Tarawa. Dostie and Buster travelto former war zones with History FlightInc., a nonprofit foundation whose missionincludes finding the tens of thousands offallen American veterans whose bodieswere never recovered.

Among others, Buster helped find Lt.Robert Fenstermacher, an Army Air Corpspilot whose plane crashed in Belgium afterbeing shot down in 1944. Last year, his fam-ily gathered as he was laid to rest, nearly70 years later, in Arlington National Ceme-tery.

“(Now) we can finally say to Robert: ‘Wel-come home. You served your country andfamily with honor and made us proud,”’the pilot’s great-nephew, Robert Fenster-macher Jr., said at the funeral, as hethanked Buster, Dostie and other searchvolunteers.

History Flight volunteers and paid staffalso use ground-penetrating radar, histori-cal records and witness accounts to pin-point remains. The method has led to therecovery of 13,000 bones of American veter-ans on Tarawa alone, most of them not yetidentified, says Mark Noah, founder of His-tory Flight.

Other searches are often much simpler— just the handlers and dogs, walking onfoot, mile after mile to find a body. Thatwas how Deborah Palman, now a retiredspecialist with the Maine Warden Service,and her German shepherd, Alex, found thebody of a Canadian woman named MariaTanasichuk in 2003. Police later determinedshe’d been shot in the head execution-styleby her husband David Tanasichuk.

“We had worked so long for so manydays — a lot of long, hard searches,” Pal-man says. “You’ve sort of thrown yourselfinto numbness, and you convince yourselfyou’re not going to find what you’re look-ing for.”

Then, during another long day trekkingthrough a forest outside Miramichi, NewBrunswick, Palman recalls how Alex ran toher as if to say, “Hey, come look at this. Fol-low me!”

Palman pulled back some brush and sawgreen fabric, and signs that a body was un-derneath.

“My pulse must have shot up over 200,”she says.

That find was the break in the case thatled to David Tanasichuk’s conviction.

Local police departments have been re-luctant to use the cadaver dogs for searchesbecause their trainers are volunteers, butthat’s been changing, as the dogs’ traininghas become more standardized in the lastdecade — and as they’ve helped solve morecases.

Labs and German shepherds are the

most common breeds used for cadaverwork. Like most of the dogs, Buster startedyoung, though Dostie concedes that he ig-nored the pudgy puppy when his wifebrought him home 12 years ago. She’dbegged her husband to let her keep Buster— and then Dostie started noticing what agood nose the dog had.

The dogs are often trained at cemeteriesand at specialized “body farms” that havedecomposing bodies at various stages.

While humans, when alive, have individ-ual scents, chemical reactions from decom-position are basically the same in every hu-man, though those reactions — and thescent — change over time, forensic expertssay.

When more than one dog has alerted in-dependently in the same spot, some judgeshave been persuaded to allow cadaver dogevidence and testimony from the dogs’ han-dlers, even if investigators haven’t foundthe body.

In February, for instance, cadaver dogevidence helped convict a suburban Chica-go man, Aurelio Montano, of killing hiswife. She disappeared in 1990, and althoughher body was never found, investigators gota tip, years later, and dug up a rug at ahorse farm on which more than one cadav-er dog alerted. They contended that Monta-no had wrapped the body in the rug — alsoidentified by his daughter as having oncebeen in their home — and buried it. Thosesame investigators said Montano later ex-humed his wife’s remains and disposed ofthem in an unknown location.

The dogs’ alerts on the rug, coupled withwitness testimony, proved to be enough toconvict Montano.

That sort of testimony has been less thaneffective in other cases, though.

In the high-profile 2011 Florida trial ofCasey Anthony — accused of killing heryoung daughter — more than one cadaverdog alerted on the trunk of Anthony’s car.Arpad Vass, then a senior research scien-tist with the Oak Ridge National Lab, testi-fied that using air samples from the trunk,he had found high levels of chloroform,which can be found when a body breaksdown. However, that finding was ques-tioned by other witnesses and pundits, whosaid the science wasn’t ready for prime-time. And unlike Montano, Anthony wasfreed.

Cadaver dogs “are an incredible investi-gatory tool — no question about it,” says

Lawrence Kobilinsky, professor and chair-man of the department of sciences at theJohn Jay College of Criminal Justice inNew York. Certainly, he says, they can helpuncover valuable evidence in criminalcases — a body, or bones or maybe clothing.

But he is among those who doesn’t thinkthe dogs’ alerts and subsequent tests of soiland air where should be admissible incourt, at least not yet.

“What we need to do is strengthen thescience,” Kobilinksy says.

And even in investigations, dogs alertingis often just the first step in what can be alengthy, sometimes fruitless endeavor.

“Everybody thinks, you just dig a hole,but it’s not always that obvious,” says Vass,who is continuing to develop technology tohelp locate clandestine graves and to eval-uate chemical markers associated with hu-man decomposition. Often, he says, buriedbodies create a “chemical plume” that runsdownhill from a grave, making it difficultto find.

“Dogs,” Vass says, “are just one tool inthe toolbox.”

Cost also can be a factor.In Plumas County, California, Buster and

two other dogs have alerted on an outdoorwell on separate occasions. The well is nearthe home where 13-year-old Mark Wilsonwas living when he disappeared in 1967.Wilson was never found.

Plumas County Sheriff Greg Hagwoodcan’t be sure the boy’s body is in that well.But he thinks it’s worth investigating, somuch so that he asked for assistance fromthe Federal Bureau of Investigation, whichhas offered a forensics team.

The sheriff ’s department, however, stillmust foot the estimated $96,474 bill to exca-vate and restore the site, which is in thefront yard of a home. That’s no smallamount of money in a county, once a busylogging and lumber hub, that’s been hit byeconomic hard times.

With the funding turned down by thecounty board, the sheriff says he’ll seekhelp from foundations or other sources.

“How can I justify not pursuing this?” heasks. “Well, you can’t.”

Buster, meanwhile, is still at work andmay make another long trip to Tarawa.Noah, of History Flight, paid for the dog’scancer surgery, out of gratitude and to keepBuster’s nose in the field.

“As long as he wants to work, he gets towork,” Dostie says. “It’s up to him.”

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whose occupants were act-ing suspicious. Shots rangout when soldiers attempt-ed to pull over the vehicle.

The confrontation leftone man dead and three ar-rested. Their names werenot released. Mexico’s mil-itary seized one assault ri-fle, one handgun, sevenmagazines, 167 high-caliberrounds, 50 cocaine doses, amarijuana baggie and onevehicle.

A third armed confronta-tion left another man deadat 8:30 p.m., the same dayas the other two incidents,during soldiers’ roving du-ties in an undisclosed loca-tion in Nuevo Laredo. Au-thorities said the Mexicanarmy defended itself whenthey came under fire.Troops seized four assaultrifles, 23 magazines, 420rounds of ammo and onevehicle.

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in the future will needjust six hours of notice toprepare for a patient.

The other unit will beat the University of TexasMedical Branch at Gal-veston, southeast of Hous-ton.

Texas Health Presbyter-ian Hospital in Dallas,which treated the threeprevious Ebola cases, wasnot included in the plan.Thomas Eric Duncan,who had traveled to Dal-las from Ebola-ravagedWest Africa, died there onOct. 8. A nurse who treat-ed him tested positive forEbola on Oct. 11, and an-other tested positive onOct. 15. Both nurses wereinitially treated at Presby-terian but were laterflown to high-level bioha-zard infectious diseasecenters in Maryland andAtlanta.

About 110 people inTexas, including TexasPresbyterian employees,are still being monitoredfor possible infection with

Ebola because they mayhave had contact with oneof those three people.

Perry formed a taskforce to look at the state’sreadiness to deal with in-fectious diseases shortlyafter Duncan was diag-nosed. The governor saidthe panel had recom-mended that at least twofacilities be designated totake Ebola patients.

State officials said nonew state funds are beingdedicated to the centers.

Both are using existingfacilities with staff whohave already been train-ing to work with such pa-tients, said StephanieGoodman, a spokeswo-man for the Health andHuman Services Commis-sion. She said the hospi-tals already get state andfederal funding and cansupport the centers with-in their current budgets.

The Methodist Campusfor Continuing Care in-cludes a recently vacatedintensive care unit and an

emergency department.Dr. Sam Bagchi, Metho-dist’s chief medical infor-matics officer, said thecampus no longer housescore hospital operations.

At Galveston, Perrysaid, staff members have“safely studied some ofthe most dangerous virus-es in the world for a dec-ade.” He said it is alsohome to a training center“where researchesaround the world come tolearn how to handle themost infectious diseases.”

Perry said Presbyterianwas not included in orderto grant some relief to theemployees who have beenin a situation “not unlikea military operation thathas been on the frontlines.”

The Dallas hospital,where Duncan was ini-tially misdiagnosed andsent home, has defendedits practices and protocolsand said it followed whatit described as frequentlychanging CDC guidelines.

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MADRID — Conclusive tests show a Spanish nurs-ing assistant infected with Ebola is cured of the vi-rus, doctors said Tuesday, signaling a huge step for-ward in her 15-day battle for survival.

Four blood tests over the past four days indicatedTeresa Romero’s system had eliminated the virus,said Dr. Jose Ramon Arribas of Madrid’s Carlos IIIhospital.

He added that Romeo will no longer have to be keptin isolation but will be closely monitored for after ef-fects of the virus.

The family spokeswoman for Romero, Teresa Mesa,said the nursing assistant could remain hospitalizedfor about two more weeks.

Romero, 44, tested positive Oct. 6. She receivedplasma from a recovered Ebola patient, but health au-thorities have disclosed no more treatment details.

“She’s recovering well, her spirits are high,” Mesatold reporters. “She’s not wearing an oxygen maskanymore. She’s eating. The recovery is going great.”

Romero was the first known person to contract thedisease outside of West Africa in the latest outbreak.She had treated two Spanish missionaries who diedof Ebola at the hospital in August and September af-ter they were flown back from West Africa.

Spanish womanfree of Ebola

By CIARAN GILES AND ALAN CLENDENNINGASSOCIATED PRESS

12A THE ZAPATA TIMES WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014