Corpus Christi Caller-Times du lieu suivant : Corpus Christi, Texas • 1

MONDAY Cowboys sack the Bears 27 Slide in to the playoffs Low 90s upper 60s Weather tide chart B8 Weather question from: Vida Weekley age 12 Cl Ca Copyright 1987 ColtoMlmo PubMIng Company fifty cents More than 199940 daily readers September 29 1997 Stoii 5-yeanr-old was eager to -be bi Suspect held in connection with storming of home By Dune La Moris CsHer-Ume Five-year-old Adriana Marines who was shot to death when two men stormed into her home Saturday as die watched was looking forward to inviting friends to her October birthday and walking to school by herself Adriana had just started kindergarten and was excited about attend- Spohn Memorial She turns 11 on Tuesday Police said two men who knew the family beat down the door and entered the home in the 3600 block of Panama Drive shortly after 10:50 pm and began shooting Two shots hit Adriana in the right side of her the head killing her before help arrived according to police Plaasa see SH00TMGA6 ing Kostoryz Elementary School just across the street used to say can I cross the street by myself said her grandmother Juanita Cuellar would tell her you become a big Police have a man in custody who they suspect was involved in the 10:50 father Jose Marines 29 was shot in the mouth and neck police said He was in stable condition Sunday night at Spohn Memorial Hospital officials there said cousin Vanessa Marines who also was watching was struck in the shoulder and was in serious but stable condition Sunday at pm shooting that injured father and 10-year-old cousin The suspect remained in the Nueces County Jail Sunday on suspicion of resisting arrest Police Chief Pete Alvarez said he intends today to file a complaint of capital murder against the man No other arrests have been made but police are seeking a second suspect Adriana Pow-wow comes to a dose i i 1 US justice pot equal Mexico says Mexican citizens denied basic rights officials say i i joins Mk Astronaut touts room with view Gaopga Five-year-old Tlacaelel Sanchez (left) beats on a drum while Adrian De la Rosa 10 dons a feather headpiece during the last day of the Inter-Tribal Pow-Wow The weekend event was organized by the Coastal Bend Council of Native Americans Less bombast expected at Nichols trial Second Oklahoma City bombing case promises to be longer more complex Associated Press HOUSTON The release of death-row inmate Ricardo Aldape Guerra and the execution of Irineo Tristan Montoya last summer exposed the cultural difference between Mexico and the United States on capital punishment 1 Mexicans view the death penalty abolished in 1929 in the predominantly Catholic nation as barbaric Most Americans embrace the death penalty as a deterrent to crime and the only fitting punishment for taking a life The conflict is much more than a reman rights debate between the two countries 'the Houston Chronicle reported in a copyright story Sunday It is a festering historical dispute in which Mexico sees the United States as a racist ruthless nation that denies rights to Mexicans in this country while expecting fair treatment for Americans abroad goes right into the heart of every Mexican Yankee imperialism the upper hand of Norteamericanos against said Tony Zavaleta social anthropologist at the University of Texas-Brownsville Of the foreign citizens on death row in the United States 34 including 11 in Texas are Mexican citizens i The Mexican citizen sentenced to death row particularly in Texas becomes a symbol of the differences that exist and the grudges hat exist between the two nations" Zavaleta said The Aldape Guerra and Tristan Montoya cases threw a particularly harsh light on the differences which were exacerbated by- attempt to get US authorities to recognize its right to defend its people The concerns center on alleged violations of Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations an international treaty that became US law in 1969 Under Article 36 authorities must inform foreign nationals of their right to contact their consulates for help when arrested on criminal changes can assure you that the State Department would never accept another country not notifying them when an American is said Miguel Angel Gonzalez Felix legal adviser for the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Plaasa smJUSTICEAI 2 By Marcia Dunn Associated Press CENTER Houston Relaxed and seemingly fearless American astronaut David Wolf moved into creaky Mir space station Sunday for a four-month mission that some say is senselessly dangerous having too much fun and enjoying it too much to be Wolf said in a broadcast interview from the Atlantis-Mir complex very comfortable well trained to handle any reasonable His predecessor on the other hand couldn't wait to clear out of Mir Astronaut Michael Foale was visibly moved when he spoke of his wife 5-year-old daughter and especially 3-year-old son whom he hugged goodbye in May He feared space shuttle arrival might be delayed because of the controversy over Wolfs mission it was starting to make him tense really do want to see them badly and I would have been disappointed if the docking gone on said Foale who will be reunited with his family as soon as Atlantis lands next Sunday Wolf the sixth American to live on Mir swapped places with Foale one day after arriving via Atlantis and three days after having his mission sanctioned publicly by NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin waited as long as possible to review safety before giving the go-ahead 4'2-month stint included the worst collision ever in space a close call with a speeding satellite and crippling computer breakdowns He said his scariest moment by far was when the out-of-control cargo ship rammed the station on June 25 know what was going to break and how fast the air was going to rush The one good thing about the problems he Please smMIRAS New York Hines News Senice DENVER Quietly with comparatively little fanfare jury selection begins today in the trial of Terry Nichols the second man charged with murder and conspiracy in the Oklahoma Gty bombing Gone are the emotional last-minute news conferences that preceded the trial of codefendant Timo- team that believes in Terry Nichols who is 42 years old and the father of three says he is innocent and Tigar has made every effort to make the jury see his mild-looking middle-aged client in a favorable light Earlier this month he arranged for Nichols wearing slacks and his customary blue bluer to be introduced to the hundreds of potential jurors who had assembled at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds to meet Matsch and fill out individual questionnaires Larry Mackey who has replaced Joseph Hartzler as the lead prosecutor has laid a wide net for Nichols with evidence and witnesses not introduced at the first trial He has also successfully fended off efforts by Tigar to have much of the case against his client thrown out before trial Still Mackey will have to proceed Plaasa sea RICHQUA12 Stephen Jones who was the lead trial lawyer for McVeigh explaining the relative tranquillity of the second trial think the public has near the interest or hostility against Terry or case that they did in lead lawyer Michael Tigar a law professor at the University of Texas has kept a low profile filing motions sealed to the public and meeting prosecutors in the chambers of Judge Richard Matsch who will hear the case in US District Court Nonetheless the largely circumstantial case outlined in pretrial hearings raises the possibiUfy-ofa longer and more complicated trial than that of McVeigh which ended in just under six weeks with a defense that lasted only three days case is James Nichols the brother said in an interview Saturday got a good attorney and a good defense thy McVeigh 29 McVeigh was convicted on identical charges last June and sentenced to death for the bombing which killed 168 people injured 850 and was the worst terrorist attack on American soil boil has been said World food imports strain US ability to monitor for safety Number of inspections drops as foreign-produced products boom and thousands get sick from tainted food Make A Difference Day lUEimaasur Oct 25 Caf(512) 887-8282 i and find out fj I how you can I get Involved M1MM0BRK3 Good Morning Edttorials A10 Funerals B7 Horoscope B6 Jumble CIO local Bl Movies Cl 2 Sports Cl Ann Landers B6 Bridge B6 Business C8 Classified 01 Comics Cl 011 Crosswords 101 1 Deaths B7 milk from Thailand and canned mushrooms from China in a variety of infectious diseases The increase in imports has strained -the food-safety system said Dr David Kessler the Food and Drug Administration commissioner from 1990 through February 1997 built a system back 100 years ago that served us very well- for a world within our he said in an interview build a system for the global fruit and vegetables These are known to have sickened thousands of American and those reported cases are a small fraction of the actual number of people made ill according to scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta The list of outbreaks in the 1990s implicates imported foods including raspberries from Guatemala and carrots from Peru strawberries scallions and cantaloupes from Mexico coconut By Jeff Gerth ind Tim Weiner New York rimes News Service WASHINGTON Since the 1980s food imports to the United States have doubled But federal inspections of those imports by the Food and Drug Administration have dropped to less than half what they were five years ago Now public-health scientists say they are seeing more and more outbreaks of disease linked to imported food particularly fresh 1 Illnesses that have been imported along with some produce are an unintended byproduct of the boom in international trade a boom long advocated by the Reagan Bush and Qinton administrations as crucial to economic growth There is tension between the two goals of safety and said Mickey Kantor President first -trade representative who helpedpush global trade to the top of agenda Plaasa mb FfiODAS 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