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I -J I 'I A6Monday September 29 1997 Corptut Cfttttt CalleNKmrt wwwcallercom SHOOTING School officials Sunday called parents of Adriana's classmates to tell them about her death When students arrive today counselors will help Adriana's classmates work through their grief with group and individual discussions They also will be available to talk to other children hearts have just said Assistant Principal Pamela Anne Wright who was at the school Sunday Every school day Wright would see Adriana crossing the street with her grandmother as Arthur followed in his big sister's footsteps little brother mimicked everything she did and he was right behind her like a Wright said would say every day she was so bouncy and bubbly and excited about coming to Family members in the midst of planning Adriana's funeral said' struggling with how to explain death to Arthur Even though Arthur saw his 'sister die family members said they know he understand know be asking for Cuellar said knew she was there for him FR0MA1 reports Police believe the 'incident was an act of revenge toward the father Alvarez said also characterizing the incident as a appears that going to be a situation where all of the players knew each Alvarez said during a news conference in his office Sunday afternoon It was still unclear whether the men intended to shoot Adriana Alvarez said the sus-had the Intention of killing her to get ack at the family going to be looking at it Adriana would have celebrated her sixth birthday Oct 30 and already had put together a list of her school friends that she wanted to invite to the celebration her family said Family members said the list seemed to include everyone she knew at school starting making friends right Cuellar said was happy not to be going to day-care anymore she thought of herself as a big girl who was going to a big school" said Cuellar who had put new school clothes a sweater tights pants and shirts on layaway Dvkl PrtwVVCHf-Hm- Police Chief Pete Alvarez says he intends to file a complaint of capital murder against the suspect in Saturday's shooting last week for her granddaughter Family and friends described Adriana as a Smart responsible child She was always watching over her 2-year-old brother Arthur reading' to him and teaching him right from wrong She loved watching Disney videos too they said would come home from school and clean up her toys and things then lay down in her bed and put her movie said aunt Dali nda Cuellar Mlchifc i Saturday night two men beat down the door of this home in the 3600 block of Panama Drive and opened fire killing 5-year-old Adriana Marines and injuring her father Jose and her cousin Vanessa 10 Police are holding one suspect at the Nueces County Jail and still are searching for a second suspect about 700000 pounds in 1996 The i timed their first harvest of biggest outbreak of food-borne disease in the United States in yean The Centers for Disease Control counts at least 2300 people sickened this year and lari They are tip of the iceberg and we know how big the iceberg said Dr Barbara Herwaldt of the CDG The Centen for Disease Control still know little about the parasite But they established this spring that cyclospora is a common cause of diarrhea in Guatemalan children and is still present in the water that pins through the highlands It has shown that a polluted stream in a Third World field can spawn a mysterious bug that can sicken a diner in midtown Manhattan scientists never found cyclospora on the raspberries but they found it in the stools of the American who ate diem And they are Fairly certain that the parasite lay hiding in the water in Guatemala the water with which the berries were sprayed and irrigated just before they were picked shipped and eaten fresh and raw days later in the United States After that experience American scientists' and Guatemalan growers working together did everything they could to prevent another outbreak But when this spring came it happened again: Hundreds perhaps thousands of Americans who ate Guatemalan raspberries became ill The cyclospora case is now the Administration was passed- by the Senate The United States has its own foodafety problems at home Urgent questions about the integrity of food supply were raised when three American children died and 144 people were hospitalized after eating fast-food hamburgers in 1993 A reminder of the problem came this summer when tainted hamburger meat from a Nebraska plant made 16 people sick But this spring and last in an outbreak that attracted less attention tainted raspberries from Guatemala made thousands of Americans sick They were victims of a nearly invisible dimly understood parasite called cyclospora a species almost 1996 for late April and eai when they would have the Us market almost completely to themselves But every April and May when the spring rains come to the highlands thousands of Guatemalans fall ill They think something in the water flowing from the mountains makes them sick And when the raspberries came to the United States in spring 1996 thousands of Americans feu ill as well Many experienced weeks of misery debilitating diarrhea severe cramps chills fever nausea weight loss depression the Centers for Disease The Department of Agriculture has such authority over imported meat and poultry But the FDA never acquired that power though legislation or executive order Kessler said in an interview that he told the Bush and Clinton administrations that the safety sy tern for imported food was ir quate and outdated insure police power throughout the world Inspecting at the border has a limited value left with real Free trade factor Now these risks figure in the political debate about free trade The Qinton administration wants the power to sign new free-trade pacts without Congress changing the language of those agreements Opponents of this authority raise the food-safety flag Some food growers say the risks from imports are insignificant and that the CDC exaggerates them The CDC says diseases borne by domestic and foreign foods kill thousands of Americans and sicken perhaps tens of millions every year Its scientists say that almost none of those cases ever are traced back to their cause As a result they say they lack the data to FOOD FROM A1 want to open markets but not lower standards And that's easy to saybut very very difficult to carry Scientists are recognizing that trade may present problems that are associated with food said Dr Marguerite Neill an infectious disease specialist and a member of a federal advisory panel drafting new food-safety standards These problems cut both ways: radish sprouts from Oregon seeds sickened people in Japan in March and South Korea said it detected coli bacteria in a shipment of frozen US beef last week- The problems imports may pose for American consumers include polluted water used to grow food in Third-World nations faulty safety systems in countries where the foods are produced and a lack of natural immunity to exotic microbes rarely if ever seen in this country vimses bacteria and parasites may be posing a unique problem in the US because we tended to be exposed to Dr Neill said Those problems were foreseeable and foreseen Predictable problem In 1994 a Centers for Disease Control report said trade and economic developments like NAFTA take place the globalization of food supplies is likely to have an increasing impact on food-borne In 1993 the Food and Drug Administration in a memorandum citing inefficiencies in the current food-protection system" and the posed by rapidly growing imports asked the Clinton adminis- never seen in the United States before 1996 Guatemalan raspberries Not a single raspberry grew in Guatemala a decade agaThey grow today because the United States helped introduce them In Die 1980s during the height of the Guatemalan campaign against leftist guerrillas the US Agency for International Development tried to win over the peasants introducing them to the riches of obal trade Hie United States persuaded rural Guatemalans to switch from planti- ng com and beans for themselves to growing exotic crops for North Americana It financed Guatemalan exporters and American importers Mr says "Hot Dog! 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