Brownsville Herald (Newspaper) - May 22, 1999, Brownsville, Texas High 92 Low 73 107, No. 322 22, 1999 All on the 4th of july 1892 J cents daily president gets baseball trading card Page La Hoya ready for Oba Carr Page remember the fear of the prisoner honored in RICKEY DAILEY TIm Brownsville Former prisoner of war Steven Gonzales received the red-carpet treatment during his visit Friday to the the House and Senate recognized the Army specialist first-class after he met briefly with Gov. George W. Bush and attended a press conference with Lt. Gov. Rick Perry with two other U.S. the 22-year-old from Huntsville was captured March 31 by Serbian forces along the After 32 days of all three were freed May 2. think the greatest lesson I learned is don't take anything for Gonzales explaining a person's life can be turned upside down in a I remember most is the fear of the he explaining he fought that anxiety with faith in God and thoughts Page in Texas slowly Associated Steven M. a former prisoner in is shown with his parents and Texas Gov. George W. Bush during a news conference at the state MICHELLE The Associated PASO A house with a plywood cement floor and insulation sticking out of the walls is all Maria Leticia Urrutia and her family can It's a roof over their but they've had to forgo running 40, is among about 400,000 people in Texas who live in substandard housing developments known as Loosely translated from colonia painting to represent Charro TIM LOPES The Brownsville Senate this week honored a Mexico City artist whose work and support for Brownsville has brought the people of Mexico and the United States closer Salazar not only was responsible for painting the portrait of St. Eugene de that now hangs from the walls of Immaculate Conception but his painting recently was chosen as the official Charro Days Millennium painting of is a fitting representation of Brownsville's 63-year-old Charro Days said Ralph who served as activities chairman for the city's Sesquicentennial which last year hosted Salazar's visit to the Salazar painted the portrait of St. Eugene to commemorate the arrival of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Port Isabel in 1849. on Wednesday accompanied Salazar to passed out signed lithograph copies of the colorful painting that portrays U.S. and Mexican Citizens in patriotic garb greeting each to state senators and a framed poster to Lt. Gov. Rick touched all my all the fibers of my Salazar said of the event in can't describe what that emotion was of the senators left Pace Brownsville reknowned artist Jose from Mexico at and activities chairman Ralph hold up the Millennium Charro Days poster which Salazar painted for the With no breakthrough in sight on the diplomatic or bombing the Clinton administration and its NATO partners struggled Friday to patch up differences over Kosovo while portraying Belgrade and its military as cracking after 59 days of appearances with Secretary of State British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said London and Washington are in on Kosovo And he asserted that NATO bombs are hitting so hard that don't see any sign that the Yugoslav army at the present rate of attrition is going to hold out until August or that time frame is considering that many in NATO originally believed the air campaign would be over in not calendar is influencing NATO because of the lead time required to reach either of two outcomes in Kosovo before the typically harsh Balkan winter sets in the resettlement of ethnic Albanian refugees in Kosovo under a peace or entering Kosovo forcibly to end the Gen. Wesley the top NATO told Defense Secretary William Cohen and the military service chiefs in or in it means a settlement along the border that lacks basic services such as paved roads or principal thing is the water that's what we really need the said who has a septic tank and electricity but must pick up water in the family She then stores the water in an outdoor where bacteria colonia is Page RON FOURNIER The Associated And now Violence in America's schools promises to be a chilling prism through which Americans view a wide range of issues in the 2000 not just gun Calls for smaller better mental health character flexible work school prayer any issue that even remotely touches the subject of school violence could gain campaign struggle to maintain portray Belgrade as meetings at the Pentagon on Thursday that the time is approaching when NATO decisions on ground troops must be made if a resolution is to be achieved before Cohen's said Dark did not recommend a ground invasion or a change in NATO's He told that because there is no guarantee that the air campaign achieve Pace happened to you has pierced the soul of President Clinton told students and faculty at Columbine High profound has happened to your country because of polls bear him shootings in drew an extraordinarily high level of public ranked almost as high as any other stories this according to the Pew Research Center for the People the month the subject was back in the headlines when a teenager wounded six classmates in wonder politicians are struggling to solve the Or capitalize on the starkest example of the shifting political landscape came in the congressional debate over gun Underestimating the demand for new Republicans foundered during days of Senate Page