Viruses Attack Brownsville Children Rotavirus and RSV Prominent
Health officials report two viruses Rotavirus and Respiratory Syncytial Virus mainly affect children under five but not at epidemic levels. Rotavirus causes vomiting diarrhea and low fever while RSV brings cough high fever runny nose and loss of appetite. Doctors note cases daily with some children suffering from co infections such as pneumonia. hospitals report several admissions for RSV and a few for Rotavirus.
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RSV
Thelma Gonzalez
Brownsville
Mexico City
Gonzalez
Brownsville Medical Center
Valley Regional Medical Center
Jorge Dominguez
Six men arraigned in pot smuggling conspiracy case
Six men from McAllen Mexico Edinburg and Roma were arraigned on charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute nearly 18,000 pounds of marijuana. DPS narcotics division seized 17 903 pounds of pot from a house near Edinburg with hay bale storage. The drugs valued at 13 5 million.
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McAllen
United States
Department of Public Safety
Edinburg
Jose Luis Salas-Patino
Gerardo Salazar- Casa
Norton to cut 145 jobs as it shifts to grinding wheels
Norton Co. will reduce its Brownsville operation by 145 of 430 full-time workers over six months starting March as it converts from abrasive to bonded grinding wheels. The Brownsville plant will host Thin Wheels HQ while Brownsville transfers coated abrasives to other Norton facilities. Stephenville and Wheatfield plants will add staff later. Norton emphasizes this is a one-time adjustment and not a pullout.
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Norton Co
Norton
Brownsville
Douglas
Nixon
Stephenville
Wheatfield
N.Y
United States
Clinton and GOP suspend budget talks for now
President Clinton and Republican leaders halted budget negotiations after two weeks of face-to-face talks. Both sides offered different readings of the pause, with Clinton hopeful a final agreement is near while Dole and Gingrich anticipated a recess of seven to ten days and potential steps needed to bridge remaining gaps.
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Washington
Clinton
White House
Senate
Bob Dole
Kansas
House
Newt Gingrich
Georgia
Weather sketch for coast and inland regions
Partly cloudy with highs in the lower 70s along the coast and mid 70s inland. Tonight remains partly cloudy with lows in the mid 50s on the coast and lower 50s inland.
Don Pedro expresses relief over mild weather in newsroom
Don Pedro says what a relief as he enters the newsroom noting no hard freeze and that palm trees and other fragile vegetation remain intact adding a hopeful tone about surviving cold conditions.
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Don Pedro
Grenade rocks Sarajevo in tense cease fire breach
A grenade blamed on Bosnian Serbs struck Sarajevo’s Sniper Alley, killing one and wounding at least 19 as NATO forces patrol the city. The blast damaged a streetcar and a Humvee, with Serb-held Grbavica cited as the firing location. Officials called for a swift NATO response.
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Liam McDowall
Associated Press
Sarajevo
Bosnia- Herzegovina
Bosnia
SRNA
Radovan Karadzic
NATO
Maj
Simon Haselock
Haselock
Ejup Ganic
Ganic
Sarajevo streetcar blast ends long UN airlift
A rocket propelled grenade hit a Sarajevo streetcar killing a man. The 3 1/2 year UN guided airlift ended, cutting the capital's lifeline as a U S soldier sustained minor head injuries in an armored vehicle crash. An AUS shuttle mission seeks to halt Muslim Croat clashes in Mostar.
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Sarajevo
U.N
U S
Mostar
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Herald
DPS
Washington Harbour Square
Abby Bridge
Freedom Newspaper
U.S
Peter Bulloch
IFOR
Grbavica
Bulloch
Wm. J. Castello
Croatia
Sava River
Herzegovina
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