University Daily Kansan, January 30, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
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Large amount of DDT found in border area
Officials think Mexican sources send pollutants
By United Press International
DALLAS — Fresh concentrations of the insecticide DDT, banned 12 years ago by the federal government, have been discovered in the tissues of animals in Texas, California and other western states. UPI has learned.
The toxin, believed to be coming from Mexico, threatens extensive wildlife habitats.
"We're probably all loaded with it," said John Youngmerman, chief of surveillance for California's water resource control board. "H("DDT") is just too strong. We keep finding DDT and DDE (a breakdown product) almost everywhere."
DPT HAS LONG been detected in Texas" Rio Grande Valley, but recent accumulations make contaminated fish potential "packets of poison," according to biologists, and endanger vital Laguna Madre breeding grounds.
In California, data compiled last week revealed heavy contamination in stickleback fish and mussels in the Salinas River valley, a lettuce-growing region south of San Francisco. The DDT contamination was limited to southern California.
Scientists in New Mexico and Arizona also found elevated levels of DDT-
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"We're finding DDT that's fresh," she said, "I don't doubt a bit that it's coming from Mexico. If they'd stopped using it when it was banned, we wouldn't be seeing it."
Nowhere is the problem more critical than in Texas, where contaminated Arroyo Colorado waters flow into the watershed of a nation's richest wildlife breeding grounds.
RESEARCHERS BELIEVE much of the toxic substance is being smuggled or drained into the United States from Mexico, where the chemical remains lege.
"Nationwide, DDT (environmental) residues are declining, as we'd expect," said Charles Sanchez, USFW resource contaminant specialist in Albuquerque, N.M. "But now we're finding these hot spots, places where water is is being remaining stable from year to year, or actually increasing."
"There's no question where that's coming from," California's Young. "I know."
clandestine visits have been made to that area (Mexican processing plants) and we have documented numerous possible sources of infiltration."
Biologist Linda Gardner, former director of a Rio Grande pesticide study group, said too much of the fresh toxin was showing up.
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Retired Spanish general killed
MADRID, Spain — Two suspected Bastier rescue killed a retired army general yesterday by firing 13 shots into his head and chest as he walked home from church on a residential official's said. The gunmen escaped.
By United Press International
Lt Gen Guillermo Quintana, 67, was declared dead at the scene of the attack outside his home near the Defense Ministry headquarters.
Quintana's wife, Maria Elena Ramos, 58, and retired Col. Francisco Gil, 64, suffered bullet wounds in the hospital were hospitalized in stable condition.
Poll said the retired officer was walking home from church with his wife and GI when two gunmen stepped in to take over and fired 13 times at his head and chest.
The assailants jumped into a white
Vantana had no chance to draw his regulation pistol from his coat pocket. The general had an army escort during the week but not on weekends, officials said.
sedan occupied by two accomplices and escaped. The car was later found abandoned nearby.
"We are facing another brutal and I would say cruel murder." Defense Minister Narcis Serra said angrily. "They have picked on someone who had no protection; a blind and easy killing."
Although no group took immediate responsibility for the shooting, officials said they strongly suspected the ETA or Bassague Land organization ETA, or Bassague Land.
Quintana, head of the Madrid military region from 1979 through 1982, was credited with helping foil the Feb. 23, 1980 attack on the military civil guards seized Parliament.
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Quiet elections reported in Ecuador
Bv United Press International
QUITO, Ecuador — More than three million Ecuadorians voted yesterday in presidential elections, choosing from candidates including President Osvaldo Hurtado.
The elections - the second since military rule ended in 1978 - were generally peaceful with incidents reported at only two of the South
Officials said a record 3.3 million voters had cast ballots by the time polls closed at 4 p.m. There are 3.9 million voters in the region, which has a population of 9 million.
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50 percent of the vote which
expected — a run-off between the two
Merkel and Mitt Romney in Iowa.
If none of the nine candidates receive
Because votes were cast manually and voters also had to select new congressmen and local officials, the results of the results was expected to be slow.
The election was seen as a personality contest because of the large field of candidates, none of whom has won in any state, with issues such as the alting economy.
In Quevedo, in northwest Ecuador, one unidentified voter was seriously injured when people destroyed several ballot boxes and a shortage of ballot cards, authorities said.
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