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UFO Filmed by
Mexican Military
Expert says phenomenon may have been gas
Los Lobos Launches ‘The Ride’
Members o f Los Angeles-based Latin rock band Los Lobos is pictured at Disney's
Third annual Fiesta Latina in this file photo. Los Lobos' new album 'The Ride' was
ju s t released by Hollywood Records. It is said to be an eclectic collection of
stripped-down, bare-bones rock with a dollop of Latin and a dose of down-home
soul. (AP photo)
Governor Lashes Out at Multiculturalism
(A P) - M aryland G ov. R obert
E hrlich is standing by his dism issal
o f m ulticulturalism as “bunk.”
O n a co n serv ativ e radio talk
show , the R ep u b lican g o v ern o r
s a id h e “ r e j e c ts th e id e a o f
m ulticulturalism ” and that young
im migrants should learn English and
assim ilate into A m erican culture.
E hrlich has since tried to clarify
his position. “W e celebrate o ur
ethnicities," Ehrlich said, but A m eri­
cans share a “singular culture."
His rem arks cam e after state C om p­
troller Wi I liam Donald Schaefer com ­
plained at a public meeting that he
had trouble understanding a restau­
rant w orker w ho spoke poor English.
“ I d o n ’t w ant to adjust to an ­
o th er language,” the 82-year-old
S chaefer com plained. "T his is the
U nited States. 1 think they ought to
Maryland Gov.
p o t«
adjust to us.”
Robert Ehrlich
On
ra_
Ehrlich said on the radio that his
dio, Ehrlich re­ v ie w s a re “ v e ry s i m i la r ” to
ferred to m ulticulturalism as “crap." S chaefer’s.
“T h e la st
m e ssa g e we
w ant to send
o u t is to sepa­
rate ourselves
in d if f e r e n t
cu ltu res,” he
said. “T his is
a
m e ltin g
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( A P) — A series o f brightly lit,
rapidly m oving objects Filmed in
the skies over M exico could have
been caused by a scientific ph e­
nom enon involving gases in the
atm osphere, a scientist said T hurs­
day.
V isible only with infrared equip­
m ent, the hauntingly fast-m oving
lights w ere captured by air force
cam eras on M arch 5 but m ade pub­
lic only this w eek, sparking ram ­
pant speculation they w ere flying
sau cers.
Julio H errera, a nuclear science
researcher at the N ational A utono­
m ous U niversity, said the bright
blurs could have been caused by
electrical flashes em itted sponta­
neously by the atm osphere.
“T hey are very strange p h enom ­
enon and there is little inform ation
about them ,” H errera said o f the
atm ospheric flashes in a phone in­
terview .
He said m ore data than is avail­
able on the videotape w ould be
necessary to determ ine if that hy­
p o th esis w as co rrect, including
precise inform ation on atm ospheric
conditions at the tim e the lights
ap peared.
T he C am peche coast on the G u lf
o f M exico, w here the objects were
film ed, is M ex ico 's main oil and gas
(A P) — A fter a four-year d e­
clin e, illegal im m ig ratio n from
M exico is spiking as several thou­
sand m igrants a day rush across
the border in hopes o f getting work
visas under a program President
Bush proposed. M any also are try­
ing to beat tighter security to com e
in June.
The U.S. border patrol said d e ­
tentions - w hich it uses to ju d g e
illegal m igration rates - ju m p ed 25
percent to 535,000 in the six m onths
ending M arch 31 com pared to a
y ear ago.
N ear Sasabe, a tow n bordering
the A rizona desert th a t's the busi­
est illegal border crossing area, an
average 2,000 people arrive daily.
O n a recent day, at a break in a
barbed-w ire fence outside Sasabe,
about 300 m igrants scram bled out
o f 10 trucks and four vans w ithin 30
m inutes with their sm ugglers, w ho
led crow ds along a w orn trail. As
the sun set, they disappeared into
rolling hills that hide the treacher­
ous desert.
R audel Sanchez, a 22-year-old
farm w orker, said he w anted to get
back to his jo b at a M innesota ranch.
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producing region. O il platform s
there release or bum o ff som e o f the
gas they produce.
T he objects w ere recorded fly­
ing at m ore than 11,000 feet over
southern C am peche state using a
video cam era equipped w ith an in­
frared lens. Infrared equipm ent can
only detect heat em anating from
objects; it is unable to provide an
im age o f the objects' exact form.
In the videotape, the objects
appear to accelerate rapidly and
change course suddenly. At least
Sanchez crossed into the U nited
States through Sasabe three years
ago, but says the jo u rn ey is getting
more difficult. He w alked three days
in the desert and w as out o f w ater
w hen he w as caught in A rizona and
deported.
U ndeterred, he said he planned
to take a bus to A ltar, a northern
city about 70 m iles from the border
w here m igrants hire sm ugglers.
From there, he planned to head
back to Sasabe and cross again.
“It's already very hard to cross,
but it's going to be even harder,” he
said in N ogales. “ I need to try again,
at least one m ore tim e, and if I fail.
I’ll go back hom e.”
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one crew m em b er testified that the
objects surrounded the air force jet.
T h e p l a n e ’s c a p ta in , M a j.
M agdalenoC astanon, said the m ili­
tary jets chased the lights “and I
believe they could feel w e w ere
pursuing th em .”
V ega G arcia gave the tape to
U F O specialist Jaim e M aussan,
w ho has spent 10 years studying
u n id e n t if ie d f ly in g o b je c ts .
M aussan im m ediately concluded
the video w as evidence o f the ex ist­
ence o f U FO s.
Mexican
migrants
walk
toward the
United
States near
the town of
Sasabe in
northern
Mexico. (AP
photo)
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This image made from video shows unidentified flying objects in the
skies over southern Campeche state filmed by Mexican Air Force
pilots. The series o f brightly lit, rapidly moving objects could have
been caused by a scientific phenomenon involving gases in the
atmosphere, a scientist said. (AP photo)
One crossing sees 2,000 people arrive daily
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Illegal Entry From Mexico Rises
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M any m igrants are betting on
the approval o f B ush’s m igration
proposal, w hich faces an uphill
battle in C ongress. A bout 75 per­
cent o f those arrested are M exican,
w hile the rest are from C entral
A m ericaan d o th erp laces, U.S. cu s­
tom s officials said.
In January, B ush proposed a
guest-w orker plan that w ould give
legal status to undocum ented m i­
grants already w orking in the United
S tates and to those outside the
country w ho can prove they have
been offered a job.
M exicans living in the U nited
States have criticized B ush’s pro­
posal. M any say they w o u ld n ’t
apply, fearing it could be a trap to
deport them .
But in M exico, the program has
given m any m igrants hope that they
m ight be able to seek som ething
better north o f the border, and that
is enough to convince som e to
cross now rather than later.
Latino Health
Conference
L atino health disparities, access
to health inform ation and m edical
resources is the agenda behind a
health providers conference at the
U niversity o f P ortland in north
Portland.
The Salud Fam iliar-L atino F am ­
ily H ealth C onference, hosted by
the T he S usannah M aria G urule
F o u n d a tio n ta k e s p la c e at the
college’s B uckley C enter, 5(XX) N.
W illam ette B lvd., on Friday, M ay
21 and Saturday, M ay 22
T he keynote speaker i s Dr . Fabi -
ana W allis, directo r o f the L atino
M ental H ealth S ervices Psychiatry
D epartm ent at Beth Israel D eacon­
e ss M edical C e n te r in B o sto n ,
M ass. H er presentation is titled
“L atina W om en and D epression:
Towards becom ingC ulturally C om ­
p e te n t.”