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¿Tin* Maj' 16. 2 00 7 el 'JJnrtlanò ffib s c ru e r Pa&e B3 O bservador State Farm*1 Providing Insurance and Financial Services Home Office Bloomington. Illinois 61710 Michael E Harper We moved to our new location at: Drug Cartels Target Military Brings change to enforcement strategy (A P ) -- M ex ican drug cartels armed with powerful weapons and angered by a nation wide m ilitary crack down are striking back, killing soldiers in bold, d a ily a tta c k s th a t threaten the one force strong enough to take on the gangs. The daily bloodshed Mexican army soldiers stand over a includes an am bush in that left four dead traffickers in the A patzingan, M exico that killed five soldiers P ^o to ) this month, a severed head left with a defiant note outside a military barracks on Saturday and the slaying M on day of a top federal intelligence official who was shot in the face in his car outside his office in M exico City. M exicans were particularly shocked last week by televised images of kindergartners flee ing their school during a gre- nade-and-gun battle between traffickers and soldiers that lasted for nearly two hours in this small town in President Felipe Calderon's home state of M ichoacan. sive presence o f sol diers and tanks in small towns, he's ordered the creation o f an elite mili tary special operations force capable o f sur gical strikes. "We are not going to g iv e in," P ublic S a fe ty S e c re ta ry Genaro Garcia Luna said. "In the states where there is most violence, we will be right there to confront the phenomenon." The drug trade is a ll-p o w e rfu l in M exico. A nalysts e s detained man after a gun battle tim a te th at c a rte ls city o f Apatzingan, Mexico. (AP here m ake betw een S 10 billion and $30 bil The unrelenting bloodshed has lion selling cocaine, heroin, forced a change in strategy for m arijuana and m eth am p h et Calderon, who sent more than am ine to the U.S. m arket, ri 24,000 federal police and sol valing M exico's revenues from diers out in D ecem ber to reoc oil exports and tourism . The cupy territory from Michoacan's g a n g s a ls o m ak e b illio n s poppy-dotted mountains to the through robbery, kidnapping tourist-packed port o f Acapulco. and extortion o f businesses and Now, to supplement the m as w ould-be m igrants. Burns Adds Hispanic Voices to Series (AP) - Docum en tary m aker Ken Burns said he will edit his upcom ing PBS series about W orld W ar II to add stories about His panic soldiers after protests that they had been excluded. A day after m eet ing with Hispanic ad Ken Burns vocacy groups. Burns said Thursday that he had collected in te rv ie w s w ith Hispanic veterans that he considered p o w e rfu l and would incorporate them, along with the* veterans' per sonal documents. "The W ar," a 14-hour series, is scheduled to air in Septem ber. "The role o f Hispanic-Am eri can veterans in WWI1 is one that lends itself to the universal ity of this film and merits being i ncI uded i n my fi 1 m ," Burns said in a statement. "It is adding an other layer o f storytelling that will only enrich what we al ready have." B u rn s in itia lly re s is te d c h a n g e s to the c o m p le te d docum entary. Last m onth, af te r p r o te s ts by H is p a n ic groups. Burns brought aboard a H isp an ic d o c u m e n ta ria n . H ecto r G alan , and said he w ould fold in stories o f H is panic veterans during breaks in the series or after the end o f an installm ent. H ispanic groups said that am ounted to treating Hispanic veterans as an afterthought. A g en t 97I3S.W. 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