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Page lO^The Battalion/Friday, December 9, 1983 r Reporter declared United Press International BROWNSVILLE — A Brownsville Herald reporter has been cleared of a public intox ication charge filed against him by police officers who claimed he interfered with their arrest of innocent I a woman. The jury of four women and two men returned the innocent verdict Wednesday in Judge Menton Murray’s Cameron County Court-at-Law in the case of reporter Juan Montoya. Wednesday’s verdict over turned a previous guilty verdict returned in a justice of the peace court. Montoya had pleaded in nocent and appealed the convic tion to Murray’s court. He was arrested outside the Texas Cafe by state and local police officers last Feb. 6. Prosecutors already had dropped a disorderly conduct charge police had filed against Montoya, alleging he interfered with the arrest of Anita Ayala, 54, for public intoxication. 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The 14-year-old, 227-pound panda — a gift from China fol lowing President Nixon’s 1972 visit — had suffered a loss of appetite when doctors suddenly discovered she had a potentially fatal kidney disorder and severe “I want to emphasize that no decision has been made to do dialysis,” she said. “They are going to do the diagnostic tests to decide.” .ahead Doctors, who said the prob lem could be related to Ling- ofa ‘’She’s looking pretty good. . At any rate, she finished a meal, which is better than she’s been doing,” zoo spokeswoman Leslie Hornig said. “But I don’t want to give you the impression she’s out of the woods.” The doctors moved kidney dialysis equipment to the zoo in the event results of a daylong examination Thursday indicate the life-saving procedure — which involves filtering the blood through a machine — is needed, Hornig said. Ling’s delivery last summer ot a tiny male cub that died, planned to put Ling-Ling under anesthe sia for the examination. 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Chemicals not a barrki to making of HUMMEl United Press International MISHAWAKA, Ind. —Trace levels of chromium in ground- water adjacent to an A\I Gener al Corp. plant will not delay pro duction of the Army’s new all- terrain vehicle, the HUMMER, the company said Thursday. Stormy McCowen The Detroit-based company said the amounts of the chemic al, found in four of 19 test wells drilled on plant property, ex ceed federal drinking water standards, but are far from dan gerous. wells near the plant. The company pledged to provide water for area residents “in the unlikely event that trace amounts of chromium attribut able to the basin are found at concentrations that exceed the federal drinking water stan dard.” The company said the leak age, discovered in an environ mental impact review during conversion of the plant for pro duction of the HUMMER, will not affect the startup of produc tion of the High Mobility Multi- Purpose Wheeled Vehicle. Hie 1 '/,-ton HUMMBi military’s replacement fci| familiar but outmodeds T est vehicles are to bet April, with full production^ gin soon thereafter,! 800 jobs in the Soutb! Mishawaka area. The testing of nearby pti wells is being conducted American Motors CorpJ recently sold AM Genen LTV Corp. of Dallas, an! Rockwell Internationalte 693-0607 Culpepper Plaza Open Monday-Thursday 9-8 p. m. Friday & Saturday 9-6 p.m. Further tests are being con ducted to make certain that the chemical, which seeped out of a long-unused waste-water treat ment residue basin in the plant, has not infiltrated residential “It’s totally unrelated to HUMMER production startup,” AM General Executive Vice President Eugene Zembrzuski said. 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