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"She didn’t reject it,” she said. “She’s dedicated herself to the first one and didn’t seem to notice the second.” Zoo veterinarian Patricia Reyes said six or seven members of the zoo medical service w ill take turns hold ing the smaller panda and an incu bator will be used only in case of emergency. “They’re white, they look like little rats,” the veterinarian said in an in terview. “It needs the warmth of the mother and when that is lacking, hu man warmth,” she said. An incuba tor, she said, “is a different kind of warmth.” “We can’t say that we have won the battle 100 percent,” Reyes said, noting that the smaller one is about half the size of the other baby. But she added {hat there had been no significant problems the first day and that “it moves and cries pretty loud.” “It appears to have a good appe tite and looks like it’s in good health,” Hoyo said. But she added, “no one has been able to raise them that way,” away from the mother. She said the panda baby would be held for 40 to 50 days. Ying-Ying and the other baby also appear to be healthy, Hoyo said. She said no photographers would be al lowed near the newborn pandas for some time, perhaps weeks. Hoyo said the smaller one is be lieved to be a male, weighs 2.4 ounces and is 5.6 inches long and has about a 50 percent chance of survival. Because the first baby is with Ying-Ying, it will be six months before zoo doctors touch it, Hoyo said. The twins were the fourth and fifth offspring of Ying-Ying and Pe- Pe, given to Mexico by China on Sept. 10, 1975, making them among the most prolific pandas in captivity in the Western world. They will be 11 years old this year. Ying-Ying’s first baby was born in 1980, but the mother accidentally crushed it to death eight days after it was born. Tohui, now weighing 308 pounds and nearly as large as his father, was born July 21, 1981. Liang-Liang, who weighs 266 pounds, was born on June 22, 1983. The gestation period for the twins w r as 90 days, less than that of the other two, Reyes said. Raw milk possibly used in cheese Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Citing a “strong possibility” that unpasteu rized milk was deliberately used in tainted Mexican-style cheese, a dis trict attorney announced a criminal probe Wednesday of a bacterial out break that has killed 48 people since mid-March. A search warrant citing suspicions of involuntary manslaughter and of several other crimes was used to seize records at Jalisco Mexican Products Inc. late Tuesday, authori ties said. Sue McPherson, wife of the com pany president, said Jalisco would decline immediate comment but would have a statement later. s District Attorney Ira Reiner said records showed the Jalisco plant in Artesia received about 10 percent more unpasteurized milk per month than was pasteurized for its final product, indicating that unpasteu rized milk somehow was mixed into the cheese. Still unanswered, Reiner said, was “the question of whether this intro duction of substantial nonpasteu- rized milk in the product is the cause of the listeria which has caused many deaths,” but he added: “Presently there is a strong suspicion that is the cause.” He said investigators found dur ing the weekend that the plant’s pas teurization equipment was working properly and that unpasteurized milk could not have been introduced into the cheese inadvertently. “It raises the strong possibility that it was put there deliberately,” Reiner said. Asked about the involuntary man slaughter mentioned in the warrant, Reiner said: “It has not yet been de termined if use of nonpasteurized milk in their product caused the lis teria.” The warrant on file in Municipal Court also cited suspicions of con spiracy to commit such crimes as the unlawful sale of adulterated milk products and the unlawful sale of unsanitary milk products, which do not conform to state standards, un lawful possession of non-aged cheese made from unpasteurized milk, unlawful sale of adulterated food, unlawful adulteration of food, unlawful receipt and delivery of adulterated food, and adulteration of food with the fraudulent intent to sell. “We executed the warrant at ap proximately 7 p.m., and we were there until about 11, 11:15 p.m.,” district attorney’s spokesman Schuyler Sprowles said. Asked what investigators discov ered, Sprowles said, “You don’t know what you have until you’ve really examined it.” Local, state and federal investiga tors participated in the search, he said. “What you have is a number of agencies playing an investigative role into what has become a criminal in vestigation of Jalisco cheese,” he said. Board delays insurance rate decision Associated Press AUSTIN — The State Board of Insurance Wednesday postponed a decision on a staff recommendation for a S58 million homeowners’ in surance premium increase — a statewide average hike of 6.7 per cent. Overall, the board staff recom mended a net increase of $28 mil lion, or 2.2 percent, on rates for homeowners, renters, fire, extended coverage, farm and ranch owners and related coverages. The insurance industry wants a 10.2 percent overall increase in pre miums, including a 15.8 percent av erage hike in homeowners insur ance. After two hours of presentations from the staff and the Texas Insur ance Advisory Association, Board Chairman Lyndon Olson said the case would be taken “under advise ment.” He did not indicate when a ruling would be made. The staff recommendation was presented by actuary Gaylon Daniel, who told the board that property in surance “offers the potential for cat astrophic loss.” “We were all recently reminded of the Gulf Coast’s vulnerability to hur ricanes,” Daniel said. “And it is an accepted fact that northern and western areas of the state have expe rienced severe tornado and hail losses on several occasions.” The staff proposal includes a $58 •million (6.7 percent) increase in homeowners’ coverage, a $23 mil lion decrease (25 percent) cut in renters’ insurance and a $1 million (4 percent) hike in farm and fanch coverage. The industry proposal, presented by the Texas Insurance Advisory As sociation, includes a 15.8 percent hike in homeowners’ coverage, a 17.2 percent cut in renters’ insur ance and a 15.8 percent hike in. farm and ranch coverage. chemical fire Associated Press THERMAL, Calif. — A chemical spill and fire at a pesticide plant re leased a 300-foot cloud of black va por Wednesday, sickening about 50 people and forcing the evacuation of this desert community’s 1,000 resi dents. The fire, reported at 6:30 a.m. at Wilbur-Ellis Co., ignited tons of pes ticides inside the plant. At least 49 people Were treated for nausea, diz ziness and vomiting. “We were told to evacuate the premises because there had been an -explosion,” Maria Ramirez said. “We got out of the house real quick. We got kind of sick with the smoke.” Ramirez went to a Red Cross shel ter after she and her son, 10,'were evacuated from their home about 75 miles north of the Mexican border. A series of explosions was re ported, but Coachella Fire Depart ment dispatchers could not confirm them. Insecticides, pesticides and other agricultural products — including parithion, paraquat, diazanine, cor- bine 8 and sodium nitrate — were among the chemicals storied in the warehouse, said Riverside County Fire Department spokesman Dana Jones. Gasoline and diesel fuel sup plies were also stored in the struc ture, he said. About 3,000 pounds of the highly toxic insecticide malathion were also believed to be among the stored chemicals in the plant, authorities said. “The fire is not contained,” said the dispatcher for the Coachella Fire Department who asked not to be identified. “We cannot use water.” Water is reactive with many of the -chemicals and can cause the release of additional gases. “We’re not putting any more wa ter on the fire to allow it to burn it self out,” Jones said. 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