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Friday, September 27,1Si
Afflicted children sue company
Parents say chemicals caused
birth defects, miscarriages
MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP)
— At 16, Francisco Javier Zavala
still isn't able to speak. He can't
dress or feed himself, and the
prospects that he'll ever be able to
do so are bleak.
His mother, Irma Duenes, gave
up her job at a Matamoros
maquiladora years ago to give him
the extra care and attention he re
quires.
"I have to feed him/' Ms.
Duenes said recently. "He doesn't
say when he has to go the bath
room. He wears diapers day and
night."
She said her son is a victim of
chemicals she was exposed to dur
ing her pregnancy when she
worked at a Matamoros electron
ics plant owned and operated by
Mallory Capacitors Co. in the
1960s and '70s.
Now Ms. Duenes and other
former Mallory employees who
say their children suffered from
birth defects because of the chemi
cals want assurances that they'll
be compensated, and that their
children will be cared for in the fu
ture.
Some 40 families from Mata
moros and Brownsville, Texas,
filed suit Monday in state district
court in Brownsville against Mal
lory. They seek unspecified dam
ages.
However, it's not clear who
would be liable for any damages
that may result from the lawsuit
since Mallory has been sold at
least twice since the plant shut
down and neither its current nor
former owners claim to have as
sumed the liabilities.
The lawsuit charges that the
company was negligent in not
warning employees about poten
tial dangers posed by the chemi
cals and by failing to provide ade
quate safety equipment or vent
tion.
According to the lawst
women who were pregnant\|
working at the plant subsequer
either experienced miscarriages
stillbirths. Some babies diedsht
ly after birth or suffered from:
tensive physical and mental!
fects, the lawsuit says.
More than 50 afflicted childi
are listed as plaintiffs in the suit
Ms. Duenes and another!:
mer Mallory employee, Eva Or
de Rivas, said they had nor®
children before working atf
plant. They said their liveshs
been turned upside downbyl
need to care for their afflict:
sons.
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AIDS groups, saying his organization had mismanagement problems
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Buck Buckingham, executive director of the AIDS Arms Network,
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He said Wednesday that he thought the network ended the past fis-
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study hard, but they study the
wrong things.
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shown that very good students
do," Dyer said. "Sometimes we'll
take the student's textbook and
look at what they could be doing
in order to get through this text in
a more efficient way and getting
what they need out of it."
As part of that teaching strate
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books to see what previous stu
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