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Friday • August 29, 1997
exicans fear for human rights
ifter stricter border enforcement
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — In response to a new crack-
|wnon illegal immigration along the Texas border,
xican consuls from throughout South Texas met
ursday and warned the policy may lead to human
its abuses.
“We are worried about what kind of effects measures
has these might have and the general atmosphere
lie border,” said Enrique Loaeza Tovar, Mexico’s co-
ator of consular affairs.
Border crackdowns in populous areas shift the im-
jgration flow to more deserted regions where immi-
ts’ rights may not be protected, Loaeza said.
“We want this message to trickle down in a way that
ry agent, every individual, every single person in-
Ived in implementation of this operation should
eitwith him and behave in a way that shows respect
the dignity and to the rights of our fellow country-
m,” Loaeza said.
(Loaeza is presiding over a two-day closed-door
eting of Mexican consuls called by his country’s for-
p ministry as Operation Rio Grande got under way
is week in Brownsville.
More Border Patrol agents are now on duty in down
town Brownsville and along a 2 1 /2-mile section of the
Rio Grande south of downtown.
Although the 10 consuls meeting in San Antonio are
not calling for an end to Operation Rio Grande, they
said they hope to continue talks with U.S. officials
about the impact of the policy.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service insists
it has tried to allay Mexican officials’ fears about the
border initiative and rejects the notion that human
rights abuses will grow under the new program.
“We don’t anticipate that there’s going to be any in
crease in allegations against the Border Patrol. Our
presence is enhanced, but our procedures are not
changing,” said INS spokesperson Mario Ortiz.
Stepped-up border patrols also may suggest immi
grants are criminals and incite anti-immigrant senti
ment in the United States, Loaeza said.
“We all know that the reason why our migrants come
to the United States is economic,” he said.
"They don’t come to the United States to commit
crimes. They come to work and through their work to
contribute to the prosperity of the communities where
they reside.”
}reen tea tested as possible cancer cure
HOUSTON (AP) — Cancer ex
its at the Texas Medical Center
pe to prove with a new study that
entea helps to fight and prevent
i disease.
pl* Tests on laboratory animals and
dies of populations in Japan and
^ ina, where green tea is popular,
r jport the idea that it can post-
ne or even prevent cancer devel-
nent, said Dr. Waun Ki Hong of
^University of Texas M.D. Ander-
t Cancer Center.
[“The epidemiologic studies are
[jeresting,” said Hong, chairman
he thoracic and head/neck can-
r medical oncology department
la pioneer in the use of chemi-
11s to prevent cancer.
|"In Japan, people who drink
een tea have a delayed occur-
tice of cancer compared to those
ho don’t drink it.”
Astudy in Shanghai, China, cit-
linarecent issue of the Nutrition
jsearch Newsletter, showed
" erf een tea drinkers statistically had
1)1 gnificant reductions in the risk of
eveloping rectal and pancreatic
ancers.
jMe there were numerical re
ductions seen in colon cancer, they
were not statistically significant, the
researchers reported.
“In Japan, people who
drink green tea have a de
layed occurence of cancer
compared to those who
don’t drink it.”
DR. WAUN KI HONG
M.D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
A recent study in the scientific
journal Nature showed that a
component of green tea called epi-
gallocatechin gallate, or EGCG,
binds an enzyme called urokinase,
thus preventing it from carrying
out its mission. Urokinase is an en
zyme that has been shown to have
a connection with cancer metasta
sis, Hong said.
The family of chemicals to
which the EGCG belongs seems to
have some anti-tumor effect, said
Dr. Katherine Pisters, the assistant
professor at Anderson who will
lead the study.
The first study, planned for 30 pa
tients with advanced cancer of the
lung, breast, prostate, ovaries or head
and neck, will determine if the mate
rial is safe and how much patients
can tolerate, Dr. Pisters said.
The patients will receive cap
sules of green tea equal to six or sev
en cups, Hong said. Doctors will es
calate the dose if they don’t see any
side effects.
Using capsules makes it easier to
determine how much tea and
chemicals each patient is receiving.
Hong believes the capsules will
prove more effective in preventing
cancer than in treating it.
Dr. Pisters said patients aren’t
given false hopes.
“We tell them we have a new and
interesting compound that we are
testing. We say it might be a reason
able thing for them to try,” she said.
She hopes the study, which is be
ing conducted with Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute in
New York, will be completed within
two years.
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