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Marijuana seizures up 50 percent from 1998
ROMA, Texas (AP) — A bumper
crop of marijuana is apparently mak
ing its way to the Lower Rio Grande
Valley, resulting in huge seizures. The
(McAllen) Monitor reported Wednes
day.
Fifty-one Border Patrol agents
working along the Rio Grande in Starr
County have seized 27,840 pounds of
marijuana this month, five times more
than what was confiscated in Febru
ary. That’s enough for 25 million mar
ijuana joints, according to officials.
“It’s just starting to peak now,’’
said Fabian Casas, patrol agent-in
charge of the Border Patrol station in
Rio Grande City.
From Falcon Dam to Boca Chica,
where the Rio Grande empties into
the Gulf of Mexico, Border Patrol
agents have seized 222,304 pounds of
marijuana valued at $178 million in
the past six months. That’s 50 percent
more than the same period a year
ago.
Monday night, officers with the Rio
Grande City Drug Task Force raided a
home in Roma and found 11,071
pounds of marijuana. Bales of the
drug, wrapped in cellophane and duct
tape, were stacked from floor to ceil
ing in the living room, with a narrow
path cleared to the bathroom, where
more bundles were stashed. No one
was home at the time.
Agents suspect a bumper crop of
Mexican marijuana, mostly grown in
the mountainous Pacific coast states,
could be responsible for the increase
in marijuana seizures in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley. The harvest season
ends there in April or May.
UT male professors more likely to achieve tern
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AUSTIN (AP) — Men teach
ing at the University of Texas are
more likely to be awarded
tenure and be placed in presti
gious, higher-paying jobs than
women faculty members, a dis
parity administrators say they
want to fix.
Although UT is making sub
stantial progress, “Women are
not breaking the glass ceiling
when it comes to being promot
ed to full professor and getting
mi
of ra-
endowed professorship
Janet Staiger, a professc
dio, television and film.
Staiger co-chairs the Com
mittee for the Support o
Women with UT Vice Presiden
Patricia Ohlendorf.
She shared data compile
the committee that shows 40<
men held endowed professor
ships and endowed chairs thi:
year, compared with just 4;
women, the Austin American
ipiled by
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