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Senior agriculture major Walt Rakowitt builds a crop-height sensor
Monday as part of a new Department of Agricultural Engineering
project. The sensor uses infrared sensors to measure plant height.
U.S., Cuba hold narcotics tal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid protests from
Cuban-American lawmakers, four U.S. officials
met yesterday in Havana with Cuban officials
to discuss ways of improving
counter-narcotics coopera
tion, a State Department offi
cial said.
Meetings between U.S. and
Cuban officials on issues oth
er than migration are rare but
not unprecedented.
“This is not a change in U.S.
policy,” Michael Ranneberger,
head of the State Department’s
office of Cuban affairs, said. He said the meeting
was within guidelines for law-enforcement efforts
on counter-narcotics.
The U.S. team consisted of two State De
partment and two Coast Guard officials who
spent one day in Cuba.
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Monday’s meeting was aimed at elevating
communications on counter-narcotics issues
from an existing telex link to a phone link and
other means, an official said, adding that the
U.S. team had no plans to offer assistance to
Cuba, to share intelligence or to discuss joint
operations.
U.S. counter-drug specialists have become
increasingly concerned about South American
traffickers’ use of Cuban waters and air space to
transport drugs to the United States, and the law
enforcement community requested a team be
sent, said the official, who spoke on condition
of anonymity.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., objected to
the decision, saying it was ridiculous for the ad
ministration to give Cuban President Fidel Cas
tro credibility on the drug issue. She said Cas
tro is notorious for helping drug traffickers.
Similar objections were voiced by Rep. Lincoln
Diaz-Balart who, like Ros-Lehtiner:
born South Florida Republican.
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said, adding that the island’s
growing tourist market could mak:
tune target for drug traffickers.
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Railway killer charged in 2 deaths
MURPHYSBORO, 111. (AP) — An
alleged serial killer who is apparent
ly making his way from town to
town by hopping freight trains was
charged yesterday with murdering a
father and daughter in Illinois, bring
ing to eight the number of slayings
he is linked to.
Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, 39,
was also put on the FBI’s 10 Most
Wanted list Monday. He is wanted
for questioning in five killings in
Texas and one in Kentucky since
August 1997.
“All I do know is that if this per
son is the person we suspect in these
crimes, it’s a very dangerous and vi
olent person,” said Don K. Clark, the
agent in charge of FBI’s Houston of
fice and leader of the nationwide
task force searching for the suspect.
The task force has more than 200 in
vestigators working the case.
Authorities believe Resendez-
Ramirez has been riding the rails,
finding victims along the way. All
eight slayings took place on or near
railroad tracks.
“What weVe learned
about him through
profiling, its just a
matter of time before
he kills again. ff
— Mike Cox
Texas Department
of Public Safety
As for a motive, Clark said: “I
wish I could tell you.”
The task force, assembled earlier
this month after authorities con
nected the killings, has stopped and
searched freight trains as part of its
manhunt, and freight railroads have
stepped up security.
Agents also have circulated pho
tographs of Resendez-Ramirez in
towns along his suspected path.
“What we’ve learned about him
through profiling, it’s just a matter of
time before he kills again,” Mike
Cox, spokesperson for the Texas De
partment of Public Safety, said.
Jackson County, Ill., State’s Attor
ney Mike Wepseic said fingerprints
found on an abandoned truck con
nect Resendez-Ramirez to the two
killings. The bodies of Geoige Mor-
ber, 80, and his 52-year-old daughter,
Carolyn Frederick, were found June
15 in his home in Gorham, 100 yards
from the railroad tracks.
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