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By Christopher Bodeen
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — China’s leaders
expressed grave concerns over
the deadly SARS outbreak for
the first time Monday, following
weeks of assurances that the flu
like disease was under control.
In China and Hong Kong,
another 11 deaths were reported
in the global outbreak that has
killed more than 140 people.
Chinese President Hu Jintao
was shown visiting hospitals in
the southern province of
Guangdong, the hard-hit region
where severe acute respiratory
syndrome, or SARS, is believed
to have originated.
“Since the discovery of the
SARS cases, I feel very worried.
I feel anxious for the masses,”
Hu was shown telling medical
workers on state television.
State media quoted Premier
Wen Jiabao as saying the situa
tion “remains grave” and warn
ing that China’s economy, inter
national image and social stabil
ity could suffer.
He called for airline and
train passengers to be screened
and quarantined if necessary,
among the toughest measures
suggested so far as China bat
tles the disease which has
killed 64 in the country and
sickened more than 1,300.
Four of those deaths were
reported Monday, three in
Deadly SARS closer to containment
Scientists in Canada said they had identified the genetic code of
the vims suspected of causing severe acute respiratory syndrome
or SARS. Many of the 144 fatalities have been elderly people or
patients suffering from other chronic health problems.
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Shanxi province and one in the
Inner Mongolia region, the
World Health Organization
announced.
Worldwide, there are more
than 3,100 suspected cases of
the disease and 144 deaths,
mostly in Asia.
Meanwhile, progress was
reported on another front:
Scientists in Canada and the
United States have identified the
genetic code of the virus sus
pected of causing SARS — a
first step toward a better diag
nostic test and possible vaccine.
On Monday, Hong Kong
reported seven new SARS
deaths, for a total of 47. Many of
the fatalities have been elderly
people or patients suffering
from other chronic health prob
lems, although the deaths of six
people ages 35 to 52 with no
prior health problems were
reported over the weekend.
It was unclear whether the
mortality rate of SARS was ris
ing or whether there have been
more deaths because of an
increase in the number of
patients, said Dr. Ko Wing-man,
acting chief executive of the
Hospital Authority.
In Mongolia, five people are
hospitalized with what doctors
fear may be SARS and one is in
quarantine after all visited the
same hospital in northern China
for treatment, said D. Bat-Ochir,
director of the National Center
for Infectious Diseases.
Mongolia has not reported any
deaths or confirmed cases.
Monday’s Chinese press
suggested leaders have mobi
lized after complaints about the
government’s slow response.
NEWS IN BRIEF
School shooter
kills 1, injures 3
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A
gunman with an AK-47 rifle
opened fire in a high school
gVm Monday, killing a 15-
year-old boy and wounding
three teenage girls in a
spray of more than 30 bul
lets that sent students
scrambling for cover.
Four suspects, ranging in
age from 15 to 19, were
and if you couni arrested in a sweep of the
Texas House budget debate
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suspects attended the
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how the gun got through
metal detectors and guards at
the school. Students and
school security officers said
there was a hole in the fence
near the gym.
School board member Elliot
Willard said students told him
the boy was targeted and the
girls were accidental victims.
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By April Castro
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — The $58.6 billion
state budget, the contentious focal
point of the legislative session, is
getting it’s eagerly awaited day in
the sun. Lawmakers in the Texas
House on Monday anticipated
tense and emotional debate as they
attempted to overcome a $9.9 bil
lion revenue shortfall.
But before lawmakers even
began to tackle appropriations for
the next two years, they clashed on
how to fill the $1.8 billion budget
gap for the remainder of the current
fiscal year, which ends Aug. 31.
The emergency appropriations
bill for the current fiscal year
included $297 million from the
state’s Rainy Day Fund for a Texas
Enteiprise Fund requested by Gov.
Rick Perry. Creation of the fund
also would require passage of a
separate bill.
Perry had asked to use $390
million from that $1 billion Rainy
Day Fund for an account the gov
ernor could use to help lure big
businesses considering relocating
to Texas.
Democrats denounced allocat
ing that money for the governor’s
use, saying it instead should be
used for the needy, elderly, teachers
and school children of Texas.
“Is the need to create a fund that
he cuts deals with? ... Does that
come before the needs of the peo
ple of the state of Texas when we
have a cash problem?” said Rep.
Garnet Coleman, D-Houston.
“I would put it in those places
where it has value to the citizens of
the state of Texas.”
Coleman said the governor’s
economic development fund is not
an emergency, but that the gover
nor set it as a priority above needy
people. Coleman called it a “deal
making slush fund.”
Within five minutes after Heflin
began laying out budget legislation,
Democrats hit the ground running,
questioning parliamentary proce
dure and House rules compliance.
Rep. Jim Dunnam, a Waco
Democrat, immediately stalled
proceedings by questioning House
rules differentiating between a bill
that makes changes in the current
budget cycle and the budget for the
2004-05 biennium.
Earlier, Rep. Pete Gallego, D-
Alpine, interrogated
Appropriations Committee
Chairman Talmadge Heflin, R-
Houston, on proposed swaps in the
budget for the current budget cycle,
known as supplemental appropria
tions, or House Bill 7.
Democrats spent much of the
afternoon challenging a proposal to
use money from the
Telecommunications Infrastructure
Fund for a $26 million computer
system for the Department of
Human Services.
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