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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans barely remember the Alamo, Mexicans see past and present as an eternal tug-of-war with their northern neighbor. Virtually any Mexican high school graduate readily recites a litany of humiliations most Americans ignore: the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo forcing the sale of Mexico's northern half; a 1911 U.S.-supported coup; American invasions in 1914 and 1916; the expulsion of as many as 1 million Mexican immigrants from the U.S. during the 1950s' Operation Wetback. Now California's Proposition 187, aimed at denying education and health services to undocumented immigrants, is seen as an exercise in ethnic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: NORTHERN EXPOSURES | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

...next voice you hear will be ordering coffee regular and heading for target practice remember the alamo remember the aryan nation another assata preparing for jihad "it's shaping up to be that kind of millenium up in here...

Author: By Eric D. Plaks, | Title: Allen's Original Voice Transforms Jazz Tradition | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

What is it with the peso crisis south of the border? Are we talking about a brief time-out in the hat dance of prosperity or a massacre at the investors' Alamo? If you listened to your broker a few months ago and bought Telefonos de Mexico, Cifra or Grupo Televisa -- or shares in a Mexico mutual fund -- should you be jumping out or staying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Money: Stick with the Bouncing Bolsa | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...really, save your energy for the Poulan Weedeater Bowl December 28, or is that the Independence Bowl? Don't forget the John Hancock Bowl, the Carquest Bowl, the Builders Square Alamo Bowl, the Sea World Holiday Bowl and the Federal Express Orange Bowl...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Gotta Love Those Weedeaters | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

Chris J. Exner '95 of Alamo, Calif, says he is undecided, but leans away from the Republican candidates...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Students Follow Their Home State Elections | 10/29/1994 | See Source »

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