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...scene reminiscent of the Alamo, 600armed Hutu refugeesremain holed up in a small church in Kibeho, vowing to fight to the death rather than surrender to government soldiers. Across the small country, government soldiers are trying to round up more than 2 million refugees and force them to return to their villages. That effort turned to horror over the weekend when at least 2,000 Hutus were killed at Kibeho when soldiers fired automatic weapons and mortars into their crowded camp. Today, anestimated 60,000 refugees were camped around Butare, a town 20 miles east of the refugee camp...
USAir was just one among 21 vendors at the fair. Other airlines included Delta and American Airlines. The fair also included car rental agencies such as Hertz and Alamo, and hotels such as the Hyatt, Holiday Inn and Sheraton Commander...
...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...
...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...
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...