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...dare oppose it. "Nobody in his right mind stands up and says, 'I'm the pro-growth candidate,' even when he is," notes San Diego campaign consultant Thomas Shepard. Voters themselves are of two minds about development. "We're schizophrenic about growth," admits Peggy Rubach, the mayor of Mesa, Ariz., a Phoenix suburb whose population has nearly doubled, to 290,000, in the past 10 years. "We want the jobs, but we don't want the problems that come with them...
Nash, of Hayden, Ariz., said there was no indication of significant Iraqi military movements in the region as a formal cease-fire becomes increasingly likely. "There's no military threat to my command," he said...
...Operation Desert Storm may explain why the number of Latin Americans caught trying to cross the border from Mexico declined dramatically in late January. In Laredo and Del Rio, Texas, border arrests were down as much as 40%, compared with the same month a year ago. Arrests in Yuma, Ariz., decreased 30%. Immigration officials say Mexico is rife with rumors that the U.S. government is drafting illegal aliens and shipping them off to fight in the war. The prospect of combat hasn't deterred some Mexican nationals already living in the U.S., however, from trying to join the military. Army...
...Javier Ariz, a Catholic auxiliary bishop in Peru, says Protestants make their gains by invading "areas where the people are naturally very religious and the Catholic Church has been chronically short of priests." Protestants, for example, provide the only community leadership in many parts of Peru that have been overrun by Shining Path terrorists. In Guatemala too, Evangelical pastors have saturated rural areas, greatly outnumbering Catholic priests. At the same time, they have been charged with interfering in traditional Indian ways of life...
Bennett, who had been robbed several times by other druggies, got tired of running. He bought a furnished five-bedroom house in Tempe, Ariz., for $450,000. When he spotted another house nearby with an indoor swimming pool, he told a realtor, "I've gotta have it." He bought it for his brother and sister to occupy. In all, Bennett and his friends and relatives grabbed five houses in Tempe...