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...stores of south El Paso, just across from Juárez, are almost deserted. "All our business came from Mexico," says Frank Roches, owner of Palace Jewelry. "They have no money now." Business is off 65% at the S.E.I. Fed Mart department store in the California border town of Calexico, and Owner Sergio Farias has laid off 180 of his 230 employees...
...Worthy grocery store in Calexico, Calif., business has plunged 40% in the past month. Complains Store Manager Gaston Lopez: "We used to be busy all day. The four registers never stopped ringing. But I've had to lay off two cashiers, and the other two are working 40-hour weeks instead of 50." Says Wilfred Madrid, a department store owner in El Paso: "My business is off 80%. It's dead out there in the streets, and it's like a morgue here in the store." Last week the U.S. Small Business Administration...
While the Thames cleanup is cheering British environmentalists, the case of California's New River is becoming something of an international scandal. When it crosses into the U.S. from Mexico at the town of Calexico, it is so loaded with filth, ranging from parts of animal carcasses to human feces, that even hard-nosed health officials are sickened by the sight and odor. Says Dr. L. Lee Cottrell, health officer of California's Imperial County: "It may not be the dirtiest river in the country, but I can guarantee you there is none dirtier...
...root of the problem is Mexicali, just across the border from Calexico. In only a generation, it has grown from 25,000 to a city of 700,000 people. But its municipal facilities have not kept up. Mexicali uses the New River as well as the nearby Alamo as all-purpose sewers for everything from toilets to slaughterhouses. After the New River leaves Mexico with its vile cargo, it meanders for about 55 miles through California's agriculture-rich Imperial Valley before emptying into the Salton Sea, center of a popular recreation area...
...Ledesma's church attendance dropped off his sophomore and junior years and stopped this year, although his participation in Calexico has not lagged. The dark-haired, pudgy and mustachioed senior explains that he doesn't "feel the same kind of closeness here." He attributes much of this to the reorganization of the church here several years ago, which sent some of his close Mormon friends to other wards. While the University branch is "very, very friendly" and more open than Harvard itself, Ledesma says, its members are not as tightly knit as those in the Calexico ward. "When...