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Fourteen suspects were already in custody for the crime, so Chapa astonished the journalists with his final charge. The former President's brother Raul, he said, had ``co-authored'' the crime with another politician, who had previously been identified as the sole mastermind of the killing. The charges were doubly shocking given the personal links between the two: Raul's sister was once married to Ruiz Massieu and Raul is godfather to the couple's daughter...
...Silva Herzog announced at a gathering of bankers in New York that Mexico would not be able to make scheduled payments, due over the following 90 days, of more than $3 billion. Weak oil prices had robbed the country of anticipated revenues and left it almost penniless. Says Jorge Chapa, co-owner of a large Mexican supermarket chain: "We were rich at $16 per bbl. of oil, and at $32 we were broke because we spent as if the price were already...
...remember driving down to Eugene from Portland with my track team buddies to see Salazar and teammate Rudy Chapa run. Salazar was usually the favorite, but he spent most of his races in the middle of the pack, surging only in the last lap or so to win. "Salazar, Salazar!" the Eugene' crowds would yell...
Trailing 7-0 in the defensive-minded game with less than six minutes remaining, the Brown offense awoke from hibernation with a 42-yard Ruben Chapa field goal to pull within four...
...next tossed an interception to Bruin Luke Gaffney on the Harvard 39, but Emper returned the favor by stealing a Michalko shot to Farnham at the goal line on the next play. A Crimson punt was followed by a surprising 45-yard field goal by a fellow named Ruben Chapa at 8:23--his first points ever in varsity play--and Harvard trailed for the first time in the game...