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...WORLD TRADE BRIDGE Rush hour has arrived. In the first five minutes, 27 trucks leave Mexico and pull into the Customs checkpoint. One by one, the drivers wait to be processed, reading Spanish newspapers and comic books or talking on their CB radios. Eleazar Camancho Luna, 21, listens instead to Latin disco music. He makes five crossings a day--$20 for full loads, $15 for empty trailers that need to be returned--and works six days a week. Not bad for a single guy, he says. The Mexican trucks are serviceable but spare: Luna's lacks the global-positioning systems...
...Emmy Award-winning West Wing have so far resembled depictions of politics straight out of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. But soon they may look more like Traffic. AARON SORKIN--the White House drama's creator, executive producer and writer--was arrested at a Burbank, Calif., airport-security checkpoint as he was about to board a plane to Las Vegas. Inside his carryon: "illicit mushrooms," according to officials, and not the kind you'd serve at a state dinner. Upon being searched, Sorkin fainted briefly; he was later released on $10,000 bond. To add to the chagrin...
...Checkpoint, a tin-roof shantytown next to the entrance to the former base, those young Catholic girls have had to grow up quickly. Melinda Basilan started working the strip stage at the Tahitian Queen when she was 16 years old. Now, she has two children. Stephanie is three, and her father is English. John Michael is two; his father is an American from Georgia. The Yank has promised to visit in May, but no one in the dirt alley is holding his breath. Checkpoint is filled with mothers waiting for fathers who never come back...
...Vietnam, the songs of TRINH CONG SON provided the audio track for the war. Hauntingly sentimental and filled with the sadness of separation and death, they always seemed to be drifting from some battered tape player in a cafE or at an army checkpoint on the road to nowhere. Son, 62, who died of diabetes complications in Ho Chi Minh City last week, wasn't liked by the old Saigon regime bullyboys because they thought his lyrics favored unification and disparaged war. They did, of course, and Son?dubbed "the Bob Dylan of Vietnam" by none other than Joan Baez...
...turn Ibrahim into a political weapon. At a rally staged in Ramallah by the Palestinian Authority, he speaks harsh words to his hosts and the crowd: "If you want to find someone to blame for my grandson's death, look further than the soldier who was at the checkpoint that night, look in the mirror, as well. Look at yourself and the Authority, who've negotiated our birthright...