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...nortenos on the other hand, are often viewed by interior Mexicans as having sold out their country by acquiring American habits. Some Mexican Americans also feel this friction. George Uribe, 60, was born in Mexico City, has a Mexican wife, but has lived in Nogales since childhood and is now a U.S. citizen. An executive in a large vegetable-distribution company, he concedes that "people in Mexico City tell me I'm a traitor. They say, 'Think of your patria (country).' " Says Uribe: "My patria, hell. I don't want to starve. I want to make a decent living...
...exception to the general harmony along the border is the friction between Tijuana (pop. 566,000), a former honky-tonk town that has made impressive progress in modernizing its business section, and San Diego (pop. 2 million), an adjacent Sunbelt city with many military personnel, both active and retired, and relatively few Hispanic residents. The canyons and ravines on the south side of San Diego have become a no-man's-land, where Mexican bandits, many of them drug addicts, prey on their countrymen crossing the border illegally. U.S. Border Patrol agents and San Diego police trying to control this...
...they came together with a purpose not that consciously controlled." The air of improvisation is deceptive. Murray has an exacting sense of the relations between internal drawing and silhouette. Sometimes, for this reason, a panel may look like an enlarged detail from a Juan Gris, and the near erotic friction of turning and rubbing shapes, rhythmically drawn, recalls early De Koonings like Pink Angels. Her work is continually enriched by allusions to the human body...
...fact, Mike picks up a lot of friction under the surface of this peculiar foreign place, and wonders, "Had he come to a nation of moody guys?" At the plant where he works, Bill shows Mike some graffiti that assembly-line workers have scrawled in the lavatory: "Our section leader has several flaws." Bill also lets on that Japan has been building a huge offensive army in secret all these years, and advises, "Don't mess with us, Mike. We're not just a bunch of little cassette guys...
Terminal defense is easiest, technologically. Warheads, heated and slowed by friction with the atmosphere on re-entry to speeds of about two miles per second, could be tracked by airborne or even ground-based radar. They could be hit by interceptor rockets or pellets discharged by fragmentation bombs. But enough missiles would have to be destroyed in boost, and enough warheads in post-boost phase or mid-course, to keep the terminal defense from being overwhelmed. And then there is the problem of hitting the warheads high enough to minimize the effect of blast, fire and radiation on the ground...