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...Hanigan case began on a hot August morning in 1976, when three Mexicans set out from Agua Prieta to seek work in Arizona. The trio-Manuel Garcia, Bernabe Herrera and Eleazar Ruelas-slipped across the border and soon stopped to refill their water jug on land leased by the Hanigans. A man, later identified by the Mexicans as Thomas Hanigan, drove by in a pickup truck and yelled out, "Hey, wetbacks, where are you going? Are you going to steal or rob?" Hanigan allegedly forced the Mexicans into his truck at gunpoint and then summoned his father George...
Taking up station at Diego Garcia, the ships will constitute a prepositioned mobile "supply dump" should the President order any part of the new 110,000 man Rapid Deployment Force into action in the region...
...keep the 1,800 men on Diego Garcia from going "rock happy," the Navy has provided softball fields, volleyball, handball and tennis courts, and a 25-meter swimming pool for those who are afraid of the sharks. There is also a popular off-duty hangout known as the Diego Burger...
...small diplomatic threat to the completion of the base has surfaced 1,174 miles to the south in Mauritius, a onetime British colony that gained its independence in 1968. At that time, British authorities transported the 1,200 inhabitants of Diego Garcia to Mauritius, while retaining control of the atoll. Now Mauritius' Prime Minister, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, says he intends to press a claim of ownership of Diego Garcia upon Britain. In London diplomats expressed some puzzlement at the claim, since Diego Garcia was never officially part of Mauritius, even in colonial days...
...idea is enshrined in the Urban Jobs and Enterprise Zone Act, proposed in June by two New York State Congressmen, Republican Jack Kemp of Buffalo and Democrat Robert Garcia of The Bronx. Under their bill, businesses putting down roots in, say, a square-mile section of Chicago's South Side, would receive a variety of reductions in capital gains and corporate income taxes. Local governments would also be obliged to contribute to the endeavor by reducing property taxes inside the zone by 5% annually for four years. In return, the firms would have to hire at least...