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...Curator Carney E. V. Gavin sifted through the blast's aftermath, however, he discovered a long-lost photographic collection that would spur the museum's revival and prompt one of its most ambitious projects in decades...
...years after Gavin's find, a local physician and amateur photographer traveled to Israel to retrace the steps of the 19th century artists. At Gavin's suggestion, Dr. Daniel Tassel set out to create a "then and now" photographic history of the Holy Land. Nitza Rosovsky, a museum officer and authority on 19th century Jerusalem, assisted Tassel with the project...
Since Enrique Camarena Salazar, an agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, was kidnaped last month in Mexico and subsequently murdered, presumably by narcotics dealers, U.S. officials have suspected the complicity of corrupt Mexican police. Last week John Gavin, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, announced that at least two of the four kidnapers who hustled Camarena into a car in Guadalajara a month before his body was found were, in fact, policemen of the Mexican state of Jalisco. They had been arrested by Mexican federal authorities and had confessed...
...Gavin, who pushed his hosts hard to solve the killing, made a gesture toward soothing U.S.-Mexican tensions aroused by the Camarena case: he complimented the Mexicans for moving "so quickly." But he prodded them further. The other two kidnapers might also be police, he hinted, and noted they had not yet been caught. Also at large is Rafael "El Chapo" (Shorty) Caro Quintero, a drug dealer suspected of ordering Camarena's murder...
...going through a Customs post near San Fernando, Mexico, about 90 miles from the Texas border at Brownsville. The cargo and three suspects were finally seized 25 miles south of the border city of Reynosa, Mexico, but the original drivers had escaped. In his press conference last week, Ambassador Gavin quoted Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, who called the drug crisis "a cancer" on both countries. Said Gavin: "We are in a war, and we cannot accept that Enrique Camarena died in vain...