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...paper companies.MEXICO . . . IS THE ASSASSIN A MEMBER OF CONGRESS? The investigation into the Sept. 28 assassination of top Mexican politician Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, secretary general of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has found a suspect: a Mexican congressman who allegedly paid for the shooting. Jorge Rodriguez Gonzalez, arrested over the weekend, says his boss, Congressman Manuel Munoz Rocha, hired him and his brother to plan the hit. The Attorney General's office -- where the dead man's brother is deputy -- charges that Gonzalez hired the actual gumman, a 28-year-old horse trainer who's confessed. The congressman...
Because of, or in spite of that, the voters stuck with the P.R.I. "He looked like somebody clean," said Isidoro Pete Gonzalez, a former opposition voter in Tijuana. "He's not contaminated yet." Said Zedillo the next day: "We are a party plainly capable of being competitive." In an interview with TIME, he noted, "The party has to be explicit about its rules of internal democracy," which might include primaries or conventions to select candidates rather than having the bosses do the picking...
...will open separate hearings a few days later). Several high Administration officials will probably face sharp questioning as to whether they have been telling the truth. And there could be some entertaining partisan wrangling in the House Committee between Republicans trying to pose argumentative questions and Democratic chairman Henry Gonzalez trying to gavel such queries into silence...
Fiske has asked that the probers not look into the removal of papers from the office of White House counsel Vincent Foster after his suicide in July 1993 because the special counsel is still investigating that. Gonzalez has ruled out any questions in his House panel about any aspects of Foster's death. Leach once asserted that a midsummer probe could look into only 5% of all the questions concerning Whitewater; last week he reduced that estimate...
This week's might be the last European Union summit for Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez of Spain, whose Socialists suffered their first electoral defeat after 12 years in power as punishment for widespread corruption and a 17.5% unemployment rate, Europe's highest. Gonzalez "has two alternatives," chortled El Mundo. "Either resign and hand over the presidency to another member of his party, or call early elections for next fall." In any case, Gonzalez's days in power could be numbered...