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...scandal came to the surface in August, when Salvador Barragán Camacho, leader of the powerful Oil Workers' Union of the Mexican Republic, accused fellow Union Executive Héctor García Hernandez (alias El Trampas, the trickster) of stealing some $6.6 million in union funds. The overweight, droopy-eyed García promptly sold most of his Mexican assets, then crossed the border to his $250,000 town house in McAllen, Texas. There, García fired off a letter to President De la Madrid accusing Barragán and the alleged behind-the-scenes "godfather...
...pans in a now familiar ritual of protest against the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. When the fighting ceased, 26 civilians, including three children, were dead, more than 100 were wounded by gunfire and an estimated 1,000 were arrested. In the aftermath, Major General Osvaldo Hernandez claimed his troops had been attacked by "subversives...
...slowly carried the coffins of four victims, draped with wreaths and national flags, from the trade union hall of Jinotega to the local church. At least 2,000 townspeople solemnly marched alongside. Their anger, however, was not reserved exclusively for the contras. Insisted Truck Driver Juan Ramón Hernandez, "It's the army's fault. They allow the soldiers to take these civilian buses. The contras know this and so they ambush them and innocent people are killed...
...disturbing revelation. In testimony last month before a House subcommittee investigating mismanagement at the Environmental Protection Agency, Midwest Regional Director Valdas Adamkus accused John Hernandez, EPA's acting administrator until he resigned last month, of allowing Dow Chemical Co. to censor the agency's 1981 draft report on dioxin contamination in Michigan, including two rivers and a bay near Dow's Midland plant. Particularly alarming to Adamkus was the deletion of one of the draft's conclusions that "Dow's discharge represented the major source, if not the only source, of [dioxin] contamination...
...believe we can do better." The White House also moved to provide Ruckelshaus with a clean slate, asking for the resignations of five EPA officials, including four of Burford's top-ranking assistants, caught in the crossfire of allegations and suspicions on Capitol Hill: Acting Administrator John Hernandez Jr., General Counsel Robert Perry, Assistant Administrator John Todhunter and Chief of Staff John Daniel...