Word: ju
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...officials seem to know how many of which items can be taken across the border, or what is supposed to happen to those caught with too much. "People just don't know what is going on," said Alex Harrison, a retired American buying Kahlua liqueur (not banned) in Juárez last week. Among the horror stories is the saga of Bob Walz, 60, of Tucson, who filled spare tanks in his pickup truck with 250 gal. of diesel fuel in Mexico at 16? a gal. He was arrested at the border for "disrupting the economy of Mexico...
...list is very confusing," admits Octavio Muñoz Corral, president of the Juárez Chamber of Commerce, who is futilely struggling to persuade Americans to keep buying below the border. Indeed, the uncertainty has been the main factor keeping Americans from shopping for much of anything in Mexico. "The tourists are scared away," says Salesman Manuel Vasquez, surveying his empty marble-products shop in Juárez, which logically should be packed with Texans seeking more for their dollar. "Our business is off about 50%. Capitalism works. This type of stupid socialism doesn...
...situation is even grimmer for merchants on the American side, where Mexican customers can no longer afford to shop with their devalued pesos. The stores of south El Paso, just across from Juárez, are almost deserted. "All our business came from Mexico," says Frank Roches, owner of Palace Jewelry. "They have no money now." Business is off 65% at the S.E.I. Fed Mart department store in the California border town of Calexico, and Owner Sergio Farias has laid off 180 of his 230 employees...
When Ronald Reagan and Mexican President Jóse López Portillo shake hands this week at Camp David, they will do so warmly, for the two got along quite well last January during the President-elect's visit to the border city of Ciudad Juárez. But as soon as the two leaders sit down and begin talking policy, the warm feelings may cool. As one U.S. diplomat observes, "Their basic positions evolved separately and are in conflict. Frankly, I wish they would just agree to disagree...
What was behind Kim Jong Il's eclipse-and his subsequent emergence into party leadership? Observers could only guess. Many noticed that Kim II Sung's younger brother, Kim Yong Ju, once considered a possible successor, was nowhere evident on party rosters. One guess was that Kim Yong Ju had lost out to his nephew, the President's son, in an internal party struggle...