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...political spectrum is Carlos Morton, 40, a didactic, polemical, yet often fiercely funny Texan. Born in Chicago, Morton spoke only Spanish until age five, then adopted English. Frequently uprooted to such places as Panama and Ecuador because his father was a career military man, he now teaches at Laredo Junior College, a few blocks from the Mexican border...
...Veterans' Convoy for Peace, the 38 vans, cars and pickup trucks started their journey from Maine, Ohio, Montana and Washington. Their mission: to deliver 25 tons of donated food, medical supplies and toys to relief agencies in Nicaragua. But as the vehicles tried to cross the Mexican border from Laredo, Texas, last week, U.S. Customs officials insisted that the convoy drivers pledge not to violate the Administration's trade embargo by leaving their vehicles in Nicaragua. The drivers refused, claiming Nicaragua needed the rolling stock to transport children to hospitals and crops to market. After an eight-day stalemate...
Meanwhile, 17 Cuban inmates in Laredo, Texas, escaped from a medium-security detention facility early yesterday by climbing through a steel roof grating. Authorities recaptured all but three of the escapees within hours...
...NUEVO Laredo, Mexico, 1977. I am visually assaulted by poor people selling toys, crafts, and food. In order to avoid being mobbed by vendors, I am not, my mother says, to let my curiosity get out of hand in this border town...
...also recall thinking there were few really poor people Nuevo Laredo or Piedras Negras, where we visited the following day. After all, everyone was working, and working hard selling cap pistols or toy tops. How could anyone have been truly down...