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...Americans crossed the border for the sole purpose of buying Redotex, a potent Mexican-made diet prescription not licensed for sale in the U.S.; some pill-dispensing physicians became millionaires almost overnight. "They would send young boys out to tout for patients," recalls a Mexican physician in Nuevo Laredo. "Some doctors would see as many as 100 patients on a weekend. They would call them in five at a time and sometimes dispense the pills themselves." The Mexican government has since taken steps to end abuses in the selling of weight-loss medication...
...operation that typically costs $5,000 in the U.S. can be had for about $2,000 here," says Dr. Jorge Lopez y Garcia, a plastic surgeon from Mexico City. Lopez, a graduate of the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at New York University Medical Center, flies to Nuevo Laredo twice a month to attend to his growing practice. Most of his patients are women from Texas seeking restorative surgery...
Nowhere is the traffic heavier than in Starr County, a remote, Rhode Island- size expanse of gentle hills that flanks the Rio Grande southeast of Laredo. From heavily armed safe houses in tiny riverfront hamlets, smugglers oversee the packaging and shipment of drugs by truck and plane into the U.S. interior...
...diary on folded white paper, got to be known as "the Coach" by his fellow hostages because he insisted that they all exercise each day. Brown's contingent devised a game of imaginary golf, playing mind shots on a course laid out verbally by Robert Trautmann Jr., 37, a Laredo, Texas, developer. At one chilling point, one of the original two hijackers swaggered into the bunker-like room in West Beirut and said, "Hi, do you know me?" When no one answered, he waved a silver pistol in their faces and said, "Now do you remember me?" They assured...
...that he would try to arrange for reporters to meet with the hostages, and on Thursday he staged the press conference at the airport featuring five of the 40 captive Americans. The five were Allyn Conwell, 39, of Houston, Thomas Cullins, 42, of Burlington, Vt., Vincente Garza, 53, of Laredo, Texas, Peter Hill and Arthur Toga. The political purpose of the event was transparent: Conwell read a statement urging President Reagan not to try to rescue the hostages by military means. He also called for the release of the 776 Shi'ite detainees in Israel "who undoubtedly have as equal...