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Mexico's economic crisis is not just a matter of concern for big-city bankers. It has also hit Maria Luisa de Lopez, the mother of seven children, who has illegally crossed the Rio Grande in search of a day's work as a maid in El Paso. Said she: "Potatoes, beans and chili peppers-that's all we can afford to eat. There's no meat, eggs or milk for us. I'm giving my children only one meal...
...into the Stamp Room, where the extensive royal stamp collection is displayed. That set off an alarm, but it was ignored. Fagan went back out the same window, shinnied up a drainpipe, removed his sandals and socks, and climbed to another window, which had just been unlocked by a maid. For the next 15 min. or so, reported Dellow, "he moved through the corridors of the palace unchallenged. One member of the palace domestic staff remembers seeing him, but his behavior was not sufficiently suspicious to cause her to raise the alarm." He also slipped through warning devices that...
...when he spotted the ashtray. He smashed it and, at 7:15 a.m., entered the royal bedroom carrying a shard. The policeman stationed outside the door had gone off duty at 6 a.m. The footman who relieved him, by custom, was walking the Queen's corgis. Her maid was working near by but with doors closed so as not to disturb the sleeping monarch...
Thus, when Queen Elizabeth awoke, saw Fagan and pressed the button to an alarm bell outside her door, no one heard it. A telephone call to the palace operator for help was forwarded to the police, but none was forthcoming; six minutes later, she called again. She and the maid, who had come into the bedroom, led Fagan into a pantry in search of cigarettes. Returning with the corgis, the footman kept him there smoking until police, as a result of the second call, finally appeared...
...Fagan, she managed to telephone the palace police switchboard twice, in a calm voice, to summon help. No one came immediately because the urgency of her situation was not realized An attendant who might have helped her was out walking the royal Corgis. She was finally saved when a maid entered the bedroom, took a stunned glance at the visitor and blurted, "Bloody hell, ma'am! What's he doing in there...