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...official probe of the September 28 murder of the Mexican ruling party's No. 2 man claims to have unearthed evidence of conspiracy among elected officials resistant to reforms. Late yesterday, the Attorney General's office in Mexico City announced that a congressional aide accused his boss, fugitive Congressman Manuel Munoz Rocha, of having plotted the killing of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Secretary-General Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu "by orders of the group" to which Rocha belonged. The news, a rumor for days before it broke, has rocked Mexican political establishment: the aide's confession also suggests the existence...
...CONGRESS? The investigation into the Sept. 28 assassination of top Mexican politician Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, secretary general of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has found a suspect: a Mexican congressman who allegedly paid for the shooting. Jorge Rodriguez Gonzalez, arrested over the weekend, says his boss, Congressman Manuel Munoz Rocha, hired him and his brother to plan the hit. The Attorney General's office -- where the dead man's brother is deputy -- charges that Gonzalez hired the actual gumman, a 28-year-old horse trainer who's confessed. The congressman, now being sought by police, allegedly plotted...
...Washington promised more than it could deliver. The military has not proved adept at manhunts: it failed to arrest Aidid or kill Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and spent two frustrating weeks before it arrested Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said two weeks ago that the apprehension of Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and the Haitian junta is a "dead certainty," but such comments make Pentagon officials very nervous...
...capitalism must move beyond such rudiments if Castro's regime is to survive. Even faithful party members believe the time for thoroughgoing change has come, though they fear the economic anarchy of postcommunist Eastern Europe. "It's a difficult moment," admits Manuel Gutierrez, who was born in 1959, the year of the revolution. "The system has much good and some bad. But things are changing. The young are taking over...
...mock attack on an isolated airfield at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida and "capturing" a port along the Gulf coast. The exercise, which one military expert described as a "final rehearsal," was similar to maneuvers conducted just before the U.S. invaded Panama in December of 1989 to overthrow Manuel Noriega...