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United Press International is certainly living up to its last name. Bailed out once by a Mexican publisher, the struggling 34-year-old U.S. wire service again avoided dissolution when London-based Middle East Broadcasting Center agreed to purchase it for $3.95 million. The chairman and principal shareholder of MBC is Sheik Walid al-Ibrahim, brother-in-law of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd. The U.P.I. purchase marks the Saudis' first foray into the mainstream American press...
...politics, and to prove it, he is running for the Arkansas legislature. In speeches, he blames the U.S. government for the nation's ills, and he has adopted a platform he claims will return America to its former greatness. He wants, among other things, to post soldiers at the Mexican border to stop immigrants, quarantine all aids patients, kill drug dealers and put an end to affirmative action...
Fuentes has learned much from both cultures. The son of a Mexican diplomat, he was born in Panama City and spent much of his youth living in Santiago, Buenos Aires and Washington, where he developed an enduring affection for William Faulkner, Franklin Roosevelt and Hollywood musicals. Until he grew up, Mexico remained an almost mythical country, experienced mainly through the memories of his father or glimpsed during summer vacations...
...case involved Dr. Humberto Alvarez-Machain, a gynecologist who two years ago was dragged from his Guadalajara office by Mexican bounty hunters, flown to El Paso and handed over to agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Alvarez-Machain still awaits trial in Los Angeles on federal charges of conspiring to torture and kill dea agent Enrique Camarena, kidnapped and murdered in Guadalajara in 1985. The doctor allegedly injected Camarena with lidocaine, which kept his heart going to prolong his torture and interrogation by Mexican officials and drug kingpins...
Certainly the Mexicans -- and many other Latin Americans -- were upset. Calling the ruling "invalid and unacceptable," Mexico threatened to suspend antidrug cooperation with the U.S. -- a threat rescinded after Washington offered assurances that its sovereignty would be respected in the future. But the diplomatic dust had hardly settled when Mexican officials charged that on June 13 agents from the U.S. crossed the border, seized Teodulo Romo Lopez and returned him to Tucson to face bail-jumping and cocaine-trafficking charges. The Salinas government quickly protested...