Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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William Kennedy, the U.S. Attorney in San Diego, was just trying to do his job. When Kennedy accepted the presidential appointment last November, he found himself heir to a 14-month investigation of a Mexican gang that was stealing cars in California and taking them back across the border. Twenty-eight gang members had been indicted by the time Kennedy took office, and he soon recommended prosecuting a 29th, Miguel Nassar Haro. The trouble was, this conspirator had friends, or at least protectors, in Washington...
...personal loyalty to Nassar that made Administration officials reluctant to prosecute the Mexican agent. They were more concerned with protecting the delicate, shadowy system of international intelligence cooperation. Nassar had headed Mexico's Directorate of Federal Security since 1977 and supplied the U.S. with important information about Salvadoran and Guatemalan guerrilla figures...
...part, the diplomatic dance was prompted by Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda's zealous pursuit of a peace plan put forward in February by President José López Portillo. The plan calls for negotiations between the U.S. and Cuba, the U.S. and Nicaragua, and the government and rebels in El Salvador. By conducting a highly publicized shuttle among the parties involved, Castañeda hoped to convince Washington that it should appear as amenable to these talks as its adversaries claimed...
...high-risk maneuver to boost exports and slow the drain on the country's financial reserves, López Portillo's finance secretary, David Ibarra Muñoz, last month orchestrated a 40% devaluation of the Mexican peso. Unfortunately, the action has done little yet to ease any of the economy's underlying woes. Last week Muňoz resigned, to be replaced by Jesus Silva Herzog, a Yale-educated economist and close friend of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, López Portillo's hand-picked presidential successor when nationwide elections are held in July...
...swift rise and fall of Fidrych puts some in mind of Mexican Phenomenon Fernando Valenzuela, provider of about the only sweet note last season and about the only discordant one now. But even Fernando's holdout with Los Angeles has been kept a fairly light quarrel. Says Dodger Manager Tommy Lasorda: "All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was 'million.' " Softer, Lasorda says: "He was a big hero last year, but people are beginning to turn on him. It could hurt...