Word: mexicans
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Hillel recently hosted a Mexican-themed dinner...
...grisly incident highlighted Mexico's problems in controlling its illegal drug trade. Washington has been pressuring the Mexican government to take stronger measures against drug traffic since a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officer, Enrique Camarena Salazar, was kidnaped and killed in Mexico last February. In the past year U.S. Customs agents have reported a marked increase in narcotics smuggling across the U.S.-Mexican border. Last month two major busts yielded $40 million worth of cocaine near San Ysidro, Calif. Said a U.S. embassy spokesman in Mexico City of last week's raid: "This was an operation carried...
...week's end 20 people were being held for questioning in the massacre. Two informers who had reportedly accompanied police and survived the ordeal were "contributing information." So far one suspect has been arrested. Brigadier General Jaime Jiménez Muńóz, a Mexican army commander, believes that armed peasants, "desperate to earn money" by growing marijuana, may have done the killing. Indeed, military patrols have reported that entire villages have been abandoned by frightened peasants as soldiers comb the mountains, searching for the culprits. But evidence also indicates that powerful drug traffickers are behind the murders. "We are fighting...
...tabulate the figure only twelve hours before its release, instead of 65. During the six hours or so they are working on the calculations, employees are confined to an office suite with no telephone privileges. If they need to use the restroom, a chaperon must go along. COMMUNICATIONS Mexican Connection for U.P.I...
...After a Mexican newspaper magnate bought the financially troubled United Press International last week, U.P.I.'s staffers in London joked about brushing up their Spanish for a simple, direct question: "Can I have a raise?" The 2,000 employees of the 78-year-old news service took a 25% pay cut last year and have suffered bouncing pay checks in recent months as U.P.I.'s struggled to survive. This spring the news service filed for bankruptcy reorganization and put itself up for sale...