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Then, from behind Door No. 3, yet another candidate emerged for the title of Autumn's father. He is a former busboy named Jesus Vasquez, whom Upshaw apparently married in 1973, a year before Autumn's birth--a marriage arranged, according to former friends, to help the Mexican immigrant gain U.S. citizenship. Joan Green, who was a waitress at the Los Angeles restaurant where Upshaw's mother and Vasquez worked, says everyone there assumed Vasquez was the girl's father. "The shape of her eyes and her eyebrows are Jesus," Green says. "And if you look at her baby pictures...
However, four of these vendors ventured nervously into a police precinct at 4 a.m. on July 19 with a three-page letter that hinted at the silent netherworld they inhabited. Following them to two houses in Queens, police discovered 57 Mexicans, most of them deaf-mute illegal immigrants, crammed into two top-floor apartments. Alternately signing and writing, the shabbily dressed immigrants--among them pregnant women and children and infants--described themselves as exploited laborers held captive by the Paolettis, a Mexican family whose deaf members had enticed them with promises of a sweeter life, then confiscated their identity documents...
...rent. In a locked room off the areas scattered with mattresses, sleeping bags and bunk beds, police found evidence of their hard labor: $35,000 in cash, $10,000 of it in $1 bills. Within hours, five Paoletti clansmen and two others were arrested, but U.S. and Mexican authorities were still hunting for clan patriarch Jose Paoletti Moreda, 59, who allegedly masterminded the "mattress mill," and his son Renato Paoletti Lemus, 20, who allegedly...
...adobe seen throughout the Southwest, the museum sits on a quiet street off Santa Fe's main plaza, where galleries selling O'Keeffe wannabes vie with Indians hawking turquoise and silver in the long colonnade of the Palace of the Governors. You enter through glass doors trimmed with New Mexican pine. The installation is spare and elegant, as are the 10 galleries with glowing plaster walls, earth-colored concrete floors and skylights that subtly draw viewers from room to room...
Responding last week to a lengthy New York Times investigation of grave lapses in U.S. efforts to curb Mexican drug smuggling, the White House drug-policy chief, General Barry McCaffrey, told the paper that he had recently begun an effort to build "a newly defined architecture" for the disparate agencies engaged in the narcotics war. A better reason for optimism in the fight is that Carrillo is unlikely to be replaced by anyone as skilled as he was. For the time being, his younger brother Vicente, 34, is expected to run operations. "Carrillo was a force to be reckoned with...