Word: mexico
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...Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond, Anita Pratap Beijing: Sandra Burton Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Mexico City: John Borrell Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...
...thousands of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. from Mexico each year, the journey north is harrowing enough. But just across the border in California, they encounter a final and at times fatal obstacle. Weary and bewildered, pursued by the Border Patrol and sometimes carrying small children, as many as 150 people a night dart out into the hurtling freeway traffic. Already, seven fatalities have been reported this year. Since the body count began in 1985, the total has reached an alarming...
...effort are daunting, and have been made even more so by the budget slashes of the Reagan era. The FDA, for example, can assign only 910 staff members -- in contrast to 1,105 in 1977 -- to monitor food, including imports. Some foreign growers easily circumvent the process; produce from Mexico is often trundled across the border at Nogales, Ariz., on the inspector's day off. And the USDA last year fielded only 7,000 inspectors -- down from 10,000 eight years ago -- to examine the carcasses of nearly 120 million cows, pigs and horses and 5.6 billion chickens...
Clay Center, like thousands of other small communities from Maine to New Mexico, is struggling to avoid becoming a ghost town. The population of rural America is being sapped by an epic postwar migration to cities and suburbs, a trend that has accelerated in the past decade. Each year since 1985, more than half a million rural residents have packed up and moved away, usually in search of employment. While self-reliant, spirited towns like Clay Center are putting up a plucky campaign to bring back jobs and citizens, such communities now find they are threatened by conditions, ranging from...
Most economic experts say the crisis began in 1982 when Mexico announced that it could not pay the interest on its external and private debt. The problem had its roots in a combination of factors, including banks rashly loaning money to Third World nations, the countries using the money for unneeded and bloated projects--usually called "white elephants"--the quick reduction of capital flowing to these nations, and most of all a crash in the prices of products the countries export. For example, the 1985 crash in tin prices helped crush Bolivia's economy, and the fall in petroleum prices...