Word: mexico
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...Navajo tribal court is the largest tribal court system in the United States, with 17 justices handling over 90,000 cases annually in seven districts that span the 27,000-square-mile Navajo reservation in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah...
...Navajo tribal court is the largest tribal court system in the United States with 17 justices handling over 90,000 cases annually in seven districts that span the enormous 27,000-square-mile Navajo reservation in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah...
Marilyn hardly seemed destined to make history. Unlike other chimpanzees kept at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico during the 1960s and '70s to study the effects of space travel--like Ham, the first primate in orbit--she never made it off the ground. Instead she did her duty as a breeder, a friendly, easily handled chimp mom who gave birth at least a dozen times before her untimely death...
...there were also reasons why a frail 78-year-old with Parkinson's spent two hectic days in the river city. One was that by hopping from deeply Catholic Mexico City to Catholic-founded St. Louis, he stressed solidarity within the huge territory that, despite political and economic disparities, the Vatican likes to call simply "America." Another was Archbishop Justin Rigali of St. Louis, a beloved adviser. The third reason, more subtle but equally important, might be dubbed Betty Rataj...
Raul's conviction was supposed to be a sign that Mexico was reforming its authoritarian democracy. But last week there was at least one reminder of how far the nation has to go. While Raul confronted his verdict in a prison cell west of Mexico City, 50 miles away, in a prison called Southside, a tightly wound, closely shorn 34-year-old ex-cowboy named Daniel Aguilar Trevino described a Mexican political system that is still dark, unforgiving and sinister. Aguilar is serving a 50-year term for pumping the fatal bullet into Ruiz Massieu's neck from point-blank...