Word: mexico
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What does matter, Hillerman says, is the common thread that being raised "poor, rural, immensely dependent on the weather, [and] in relative isolation," gives. It is this shared experience that makes him more comfortable at the Two Gray Hills Trading Post in northern New Mexico than at a faculty meeting at Albuquerque's University of New Mexico, where he taught journalism for several years...
Hillerman's latest novel in his Navaho mystery series, The Fallen Man, features both of his Navaho police detectives, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. The Fallen Man is set on and about the 1,700 foot high Shiprock, a spiritual site for the Navaho in northern New Mexico...
...part, Mexico, even as its diplomats fulminated about the dire consequences of decertification, took action to give Clinton cover. On Wednesday police arrested a drug trafficker named Oscar Malherbe de Leon. On Thursday the Mexican navy burned a ton of seized cocaine on the resort island of Cozumel. More substantively, Time has learned, President Zedillo will soon announce that he plans to scrap Mexico's existing narcotics-fighting apparatus--including the tainted National Institute to Combat Drugs, headed by General Gutierrez--and start fresh with an independent new agency modeled on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Under the plan...
Some Clinton aides are impressed with the initiative. "If this is for real, and we think it is, it's a very important step," says a senior U.S. official. But those who have watched Mexico burn its promises before are skeptical. Complained DEA administrator Tom Constantine: "There is not one single civilian law-enforcement institution in Mexico with which the DEA has a really trusting relationship." U.S. agents doubt Mexico's new drug superagency will be the first...
...with the first Simpson trial can rest assured that the damages awarded to the plaintiffs in the second trial, coupled with the expense of an appeal and the hounding by creditors, will cause Simpson to endure a fate far worse than any prison sentence. JOHN K. DAVIS Gallup, New Mexico...