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...majority are from Mexico and most move through Arizona. It draws more than a third of the illegals, including 14 men who died of dehydration near Yuma after the temperature hit 115[degrees] two weeks ago. But the busiest place in the state is the tiny border town of Naco, a place so anonymous that its name derives from the last two letters of Arizona and Mexico. Naco (pop. 800) is little more than a bar, a school, a couple of streets and 220 border-patrol agents. Across the line in Mexico is a town with the same name...
...have them start all over again the following evening. It's a never-ending drill, often with life-and-death stakes. The border patrol says 383 people died last year attempting to cross the border from Mexico. "Is this problem solvable?" asks Victor Manjarrez, 37, top agent in the Naco station. "I think we in the border patrol are getting better at what we are doing. But with a Third World economy to the south and a First World economic power to the north, you will always have this problem...
...while. Finally, I told my wife, and she said, 'If you can do it, get it done.'" His only other choice was to sell part of his land, which would make it even harder to earn a living for his family. He and his daughter arrived by bus in Naco, where the guides were waiting at the bus station. Says Gonzales: "They took us to a hotel. We waited there for two days. Then in the afternoon, we were taken to a ranch, and at around 7 p.m. we started walking...
...Grace bought 16% (later upped to 20%) of Baltimore's Davison Chemical Co., and this year got its fingers in the Dewey & Almy Chemical Co. of Cambridge, Mass, with a $2,000,000 loan. Grace has also started two new big chemical plants in San Francisco, the Naco Fertilizer Co. of California and the Grace Agricultural Chemical Division, to process and sell bug and weed killers...
...JORDAN THEIS 1st Lieut., 10th Cavalry Camp U. S. Troops, Naco, Arizona To Lieut. Theis all thanks for a TIME-worthy report. To First-Class Private Phinnizee apologies for misreporting his rank...