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...first read Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano on the all-night train trip from Central Mexico to the U.S. border at Nuevo Laredo. The trip, particularly in the second class compartment, easily beats a coast-to-coast Greyhound for discomfort. Mexican women with three children and a rooster buy one ticket, and then, once on the train, let their charges squirm their way over into the seat that you, God damn it, paid full fare...
...around honky-tonk Tijuana, 17 miles from San Diego, more than a dozen new plants have sprouted to produce such things as magnetic memory cores for Litton Industries and power transistors for Fairchild Camera. Factories in Mexicali make integrated circuits for Raytheon and motor parts for Western Gear. In Nuevo Laredo, southwest of Laredo, Texas, Mexican workers are doing everything from making electronics parts for Transitron Electronic Corp. to sorting supermarket "cents-off" coupons for the A.C. Nielsen Co., the big TV-rating and marketing-services firm...
...vain effort to make him confess, then hauled to Hilda's hospital room, where the dying girl had already identified the killer as everyone from her own doctor to one of the FBI's ten top fugitives. In such cases, the penal code of the State of Nuevo León specifies that the suspect be placed in a line-up with similar persons in similar dress. Simmons was ordered to wear a white shirt and dark trousers and brought into the room with white-coated doctors. Hilda by then could hardly speak; a bullet had destroyed...
Adamant Innocence. Simmons' lawyers argued that he should be returned to Texas as a mental patient who had no criminal responsibility under Nuevo León law. Nevertheless, without a jury, Simmons was found guilty in March of 1961, largely on the strength of Hilda's alleged identification. Although an appellate court tossed out that key evidence as illegal in 1962, the original trial judge simply pronounced Simmons guilty once more on the basis of disputed facts and such other items as his falsified tourist card and "penal antecedents." In 1964 the Mexican Supreme Court upheld that verdict...
...hardly likely that he will ever be executed. Nuevo León abhors capital punishment, has sent no one to the firing squad for 61 years. Moreover, Simmons' death sentence will be automatically cut to 25 years in 1970 because he will have survived a final death rap for five years. He has also been told that he will "probably" be freed if he petitions Nuevo León's governor for commutation. But Simmons is an obsessively stubborn man: he refuses to make any move that might be tantamount to admitting guilt...