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...with a reportorial view of the events and issues confronting the top officials in the countries on the itinerary. It permitted the participants to join us in our craft as they first examined and interviewed, then evaluated and reviewed what they saw and heard. The trip began in El Paso with a panel discussion on a major bilateral issue: illegal immigration along the 2,000-mile border. Then the participants flew to Mexico's northern Sonora state to visit a coalition of agricultural cooperatives. They spent that night in Monterrey, an industrial center, where they were guests...
...took equal pride in both-can make him appear undisciplined. In reality, he brings to his work the same dogged determination that carried him from a "sad rat" freshman to a "sharp sergeant" at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. Raised by a strict Baptist mother in El Paso, Donaldson returned to attend Western Texas College. After graduate school at the University of Southern California and a stint in the Army, he came back to Texas. In 1959 he got a job with KRLD, the Dallas radio affiliate of CBS. All three TV networks initially rejected him for lack...
Throughout the afternoon, Mayer had insisted, "My personality doesn't mean anything." But it was precisely his disturbed personality that obscured his cause. Born in El Paso on March 31, 1916, Mayer was a drifter. For the past few years he had worked as a maintenance man in Miami Beach hotels. A friend, John Bauer, described him as intelligent, articulate and dedicated. Said Bauer: "He got to the point where he felt he had to do something drastic." In 1976 Mayer was jailed in Hong Kong for attempting to smuggle in marijuana. Although Mayer was deported after serving only...
...expanding interdependence of the two countries is strikingly visible in such U.S. border towns as Calexico, Calif., Nogales, Ariz., and El Paso. During Mexico's boom, local economies flourished as Mexicans crossed the border in droves to buy American-made cars, clothing and food. But the peso's declining value, together with strict controls on the amount of U.S. currency Mexicans can obtain, has virtually halted the flow of Mexican customers, and merchants complain of near Depression business conditions...
DIED. Marty Robbins, 57, Grand Ole Opry pop country singer, who wrote more than 500 tunes about gunfighters, unrequited love and even occasionally the constancy of women, including the million-copy-selling hits El Paso and A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation; of a heart attack; in Nashville...