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Champion Salazar, who hails from Weyland, Mass., edged out runner-up Michael Musyoki of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). UTEP took the team laurels, followed closely by Oregon and Wisconsin. Defending titleist Henry Rono of Washington State (the one team the harriers defeated) came home a dismal 192nd...
Oregon upset Washington State for the championship last year, with all five of their scorers finishing in the top 25 of a 300-man field. This year, however, Texas El Paso, with junior college transfer James Rotich and steeplechase specialist James Munyala (both Kenyans), is the team to beat...
...immigrants. The first is a 5.98-mile stretch from the Pacific Ocean, across Dead Man's Canyon and Washer Woman's Flats to Airport Mesa near Chula Vista, Calif; the second, 6.7 miles of border running along the American side of the Rio Grande through downtown El Paso...
...scene is played out in the San Jacinto Plaza of El Paso, Texas (pop. 381,500), in the dawn hours of most Mondays. Sedans cruise slowly around the square, their drivers eying clusters of young women. Every so often, one of the women is beckoned from the sidelines. Deals are struck and the cars pull away...
...prostitution and the women are not harlots. They are illegal immigrants (known euphemistically these days as "undocumented aliens") who have crossed the Rio Grande from neighboring Juarez, Mexico, looking for work as maids. Their usual rate: around $25 a week. Because of its proximity to Ju?z, El Paso is the second largest crossing point for undocumented aliens in the U.S. The largest is Chula Vista, Calif., which shares part of its sewerage system with neighboring Tijuana. Aliens have been known to crawl through the common drainage pipes to reach...