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...coastal towns just like Las Lisas where the chief industry--sometimes the sole industry--is illegal immigration. It is impossible to say exactly how many thousands of people arrive in the U.S. through the Dominican Republic each year, because official surveillance and interdiction are so spotty. The U.S. Border Patrol and other law-enforcement agencies made 4,364 arrests in the area last year, but that figure bears little relation to the number of people flooding...
...March 9, a team of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP, or 'Mounties'--the Canadian F.B.I.) attempted to board the Spanish fishing trawler Estai. When the attempt failed, the Spanish cut their fishing nets and attempted to flee. After a four-hour chase, the Canadian patrol vessel sent a burst of machine-gunfire over the bow of the Estai. The boat was seized and turned toward New-foundland, where the skipper will be charged under Canadian conservation law and the crew flown home...
Several thousand Spanish fishermen pelted the Canadian Embassy in Madrid with raw eggs and dead mackerel to protest what they said was Canada's harassment of Spanish trawlers in the North Atlantic. In the latest turn in the month-long conflict overfishing and conservationin Canadian waters, Canadian patrol boats allegedly tried to snip the nets off two Spanish trawlers, and by some accounts actually boarded the vessels. Canadian officials, who have stopped European boats recently to prevent overfishing of turbot, flatly denied the charges. Still, the uproar caused international talks over the issue in Brussels to be suspended...
Velasquez has not been seen since March 12,1992 when the group of rebels he was leadingencountered a Guatemalan army patrol. TheGuatemalan government has maintained thatVelasquez committed suicide to avoid capture...
Everado was captured on March 12, 1992 after the group of rebels he was leading ran into a Guatemalan army patrol. The Guatemalan government has maintained that Everado committed suicide to avoid capture...