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Some Mexicans hate the North American Free Trade Agreement even more than Ross Perot does. One night last January, a mob protesting competition from across the border broke into an American dairy's warehouse in Chihuahua and dumped 5,500 gallons of milk. Six months later in Ciudad Juarez, several men slipped into a storage area owned by the same Texas dairy and set fire to four big trucks...
Fortunately, such anger and fear are rare on either side of the Rio Grande. Not only is Perot's warning about American jobs vanishing south with a "giant sucking sound" not coming true, but thousands of tractor-trailer rigs are rumbling through the border crossings -- carrying beer, heavy machinery, clothing, electronics. Eight months after NAFTA went into effect, trade is up, prices are down for consumers and no massive layoffs have occurred...
...first profiled the region two months before the 1992 election, when both the Bush and Clinton campaigns were battling for this key swing county in a critical state. Angst over the economy won out over the county's latent conservatism, and Clinton beat Bush 41% to 40%, with Ross Perot taking 18%. Two months into the Clinton presidency, when campaign pledges were evolving into a flurry of presidential proposals and Executive Orders, TIME returned to the region to find voters eager for change yet squirming like patients in a dentist's waiting room...
...networks have got entangled in a separate dispute. NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN have refused to air two half-hour G.O.P. advertisements against the Clinton plan, both paid for by billionaire Ross Perot. Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour finds this unfair, since last month NBC aired a two- hour, prime-time special on health care funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a nonprofit group with close ties to the Clinton reform effort...
...Ross Perot had given us more assuranceabout his temperament and had a reasonablyarticulate vice president, he would be president,no doubt about it," Tsongas said...