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...immediately confirm the cause of the crash, Transport Secretary Luis Tellez said it appeared to be an accident rather than a bomb because much of the plane remained intact. Still, soldiers rapidly descended on the airport from which the aircraft had departed, in the western state of San Luis Potosi, where the officials had been holding a meeting on security...
...share of upset defeats in Bolivia's thin air. In 1993, their national team lost here to Bolivia - the first time in history that Brazil lost in a World Cup qualifying round; and in 2000 it happened again. This year, Brazilian club team Flamengo lost to Bolivia's Real Potosi in a match played at 12,000 feet, with a number of Flamengo players needing oxygen treatment to recover after the game. So the Brazilians have not hidden their joy at the new FIFA ruling...
...POTOSI, MISSOURI -- With 20 hours remaining until he was to be executed, Lloyd Schlup, dozing in his death-watch cell in Potosi State Correctional Center, received a call on the phone that 12 hours later would bring his reprieve by the Governor. A voice mentioned Schlup's family, staying nearby, and said, "The state will take care of you tomorrow. We'll be glad to put them out of their misery." In terror, Schlup began to vomit. Who were the resourceful telephone ghouls? Almost surely prison employees...
Bobby Shaw, 42, is a prisoner at Missouri's Potosi Correctional Center. When questioned about his life, he parrots courtroom legalese: "Read the record . . . I have no comment." When a photographer asks to "take" his picture, he replies in all seriousness, "I don't have one." On June 9, at one minute past midnight, unless he receives executive clemency, he will die by lethal injection...
Many of the plants that reach markets in the U.S., Europe and Japan are smuggled across the Rio Grande River from Mexico, where peasants have stripped vast areas of Hidalgo and San Luis Potosi states almost bare of fragile and beautiful species. As a result, nearly 30 kinds are considered virtually extinct in Mexico, and 250 more are imperiled. Some choice species that sell for a few dollars each south of the border may fetch $50 or $60 at a Los Angeles nursery. Texas has no state law prohibiting the harvesting of cacti. While national preserves like the huge...