Word: pry
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...began Tuesday, when his brother Raul Salinas was arrested for allegedly plotting a high-level murder. Wednesday, he withdrew his candidacy for chairman of the World Trade Organization. Thursday, prosecutors said President Salinas himself could be charged with impeding a probe of another killing -- the March 1994 shooting of PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, whom Salinas had chosen as his successor. Now, formerly timid critics are blaming him, in part, for the Dec. 20 devaluation that sent the peso plummeting...
Ernesto ZedilloPonce de Leon, the reform-minded candidate of Mexico's ruling PRI party, was sworn in as his country's president today promising a war against poverty -- an effort to provide "dignified living conditions for every Mexican family." The inauguration followed a rough-and-tumble year that saw theassassinations of his party's first candidateand its secretary-general, plus anIndian rebellionand the advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The 42-year-old, U.S.-educated economist -- speaking before 1,500 Mexican officials as well as foreign leaders as diverse as Vice President Al Gore and Cuba's Fidel...
Mexico's deputy attorney general today made sweeping accusations that his own boss and two of the country's most powerful officials conspired in the Sept. 28 assassination of his brother -- the ruling PRI party's reform-minded secretary-general. He then resigned from his post and the PRI. At an angry, 45-minute news conference this morning, Mario Ruiz Massieu said he's given the government evidence that the PRI's president and secretary-general (the second- and third-most powerful Mexican officials ) had blocked his investigation into the shooting of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu , Mexico...
...claims to have unearthed evidence of conspiracy among elected officials resistant to reforms. Late yesterday, the Attorney General's office in Mexico City announced that a congressional aide accused his boss, fugitive Congressman Manuel Munoz Rocha, of having plotted the killing of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Secretary-General Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu "by orders of the group" to which Rocha belonged. The news, a rumor for days before it broke, has rocked Mexican political establishment: the aide's confession also suggests the existence of a death list of other progressive PRI officials...
...Japan, though: the U.S. placed Tokyo on a "watch list" for its barriers to American wood and paper companies.MEXICO . . . IS THE ASSASSIN A MEMBER OF CONGRESS? The investigation into the Sept. 28 assassination of top Mexican politician Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, secretary general of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has found a suspect: a Mexican congressman who allegedly paid for the shooting. Jorge Rodriguez Gonzalez, arrested over the weekend, says his boss, Congressman Manuel Munoz Rocha, hired him and his brother to plan the hit. The Attorney General's office -- where the dead man's brother is deputy -- charges...