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...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...
...young man with an unknown motive shot and killed the secretary-general of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), shocking officials just recovering from the March 23 assassination of PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio. Political analysts told TIME Mexico reporter Elizabeth Love the death of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu might have less to do with Massieu's No. 2 role in the PRI than his tenure as governor of the province where the young suspect lives. Said one speculator: "Two assassinations do not conform a social tendency, but evidently Colosio's killing seemed to break a kind...
President-elect Ernesto Zedillo may have more of a mandate than many expected. New vote counts showed he captured a 50.08 percent majority in what is believed to be a fairly clean election. His dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) also was leading in a whopping 278 of 300 congressional races and in virtually all 64 Senate races. Why did Mexicans stick with the PRI, in their first chance to dump it in 65 years? Consider the uprising of the Zapatista rebels in January, the assassination of the PRI's first candidate in March, and two high-profile kidnappings...
Mexico's paradoxically named Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has weathered the toughest election in its 65-year rule -- i.e., the cleanest and most competitive vote in the country's history. By this evening, ballot counters said PRI candidate Ernesto Zedillo had a comfortable lead over rival Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, of the conservative National Action Party. Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, trailed both. A hopeful sign: more than 70 percent of those registered voted, far above the expected 50 percent...
...cries of fraud, many Mexicans hope Sunday's presidential vote will live up to its promise to be the first truly contested election they have ever known. Nonetheless, TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief Laura Lopez reports, polls indicate most Mexicans will back Ernesto Zedillo, candidate of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) that has ruled the country since 1929. One reason for Zedillo's 20-point lead: Lopez says rival National Action Party candidate Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, once the front-runner, miscalculated by taking a campaign break in June. Another: "They're indicating that they still aren't ready for change...