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John Gavin, the tough-talking U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, could barely contain his rage as he tersely announced that the search for Enrique Camarena Salazar had ended. Camarena, a U.S. citizen and an eleven-year veteran of the Drug Enforcement Administration, had been kidnaped by four gunmen in Guadalajara early last month. Alfredo Zavala Avelar, a pilot who flew Camarena on many of his DEA missions, had been abducted later that same day. The bodies of the men, Gavin said, were discovered by the side of a road near a ranch about 100 miles from Guadalajara. They had been severely...
...kind of service mix prevails. In the middle of the local, low-income economy you find stores and restaurants looking for the visitor with large amounts of money to spend. Several new hotels have risen on the sites of old tobacco warehouses, and nouveau entertainment spots are all the rage. Notwithstanding this culture shock, the predominant tobacco, horse, and farming industries continue to thrive and provide the all-important "flavor" lost to more popular tourist areas further south...
...generally courteous personality. Gromyko kept him as the perfect watchdog. He scared off intruders. He sheltered his master from unnecessary contacts with lesser humans. Gromyko is an efficient machine, constructed to perform and to endure, and almost completely devoid of human warmth. He can joke and he can rage, but underlying any such expression is a cold discipline that makes him formidable as a superior or as an adversary...
...influence of liberation theology is strongest in Brazil, the world's largest and most populous (131 million) Roman Catholic country. Nonetheless, the debate over the propriety of that support continues to rage within the Brazilian hierarchy. Eugenio Cardinal de Araujo Sales, the conservative Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, charges that liberation theology "constitutes one of the gravest risks to the unity of the pastors and the faithful...
...front. After all, many more U.S. cities have orchestras than have opera companies, and the average music lover's exposure to contemporary music comes most often in the concert hall. A cluster of new works performed around the country this past month shows that a stylistic eclecticism is the rage in composition these days, with composers paying homage to sources as disparate as James Joyce, J.S. Bach, the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge...