Word: rauling
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ASSASSINATED. LUIS ARGANA, 66, Vice President of Paraguay; by several gunmen who sprayed his Jeep with bullets and a grenade as it rode through a street in Asuncion, the capital. Supporters of Argana, the leader of an effort to oust President Raul Cubas, blamed Cubas for the killing. Members of parliament immediately voted to begin impeachment proceedings against the President...
Last Thursday, when a federal judge in Mexico City sentenced Raul Salinas de Gortari to 50 years in prison for orchestrating the 1994 murder of his former brother-in-law Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, all Mexico seemed to exhale. Salinas, the older brother of former President Carlos Salinas, has been a symbol of the nation's rot. The coldness of some of his acts--ordering the killing of his own brother-in-law!--was so great that the case somehow transcended its specifics and became a referendum on Mexico's hopes and fears...
...Raul's conviction was supposed to be a sign that Mexico was reforming its authoritarian democracy. But last week there was at least one reminder of how far the nation has to go. While Raul confronted his verdict in a prison cell west of Mexico City, 50 miles away, in a prison called Southside, a tightly wound, closely shorn 34-year-old ex-cowboy named Daniel Aguilar Trevino described a Mexican political system that is still dark, unforgiving and sinister. Aguilar is serving a 50-year term for pumping the fatal bullet into Ruiz Massieu's neck from point-blank...
Which is why, says Aguilar, Raul Salinas approached the group's leaders to abduct Ruiz Massieu. Originally the plan was just for a kidnapping, to silence him--and perhaps to punish him for an acrimonious divorce from Salinas' sister. But in the late summer of 1994, Salinas' men changed the plan: "They said [Ruiz Massieu] was too much of a threat to the Salinases, and that we'd have to kill him. I've never been so shook up as when I heard that...
...changes would be significant if they reflected the difference made in individual districts by state rulings. Raul Ugarte, a parent in Antioch, Calif., sued his school district five years ago after it refused to take action against a boy who was sexually harassing and threatening to kill his fifth-grade daughter Tianna. Ugarte won a $450,000 judgment, and the school district fired the superintendent...