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Mexico's economic crisis is not just a matter of concern for big-city bankers. It has also hit Maria Luisa de Lopez, the mother of seven children, who has illegally crossed the Rio Grande in search of a day's work as a maid in El Paso. Said she: "Potatoes, beans and chili peppers-that's all we can afford to eat. There's no meat, eggs or milk for us. I'm giving my children only one meal...
Women, children and grandparents are caught regularly, but most of the immigrants are young men of working age. Jack Richardson, chief patrol agent of the Del Rio, Texas, sector on the border, recently polled 364 arrested aliens and found that 67% were under...
...realm of celebrity endorsements, the face is none too memorable, and the delivery falls decidedly shy of, say, Olivier for Polaroid. But the name of the new pitchster for Café de Rio is familiar. It has been since 1963, when Ronald Biggs, 53, and 14 others relieved a Glasgow-to-London mail train of $7.3 million in what will be forever referred to as the "Great Train Robbery." Resettled for the past dozen years in Brazil and exempt from extradition, Biggs was recently tapped by an Australian ad agency to play the Ricardo Montalban-Juan Valdez role...
...Cape Town, South Africa. From there, the small boats must follow a course that will take them over the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean and on to Sydney, Australia. The third leg of the journey spans the South Pacific from Sydney to Cape Horn and then to Rio de Janeiro, while the fourth will bring those skillful and fortunate enough back to Newport. "It's not a sprint, it's a decathlon," says Race Director Jim Roos, property manager of Goat Island and one of the contest's principal organizers. "This is probably the World Series...
...over. Much will depend on the conflict's length and severity, as well as the degree of military aid the U.S. provides Britain. Diego Uribe Vargas, former Colombian Foreign Minister, echoes a common refrain when he observes that such institutions as the O.A.S. and the Treaty of Rio have not proved to be effective instruments in the current crisis. "They are like those medicines you keep in a bottle on a shelf for a long time," he says. "When you take them, you find out they're no good." On a collective level, Washington may find Latin Americans...