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...Many in Washington believe local Mexican authorities not only assist in the traffic but also appear to have protected those who carried out the brutal murder last year of Enrique Camarena Salazar, an American Drug Enforcement Administration agent. U.S. concern was hardly soothed when Mexican Foreign Secretary Bernardo Sepulveda Amor shrugged off the incident as ''only a police case.'' Last week Sepulveda reiterated that the battle against drugs would subside only when U.S. consumption slackens. As domestic and international pressures mount, both the poor and the middle class have grown increasingly disgruntled with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. During...
...Baby Jesse had become a cause celebre, when officials at Loma Linda University Medical Center, 60 miles east of Los Angeles, had refused to consider the infant as a candidate for transplant. The hospital had apparently concluded that Jesse's young, unwed parents--Deana Binkley, 17, and Jesse Sepulveda, 26, of Pasadena--were incapable of providing him with the exhaustive care he would require after surgery. The infant had been born with a rare, fatal condition called hypoplastic left-heart syndrome, in which the heart's main pumping chamber is improperly developed. Without a transplant at Loma Linda, the only...
...surgeon, Leonard Bailey, also defended the hospital. ''You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee,'' he exclaimed. ''The family has to be very dependable and constant.'' While Loma Linda refused to reveal the precise nature of its objections to Jesse's parents, TIME learned last week that Sepulveda has a record of arrests for drunk driving, and had been through a ''substance abuse'' treatment program. Though he downplays these problems, Sepulveda says, ''I do think that Loma Linda had good reasons to turn us down.'' Another ethical issue was brought to light by the Baby Jesse case: the growing...
...festivities ended Wednesday with a farewell lunch at which Jaime Sepulveda, a Harvard School of Public Health alum who is now director-general of Mexico’s National Institutes of Health, hailed Summers’ role in the 1995 peso bailout...
...Sepulveda said programs like the one in Chile are important because they facilitate the process of applying for study abroad and ensuring the transferability of financial...