Word: sonora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only thing that has evaporated faster than the water supply in Mexico's major food-producing states of Chihuahua and Sonora is Mexican confidence in the future. Says a U.S. businessman in Mexico City: "People are scared and confused. There is no confidence left in the government, and people are going to give De la Madrid only so long to prove he can be trusted. If there is no sign of change in a few months, a lot of Mexicans are just going to leave the country." Many of them have already done the next best thing: they have...
Today's survivalists may give some passing thought to the possibility of a natural disaster or a nuclear holocaust, but their gloomiest forebodings are fiscal. Says former Aerospace Worker Bill Kerbaugh, 50, who now operates a survivalist nutrition center in Sonora, Calif.: "I believe there is going to be a total collapse of the economy in this country, and it will provoke a worldwide depression." According to the survivalist scenario, those feckless optimists who are trapped in the nation's blighted cities will perish. The sage few who have gone back to the land-or at least...