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The Battalion
Friday, November 5,1993
Lithographs recovered after 4 years
The Associated Press
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HOUSTON- Eight litho
graphs stolen from the late Mexi
can painter Rufino Tamayo four
years ago and then seized in the
breakup of an illegal South Texas
money laundering operation were
returned to the artist's foundation
Thursday by federal authorities.
"It is very important for us to
get these pieces of art," Oscar
Gonzalez, of the Mexican attorney
general's office, said after accept
ing the paintings.
"We are very, very pleased to
have these important works of art
back."
"We're excited and pleased to
return these treasures," U.S. At
torney Gaynelle Griffin Jones said.
Tamayo, who died in 1991 at
the age of 91, is one of the centu
ry's most famous Mexican
painters whose work has been
compared to such modern artists
as Braque, Picasso and Miro. His
work, over seven decades, fea
tures fiery color schemes, abstract
figures and political themes.
Tamayo also is known for his
social work, building hospitals,
orphanages and other facilities for
the poor in Mexico. His museum
in Mexico City is considered
among the most respected in the
country.
The eight paintings being re
turned to Mexico were stolen
from the artist's home in Mexico
City in 1989.
U.S. Customs agents, working
undercover in McAllen, were of
fered the paintings after about a
year of participating in money
laundering operations along the
Texas-Mexico border. Part of the
operation included s(
setting up
their own "Choza Rica," or ^rich
shack," authorities said.
"The case actually was not
about artwork," John Hensley,
Customs assistant commissioner
for enforcement, said.
"It was about infiltrating orga
nizations that were moving illicit
moneys across the border and
avoiding detection by the Cus
toms Service.
"When you're known as a
crook in the business, people
come out of the woodwork and
that's how this artwork got out
there. The individuals thought
they would be nice easy targets to
sell this artwork to with no trace
back to them."
Three people were arrested
and a money-exchanging house in
McAllen known as Principal Casa
de Gambia Inc. was shut. Agents
seized some $3.5 million in cash
and property and say the investi
gation across the country subse
quently has grown to seizures
topping $30 million.
One of the defendants in the
case has died and two others face
sentencing later this month to up
to 5 years in prison and $250,000
in fines.
The lithographs they attempted
to fence are artist's proofs, mean
ing they were part of the original
prints made for the artist's benefit.
Vernon Weckbacher, curator of
collections for the McAllen Inter
national Museum, termed the
paintings "quite significant" and
estimated their value at $300,000
to $1 million.
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HOUSTON — Anthony Nixon isn't fazed
by the maze of mansions, businesses and
apartments he calls home.
"I like it here because it's eclectic. I think
anyone who moves into this neighborhood has
to know that," Nixon said of the urban Mon
trose area.
"I think they're kind of bigots to move in
here and then complain about things," said
Nixon, whose neat two-story home sits down
the street from a sometimes raucous Irish pub.
Whiners, he suggested, might consider a
move to the more orderly suburbs.
Nixon, like droves of other Houstonians,
didn't vote in this week's election. But if he
had, he would have cast his ballot against a
proposal to bring zoning to the nation's
fourth-largest city.
Many of his more civic-minded residents
felt the same way, and the proposal failed
Tuesday, 52 percent to 48 percent. It was the
third time in 45 years voters here have
quashed zoning efforts.
The defeat means Houston — the land of
erratic and explosive development — remains
the largest city in the nation without a zoning
ordinance.
"It's embarrassing to admit that Houston is
once again going to stay in the Dark Ages,"
zoning proponent Bart Truxillo, who lives in
the Heights neighborhood, another mixed-up
area near downtown.
Zoning proponents said the ordinance was
needed to protect residential areas in Houston,
where businesses can wander into some neigh
borhoods with impunity.
Opponents campaigned heavily against the
measure, calling it a costly measure that would
restrict growth.
Although Truxillo and Nixon are at oppo
site sides of the issue, both live in neighbor
hoods that are distinguished for their hodge
podge development.
In Nixon's neighborhood, one can walk to a
convenience store, one of the most exclusive
restaurants in town or even an adult book
store.
The trendy Montrose area also is home to
restaurants, bars, grocery stores, drug stores,
tanning parlors, tattoo parlors, used clothing
stores, washaterias, gay bars and at least one
rather wild leather store.
Runaway youths, some of them working as
prostitutes, and other homeless people walk
along Westheimer, a major thoroughfare that
cuts through the area.
But on the side streets, trees shade many
quaint middle-class homes and small apart
ment complexes.
People from all socioeconomic levels can
live in Montrose. On one street, a one-bed-
room apartment that rents for $465 a month
stands next to a two-story house that is selling
for $259,000.
And perched on the edge of Montrose is a
majestic group of old mansions that are sur
rounded by a stiff iron fence.
Truxillo, meanwhile, lives in the historic
Heights in a whimsical, 100-year-old house
that many consider a local landmark.
Victims of California
fires return to ashes
The Associated Press
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Kavaldgian was among thousands of residents chased from this
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ica Mountains on Tuesday and burned 200 houses. One person was
killed.
Some returned Thursday to see whether any of their past was still
standing. Others waited at roadblocks hastily put up to allow fire or
aircraft bombing runs over the remaining hot spots.
By Thursday, firefighters had contained 70 percent of the 18,500-acre
wildfire, one of a series of blazes that have destroyed 1,000 homes,
blackened 200,000 acres and injured nearly 200 people in Southern Cal
ifornia since Oct. 26. Several were blamed on arsonists.
The Malibu fire claimed actor Sean Penn's $4 million Spanish-style
mansion along with Ali McGraw's home, with its panoramic view of
the Pacific Ocean.
"I'm grateful to be alive. I'm grateful to my friends who helped save
my animals. And I'm grateful to all the firefighters for their extraordi
nary efforts in saving so many people's lives," the star of the 1970 hit
movie "Love Story” said in a statement released through her publicist.
Many celebrity homes, including the 100 mansions in the exclusive
Malibu Colony, were spared.
With cool sea breezes mixing with wind gusts in the hills, crews and
firefighting aircraft focused Thursday on the hot spots around Fern-
wood in Topanga Canyon.
Forecasters weren't expecting a return of the hot, dry Santa Ana
winds from the deserts northeast of Los Angeles that fanned the worst
of the fires.
Mike Pierson, 33, returned to his wood-sided house to find it intact.
His relief was subdued.
"My cousin's home is gone. My best friend's home is gone. Every
person I grew up with, their home is gone," Pierson said. "I look here
and I can't even tell where people live."
Chris Mitchell sat in her fully loaded car in the middle of a highway,
unable to get home.
"Last night we rode our bikes up the highway so we know our
house is all right," she said. "But we're tired of driving around and liv
ing out of our car."
Nelson Carpentier returned to his Las Flores Canyon lot to find his
home destroyed and his restored 1970 Mercedes-Benz a burned out
shell. Sitting next to the car were the remains of a 20-foot Wellcraft
boat.
As family members dug spoons, metal tools, ceramic cups and pots
out of the ash, Carpentier expressed anger at the arsonist who authori
ties said set the fire.
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