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Candidate’s death
shocks officials
on Capitol Hill
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill
was stunned Thursday about the as
sassination of Mexican presidential
candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio — a
man many of them had come to
know during his lobbying on behalf
of the North American Free Trade
Agreement.
Lawmakers rushed to dispel con
cerns that Mexico’s political or eco
nomic stability would waver in the
aftermath of Colosio’s slaying
Wednesday during a campaign rally
in Tijuana.
Their comments echoed those of
President Clinton, who said that
Mexico’s government is “in sound
shape.”
“We think that the country’s in
stitutions are fundamentally
strong,” the president said.
Rep. Kika de la Garza, D-Mission,
took to the House floor Thursday to
make a speech decrying the death of
“His death is, in fact,
a loss for all of us.
For I feel this young
man of 44 years of
age was destined to be
a world leader of ma
jor import.”
- Rep. Kika de la
Garza, D-Mission
a man he had known for more than
20 years.
“His death is a terrible loss to his
family, to his friends and support
ers, to the government of Mexico
and it is a loss for the people of
Mexico,” de la Garza said. “His
death is, in fact, a loss for all of us.
For I feel this young man of 44
years of age was destined to be a
world leader of major import.”
To those questioning Mexico’s
political stability, de la Garza asked:
‘Do we forget Lincoln, the
Kennedy brothers and Dr. King?”
Several Texas congressmen
whose districts border Mexico said
the assassination should bring both
countries closer together. They also
echoed the administration’s position
that the North American Free Trade
Agreement, which went into effect
Jan. 1, shouldn’t be affected by the
turmoil.
“This is a significant tragedy,”
said Arturo Valenzuela, deputy as
sistant secretary of state, who over
sees Mexico policy. However, he
said, “It’s not something we should
think in any way affects the stability
of the Mexican political system, the
Mexican government or the deepen
ing relationship of the United States
and Mexico.”
The Mexican government, in
cluding Colosio, had helped Clinton
sell NAFTA to Congress and the
American public by portraying their
country as a strong, stable neighbor.
‘ T think many citizens of Mexico
will be more emboldened to move
into becoming a true world trading
partner,” said Rep. Ron Coleman,
D-El Paso.
“Along the border you will see
even less of a feeling that we can’t
accomplish what we set out to ac
complish.”
Added Rep. Solomon Ortiz, D-
Corpus Christi: “I think we are go
ing to strengthen our bonds.”
“I don’t think this is going to
give Mexico a black eye,” he added.
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Mexicans pay tribute to slain
leader, search for new candidal
The Associated Press H
MEXICO CITY — Hundreds of ruling party faithful
chanted a mournful farewell Thursday to Luis Donaldo
Colosio, the man who almost surely would have been
Mexico’s next president but for an assassin’s bullets.
While Mexicans dealt with the shock of the country's
first major political assassination since 1928, party lead
ers began considering the loss of Colosio as their presi
dential candidate five months before the election.
The slaying of Colosio at a campaign rally Wednes
day in Tijuana was a stunning blow for Mexico's leader
ship, already struggling with a peasant uprising in the
south and growing discontent over economic changes
brought by the free trade agreement with the United
States and Canada.
The killing was “an offense against all Mexicans and
an affront to the institutions which we have built
throughout our history,” said President Carlos Salinas de
Gortari.
“It has injured the deepest convictions of the people
of Mexico, who have always been partisans of the path
of harmony, of law and of peace,” Salinas said.
Officials of the long-governing Institutional Revolu
tionary Party met with Salinas, who is barred by law
from seeking a second six-year term and by tradition
picks the party’s candidate.
The leaders refused to say when they might name a
new candidate, who will be the strong favorite to win
the Aug. 21 election and be sworn in as president in
December.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party has not lost a
national election since it was founded in 1929.
“It is a true tragedy. We still have not begun to
think about the future,” Oscar Espinosa, Colosio’s
campaign finance director, said as officials filed past
the slain candidate’s coffin at the party’s sprawling
concrete headquarters in downtown Mexico City.
Salinas accompanied Colosio’s body from the air-
ort to the headquarters, where it lay in state under a
anner adorned with the party’s red, white and green
symbol. Party activists applauded as Salinas stood at at
tention and chants of “Colosio! Colosio!” rang across
the auditorium.
Although party leaders declined to discuss new can-
“It is a true tragedy. We stillk
not begun to think about the
ture.”
- Oscar Espinosa, Coki
campaign finance dim
didates, speculation quickly focused on several posi.:
ties.
The front-runners appeared to be Ernesto Zee
who resigned as education secretary to coordinate! 1
sio’s campaign, party chairman Fernando Ortiz k- <
and Manuel Camacho Solis, the government’s nego ; '
with the Indian rebels in Chiapas state.
On Tuesday, the popular Camacho had given (i
sio’s campaign a big boost by announcing he wou/t/n
run for president as an inaependent canditte. Ihi
might help Camacho while the party considersitw
candidate, but many party leaders were infumteibyks
long refusal to endorse Colosio.
The party’s options for replacing Colosio ate
by a constitutional ban on a candidate holding as®
government job six months before the election,llii
ruled out most of the Cabinet members who werepos
ble candidates last year.
In Tijuana, Federal Attorney General Diego Valai ■
was overseeing the investigation into Colosio’s murot!
Police were questioning Mario Aburto Martiat
23, a self-described pacifist accused of using a.38-0
iber revolver to shoot Colosio in the head and sto;
ach while he walked among supporters at a campii
stop.
There was no indication of a possible motive:
Aburto, an industrial mechanic in Tijuana who hast
brothers in the United States. “He said thateveni! ■
was tortured, he would not talk,” the attorney gene::
office said in a statement.
Police also detained Vicente Mayoral Valenzuela,:
Early reports identified him as a suspected accompt
but authorities later said he was being held as awiffl
to the shooting.
Clinton
Continued from Page 1
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Washington was preoccupied®
Whitewater “but our adminis:
tion is preoccupied with thefe
ness we were sent here todofot
American people.”
“The American people sbo:
know that I and my administii:
will not be distracted,” Clinton:
a nationally televised evening
conference.
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lease a new accounting of his
vestment that would snow he
roughly $47,000 on thelanddei
Clinton replied with a bluii:
solutely not” when asked ifhe!
any knowledge of actions by »•
his appointees to stall or other:
influence federal regulators as
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the center of the Whitewater aflsf
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not done that,” Clinton said. '
solutely,” he said again whena^j
if he had upheld the high etb
standards he vowed his adminf
tion would keep.
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the country that Washington
preoccupied with Whitewater
our administration is preoccik
with the business we were sen:
to do for the American people
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rattled off a long list of what he*
were major successes, from?
interest rates and 2 million:
jobs in his first year to recent'
f ressional progress on crime, )
ying reform, health care and*
cation legislation.