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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — FBI forensic ex
perts joined Mexican soldiers and police yesterday in
searching two desert ranches near the border for the
bodies of more than 100 Mexican and U.S. citizens,
apparent victims of a drug gang.
A convoy of 16 vehicles, many with U.S. license
plates, rumbled through the iron gates of Rancho de
la Campana, 10 miles southwest of Ciudad Juarez, at
midmorning — joining scores of Mexican soldiers
and police already working around the buildings in
the desert.
Some vehicles had newspaper taped over the win
dows to conceal what, or who, was inside.
Attention seemed concentrated around a concrete
barn-like structure where workers were using a
backhoe.
Attorney General Jorge Madrazo said in a televi
sion interview that investigators suspect the victims
were killed by the Juarez drug cartel, once Mexico’s
largest cocaine smuggling outfit.
He said more than 100 people could be buried on
the ranches just across the border from El Paso with
22 believed to be U.S. citizens.
“We believe these people were killed for their
knowledge or for being witnesses to drug traffick
ing,” Assistant FBI Director Thomas Pickard said in
Washington. “Most of the information we have
shows these individuals were buried there at least
two to three years ago, so it’s not a recent situation.”
Authorities were led to the ranches by an infor
mant who approached the FBI early this year, a fed
eral law enforcement official said in Washington. The
informant said there might be as many as 100 bodies
there, including people who had been providing in
formation to U.S. drug agents, according to the offi
cial, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Eighteen-year-old Rodrigo Falcon said his family
had been taking care of one of the ranches for the
property owner. Other nearby residents who refused
to give their names said they had seen parties at the
ranch in the past, but it had seemed abandoned re
cently. While there were stables for horses, the only
animal visible was a dog.
Pickard said digging began late Monday and part
of one body had been recovered by midday yester
day. Sixty-eight FBI agents and forensic experts and
other U.S. personnel were at the ranches, he said.
“We’ve been discussing this for a period of time
with the Mexicans,” he said. “We’ve been getting
outstanding cooperation from Mexico.”
Pickard said elaborate preparations were required
to decide where to start digging, to secure the sites
and to “make sure we thoroughly cover the sites with
ground-piercing radar,” using techniques the FBI de
veloped in Kosovo. The FBI sent forensic teams to
Kosovo twice this year to exhume bodies in a search
for evidence of war crimes by Serbs.
In Washington, President Clinton said he had not
received confirmation that 22 Americans were
among the suspected victims but condemned the
killings as “a horrible example” of the excesses of
Mexico’s drug cartels.
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AUSTIN (AP) — A controversial
biography of Texas Gov. George W.
Bush, which was recalled by its first
publisher after questions were
raised about the book and its author,
will he reprinted
by a New York
company.
Soft Skull
Press said this
week it plans to
print 25,000 pa
perback copies of
Fortunate Son, in
which author J.H.
Hatfield cites
anonymous
“It contains
allegations that
are libelous and
untrue”
— Mindy Tucker
Bush campaign spokesperson
hiring a hit man to bomb his su
pervisor’s car in Dallas.
Bush, the Republican presiden
tial front-runner; his father, the
former president; and the Harris
County prosecu
tor at the time all
have denied the
hook’s drug ar
rest allegation.
Soft Skull
Press said in a
news release that
it is reprinting the
book to allow
voters next year
to decide for
themselves
sources as saying Bush was ar
rested on a drug charge in 1972
but had the arrest expunged
from his record through family
connections.
Within days of the book’s ini
tial publication, The Dallas Morn
ing News reported that Hatfield
had been paroled from Texas
prison after serving five years for
whether Hatfield’s allegations are
credible.
Mindy Tucker, a spokesperson
for the Bush campaign, again chal
lenged the book.
“I have to question whether or
not they’re going to publish it un
der the category ‘science fiction,”’
she said. “It contains allegations
that are libelous and untrue.”
BOERNE (AP) — The image of
the baby Jesus made a brief ap
pearance in the city’s Main Plaza
before it was quickly taken away
on the advice of attorneys.
A nativity scene featuring the
Christ child, Mary, Joseph, the
three wise men and assorted ani
mals was erected in its tradition
al spot on the downtown square
Friday by municipal workers.
But the employees were un
aware that constitutional issues
had already convinced their boss
es, on the advice of their lawyers,
to display the nativity scene on
private property this year.
“We knew we couldn’t put it
up there any more because some
body last year mentioned that we
had a nativity scene on public
property,” Chris Turk, the city’s
development director, told the
San Antonio Express-News.
When word reached Ttirk that,
workers had set up the nativity
scene in its usual spot, he quick
ly sent a crew to remove it.
“They had it up and
within an hour,” he said.
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ruling allows holiday displ:
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this week with help froitj
workers.
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said the relocation vjis a
corned move for religion
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his concerns.
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