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The arrival of the aircraft carrier USS Constellation was good news for mer chants who depend on military visits for a substantial portion of their profits. Since the April plane collision, the only U.S. port call allowed by Beijing was in July by two small anti-mine ships. Hong Kong has long been a favored port of call for the U.S. military but Beijing’s approval has been required since July 1, 1997, when Britain handed this former colony back to China. The Constellation arrived right after it staged an unusually large-scale exercise with another carrier, the USS Carl Vinson, in the South China Sea on Friday. The maneuver stirred a controversy here as one defense analyst said it was intended to warn Beijing that Washington is keeping close watch on the Taiwan Strait. The commander of the naval battle group that includes the Constellation, Adm. Terrance Etnyre, sought to play down the significance, saying the naval maneuvers had been planned far ahead of time. “I’m not sure that there’s a big diplo matic message drama,” Etnyre responded to questions from reporters on a press tour of the ship. “I’m a sailor, so you’ll have to leave the diplomatic messages to the American consulate and the ambassador here in China.” Some of the 6,500 sailors on board the Constellation and six other ships came on shore in the afternoon. The port call ends Saturday. Petty officers Josh Tomlin, 19, of Jackson, Tenn., and Richard See, 23, of San Diego, Calif., were among a group of straighiB I Thousands laid off in Mexic TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Owners of foreign-owned fac tories who once flocked to the Mexican border to take advan tage of its cheap labor are lay ing off tens of thousands of people in the wake of a U.S. slowdown. After years of strong eco nomic growth and a booming job market spurred by the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico’s dynamic industrial region is sputtering. On a scruffy hill dotted with shacks, 50-year-old Jose Luis Cuadras struggles to eke out a living after losing his job sewing U.S. baseball hats at a maquiladora, one of the thousands of assembly plants that have characterized Mexico’s border with *the United States. He now works at a stand that sells garage doors discard ed by Californians. Carted across the border, the doors are used by impoverished Tijuana residents as walls for their homes. Cuadras now makes about $5 a day, about half of what he earned at the maquiladora. The lanky man moved into a garage-door home after not being able to pay his rent on an apartment. “You do what you can to get by,” he said. :■ The Oldest Bank in Texas Is Planning For Your Future HgId Planning For Your Future? six servicemen heading Beer Castle bar. “I’ve been to everywhere elsej here,” See said. “I want to dosooil seeing, go to different bars andse:| ent people.” Shopping for silk and electron on the agenda for Tomlin. That was great news for mercrJ the Fleet Arcade, a waterfront rj caters to the military. Roger Sabnani. who runs Lf East Ltd. gift shop in the Fleam. said his business will likely inc:JB-t eX as A& fourfold or fivefold while thedH j s a uniq i here. X place. So Sabnani. however, said he vss^mcially those about Beijing's decision to tum^jw t n the We Navy plane last week. "Maybt.ilj, us o a problem again,’ he said. K t ’ s fj ne Many ol the sailors av oidOv j e (| ause politics or said they were una»tt|j a j n j y are dil the spy plane bein kinvd. ^ reilt . a deep s I ravis C lark, 21, from ShrevepLj a respect fc was happy to talk about his sho:* t j s j nce the 1 however. K]j c jnstitutio “Not marty people at home car l c t 4, 1876 nice place like Hong Kong,”saidCm4.. r h has rh plan to go to (see) music. sightsee* se fortunate shopping for souvenirs.” Rvith the schc jelonging with ■ those who c (■Aggie bond ■ndantly clea list into the n The maquiladora e* ^9 Aggie has lost 100.000 loklP 16 that this year, mostly jkl cia ^ because 2,100-mile northern (nvi1 officials say. f A&M has mu Since Jaau^; I™ate institut California, home to Til 011 . comes at L has lost 23.100 jobs.#’ the “ other e Chihuahua state haste!* oppoitunitie jobs, said Mexico’s ar § ei \ Secretary Carlos Abascil sta £ e °* hte two states host theiaree::« A &^ * s one c her of maquiladoras. Ed federal land ■bee grant desi g _ lest in the na t |,000 students. ge amount of' < Bus accident if*®* buil , din s : at least l/peol^donothave , Hiversity of Te rx. BUENOS AIRES Endowment least 17 People were k^ a , Jl|niversitie ;s Tuesday when a bus: with a truck on a high caught fire, police said The accident tookpte the city of San Nicolas j Arroyos, some 125 Ask Your Financial Aid Advisor about Student Lending at The First National Bank. 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One of the survivors $ • bus driver appeared to fall moments before the eras! i driver was among those Fourteen passengers were talized, officials said. The bus, carrying 38 sengers, had left eastern city of Resistena was heading to the capital. Concordes plaflj to fly again soi PARIS (AP) - The r * IT* ’ll ic Concorde, outfitted tougher tires and armorer tanks, is likely fo get iff to fly before the end ^ month, just over a year the fleet was grounded!: The D epartm ing a deadly crash. isident Life (Rest Certificates allowingtt: irking, Traffic needle-nosed plane toretk ansportation the skies will be restoreds|TTS) initiatives ti taneously by British and Wents and student authorities "probably beftjfove-in are well-intf end of August 2001," fall short of statement issued at thee ; ® R ds considering a meeting Monday byagf : *- m P us constructs British and French officials * s - thousands 1 Air France and British^ Bn anc ^ burning: are the only carriers to [' ve on cam P us 1 IC Official dozen remaining Concorde; x . . . , (h , isLife and PITS a The statement was w .... x , 1L v . u J life tougher thar suggesting a clear timeta^ l an eventual return of the * The offjcja| fr( jet to the skies. It came aft Dve _ jn day js today ninth - and final - meetf e day js nQt ( the working group, made U ay p ark j ng :o their residenci ft- direct traffic, ormation and im| agrams designed transition. Butm officials from the two coed rs transportation ministries civil aviation authorities. Air France grounded its of five Concordes immeclts and students h after the July 25. 2000, era n to arrive one of its jets north of Pari; killed 113 people. British Airways kept its planes flying until shortly the entire fleet’s airwoi certificate was withdrawn August last year. servi ! ek, and are u for it. Some (bjected to towing. It isnei Parents who are