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HONG KONG (AP) — In the largest
American port call since a spy plane crisis
soured U.S.-Chinese relations, thousands
of sailors came to Hong Kong aboard
seven warships Monday — to the relief of
merchants whose businesses have been
hurt by the chill.
Beijing barred U.S. port calls following
NATO’s bombing of the Chinese Embassy
in Belgrade in 1999 and again after the
U.S. spy plane collided with a Chinese
fighter jet in April, killing the Chinese
pilot and causing a major U.S.-Chinese
standoff.
Last week, China barred another U.S.
Navy spy plane, a P-3C Orion patrol
plane, from landing in Hong Kong on a
training mission. Beijing gave no reason
for the refusal.
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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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certificate was withdrawn
August last year.
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