NUEVO LAREDO SPECIALIZES IN DRUGS, DEATH

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V l c e t 1 of . 1\ttevo arc o nization, said one high-
5 i i fl i ling of heroin, op- frustrations of the law_. .rankinMexican. law en-
Jim). C 0 c.a i n c and maxi- men, both American -and forcement. official s e n t
Ulims -
pud.
u a n a into. t h e United Mexican, are considerable. here to bring the lawless
7 SEP 1972.
",11 e x } can ? connection" border. But at the opee]~~-.e is coy-one with
aeot the 7,200 mile Texas-
1 tional level-on the streets . the brains to run the orga-
n lcxican } t fo the T T d 41, if
Mexico itselt vas In the speaking ? of recent re- trol. "The rest are iIISTATINTL
vic-v of veteran i arcotics verses in the joint cam- ate hoodlums."
officials become the vein- raisin to reduce the drug Bernal denies the accu-
13Y LAURENCE STF~,I{iw' cipal narcotics pipeline be- flow across the border, re- sations. He replies that the
1_XClusive foThThe Timestrom cause of the tightened Bur- fors despondently to the CIA. and Fl3I were reason- t?~
o eon NO -`eillance of the ports of ,!'~1Cxican dis-conllectioh." sible for some of the kill-
iishing
the 4Yi
ItU ~'O LAREDO, llcx. entry along the American Such is the setting in ings. "I do my work. And
Oblivious to the vi- Eastern scaboard and the which. the violence has my.-work is defending peo-
Canadian border. flourished here for' more plc," Bernal said at a r'c-
olence, the American torte- And Nuevo Laredo now than a year between police cent street corner press
fists tramp though the stun lies along a nla}, or narcot- -
bakecl early -metro-Gold- t and rival gangs, g5, such as conference.
ivyr.-1iCa!l nta;n drag, ids ihorou7hfarc that runs the Reyes Prunedas and On Aug. '29 he walked ?
Guerrero Ave., .pushing northward from :1lexico the Gayton Clan who once into the federal. building
('ity and Monterrey along feuded fiercely for control with. to bodyguards to
tlicil -ti?ay through the ba- 11i' h way funneling of the l tt c r at i v e drug answer a subpoena issued
/gars heaped -with tax-free into the valley of 1 stream that flov;ed alongm by a special attorney for
? )iquoor, cigarets, ? (ut-rate Texas.
__
j u anti ]lallcleraate ? The border region is a Highway 8.5 past their
sieve to smugglers. Thou- ranches. the government, fialvalore
shlock.' ? ` a,anc-ls of cars and pedestri- )el Toro Rosales. A.ulhori-
Most, of them are tin- ans swarnl across the in- Principal Figure ties questioned Ucrnal, for
iware that tivci'other ',re- ternational h r i c] e .ini.o Police on both sides of - more than two hours on
cialt.ies of.this Rio Grande ,redo Tex., each clay. In the border as well as events that led up to the
he Rio lcnolyledgeable residents assassination last. July 28
border town are mutilated] ill a it v p 1 a c e s the'
corpses and narcotics traf- Grande can easily he ford of Nuevo Laredo identify of Federal Police Corn-
fie, The relationship be- c,d by a determined man as the principal figure in mandant Everarde i'erles
.
tween the two is more tl?}th a the town's underworld cl- Rios, who has run an 19-
backpack.
than a casual one. Ite Francisco Javier Ber- gressive campaign against
The machine gun and - Easy Access ' ~al Lopez, who seems to dru smuggling during a
the m~~1.. ~:i ?-.tag.. c.z _ :.$
when the small blue heli-
copter landed in the ct;,3rt-
t o~~S-nrita
r~'^Ao
la federal p i.son,
-] LL,, a?;u ex s i
L 1 g `,.it a visiting ~;
tEtry. in teal, a convicted
Ame~'1can TiL4~7 Jere ? 7 rI a
Ven'e." u,elan cc'.-U lterfei ,ei^
sc,a:.T,'_bled aboard and es-,
j1
ca ped.
Before the guar rds in the towers
realized what N-~ the
it
two took off in the rain and s.::im-
liled away witi:out in tra.ce.
Police placed prison officials
unde.l' LaTest Thursday and issued
an alert for another Ame icar_
believed to have engineered the
specInc tar escape frmla t' a
ina::ilnt.,ll security prison yle::-
rlesday evening.
11_Ill_n re convict
They identified the two
escaped convicts as Joel David
Kaplan, 42, a former New York
millionaire importer serving; a
2t-year term for murder, and his
cellmate, Carlos Antonio Con-
treras Castro of Venezuela,
who was serving a sentence for
counterfeiting and forgery.
Kaplan is a nephew of J.N.
Kaplan, president of the J.M.
Kaplan Fund of New York. Testi-
mony before the U.S. Congress
described the fund as a philan-
thropic Organization created as
a conduit for Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) funds.
A police spokesman said the
man believed. to have engineer-
ed the escape and perhaps piloted
the helicopter was an Alliericatn,
whom they identified as Orville
Dale. Dale visited Kaplan at the
I I f i t I
r
prison 'W'ednesday only a few
hours before the escape.
Kaplan had been convicted of
the murder in 1531 of Puerto
Rican Luis M. Vidal. The un-
m rked helicopter was set down
in the Santa Marta Acatitla prison
yard during a heavy rain. After-
wards the guards on the watch-
to,`,rers said they thought it car-
ri :(l a visiting digi:itary and they
presented aI nos,
~' i:;?rds .^.rrca,'ccl
"It was all a question of a
few minutes," one gil:rd. said.
Warden Jose ? ?pis Ca_ 1 ',s
B1 u?ges said, "all these rep o n-
sihle for the clistody and security
of the Jail have be :ih placed under
arrest" (luring the investigation.
Riot police ringed t: prison
T ursday morning not letting
a nyone ou.t.
.:-'C_ice sent Ont a general
alert to all airports and airielc;s
in the ce.rlt:v and extra vin`
'' as 1'e orte'd 011 C?ot?I tlh J.S. a na
the (s atemala l borders. There
were repo its the two might try to
flee to I and eras or Venezuela. ?
Eiaplan,? who never admitted
his guilt, was the owner Of a
molasses importing firm ba.seci
ill l~ieiJ y or'-. lle Is considel'ed.
a Mexican rliiliollaire. His 1`,~?..Itxe,.
Irma Va'zcn'.ez Calderon (d,a Kap-.
la;:l, was being held for questioning
by police.
Prison' officials saki both
I>wi31aT? and CvI':trnt'aS Cps',
1':;(i. attempted to. escape from
the, maximum security prison
last February hidden in a truck,
belt were discovered. They were
not disciplined, the officials
said.
Police agents were sent to a
t nir`iale at Vent-, Pr3,eLa.
about 101J miles north of Menico
City, where a helicopter a lsv:er-
ing the description of the getaway
aircraft was Spiral , uesday.
The 'helicopter disappeared
frol:n.. the international airport
radar s(re.n \Ved it
headed south over the- mountains
,that surround Mexico City.
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` ~. ?Police saiil llersclmer tlteti'
took a taxi. driven by Lorenzo
", , ,, f ,,; ( (erred to another taxi driven
'
Si
by Manuel Monies
erra, who d r o v e him to the
. Brownsville hits terminal.
The two cab drivers were ar
rested..
Also arrested was Miguel'
Milan, whose hone is less
than a mile from the spot
tI . where the copter was found.
Q fy lit '~i.d f 1. . Police s a i d the aircraft.
i
o
ht t
M
ex
c
o
would be broug
City on a trailer.
Kaplan, 45, was serving a
tence for the
30
year _ sen
MEXICO? CITY --- Two taxi drivers and a milk-
death of Luis Vidal, a New
Man, have been arrested as suspects in the mysterious York businessman. Car1o
helicopter escape of New Yorker Joel David Kaplan Contreras, who shared a cell
and his Venezuelan celimate. with Kaplan, was convicted
J At the same. time Kaplan's Mexican lawyer - who, of fraud and robbery.
claimed the 42 year old convicted murderer was a QTA-; Sausalito Goal
agent -- said that his client broke. no Mexican law when he The district attorney's 'of-
escaped from the prison here because no such law is on fico said police believe Ka-.
- books. plan left for-Sausalito, Calif.,
`It is a principle of Mexi- and Contreras for Guatema-
can law that a crime must be la.
specifically mentioned in the According to the district
Federal penal code," said at- , attorney's `reconstruction of
'torney Victor Velasquez,
No Trace here the escape, the pair flew by
helicopter to Actopan, about.
Meantime,'in the Bay Area 100 miles north. of Mexico
there was no trace of Kaplan and from there b E vht
d e s p i. t e recurring reports City by g
that lie fled to Sausalito. plane to La Pesca, where
The district attorney's of- they are thought to have tak-
ee. here announced the ar en separate planes to-Sausa-
rest of the taxi drivers and) lito and Guatemala.
the 'Milk driver last night. He 11 The district attorney's of
reported that the helicopter fice said police still are hold
used in the escape from San-, ing Kaplan's wife, Irma, for. ?
ta Marta Acatitla ? Prison) questioning. A.
Wednesday had been found'
-about 1.0 miles east of Mata-
moros on the Texas border.
A spokesman for the office
said earlier reports that the
aircraft had been found at La,
Pesca, 150 11mi1es south of
Brownsville, Tex., were
'confused" ?aitd that the heli-
copter was not found there.
Pilot Got Ride
Police said one of those ar-
rested. was Pedro Cortina., a,
milkman who gave the hell-
copter pilot, identified as,
Roger llerschtier, a ride to
the edge of Matamoros.
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WASHINGTON NONT
A U`` 1971 STATINTL
JOEL D. KAPLA14
. flees nortls
prison in one of the moss spec- tla Prison near Mexico City never doubled that his client
tacular escapes in Mexico pri-I and plucked the two to free- was a CI agent, who ]iacl
son annals. .dom, come to Mexico in 1961 on a
The attorney general's of- ';Mexican police identified secret mission. Kaplan en-'
Tice said one of the two es- the pilot of the helicopter as tered Mexico frith a false 1;rit-
capers, presumably Kaplan, Boger Guy lierschner of Glen- ish passport in 1961, police
was flown to Brownsville, flora, Calif. said.
Tea., and Sausalito, Calif., The attorney general's of The J. hi. Kaplan Fund of
after transferring from the fire also requested the cooper- New York, of which K.aplan's
helicopter to a Cessna single ation of national police in iuncle, J. M. Kaplan, is the
engine plane about 300? miles Central America in the search president, has been identified
northeast of Mexico City, for the two escapees. as a CIA conduit by Congres-
The office said it believed Police also sought a in a n sional investigators.
f
1,. _11.111 .I.liy b -I
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From News)ispa.tchcs that Contreras Castro had and a woman seen. in -a car
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 20--- flown in a second Cessana to whose lights lit the airfield
Mexican police today asked Guatemala. where they switched to the
the U.S. Federal Bureau of In- I It said both Cessanas had light plane.
vestigation to arrest a 421,5, been rented in l'honcix, Arir,., Kaplan was serving a 28-
old New York inurder convict and that the helicopter had
who escaped aboea?d a helicop- been rented from Natrola year sentence for the prenicdl-
ter from a federal peniten- Service, Inc., of Casper, WVyo. tated murder of. Luis M. Vidal
tiary Wednesday night. . . A. report said the helicopter in 1961. Contreras Castro, 35,
. Joel David Kaplan, who his was found abandoned last of Tarachi Venezuela, Ka-
defense attorney said was an night near La Fesca.
agent of the Central laitelli- Inc ''helicopter, painted in plan's celhnatc, was serving
genre Agency (CIA), and Car- the blue and white colors of line years for counterfeiting
los Antonio Contreras Castro, the Mexican attorney gencr- and forgery.
a Venezuelan counterfeiter al's office, sip ooped into. the Victory Velazquez, Kaplan's
fled the maximum seers jk', yard of the Santa i\laria AMU- defense attorney sold th t 1- 1
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NEW YORK, N.Y.
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I;i~ >'.?.ak CiJ~41 Ni IC1.a~ blue c:h:),)r):r 1a1)=:ie(1 ]:?chiY).2
I\7e\v Jar}: p1111 litlll'o Dist the p) isoll dormitory \;r;;ile
J.141. Kaplan c}aln):; lit l1 n't rr.o;t o the 11111 ntOS 'wcro
heard fron). his esl;icn eci \ .I.C}1111 111 +J Itapinu
ct a ~ro,= zu ' t tl r,o;'i1 con
1.7 nephe ,v Jo e1 David Kaplan an
since the 1-ycar-old heir's v ` -t, .t ntc.aio t stro, were
latest" 111tCriiation t1 escapade \ 11"'~.', d UP tl(1 away I;::y011C1
a darin escape 150 )1 a tilC pIl to v +)'
Mexican prison by helicopter, '1.11 G_itl'1Ct attorney`s of-
"Joel is troubled paarson. f1CC In MC..iCo City S;20,1 it
But his probl8;n)s are his own hi:,c7 1;;-'uiec% that the 11011
l)r0i)Tel)1S," the \vcilthy 11)o Ge:')t('A, 1"::''.d been rc'n ed from
lasses tycoon said tllrou!;11 Jaatrol a 1:crvice Inc., :
a family spoke-,man, Vfyc., ,1:01 flown by I?o~ er
+ Guy IIei scimner, 2D, of Glen-
I3ecailse of the nephcvY
family ties to his uncle's J. dol`Il, C'r".l?
M. t t, It the c ol)1;el' . was
K pl n) I und, all ml now-
lecl~e;' Cf.',.,."COn(ltilt," `peopie fouled abandoned last night
all determine l to slibstitntte Ileac the Gulf Coast fishing
`James Bond' for the Kaplan vile; e or La I'I'esca, about
family name,' the spokes- 1&0 miles south of BBrowns-
Ina n added Ville, Pala some 3C0
{ Officials at the Santa Mar- )i)ilcs northeast Of Mexico
to t catitla p) ison said the City.
shier Vidal In 1^5i.,
.t`I?? mysterious Case at-
Ited national ;Itent1 it ))e
`
cause of Sln;
gesatiozis that
\)il1 al, also a -?,(Av ?YciI'k'_)`,
~! had been in oI ced in ,~~,'u
running to both pro .%Ilcl anti-.?
Castro g'ro~. ps.
'YIlC cc.c I1te5 switched a.t
la ovals Cott 1iy aaa t har( tmvtl, but -all ;,zlo else.
somethiri? ? a' little f. lr n n ~A did not elaborate;
Police
he sa
a
'phe pilot, Identii'iccl ats Vic
for H. Stl?ell 1, then went to
another Southern call V, .
sales agency, Jt r ~.s lent-ned.
There, lie iradcJ his own old
two-engoic Cessna 310 for t-he
newel' ~mle cn Yine Cessna
r?, _
.
This t t' a;i_'o out-L, be I1x ,'- a
t l.' U
,1torr to who:. i it as sold,
'~Jeantime, in Mexico City
'Sl ij, Jtnai.l '1.0\ t, 111 tl t 1n %.
C-hiC1 of Security at the
t
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they Carlo Antonio C dnti'C:1'as ^t Ot1 his dS51 tinlt, lfli'e:i
} 19t;A'r 11ot13111`7 about it. 'All a \reneGl'elaltl were )lUr hed I~t Ples 4oja ally' !o1n S~ft`Ul'-
h~'lil spol e.slnall in Snarl Fran- from a yard behind their jail Chn on v are held 1'ol lard 'ti
C'?ISeU said "`? 1 r jail &'1t1.Un. l'h0"' 1'1175 ]lE;h?.
~ri e Ct i 1 1? hirV'e dormitory ~,~?(tOr50a y 11'0111 t)
UI0tin; on 1L a,.t: tills litho, bv- a h h o i,i paliltcactill1110 b(1 x111 ik~'lte,l to th We ito JoolInr*illtoit." blui c 1e \ i.ll cC czvr.
and v kite colors of the el 1i`
011 1 :~f j)tIT /11
5,1?. Itt'i
~1 aalwhiir Vlore was all 1lr~Jc.an 'Mrney geza_el .Y ;c, ?
thuJi? Said.
of toll about X A1]Ia Ws o tz(:c. ...
i :,ssible spy role, a11d ins - Prison gi arils, it was re-
2,1D in vI II?CJI Lh , c:,cap 11 'Jil part ill, an 1JIc veil murder- 1)oi t 'cl, ttlan~~ilt it vvra.s 011 of-
was Con111Jeted. naat diCJil't-I ,J i 1,1;ter." n
e a z 1:ict ll pittl; and presented
, Ivaco Oh in 19 1. alril5 'IS it landed.
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`fr 1.(ahlatl. niid C~C+:1?J.'tjI'as 'stn
1 frolu. ti?,e ~alil, of ohoa aid and
The federal attornley gci], r-
' atJ.'s ofihee &Jcl ill holleopter
took the icon to La I~esea, a,.
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By Norma Lisi and Maria de Lourdes Garcia A.
Special to the Guardian
Mexico City
As student demonstrators began a march from the
Polytechnic Institute to the monument of the revolution
in central Mexico City on June 10, they were attacked
by the Falcons, an armed fascist group. The attack and
ensuing violence by the Falcons resulted in about 40 r
deaths, according to the most reliable sources.
The- demonstration had been planned by persons
from the organizing committees of the 1968 student
movement, including some leaders recently released
from prison. The original aim of the demonstration was
to support students in Monterrey whose fight for the
repeal of a law that threatened university autonomy had
been repressed with violence.
However, after the president of Mexico, Luis
Echeverria, dramatically "arranged" 'the situation in
Monterrey, the students, in Mexico City were divided.
Students at some schools openly opposed. the demon-
stration,-while others wanted to hold it any%i'ay to focus
public- attention on some 40 political prisoners still in
jail,,.a strike at the Adams Chewing Gum plant and the
lack of basic.libcrties in Mexico.
On June 10, there was an impressive gathering of
government forces at the site of the planned demonstra-
tion. Anti-riot police were stationed on masse along the
Falcons entered a movie theater shouting that "we
will not be responsible for your lives if you stay here.".
The matinee audience, mostly women and children, ran
from the theater straight into the gunfire outside. Two
children were killed.
While riot police looked on, arms folded, Falcons
moved in on horror-stricken, unarmed demonstrators
who had sought refuge among students at the teachers
college.
The rampage continued for two hours, leaving accord-
ing to official figures 11 dead and at least 150 wounded,
many by gunshot. Union leaders and students present set
the number of deaths at closer to 40.
As ambulances. with wounded persons headed for the
nearest hospital they were riddled by Falz;on gunfire.
The hunt continued into the confines of the hospital.
Falcons burst into emergency rooms, terrorizing doctors
and nurses and stopping doctors' from operating. They
ranged through the hospital, ripping off bandages from
patients hidden in the ' wards. When they forcibly
removed any wounded that could walk, a doctor
declared "the police did nothing to stop them."
The Falcons are just one of a number of repressive'
groups on government payrolls operating in Mexico since
the 1950's. Their forces, under many names and guises,
have been used since that time against all progressive
movements.
The Falcons themselves, reportedly under orders
from the office of the mayor of Mexico City, tried to
keep their identities hidden on June 10. They attacked
cameramen and photographers, destroying their equip-
ment and film whenever possible. Hours after the
massacre was over, photographers turned up with stories
of having been captured, blindfolded and taken to the
outskirts of town where they were intimidated and
interrogated before being released. These *incidents en-
raged the press which reacted swiftly with articles and
editorials protesting the events with an energy unk4own
in decades.
Immediately after the massacre, the mayor and police'
chief of Mexico City held press conferences where they
infuriated journalists by telling them that the Falcons
were only a legend. . p
Mayor Martinez Dominquez had been appointed by
Echeverria because of the former's formidable personal
power; including. the backing of past president Diaz
Ordaz, who had been directly' responsible for the violent
repression in 1968. It appears that Echeverria had found'
an excuse to eliminate this rival and warn the fascists
that backed Martinez Dominquez that they had better
work through the president of ?vrexico. At any rate, the
mayor and police chief were removed from office with
-------,pro mises__that__.the_.events. of June 10 would be fully
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main avenues. Tanks and truckloads of soldiers sur-
rounded the area. Rumors-of-certain. bloody repression
spread.
About 10,000 persons, many- less than expected,
lathered for the demonstration. There were few women
n evidence. The rumors of violence had taken root.
After the demonstrators had advanced one block, riot
police with megaphones ordered a dispersal of the
assemblage. The leaders responded: "It is our constitu-
tional right to march." When they proceeded, singing the
national anthem; the riot squad fired tear gas into the
crowd.
Suddenly, on signal, numerous grey-colored buses
pulled tip. The buses materialized through police lines
even though traffic was supposedly blocked off. From
the -buses emerged about a thousand young fascist
Falcons, carrying bamboo sticks, electric rods, pistols,
M-2 carbines and submachine guns. Shots rang out from
the ranks of the Falcons. ?
No refuge .
Thd trapped and defenseless demonstrators gould
.only run. They ran wherever refuge seemed possible-a
hospital, a nearby teachers college, onto rooftops and
into houses where inhabitants enraged by the 'violence
hid them. But the'Falcons pursued them everywhere.
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By Raphael Rothstein exchange program. The gov-
5pc..iM1 to The rshi~;.te^ Fort ernrnelht further alleges that
MEXICO CITY, March 19-. the students formed a study
The emulsion this 'wc:hk ofg group and cmue into contact.
'J'he foreign mllitslry statc-
pears to 1, nn in t' _sy in Moscow which gave meat gave no reason for the
Mexico a
b
p
y
dication of the Mexican F ov the Me ;ican youths financial expulsions and Foreign Null-
.
cleterminatiohi to aid. I ster Hallam declined all com-
end what it views as Soviet on- In October, 1988, the North;nhellt.
couragement of radical etc- )wean embassy is said to It is believed that the ouster
meat among the ilcttioa's ,tu- have arranged for' one of theof the Soviet dihlo.nhats is
dents and leftists. Mexican students to visit meant as a stern v.~amitsf to
Since the student uprisings Pyolhgyan . Follo-,ving the stu? the Soviet Union that Mexico
of October, 1068, Mexican au-~ dent's return to Moscow, not tolerate hessian in-
tholities, assisted by agents oft torney General Sanchez said
vole cheat in noinestic leftist
the U.S. Central Int Hgonee $10,000 was made available by
Agency, have vigorously North Korea to train otheraggitation either through the
sought to uncover and srmhash1 Me_;icans at a camp 25 milesisoviet embassy or the emjas-
small bands of revolutionary ' 'fromPyon sees of Poland, Czechoslovakia
gyang.
guerrillas operating in tiro The, attorney general added and Cuba.
mountainous, anti 11111 Crdevci that the r'evolutionarics wcrc. it i5 widely believed here
opecl states of Guerrero and arrested at hideouts and;tat Soviet support of inch =-
Chiliuahua. "guerrilla academies" in Mix- nous guerrilla activities is l
Earlier this week the gov-'ico City, Acapulco and other fairly common In Latin Ame-I
?ernaleait announced the al'-, Mexican cities. Ile said thcy'rica.
.rests of I9 leftist revolutionar-' had robbed a bank courier of. Persons fomilar with the So-
n ies on charges of con piracy, $8?.,000 in lllexico City lost Dc-'- viet embassy here point out
that the size of the staff -_
Alleltlllg t0'1'C17e111o1h, robbL'1'y, CClnbei' aI?Cl partlClpatP.d ]ll .
bank lob cr last monnth tI our tb rib applvxi,otciy k_'s
honlicidt an3 ille al loss s? y is dl proportionate to Husk's
wh hich a ward was killed,
sign of l capons. The governrn.ent of Preis. 1Irlhinnnal We ante cultural
According to Attorney Gen-; cleat Luis Echeverria Alvarez ,;relations with Mexico.
eral Julio Sanchez Z'ar' as, the h .s publicized the alleged There have been disputes
suspects--16 men and three guerrillas' activity with un between Mexico end the So-
Yioinen belong to a grout) .cheracLei'istic openness c i,dvict Union in the post. In 1930
called P.Iovimionto do A.cciR detail, anti this led sonic ob-1 diplomatic relations were bro-
Revolucionaria ('i1I.1R) andl seragve ers wits to bspeeinculate that the' ken after Mexico charged So-
half of ihein have canfes:;ed to Tt r ~ set for subsa vict Interference in v;orlers'
g
undergoing guerrilla training quent action. organizations. Relations were
near Pyongyang;, capital of In a tersely worded state restored in 1942 but became
North Korea, in 1068 and 1969. meat, Foreign Minister Emilio' Strained again in 1959 w,lhen
The purpose of their training,;! Rahasa announced yesterday ! the government expelled two
Sanchez said, was to oh anize afternoon that the following Soviet diplomats. thought to be
a gueri i]la uprisill in Mexico it,ellhbet of the Soviet em- inv oh d in an illegal strike of
ernment and establish a Dlarx-
ist re hne.
The Mexican government as-
1serts that the accused guerril-
las received study grants in
;1963 for Patrice Lunmalba
(University in Mosco;,; as part
sona non grata and have been
ordered to leave Mexico "'as
Soon as possible:"
llimitri Diakonov; charge
d'affaires of the Soviet Enh-
bassy sand Ilwsia's top-railrinho
official in Mexico since Ani-
~T__-_._~ reutnect to Moscow for horhe
cleave last month; First Secrc'
,tary Boris Kolmiakov; Second
:Secretary Boris VgSlceboini-
kov; Chief of Consular Af-
fairs OIeg Nctchiporcnko; and
Alexandre Bolchakov, whose
title was not announced,
In October, 1960, when dissi-
dent students. rioted in clov,?n-
town Mexico City and were
fired on by government
troops, the question of Soviet
meddling in dissident move-
ments ill Latin America was
again raised. .
President Eoneverria was!
minister- of nterior at the;
time of the 1968 riots,
STATI NTL
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