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...gold miners, though, have run into strong opposition from environmentalists, especially in California's storied motherlode country near Sonora and in the northern foothills around Clear Lake. Property owners and politicians have forced Placer Mining Services, a Fluor subsidiary, to stop digging at its mine near Nevada City. Homestake, America's largest producer, and Sonora Mining have also felt pressures against their bulldozing and blasting...
...craft as they first examined and interviewed, then evaluated and reviewed what they saw and heard. The trip began in El Paso with a panel discussion on a major bilateral issue: illegal immigration along the 2,000-mile border. Then the participants flew to Mexico's northern Sonora state to visit a coalition of agricultural cooperatives. They spent that night in Monterrey, an industrial center, where they were guests at a dinner with local businessmen. The next day it was on to the steamy coast along the Bay of Campeche to tour the awesome La Cangrejera petrochemical complex...
Winfield G. Wagener Sonora, Calif...
...only thing that has evaporated faster than the water supply in Mexico's major food-producing states of Chihuahua and Sonora is Mexican confidence in the future. Says a U.S. businessman in Mexico City: "People are scared and confused. There is no confidence left in the government, and people are going to give De la Madrid only so long to prove he can be trusted. If there is no sign of change in a few months, a lot of Mexicans are just going to leave the country." Many of them have already done the next best thing: they have...
Today's survivalists may give some passing thought to the possibility of a natural disaster or a nuclear holocaust, but their gloomiest forebodings are fiscal. Says former Aerospace Worker Bill Kerbaugh, 50, who now operates a survivalist nutrition center in Sonora, Calif.: "I believe there is going to be a total collapse of the economy in this country, and it will provoke a worldwide depression." According to the survivalist scenario, those feckless optimists who are trapped in the nation's blighted cities will perish. The sage few who have gone back to the land-or at least...