Word: tijuana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While he says he does not know the Champion factory well, he says all of the factories in the city have high standards, better than the conditions in other cities in Mexico such as Mexicali or Tijuana to the west...
...French food after a long day of snowboarding wearing the latest gurobu and goguru. "This is Youngtown," marvels a Kyoto woman as she surveys a corner of the Echoland area where the Shop Jah Jah shares space with the Natchez "American pub," where the Magic Mushroom surf shop and Tijuana Cafe are next door and the Groovy Art Space hair salon is across the street. Thus the ultimate Japanese dream: to live in a Swiss chalet in Montana (with a 7-Eleven around the corner...
...hard to feel safe in a lot of places in Mexico, despite the best efforts of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon. The Acteal bloodbath is just the latest instance of what sometimes appears to be the virtual collapse of public security in the country. From the slums of Tijuana to the hilltop mansions of Mexico City, a rising wave of violent crime, kidnappings and human- rights atrocities has gripped the nation. Many refer to it as the "Colombianization" of the country, a reference to the even scarier levels of violence inspired by drug mafias and paramilitary gangs in that...
DIED. PAT PAULSEN, 69, doleful comedian whose mock campaigns for President may have fooled even himself; of complications from cancer; in Tijuana, Mexico. The deadpan Paulsen sharpened his stump wit on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, opposing sex education ("Let the kids today learn it where we did--in the gutter") and declaring a war on poverty "by shooting 400 beggars a week." His 1968 run for the White House won him about 200,000 write-in votes...
While in Mexico, the film's American crew members were driven to and from their hotels, but local workers did not receive similar treatment. A Tijuana woman was severely injured in a crash after working until 3 a.m. as a script supervisor. And TIME has obtained a memo from construction coordinator Les Collins protesting to managers that local laborers, who were required to work 12-hour days, received only bread and milk during a morning break as their meal for the day. At one point, even that was cut back. "It is deplorable that we have witnessed our workers digging...