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Last Updated: Saturday, 7 April 2007, 21:00 GMT 22:00 UK
“Outcry over slain Mexico reporter”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The Pacific resort has been hit by violence linked to drug gangs
Journalists and relatives have called for a probe into the murder of a prominent television reporter in the Mexican resort of Acapulco.
Amado Ramirez, a correspondent for TV news network Televisa, was shot dead on Friday as he left a radio station.
Security officials said two gunmen were waiting for him as he neared his car.
In recent months, Acapulco has been hit by a wave of violence believed linked to the drug trade and control of key coastal smuggling routes.
In February, seven people were killed in simultaneous attacks by gunmen on government offices in the resort.
The attacks came just weeks after President Felipe Calderon ordered 8,000 troops and federal police into the city to tackle drug-related crime.
‘Execution-style killing’”
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China Accelerating Ballistic Missile Tests
By Craig Covault/AviationWeek.com
Secret new U. S. intelligence about China proves the Chinese are accelerating the test of new medium and long range ballistic missiles, Aviation Week & Space Technology will report in its April 9 issue.
China is also demonstrating a wide range of new tactics with those missiles, Aviation Week will report.
The new Chinese missile development could affect Taiwan and U. S. strategy toward China, especially if it were ever to attack Taiwan, the magazine reports.
The Chinese tests indicate that China is gaining a much more powerful ability to militarily deter the U. S. or attack U.S. soil or assets such as aircraft carriers at sea, the magazine reports.
Much of this information comes from several U. S. Air Force Defense Support Program (DSP) missile warning spacecraft watching China from geostationary orbit, 22,300 mi. above the Earth.
The 2.5 ton satellites are built by Northrop Grumman. They are 33 ft. long, and carry powerful infrared telescopes that watch the missile test activity. They are not “spy satellites” but rather missile warning spacecraft that also provide intelligence on missile tests around the world.
The April 9 issue of Aviation Week will carry an exclusive report about how the DSP constellation of missile warning satellites monitors not only China, but also Iran, North Korea and other countries.
The same spacecraft are also seeing a similar acceleration of Iranian ballistic missile test activity, the magazine will report.
“Both the Chinese and Iranians have very vigorous test programs. The number of (ballistic missile launch) events we are seeing with DSP are increasing,” says Dr. Edward Tagliaferri, a long time independent consultant to the Air Force and Northrop Grumman on use of the spacecraft. “DSPs are not just seeing new missiles, but also new tactics and all kinds of new capabilities,” the Aviation Week article says.”
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“China plans 12 highways to Cental Asia to boost trade”
The Associated Press
Published: April 6, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “BEIJING: China plans to build 12 highways linking its desert northwest with Central Asia and regions as far as Turkey in order to boost trade, a government news agency said Friday.
China has been steadily expanding trade with Central Asia since the Soviet breakup in the early 1990s.”
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Posted on Sun, Apr. 08, 2007
MEXICO
“Mexican ports, oil rigs vulnerable to attacks
A McClatchy investigation found that Mexican ports and oil installations lack adequate security to fend off a possible terrorist attack.”
BY KEVIN G. HALL
McClatchy News Service
COATZACOALCOS, Mexico