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Corn, David | September 30, 1996 issue

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The article presents incidents related to the world politics. The southern Mexican countryside swarms with helicopter gunships raining .50-caliber machine-gun shells on suspected guerrilla holdouts while infantry detachments follow their elusive trail. Just two years after the emergence of the Zapatistas in the state of Chiapas, a new insurgency calling itself the Popular Revolutionary Army-the E.P.R.-has carried out high-profile military attacks in a half-dozen other Mexican states, pushing an already unstable Mexico ever closer to the brink. Another event refers to an incident in which G.O.P pollster Frank Luntz to devise a "communications" strategy for Republicans.

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WORLD politics -- 1995-2005; GUNSHIPS (Military aircraft); INSURGENCY; LUNTZ, Frank; MEXICO; UNITED States
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