Brownsville Herald (Newspaper) - January 23, 1999, Brownsville, Texas 107, No. 203 1999 The Brownsville All rights on the 4th of july 1892 new li onto old cents daily Sunday Vikings continue improved voyage Page 61 with open NIKO PRICE The Associated CITY Pope John Paul II flew into the open arms of an adoring Mexico on returning to the site of his first papal trip 20 years ago on a mission to recharge the Catholic Church in the Americas for the new in of people lined the streets of this sprawling capital after waiting for hours and some for days to catch a glimpse of At one the crowd surged past the line of almost blocking the street before motorcycle police pushed them feel a joy that I've never felt said Beatriz a 45-year-old housewife in the crowd in the center of the very excited that he's here was the 78-year-old pope's fourth and possibly final trip to a country for which he holds tremendous affection and which holds him in the kind of esteem one might reserve for a favorite Ernesto and his wife greeted the pope at Mexico City's and the crowd of thousands waved flags and chanted in Paul all the world loves an unusually clear day for this polluted a mariachi band in typical black dress performed Little as the pope slowly walked down the plane's president and his wife escorted the pope along a red carpet as he hunched over a cane and made his way to a speaking Children El we Mexicans greet you with joy and receive you with our hearts in our pope is for me the cause of enormous joy to find myself again in this blessed Associated Press Pope John Paul II blessed a child after landing in Mexico City This was the fourth visit to Pena conducts Mass in Mexico MARCIAL GUAJARDO The Brownsville CITY The saying good things come to those who held true Friday for a group of Catholic pilgrims from the Rio Grande group expected to visit Our Lady of Guadalupe Basilica for a Mass with Bishop Raymundo but saw their plans dashed early that Mexican police closed off the area in preparation for Saturday Mass led by Pope John Paul who's on the papal visit Pages A4 and Mexico for the fourth time during his off from the holiest shrine in the disheartened pilgrims walked a few blocks down from their hotel and staked out a corner along the anticipated route John Paul would take through the streets of Mexico was a long the people of all ages could be seen glued to a store window where television sets were tuned in to the arrival of the pope at Benito Juarez International started to leave their factories and offices for the afternoon break or at the end of their the streets began to fill with the corner of Chapultepec and Mary and Alfredo and Albert and Lidia Garcia of San Benito Page drivers steaming after city begins enforcing cab TONY VINDELL The Brownsville Police on Friday began reminding cab drivers about the city's new taxicab ordinance prompting mixed and sometimes irate in May by city the ordinance requires cab drivers to wear uniforms with their company's drive cars no more than 8 years old and painted solid proprietor of American said two police officers came by his business Friday morning to tell him that his who're already wearing should wear identification badges as we were told to wear Now they told us to wear a Are we the only ones being have not issued out any citations that I know of. we could if we wanted Ben Reyna Police or does this apply to each of the 17 taxi companies in said he's spent nearly in red and white uniforms for his drivers and questioned why authorities are after him for the badges rather than concentrate on those who have failed to get ordinance doesn't mention the applicant shall and maintain uniform apparel to be worn by all individuals employed as taxicab Such apparel must include button-down shirt or collared pullover shirts similar to the color of the and may not include a copy of the ordinance Police Lt. Oscar head of traffic said the ordinance went into effect the moment it was passed by the decided not to enforce until February of this he adding that police officers on Friday dropped by the offices of Page Brownsville owner of ABC talks in front of his business about the new rules taxi drivers and companies must suspect pleads KARISA KING The Brownsville woman who says she plotted with two former Brownsville police officers to kill Laura Lugo pleaded guilty to murder Friday in exchange for a promise from prosecutors to recommend a 20-year part of the deal she struck with Janet Ramirez agreed to testily against her two in the Randy and Roberto who are both free on bond and awaiting indictment on murder Dressed in a red 28, stood silent in the courtroom while her Brownsville A1 Padilla assured State District Judge Menton Murray that his client was not pressured into the told Murray that he had met with Ramirez for four hours Thursday and three hours Friday discussing her also pleaded guilty to theft in an unrelated case charging her with welfare In return fof a two-year Ramirez admitted to taking in welfare benefits and food stamps between September 1995 and December 1996. guilty plea from who gave police a detailed account of the December 1994 night Lugo was came as little surprise to attorneys for Briseno and Page question LARRY MARGASAK The Associated After two weeks of merely senators posed their first questions in President Clinton's impeachment trial today and transformed the proceeding into a seesaw debate between prosecutors and presidential A key Democratic senator said he would lead an effort to dismiss the impeachment charges next Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia announced he would introduce a motion to dismiss the but not because he believed the president had done no am convinced that the necessary two-thirds for conviction are not there and that they are not likely to he have also become convinced that lengthening this trial will only prolong and deepen the bitter and polarizing effect this sorry affair has visited upon our move was particularly significant because he is widely viewed as a fierce defender of the Senate's In this he had Page 00001 3 Entertainment our Web Site at been a couple of very special Don Pedro not often that the leader of the Catholic church comes so close our lot of not just are paying attention to the John Paul is like an a like the Alan Greenspan of the Christian When he people listen Bears and did you just call the Catholics of the Page storms Page marriages Page Page