Fierce fighting between Jews and Syrians

May 9, 1974

CAÑERO PROBLEM BEFORE LEA. Far from solving the sugarcane problem of grass planting, it became more difficult, announcing that a commission of ejidatarios will go before President Luis Echeverría, to request equal rights and obligations in compliance with the sugarcane decree. When the Ministry of Agriculture announced that individuals would not plant cane on the planned surface outside the mill’s supply zone, the ejidatarios refused to make new contracts and the planting program was stopped.

FIERCE FIGHTS BETWEEN JEWS AND SYRIANS. Israel. Artillery duels between Israel and Syria intensified again in the Golan Hills while the American Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, continued efforts in Damascus and Tel Aviv to achieve the separation of the forces of both countries. Syria, which has never ordered any pause in the 58-day war of attrition, reported that clashes continued throughout the night and morning around Mount Hermon, also spreading to other areas of the front during the day. Damascus military statements stated that Syrian tanks engaged Israeli tanks and added: “Our forces direct their fire at enemy concentrations and positions, inflicting casualties and damage. Our artillery continues to silence the sources of enemy fire.” The Israeli military high command, for its part, assured that three of its soldiers suffered injuries, increasing the list of casualties of the Jewish State in the Golan Hills, during the days of fighting, to 30 dead and 101 wounded. For the first time in many days, there was no casualty yesterday. A military spokesman in Tel Aviv reported that the incidents with the Syrians extended to the Syrian border, and added that several projectiles were fired at Har Dov, the Hebrew name for Jabel Ros, a mountain where Israeli troops have been shelled from Israeli territory. Lebanese by Syrian-backed guerrillas.

PARTY FOR MONICA AND ANA ELISA VARGAS. Two artistically decorated cakes presided over the meeting where Mónica and Ana Elisa’s friends enjoyed a delicious snack that was part of the gift that engineer Raúl Vargas and his wife, Julieta Acosta de Vargas, offered to the guests who came to congratulate their little ones. . The birthday girls are beautiful little girls and both they and their parents are highly esteemed in our environment, so the celebration was very well attended.

May 9, 1999

FARMERS WILL SUE CNA HOLDER. The AARFS leadership will file a criminal complaint against the chief engineer of Irrigation District 075 of the National Water Commission, Porfirio Solano Parra, for damages, losses and whatever results, before the agency specialized in addressing crimes against the agricultural sector of the Fort Valley. The president of the organization, Miguel Tachna Félix, reported that they will also request the dismissal of the CNA official, for criminally managing the storage of water in the dams.

US CONSULATE BURNED. Beijing. Chinese protesters broke into a US Consulate building and burned it, in addition to throwing stones at the besieged property. Washington protested to China that surveillance was insufficient, that they do not receive adequate protection. A large group of people forcibly entered the consulate grounds and burned the residence of the consul general, in protest of the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, during a NATO attack. Nobody was injured.

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Sylva Mónica Ruffo Kelly, who completed her basic and high school studies in Los Mochis, stayed two years in El Centro, California, where she perfected the English language. She joined El Debate in September 1994 as a translator and later, in 2000, she became an assistant to the Editorial Team of El Debate de Los Mochis, tasks that led her to take charge of the entertainment page for more than 10 years and the newspaper archive. Upon the death of the City Chronicler, Don Evaristo Fregoso, in September 2003, who wrote the Los Mochis column 50 and 25 years ago, Ruffo Kelly took over the history column, which he later changed to Mi Ciudad 50 and 25 years, in which he narrates what happened in those years on the same day of publication of the newspaper EL DEBATE of Los Mochis.

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