Killing of soldiers in Iraq

April 21, 1974

GANG MEMBERS DESTROY SCHOOL. The director of the “Guadalupe Borja de Díaz Ordaz” school, Esteban Beltrán, approached this morning newspaper to make his complaint public and request help from the authorities, against the groups of gang members who have the building materially destroyed. The mentor said that through sacrifices and a lot of effort, it has been possible to obtain trees to plant in the aforementioned school, but the lazy and criminals get inside the campus and destroy them, as they do with everything within their reach. her hands.

KILLING OF SOLDIERS IN IRAQ. Tehran. Kurdish guerrillas announced they had killed 70 Iraqi government soldiers in battles in the north of the country. A clandestine radio station operated by rebels headed by 70-year-old leader Mustafa Barazani said there had been no pause in the fighting in Shaqlaveh and it was spreading to other cities. Reports from Eastern Turkey say that the guerrillas have kept the 600 members of an Iraqi regiment surrounded for 30 days in the Zakho region, close to the border. The soldiers cannot be supplied and it is estimated that they will surrender soon. At least 50 Iraqi soldiers were killed in Shaqlaveh and another 20 have been killed in other encounters. The Kurds said they had destroyed three Iraqi army personnel transports in an ambush. It was also reported that the government shot 11 members of the Kurdish democratic party and that they had been previously sentenced in Iraqi courts. The rebels announced that in retaliation for the execution of their 11 co-religionists, the Kurdish people's courts will prosecute seven security officials arrested by Barzani's guerrillas. The government dispatched troops to the mountainous regions after Barzani and the rebels rejected a government project granting Kurdish autonomy within the Iraqi state. The proposal was rejected because the government did not include the region of Iraq, the richest in oil.

NEXT LINK CAREAGA-ACEVEDO. The beautiful lady Santa Margarita Careaga Hays and Dr. Juan Manuel Acevedo Brambila, members of two respectable families in our environment, were engaged to marry. The request was formulated by Mrs. Enriqueta Brambila, widow of Acevedo, representing her son, appearing before Messrs. Alfonso Careaga Arroyo and Margarita Hays de Careaga, who had no problem giving an affirmative response that was expected by all, ending with a toast.

April 21, 1999

SINALOA, DISASTER ZONE. With the declaration of a disaster area by Governor Juan Millán, the federal government will allocate greater resources to help overcome the effects of the drought that already affects agricultural producers, ranchers and the population in general. Just to rehabilitate the hydraulic network, 120 million dollars are required and these works could be carried out taking advantage of the fact that a large area of ​​land will remain unplanted due to the scarcity of water. Like never before, people in the mountain region are starting to feel thirsty.

THEY EMPLOY CHILDREN AS SOLDIERS. Maputo. More than 120 thousand children fight in the service of official or guerrilla forces in Africa. Children have been recruited and forced to fight for the various forces involved in the civil wars that afflict the continent, according to the Coalition Against the Use of Child Combatants, based in Switzerland. Some children as young as seven years old have been recruited by the armies of Angola, Sierra Leone and Uganda. The use of child soldiers, both by the government and guerrilla groups, was denounced.

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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 editor at 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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