The Middle East burns again

Stories from The Debate

April 19, 1974

APPLICANTS EMERGE FOR THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. Once the mystery of the governmental succession of Sinaloa was cleared up when the PRI sectors declared themselves in favor of Senator Alfonso G. Calderón, the rumor campaign about possible candidates for the municipal presidency of Ahome overflowed. Among those with the greatest possibility are Don Enrique Balderrama, Óscar Monzón Molina and José Gilberto Coronel. It is known that nominations for municipal presidencies are resolved based on the person nominated for governor, so several have already been ruled out.

THE MIDDLE EAST IS BURNING AGAIN. Tel Aviv. Syria reported that the 39-day war with Israel on the Golan fighting front erupted into numerous air battles when large formations of Israeli fighter jets tried to penetrate Syrian airspace, producing the first duels in the air since the conflict. of last October. The battle in the Golan Hills and the fierce fighting for possession of the strategic 3,100-meter-high Mount Hermon intensified when Jewish aviation attacked targets about 12 kilometers from the ceasefire line and the Syrian air force launched strikes. of retaliation against Israeli positions in the Israeli-occupied salient within Syrian territory. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan declared that the war is not over and warned of a large-scale conflict. If for some reason the Syrians try to prove their military superiority, it is very likely that when Dr. Kissinger arrives in 10 days, there will be a full-scale war. The purpose of Kissinger's visit will be to collaborate on a disengagement agreement between Israeli and Syrian forces on the Golan Front. A Syrian statement stated that its anti-aircraft defenses shot down 10 Israeli aircraft for a total of 19 since April 8. Israel denied this, stating that the Syrian missiles missed their targets.

CELEBRATION FOR CHILDREN'S DAY. The Directorate of the Social Security Center is making preparations to celebrate “Children's Day”, on the 30th of this year. For this purpose, a contest called “The Healthiest and Cleanest Child” has been held, in which children from the nursery will participate, that is, the children of the housewives who are members of this school. The contest will be by age and the same announcement says that competing infants must have their vaccination card up to date.

April 19, 1999

ERADICATE AMBULANTAGE. While in Culiacán street sales decreased considerably due to the clearing of public roads carried out by the previous municipal administration and which the current one is consolidating, in the rest of the cities stallholders and all types of street vendors proliferate, with a clear overlap of The authorities. The majority of street vendors are affiliated with a PRI political organization, an affiliation that constitutes a kind of insurance to work in exchange for political support.

500 HUTS DESTROYED BY FIRE. New Delhi. A fire devastated a marginal neighborhood in the capital and destroyed almost half a thousand mud huts. Three people suffered burns and two children are missing. The apparent cause of the fire was a short circuit. The flames destroyed a house of the Missionaries of Charity of Mother Teresa. A large quantity of blankets, clothing, medicines and powdered milk were lost. Twenty-two fire trucks battled the flames for two hours. Most were left without their belongings.

We recommend you read:

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.

see more