MEXICO . . . ANOTHER LEADER ASSASSINATED
A young man with an unknown motive shot and killed the secretary-general of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), shocking officials just recovering from the March 23 assassination of PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio. Political analysts told TIME Mexico reporter Elizabeth Love the death of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu might have less to do with Massieu's No. 2 role in the PRI than his tenure as governor of the province where the young suspect lives. Said one speculator: "Two assassinations do not conform a social tendency, but evidently Colosio's killing seemed to break a kind of spell." Massieu's death is a setback for Mexican political change, since he was considered one of the lead reformers within the PRI.
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