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Mexican leader assassinated MEXICO CITY (AP) — A young man assassinat ed a key offic ial of Mexico’s ruling party Wednes day, roc king a country already buffeted by a tur bulent year of violence and rebellion. Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu. sec ret ary-general of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). was slug in the neck after getting into his i.ar following break fast at a downtown hotel. Shattered glass from the passenger side window was strewn on the busy Paseo de la Re form a boulevard A bank guard tackled the gunman and turned him over to police. Officials did not immediately iden tify the dark-haired man or give a motive for vshat President C'-arlos Salinas de Gortari dose nbed as "a hideous crime.” "This is a day of mourning for PRiistas I bis is a day of mourning for all Mexicans.” said President elect Ernesto Zedillo. The killing shocked officials still res ovoring from the March 23 assassination of PRI presidential can didate I.uis Donaldo Colosio. shot at a Tijuana i am paign rally. Zedillo, his successor, won the Aug. 21 presidential election and takes power Dec 1 Both Zedillo and Salinas were at the Hospital Espanol where Ruiz Massieu. his shirt ripped open and soaked with blood, was rushed after the shoot ing. Doctors said Ruiz Massieu had no pulse on arrival and was pronounced dead at 10:30 a m . an hour after the shooting. Mexico had been shaken this year, not only by Colosio's killing and the Now Year's uprising by rebels in southern Mexico, hut a wave of kidnap pings of businessmen and narcotics-related vio lence. Deputy Attorney General Mario Ruiz Massieu, the slain man's brother, announced the death He is in chargo of prosecuting dnig traffickers for the federal attorney general'! office, which has the sus pected gunman in custody Drug traffickers are au usw! of murdering Roman Catholic Cardinal )uan Jesus I’osadas Ocampo in a case of mistaken identity at the Guadalaiara air port in May 1193 The assassination of Ruiz Massieu. No 2 in the ruling party, jolted Mexico just ns the country appeared to be settling dow n after months of vio lence and political turbulence Despite the Mayan Indian movement uprising in southern Mexico that iiegnn New Vear's Day. the I’RI. whii h has governed Mexico since 1929. was able to gain 50 percent of the vote in the national elis lion Widely feared post-electoral violence failed to materialize Ruiz Massieu, a 48-year-old lawyer, was a ns mg figure 111 Mexii an politii s He was elected to congress m August and was sel.x ted to lead the I’RI delegation that would dominate the lower house lie was governor of the impoverished western state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, from 1987 to 1993 and was named I’RI sei rotary gener al in May as the party reorganized itself in the wake of Colosio's murder Ruiz. Massieu also represented the I’KI before the Federal Flectornl Institute, w hich is in the midst of reviewing challenges to the August e!e< lion and certifying the results Mexico’s slock market, w hich had ixren rising, plunged more than i percent after the shooting before bouncing back shgjitly m the nftenioon The value of the Mexican peso dipped slightly after the shooting. Mexico (lily Mayor Manuel Aguilera described the weapon used as a submachine gun Witnesses told local media it was an Uzi China returns remains of servicemen to U.S. BEIJING (AP) — China returned to the U.S. government today tin! remains of two American airmen Willed during World War II when their plane crashed in Tibet The two airmen were part of ll.S. efforts to support Chinese troops fighting invading Japanese forces Nearly 500 ll.S planes were shot dow n or crashed during the 1042- 104r> airlift over the Himalayas from northeastern India to China's landlocked forces Itased in Kunming About 40 people are still unai i minted for. I S officials did not give the identities of the servicemen. 1 he i rash site of a C-87 cargo plane was disi overed in Sep tomlmr P.M3 by a Tilietan hunter Ihe Chinese Army and a team of local authorities re< overed the bodies of three of the five i rvw and turned them over to the United States last Iks ember Earlier this month, a joint l! 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