MEXICAN DRUG WAR 'ALARMING' U.S. OFFICIALS

t appears the problems on the southern border are getting severe enough to register on the government radar screen.

MEXICO CITY - Virtually every day now there are disturbing headlines here about the assassination of yet another Mexican official, gangland-style shootouts in broad daylight, the gruesome discoveries of kidnapped and tortured murder victims - many of them beheaded -and police chiefs quitting their jobs and fleeing the country in terror. ...