
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, July 1, 1990                   TAG: 9007010136
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

U.S. TO ALLOW MEXICAN POLICE TO OPERATE HERE

Mexican police will be allowed to operate in the United States under new guidelines that permit American drug agents to work in that country, a Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman said Saturday.

The guidelines amount to a reciprocal arrangement under which the Mexicans may send into this country the same number of police that the United States has operating in Mexico, DEA spokesman Cornelius Dougherty said.

In Mexico City, the Foreign Ministry on Friday night said the guidelines had been delivered to American officials. The government newspaper El Nacional said the guidelines would allow the United States to have 60 agents in Mexico and Mexico a like number in the United States.

Dougherty said that currently there were 40 to 50 DEA agents and support workers in Mexico.

- Associated Press

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