The World - News from May 8, 1985
Mexican soldiers captured 41 people, including four Americans, who were trying to smuggle $700,000 worth of contraband goods into the country. Released were 29 poor farmers who had been unwittingly hired to unload the electrical appliances, cloth, clothes, cassettes, wine, perfume, tires and automobile hubcaps. The four Americans, the pilots of the C-54 and C-47 transports that landed near San Luis Potosi, were identified as Roger Gregory Vikre, Mark Simmons, Tom Elliott and Thomas Hansford McGlothing.
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