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Mexico seeks culprits in rape of 6 Spaniards
By BERTHA RAMOS and MARK STEVENSON
Associated Press /
February 6, 2013
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Acapulco is the granddaddy of Mexican resorts. Elizabeth Taylor was married there, John F. and Jackie Kennedy came on their honeymoon, and Howard Hughes spent his later years hiding out in a suite at the Princess Hotel, a pyramid-shaped icon in the exclusive Punta Diamante, or Diamond Point, zone.
Beheadings and drug gang shootouts, some on the city’s main seaside boulevard, became more frequent after 2006, as gangs fought for control of the city’s drug and extortion business.
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Associated Press writer Bertha Ramos reported from Acapulco, and Mark Stevenson reported from Mexico City.
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