DRUG LAB AT DEATH RANCH

MEXICO CITY -- Federal officials said Tuesday they have found a clandestine
drug laboratory at a border ranch where Mexican and U.S. lawmen have been
hunting for buried victims of drug gangs.

The federal attorney general's office said Mexican police and troops began
to search two additional ranches in the Ciudad Juarez area on Tuesday and
discovered drums with hundreds of gallons of chemicals used in processing
cocaine and drug manufacturing equipment.

Although a U.S. government informant had said as many as 100 bodies might be
found at the ranches, more than two weeks of searches have so far turned up
eight bodies.