LAWYER IN DRUG CASE GUNNED DOWN

A former lawyer for Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, the jailed former leader
of Mexico's anti-drug campaign, was slain late Tuesday, officials said.

A spokesman for Jalisco State prosecutors said a gunman killed Tomas Arturo
Gonzalez Velazquez, 43, while he waited in his car at a traffic light in
Guadalajara.

The lawyer until recently represented Gutierrez, Mexico's top
anti-narcotics official before his arrest early in 1997 on charges of being
in the pay of Amado Carrillo Fuentes' Juarez cartel. Gutierrez has been
sentenced to about 14 years in jail for abuse of authority and weapons
charges; he still faces trial on other charges.