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World IN BRIEF : MEXICO : Journalists Charged in Bugging Case

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Three alleged scoop-hungry journalists have been charged with bugging an opposition party’s meeting in a case that had been dubbed a “Mexican Watergate.” The attorney general’s office said it has charged the three with wiretapping an executive meeting of the National Action Party on March 7 in the city of Morelia. Newspapers initially had linked the wiretappers to the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party.

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