SPECIAL TASK FORCE AGENTS READ A NEWSPAPER WHILE GUARDING RANCH, 1999-11-30 (photo)

Special task force agents read a newspaper while guarding the ranch where U.S. and Mexican officials are searching for bodies November 30. The officials resumed their search for possible mass graves in Northern Mexico for more than 100 people - including 22 missing Americans - who may have been executed by a drug cartel. The Juarez Cartel, based in Ciudad Juarez in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, is one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels, thought to have shipped tons of Colombian cocaine across the Rio Grande into the United States. HR/TRA