The World - News from Nov. 6, 1985
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A Mexican diplomat and his maid were beaten, then shot to death in Moscow, the Mexican Embassy said. Their bodies were found in his apartment inside a guarded compound for foreigners. The whereabouts of the Russian ex-wife of the slain diplomat, Manuel Portilla Quevedo, was not known. He divorced her last year, sources said. Portilla, 43, was a graduate in chemistry of Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba University for foreigners. One of the embassy’s few fluent Russian-speakers, he had been stationed in Moscow since 1981.
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