Gunmen Kill Crusading Mexican Editor

Francisco Javier Ortiz Franco, a top editor and founder of the Zeta weekly newspaper, was slain by unidentified gunmen as he drove through Tijuana’s Marron district with his children. The newspaper, in a statement posted on its Web site, said it would not speculate about motives for the attack but Zeta’s campaigns against corrupt politicians have in the past made its editors targets of gangland-style attacks