The World - News from Dec. 16, 1985
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Mexican rescue workers battled high seas in an attempt to locate 32 workers still missing from a government oil company exploration vessel that sank in the stormy Gulf of Mexico with 71 aboard. The vessel, the Huichol, leased by the Pemex oil monopoly, went down off Ciudad del Carmen, about 500 miles east of Mexico City, an oil company spokesman said. Thirty-nine survivors have been picked up.
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