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To: Brasco One who wrote (20777)	10/8/2001 5:48:56 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 62547

Hell - o MEXICO CITY -- (AP) -- Businessmen in the border city of Tijuana have asked the federal government to change the new area code scheduled to be assigned to the city, fearing the code -- 666 -- could give the violence-plagued metropolis a bad rap. It is just a case of a wrong number, Tijuana's National Chamber of Commerce says. ``This will give our city a bad image,'' the chamber said in a news release, noting that Tijuana, located across the border from San Diego, has already suffered from ``out-of-control situations and tragedies that happen to occur here.'' Tijuana -- reputedly the headquarters of the Arellano Félix gang, Mexico's most violent drug cartel -- has had several of its police officials assassinated in broad daylight, and dozens of drug-related killings. The number 666 is associated with Satan in the Bible. In the Bible's Book of Revelation, verse 13:18 reads, ``Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred threescore and six.''