AS THE INTER-CARTEL VIOLENCE IN MEXICO CONTINUES TO WORSEN, U.S. COMPANIES ARE BECOMING-MORE WORRIED, IT WAS A SHOCKING TWIST in Mexico's four-year war among drug cartels. At around 1 a.m. on a Thursday in late October, gunmen sprayed bullets into three buses carrying temporary workers after their shift at U.S.-based Eagle Ottawa's plant in Juarez. Four employees of the automotive-upholstery maker were killed and 17 injured, sending chills through the border town. Never before had employees of a U.S. factory been targeted in the drug-related violence that is sweeping the country.
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