MEXICO CITY, June 29— A prominent journalist in Durango, a northern Mexican city, was killed today, the police said. The slain journalist, Elias Mario Medina Valenzuela, a former director of two Durango newspapers and until December 1987 press director of the state government, was shot in the head by three unknown assailants.
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