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...sabadazo, a surprise arrest after Saturday noon, when all government offices, including the courts, are closed. But all arrests cannot wait till a weekend, and besides, sabadazos are considered unsportsmanlike. This week the Mexican Senate was putting the final touches on a bill, sponsored by President Miguel Alemán, to take some of the obvious kinks out of the amparo system...
With crops in good shape and the peso at its perkiest in years, Mexico was in fiesta mood for President Miguel Alemán's fourth annual state-of-the-nation message last week. As the President rode to the Chamber of Deputies at the head of a 50-limousine caravan, office girls showered him with red, green and white confetti. When Alemán entered the Chamber, 50 men from the musicians' union rose and thundered the national anthem. Outside, thousands of Mexicans saw and heard their President speak over hundreds of television sets installed in cantinas...
...power and communications."* The news of the biggest single U.S. loan to a Latin American republic in five years, kept secret till that moment so that Mexico's President might have the satisfaction of announcing it, fell flat. The audience seemed to miss the significance of the statement. Alemán looked disappointed...
...different when the President took his stand on the big political question of the hour. Said Alemán: "Talk has begun, against my expressed wishes, of my re-election as President of the republic (TIME, June 5). I wish to state firmly once more my unbreakable decision . . . not to accept such an intent, and to call on persons working for that end to desist." The Congressmen's responding roar was the day's most deafening. Every ambitious politico among them heaved a great sigh of relief as he saw the track cleared for the 1952 race. Very...
...item significantly missing from this Alemán program: petroleum development. The U.S. currently refuses to lend money for oil development and exploration abroad. "Our position," explained Ex-Im's Chairman Herbert Gaston crisply, "is that there is adequate money available in private capital for oil development...