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...next month the President had a real vacation in mind. He planned a nonstop flight to Mexico City for a visit with President Miguel Aleman. On the way back he would stop off at Waco, Tex., to get an honorary degree from Baylor University† and later in the week go on to witness part of the Atlantic Fleet maneuvers in the Caribbean...
Washout. For President Miguel Aleman, the troubles posed a political dilemma. Whatever his lack of regard for the oldtime bosses, he still needed their support. Besides, he could not let the rightists make political hay. Firmness in the oil workers' strike (TIME, Dec. 30) had paid off; firmness in a political crisis like that at Oaxaca might pay dividends also...
...President Avila Camacho's 1946 visit had washed away with the first rains; Oaxaca's streets were in terrible shape; enemies charged that tax revenues had vanished without trace. Last week Sánchez' police shot and killed five demonstrators at Etla, just outside Oaxaca. Aleman acted swiftly, sent his Minister of Interior to investigate. Sanchez resigned. In six other states, governors who were having their troubles shivered in their cavalry boots...
...June, Mexicans were hopping mad. Nonsense, they said; those fine Brahma bulls (which they had imported from Brazil) did not have foot & mouth disease. But the bulls did carry the dread disease, and Mexican herds in four central states and the Federal District were infected. Last week, energetic President Aleman set in motion a $40 million, three-month campaign to smash the epidemic. Emergency squads prepared to slaughter and cremate as many as a million head of cattle-one-tenth of Mexico's herds...
Last January he rose in convention and nominated Miguel Aleman for the presidency. Convinced that Mexico would have to grow ripe industrially before its revolution could be realized, Lombardo also promoted an industry-labor pact barring strikes so that production could be increased...