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DIED. Miguel Aleman, eightyish, President of Mexico from 1946 to 1952, who helped build PEMEX, his country's government-owned oil-production monopoly, and later became an energetic booster for Mexican tourism; of a heart attack; in Mexico City. The son of a revolutionary general who helped topple Dictator Porfirio Diaz in 1911, Aleman ran a regime noted for widespread corruption and came away from office a multimillionaire with extensive land holdings in Acapulco...
...Everybody accepts the fact that Presidents grow rich in office," says a university professor. Indeed, the President's salary is one of Mexico's best-kept secrets. Miguel Aleman Valdes, for example, made multimillion-dollar investments in Acapulco real estate that turned the Pacific Coast city into a famous tourist attraction...
Last fall Mexico's President Jose Lopez Portillo tried to reopen the negotiations, dispatching ex-President Miguel Aleman to make contact with Schlesinger. Unable to meet the Secretary, Aleman went around him and spoke with White House aides. Schlesinger contends that he tried to keep the talks alive but that the Mexicans turned him down; the Mexicans vehemently say this is untrue...
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...recalled his conversation with Aleman, but insisted he had not used the word hit. Said Trafficante: "I was speaking in Spanish, and in Spanish there is no way to say that." Had he known in advance about Kennedy's assassination? "Absolutely...