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...well as the country's 3,000,000 Indians, still live on less than $100 a year. Last week, as the green-white-and-red sash of office was draped over his right shoulder during inaugural ceremonies in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park, incoming President Luis Echeverria Alvarez pledged that his first order of business would be to help those people start digging...
When Luis Echeverría Alvarez won the presidential nomination of Mexico's Partido Revolucionario Institutional (P.R.I.) last October, he was as good as elected. The P.R.I, has ruled with only token opposition since it was formed in 1929. Nonetheless, Echeverría, 48, conducted a remarkably strenuous campaign. In the last eight months he visited 900 towns and villages and traveled more than 35,000 miles, most of them in his campaign bus, the Miguel Hidalgo, which he named for the father of Mexican independence. Asked why he was working so hard to win an election that...
Mexicans will not go to the polls to elect their next President for another nine months, but as of last week everyone knew who the winner would be. His name: Luis Echeverria Alvarez, 47, now Interior Minister under outgoing President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Endorsed last week by the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (P.R.I.), Echeverria is certain to be formally named the P.R.I.'s candidate during the party's convention next month. Because Mexico is virtually a one-party state, that nomination is equivalent to election to a six-year term. Since P.R.I.'s founding 41 years...
...gloomy!" she cried to friends gathered at the small cafe in Madrid. "When I get out, we will go to the country and roast a lamb." With that, Luisa Isabel Alvarez de Toledo Maura, 32, Duchess of Medina Sidonia, crossed the street to a courthouse to begin serving a one-year prison sentence. The duchess, whose title* is one of the most venerated in her country, was convicted of illegal protest when she led the villagers of Palomares on a protest trip to Madrid on the first anniversary of the crash of a U.S. bomber bearing a load...
ROBERT S. ALVAREZ Pleasant Hill, Calif...