Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more to Mexico man Acapulco and the silver mines of Taxco," says Staff Writer Jack White. "More than Tijuana, tequila, tortillas and tacos," adds Bernard Diederich, who has been chief of TIME's bureau in Mexico City for more than a decade. Yet cornmeal cliches have often flavored American thinking about the neighbor across the Rio Grande. This week's cover story, written by White and reported by Diederich, assesses the social, political and historical landscape of a country described by Diederich as "big, beautiful and as complicated as any on earth." The story also examines the issues...
Such mysteries also captivated Reporter-Researcher Tam Martinides Gray, who often collaborates with both White and Diederich on Latin American stories. Says Gray: "Mexico has a fatalistic, almost mythical perception of itself. It is easy to get caught up in the character of the people, their eloquence, their national pride." White, for his part, got caught up in the history and mythology of Mexico's pre-Columbian people. Thus, in homage to Quetzalcoatl, the tribal god of the Toltecs, and in commemoration of this week's cover, White named his newly acquired feline house pet Quetzalcatl...
Lyndon Johnson said that American troops were fighting the Communists in Viet Nam so that later generations would not have to fight them on American shores. Now, 90 miles from the sand of Florida, 3,000 Soviet combat troops are deployed. Will the generation born in the 1960s have to do just what Johnson wanted to avert...
...unit. In all those 17 years, he said, "there has been no change in the function or the number of the troops." He accused Carter of creating a "minicrisis" to bolster his domestic political fortunes. Railed Castro: "Carter has been dishonest, insincere, immoral, and he has been deceiving the American people ... An artificial problem has been created. The fact that Carter may be in a crisis situation [at home] does not give him the right to place in crisis the world...
...John Paul, the tour was an opportunity to encourage American Catholics to tackle the social and religious problems that he considers most disturbing in Western society. Predicted a Vatican official on the eve of the trip: "The Pope is a born leader, and he will offer the American people the leadership for which they hunger...