Word: az
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in a cordial exchange of abrazos and acreage, Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Gustavo Díaz Ordaz redressed the Rio Grande's trespass. Crossing into bunting-festooned Ciudad Juárez, they spoke at the monument erected by Mexico to commemorate the settlement. "An old argument has ended," said L.B.J., "a lasting bond has been forged." Echoing these sentiments, Díaz Ordaz stressed: "This is not an isolated case of understanding...
Earlier, L.B.J. had exuberantly welcomed Díaz Ordaz to Washington for his first state visit there and their fifth meeting. "I want you to feel at home in my house, as I do in yours," L.B.J. beamed at his friend. This accentuated mood of friendship prevailed, although in a speech before Congress Díaz Ordaz sternly warned against protectionist trade tendencies in the U.S. But the visit's highlight was clearly the celebration of the Chamizal affair's settlement...
...noted for its scarcity, Spain's 7 billion gallon surplus of sherry and domestic table wine would seem to be a bonanza. Not so. The average Spaniard scorns the local elixir in favor of spectacularly overpriced bottles of Scotch. Now Spain's Agriculture Minister, Adolfo Díaz-Ambrona, 59, has appealed to his countrymen to ease "the problem of domestic underconsumption." Noting that the Spaniards consume only half as much wine per capita as the Frenchmen, the government is starting a huge advertising campaign for wine-and doubling the import duties on Scotch...
Crowding nine wall sections in two adjoining rooms are a series of huge tableaux depicting the tumultuous five years leading up to the ouster of Mexico's last dictator, Porfirio Díaz, in 1911. Arranged in kaleidoscopic profusion are the principal figures, from the greedy courtesans and grasping businessmen who fattened under the Díaz regime to the labor leaders of the 1906 Rio Branco strike and the by-now mythological heroes of the revolution, Zapata, Carranza and Madero...
...weeks after his throat and abdomen surgery, Lyndon Johnson was an uncommonly active convalescent. When Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz invited him to fly down from the L.B.J. ranch to join in an inspection of the $78 million Amistad (Friendship) Dam, which the U.S. and Mexico are building on the Rio Grande, Johnson accepted in a twinkling. Meeting Díaz Ordaz in the middle of a bridge spanning the river, he exchanged abrazos with him, then helicoptered to the dam site. In a speech on the Mexican side, Johnson declared that the binational project, which will provide...