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Arriving at the rain-drenched airport near La Paz, a quiet resort in Southern Baja California, Reagan shook hands with De la Madrid and then positioned himself to receive a Mexican abrazo. But De la Madrid firmly caught Reagan by the lower arm and avoided the traditional Latin hug. "We want to appear more serious, more dignified, not folkloric," a Mexican aide later explained. Diplomats described the subsequent talks as "useful," but although there were signs of movement behind the scenes on a number of issues, both sides apparently agreed to disagree about Central America...
...dominance of Mexican politics. Of the country's 23.6 million voters, approximately 74% supported the PRI in the last national election. Emboldened by their victories, PAN supporters have already set their sights on another state contest: the Sept. 4 elections for the governorship of Baja California Norte...
America's image of itself as a melting pot, enriched by every culture yet subsuming all of them, dates back far beyond the huddled yearning masses at the Baja California border and Ellis Island, beyond the passage in steerage of victims of the potato famine and the high-minded Teutonic settlements in the nascent Midwest. Just months after the Revolution was won, in 1782, French-American Writer Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crèvecoeur said of his adopted land: "Individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men." Americans embittered by the wars of Europe knew...
LIKE A GOOD MANY science fiction movies. TimeRider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, introduces an intriguing idea and then systematically blows it. "Lyle Swann" is an off-road motorcycle racer who, while speeding across the desert during the "Baja 1000," suddenly finds himself transported back to the year 1977. A science research company, it seems, is conducting time travel experiments in the desert when Swann unwittingly passes into range of the time-travel equipment. The "science" of all of this, of course, seems improbable at best. (Even a believer in time travel might expect the research company to take...
...giant whirlpool ($4,000) that can come with a built-in table for those who, for example, want to play poker as they soak. Kohler's masterpiece is the $12,500 Environment, a pleasure chamber that pampers bathers with "tropic rain, jungle steam, chinook winds and Baja sun," all accompanied by soothing stereo music...