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...exactly what has now been designed. The visitors' entrance will look like a small white Palladian garden pavilion with floor-to-ceiling French windows between Tuscan columns. The doors and windows will be decorated with delicate grille work. It will be built into a heavily planted earth berm so that it is visible only from the street. The building is scheduled for completion next year, and the entire project could cost about $1 million...
After arriving in Peru, Rosalynn met privately with President Francisco Morales Bermúdez for almost three hours. She gently attempted to persuade her new hosts to slow the pace of the military buildup that had alarmed the Ecuadorians. This week she faces her sternest test-a three-day visit to Brazil, where the military dictatorship was outraged first by her husband's opposition to its plans to buy nuclear-fuel facilities from West Germany, and then by a State Department report citing human rights violations in Brazil...
...different breed of generals, the leftists: President Francisco Morales Bermůdez of Peru received us the day after he had tidied up a considerable turbulence in his regime. There had been two days and nights of military comings and goings at the Palacio Tupac Amaru, and at the end two influential generals were retired from the army. General Morales had either broken up a possible coup or, as one of the tame Lima newspapers put it, had simply moved "to have his own men in positions of trust and power, normal with all incoming Presidents in most parts...
...Fields. Bermúdez says that he spends about 99% of his waking hours thinking about Pemex. Three days each week he visits oil regions in his DC-3, "El Petrolero"; the rest of the time he works hard in Pemex' pseudo-colonial, four-floor office building on Mexico City's Avenida Juárez. He often dashes over to the Casa Crema for a conference with President Aleman...
Bringing the Americans back was one of Bermúdez' shrewdest strokes. The first group to begin work, in June 1949, was the Mexican American Independent Oil Co. (C.I.M.A.), an operating unit jointly set up by the Signal Oil & Gas Co., the American Independent Oil Co. and hustling California Oilman Ed Pauley, who had had previous experience in Mexico. C.I.M.A. was allotted an unexploited area along the Gulf in the states of Veracruz, Tabasco and Campeche for exploration and drilling. After payment of their expenses, the Americans will collect 15 to 18¼% of the new wells' income...