Word: canc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goes the way of the manual orange-juice squeezer or the crank phone? Progress is progress. It isn't as if the invention itself is dropping from existence; there are new electronic microchip jobs that automatically produce a thousand individually addressed love letters while the author snorkels in Cancún. Nor is there a great heaving nostalgia attached to the old machine. The history of its growth reads as excitingly as politics in Ottawa. Besides, people these days show far too much reflex yearning for the snows of yesteryear. Let the thing go. Indeed, one can briefly...
Package tours, as always, are the best buys. American Express has been offering seven-night stays in economy-class hotels in Acapulco or Cancún for $99, not including airfare. Mexico Travel Advisers (M.T.A.), the largest U.S. wholesaler of package tours to Mexico, can fly the vacationer from Los Angeles or San Diego to Mazatlan and back, put him up at a good hotel for a week and include sightseeing and airport transportation for $236. Los Angeles residents can get away even more cheaply by driving to Tijuana (about 2½ hours) and flying on to their holiday destinations...
Nothing could have been accomplished without the acquiescence of the most important industrialized nation, the U.S. As one European official of the Agency for International Development put it, "The Americans hold all the cards, and they know it." Under the circumstances, perhaps, Cancún might best be termed an educational experience...
...What happened here was all that was possible," said a veteran U.N. observer. "At a minimum, these people know each other better now." Yet for the leaders of the Third World nations present at the conference, the meaning of the word Cancún -"pot of gold" - must have seemed supremely ironic...
Indeed, casting an eye toward the Cancún conference where Reagan was even then propounding a formula for free world economic planning, Nixon was enthusiastic. "I'd do more economically...