Word: cancun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CANCUN, Mexico--Mexico is breaking diplomatic relations with Nicaragua because of the "horrendous genocide" committed by the government of President Anastasio Somoza, Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo announced yesterday...
...Wichita has another sister city, another gift and another problem. This time, Cancun, Mexico, sent the city a 15-ft. fiber-glass statue of a Maya rain god. The statue was to adorn the city hall grounds, but officials realized that it was too fragile for the extremes of Kansas weather and too tall to fit inside city hall. It now rests in the basement of city hall while authorities search for a new site...
Iooss first met Cheryl three years ago when he photographed her for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's annual swimsuit issue for 1975, her second appear ance on that magazine's cover. Recalls Iooss: "We were shooting on location in Cancun, a Mexican resort that's a rough, hot four-hour car ride from the main airport. I thought she'd be furious. But Cheryl is a real pro - she arrived all smiles, no airs about her. She's like the average girl next door - just more beautiful than average...
Mexico depends on tourism and border transactions for 37% of its dollar income and on the U.S. to provide 90% of the visitors to such established resorts as Acapulco and Mazatlan as well as the new playgrounds at Cancun on the Caribbean and Ixtapa on the Pacific. The devalued and floating peso has reduced the price of a Mexican vacation by at least one-third, but the laggard tourist trade has not picked up as expected. For a decade before 1975, tourism had been rising at the rate of 14% a year until it reached $1.2 billion...