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Narciso Oano, a second-year MBA candidate and UMAS member, criticized "the reluctance of some schools to be sensitive to the problems of the Mexican-American." Cano cited "the language problem, ingrained as a result of the Southwest's educational system," and said that some universities fail to notify UMAS when UMAS-recruited applicants file incomplete admissions applications...
...long run, Cano hopes to "establish contacts that will be able to send bright students to this area with a minimum of help from our organization...
Ongania was unpopular with civilians and military alike for his stubborn authoritarianism. His generals called him "El Cano" (The Pipe), because, as one officer explained it, "He is very straight, but also very hollow." He did manage to curb Argentina's dangerous inflation, which dropped from 26.7% in 1966 to 6.5% last year. He won the gratitude of foreign businessmen by allowing repatriation of profits and by inviting the return of foreign oil companies whose exploration contracts had been canceled by his civilian predecessor, President Arturo Umberto Illia...
...Question of Honor. Some claims, to be sure, were exaggerated. The fishing captain whose sighting helped in the recovery of the bomb from the sea demanded $5,000,000; he got only medals from two grateful governments. Francisco Alarcon Cano, whose private school was shuttered for six weeks because a bomb fragment landed on his patio, sought $733 in lost tuition. He got nothing. "We may have made a mistake," says a 16th Air Force officer of the schoolmaster's case. "But the door is always open if he wants to come back." The point that escapes the Americans...
JOAQUÍN GUTIÉRREZ CANO Executive Director International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Washington...