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Despite such progress, however, previous P.R.I, governments have been criticized for failing to improve the life of the Mexican peasant. The regime of outgoing President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz has also been attacked for its handling of the Mexico City riots that preceded the 1968 Olympic Games. When police and soldiers shot at least 33 people to death and wounded 500 others, Diaz Ordaz's enemies charged that the President's "guided democracy" was really a dictatorship. More than 100 students arrested for rioting are in prison, some still awaiting trial...
...healing waters, a gentleman technician offers cups of dietetic lemonade. Your poolmate, a balding man in his 50s, introduces himself. La Costa tones up such famous figures as Rod Steiger, Ambassador John Lodge, NBC President Julian Goodman. Gore Vidal, Kirk Douglas, Senator Jacob Javits, Sandy Koufax, President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz of Mexico-and you end up in the stew with a paint salesman from Poughkeepsie. "They really pamper you," he says, as a gentleman technician dries his back. "It's just one joy after another...
...State of the Union address, his predecessor was off fishing. Tanned and fit-looking, Lyndon Baines Johnson left Acapulco for a day's deep-sea cruising in the Pacific, but not before sounding very much like a politician about to make a move. Mexico's President Diaz Ordaz was "my good Mexican friend," Acapulco "the place we enjoy," the Mexican people "the people we love." Does the ex-President really have any ambitions south of the border? A certain Texas judge was rumored to be acting in L.B.J.'s interest when he leased a hacienda...
Mexicans will not go to the polls to elect their next President for another nine months, but as of last week everyone knew who the winner would be. His name: Luis Echeverria Alvarez, 47, now Interior Minister under outgoing President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Endorsed last week by the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (P.R.I.), Echeverria is certain to be formally named the P.R.I.'s candidate during the party's convention next month. Because Mexico is virtually a one-party state, that nomination is equivalent to election to a six-year term. Since P.R.I.'s founding 41 years...
Echeverria, an efficient administrator and decision maker, is following a well-trodden path. Eight of his nine most recent predecessors served as Interior Minister, the most important Cabinet post, before taking over the presidency. Diaz Ordaz and other P.R.I, chieftains expect little change in policies-with good reason, for Echeverria was selected as party candidate by the President himself, in concert with party leaders and the country's three living ex-Presidents...