Word: guadalajara
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...lushly flowered city of Guadalajara has long been considered a prize post by American diplomats: the climate seems like eternal spring, the ambience is relaxed and the U.S. consul general's home is a monument to comfortable living. From now on, though, Foreign Service officers may be a bit apprehensive about the assignment. Two weeks ago, while returning home from a local police exhibition on law enforcement, U.S. Consul General Terrance Leonhardy (a 21-year career man) was kidnaped by four armed men. An hour after he was spirited away, ransom notes turned up, demanding on behalf...
...leading dailies throughout Mexico. They specified a time for Cuba's representative in Mexico to appear on national television and report the safe arrival in Havana of the 30 compañeros. They also warned that there was to be no army or police mobilization in the Guadalajara area while negotiations were going...
...Guadalajara, Mexico...
...than 500 Americans. Some 800 attend the Italian university at Bologna; the medical school at Rome has 175 more, many of whom make their presence known every Thanksgiving Day by playing in a football game that has become known as the Pasta Bowl. Mexico's Autonomous University of Guadalajara has the largest contingent; it numbers 1,300 gringos among its 4,000 students...
...four-year course at Guadalajara resembles an American medical school curriculum, but education at European medical schools is considerably different. Because European students often enter medical training directly from high school, most schools on the Continent require six or seven years for an M.D. compared with only three or four in the U.S. Before they get their diplomas, graduates of Louvain must take a one-year internship, while Mexican schools require a year of social service, usually in rural areas. Furthermore, American schools increasingly emphasize clinical experience and put students into contact with patients early in their training; European schools...