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Last week, in a cordial exchange of abrazos and acreage, Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Gustavo Díaz Ordaz redressed the Rio Grande's trespass. Crossing into bunting-festooned Ciudad Juárez, they spoke at the monument erected by Mexico to commemorate the settlement. "An old argument has ended," said L.B.J., "a lasting bond has been forged." Echoing these sentiments, Díaz Ordaz stressed: "This is not an isolated case of understanding...
...Classrooms. Launched in 1944 under President Manuel Avila Camacho, sharply stepped .up in 1959 by President Adolfo Lopez Mateos, and energetically continued by President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz for the past three years, Mexico's campaign to wipe out illiteracy is gaining new momentum. Under Diaz Ordaz, Mexico has spent four times as much on education as it has on national defense; up to 10,000 classrooms have been built each year during his administration, and 5,000 more are currently under construction...
Mexico's progress is the result of more than 30 years of political and economic stability under the uniquely long-lived, seldom heavy-handed rule of P.R.I., the Institutional Revolutionary Party. But P.R.I, and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz have had a scattershot of troubles of late. Within the past 18 months, Diaz Ordaz has had to use paratroopers to quell student strikes on three campuses and militia to put down several rural protests over food prices and campesino grievances. Outside the glittering, wealthy cities live nearly half the people, scratching out incomes that average less than $16 per family...
Only the Score. Back home, the Latin American Presidents helped spread the message of self-help that Lyndon Johnson had so effectively implanted in the face-to-face sessions. Breaking his custom of addressing his countrymen only once a year, Mexico's Gustavo Diaz Ordaz went on the radio as soon as he returned home to stress that Latin America must bear the chief responsibility for its own future. Said President Fernando Belaunde Terry to his fellow Peruvians: "The declaration of Punta del Este is only the score. Success will depend on how we play...
...conference of hemisphere chiefs, Latin American leaders surrounded him and embraced him in one passionate abrazo after another. When they finally turned him loose, their wives besieged him for autographs. "This has been so beautiful," sighed Brazil's President Arthur da Costa e Silva. Said Mexico's Gustavo Diaz Ordaz: "President Johnson is showing heart for Latin America...