Word: hurtado
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...devaluation of the Mexican peso. Unfortunately, the action has done little yet to ease any of the economy's underlying woes. Last week Muňoz resigned, to be replaced by Jesus Silva Herzog, a Yale-educated economist and close friend of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, López Portillo's hand-picked presidential successor when nationwide elections are held in July...
Even though presidential elections will not be held until July 1982, the name of the President-to-be had just been made known. He is Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, 46, the government's Secretary of Programming and Budget. His selection by the country's monolithic Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) had been announced a month sooner than expected by the incumbent, President Jose Lopez Portillo...
...South Africa and Paraguay, recognize it. Tin miners continue a costly strike ($1.5 million a day in lost export earnings). Not even all the military approve of the coup: Garcia Meza's reshuffling of troop commanders is seen as a clear sign of suspect allegiance. Archbishop Jorge Manriquez Hurtado of La Paz and Bolivia's Council of Bishops have condemned the junta for creating a "climate of violence." On Aug. 6, Independence Day, the day he probably would have been chosen President, Siles Zuazo announced from his hideaway that he was forming a clandestine "government of the Bolivian...
...world away, Peruvian Indians have lived for centuries on low oxygen concentrations in the high Andes. To learn more about what this has done to their hearts and lungs, and what happens when they go down to the low level at Lima, PHS is backing research by Physiologist Alberto Hurtado. U.S. spacemen are looking anxiously over his shoulder for the answers...
...adaptation help a spaceman to survive if he accidentally lost his oxygen supply, and 2) can a lowly sea-level type achieve the High Andean's resistance to oxygen deprivation-but in a matter of weeks instead of centuries? Helping Dr. Clark get the answers were Drs. Alberto Hurtado and Tulio Velasquez of Lima's Institute of Andean Biology...