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...uncommonly revealing photographic session. Posing in the Rose Garden outside the Oval Office of the White House last week, President Carter and his guest, Mexican President José L??pez Portillo, 59, flashed toothy smiles and made an awkward attempt to stand together arm in arm. But the transparent effort to present a buddy-buddy image tailed to camouflage the uneasy relations between the circumspect Carter and the blunt, ebullient Mexican. Their lack of rapport mirrors the testy state of affairs between the U.S. and its angry, increasingly influential neighbor to the south...
...reason is oil. Since 1972, when geologists drilling into the cactus-studded wasteland of Tabasco state tapped into the gigantic Reforma oil and gas field, Mexico has turned up one immense deposit of petroleum after another. In his state of the union address in early September, L??pez Portillo boasted that Mexico now had proven combined reserves of 45 billion bbl. of oil and gas. Officials of Pemex, the national oil com pany, predict that as many as 200 billion bbl. of crude may eventually be uncovered...
...University Historian Rosario Romeo puts it, "Everyone imagines socialism in his own way." To Senegal's President L??opold Senghor, socialism is "the rational organization of human society according to the most scientific, the most modern and the most efficient methods." To Britain's Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, it is "a society based on cooperation instead of competition." France's Mitterrand calls it "an élan, a collective movement ?the communion of men in search of justice." In a more colloquial vein, a current hit song in Jamaica, pulsating with reggae beat, teaches: "Socialism is love for your...
...these "slanderers of socialism," as their regimes have dubbed them, accept socialism as an ideal, maintaining that it need not be repressive. A group of young French leftist intellectuals known as the "New Philosophers" is not so certain. Bernard-Henri L??vy, 28, one of the movement's most prolific members, has concluded that Stalinism, rather than being an aberration, "is a mode of socialism. Gulag is not an accident." At fault, he argues, is socialism's obsession with homogeneity, "expelling from its borders the forces of heterogeneity and ... squelching its rebels." Compared with socialism's seemingly intrinsic dangers, capitalism...
...somnolence of Alfonso's court turned out to be hard on everyone. The orchestra, under Jesús L??pez-Cobos, was at times embarrassingly inattentive. The Met's curtailed version of the court ballet was execrable, and Milnes, doubtless sick of climbing in and out of his throne, made the mistake of actually watching it instead of striking a rigid pose. One of the evening's genuinely endearing sights was his head turning with increasing confusion at botched patterns and fallen hats...