Word: leone
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Mexico's economy was proceeding smoothly, guided by former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, when the country collided with the insurgency of its campesinos and, like the Titanic, began to sink [Mexico, Jan. 9]. New President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon has inherited a sinking ship, and he is not sure what steps to take to keep Mexico afloat. Foreigners like to invest in a country where there are prospects of a good return and the political scene is calm and controlled. But at the first sign of civil unrest, the investments will stop and moneys will be pulled...
...economic crisis, aides said, this would probably be Clinton's last time to give a purely presidential speech to the nation before the campaign season begins. ``There's no question that this State of the Union speech is the most important speech of this presidency,'' said Leon Panetta, Clinton's chief of staff last Friday...
...LEON: Dead Ducks The odor of death hangs over the artificial lake near this Mexican industrial city where 25,000 migrating waterfowl have died since mid- December. Water samples from the Silva Reservoir show high concentrations of the pesticide endosulfan, though local farmers and tanneries in the area deny using the chemical. As officials search for clues, the National Water Commission patrols the reservoir in a boat equipped with a siren, and volunteers set off fireworks to scare waterfowl away. Though the water has been declared dangerous for use in homes and in some kinds of agriculture, farmers continue...
...opposed every moderate effort in the last Congress. I can only wonder now if he actually believes in his own promises, or will he reverse course yet again?" Whose fault was the 100-minute pastiche? Apparently, Clinton winged it.TIME White House correspondent James Carneynotes that Chief of Staff Leon Panetta promised just hours before Clinton's delivery that the speech would run just 40 minutes...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Nina Burleigh, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Gregory Jaynes, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, John Rothchild, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Mark Alan Stamaty, Richard Stengel, Andrew Tobias, Claudia Wallis, Michael Walsh, Robert Wright...