Word: madrid
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...Raina, 24, is a University of Southern California graduate who dates Anglos (40% of Mexican Americans marry across ethnic lines) and spent her junior year studying in Madrid: Ernie had wanted her to perfect her Spanish...
...enforcement has worked to the advantage of both. The U.S. has used Mexico as a backup labor source, and Mexico has counted on the annual flow of its natives as a "safety valve" for relieving the pressure of its high unemployment. Although the Mexican government of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado has avoided taking a public position, Mexican leaders complain bitterly in private that the U.S. is making a unilateral decision about a problem the countries share and is "criminalizing" the immigrants...
Nonetheless, Shultz was confronted with an uncommon degree of rancor among State Department officials after word came that Enders, an architect of U.S. policy toward Central America, was about to be shuffled off as Ambassador to Madrid. Professional diplomats at State became increasingly outraged over a steady stream of anonymous denigrating comments about Enders that emerged from the White House. Among the accusations: that, contrary to White House policy, Enders favored conciliatory negotiations with the guerrillas in El Salvador; that he insisted excessively on the importance of emphasizing economic as well as military aid to El Salvador in President Reagan...
...hour visit to Mexico City, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige led the highest-level U.S. delegation yet to meet south of the border with officials of the five-month-old administration of President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado. By the end of the encounter, both sides were happily claiming positive results. According to a State Department official, Mexico showed an "increased sensitivity" to U.S. complaints of Soviet, Cuban and Nicaraguan aggressiveness in fomenting subversion in Central America. Said a senior U.S. diplomat: "There is not total harmony, but there...
Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, 48, discussed his nation's role in promoting peace in Central America with 50 American business leaders and journalists traveling in the region on a TIME-sponsored news tour, and offered his views on how Mexico's pressing economic problems were being resolved. Excerpts...