Word: madrid
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...yearly trip. "We are trapped. It is against the working people who save their money for some simple pleasures." The anger has been aimed largely at President López Portillo, who on Dec. 1 will turn power over to his hand-picked successor, Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, who won 74% of the vote in last month's presidential election...
...candidate of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I..) and the choice of retiring President José López Portillo, De la Madrid had been certain to win. Reaction to the vote ranged from skepticism to cautious optimism. Said former President Miguel Alemán Valdés: "The country is at peace. There are problems naturally, but we have the confidence that they will be resolved by the next administration...
Until he formally assumes office on Dec. 1, De la Madrid is expected to keep a low profile as he prepares a plan to deal with Mexico's growing problems, including oil-boom inflation (currently running at an annual rate of 60%), widespread poverty and rampant corruption. Meanwhile, the President-elect is preparing to address another important subject in the fall, when, according to sources in Mexico, he will meet with President Ronald Reagan...
Despite nine months on the campaign trail, Miguel de la Madrid remains shy and unaccustomed to public speaking. Throughout an interview with TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief James Willwerth and Reporter Laura López, the President-elect nervously moved his feet and twiddled his thumbs. Nonetheless De la Madrid's answers were confident and direct. Excerpts...
...Francisco; in the end nearly half of the 66 works came from Spain, either from the Prado or the Toledo museum, and none of these have ever been seen in the U.S. before. The resulting show, the largest assemblage of El Greco's works ever seen, opened in Madrid to huge crowds, is now at the National Gallery, and will travel to Toledo and Dallas...