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...week, the Presidents of eight Latin American countries called for a sweeping overhaul of the Organization of American States, the Washington-based association of 32 hemispheric nations formed in 1948. Complaining that "for several years the OAS has not carried out its function efficiently," Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid asked for "a detailed re-examination and reinforcement" of that body...
...issue are three air bases, a naval station and other facilities maintained by 12,000 American troops. Of special concern is the Torrejon air base outside Madrid, which houses 72 F-16 fighters assigned to help protect NATO's southern and central flanks. The Spanish want all the F-16s redeployed to some other country. The U.S. has offered to remove one-third of them. Concluded a European diplomat: "The two sides are at a dead...
...color black and who smoked imported cigarettes--none of this domestic cowboy Marlboro crap. They understood--really understood--James Joyce on a first reading. I met a girl named Anastasia who had a vaguely European-sounding accent and had spent the last four years studying in Paris, London, Madrid, Rome, Venice, Florence, Sydney and other assorted exotic cities. She wore a mauve beret and it actually looked good...
...State Department officials expressed surprise; Interior Minister Manuel Bartlett Diaz and Energy Minister Alfredo del Mazo Gonzalez were considered likelier choices. While Salinas, like De la Madrid, is favorably disposed toward Washington, he is expected to keep his distance lest he offend Mexican sensibilities. "Salinas is hardheaded enough to know that Mexico's future is bound to the U.S. and not to a tiny Third World country in Central America," says a European diplomat based in Mexico City, referring to Nicaragua. "But there has to be a little prickliness in the relationship for it to be right...
...native of Mexico City, Salinas joined the P.R.I. shortly after enrolling as an economics major at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1966. De la Madrid, then a law professor at the university, spotted and encouraged Salinas' budding economic talents, and the careers of the men have been intertwined ever since. Upon graduation, Salinas held a series of low-level bureaucratic jobs, then headed to Harvard in 1973, where he earned two master's degrees and a doctorate in political economy and government. Returning in 1978 to Mexico City, where he now lives with his wife and three children...