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...Star Wars separate from proposals for missile reductions. The next round of ; arms talks will be three-pronged, with separate negotiations on medium-range and long-range missiles and defense systems like Star Wars. The Administration announced last week that Washington Lawyer Max Kampelman, who successfully negotiated the Madrid agreement on European security and human rights in 1983, will be in overall charge of the U.S. delegation and also handle the talks on space weapons. Former Senator John Tower will be the U.S. negotiator on strategic weapons, and career Diplomat Maynard Glitman will be the point man on the intermediate...
...loan money was used to fund an expanded government, but Mexico's new leaders are technocrats who lack the political savvy and personal forcefulness of their predecessors. Miguel de la Madrid, K-School grad and Mexico's current President, has grown increasingly unpopular as he has responded to the nation's financial straits by slashing social programs. The current budget cuts are the first for many years in Mexico, where presidents since the 1930s have spent to keep the myth of the just revolution alive and forestall social unrest...
...Spanish poet who won the 1977 Nobel Prize for Literature for such volumes as La Destructión o el Amor (1935) and Historia del Corazon (1954), which dwelt on themes of love, death and eternity, often employing striking mystical or surrealistic metaphors from nature; of kidney failure; in Madrid. An invalid from his mid-20s, when he contracted recurrent kidney tuberculosis, Aleixandre became part of the Generation of 1927, a brilliant group of young poets that was sundered by the 1936-39 civil war; too ill to fight or leave, he was the only member not killed or exiled...
...mass funeral-which was also the 74th anniversary of the Mexican revolution and therefore had to be commemorated, after a moment of silence, by a marathon and a parade-Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado and several top officials helicoptered into ruined San Juan Ixhuatepec...
...evacuees took shelter in more than 40 temporary rescue centers. President de la Madrid toured one of these and watched swarms of children and their families gulping beans, rice and tortillas. "We are with you," he said. The government's relief effort was fast and effective, particularly for a nation that has been afflicted by recession, budget cutting and widespread corruption. Some 5,000 police and federal troops sealed off San Juan Ixhuatepec to prevent looting (27 looters were arrested). An additional 3,000 health workers, with 450 ambulances, sped the injured to hospitals and clinics. Within two hours...