Word: mexicali
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...root of the problem is Mexicali, just across the border from Calexico. In only a generation, it has grown from 25,000 to a city of 700,000 people. But its municipal facilities have not kept up. Mexicali uses the New River as well as the nearby Alamo as all-purpose sewers for everything from toilets to slaughterhouses. After the New River leaves Mexico with its vile cargo, it meanders for about 55 miles through California's agriculture-rich Imperial Valley before emptying into the Salton Sea, center of a popular recreation area...
LINDA RONSTADT: HASTEN DOWN THE WIND (Asylum). Country pop's top woman vocalist swings from primal blues to sunny Mexicali rock...
...both sides of the border-had to be delayed because U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz was out of town. More important, Washington seemed disinclined to honor its promise to halt the dumping of salt into the Colorado River, which leaves much of the soil of Mexico's Mexicali Valley cracked and covered with white cakes of salt...
...told a joint session of Congress, was "an unacceptable form of discrimination" against his country. Mexicans, he insisted, "have had enough of champagne and banquets. We need a positive attitude." A day later, he reported one positive result: a firm commitment by Nixon that the situation in the Mexicali Valley would be "improved immediately...