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...Previous attempts at encounters had always seemed jinxed. In the summer of '63, my family and friends were booked for a high-level seminar with Leary and Richard Alpert at the International Foundation for Internal Freedom's paradise in Zihuatanejo. As we bustled through San Francisco Airport to our Mexicana flight, we saw the headline: DOPE DOCTORS ARRESTED AT MEXICO MANSION. So much for paradise...
Next to Chile, Mexico enjoys the best odds of making privatization work. Former President Miguel de la Madrid sold the Aeromexico national airline for $193.8 million to a group of Mexican investors in 1988. Sales took off after Carlos Salinas de Gortari became President later that year. Mexicana, the other state-owned airline, was sold for $140 million to a consortium including Mexico's Group Xabre conglomerate and the Chase Manhattan Bank. Next to hit the auction block was Cananea, one of the largest copper mines in the western hemisphere, sold last summer for $475 million to Mexican copper baron...
...addition to opening boarder communication with groups like the BSA, Counter said he will continue to organize programs similar to this year's well-attended conference on Japanese internment during World War II and Noche Mexicana, a celebration of Mexican folk dance and music...
...great leap from the North American chili-tortilla parlor to the true provincial cuisine of Mexico. In fact, it would take years for the most diligent gringo to understand or annotate this peasant-rooted cuisine of peppers and cornmeal, arroz, barbacoa and relleno. Diana Kennedy, English by birth and Mexicana by persuasion, invested a large part of her life tasting and testing south of the border to produce The Cuisines of Mexico in 1972. She spent five more years researching the 1978 followup, Recipes from the Regional Cooks of Mexico (Harper & Row; 288 pages; $12.95). The result, for novice...
Moore trudged on. She walked up Powell Street, crossed Post Street and took up a position next to a small boxed tree in front of the Mexicana Airlines office. She had a fine view of the side entrance to the St. Francis Hotel directly across the street. Gradually the crowd grew, swelling to about 2,000. As her vigil continued, she was joined in the line at about 1 p.m. by Oliver Sipple, a man she did not know and, surprisingly, did not engage in conversation...