Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tlatelolco, in the center of a huge low-rent housing project in Mexico City, 1000 soldiers opened fire with machine guns and rifles on a crowd of 10,000 demonstrators, who had been hemmed into the plaza only minutes before. At least 49 demonstrators were killed, hundreds injured. The Mexican Defense Minister claimed that the firing was in response to sniping by students, yet, according to official counts, only one soldier was killed and seven hurt during a week of rioting...
Officials of the Mexican government have said repeatedly during the week of the "noche triste" that the 19th Olympic Games will be held no matter what steps have to be taken to insure it--including machine-gunning of peaceful demonstrators. The Mexican government is "protecting" the athletes and spectators at the Olympic Games form harm by mowing down potential troublemakers with bullets. This kind of protection should not be accepted or tolerated by athletes there--including the Harvard crew. All athletes at the Games ought to reject the barbarism of the Mexican authorities and refuse to participate in the Games...
...Mexican Standoff. And yet, what too many of his critics have failed to see is that this paragon late of the Pentagon is far from being narrow or insensitive. He can stress the excellent record of the Defense Department on open housing. He can enlarge his concept of security to include economic as well as military values. He knows that "solid friends and implacable enemies are no longer so easy to label"-that tags like "free world," "Communism," and "Iron Curtain" are becoming "increasingly inadequate." He steadily argues that there can be no true security for the world as long...
...that the arms race has approached its outward limits. "A nation can reach the point at which it does not buy more security for itself simply by buying more military hardware," he cautions, "and we are at that point." The U.S. and the Soviets, he suggests, have reached a Mexican standoff: "It is futile for each of us to spend $4 billion, $40 billion or $400 billion-and at the end of all the spending ... to be relatively at the same point of balance on the security scale that we are now . . . What the world requires...
...planning a demonstration at 10 a.m. today at the Mexican Consulate, 140 Federal St., Boston, in support of the Mexican students...