Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of President Nixon's recent policies apparently have been aimed more at drumming up popular support than at solving the problems that torture America. His offensive on the Mexican drug trade is no exception...
...pressure the Mexican government to help stop the illegal flow of heroin, marijuana, and pep pills into...
Although Nixon's offensive sounds good to anti-drug, anti-crime congressmen, the amount of actual controlling it accomplishes is highly questionable. One Mexican official said, "It's like trying to cure cancer with an aspirin. Drugs are a worldwide problem and stopping up a few borders is not going to stop...
...have speculated that the hill in the marijuana trade- felt on the East Coast since the summer- will continue for a few more months until local supplies are grown. Nixon then will have to fly his marijuana-detecting devices over campuses and New England farms rather than over the Mexican hills...
...Nixons, joined by David and Julie Eisenhower, tootled out to the helipad in one of the fringed-top presidential golf carts. As Nixons and Johnsons shook hands all around, Francisco Ruano, resplendent in rich brown deerskin bolero and blue-and-silver sombrero, led his Guadalajara Boys mariachi of eight Mexican-American musicians in a fair approximation of Happy Birthday. The band was Nixon's own idea; he discovered it at El Adobe, a favorite restaurant in nearby San Juan Capistrano, and pronounced their sound "beautiful." After The Yellow Rose of Texas, Nixon exclaimed: "Now let's get that...