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Representatives of the Black Student Association and Raza-the Mexican-American student organization-joined the commemoration, which began with a traffic-blocking candlelight march from Lowell House. Marchers carried Puerto Rican flags and were accompanied by a stereo playing traditional music...
Often Kahlo (Helen Schneider) is painted as a cardboard caricature in order to better serve narrow agendas: agonizingly disabled, Mexican, communist, bisexual, a woman oppressed by a famous painter husband. Frida expertly avoids exploiting the politically correct factors that have posthumously made Frida Kahlo a pop culture celebrity...
...sport flash, white supremacist Thomas Metzger, and the usual show-biz suspects, including Liz Taylor, Elton John and Tim Robbins. Violinist Itzhak Perlman is $ scheduled, and California senate candidate Dianne Feinstein is already taped. Whoopi wants to reason together with Pat Buchanan, who hopes to wall off the Mexican border, and with Pat Robertson, who believes that feminism leads to witchcraft. (Is Robertson right? Or does sanctimoniousness lead to prattle? Tune in and find...
Just hours after the agreement was reached, President Bush strode into the White House Rose Garden to applaud the pact as "the beginning of a new era." Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari went on early-morning television to praise the deal, while Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney called it "an important step forward." Elsewhere the reception was chillier. In Japan, angry trade and auto-industry officials charged that the local-content requirement would force Japanese manufacturers to redesign cars sold in North America and jack up prices...
...trading partners in industrial development. Economists say Mexico could gain 600,000 primarily industrial jobs by 1995 as the agreement rolls back tariffs and reduces restrictive quotas that hobble the country's exports. Negotiators also expect the U.S. and Canada to profit from an explosion in sales to the Mexican market. But U.S. labor leaders argue that tens of thousands of American workers could lose their jobs as companies shift production to Mexico to cash in on industrial wage rates that are roughly one-sixth those north of the Rio Grande...