Word: mexicanized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Williams' plot is a 400-acre island that was created when Hurricane Beulah changed the course of the Rio Grande in 1967. Because the island is south of the main river channel, the U.S. decided that the land was Mexican territory. Mexico, however, refused to accept ownership. So Williams bought the island from Mexican citizens for $400,000. By his reckoning, the 19th century Mexican treaties of Iguala and Guadalupe pave the warpath for him: they give Cherokee Indians the right to establish a nation...
...Mexican finds are significant but hardly a complete solution to future energy shortages. At best, oil from Mexico would put off the projected fuel crunch from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. But together with other potential big fields?in China, Iraq, Canada, South America, Alaska and elsewhere?the new bonanza in Mexico could enable the world to scrape by into the 21st century, by which time energy from alternative sources may be widely available...
Despite the present differences, the chances of the U.S. making a deal with Mexico are excellent if both sides use some enlightened diplomacy. The U.S. needs Mexican oil and gas to ease its dependence on the unstable Middle East. Besides, it would be much easier to pay for imports from Mexico than from Araby. Unlike the Persian Gulf states, Mexico is poor and populous. It has 66 million people now and anticipates 132 million by the end of the century-and they will need tremendous quantities of what the U.S. has to sell: farm machines, computers, technology of all kinds...
George Sanchez, the assembly's special representative from RAZA, a Mexican-American campus organization, asked the assembly to send the letter to Dean Rosovsky, President Bok, Archiv C. Epps III, dean of students, and Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean for undergraduate education...
...epicenter of the quake was about ten miles off the Mexican coast. "It would have been much worse if the epicenter had been located on land," Gesar Bauza, a leading Mexican meteorologist, said yesterday...