Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...document would require the U.S. to halt military aid to El Salvador immediately, without stopping Soviet and Cuban assistance to Nicaragua. The Contadora nations, on the other hand, evidently feel that the U.S. is stalling. "We cannot clearly understand the opposition of the U.S. to the Contadora draft treaty," Mexican Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda Amor told TIME editors last week. "I don't think we can go on forever negotiating documents...
...lifelong citizen of Dallas and as a Mexican-American, I feel I must respond to the distorted attack leveled upon my hometown by your "Unconventional Warfare" column of September 19. In his vehement efforts to criticize the Reagan Administration and the Republican Party, Mark Feinberg has slandered the city of Dallas and its residents, without reason or evidence...
...that "macho Mexican-American men may resist the prospect of a female Vice President" is utterly ridiculous. That is stereotyping of the worst kind...
...avoid moving their plants to Asia. "This is a direct line to Dallas," says John Lord, manager of the Honeywell plant, as he picks up a telephone. "When I need parts I call, and the next day they're here. Try that in the Far East." The Mexican connection enables managers from the headquarters of U.S. firms to visit their factories quickly and frequently. "Twentysix miles is a lot easier than 8,000," said Allen Roshon, president of San Diego's Computer Accessories, which operates a plant in nearby Tijuana...
Similar concessions had been urged for months by Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and International Monetary Fund officials as a means of aiding Latin Citibank's Rhodes countries like Mexico that have tried to solve their economic problems. If the Mexican plan proves successful, the next debtor to receive easier terms could be the region's biggest borrower, Brazil, which owes nearly $100 billion...