Word: mexicans
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...between the bland and the flamboyant. It awarded the 1982 peace prize to two dedicated diplomats who are little known outside their circles of influence but who have campaigned long and hard for nuclear disarmament. The winners were Swedish Sociologist Alva Myrdal, 80, and Alfonso Garcia Robles, 71, a Mexican career diplomat who energetically sponsored the 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco, which is intended to make Latin America the world's largest nuclear-free inhabited zone. Myrdal belongs to an even more elite circle. She is married to another Nobel Laureate, Gunnar Myrdal, 83, who shared the 1974 Nobel Prize...
Campaign workers for New Mexico's First District incumbent, Republican Manuel Lujan Jr., are fond of saying that he is "as New Mexican as green chili." They come honestly by the claim. Lujan boasts ancestors in the state as far back as A.D. 1540. But he is also an anomaly: a Republican Hispanic who has won seven terms in a district where Democrats have a 2-to-1 registration advantage...
Alva R. Myrdal, Bok's 80-year-old mother-in-law, shared the award with Mexican Alfonso Garcia Robles for their longtime crusades against nuclear arms...
White's best hope is getting out a large vote in the heavily Democratic state. Both candidates have fervently courted the Mexican Americans of south Texas, who usually vote Democratic, but even there Clements has some advantages. He may be seen as the candidate of "the Anglos and the big-business interests," as one Hispanic activist put it, but White is remembered as the attorney general who fought bilingual education and public schooling for children of illegal aliens. Earlier, as Texas secretary of state in 1975, White opposed extension of the Voting Rights Act. Says Roy Barrera...
Part of the plight comes from simple confusion. Once it becomes clear exactly how the food-export ban and currency controls will be enforced, business will settle down, although perhaps not thrive again. The underlying problem of the jittery Mexican peso, however, will probably remain unresolved until after Dec. 1 at least, when Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado takes over as Mexico's new President. That is a short time in the life of nations, but an eternity for beleaguered shopkeepers on both sides of the Border. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Sam Allis/El Paso and Cheryl Crooks/Calexico