Word: mexicans
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Pointedly, Duarte had nothing to say at that time about another, earlier presidential address in nearby Nicaragua. There, Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo delivered a variation on his government's view that the U.S. should abandon its current policy in El Salvador in favor of recommending negotiations between all interested parties, a position favored by the U.S. hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church (see box). At week's end, Duarte finally dismissed Lopez Portillo's suggestion as "utopian...
Born in 1893 in Swampscott, Mass.. Claflin was captain of the varsity hockey team as a Harvard senior. The next year, 1916 he served in the Mexican Border campaign and then fought in France during World...
Reagan's conspicuous denial of aid to leftist countries in the Caribbean will also prove counter-productive. Mexican President Lopez Portillo has declared he will not participate in any plan that excludes Nicaragua and Cuba--which is precisely what the Reagan program does. But without the support of Lopez Portillo--who is trusted by Reagan and Caribbean leftists alike, a rare combination--any initiative in the basin has only a dim chance of success. And cutting off Nicaragua will only increase the Sandinistas' reliance on the Soviet Union...
...much repeated piece of West Texas lore has it that mesquite traveled up from Mexico a century or two ago in the droppings of pack animals. This seems to be false, an effort possibly to blame the noxious plant on foreign influences (a Mexican might point out that in Texas, it was the Anglos who were the foreigners). Mesquite evidently is a native, but drought and overgrazing of the land apparently have encouraged it to spread until it has become an epidemic. Years ago, the Indians of the Southwest lived happily with the stuff. They used mesquite for fuel, shade...
...armed forces." This assertion came on the heels of a massacre of 700 women, children and elderly by the Atlcatl battalion and a New York Times report that American military advisers had witnessed the torture and murder of two Salvadoran teenagers by military officials. If the Salvadoran government is Mexican daily Uno Mas Uno Both are now dead, victims of military repression in contrast to the Reagan Administration's report the U.N. High maintaining control over these forces, we shudder to think what must be the policy of the junta...