Word: mexicans
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...later, Secretary of State George Shultz invited the Mexican Ambassador, Jorge Espinosa de Los Reyes, to his office to discuss the situation. Again, the U.S. offer of assistance was, at least for the moment, politely turned down: the Ambassador noted that first of all, needs would have to be assessed. Following the meeting, Shultz explained to reporters, "Mexico likes traditionally to confront its problems itself. We admire that. But Mexico should also know we are there, ready to help...
Ambassador Gavin meantime told a press conference in Mexico City that, with the Mexican government's approval, the U.S. was sending 25 demolition experts to level 30 precariously weakened buildings in the capital. They would arrive in Mexico City in a C-5A transport also carrying five large helicopters equipped to fight fires. An accompanying team of 25 civilian technicians would include experts on disasters and on using heavy mining equipment. One request the Mexicans did make was for giant crane helicopters to help clear some of the ruins, but U.S. experts said they would not operate properly...
...mile ribbon of Mexican Pacific coastline that stretches from Manzanillo to Acapulco has long been considered one of the world's beautiful places, home to a sprinkling of fishing hamlets and resorts. Yet beneath the indigo waves and silky white beaches lies a jagged fault line that could be one of the deadliest in the Western Hemisphere. It was this fault that erupted under the Pacific last week, causing the earthquake that measured 7.8 on the Richter scale,* rocked coastal towns and brought disaster to Mexico City...
...under California's San Andreas fault, friction locks them together. Every so often, abrupt slippages occur and the earth around them shudders in what geologists call strike-slip quakes. Still another kind of tectonic phenomenon, the meeting of an oceanic and a continental plate, is responsible for the Mexican disaster...
...will take weeks, perhaps months, to assess the financial toll of last week's earthquakes. But most analysts of Mexican affairs would agree that the disaster could not have come at a worse time for the country's troubled economy. As Peter Bell, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, puts it, "Mexico has been going through something like the trials...