Word: mexico
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With Co-Captain Russ Ball and Darius Pandole--traditional singles tournament participants--playing, the Crimson is a good bet to recapture the title from Mexico. Last year, the Crimson reached the finals before dropping a 4-1 decision to the Mexicans...
...trillion debt should eventually be repaid in full. But now the Treasury Department has collaborated with the Mexican government and New York City's Morgan Guaranty Trust in devising a novel relief plan. The proposal calls for U.S. lenders to make voluntary concessions that could scale back Mexico's $106 billion in debts by as much as $10 billion...
...Reason: before issu bonds that would be worth $10 billion when they mature in 20 years. The U.S. bonds would then serve as collateral for the new Mexican paper. While the proposal may be a breakthrough in the debt standoff, the $10 billion in loan relief would still leave Mexico with a daunting load. Moreover, the scheme may not be readily adaptable for such other debtor nations as Brazil and Argentina, which cannot match Mexico's relatively healthy $15 billion in foreign currency reserves...
...there seemed an ultimate unseriousness about Paris in May, the events in Mexico City some months later were a trauma and tragedy. Mexico, under President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, was preparing to play host to the Olympics. But the mood of students, intellectuals and much of the middle class had soured on the Diaz government's authoritarianism. On Oct. 2 some 10,000 people gathered at Tlatelolco Square. Late in the afternoon, hundreds of soldiers hidden in , the Aztec ruins opened fire, while secret-police agents in the crowd drew pistols and began making arrests. That night army vehicles carried...
...uprising at Columbia was the work of a minority of student radicals. But it was not an aberration. Around the world that year in cities as widely spaced as Paris and Tokyo and Mexico City and Berkeley, students rose in protest and revolt. The spasms of unrest seemed almost psychologically coordinated, as if a mysterious common impulse had swept through the nervous system of a global generation. The theme of the protests, and of the generation, was . . . what? To challenge authority. To change the world. To take possession of the world. To announce itself...