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...Mavs have the broadest international following of any NBA team. Cuban signed the NBA's first Chinese player, 7-ft. 1-in. center Wang Zhizhi, and the first French player, Tariq Abdul-Wahad, as well as Canadian Steve Nash and Mexican Eduardo Najera. Fans across the world tuned into the first webcast of an NBA game last April and can get game previews at dallasmavericks.com in four languages: English, Spanish, German and Mandarin Chinese. Three times as many people click on the Chinese section as on the English...
Died. Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera, 68, Mexican career diplomat, onetime (1935-45) ambassador to the U.S., chairman of the U.N. Security Council in 1946, general in the Mexican Army, surgeon, poet and musician; after long illness; in Mexico City. As ambassador to the U.S., Najera worked to implement the Good Neighbor Policy, was instrumental in setting up the 1942 settlement of $40 million in U.S. claims against the Mexican government, including those for American-owned oil lands seized by Mexico...
...Mexico's Francisco Najera: "Shallow, unclear . . . worst...
Francisco Castillo Najera was the impulsive Latin American. Mexico's Foreign Minister, a surgeon, poet and guitar player as well as diplomat, spoke and gestured volubly. In his heavily accented French, he dropped Gallic syllables like Mexican hot tamales. When he rendered Gromyko's cumbersome title, Représentant de I'Union des Républiques Socialistes Soviétiques, it shortened to le représ . . . tant de Union . . . tique. But at tense moments the versatile Mexican was a model of taciturn tact...
Stalwart Ezequiel Padilla, Mexico's Foreign Minister since 1940, resigned last week as the result of a campaign of backstage intrigue and a storm of public criticism. Rivals within the Mexican foreign service, notably Francisco Castillo Najera, Ambassador to the U.S., had long been gunning for 6-ft., spruce Ezequiel, sometimes called "the black Narcissus" because of his darkish skin and elegant attire. Other political opponents may have undermined him with President Avila Camacho, hoping to head him off as a candidate in next year's presidential election...