Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capital's metropolitan area now is populated by an estimated 12 million souls-one-fifth of the nation-and more people flock to it every day. At least 500,000 campesinos arrive each year looking for work, then settle into makeshift hovels only marginally better than the villages they left behind. Once one of the hemisphere's most beautiful cities, the capital is now one of the most blighted. Clouds of smoke from burning garbage, tortilla shops and public bathhouses-fortified by the rarefied oxygen at 7,347 ft.-make lung congestion almost epidemic and blot...
Responsible Parenthood. More difficult to deal with is Mexico's population explosion; the annual increase is 3.2%. Half of the nation's people are under 20 years of age, and at least 40% of the older youths in this group can find no work. López Portillo will have to find a way to help the disaffected; few people have forgotten the 1968 student riots, including the notorious noche triste (the night of sorrow), when an estimated 200 people died. Three years ago, the government established a birth control program that emphasized "responsible parenthood"; the birth rate...
...greatest challenge for López Portillo is to find a solution for the gnawing problem that is really at the basis of all the nation's troubles. Whatever the reasons-proximity to the U.S., corruption at high levels, resentment, frustration-Mexicans have never been able to realize a true national identity. Some sociologists theorize that Mexicans suffer a national inferiority complex. Cynics among them describe Mexico as a nation of losers, who endure the worst of outrages by telling sad little jokes about their leaders...
...Lagos, the Nigerian capital, Young caught one of the best shows of all, a dazzling performance by a collection of black dancers from all over the world (see color). More important, he managed to make the visit to Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation (estimated pop. 70 million), the most successful stop on his ten-day trip...
Safety Valve. But weather modification could also prove to be a mixed blessing. Ray Davis, a University of Arizona law professor, says rainmaking could be considered a form of "cloud rustling" and believes that diverting another nation's or state's cloud system could be construed as illegal diversion of its water. Says Davis, "If one country causes environmental harm to another, there is liability." He also cautions that weather modification could become a form of warfare, enabling hostile countries to cause droughts or floods in the lands of their enemies...