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...seems to work very well. Four years ago, city officials proclaimed the establishment of block committees to express community needs, but those that exist serve mainly as organs of PRI patronage. About the only system that actually functions is amiguismo, roughly "friendshipness." Says Meyer: "When the water stops, our neighbor runs over to the waterworks and tells a friend, who sees to it that somebody turns on the right valve...
...daughter" Donna. She still makes time to go shopping for clothes with her daughters, as on a recent Saturday morning. She fretted about getting mobbed in the dressing room, having to answer questions "in my Bermudas and bra," but swallowed her dignity and went anyway. Only one person-a neighbor-recognized her. "It was weird," she said, sounding slightly disappointed...
China has a vested interest in keeping the border war going. With troops positioned along the frontier, Viet Nam has been unwilling to carry out a full-scale offensive against Chinese-backed guerrillas next door, in Kampuchea. China is not the only neighbor upset with Viet Nam. At a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Indonesia last week, attended by U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, the region's foreign ministers joined in condemning Viet Nam's "illegal occupation" of Kampuchea...
...bill stings a neighbor...
...Mexican citizens in the U.S. The reaction in the Mexican press was overwhelmingly hostile. "The insult inflicted on us by the U.S.," wrote Gonzalo Martre in the Mexico City daily El Universal, "has wounded our national honor." Gilberto Herrera, another columnist, accused the U.S. of being a bad neighbor and of forgetting how Mexican laborers came to the assistance of U.S. agriculture in World War II. Other press critics complained about Washington's refusal to ease trade restrictions while Mexico suffers its most severe economic crisis since the Depression, making it harder for Mexico to sell its products...