Word: oils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very proud of the recent discoveries of oil and natural gas in Mexico. --Jimmy Carter, Washington...
Although the warehouse stored nothing extremely flammable, the owners kept oil on the premises for the company garage, Griffin said. However, he added there was never a real danger of it igniting...
Before Mexico struck oil, the United States could play the role of parent--an inexcusably selfish, and often negligent parent, but a parent nonetheless. The disguise, however, was too transparent and too often cast aside to conceal the raw facts of America's superior might and Mexico's dependence on the U.S. as a market for 70 per cent of its exports and as a source of foreign investment...
...curious twist of fate, which some might call poetic justice, Mexico finally has something that the United States desperately wants--huge reserves of oil and natural gas--and has no intention of obediently giving it away. Experts predict that by 1980 Mexico will be the world's fifth largest producer of oil, just behind Saudi Arabia...
...United States anachronistic attempts to force its will on Mexico arbitrarily have backfired. Since President Lopez Portillo's visit to Washington D.C. in early 1977, relations between the U.S. and Mexico have progressively deteriorated. When Carter vetoed a privately negotiated agreement to buy Mexican oil at $2.60 a barrel, Mexico proudly announced that its oil was not for sale at a lower price, rerouted pipelines originally bound for the U.S., and signed contracts with France and Canada. When the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) announced its plans to build a fence between Juarez and El Paso, which a spokesman...