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...Chiapas and Taxco. She also visited some of Mexico's most remote areas during the presidential campaign of Miguel de la Madrid and watched his helicopter fleet land, "no different in the eyes of the isolated villagers from seeing an Aztec god descend from the heavens." After a one-hour interview with the new President, Willwerth and López are optimistic that the recent mood of frankness will continue. De la Madrid's administration seems more open to the foreign press than that of his predecessor. But Willwerth remains cautious. Says he: "The real test...
...One reason for Begin's truculent behavior may have been a sense that events were careening out of his control. On Monday, Israel's President Yitzhak Navon, whose office is essentially nonpolitical, took the unusual step of summoning Begin to his office for a one-hour accounting of Israel's role in the massacre. Afterward, Navon went on television to call for a "credible and independent inquiry...
...euphoria of Tuesday generated an even more intense trading frenzy on Wednesday morning. In the first hour, the Dow climbed 17.79 points on an incredible volume of 37 million shares, which was 54% higher than the previous one-hour record of 24.1 million. Suddenly, and almost as swiftly, the market swung the other way. Fearing that the rally was going too far and too fast, nervous investors decided to sell and take their profits...
Demonstrations and press conferences took place in more than 75 cities, from San Diego, to Philadelphia, to Billings, Mont. In Washington, D.C. 75 people staged a one-hour picket line outside the Justice Department. At least 25 more protests are planned for this weekend, a spokesman for the Washington-based Committee Against Registration and the Draft estimated...
...another war. In neighboring Arab countries, governments speculated that the Israelis, if not preparing for outright annexation, were intentionally trying to drive out the Palestinian Arabs, who constitute more than 96% of the population of the West Bank and Gaza. Three Arab states-Jordan, Lebanon and Syria-called one-hour national strikes as gestures of sympathy for the Palestinians. At the United Nations, the Security Council began debate on a motion to condemn Israel for its actions on the West Bank...