Word: ordaz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down on the time lag, the hotel on each floor keeps a roaming cart that is in constant touch with the kitchen by radio. The hallways are designed to make guests enjoy their walk by providing surprise glimpses of the gardens and pools. President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz of Mexico was so delighted by the walks that he lingered 90 minutes exploring the hotel, though he had scheduled only a 25-minute visit...
...government of Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz is not acting in a state of temporary insanity--driven to such lengths by the booty offered it by the Olympic Games. Twice in the space of 18 months Diaz has ordered similar massacres of unarmed civilians--in the state of Guerrero last summer and at the University of Hermosillo a few months before. The Olympics must not be allowed to serve as a cover for Diaz plans for silencing students with genuine grievances...
...University. As the scrap spilled into the streets, the students directed their anger toward the traditionally revered personage of Mexico's President, and seized the chance of disrupting the upcoming Olympics (see SPORT) as a historic opportunity for official embarrassment. For his part, dedicated, aloof President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz grimly vowed "to do whatever is our duty, however far we are obliged to go," to protect his country's good name and, presumably, the Olympics tourist trade. Fortnight ago, he ordered the army into the National University's campus, violating a 40-year tradition of academic freedom...
Fierce fighting Wednesday night between student rebels and the forces of President Gustav Diaz Ordaz' government in the area of the Plaza of Three Cultures left at least 25 dead, hundreds injured and thousands in jail...
During two months of orderly demonstrations in Zocalo, the central plaza opposite Diaz Ordaz's mansion, the students made four demands: that the government disband the granaderos, dismiss Mexico City's police chief, release all so-called political prisoners, and revoke an antisubversion clause in the penal code. The government promised to re-examine the law, but otherwise remained aloof. Mexico's press blamed the riots on "Communist agitators," but the demonstrations seemed more to reflect the influence of an activist New Left. Increasingly, the students threatened to "stop the Olympics," and directed their attacks against Diaz...