Word: ordaz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first in a developing nation. They are also Mexico's first big opportunity to put its stable prosperity on inter national display. A two-month-old strike by Mexico's normally docile university students is threatening to spoil that triumph. Last week President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz ordered the army to end the strike by taking over the National University campus on the outskirts of Mexico City...
Last week, in a cordial exchange of abrazos and acreage, Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Gustavo Díaz Ordaz redressed the Rio Grande's trespass. Crossing into bunting-festooned Ciudad Juárez, they spoke at the monument erected by Mexico to commemorate the settlement. "An old argument has ended," said L.B.J., "a lasting bond has been forged." Echoing these sentiments, Díaz Ordaz stressed: "This is not an isolated case of understanding...
Earlier, L.B.J. had exuberantly welcomed Díaz Ordaz to Washington for his first state visit there and their fifth meeting. "I want you to feel at home in my house, as I do in yours," L.B.J. beamed at his friend. This accentuated mood of friendship prevailed, although in a speech before Congress Díaz Ordaz sternly warned against protectionist trade tendencies in the U.S. But the visit's highlight was clearly the celebration of the Chamizal affair's settlement...
...Classrooms. Launched in 1944 under President Manuel Avila Camacho, sharply stepped .up in 1959 by President Adolfo Lopez Mateos, and energetically continued by President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz for the past three years, Mexico's campaign to wipe out illiteracy is gaining new momentum. Under Diaz Ordaz, Mexico has spent four times as much on education as it has on national defense; up to 10,000 classrooms have been built each year during his administration, and 5,000 more are currently under construction...
...unrest is so small in scale and occurrence that it would hardly be noticed if it were not that modern Mexico is usually so free of any disturbances. Diaz Ordaz and P.R.I, are nonetheless concerned: the emphasis on building up industry is a calculated gamble that industrialization will raise the standard of living for all Mexicans before the day the peasants lose their faith in the Institutional Revolutionary Party. There seems no early cause for the party leaders to hedge the bet; last week, in legislative and gubernatorial elections across Mexico, P.R.I, candidates took 90% of the vote, winning...