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...wish to go. The best that could be said about Cancún is that the leaders agreed to continue talking, but neither a forum nor a time was set. As Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, co-chairman of the conference with Mexican President José López Portillo, candidly admitted, "We failed to get agreement on what the next step should...
...leaders flew into Cancún airport, each one arriving about half an hour apart so López Portillo could welcome them individually. Heat hung over the airport like a suffocating cloud; the temperature on the tarmac approached 100°. Dressed in long-sleeved uniforms with helmets and combat boots, several hundred presidential guardsmen stood on the steaming runway all day to greet the dignitaries. One young private, spying a reporter with an arrival schedule, pleaded, "When is the last one, please?" When Air Force One landed, Reagan greeted López Portillo with a warm abrazo. The pair...
Determined lobbying from Mexico's President Jose Lopez Portillo, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau helped persuade Reagan to attend Cancún. But he had conditions: Cuba's Fidel Castro must not attend, the meeting should not be held before the Ottawa summit, and there must be no fixed agenda...
Discussion will center on broad topics: food and agriculture, energy, raw materials, trade and development, financial policy. Each head of government will make a short speech, and there will also be informal conversations. Instead of issuing the usual communique, Host Lopez Portillo will sum up the sense of the meeting in his closing statement...
...first public address, De la Madrid told a cheering, banner-waving throng that his chief task will be to "choose the correct route that benefits the Mexican people." As Lopez Portillo has discovered, even with the advantages of oil wealth, that is not always easy...