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Carter alluded to that embarrassing moment during a black-tie dinner for López Portillo Friday night. Lifting a glass of water?White House servants had not yet filled the wine glasses?Carter promised: "I am determined to make the result of our toast better than in Mexico." He conceded that the U.S. and Mexico "have not always had happy and peaceful relations," but claimed that "the troubled and uncertain times between our two countries are gone forever." López Portillo was slightly less euphoric in his response. He noted that "frank and open communication" was necessary to enhance...
...result, Mexican governments have tacitly encouraged the annual flight of at least 500,000 illegal immigrants...
Because there is no other route to power, those with political ambitions must work their way up the P.R.I, ladder, slavishly following the policies of their superiors until a leader who shares their ideology assumes the presidency. As a result, new presidents are assured the unwavering support of the P.R.I, party structure...
Congress so far has done nothing to ease this new burden by approving either Jimmy Carter's request for $400 million for special low-income assistance in paying fuel bills or his proposed windfall-profits tax, which budgets some $1.2 billion in additional help. As a result, states are moving on their own. Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode Island are all looking into setting aside funds to provide heating money to the needy. In Virginia, Winchester Memorial Hospital's emergency-room staff is studying the treatment for hypothermia, caused when severe cold, combined with poor nutrition, makes body temperature...
There may be no outright fuel shortages this winter. Since April the Administration has been pressing petroleum companies to build up stocks, and now they have stored 217 million bbl., vs. 207 million bbl. at this time last year. As a result, Energy Secretary Charles Duncan last week said that the Government will stop its three-month-old program of paying $5-per-bbl. subsidies for imports of foreign heating oil refined in the Caribbean. This was an ill-conceived scheme that enraged Europeans, who charged that Washington was forcing up the price of heating fuel worldwide...