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...elect stake out their policies. Since he was tapped to succeed Luis Echeverria as Mexico's President 14 months ago, José López Portillo has broken with that tradition. Even though he carried out a grueling 40,600-mile campaign from the oilfields and swamps of Tabasco to the high sierra, "Don Pepe" has promised only to govern by the "laws of the country." His suitably vague campaign slogan: "La solución somos todos-The solution...
Green, soggy and buzzing with flies, the state of Tabasco at the southeastern tip of Mexico has had some modest local fame as an oil region for decades. Now it has suddenly become the center of the most exciting mystery story in world petroleum. By drilling deeper than ever before-as far as three miles into the geological subbasement-Mexican engineers have found a much bigger reservoir of oil than anyone had suspected was there, a subterranean lake of petroleum three or four miles wide and perhaps up to 30 miles long...
More Than Money. For Wilson, the challenges of the motel business remain even more tempting than charred steak dripping with Tabasco sauce, and he expects to remain in the top job at Holiday Inns for many years. He also has a sense of mission and sees the role of his company as more than a great money machine. Says he: "I think we can do more for world peace through tourism and building Holiday Inns around the world than anything else. We get to know other people and they get to know us and that's good...
...kind of Russian roulette remained too a factor in my later life, so that without previous experience of Africa I went on an absurd and reckless trek through Liberia: it was the fear of boredom which took me to Tabasco during the religious persecution, to a leproserle in the Congo, to the Kikutu reserve during the Mau-Mau insurrection, to the emergency in Malaya and to the French war in Vietnam. There, in those last three regions of clandestine war, the fear of ambush served me just as effectively as the revolver from the corner cupboard in the lifelong...
...week they had been searching the heated green jungles and shimmering veldts of Tabasco for Alyosha and the Tribe. Just this morning Merilee had awakened to the thought that perhaps Alyosha said Oaxaca rather than Tabasco. She had not yet told Sam her notion, or the keeds, who would be woefully disappointed...