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...they are of a larger magnitude. The country is also larger. But Mexico is now in a superior economic position because of its oil reserves, natural resources and skilled people. In other countries under such circumstances of economic difficulty there are changes of government or coups d'état. Mexico is proving the solidness of its political system. This is a very important asset-more important than oil for solving the crisis...
...prayer chain, Rios Montt has no firm power base. In time, that deficiency could cause him trouble. Already some of the young officers who put him into power are chafing over his seizure of the presidency last week and his incessant moralizing. "We made this coup d'état to do away with continuismo, "complains one lieutenant. "Now this man is taking us back to the situation that led us to mount the coup in the first place." in the first place." - By Spencer Davidson...
...Fortunate Traveller moves between the civilized U.S. and subjugated, sunstruck islands. Walcott can find a lasting home in neither place. In the U.S. he catches signs of "the galloping hysterical abhorrence of my race." In Port of Spain, he discovers that "junta and coup d'état, the newest Latino mood/ broods on the balcony." He takes on the identity of Spoiler, a dead man allowed briefly to leave hell and revisit his old haunts. He improvises, calypso style...
...Amboise follow the music's every twist and unexpected turn, illustrating its ripples with flowing figurations of their own. The third movement's bold, thrusting opening is similarly reflected in the dance, which includes some rapid-fire footwork for D'Amboise inspired by the rat-a-tat-tat of the piano. Paradoxically, Robbins is most, and least, successful with his extended bagatelle in the second movement. Into a vivid world of women - the girls in dark red, Calegari and Kistler in brightest white - Robbins suddenly injects the dark, powerful presence of Mel Tomlinson, effecting a stark, dramatic...
Since taking office a year ago, the Administration has struggled to convince Japan that it must open up its domestic market to more foreign imports if it wants to head off tit-for-tat protectionism in the U.S. Progress has come slowly. With the U.S. economy now in a deepening recession that is sending unemployment leaping, calls for retaliation are rising just as the Administration had warned. Says Deputy U.S. Trade Representative David MacDonald: "I see a crisis in late spring or summer. The problem is the closed Japanese market itself. We are not talking about the Japanese restraining exports...