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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swampy, humid jungle of Chiapas. Oil is now being pumped at a rate of 1.5 million bbl. per day. The annual income ($8 billion by 1980) is being used to expand Mexico's petrochemical plants and to build up Mexico's other industries. Over the short term, however, Mexico's plans for economic development will require exporting more textiles and other manufactured products-and unemployed workers...
...assembly delegates said this week they fear a loss of credibility because of controversial elections, and they said they will attempt to pass election reforms to insure more uniform, well-run elections next term...
...runs the Journal newsroom on Saturdays, a kind and gentle man, got alarmed and solicitious when I joked. "Do you always send Yankee Jewish girls to cover Klan rallies?" I assured him that I have plenty of chutzpah, and then spent 20 minutes trying unsuccessfully to define that term...
...faculty's primary complaint is not about money, Bradford said, but about job security--RISD offers no tenure. "All we have now is limited term contracts, after which a faculty member can be dismissed with no explanation whatsoever," he said...
Walker: No, I really don't. This would be a very dangerous step for the Taiwanese, particularly given their heavy reliance on the U.S. for aid. I think we will see a gradual rapprochement--very long-term, much longer term than Teng has pronounced--between the Chinese and Taiwan, plus continued American support of Taiwan, if not in troops at least in military defensive supplies. We will also see pressure from the American government on the People's Republic of China, to take a gradual approach to Taiwanese relations, and not to aggravate the situation...