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...television cameras recorded the astonishing scene, Jimmy Carter's face alternately froze and flexed involuntarily into a taut grin. Mexico's President José LÓpez Portillo, a sharp-tongued former law professor, was turning a luncheon toast into an emotional lecture on what he saw as the U.S. practice of viewing its neighbor with a "mixture of interest, disdain and fear." Referring to the highhanded way in which U.S. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger had broken off negotiations to purchase more of Mexico's newly enlarged natural gas supply, LÓpez Portillo waxed rhetorical: "Among...
...years ago, President Jimmy Carter raised a glass of champagne in a toast to his first state visitor at the White House, President Jose López Portillo of Mexico. Said Carter: "The proximity to the United States, I hope, will become a blessing and not a curse...
This week, on St. Valentine's Day, Jimmy Carter flies to Mexico City for three days of heart-to-heart talks with López Portillo as a long overdue step toward making good the promise of his White House toast. Carter will find his hosts expecting to be treated with far more respect than U.S. Presidents c have generally shown in the I past. "This time," said the conservative daily Novedades in an editorial, "Jimmy Carter and José López Portillo meet as equals, and Mexico will be looking for signs that the U.S. recognizes this...
Only one Chinese woman holds a top post through her own merit or political power, Chen Muhua, the Minister of Economic Relations with Foreign Countries. Said Cho Lin in her toast at a State Department lunch...
...collapse of Iran. He told one high-ranking foreign visitor, TIME has learned, that he was appalled by Carter's statement that the U.S. no longer needs a policeman in the Persian Gulf. Although the President pledged the Shah undying brotherhood in a New Year's Eve toast at the Niavaran Palace in 1977, the Shah claims that he was subsequently plagued by continued sniping from Washington. As the crisis worsened, the Shah was made to feel unsure about U.S. support if he took strong action to control the disorders. His failure to act decisively encouraged his opposition...