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...Mexico." Privately, business spokesmen charged the President with seeking to impose a "socialist or Communist system." As aroused campesinos in neighboring Sinaloa prepared to occupy vast new acreage last week, Echeverria balked. To avoid a bloody clash between the peasants and landowners, he announced a compromise: only a token 32,000 acres of land would be distributed to farm hands; any further expropriation would wait until the new President took office...
...obvious and natural allies. So it came as a surprise to many Britons last week when the Sunday Observer (circ. 668,000), one of Fleet Street's most literate papers, was purchased by the Atlantic Richfield Co., a $7 billion Los Angeles-based oil giant. The token price: one pound sterling, or about...
...amount of money he spent, Markey broke that rule too. While the candidate who spent the most money finished well behind Markey and the others, Markey, who ranked only fifth in campaign expenditures, finished first. And he was well on his way to Washington, because he faced only token opposition from a weak republican and an even weaker Independent...
...other Democrats in the primary than he did in whomping Republican Challenger Dr. Gerald Beasley Jr., 50. The new Speaker of the House will be Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr., 63, the burly, Boston-area Irish politician who had been Majority Leader. As usual, O'Neill had only token G.O.P. opposition in winning his 13th term...
...lucky beyond belief: under investigation for alleged payments from the South Korean government, he also admitted that he had supported his mistress and their two children in Washington. But the disclosure came after his district primary, in which he was easily renominated, and Republicans had put up only token opposition. Leggett thus won two more years of breathing space...