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...most difficult task for Victor A. KoivumakiIII '68, who is in charge of housing andhospitality for the celebration, was gettingaccommodations for the 2200 official alumni guestsready. Cleaning about 1000 rooms in river housesbetween August 15, when summer school ended, andSeptember 4 presented a "major logisticalproblem," Koivumaki said...
...always touchy relations between the U.S. and Mexico took an acrimonious turn last week. At issue was the alleged Mexican kidnaping and torture two weeks ago of Victor Cortez Jr., a Drug Enforcement Administration agent...
...assurances of goodwill been exchanged when another bitterly divisive issue surfaced that helped to explain why U.S. views of Mexico, as shown in the results of a Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman poll taken for TIME, tend to be so critical. One day after the presidential meeting, Washington officials reported that Victor Cortez Jr., 34, a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, had been kidnaped in Guadalajara and brutally tortured by Mexican state officials before being released. An incensed Attorney General Edwin Meese responded to the news of the Cortez detention in a television interview by serving notice that...
Some suspicious citizens think their government has more in mind than the interdiction of drug manufacturing. "We keep hearing that there might be another coup," Victor Casasola, 53, whispers conspiratorially from behind the counter of his dress shop. "I think the government called in the gringo troops to protect itself from a military coup...
...meanwhile, opposition parties complained that President Victor Paz Estenssoro should have consulted his Congress before calling in the U.S. military. Even some high-placed Bolivians were dismayed by the turn of events. Said Jacobo Libermann, one of Paz Estenssoro's advisers: "We would have liked assistance of another nature, entirely run by Bolivians and carried out discreetly. Instead, we got the invasion of Normandy...