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...Madrid still must run for the job, but it is a foregone conclusion that he will succeed; the P.R.I, has held a monopoly on political power in Mexico for 52 years. The real surprise was the stepped-up scheduling for Lopez Portillo's announcement, which may mean that the patrician author-statesman has come to realize that he is in deep political trouble. Despite a booming economy and 72 billion bbl. of proven oil reserves, Mexico has been spending money so fast that the country faces a balance of payments deficit of as much as $.10 billion this year...
...both economic and diplomatic terms, De la Madrid is an almost ideal antidote to Lopez Portillo's problems...
...first public address, De la Madrid told a cheering, banner-waving throng that his chief task will be to "choose the correct route that benefits the Mexican people." As Lopez Portillo has discovered, even with the advantages of oil wealth, that is not always easy...
...first doctor to see little Fredy Garcia was the family pediatrician in the Madrid suburb of Alcorcon. Fredy was suffering from a low-grade fever that occasionally returned to normal; the doctor diagnosed simple laryngitis and sent the six-year-old home to take antibiotics...
Three days later, Fredy's mother Antonia was running a slight fever too. She took her son to the Hospital Clinico in Madrid's University City, and physicians there promptly admitted both mother and child. Nearly two weeks later, Fredy's mother left the hospital completely cured, but the boy was in intensive care with acute respiratory problems. In a desperate attempt to reverse the strange malady that had struck him, doctors changed his entire blood supply. On June 15, Fredy died. He was the 40th victim of a mysterious disease apparently transmitted by contaminated cooking...