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...hero's welcome took a tragic turn as the crowd converged on the Palacio da Liberdade, where Neves would lie in state. As the pressure against the palace gates increased, the mass of mourners panicked, and in the ensuing stampede at least five people were crushed to death and more than 200 were injured. The confusion at Belo Horizonte was in contrast to the order that had marked the transition of power to the new President, Jose Sarney, who had been Neves' Vice President. Sarney, a personable, well-read politician, is viewed in political circles as a competent administrator...
...Palacio d'Oriente, historically the residence of Spanish monarchs, stretches ominously across a high bluff overlooking Madrid. A museum currently occupies its 2800 rooms, with the main hall used for an occasional state dinner. But King Juan Carlos prefers to live in a compact 20-room estate on the outskirts of the capital...
...night hotel room in Mexico City, the young couple from Kansas City ate a four-course breakfast that cost them 70? each and then took a 1? bus ride downtown for a morning of sightseeing. Bob and Rhonda Sparks spent $2 for a spicy three-course lunch near the Palacio de Bellas Artes and realized that "the amount of money we brought down here for two weeks could last half a year." At the delightful little Hotel Montejo in Mérida, Ted Mills and Jill Heizman of Santa Cruz, Calif., paid only $5.50 a night, about the average price...
...after another, foreign ministers of leading Western nations strode to the podium at Madrid's Palacio Nacional de Congresos and delivered scorching variations on a single theme. "The commitment of the Polish government to fulfill its obligations under the Helsinki accords has clearly been abandoned," charged Canadian External Affairs Minister Mark MacGuigan. Said Secretary of State Alexander Haig: "The generals in this war against the Polish people are none other than the Polish regime itself, acting at the instigation and coercion of the Soviet Union." Added West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher: "We cannot accept that the threat...
Despite the tension at the beginning, both sides characterized the five hours of private talks as friendly, courteous and businesslike. The first bilateral session was held in the Spanish colonial Palacio Nacional, but it was just general and polite. The two Presidents got down to specifics the next day at Los Pinos, Lopez Portillo's official residence. Carter said he was ready to reopen negotiations over natural gas purchases in formal government-to-government bargaining sessions. Said LÓpez Portillo: "Let's get on with it." As for buying more oil from Mexico, Carter did not press...