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Jose López Portillo lifted a glass of champagne last February and lectured Jimmy Carter on his country's right to be respected. Carter took heed, because the Mexican President's bold assertion of national pride and independence was backed up by what may be the richest energy supply in the Western Hemisphere. With proven reserves of 40 billion bbl. and estimated potential reserves of as high as 200 billion bbl., Mexico is now moving into the top rank of the world's oil producers...
...band of 81 guerrillas from the Mexican port of Tuxpan for Cuba's Oriente province. Last week the hirsute Cuban leader returned to the land from which he had launched his successful revolt against the government of Fulgencio Batista. At the invitation of President José López Portillo, Castro made a 32-hour visit to the resort island of Cozumel, with a brief stop on the mainland. Between meetings with López Portillo, who effusively welcomed him as "one of the personalities of this century" who had "restored dignity to Cuba," Castro inspected Mayan ruins...
...pez Portillo, too, sought political advantage from Castro's visit. With elections set for July 1, he wants to appeal to leftists and labor union members, who are clamoring for higher wages to offset Mexico's soaring inflation rate. Among the prominent people he invited to welcome Castro were the heads of four leftist political parties, including the Communists...
Jimmy Carter pondered the barbs from Mexico's President José López Portillo a few days ago, and momentarily wondered if he should respond. Then in a fraction of a second he decided that the better part of wisdom and the greater part of courage for the leader of a superpower was to sit calmly and quietly. In Mexico there was some grudging appreciation. In America, beset by too many inner doubts, there was plenty of criticism...
...President had expected a difficult time in Mexico, but he was surprised by the intensity of López Portillo's salvos, the deep emotional hostility rooted in a century of history. The easy thing, and maybe even the politically advantageous thing, would have been to talk back. Or would it? Newly minted Presidential Candidate John Connally, who comes out of the assertive Southwest border tradition, probably would have handled the matter differently. Or so he indicated last week as he roared through his native land, proclaiming that "we seem to have lost our zest for strong leadership...