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Mexico's LÓpez Portillo welcomes Carter with acid...
...television cameras recorded the astonishing scene, Jimmy Carter's face alternately froze and flexed involuntarily into a taut grin. Mexico's President José LÓpez Portillo, a sharp-tongued former law professor, was turning a luncheon toast into an emotional lecture on what he saw as the U.S. practice of viewing its neighbor with a "mixture of interest, disdain and fear." Referring to the highhanded way in which U.S. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger had broken off negotiations to purchase more of Mexico's newly enlarged natural gas supply, LÓpez Portillo waxed rhetorical: "Among...
...inauspicious start to a three-day trip on which Carter was trying to extend a friendlier hand across the border. His aides were angered at the Mexican President's attack. Scoffed one: "A certain amount of that is, I suppose, permissible for home consumption." Indeed, LÓpez Portillo's outspokenness won wide praise in Mexico City. Declared the morning newspaper Novedades: "The President expressed the feelings of all Mexicans in a very accurate way." Out in the streets, several thousand leftist demonstrators shouted anti-Carter slogans and burned Uncle Sam in effigy...
...leaders had many serious issues to discuss−from oil prices to migrant labor and drug smuggling−and before one session of the talks formally began, Carter asked for ten minutes alone with LÓpez Portillo. The President candidly told his host that it was "counterproductive if we overemphasized our differences, particularly our historical differences, as opposed to our commitment to efforts to resolve them...
...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 for a speedup of production, but did express U.S. willingness to increase its purchases whenever Mexico could deliver. "We got past all the recriminations," said a White House aide...