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...Quetzalcoatl, 1965 José López Portillo was an unknown 45-year-old government official and author when he wrote his mystical novelette about the god Quetzalcoatl, who figures so largely in the Toltec legends of the Mexican people. Today, at 56, he is President of Mexico, and now the age-old questions of love and hate, giving and taking, are considerably more real and painful in the Mexican sphere of arbitrary things...
...President, López Portillo inherits leadership of a nation that is rich in contrast and color but impoverished in terms of national fulfillment. A small percentage of the population is comfortably rich; a large portion is lamentably poor. Lavish playgrounds for international jet-setters exist almost side by side with villages still run by caciques, or chieftains, who seem to belong to the last century...
...Relationship. Having assumed office only eleven weeks ago, López Portillo thought it practical to journey north to examine some of these questions with a neighboring President who has just begun to confront great issues...
This week LÒpez Portillo, accompanied by a phalanx of ministers and experts, visited Washington. There the former law school student and professor talked to members of the U.S. Supreme Court and addressed a meeting of Congress; before he left the U.S., side trips were scheduled to Williamsburg, Va., and Chicago, which is home to a sizable ( 150,000) Mexican population...
...Rosalynn stole the show, and from some pretty big names at that: John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Gregg and Cher Allman, Muhammad Ali, Paul Newman. At a State Department tea for Mexican First Lady Carmen de Lopez Portillo (a guest of Rosalynn, who had attended the López Portillo inauguration last December), Shirley MacLaine twitted an old friend. Said Shirley to Henry Kissinger as he jokingly tried to pencil her into his little black book: "I talked to you before you became powerful. That's when I dropped...