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Honduras held elections last week for the first time in seven years, ostensibly to choose a constituent assembly to write a new constitution for the country. In reality it was to legalize the strong-arm rule of Colonel Osvaldo López, 44, the ambitious air force officer who ousted President Ramón Villeda Morales in October...
...money raisers in California. Hand graduated from the University of Texas law school in 1957, wound up working on Johnson's Senate staff until 1961. Since then he has dabbled in diplomatic protocol by helping Duke arrange the California state visits of Mexico's President López Mateos and Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol. As for the polished Duke, Johnson promised an "important ambassadorial post" soon...
...President stepped out onto the balcony of the austere National Palace, the sun burst through the overcast, warming the sea of upturned faces below. But the most radiant face of all belonged to Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, the brainy backlands lawyer on whose slim frame outgoing President Adolfo López Mateos draped the green, white and red sash of office. With arms outstretched in triumph and a huge, toothy grin creasing his dark, homely countenance, President Diaz Ordaz looked as if he would like nothing better than to hug the officials clustered around...
...Diaz Ordaz, 53, is the first to inherit a prosperous and united nation that faces no immediate major problems. True to the Mexican pattern of orderly alternation between regimes that are to the left or right of center, Diaz Ordaz, who was Minister of the Interior under López Mateos, is slightly more conservative than his predecessor, who nonetheless hand-picked him for the job. As the new President made clear in his inaugural address, his administration, like López Mateos' regime, will put economic growth above doctrinaire politics. Emphasizing that "there is a vast field...
...Fidel Castro, was taken by observers as an indication that Mexico may in time sever relations with Cuba, which, alone among Latin American nations, it persists in recognizing. Diaz Ordaz is unlikely to break with Cuba in the near future, however, lest he be accused of repudiating López Mateos...