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Have Problems, Will Travel. At week's end, the President was off on a prop-stopping trip that took him to Oklahoma, Arkansas and finally Texas. In El Paso, Johnson met Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos for ceremonies marking the settlement of the longstanding El Chamizal border dispute between Mexico and the U.S. (TIME, July 26, 1963). The two men exchanged international pleasantries. But Johnson's speech was .directed back home as well as around the world...
...Small to Upset. On the important matter of relations with the U.S., López Mateos feels that mutual respect and genuine friendship have rarely been higher. One of the "happy results" of the friendship was the settlement of the century-old El Chamizal border dispute, centering on a 600-acre patch of land between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez (TIME, July...
...ELECTORAL REFORMS. To encourage a little more political opposition within Mexico's one-party "guided democracy," López Mateos last year signed a new law guaranteeing any political party five congressional seats for every 2½% of the popular vote it gets, whether its candidates win or not. Last week the new 210-member Congress which López Mateos addressed included 35 opposition members elected under the new law. "Order without freedom is dictatorship," said López Mateos, "just as freedom without order is anarchy...
...AGRARIAN REFORM. Since 1958, López Mateos has deeded peasants nearly 40 million acres of land-fully one-fourth of all the acreage thus far doled out under the country's 50-year-old agrarian reform...
...Communist Cuba. Mexico has defied the recent OAS vote requiring all hemisphere nations to break diplomatic and economic relations with Cuba. It stands virtually alone (Uruguay was the only other country holding off by last week). But in his speech to his fiercely proud and independent countrymen, López Mateos said that Mexico intended to maintain its contacts and handle Castro in its own fashion. The U.S. doesn't really like that much but with López' Mexico doing so well, it seems too small to get very upset about...