King Faisal receives Nixon

June 15, 1974

NO PROMISE THAT CANNOT BE FULFILLED. On the second day of his political campaign, Alfonso G. Calderón declared that he will not make any promise that he cannot fulfill to the people of Sinaloa. He visited the police stations of San Javier, Choix, Baca and Tabucahui, where he met with residents of these places and the corresponding police stations. He agreed that there would be no rallies or welcome speeches in these towns, except in the municipal seats, since only work meetings will be held to find out what problems their residents face.

KING FAISAL RECEIVES NIXON. Joddah. The president of the United States, Richard Nixon, was received with great cordiality by King Faisal upon arriving in Saudi Arabia, after his triumphant stay in Egypt, in which it was agreed that the United States would supply the Nile country with nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. . King Faisal, who initiated the oil embargo against the United States last November, received Nixon at the airport. The two rulers shook hands and without delay, reviewed the honor guard while blank shots were fired and anthems of the two countries were sung. Thousands of Arabs watched the ceremony from the airport buildings and thousands more crowded the route from the airport to the guest palace, where Nixon and his wife will stay. Faisal and Nixon made the journey in a Rolls Royce, at a speed of more than 125 kilometers per hour. The crowd that witnessed Nixon’s swift passage acted in a much more measured and formal manner than the six million Egyptians who received Nixon grandly in Cairo, giving him a reception that, as one Egyptian official said, “only Allah could have fixed it.” The American president attended a banquet hosted by Faisal at the royal palace, attended by 500 dignitaries, princes and senior officials. Following Muslim custom, there were no ladies present and no alcoholic beverages were served.

PARTY FOR BIBI AND RUBEN. The youthful and loving couple who will soon unite their destinies through marriage, Bibi de la Vega and Rubén Gómez, presided over an unforgettable party given to them by the members of the Red Cross Youth Committee. The bride and groom entered our highest social center, amidst the strains of the Wedding March and applause from those gathered there. The meeting was extraordinary for its joy, with an atmosphere of great cordiality and affection reigning for the couple.

June 15, 1999

TIANGUISTAS DEL PRI LEADER CHANGES. “Without López Brito they did nothing to us, now with Valdez Pineda as leader of the PRI, in addition to Mayor Esteban Valenzuela, the flea market will continue to provide cheap and good quality merchandise to the citizens,” said Florencio Beltrán, during the delivery ceremony. the leadership of this sector to Carlos Montenegro. He assured that he leaves a strengthened group, since it remained united in the fight to continue being an option for low-income families to buy food and other items.

BARTLETT IS CALLED A MURDERER. Mexico City Economics students from the National Polytechnic attacked the PRI candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, Manuel Bartlett, whom they called a murderer, corrupt and drug trafficker. At President Zedillo’s alma mater, the PRI member was received with a white blanket that said “1988 is not forgotten. In memory of Ernesto del Arco.” Del Arco and three other young people, supporters of the National Democratic Front, were shot to death. Bartlett was Secretary of the Interior at the time.

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Sylva Mónica Ruffo Kelly, who completed her basic and high school studies in Los Mochis, stayed two years in El Centro, California, where she perfected the English language. She joined El Debate in September 1994 as a translator and later, in 2000, she became an assistant to the Editorial Team of El Debate de Los Mochis, tasks that led her to take charge of the entertainment page for more than 10 years and the newspaper archive. Upon the death of the City Chronicler, Don Evaristo Fregoso, in September 2003, who wrote the Los Mochis column 50 and 25 years ago, Ruffo Kelly took over the history column, which he later changed to Mi Ciudad 50 and 25 years, in which he narrates what happened in those years on the same day of publication of the newspaper EL DEBATE of Los Mochis.

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