Giscard, president-elect

May 20, 1974

CALDERÓN CALLS FOR UNITY. Women and youth from Sinaloa were the subject of a special mention by Senator Alfonso G. Calderón, pointing out that the former must have a more dignified place in the tasks of the party and in the tasks of the community, which not only serve as a carrier. Regarding the youth, the labor leader said that this false concept that there is a confrontation between generations must be erased, but that his concern must be channeled into positive paths that are reflected in the prosperity of Sinaloa.

GISCARD, PRESIDENT-ELECT. Paris. The French narrowly elected the anti-leftist financier Valery Giscard d’Estaing, the new president of France, rejecting the socialist candidate, Francois Mitterrand, who made France the first power in Western Europe, sharing power with the communists. The results indicate that it will be the election decided by the smallest margin, 1.26 percent, in a Western democracy since John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon in 1960. Giscard d’Estaing, who at 48 will be the second youngest head of state of France, since the time of Napoleon, has promised a series of renovations and changes. After greeting his communist-backed rival Mitterrand, Giscard, an aristocratic economic wizard, said: “A new era of French politics begins today.” The election of the successor to Georges Pompidou, who died on April 2, produced a record turnout of 87 percent of voters. Giscard d’Estaing will be officially proclaimed president until the constitutional council meets, but in the late hours of the night, he had an insurmountable lead. The computers predicted that less than 300,000 votes, or one percent of the vote, would eventually mark the margin between the two candidates. The Communist party that supported Mitterrand announced that the left would begin attacking the new president as soon as he takes office, to ensure that he keeps his promises.

XV YEARS OF LILIA ORTIZ. In the chapel of the Sor Juana School, the priest Gabriel Alonso celebrated a mass of thanksgiving in honor of the charming young girl Lilia María Ortiz Díaz, who celebrated fifteen happy years of existence. Lilia is the heir of Mr. Gilberto Ortiz and Lilia Díaz de Ortiz, who accompanied her to thank God for the blessing that he poured out on her home with her birth. Likewise, they gave thanks for the favors received by her heir at this stage of her life.

May 20, 1999

DUST DUSTS IN TEXAS. Allergies, flu, infections and other illnesses, especially in children, are caused by the constant dust in which residents of the Gabriel Leyva Solano neighborhood live, on División del Norte Street, next to the canal. The urban transport trucks pass through the street at full speed and raise large clouds of dust that penetrate the homes, which, along with the plants and trees, look dirty. Mothers complained about this problem that makes the environment unbearable and makes their children sick.

NOW IT WAS A HOSPITAL. Rome. NATO aircraft bombed a hospital located on the outskirts of Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia, causing the death of at least three people. The attack on the hospital center was part of the most intense offensive that NATO forces have carried out against the Belgrade city area in two weeks; They also fired at a gas station near the medical center, in whose cardiology unit the death of three patients was reported. Mothers and babies were evacuated.

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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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