European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday october 23, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 3 am ambitious costly program Mexico attempting to Reform Rowdy Border by Terrance w. Mcgarry Mexico City up the two huge and very different Cul Tures that fill the Western Hemi sphere face each other across a land Border and a Small Muddy River called the Rio Grande. This is where Frijoles meet the hamburger where the enor Mous Spanish speaking world of latin America reaching North Ward from Tierra Del Fuego bumps into the Anglo Saxon world of the United states an Canada. For generations it has been squalid example of the worst of both worlds and the Best of Nei ther. As a 19-year-old student on my first trip to Mexico i saw a Man knifed to death in a seedy order Cantina. Sudden violence prostitution drugs and fleecing of the Gringo were a Way of life. It was and still is on of the world s most colourful areas the inhabitants a picturesque Breed folded by the clash of the two cultures Neon lit wooden Cantina Drunken laughter pounding Mari Achi music and the $5 girl with too much lipstick seen dimly through the smoke. A Mecca for wide eyed Colleg boys one of the last wild haunts of a rowdies it s changing now. Reform program the mexican government wit plenty of support from the unit Ted states has embarked on unambitious costly program to re form the free swinging , president Johnson will meet president Gustavo Dia Ordaz of Mexico on a new Bridge Over the Rio Grande. The meet ing symbolizes the changing Bor Der and the changes in relation Between the two nations. Said Terrance Leonhardy Testate department s chief mexi can affairs expert in a congressional hearing not Long ago Many of us can remember armed bands raiding across this Border Large numbers of illegal immigrants Uncertain National ownership discrimination in both countries and disputes Over Terri tory to mention Only a few of the unhappy circumstances of the relatively recent Leonhardy was plumping for Monument and National Park in Elpaso to commemorate the Chamizal return. In saturday s ceremony John son will officially return the 437 acre piece of Elpaso called the Chamizal to Mexico satisfying a 100-year-old mexican land mexicans will watch the return on a nationwide television Hookup. The land itself was hardly Worth the trouble mostly scrub Brush and packing of the Chamizal won t make Mexico any Richer or the United states any poorer observed a Mexico City newspaper but there Are things above eco nomic Worth including Friendship Between neighbouring Johnson who has a soft spot in his heart for mexicans from his Days As a South Texas school teacher has done a lot to polish that Friendship. At his suggestion the unite states and Mexico pooled their efforts with the use of . Heli copters when the Texas Border was ravaged by Hurricane Beu Lah s floods last month. He appointed a former Elpaso mayor Raymond Telles to one of the world s most unusual ambassadorial jobs. As head of the . Side of the Border development commission Telles is ambassador to part of his own country and part of another. The two nation commission Job is to raise living standards on both sides of the Border which Are locked together in the same Economy. The newly returned Chamiz Alland will be used by Mexico to build $46 million Worth of schools Public gardens and a showplace entry Gate for the american tourists who Are the Lifeblood of the mexican Side of the that the Border will be or probably Ever could be turned into a Lily White area but the mexican government i making a big push and the efforts Are beginning to pay Tijuana Long known As a sin City even by Border stand Ards the energetic Young mayor Francisco Lopez and his team of Young assistants the number two Man is 31, the oldest is 40 have drawn attention As the new brass in Tijuana. Pushing and cajoling they removing brothels and Honky tonks off the main Street revolution venue and have gotten rid of 50 officers in a cleanup of the police department. The brothels have been move to less conspicuous parts of town. In Reynosa once a dust cheap drink and a girl town across from Hidalgo tex., the humor piercing curtain East barbs hit their Marx by Ilona Gazda Budapest Hungary up a bust of communist theoretician Karl Marx gazes Down unseeing As the Little factory manager nervously clears his Throat and Marx he begins passing his Black Homburg fro right hand to left Back to right again and everything has turned out As you envisaged it. Take Home the television set is on As loud As possible. My wife discussed the menu with our maid. The kids spend their time listening to radio free Europe musical shows. I stand alone and forlorn inthe Hall. How can i fight for world revolution this Way clams up Marx predictably says Noth ing. The entire scene could be commonplace in any West Ger Man or Berlin cabaret. What makes it different and import ant is that it is in Hungary where in 1956 soviet tank crushed an uprising. As the influence of the West begins to be Felt throughout East Ern Europe official strictness about criticism has shown signs of letting up slightly at least on stage. In the world of real life politics criticism of the government or of communist ideology is still strictly closer to Home but hungarian cabarets which in the past have devoted their efforts to predictable blasts at Revanche its Andare showing a capitalists warmongers new More impudent face about things closer to Home. And they seem to be getting away with it. The Only official requirement made of the satire is that it must have a positive attitude toward the hungarian communist , hungarians feel this is a step toward Freedom of speech and an important one at that. Audiences respond grate fully often roaring with laughter at the slightest Best known and most pop ular Budapest cabaret is the funny theater directed by Tibor Marx your teach Ings Are so ingenious in theory. Please advise me How lean transform them into reality with out developing stomach trouble Rona asks. Let s be dialectical. Do no let me solve my problems alone he says. The proletarian Revo Lution began because of your writings. Without them i be a factory manager today. You wrote thai a ghost moves Over Europe. Now it is me who moves across the continent. I was in London. Do you know where i went there to you grave no. I went to Marks and Spencer s the big London department store Chain Budapest theater critics have been unanimous in their Praise of Rona because he tries to represent the voice of All strata of hungarian divorce italian style described in paperback Rome a a paperback Book cheap enough for almost anyone to buy has gone on Sale in Italy with advice on How to beat Italy s no divorce Law. The Book prepared by the italian league for divorce advises prospective spouses to have honoured Marine maj. How Ard Lee of new York City has been named by president John son to get the medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam. Al though suffering several wounds Lee led a Relief column to a Marine platoon under siege by a Large enemy Force a nuptial plan royally lambasted Geneva a former Queen Marie Jose of Italy Mother of Princess Marie Bea Trice saturday night expressed Strong disapproval of her Daugh Ter s reported plans to marry italian movie actor Maurizi Arena. A statement issued by the Roy Al household at Merlinger Castle outside Geneva said the Queen was greatly surprised and profoundly saddened to learn through the press of the news of the past two Days concerning Princess Marie Mere idea of a marriage Between the Princess and meets with the most cat Goric disapproval by the Royal family and the members of the household told newsmen they and the Queen were convinced that the Way in which the news was handled bythe agents of or. Arena leaves Little doubt that the whole thing whether they eventually marry or not is a publicity stunt arranged for or. Arena who has not been in a picture for several years with the Princess an unsuspecting a roman Catholic instead of civil marriage. It suggests preparing d o c a ments beforehand casting doubt on thes betrothed s honorable intentions and then producing these documents before a Church Tribu Nal when asking for a annulment. Selling for 58 cents the Bookis billed As providing for All the kind of Legal advice that Only the Well to do have been Able to get up to now. A Bill to make divorce Segalin Italy has been pending in parliament for 15 months Mak ing Little headway against hard Core opposition by the catholics of the Christian Democrat party. Safe method under the title of the easy annulment of marriages the Booklet suggests the following Safe method 1shortly before your planned marriage pay $3.60 and enrol in the league for divorce. Make sure your membership card car Ries the exact Date. 2two or three Days before the Day you marry write a letter saying that you Are marrying inthe Church because this is the easiest Way to get an annul ment in Italy. Mail the letter registered to yourself but do no open the envelope on delivery. 3after having done this marry before a priest. When you realize your marriage has gone sour go to the Church tribunal give the closed envelope and show your card stating you belong to the league. This provides unbeatable evidence that you had a defect of intention meaning you were not taking the religious ceremony seriously. The punish ment for this is annulment of marriage according to Church Law. Under italian Law a Roma Catholic marriage once registered by the state has full Lega effects in Italy. The Church How Ever retains exclusive competence on the question of annul ment. Federal government has poured almost $2 million into improve ments in the past two years. Ten years ago most of the residents got their drinking water from acan carted by Burro around the City. Today 70 per cent have indoor plumbing. A big Oil refinery gives them jobs. City officials say the residents Are so grateful that they even pay their taxes and presumably lot of latin american City officials wish they could manage the same trick. Electricity output has jumped13 per cent along the California Border in one year and 1,000 new industries opened. In booming Tijuana the per capita incomes four times the National aver age of $280 a year and nowhere along the Border is it less than 135 per cent Over the National average. With Prosperity the govern ment Hopes the Border will lose its anything for a Price that Prosperity is the National Border program a six year old mexican Federal Campaign. To get the Economy off a prostitutes and pickpockets basis the Border program is offering Spe Cial tax and customs advantages to . Firms which will establish plants in the area. In the last year they have drawn 60companies with a total invest ment of More than $8 new Breed politicians Are starting to move in on corrupt old political machines. It is a slow process. Wild Side the Border still has its wild Side. Most of the marijuana smoked in the United states and a Good Deal of the heroin used is smuggled across theline. . Officials confiscated More than 26,000 pounds of Mari Juana and made 2,886 arrests last of those arrested Are americans frequently Colleg boys who become victims of a vicious supplier May offer them a bargain in wholesale marijuana which Sells for up to 40 times the original investment Back on the Campus. Then their Friendly supplier tips off the . Cus Toms and As an informer receives a share of the Sale Price of their car which is seized and sold by the government if Mari Juana is found in it. Obscene shows and the lures of the brothels of the Border May draw some tourists but the Chase others away and discourage Many from going any further into the country under the mis taken impression that it s jus like the Border. In time there May be More television tube factories and fewer saloons. The strengthened mexican narcotics Bureau staffs will reduce the pungent odor of marijuana in dimly lit Honky tonks. More girls will find a fac tory Job instead of a table amid the smoke and the Glare of red lights. A Start has been made. Is is is miss a in Clover St. Louis to. Up charges of drug Law Viola Tion were dropped Friday against two St. Louis county had been charged with the Sale of grass Aslang term for marijuana. A Laboratory analysis revealed the substance they had been Selling was grass
