
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, December 4, 1994                   TAG: 9501170003
SECTION: HORIZON                    PAGE: F5   EDITION: METRO 
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ZEDILLO ON THE ISSUES

POLITICAL REFORM AND DEMOCRACY: ``Today, one of the most important demands of Mexican society is to advance democracy, strengthen the laws, acknowledge and foster pluralism, and promote social participation. This is the time for democracy, and so it is the time for electoral legality. The electoral reforms that started in 1988 have laid the foundations for ... elections to be a source of certainty and stability.''

ECONOMY: ``The strategy that we will follow to foster growth will be based on equal participation, clear rules and fair treatment for all productive sectors. I make a commitment that this proposal will have our economy growing, by 1995, at least twice the rate of population growth.''

POVERTY: ``First, we have to guarantee the poorest sectors of Mexican society have basic health, nutrition, housing and education services. Second, we must broaden employment opportunities and income for the poorest families through a vigorously growing economy.''

FOREIGN POLICY: ``The highest priority of my government will be strengthening and fully exercising national sovereignty. We conceive sovereignty as the exclusive ability of Mexicans to make our own decisions, to define and advance freely and autonomously to our destiny. We do not confuse sovereignty with isolationism.''

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