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Show mexicoIbis added puzzle EMBASSY AT WASHINGTON ISSUES IS-SUES STATEMENT INTERPRETING INTER-PRETING INTENTIONS Words Bury Purpose; Officials Admit; Begin Intensive Study; State Department Officials Taken By Surprise Washington The Mexican embassy loHHfid a new factor into the whirlpool of the; diapule over Mexican land and oil laws Thursday which lnft state department olIlclalH completely at sea an to what it portends. On Its face Ihn embassy announcement, headed "I'lain Facts ConeornliiK the Mexican Oil Laws," seems to wlpo out many of the points In dispute which brought American Mexican relations to an admittedly ad-mittedly critical deadlock on application applica-tion of the new laws to American oil and mining companies in Mexico. It asserts tho intention of the Mex'co City government to apply Its new laws and regulations, when tliuy become effective ef-fective In January, "preferentially," no far as foreign companies are concerned, con-cerned, without confiscatory retroactive retroac-tive enforcement of provisions of the Mexican constitution nationalizing natural na-tural resources. |