Show MEXICO BRI G PUZZLE EMBASSY AT washington ISSUES STATEMENT interpreting intentions words bury purpose officials admit begin intensive study state department officials taken by surprise washington the tha mexican embassy tossed a new factor into the whirlpool of 0 the dispute over mexican land and oil laws thursday which left state department officials completely at sea as to what it portends on its face the embassy announcement headed plain facts concerning the mexican oil laws seems to wipe out many of 0 the points in dispute which brought american mexican relations to an admittedly mitt edly critical deadlock on application ol of the ne new laws to american oil and mining companies in mexico it asserts the intention of 0 the mexico city govern government mout to apply its new laws and regulations when they become effective in january preferentially so tar far as foreign companies are concerned without retroactive tive enforcement of provisions of the mexican constitution nationalizing natural resources |