Word: amigo
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...separate ships until Parliament passed a special law silencing pirate broadcasts. Radio Caroline, which was named by her Irish owner Ronan O'Rahilly (pronounced O'Reilly) after John F. Kennedy's daughter, has now been reduced to one ship, a rusty old coastal vessel called Mi Amigo. Just before Christmas, she anchored in the 300-yd. gap between Veronica and Northsea, five miles off the coast of The Netherlands, and started competing with them for Dutch listeners...
...ending racial enmity by bringing white and black together, Coll pressed on. He rented a storefront office with a telephone. He gave his outfit a name with a resonantly contemporary ring: "The Revitalization Corps, America's Citizen Peace Corps." He dreamed up zingy program monikers like "Operation Amigo," and zealously advertised for volunteers. His guiding conviction was simple: "Most of the people in this country, black and white, want an integrated society...
...bars, the Miami and Amigo, have recently opened. Signboards in front proclaim that "American-style" food and music are offered inside. Within, the blaring juke-boxes, over-priced drinks, and aggressive bargirls familiar to habitues of American haunts in Saigon and Bangkok are very much in evidence. "Before the coup the girls solicited you in French," says one long-time Phnom Penh resident; "now they start off in English...
With the exception of the moon landing, no recent event has had a more favorable impact on U.S.-South American public relations than the well-publicized actions and reactions of a poised and seasoned diplomat during and after his capture. Ambassador Elbrick's newly acquired title: "Respected amigo...
Arthur J. Amigo '71, in attacking the resolution, called such a policy on Vietnam "an absurd act of sentimental masochism...