Word: andean
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...congress drew 10,000 foreign ecclesiastical and lay pilgrims to a Carnpo Eucanstico in a 60-acre pasture outside Bogota. On a "Day of Conversion," 20 Andean Indians-who left aside their usual breechcloths to don city clothing for the first time-were publicly baptized, received first Communion and were confirmed all on the same day. Later, showing his concern for the shortage of priests in Latin America, the Pope ordained 161 priests and deacons in a group ceremony. Four of the new deacons have wives, and thus became Latin America's first married clergy under a 1967 authorization...
...social status than silversmithing. That they worked with surpassing skill can be seen in 210 examples of their wares, selected by the Smithsonian Institution's Richard Ahlborn, that go on view at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art this month. Silver was plentiful in colonial Peru, and Andean artisans used it for both religious and household articles. Grandees' stirrups alone weighed as much as 40 lbs., and in even the humblest Indian homes were found silver incense burners and boxes...
...YORK Aftermath of the Garbage Battle As New York City sanitationmen attacked an Andean accumulation of garbage, a legion of critics-with considerably more enthusiasm-piled into Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the man who had ended the union's illegal nine-day strike. Both efforts succeeded. The pestilential piles of trash were disappearing, and so was a goodly portion of Rockefeller's political capital in the state and nation...
Frei's problems had reached almost Andean proportions. During his three years in office, a congressional coalition of Communists, leftists and Socialists had tied up nearly all of his major reform legislation. Then a noisy leftist faction within his own party began joining the opposition in criticizing Frei, and six months ago finally won control of the executive council. At last week's meeting, Frei made a bid to regain control of his party by proposing a bylaw that would give the President the final decision on any policy disagreement between him and the party...
Change in Cultures. Nature is already giving way. Now some 30% completed or under construction, Belaunde's Marginal Highway-so called because it skirts the edge of the Amazon rain forest-is changing the lives of thousands of Andean Indians who have lived for centuries in hopeless poverty and despair. With the road come jobs, and with the jobs come large payrolls ($1.75 to $2.50 a day for laborers) that enrich the local economy and help usher in such 20th. century conveniences as sewers, electricity and refrigeration. Once a section of the road is completed, local farmers are able...