Word: andeans
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...campus, is daunted to learn that the faculty does not drink and dines on unspiced food at 6:30 p.m. Pryar is one among seven visiting fellows. Each of them is a distinguished specialist in some recondite field, or rather is a monomaniac locked inside an ever-narrowing preoccupation -Andean Spiolus, patristic hagiography among the Slavs, Emily Dickinson or whatever. These learned freaks (the Slavonic specialist is a midget female dipsomaniac; the spider man talks like a Pennsylvania Dutch commercial; the Emily Dickinson man has discovered from the lady poet's "image clusters" that she was a secret drunk...
...classic Latin American scene. At 2 p.m. one day last week, eight tanks rumbled up to the presidential palace in Ecuador's Andean capital of Quito. Radio bulletins soon blared the news: Carlos Julio Arosemena, 44, the country's 46th President in 130 years, had gone the way of many of his predecessors-deposed by military coup. A crowd of demonstrators gathered at the palace to protest to the new rulers; and tanks opened fire. Three persons were killed, 17 wounded. In the palace, Arosemena refused to resign at first, then bowed to superior firepower and was bundled...
...laws that permit Congress to allot 48% of total federal revenues to "autonomous agencies" such as the Red Cross, universities, private schools and sports clubs. The government is moving ahead with a program to push roads into lush but unused lands near the coast, educating farmers from the Andean highlands to grow cotton, rice, sugar and coffee, and providing them with development credits...
...Colombia, the rugged Andean land perched on South America's northwest shoulder, more than 200,000 men, women and children in the past 14 years have died in a senseless and uncoordinated fury that no one seems able to end. The butchery is so much a part of national life that many Colombians have learned to ignore it. Last week a powerful new book, La Violencia en Colombia, was creating a stir in Bogotá. It attempts to understand the killing, measure its costs, and bring Colombians face-to-face with the bloody, bitter consequences...
...wanted money. Uppermost in Alessandri's mind are his country's Andean-sized needs. Lying along South America's mountainous Pacific flank, Chile has one of the world's richest copper deposits, but, apart from minerals, few other natural resources. Copper production is at a record, but prices have dropped and the ore does not bring in as much as it used to. There is drought in the southern farm lands, and Chileans are still repairing the $400 million damage from catastrophic earthquakes 2½ years ago. Chile also shares some of the woes common...