Word: bienvenidos
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...port of Balboa, workmen nailed up a sign reading BIENVENIDO AL PUERTO DE BALBOA-BRIDGE OF THE WORLD. As evening fell, a solemn, subdued crowd of Americans watched as the Stars and Stripes was lowered-for the last time-at the U.S.-operated headquarters of the Panama Canal Co. Next morning an animated group of Panamanians cheered as their country's white, red and blue banner was run up a new flagpole atop bush-covered Ancon Hill. The Panama Canal Zone, the 648-sq.-mi. enclave that had been under U.S. sovereignty since 1903, had ceased to exist...
...million flag-waving Cubans turned out in Havana's sunny streets to bid "Bienvenido, Companero Brezhnev." It was the first visit by a Kremlin leader to Cuba since Premier Aleksei Kosygin visited the Caribbean island in 1971-and the biggest crowd Brezhnev had ever received on his frequent travels abroad. Plainly enjoying the effusive Latin welcome, he traded warm abrazos with Castro, and waved continuously on the 25-mile motorcade into Havana from the back of a pale gray open Zil convertible that had been shipped from Moscow, along with a fleet of black Chaika limousines...
...harmless heap. Still another suggestion is that the guns firing darts dipped in tranquilizers to fell animals without injury be used on airline pirates. More elaborate is a recommendation to construct a bogus airport south of Miami to resemble Havana's José Martí International. Plastered with Bienvenido a la Habana signs and staffed by Cuban refugees, the airfield presumably would fool skyjackers long enough to ensure their arrest upon landing...
...BIENVENIDO N. SANTOS University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa...
...Colombians quite a few things that even our high government officials don't seem to know. Among them, that not everyone who is good and helpful is a Catholic. I think the most important thing for a Colombiano to do is to stretch his hand out and say: "Bienvenido amigo. You come to help and we are grateful...