Word: bolivian
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There the captives sat last week -Martin and three other Americans, a Dutchman, a German and eleven Bolivians - frightened and endangered pawns in a medieval power struggle high in the Bolivian Andes. Dark-featured Indian women, wives of rebellious tin miners, stood guard over them in a shabby union hall at the 14,000-ft.-high Siglo Veinte mine, 135 miles from La Paz. The women cradled tommy guns and tucked dynamite caps beneath their bulging petticoats. On the floor below, just a bullet's zing through the wooden boards should fighting break out, 50 cases of dynamite were...
...idea of kidnaping Americans seemed to be spreading. In Bolivia, Communist-led tin miners announced that they were holding four Americans -two U.S.I.S. officials, an Alliance labor adviser, a Peace Corpsman-and would keep them until the Bolivian government released three miners arrested for murder and misuse of union funds...
Back in Washington, the President greeted visiting Bolivian President Victor Paz Estenssoro on the White House south lawn (see THE HEMISPHERE). In a speech before the National Academy of Sciences he promised that henceforward the Government would explain in advance its major scientific experiments in order to "assure expert review before potentially risky experiments are undertaken...
...tree, rabbit, or other familiar object and asks the Indian the word for it. As he learns the Indian dialect, the linguist records the sounds on tape. Then, using basic phonetic symbols, he constructs an alphabet for the language. The process can be exasperating. One tribe of suspicious Bolivian Indians refused to cooperate, convinced that the whole thing was a plot to steal their language. When linguists tackled the Cocama tribe in Peru, they found that the men spoke one language, the women another...
During the Eisenhower years, the U.S. channeled most of its economic aid to Bolivia into agricultural development because the Administration was reluctant to aid nationalized mines, and wanted to see the Bolivian economy diversified. Under the Kennedy Administration, the policy of no aid to tin mining has been abandoned. U.S. Ambassador Ben Stephansky persuaded President Paz to adopt a program calling for a 65% increase in Bolivian tin production by 1967. To obtain funds for modernizing the mines, Comibol entered into a three-cornered aid pact, called "Operation Triangular," with the U.S., the Inter-American Development Bank and West Germany...