Word: chiles
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Perhaps the most hopeful news from Latin America last week had nothing to do with the U.S. visitors: the formation of a common market by the five Andean countries of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. The five agreed to work toward the elimination of internal tariffs within an eleven-year period and the erection of a common external tariff. This Andean common market represents an improvement over the largely ineffective Latin American Free Trade Association, formed in 1960 by ten Latin American countries. In several respects, the Andean experiment is similar to the nine-year-old Central American Common...
Santiago, Chile...
Santiago, Chile...
Among the most mysterious of all cancers is the one that afflicts the stomach. Why is it especially common in countries as far apart and as different as Japan, Finland and Chile? Why is it so rare in most of the U.S., and particularly in the Southern states-except among Negroes? Why, in all countries, is the disease associated with poverty...
Though soya-paste molds might go far to explain the high incidence of stomach cancer in most of the Orient, they offer no clues to medical researchers in Finland, Chile or Costa Rica. But a combination of vitamin A deficiency with comparable molds or diet contaminants could conceivably be found in those places. In the U.S., vitamin A deficiency is known to be prevalent among Southern Negroes, and aflatoxins have been found in peanuts...