Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaders spending huge sums on weapons and then seeking aid to feed their peoples. In 1968 Congress voted against further sales unless the President decided that they were important to the security of the United States. In announcing Nixon's waiver to permit sales to Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela, the Administration put no emphasis on "security" interests. Rogers said that the policy of "paternalism" had not worked...
LEANDRO ACONCHA: One day at his home in Fuengirola, Spain, when he was three, Leandro heard a tune on TV and asked his father to teach it to him. Papa Roberto, an ex-concert pianist from Colombia who had moved to Spain to go into real estate, led the boy to the piano, picked out the melody, and stood amazed as Leandro repeated it perfectly...
Before leaving Washington two weeks ago, he grandly described his swing through Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Jamaica as "the most important trip to Latin America by a Secretary of State in the past 40 years." In fact, it may end up as a diplomatic fiasco. If so, Washington will have to bear a large share of the blame...
Most of the nations of Latin America have severely restrictive abortion laws on the books; in fact, abortion is totally illegal, even on medical grounds, in Bolivia, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guatemala and Panama. It is also banned outright, or only rarely permitted, in the predominantly Catholic countries of Europe, in most of the new African states, and in some Asian countries, among them Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan...
...hoped he might. Eight Italians are among the appointees, bringing the total number of Italian cardinals to 41. France follows with 13, the U.S. with twelve, an all-time high. France, Spain, Australia and Brazil each got two new cardinals, and there was one each for Germany, Portugal, Pakistan, Colombia, Poland, Argentina, Mexico and Japan. The Polish nominee-Archbishop Boleslaw Kominek, 67, of Wroclaw-brings the number of Polish cardinals to three, a sign of the Vatican's appreciation of Polish Catholics' devotion...