Word: continente
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Nonetheless, State Department officials have been saying Kissinger has undergone a "change of perception" on Latin America since the days when he put the region at the bottom of his list of international priorities. He has apparently come to feel that Latin America's problems are an important part...
"Today I sit," he writes from an airplane (Xerox gave him an extra $5000 for expenses), "notebook in hand, eyes to the window-aware. I am looking down at a continent, my continent, my America.
"For months I have been searching out this continent, traveling forgotten trails...talking to the old and the young, looking for my country, my American land, spying it out as an intelligencer would, trying to find where it has been, where it has come, where it is going after two...
Faced with an experience that is often too rich and complex to pin down, Salisbury begins to wander between aimless lists ("the very names a litany--Prairie du Chien, La Crosse, Winona, Wabasha, Red Wing") and inconsequent facts ("that watercourse which Anthony Trollope thought the finest in the world"). His...
Died. Paul Robeson, 77, superbly talented and ultimately tragic singer, actor and civil rights leader who won a world fame known to few blacks of his generation and spent his last years sick, half-forgotten and, in Coretta Scott King's words, "buried alive"; following a stroke; in Philadelphia...