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Obscurity--obscurantism, if you will--began to creep in, it seems to me, towards the end of the last century: as the task of rounding out our territory on this continent was completed, as the frontier disappeared, as those dangers of new European activity in the New World that had...
At opposite ends of the American continent last week, dissenters were on the march. In New York, they turned up 125,000 strong, from points as disparate as Detroit, Mich., and Dedham, Mass.-most of them young, many of them carrying posters, all of them out for a spring housecleaning...
Only a few years ago, such a blunt statement would have sent many Latin Americans into bursts of outrage about Yanqui callousness-and Ecuador's interim President, Otto Arosemena Gómez, 41, indeed complained that the U.S. did not offer enough aid. But for the rest of the...
Two separate trading zones, the eleven-nation Latin American Free Trade Association and the five-nation Central American Common Market, have sprung up south of the border in recent years. But they are too loosely organized and too small to have much overall effect on the continent's economic...
Accusing his accusers of hypocrisy, Banda challenged them to stop issuing empty threats against South Africa-which, after all, is the continent's most powerful nation-and concentrate instead on convincing the whites that apartheid is unnecessary. The only way to convince them, Banda suggested, is by proving that...