Word: cordillera
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chileans and Argentines are already eying the mineral potential of the Antarctic Peninsula, a natural extension of the tin-and copper-rich Andean cordillera. New Zealand continues to call the region that includes McMurdo its Ross Dependency...
...Rhodes's style has to be cinematically vivid without being florid. He has to be personal enough to carry conviction, familiar enough to take us with him. Ambitious as he is, amazingly, he succeeds. It is rather frightening to realize--after reading a recent Time article ("Cannibalism in the Cordillera") or any newspaper, any day--that this writer's maniacal vision is hardly hyperbole...
...snowcapped Andes of South America are a cruel and unforgiving barrier. When storms are brewing, plane crashes are frequent; invariably after an aircraft goes down, mountain people remark that "the Cordillera never gives anyone back." Last week, though, the Cordillera had been forced to give back 16 of the 45 people who had been aboard a Uruguayan air force plane that hit a mountain peak in mid-October. Incredibly, the survivors lasted for 73 days in deep snow and subfreezing temperature. They took extremely grim measures in order to do so-they ate the bodies of those who had died...
...strange events on the Cordillera began last Oct. 13 when the F-27 turboprop, manned by a crew of five, took off from Montevideo for Santiago, Chile, normally a 2½-hr, flight. Aboard were 16 members of the Old Christians, a rugby team composed of socially prominent college boys from the prosperous Montevideo suburb of Carrasco. Along with 24 friends and relatives, they were making a trip to Chile for a series of matches. Because of bad weather in the mountains, the plane was forced to stop at Mendoza, Argentina. The players used the layover to stock...
...were already looking ahead. "We will have to rebuild it again," said a native of the village of Ranrahirca, which was destroyed by a lesser earthquake in 1962 and rebuilt with government aid. "But maybe not in the same place. Every huayco that drops into our valley from the Cordillera Blanca passes through our village...