Word: del
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Great emphasis is now placed on diversifying the structure of the agricultural sector. The revolutionary planners are now pushing citrus fruit production. In the last three years, Cubans have planted twice as many citrus trees on the Isle of Pines and in the wsetern province of Pinar del Rio as there are in Israel--one of the world's largest fruit exporters. These trees are now beginning to yield the first heavy crops of oranges, lemons and grapefruit...
...observation about your article on Gibraltar [Sept. 22]: My family "discovered" the Costa del Sol, and an ancestor was admiral-governor of Gibraltar. I have very good friends of every kind there and would like to make a true and neutral comment: even if 99.2% voted against annexation to Spain, 99.9% would honestly wish an arrangement with Spain. But, as always, politics creates such complex problems that our short lives are dominated by a couple of people who, for the sake of their local pride, make thousands suffer-in this case...
...only last April that Latin American heads of state met in the gambling casino at Punta del Este, Uruguay, and agreed to get a Common Market in operation by 1970. By last week, that heady promise seemed to be considerably behind schedule. Assembled at Asuncion, Paraguay, to work out a preliminary plan for cooperation, the foreign ministers of the Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA) agreed on little but the magnitude of their differences...
James Thompson, the Thailand silk millionaire who has been missing since March; of a brutal beating inflicted by an unknown assailant in the bedroom of her mansion 15 miles west of Wilmington, Del. Her death was as mysterious as her brother's disappearance: there was no sign of forced entry, and none of her valuables was missing...
...gone through the white-race depigmentation phase. If migration away from the equator produces lighter skins, says Loomis, reverse migration could have the opposite effect. In the mere 10,000 to 20,000 years since relatively light-skinned Mongols crossed from Siberia to Alaska and spread southward to Tierra del Fuego, there has been a natural selection in favor of the darker-skinned Amerindians between 40° north and 40° south latitude. Outside these boundaries, and in most of the dark rain forests of Brazil, the Indians are not appreciably darker than most Asiatic Mongols...