Word: ecuador
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tolls are increased and service deteriorates under Panamanian control, Latin American nations will be particularly damaged. Half of Ecuador's trade, 41% of Peru's and 77% of Nicaragua's moves through the canal. Accordingly, while these and other Latin American countries such as Colombia and Chile publicly supported U.S. cession of the canal, they conducted "back channel" talks with Washington to make sure that there would be American guarantees of uninterrupted operation...
...that the Big Ditch will be open to ships from any nation. A number of the Latin American governments most openly in favor of turning the zone over to Panama have quietly urged the U.S. to insist on this guarantee. Otherwise, ask representatives from such heavy canal users as Ecuador, Colombia, Chile and Peru, how could they be certain that some future Panamanian ruler might not shut off the canal to their ships in a totally unforeseeable squabble? Largely because of this agreement, General George Brown, Chairman .of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says he is "satisfied" with the negotiations...
...trip wore on, Rosalynn was increasingly taxed - both mentally and physically. In Quito, the 9,350-ft.-high capital of Ecuador, she needed two doses of oxygen to get over the effects of the altitude. She calmly informed members of the ruling military triumvirate that the U.S. was not likely to lift trade restrictions imposed after Ecuador raised its oil prices along with other OPEC members...
...area's political and economic problems. She also practiced her Spanish; she knows no Portuguese, the language of the biggest country she will visit ?Brazil. Mrs. Carter's itinerary takes her to four democracies (Jamaica, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Colombia) and three military dictatorships (Brazil, Peru and Ecuador) but skips such "southern cone" countries as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, all run by rightist juntas. Whatever importance different regimes attach to her visit, she seems assured of a cordial welcome wherever she goes and a downright affectionate one in some places. A representative of Peru's leftist regime, evidently...
...generation may resolve them. We, as heirs of the social upheaval of the late sixties, are quite aware of the need for change in many of our societies' institutions, principles and policies. On leaving Harvard we will go out to work towards change, myself in my own country, Ecuador, and my American friends here in the United States. For many of us the Revolution will begin on Class Day. Juan Carlos Pitarque...