Word: ecuador
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is shrimp-inspired dancing in Ecuador these days all right, but it is not to the tune of returning boats. Instead, in vast ponds on the salty flatlands of El Oro and other coastal provinces, a new industry has sprung up: shrimp farming. Last year these farms produced 20.8 million lbs. of the tasty crustaceans, vs. nothing just a decade ago, earning $66 million in foreign exchange and hefty profits for Ecuador's new shrimp farmers...
...region last week was the fact that the U.S., Israel and Egypt had finally agreed on the multinational force that will police the Sinai after the final Israeli withdrawal next year. About half of the 2,500-man unit will be American, with the remainder coming from Australia, Canada, Ecuador and other countries. At least the basic Camp David peace accord was still intact, even if the Israeli-Egyptian normalization process had lost some momentum...
...Laura Glynn of Hartford, Conn., and Elsie Monje of Guayaquil, Ecuador, who organize destitute peasants in Ecuador and, as a result, endure constant denunciations as "Communist agitators." Based in Quito, the nuns advise labor and peasant organizers and students. Just now they are obtaining medical aid for several hundred Andean Indians squatting on unused hilly farm land. More than 30 have been wounded by gunshots in repeated skirmishes with police and thugs hired by landowners, but local hospitals refuse to treat them...
Mexico, Britain, Ecuador, Malaysia. The list of oil-exporting nations that have cut their prices keeps growing longer. After years of feasting on high prices brought on by petroleum scarcity and soaring demand, the oil-producing states are discovering that the price of crude can go down as well as up. Drooping demand and a steadily swelling surplus production of some 2 million bbl. per day have created a miniglut that grows bigger by the week...
DIED. Jaime RoldÓs Aguilera, 40, President of Ecuador and youngest elected head of state in South America; in a plane crash that also killed his wife Marta, 39, Defense Minister Marco Subia Martinez, 51, and six others; in the Andes Mountains. A Guayaquil lawyer, Roldos entered the 1978 presidential race as a stand-in populist candidate for his politically prominent uncle-by-marriage (who was ruled ineligible to run) and went on to win a runoff the following year by the largest margin in his nation's history, ending nine years of dictatorship...