Word: ecuador
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first reports were optimistic. After two earthquakes rocked the northeastern mountains of Ecuador on March 5, the destruction in the capital of Quito, just 50 miles from the epicenter, appeared to be minor despite the temblors' high register of 7 on the Richter scale. But as reports began trickling in from Napo province, the remote Amazon jungle region that was most severely affected, the picture changed. Last week it had become clear that the quakes, which were followed by hundreds of aftershocks, constituted one of the worst natural disasters ever in the tiny South American country. As estimates...
...Harlem and is now a big brother to a youngster in Providence. "We need to be realistic about our expectations so we don't burn out." Linda Chisholm, co-director of the Partnership for Service Learning, an organization that has sent students to assist schools in Jamaica and Ecuador, explains, "They haven't decided who is right and who is wrong. And they aren't saying that others should change. They're saying, 'I'll change. I'll do it.' " The Peace Corps is enjoying an increase in applicants who are college graduates, and Spokeswoman Alixe Glen characterizes most...
Leon Febres Cordero, Ecuador's President, is a free man again after a bizarre incident last week in which he was held hostage for eleven hours at an air base by rebellious air force officers. Febres Cordero and his Defense Minister were captured after a brief fire fight that left two people dead...
...estimated 4 million to 30 million that remain undiscovered. While most of these unknown species are insects, even a creature as garrulous and brightly colored as a parakeet of the genus Pyrrhura (its species name has not yet been assigned) eluded researchers until it was first sighted in Ecuador in 1980. "No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude," says Wilson. "We don't know for sure how many species there are, where they can be found or how fast they're disappearing. It's like having astronomy without knowing where...
...other side of the world, along the spine of the Andes in Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, both the lower and middle classes have begun smoking coca paste, a potent and addictive form of cocaine that costs only pennies a cigarette. "These countries have never had a problem like this before," says Manuel Gallardo, chief of the Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Matters. "Their people are getting strung out right and left from all social classes, and the governments don't know what to do." Drug dealers are so high-handed in Colombia that last week they...