Word: ecuador
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During their deliberations, the summit leaders were forced to give close attention to the international debt issue. All seven heads of government had received a letter from seven major debtor countries (Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Brazil) expressing "anxiety," in the words of a British official, and the hope that the debt discussion be given "the right priority." The summit finally came up with a plan that a senior U.S. official said would "reward" debtors who are making "successful efforts to improve their position." The plan includes the notion of extending and improving the terms of debt repayment...
...building of the world's largest hydroelectric dam on a river which separates the two nations. Unfortunately, this analysis is overly optimistic; the increased importance of frontier areas can just as easily create new tensions. The recent discovery of oil deep in the jungle along the border between Ecuador and Peru, for example, has only intensified the long-standing feud between the two nations...
There was no such controversy last week in Ecuador, which held its second presidential election since the military gave up power in 1979. Conservative Businessman Leon Febres Cordero defeated his center-left opponent, Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, by fewer than 100,000 of the 2.9 million ballots cast, but the vote occurred without incident and the armed forces did not intervene. When the result was announced, outgoing President Osvaldo Hurtado Larrea, who had quietly favored Borja, declared, "Democracy is winning ground in Latin America...
What if the CIA or the USIA had issued a forecast about, say, an election in Ecuador that was as badly botched and misleading as the predictions doled out by much of the American political industry before the New Hampshire primary? Surely the congressional Pecksniffs would be braying for an accounting and the editorialists would be near exhaustion from their labors of excoriation...
Ford had been a member of the Australian national team since 1979, and went to Ecuador for the 1982 World Championships. He swam the 1500 meters for the Australians in Vancouver in 1981, and in a meet in Japan the same year. There, he ran into Bernal, who urged him to come to Harvard...