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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Caracas conference endorsed a platform calling for measures that included lower interest rates. Heads of state of the Latin nations will meet later this year in Quito, Ecuador, to consider possible political moves to implement the demands. That gathering, though, is likely to maintain last week's bankerly calm and be free of wild rhetoric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Defuse a Debt Bomb | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

Polsfut, the third Trustman winner, said he plans to visit Ecuador, Chile, Costa Rica and Spain, to "learn more about the in exces between Americans and Hispanics react to death...

Author: By Melibba I. Webssero, | Title: 5 Seniors Receive Fellowships For A Year's Sojourn Abroad | 4/28/1983 | See Source »

Anxiety is growing in the U.S. as well. A combined U.S. and Latin-American panel headed by Sol Linowitz, former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, and Galo Plaza, former President of Ecuador, last week advocated a new approach for negotiations among the U.S., Nicaragua, other Central American governments and revolutionary movements, and even Cuba and the Soviet Union. The aim would be to work out "understandings" like those between Washington and Moscow that ended the Cuban missile crisis by trading a Kremlin agreement not to put Soviet nuclear weapons into Cuba for a U.S. pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arguing About Means and Ends | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

Many scientists believe there is a common thread in this crazy-quilt weather, some fair, some foul, some just puzzling. It is a phenomenon known in Spanish as El Niño, a reference to the Christ child. Named by the fishermen of Peru and Ecuador, El Niño is a warm current of equatorial water that usually appears around Christmas off western South America. The peculiar ocean movement sharply reduces the fish catch, especially anchovies, which are ground up and sold as meal for livestock and poultry. The present El Niño, which first appeared last June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tracking That Crazy Weather | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...waters off Peru and Ecuador are usually an exceptionally rich fishery. As the cold Humboldt Current sweeps north from the Antarctic, it lifts a rich mix of nutrients from the ocean floor that lets a variety of marine life flourish. In 1970, Peruvian fishing boats called bolicheras (from the Spanish word for dragnet) hauled in 13 million tons of anchovies, a fifth of the world's total fish catch. Now, the warm equatorial water is blocking the upwelling of nutrients from the sea bottom. The result is economic disaster. The anchovies are largely gone. Coastal waters have turned into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tracking That Crazy Weather | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

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