Word: ecuador
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Cunha discussed at length a program of this sort which the Department of Defense has sposored in Ecuador. The principal obstacle there has been not the recalcitrance of the military, but the apathy of the civilian population. To overcome this resistance, a series of films and booklets demonstrating the advantages of civilian-military cooperation are being distributed...
...Salvador (January 1961), Argentina (March 1962), Peru (July 1962), Guatemala (March 1963), Ecuador (July 1963), Dominican Republic (September 1963) and Honduras...
Just as bread or meat is the staff of life for many nations, for others fish is the very stuff that life is made of. Fishing plays a vital role in the economies of dozens of nations, such as Japan, Ecuador, Peru, Canada and Norway. For many food-short nations, the "panic for protein" to feed their people leads only to the sea, which now contributes a meager 12% of the supply of animal protein consumed by the human race. Throughout the world, the fishing industry not only supports thousands of fishermen-who lead probably the roughest and most...
Egan. Texas shrimpers have to deal with Mexican gunboats that wait to pounce on them over western Gulf of Mexico shrimp beds; and San Diego tuna men are still bitter about last spring's capture of two of their boats by Ecuador, which assessed $26,000 in fines...
...18th century naval cannon ranges, major nations generally have established their territorial limits at three miles offshore. But fishing limits are something else, and more and more nations are pushing their boundaries beyond three miles-Mexico nine miles, Canada to twelve, and such nations as Chile, Peru and Ecuador to an imperious 200 miles offshore. Many nations have settled on a twelve-mile limit, but the U.S. up to now has refused to recognize any jurisdiction beyond the traditional three-mile limit...