Word: ecuador
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...Commandos have sent training missions to Saudi Arabia, Greece, Mali, Guatemala, Venezuela, Ecuador and El Salvador, helped the Dominican Republic set up its own Air Commando units. In a spirit of international camaraderie, Guatemala awarded the U.S. instructors its own Air Force wings at a graduation party, required the Air Commandos to down a bottle of local liquor to reach the wings at the bottom...
...civic action projects in underdeveloped nations. The theory is that guerrillas can operate successfully only when the civilians are in sympathy with them. To win loyalty from native populations and make guerrilla warfare less likely, Air Commandos and Special Forces help truck drinking water into slum areas of Guayaquil, Ecuador, fly medical teams into rural Bolivia, build roads and schools in the Dominican Republic. Most such projects are in Latin America...
...winners are the second group of students to receive the awards, made possible through the gift of Robert Gordon and the Kidder Peabody Foundation. Last year, five fellowship holders did work on topics ranging from the social problems of migratory Indians in Ecuador and Peru to contemporary Argentine literature...
...years ago in Ecuador, a farmer could buy a tractor with the money from selling 50 bags of coffee; now it takes 150 bags. In Malaya, the government has lost $60 million in export duties in the past two years because of falling rubber prices. A 50% drop in cocoa prices has forced Ghana to suspend its economic development program. When a Biblical-sized storm of cotton worms descended on Egypt's cotton crop in 1961, the damage cost Egypt nearly $200 million in foreign exchange. All of these countries have one problem in common: their economies depend heavily...
...Ecuador...