Word: ecuador
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Violence & Votes. All faced a difficult decision. Castro no longer cuts a wide swath through Latin America, but local discontents can oft be fanned by Fidelism. Ten nations (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Peru, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic) hold national elections this year, and this weighed in their deliberations...
...meeting to work out the initial reductions on everything from lemons to razor blades and burlap. When the agreements were averaged out, they amounted to 27%, instead of the treaty-set minimum of 8%. At next August's meeting, the cuts may go deeper. Already two more nations-Ecuador and Colombia-have asked to join, and by August, the Latin American common market should include 86% of Latin America's territory, 81% of its population, more than 70% of its gross product, and 60% of its total trade...
...Ecuador...
...reasons-old Latin fears of Yankee Big Stick intervention, concern over pro-Castro elements at home, an obvious but unconfessed desire to use the example of Cuba as a lever to pry more aid out of Washington-the big ABC powers (Argentina, Brazil and Chile), as well as Ecuador and Mexico, oppose any OAS moves against Castro...
...electrical engineer with the War Production Board ("I didn't know a wall plug from a telephone pole"). Married to a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin (she has since married Editor-Photographer Eugene Cook), she accompanied her husband on archaeological expeditions to Peru and Ecuador. But she kept on taking voice lessons once a week, gave several recitals in Manhattan. Result: she was picked up by the New York City Opera, and soon became one of its reigning divas...