Word: ecuadorian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ECUADOR Volunteers will work under the administration of Heifer Projects, Inc. With Ecuadorian counterparts, they will work with campesinos (rural peasants) in lower-level agriculture and community development programs. Veterinarians will teach at three universities; foresters will work on the national forestry development plan; and engineers will work in rural irrigation and construction projects...
...each day on the New York waterfront, and seamen have already suffered a $5.5 million wage loss. More than 15,000 travelers have had to change their plans because of canceled sailings. At least $200 million in cargo has been delayed, some of it fatally: $400,000 worth of Ecuadorian bananas have rotted in holds. A leather importer from Philadelphia faces bankruptcy because he has been unable to meet his commitments to local shoe manufacturers, and some Manhattan antique stores fear that the delicate finish of such antiques as Queen Anne tables and Chippendale chairs will be spoiled...
...guard the U.S. embassy downtown. Helicopters evacuating the remaining Americans and other nationals drew rebel gunfire. Snipers opened up on the Marine company dug in around the embassy; the leathernecks fired back, killing four rebels. The Salvadoran embassy was sacked and burned; shots spattered into the Mexican, Peruvian and Ecuadorian embassies. "This is collective madness," U.S. Ambassador Bennett told newsmen. "I don't know where we go from here...
Belaunde sometimes suspects that the U.S. drags its feet just a little because of his bitter wrangle with International Petroleum Co., the Standard Oil of New Jersey affiliate that operates Peru's richest oilfield on the north coast near the Ecuadorian border. Shortly after his election in 1963, Belaúnde yielded to nationalist demands and canceled I.P.C.'s 39-year-old concession. He has yet to reach a settlement. Peru's anti-Yanquis demand outright expropriation. Belaúnde's better sense tells him that the government could not run the field profitably. "Around here...
...shipment of 21 tons of electrical equipment from rural electrical cooperatives in Kentucky is helping an Ecuadorian cooperative double its output; Wisconsin plans to send a similar shipment to Nicaragua. Idaho has sent sewing machines to an Ecuadorian orphanage where the girls learn to become seamstresses. The Junior Chamber of Commerce in Mobile, Ala., has sent to Guatemala a bookmobile and funds to build a rural school, while Santa Barbara, Calif., has provided $100,000 worth of medical equipment and Pharmaceuticals for Bogot...