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...opposition to its plans to buy nuclear reactors from West Germany. At the airport, Carter set an up beat tone for his visit by describing Brazil; the world's seventh most populous nation, as a "truly great power." In a cool but polite welcoming statement, Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel hoped that Carter would take away "a fair opinion on the Brazilian reality...
...group of wealthy Nicaraguan businessmen, lawyers and other prominent figures, including poet and national hero Ernesto Cardenal, have left the country for Costa Rica, vowing never to return until Somoza's fall. Calling themselves Los Doce, ("The Twelve"), the group issued a statement praising the "political maturity" of the FSLN guerrilla movement and warning that the Sandinista front must participate in any solution to Nicaragua's problems...
People who come from the not-so-pretty streets of Cambridge must sometimes wander into the Yard, and read the names; they must sometimes wonder at the strange incongruity of it all. In another life, Ernesto "Che" Cuevara might have wandered into the Yard, cigar in mouth, and wondered. Or he may have been a student here, performing the strange dance, and then maybe he wouldn't have. Che Guevara was killed in Bolivia ten years ago today. He was trying to start a revolution...
Bolivia was a curious place for Ernesto Guevara to end up. The son of upper-class Argentine parents who encouraged him in his medical studies, a strikingly handsome young man who suffered all his life from acute attacks of asthma, by all rights he should have ended his life a wealthy doctor ensconced in Buenos Aires, idly composing poetry in his spare time, leading a reflective, unremarkable life. Instead, eight years after he and Fidel Castro had taken Cuba, he would write to his parents...
Such incidents, in their own ways, were small triumphs over old, ingrained fears. Even after the referendum last December, in which an overwhelming 90% of those voting endorsed the reform program that led to the election, many Spaniards doubted that it would take place. Recalled Writer Ernesto Carratala, 23: "Three or four months ago, many people thought June 15 would never happen, something would prevent it. They first had to see the election campaign to understand that the left was serious. And only that generated an opening up in the public...