Word: galo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While they wait, three-year-old Galo plays with his wooden top. Most young peruanos have tops; resembling a large radish in shape and size, the top is thrown like a yo-yo with a flick of the wrist and spins upright even in an unpaved road...
...three, Galo cannot yet spin the top. He has just begun to cry, and the cousins to argue, when the uproar is suddenly suppressed. Two hours late, the birthday girl has arrived. As Jenny enters, the room is flooded with light and congratulations are shouted. Jenny attempts to look surprised but only succeeds in looking pleased...
...that suggest that the Administration is not so intransigent in its attitude toward Cuba as it used to be. Washington has long been concerned about the increasingly permanent Soviet presence in Cuba. U.S. diplomats have been discussing the possibility of sending a respected Latin American statesman-Ecuador's Galo Plaza, Secretary-General of the OAS, is an eager candidate-to Havana to open a dialogue. An opening of sorts occurred in June, when three American scientists traveled-with Administration approval-to the Cuban capital for an eleven-nation conference on oceanography. The scientists had applied...