Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sohio and California cannot settle their differences, an alternative could be to build one or more new pipelines-through Canada, from Washington State to the Midwest or across Guatemala, where the oil could be shipped to Texas by tanker and piped north. But none of these options could be ready by the time Prudhoe Bay crude starts to flow. Although it would add to transportation costs, and presumably to consumer fuel bills as well, Sohio can temporarily ship part of the surplus-perhaps 200,000 bbl. daily-on U.S.-owned tankers, through the Panama Canal and on to the Midwest...
Meloy, 59, a reserved and well-respected career diplomat who had arrived in Beirut only five weeks before, after serving in Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, posts the State Department considers to be high-risk jobs, was on the way to his first call on Lebanese President-elect Elias Sarkis when disaster struck. Because Lebanon's discredited President Suleiman Franjieh still clings to office, despite the fact that Sarkis has already been chosen to succeed him, Meloy had not yet presented his credentials−a move generally interpreted as a U.S. nudge to Franjieh to step down. Together with...
...Gordon Mein, Ambassador to Guatemala, shot and killed during a kidnaping attempt by revolutionaries in Guatemala City...
...shown that people who use radios for communication are quite normal. You will also learn that there is a group known as Amateur Radio Operators, who can, in addition to talking on the radio, talk through orbital satellite, run teletype machines, talk around the world, send disaster messages from Guatemala, even operate their own TV stations, all from their home, car, boat or airplane...
...positively correlated with the U.S.-Soviet rivalry as Moynihan portrays it. Military and authoritarian government by the score have been directly installed by the U.S. or remain there only because of American support; among these nations are Chile, South Korea, the Philippines, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Singapore, Ghana, Guatemala, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Moynihan, and the type of foreign policy he represents, has no interest in parliamentary government for itself; "democracy stands only as a code word, meaning the continued functioning of a world-wide market and system of investments, channelled through Western institutions like the World Bank, which systematically...