Word: guatemalan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Robert Palay '78, coordinator of Guatemalan relief through the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee on American Foreign Policy, said yesterday fund raising efforts in the Houses and the Freshman Union are "proceeding very well...
When the tremors subsided, more than 300 towns throughout the country had been destroyed. The Guatemalan government announced that more than 8,000 people were dead and 40,000 injured; unofficial estimates ran as high as 20,000 dead, 60,000 injured and hundreds of thousands homeless...
...earn their wealth will also help the underdeveloped nations to climb out of poverty, if only given a chance. The goodwill Americans bear towards the third world is exemplified at this moment by the millions of dollars of aid they are voluntarily donating to the victims of the disastrous Guatemalan earthquake. (At the very same time the imperialistc governments of Cuba and the Soviet Union are spending billions to colonize Angola, a goal they have given much toward in men and money for over a decade.) It is clear that the attempt by third world dictators to maintain power...
...tempest of snowflakes descended on the trophy competition, junior Dick Raines tread too rashly through the treacherous turns and took a top-spin tumble. Though tripped up this time, Raines, who last year worked as a Guatemalan teamster, intends to take himself to the top of eastern alpine skiing. He titilated expectations in the tilt at Jimminy Peak last week where he tamed all other skiers and took the trophy...
Died. Miguel Angel Asturias, 74, Guatemalan novelist, diplomat and winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for literature; of a respiratory ailment and intestinal tumor; in Madrid. A hulking man with strikingly saurian eyes, Asturias was a dedicated leftist. He spent much of his life abroad, either as a student, in diplomatic service or, when the Guatemalan government had taken one of its periodic swings to the extreme right, as an exile. His first major novel, The President, a searing indictment of a Guatemalan dictator, was followed by a trilogy blasting the imperialism of the United Fruit Co. in Latin America...