Word: guyana
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...reprimanded-"brutally," according to one account-by National Security Adviser Clark when he publicly castigated El Salvador for its abysmal human rights record. Clark wanted to replace Hinton with Gerald E. Thomas, a black retired Navy admiral who has served, without undue distinction, as U.S. Ambassador to Guyana since December 1981. Thomas was seen by the Reagan White House as a diplomat who, unlike the arrogant Enders and the mercurial Hinton, would easily comply with Oval Office views...
...White House adviser said that the "leading and probable" candidate to replace Hinton is Gerald E. Thomas, a retired Navy admiral who is Ambassador to Guyana. A black, Thomas had once been proposed by Clark for a position under Enders in Washington, but Enders had opposed him. Thomas, 53, who holds a Ph.D. in diplomatic history from Yale and has been a Russian interpreter, is seen by the White House as a nonbureaucratic type of "cando" diplomat...
...Argentine ally on the South American continent; Ecuador, which smarts from the loss of more than 70,000 sq. mi. of territory to Peru in various wars; Bolivia, which lost a Pacific coastline to Chile a century ago; and above all, democratic Venezuela, which claims about half of neighboring Guyana's territory. In an interview with TIME'S Caribbean bureau chief William McWhirter, Venezuelan President Luis Herrera Campins warned that the U.S. "would have to bear the brunt of all the feelings of anticolonialism now rising across Latin America" as a result of U.S. support for Britain...
...Washington had disrupted the basis of the O.A.S. and created a North-South breach in the hemisphere, Caracas sent a delegation to Western Europe to plead for an end to the European Community's economic sanctions against Argentina. The sudden surge of nationalism in Caracas raised fears in Guyana, meanwhile, that Venezuela might resort to military action to seize 58,000 sq. mi. of mineral-rich territory that have been the subject of dispute since the beginning of the century...
...Guyana. In defiance of an 1899 arbitration agreement, Venezuela claims the mineral-rich Essequibo region of Guyana, which makes up two-thirds of the former British colony. Venezuela has refused to renew a soon-to-expire 1970 protocol shelving the dispute...