Word: juan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...origin of that image is a parable of Mexican religion, race and national history. It is said that 445 years ago this week the Virgin Mary appeared to an Aztec straw weaver named Juan Diego, who had recently converted...
Christianity. Though the conquistadors had crushed Juan Diego's people ten years before, the Virgin affectionately called him "my son" and said to him in the Aztec tongue: "Here I will offer all my love, my pity, my aid and my protection to the people." She ordered the Aztec to tell the bishop to build a sanctuary to her on a nearby hillside, where the Spanish had destroyed a temple to the Aztec goddess of earth and corn known as the "Little Mother." When the bishop refused, the Virgin made Castilian roses bloom among the hillside rocks, and Juan...
...took power. Shortly after this change came agrarian reform, closer Peruvian links with the Soviet Union, and the expropriation of U.S. copper and oil interests. The drop in food production after the land reform, however, sent high prices even higher, threatening the popularity of the government. As a result Juan Velasco, "the father of the Peruvian revolution," was replaced in 1975 by the less socialistic Francisco Morales. The Morales government tilts toward the center, encouraging foreign investment in Peru with better terms and repayment for expropriated holdings. Perhaps this explains Rockefeller's Fourth of July appearance on government-owned television...
With four sophomores in the starting linup, Columbia has already plunked Rutgers in the mulligatawney, 85-75, as Juan Mitchell pumped through 26 points. The back court tandem of Ricky Free and Alton Byrd has been clicking for 20.3 and 10 points a game respectively...
...Juan Marichal, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, said Sunday Guillen's selection shows the increasing political openness of post-Franco Spain and a "recognition that many of the most important people in Spanish culture have been in exile." Marichal called the awards--which carries a $75,000 stipend--"the Nobel Prize of Spanish-speaking peoples...