Word: juan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flight that arrived at midnight-"All flights seem to arrive in Lima at midnight," he notes-Hillenbrand spent six days covering a long round of speeches and committee meetings at the conference site at the Crillon Hotel. The rather quiet routine was enlivened briefly by the speech of General Juan Velasco Alvarado, head of Peru's leftist military junta. Resplendent in his full-dress uniform, Velasco held up Peru's revolution as a model for developing nations. But at week's end, while filing his story to New York, Hillenbrand heard a brusque announcement over the pressroom...
...been sending out signals indicating that he would welcome a policy change. As long as two years ago, he promised to begin arresting skyjackers who sought asylum in Cuba. In June he quietly expelled three skyjackers and let the U.S. know they could be picked up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He returned $2 million in ransom money that had been taken to Cuba in 1972 by the skyjackers of a Southern Airways DC-9. He also toned down the anti-American rhetoric on Cuban radio concerning the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo...
...Detroit last week to argue that their theology has a prophetic role in northern industrial societies. Sounding a recurrent theme, Peruvian Economist Javier Iguiñiz told an opening session at the conference that "the growth of capitalism is the same as the growth of world poverty." Uruguayan Jesuit Juan Luis Segundo, author of one of the movement's key works, A Theology for Artisans of a New Humanity, warned that the church, if it is to have any validity, "must become a function of liberation...
...should be added that the Eagles have apparently learned how to deal with their enormous success. They still believe in Don Juan. "If you read Carlos Castaneda in Iowa, where the view consists of corn fields, his message might not have as much impact. But we are in Los Angeles, where the desert is as accessible as the ocean...
Also in Canada, but considerably easier to reach, is the fine West Coast Hiking Trail on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, a cannon shot from Washington State across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Still being developed as part of Canada's newly dedicated Pacific Rim National Park, the 22 miles now open are equipped with suspension bridges over ravines, cable cars across two river canyons and a boardwalk along the rougher sections. At one point, the only way to cross the Nitnat Narrows is by dugout canoe, handled by Nitnat Indians who charge $2 for the ride...