Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gesture to placate Greece, the U.S. pulled out Ambassador Henry J. Tasca, who was far too closely identified with the hated dictatorship during his five-year tour, and sent in Jack B. Kubisch, a skilled veteran diplomat who was serving as an Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America. At the same time, President Ford invited Caramanlis to Washington, an invitation the Premier turned down as untimely. Privately, Washington officials felt aggrieved by the Greek attitude. There was, they claimed, little the U.S. could do to stop the Turks, short of using the might of the Sixth Fleet...
...Latin America, still sore about what it regards as a Nixon policy of neglect, President Ford would do well to continue the renewal of U.S. attention haltingly begun by Kissinger in the past six months. Additionally, Ford will soon have to make a decision that Nixon avoided: whether to take a leading role in bringing an increasingly prosperous Cuba back into the American community, or stand by while Latin American states re-establish diplomatic relations with Havana one by one on their own. Nixon had shied away from recognition of Cuba after Southern Senators, his mam support in the Senate...
...fate is not unique. Today, reports TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, there are 510 Americans in Mexican prisons, 425 of them for drug smuggling or related crimes and most of them young, middle class and desperately naive. They had hoped to get rich quick by carrying Latin American-grown cocaine into the U.S. via Mexico. Instead, they found themselves doomed to the degradations of police interrogation and prison...
Whatever largeness of nature Frost believed himself capable of is now visible almost entirely in his great body of poetry. Kathleen Morrison focuses mostly on the small things that went into making Frost the man. He knew Latin well. He hated banks, perhaps because when he was a young man a teller mocked him for having a small unearned income. He was a shrewd house carpenter. He loved his collie. He was mortified when he visited Russia and thought (mistakenly) that he was not to be permitted to see Khrushchev...
State of Siege is far and away the best movie playing in Cambridge this weekend. Costa-Gavras, who made his mark with Z, follows his political understandings to their logical conclusion in this film about the kidnapping of an AID official in Latin America and comes up with a brilliant and controversial ideological statement. The movie was supposed to open in the United States at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, but the center's film director pulled it at the last moment because he thought it was too "anti-American." When the film opened in New York...