Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gianni Tognoni spoke about the Bertrand Russell Tribunal's investigation of the treatment of political prisoners in Latin America last night before a sparse audience at the Medical School...
Tognoni said the tribunal, founded by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre to investigate allegations of U.S. war crimes in Vietnam, has turned its attention on Latin America "because there are the same kinds of imperialism and exploitation occurring there as occurred in Vietnam...
Tognoni said the tribunal is especially interested in the role of doctors and psychiatrists in helping Latin American military authorities develop methods of torture...
...only one or a few countries at any specific time, and for what seemed fairly clear reasons. In the industrialized world, the worst inflations generally accompanied wars or revolutions, or struck countries that had tried to live beyond their means. Inflation might be endemic in some nations of Latin America and Asia, but the rich countries could smugly dismiss that as the consequence of chronically weak or corrupt governments...
...ener gy demands double. And even if they are met by extractions from granite or sea water or God knows what, thermal pollution will increase by 100% in the next couple of centuries, driving atmo spheric temperatures up an intolerable 50 degrees Centigrade. The population will be doubling in Latin America every 24 years, in Africa every 27 years, in Southeast Asia every 30 years...