Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also attempted to eradicate all foreign influence from Libya. Everywhere, even on street signs, Arabic letters have supplanted the Latin alphabet...
...Africa, where France supplies 13 of its 15 former colonies, as well as several other states, the duration of the Nigerian civil war can probably be attributed as much to the steady flow of French weaponry to breakaway Biafra as to the fighting spirit of the Ibos. In Latin America, France has sold arms to nine nations (including 106 Mirage 5s to Argentina and 111 Mirage mcs to Brazil). Currently it is offering its Exocet antiship missile to both the left-wing military dictatorship of Peru and the right-wing military dictatorship of Chile...
...particularly alert to its Cuban communities; Reporter Roberto Fabricio spent a week in Spain last year, came back with an exclusive series on some 30,000 Cuban refugees there who were having trouble getting U.S. visas. Many had relatives in Miami. It daily flies 8,000 copies into Latin America, prints eight separate inside editions for the eight areas of southern Florida where it stations news bureaus...
...negotiator whom President Nixon sent to Peru is James R. Greene, a Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. senior vice president who holds a Ph.D. in economics and has been a U.S. foreign service officer in Latin America. The talks that he has been involved in concern not only Cerro but units of at least ten other U.S. companies that either have been nationalized or stand to be. In separate meetings with Cerro, the Peruvians had offered the company only $12 million, though the firm's Peruvian unit had sales of $159 million and profits of $16.6 million from its copper...
Peter Carter is the coach of the ski team, and in him are personified the many contradictions of the team: Leftist politics in the face of skiing's continued elitism, for instance. He is a good skier, having won the Latin American Championships in his day, and he continued to win many races in the East far past his day. At 26 most skiers would have retired years ago, but for some reason Carter hangs on in both spirit and performance. Team members often wonder what makes Carter go, why he does things the way that he does...