Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three southernmost nations of Latin America were near political paralysis last week. Chile, already polarized by a conflict between left and right, was jarred by an abortive army coup. Widespread terrorism persisted in Argentina, following the return to Buenos Aires of ex-Dictator Juan Perón. In Uruguay, a successful military coup brought at least a temporary end to republican government. All in all, it was a sad and humiliating time for three countries that had seemed to embody many of the continent's best hopes for development and democracy...
...hard lesson that U.S. investors in Europe and Latin America learned earlier is now being thrust upon the Japanese moving into Hawaii: local residents often resent and fear a sudden pronounced rise in takeovers by foreigners. Some Hawaiians are deeply concerned, even though their own state government invited the splurge by spending $1,000,000 at Japan's Expo '70 in Osaka to promote investment in the islands...
...Chicago 21 plan also provides for massive improvements in existing low-income communities. The planners urge an end to public housing, feeling that home ownership is vital to city health. Beyond that, parks and new housing will be added to the mainly Latin American Pilsen neighborhood, and Chinatown will be reoriented toward the Chicago River. For the rundown Cabrini Green area they recommend new housing, job training centers and mass transit to allow residents to travel to work without having...
...impression stayed with him, but he was not sure how best to help. Two years later, he quit his residency in plastic surgery at a University of Chicago hospital and joined the Franciscans. After he waded through Latin and philosophy courses in the U.S., he was sent to Brazil, armed with a crash course in Portuguese, to finish his theological studies for the priesthood. There he also learned that in order to practice medicine among the Indians of the Amazon he would have to acquire a Brazilian high school certificate and pass written, oral and practical examinations in seven areas...
...fact, Latin America does offer lucrative potential arms markets, which must be especially tempting to the U.S. in light of its current imbalance of payments in world trade. But there is as yet no guarantee that the U.S. will capture these valuable markets. No contracts have been signed and some may be difficult to conclude in the face of competition, particularly from the French. "The U.S. always rubs us the wrong way when it decides to sell us equipment," a brigadier general in the Argentine air force told TIME last week. "The Viet Nam War is over...