Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last week the Swiss ambassadors to Havana and Washington, Silvio Masnata and Felix Schnyder, met with Secretary of State William Rogers to deliver their personal progress reports. Said the normally cautious Schnyder: "I think there is a measure of mutual understanding very evident in this situation." Many Latin American diplomats and State Department officers are urging the White House to take advantage of the new atmosphere of cooperation and broaden the negotiations into other areas. So far, Nixon has resisted the notion, but a resolution of the hijacking problem alone would go a long way toward easing U.S.Cuban relations...
...thaw continues, both sides would have to concede a good deal more before diplomatic relations could be resumed. For openers, Nixon would most likely have to lift the U.S. ban on imports of Cuban sugar, and Castro would have to ease up on exporting subversion to other Latin American countries...
...currently running at about $20 million a year), but they were not prepared to give Chile anywhere near the $1.5 million a day in aid that is currently being funneled into Cuba. The reason is simple. Allende, who has strong opposition at home, is considered a far less secure Latin American socialist than is Fidel Castro...
...Eastern Europe, population experts estimates that 23 per cent of all pregnancies are aborted in Poland, 44 per cent are aborted in Bulgaria, and 60 per cent are aborted in Hungary and the Soviet Union. Latin America, China, and Japan rely very heavily on legal or illegal abortion is demographically significant...
...went to a school with an open classroom which first gave me my love of progressive education. In my French Iycee, on the other hand, I learned how not to teach kids. "The Ackermanns moved to Connecticut, and Barbara went to school at Smith where she majored in Latin and Greek. Her husband is Paul Kurt Ackermann, professor of German Literature at Boston University and editor of The Boston University Journal. She has two children who went to B.U. and are presently in Switzerland...