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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swell G.N.P. as long as money is spent on them. At best, G.N.P. tends to overemphasize the kind of growth symbolized by steel, stamping presses, cars and dishwashers -precisely the kind that chews up natural resources and pours out pollution. In theory, a dollar of salary paid to a Latin scholar weighs as heavily as a dollar of wages paid to an auto worker; but in practice, hiring six auto workers increases G.N.P. more than hiring six public school teachers. The auto workers turn out a product that is sold for more dollars that further swell G.N.P.; the teachers...
...Latin Disquisition--James Bishop Peabody...
...take up residence in Lima since Peru broke off relations in 1960. The arrival of Núñez in Peru, which struggled with Cuban-supported, revolutionaries through much of the 1960s, was another sign of the increasing acceptance that Fidel Castro's regime is finding throughout Latin America these days...
...effort by Castro-who has not given up trying to export his revolution to his neighbors-as of the change in U.S. policy toward Peking and Moscow. If the U.S. can make new approaches to its old cold war antagonists, the argument seems to run, why then should Latin American states not show their independence by doing the same with Cuba? As a result, says one top State Department officer, "You can see the Latinos every day sawing away at the bars around Fidel...
...some straws in the wind that suggest that the Administration is not so intransigent in its attitude toward Cuba as it used to be. Washington has long been concerned about the increasingly permanent Soviet presence in Cuba. U.S. diplomats have been discussing the possibility of sending a respected Latin American statesman-Ecuador's Galo Plaza, Secretary-General of the OAS, is an eager candidate-to Havana to open a dialogue. An opening of sorts occurred in June, when three American scientists traveled-with Administration approval-to the Cuban capital for an eleven-nation conference on oceanography. The scientists...