Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capitalists and the foreign imperialists, particularly North Americans." Since the mid-1960s, when the late Brazilian revolutionary Carlos Marighella made that declaration in a manual that has since become a text for terrorists everywhere, businessmen have found themselves the targets of violence in many parts of the world, notably Latin America and some relatively prospering democracies of Western Europe. The bombings, kidnapings and assassinations have not spread-at least so far-to the U.S., but American firms are increasingly troubled by the phenomenon...
...Hanns-Martin Schleyer last fall or the kidnaping of Belgian Industrialist Baron Edoard Jean Empain last winter, American executives have been frequent targets of violence. Indeed, according to a tally kept by the CIA, more than 40% of the 232 terrorist-connected kidnapings reported since 1970 (almost all in Latin America and Europe) have involved businessmen, one out of five of them Americans...
...executive is kidnaped and his company fails to free him as quickly as possible, he or his family can bring-and possibly win-a damage suit against his employers for negligence. Fred Rayne admits that on behalf of two foreign corporations he has handed over $1.5 million to Latin American terrorists as ransom for kidnaped executives. It was a bargain, he argues, since the executives might otherwise have sued for much more...
...danced beneath a huge electric American flag, which blinked red, white and blue to Basie's beat. Meanwhile, Dizzy Gillespie, 60, was on hand at Avery Fisher Hall, with his mischievously cherubic grin, his horn angled rakishly at the sky to let fly with Manteca, one of his Latin favorites...
...Elegua--Latin jazz, presented by Summerthing, at Copley Plaza, Boston, Sunday at 5. Free...