Word: latine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week's anti-Nixon demonstrations and student riots were the result of Latin-American resentment of 25 years of "goodwill tours" with no positive diplomatic or economic action by the United States, Thomas F. McGann '41, assistant professor of History, commented yesterday...
...post-war foreign policy has ignored the area, and this "failure to continue with a well developed policy toward Latin America, such as the Good Neighbor Policy" has impaired American prestige, McGann, a Latin American expert, said...
...Latin American students take an active part in the political life of their nation, McGann said. They are both more progressively oriented and more anti-American than the population of these countries as a whole. Student Federations have been active in opposing dictatorial regimes, often in the face of harsh brutality by the government...
...solely Communist inspired, McGann noted. He felt that the sentiment which gave rise to the anti-Nixon riots is a carry-over from the days of American imperialism. Although Communists participated in and directed the demonstrations to some extent, only 150,000 of the 175 million inhabitants of Latin America are actually Communist...
...international skies as pigeons among peregrines. More often than not they cannot operate except by turning themselves into cut-rate, fly-by-night carriers along the lines of the first postwar U.S. nonsked airlines. Usually, they do not pose a competitive threat to well-established lines, but in Latin America they have made flying a cutthroat business (TIME...