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Dukakis said Third World development crisis that "threatens the stability of democratic governments in Asia and Latin America and that has contributed heavily to our deficit in trade. For a substantial portion of Latin American debt, interest payments have been generated by reducing purchases of U.S. goods...
...Rushdie, author of two fantastical novels, Midnight's Children and Shame, that tell the recent history of India and Pakistan. As an Indian who grew up with his independent motherland in its infancy, and as a fabulist whose bravura acts of invention bring to mind the "magic realism" of Latin American fiction, Rushdie felt himself obscurely allied with the revolutionary government in Nicaragua. Last summer he accepted the invitation of the Sandinista leadership to inspect the seven-year-old revolution. For three weeks he attended rallies, journeyed to the Honduran border and hung out with the comandantes, eating turtle...
...money allocated through the MacArthur grant will go towards providing the two Latin American fellows with the funding for the year at Harvard, picking up where the fellowship leaves...
Simons will select the Latin American fellows with the input and advice of American journalists that have worked in South America, he said...
Aside from its position as the only Cambridge bookstore which carries books on Latin America, African and the Lesbian movement, Revolution Books is also unique because its entire staff is made up of volunteers...