Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jonathan W. Engel '86 won the Senior English Orator competition; Yamil H. Kouri--who is being awarded a master's degree this year from the Graduate School of Public Health--will speak as the Graduate Orator, and Gary E. Shapiro '86 will deliver the Latin Oration to a Tercentenary Theatre audience on June...
...contras need U.S. support. They're facing a military machine that, after the Cubans, is the most sophisticated and best trained in Latin America, far and away the biggest in Central America. You need people, but you've also got tohave equipment. Another way of looking at it is that it's stunning that they've done as well as they have in the face of a very sophisticated state security system. There's a morale factor too. They feel the other side has got a superpower committed to it, whereas the U.S. is ambivalent...
...very practical military and diplomatic effect on a lot of Nicaraguans who left the country. These are middle- and working-class people who have expressed a desire to fight but who are afraid that the F.D.N. would create another dictatorship. Beyond Nicaragua, if the contras were acceptable to Latin Americans, then the Latin Americans would stop using Central America as their way to express anger...
...light. Forget gray. Much as in the debate that polarized Americans during the war in Viet Nam, cool heads and dispassionate judgments seldom prevail in a discussion of U.S.-Nicaraguan relations. The Sandinistas are either hard-core Communists with a cruelly totalitarian agenda or committed revolutionaries with a uniquely Latin American vision of the future. The U.S.-backed contras, on the other hand, are either brave freedom fighters or treacherous mercenaries. WARNING: entry into the debate may be hazardous to your reputation...
...Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. For years he toiled anonymously on the intellectual left, pursuing liberal causes and scholarly studies. While working at a succession of jobs, including posts at some prestigious think tanks in Mexico City and Washington, Leiken produced papers on Soviet strategies in Latin America. His work, however, rarely received much public notice. In early 1984 he edited a collection of essays called Central America: Anatomy of a Conflict, which took the Reagan Administration to task for promoting confrontation rather than negotiation in Central America. It aroused notice among Democratic Congressmen who opposed Reagan...