Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of us like to eat, and you're in the right town if you do, too. Because of its hordes of embasssy foreign service denizens, D.C. is second to probably only New York for international cuisine, especially Thai, Vietnamese and Latin American...
...centerpiece of this sun culture is Miami. In the past 25 years, the city has gone from the nation's vacation and retirement capital to an international metropolis with a predominantly Latin beat. In a sense, its modern founder is Fidel Castro, whose Marxist revolution forced tens of thousands of rich and middle-class Cubans to flee to Florida. Like the Nationalist Chinese who retreated to Formosa, Miami's Cubans expected to return home but stayed to capitalize on their skills and energies. Another similarity to their Oriental counterparts is an active anti-Communism that has attracted steady U.S. Government...
...suggests, was not a sellout of academic reserve but a combination of scholarly work with the appearance of what the public wants. The Name of the Rose promised "sex and a criminal plot where the guilty purely discovered in the end," but like most medieval university lectures, offered only "Latin, prac5ically no women, [and] lots of theology...
...cover story, written by Staff Writer Pico Iyer, drew on materials provided by Reporter-Researcher Edward Gomez and on reports on the drug trade from twelve Latin American and Caribbean countries. Coordinating much of this coverage was Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who is responsible for TIME's reporting in most of South America. His own travels took him to, among other places, Bolivia's two-mile-high capital of La Paz. There he interviewed Deputy Minister of the Interior Gustavo Sanchez, the country's top law- enforcement official, who has earned the enmity of cocaine racketeers...
Another key contributor to this week's story was Caribbean Correspondent Bernard Diederich, who has reported on Latin American drug trafficking for the past 20 years, first from Mexico City and now from Miami, one of the main U.S. entry points for cocaine. Says he: "From Mexico's Sierra Madre, where I covered opium-eradication programs in the 1970s, to Colombia's La Guajira Peninsula, which I visited late last year, the mark of the drug trade is the littered wreckage everywhere of smugglers' planes that didn't make it." The drug trade has apparently also wrecked the image...