Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets were intrigued from the start by the idea of the exchange," noted one top U.S. official. Indeed, the Kremlin had long and loudly campaigned for the release of Corvalán, who headed Latin America's largest Communist Party and holds the Order of Lenin, the Soviets' top peacetime decoration. "Corvalán is a splendid prize for the Kremlin," observed British Sovietologist Leopold Labedz. "He can now be set up as the highly visible and potent center for Communist opposition to the Chilean junta." Bukovsky, on the other hand, had proved to be a considerable embarrassment...
...council." NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns hailed him as "one of the most effective Foreign Ministers of our century" and "a man to whom the adjective 'great' can be applied with sincerity." Belgian Foreign Minister Renaat van Elslande presented Kissinger with a reproduction of a Latin encyclopedia from the year 1120; West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher gave him a 1642 engraving of Kissinger's birthplace, Fuerth, Germany...
...experts have written on basic physics, engineering, statistics, economics, sociology and world cultures and religions. They know how peasants in northeastern Thailand make their living--and how the economy there can be developed to fit a more Western mold. They have examined the role of the Catholic church in Latin American society. Their reports include countless mathematical models for efficient allocation of resources. Rand physicists have even stepped back to a cosmic perspective and scanned the whole globe to find "The Exact Solution for the Propagation of Electromagnetic Pulses over a Highly Conducting Spherical Earth...
Even religion comes under economic analysis. The study of the Catholic church in Latin America includes charts showing "religious personnel per 100,000 population and per capita GNP" and "Catholic students per capita GNP." The author suggest policy makers apply "organizational analysis" to predict how the clergy will behave and what the church's status will...
...society Harvard represents. Actions such as these are but a small part of a more general, more subtle, and more sophisticated method of institutional racism. The total lack of a representative Chicano population at Harvard, the lack of Chicano faculty or courses, let alone a department (No concentration in Latin American Studies is offered), all testify to Harvard's systematic neglect of the Chicano population, or for that matter the Third World population...