Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daniel Patrick Moynihan as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is welcome news to all those who wish to see non-antagonistic relations between the United States and the third world. As an American spokesman, Moynihan has loudly proclaimed a policy of total contempt for most Asian, African and Latin American nations and their leaders...
...energy crisis such assumptions simply cannot be made. When so much is at stake and the old assumptions about the international order no longer hold, "the only feasible countervailing power to OPEC's control of oil power is power itself--military power," in the immortal wordes of "Miles Ignotus" (Latin for unknown soldier), described by Harper's as a "Washington-based professor and defense consultant with intimate links to high-level US policy makers" and rumored to be the pseudonym for Edward Luttwak, a well-known conservative "defense" intellectual close to Washinton's defense and "intelligence community...
...region from Mozambique and Angola to Somalia and Iraq. Similarly, the growth of independent economic ties between western Europe and the region which holds the World's largest reserves of mineral and energy resources is regarded with apprehension in Washington. Finally, here more than South Asia, West Africa or Latin America, the national liberation movements are seen as making progress and winning victories--from Angola and Eritea to Oman and Palestine...
Chickens and Locomotives. Trudeau's visit-part of a Latin American tour that also included Mexico and Venezuela-was designed to advance ties between Cuba and Canada (Canadian trade last year: exports to Cuba, $156.1 million; imports, $59.8 million). Castro thanked his guest for the fact that Canada, over the years, had helped Cuba with everything "from chickens to cattle to trucks and locomotives." Addressing the crowd in almost flawless Spanish, Trudeau praised Cuban-Canadian relations as proof that countries with "very different and even opposite systems . . . are learning to speak together and work together toward the solution...
...torn up his American passport, but he refuses to make the formal declaration before a consul that is required to renounce U.S. citizenship. "Sure they would like me to walk in there," says Vesco. "There are quite a few cases of U.S. officials kidnaping and torturing people in Latin American countries." Vesco's $500,000 home in a San José suburb is surrounded by high walls with TV cameras mounted atop each corner. He rarely ventures outside without burly bodyguards, who often tote submachine guns. Recently a Vesco entourage in a six-car caravan made a trip...