Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forty members wish to achieve "a conjunction of interests between the support of democratic movements around the world and America's own long-term self-interest," Martin Kernberg '76, head of the group's sub-committee on Latin America said Wednesday...
...four young people, including three Harvard undergraduates, sat around and listened to Cleaver that night in August. Cleaver had come to visit his friend Jack Caball, an American expatriate novelist (one of a dying breed) and talk about his pants. The setting was intimate--the room in the Latin Quarter of Paris was dark and warm, with wood ceiling beams, tall bookshelves, a Calder print above the fireplace and a Chagall lithograph over the grand piano...
Hemingway used the war to soak up material for his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. Earlier in Abyssinia, Evelyn Waugh witnessed Mussolini's campaign against Haile Selassie's antiquated army. Waugh too was no shakes as a journalist-filing his copy in Latin did not ingratiate him with his editors-but he returned from Africa to disguise his experiences in Scoop, still the best satire on journalism ever written...
When the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) set up a triumvirate last month, American papers hailed Carvalho as the likeliest "Latin American-style strongman" of the group. As head of the military's security forces, he has the power to selectively stifle anti-revolutionary demonstrations: his failure to move strongly against anti-Communist terror in the North signalled more than dislike for the pro-Communist Goncalves. Apparently Carvalho was trying to reduce Communist strength and simultaneously, maneuver Left Socialist support for his independent left position by joining the anti-Communist campaign. But Carvalho may have misjudged a delicate situation, overestimating Communist...
...joined by the Palestine Liberation Organization, which was also given membership during the Lima conference, pressed for a resolution that Israel be expelled from the U.N. The measure was supported by most of the Arabs. "The condition for Arab aid is support for their fight against Israel," explained a Latin American diplomat. But Egypt, concerned about jeopardizing Kissinger's efforts to reach a new interim peace agreement, opposed the Syrian proposal. So did several Black African countries and others like Singapore, Argentina and Indonesia. In the end, the conference adopted a mild, inconclusive resolution urging Israel to evacuate occupied...