Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Phillip Agee is one of the countless victims of the demise of the American political raison d'etre. He is also one of its assassins, Between 1960 and 1969 Agee served as a CIA officer in Latin America. He is a guilty man, and his book, CIA Diary, is a confession of his sins. Through five hundred and ninety-seven tedious pages, Agee chronicles his participation in bribery, extortion, bombing, spying, lying and torture, all in the service of the United States government. To make his expiation of guilt complete, Agee lists the names and occupations of over...
...other Stateside delicacies are flown into the area's genteel clubs and restaurants. It is a world of Southern comfort, and Southern mores. The chief beneficiary of all this is the U.S. Southern Command headquartered in the zone. The Command is ostensibly for defense of the entire Latin American region, but one of its specific tasks is defending the canal itself. Panamanians, including General Torrijos, see it more as a huge occupying army...
Last week the 24 OAS members began a twelve-day meeting in San Jose, Costa Rica. This time the odds were even stronger that the embargo would end. Reason: Washington has become more positive, not toward Cuba directly but toward the freedom of Latin American nations to pursue their own course on the matter...
Mason Hammond, a retired Latin professor, enjoys Morning Prayers too--a great deal, more than Crooks himself. But the pleasure Hammond gets out of Morning Prayers seems to grow when other people are there, and he was clearly glad that morning to see Crooks, who sometimes goes to prayers and sometimes does not. "Good morning, Tomasso." Hammond told Crooks as the services ended...
...Earth is so much shadowboxing with the ghosts of a gothic past. Price assembles as pallid a clan of relatives as ever sipped juleps on the veranda. The Mayfields and the Kendals are first yoked together in 1903, when young Eva Kendal elopes with Forrest Mayfield, her high school Latin teacher. Piqued, Eva's mother commits suicide and leaves her a nasty letter. A son, Rob, is born, and Eva trots back home with him to care for her father in North Carolina. Forrest stays in Virginia, feeling sorry for himself and looking for his own runaway father. Years...