Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ties with Latin America may mildly improve after Kissinger finally visits the hemisphere in April. It should be quite a trip, with Argentina near chaos, Brazil's right-wing government showing some signs of loosening up, Chile under the heel of a regime that replaced Allende (whom the CIA is widely accused of helping to overthrow) and Venezuela angry about a new U.S. law that denies preferential trade treatment to members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Among other recent problems: Ecuador has renewed its sniping at U.S. tuna fishermen, and Colombia and Venezuela restored relations with Cuba despite...
There are those who fear that continuing controversy, of which Project Jennifer is only the latest fuel, may irreparably damage the CIA. The dissension has contributed to an exodus of veteran employees, among them David Phillips, 52, former chief of CIA operations in Latin America, who resigned last week and advised CIA Director William Colby that he planned to organize an association of retired intelligence officers to defend the agency. But younger employees have also been affected. In Washington, for example, some young analysts had joined the CIA only after assurances from recruiters that the cloak-and-dagger exploits...
...Absolutely not. No problem at all. Of course we except that you have a thorough knowledge of medieval Latin from your breakfast conversations...
...gringo imperialism. Pérez occasionally seems to envision himself a Simón Bolivar of the space age, seeking to build Venezuelan hegemony in the region. Yet the President dismisses the notion, and talks of wider goals. Says he: "We are constructing a system for unity, for Latin American integration...
...among his tricks: making an elephant disappear, sawing a woman in eighths), later perfected the mind-reading act that made him famous. Among the brains Dunninger picked were those of six Presidents and such luminaries as Thomas Edison and Pope Pius XII, who temporarily baffled him by thinking in Latin. Like his friend Houdini, Dunninger was a debunker of occult phenomena who modestly assessed his own skills: "Any three-year-old could do it -with 30 years' practice...