Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fatigues and black berets, the uniform of the National Guard training school, drew up in trucks. "Make way. Here comes el Hombre," snapped one of the soldiers as he ran to a side entrance and opened a path in the crowd. Bystanders expected to see General Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, Latin America's most notorious strongman. But the soldiers, as it soon became clear, were not National Guardsmen at all. They were commandos of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a leftist guerrilla organization dedicated to the overthrow of the feudalistic Somoza dynasty. They were about to launch one of the most...
...week's end his political opponents launched a nationwide general strike that they hoped would continue until Somoza resigned or was ousted. Somoza's sarcastic response: "I wish them lots of luck." Meanwhile, Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez, who heads one of the few democratic governments in Latin America, called on the Organization of American States for "cordial intervention" in Nicaragua "to seek a process of democratization and avert further useless bloodshed. No one has the right, no matter how powerful he is or how many weapons he has, to sacrifice the life of his nation...
...Didn't get a 560 on your French achievement, did you? Well, if you do okay on this test you don't have to take a year of languages, which is nice. The tests aren't toohard, and they are offered in German, Spanish, Chemistry, Math, Italian, Latin, Modern Hebrew, Greek and Russian. The nonlanguage jobs are for placement only, and they all take place at various times throught the week. An unavoidable necessity, unless you're a non-science type who already placed out of the language requirement. In which case you ought to spend time exploring Cambridge...
Informal but highly important chats fill the suspenseful days before the conclave. The Cardinals hold a daily General Congregation in the ornate Sala Bologna in the Apostolic Palace, where, speaking in Italian or Latin, they handle preparations for the conclave. When the meetings end, usually around 1:30 p.m., the emerging Cardinals form groups of twos and threes and stroll slowly down Raphael's magnificent loggia or across the San Damaso courtyard three stories below. Other conversations take place during evening walks, a common form of ecclesiastical exercise. National and regional groups hold informal caucuses as a matter...
Another Italian, Sicily's Salvatore Pappalardo, 59, was said to have picked up the backing of Belgium's progressive Leo Jozef Suenens. But the most mentioned Italians are Baggio and Pignedoli. On paper, Baggio's presumed backing appears formidable; it includes many Latin Americans, plus several votes, each, from Italy, Spain, Germany and the U.S. Pignedoli, long the most gregarious of Curialists, had the week's most active dinner table. Among his guests: Aloisio Lorscheider, president of the Latin American bishops' conference, and Tanzania's Laurean Rugambwa, who has influence among Africans...