Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certified Third World spokesman and a leading advocate of a "new international economic order." At the same time he is an OPEC chieftain presiding over a burgeoning economy and the head of one of Latin America's few democracies. With all those credentials, Carlos Andrés Pérez, the expansive President of Venezuela, was assured warm abrazos when he arrived in Washington last week as the first South American statesman to get a come-visit invitation from Jimmy Carter...
There was no question that Washington was impressed by Pérez. Said a White House official after he departed: "His country is one of the few surviving democracies of Latin America, a $3 billion-a-year market for U.S. goods, and is interacting with the U.S. in a brand-new way. Thank God, he's a guy with whom we can still hold a dialogue...
Depression and Dynamite. The basic situation of The Wages of Fear is retained. The setting is still an imaginary Latin American dictatorship, more corrupt and depressed than even Conrad might have dreamed up. Once again there has been a blowout in a remote oil well, for which the only remedy is a lot of dynamite. Friedkin carefully-too carefully-sets all this up. He explains just why the well is not reachable by air and why the only available dynamite has aged into a highly volatile condition. Finally, as before, four desperate characters, men with nothing to lose, are recruited...
...Holy Spirit. In 1971, convinced that the liberalizing Second Vatican Council had been a grievous mistake, Lefebvre set up his rebel Swiss seminary to train priests in the old ways. He has berated ecumenism and Communism, but his main crusade is for the use of the old Latin Mass authorized by the Council of Trent in 1562, rather than the slightly simplified Latin Mass of Pope Paul or the modern-language Masses that have become nearly universal...
...missionary." His conduct-his human rights pronouncements, his visions of global disarmament, his policy of dispensing aid and arms according to his measure of the rectitude of various societies-sometimes does seem more emotional than practical. Add to that Rosalynn's and Secretary Cyrus Vance's Latin American entreaties on human rights and U.N. Ambassador Andy Young's thunder against white governments, past and present, and there are days when it seems we are getting nothing so much as a sermon...