Word: lima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm failed in the Depression, and when Chavez was ten, the family packed everything it owned into a decrepit automobile and headed across the Colorado River into California. In Oxnard, Chavez's father found work threshing lima beans; when all the beans were harvested, the family took off, looking for other jobs and often turning up just a few days after a crop...
Superfluous Visit. Governor Rockefeller received his first cancellation from Peru after the U.S. announced that arms sales to Lima had been suspended because of seizures of and fines for U.S. tuna boats charged with violating Peru's self-declared 200-mile limit. Bolivia, next on his itinerary, limited Rockefeller's visit to three hours for fear of student demonstrations-and consultations were held at La Paz's heavily guarded 13,350-ft.-high airport rather than in the capital. Then, 29 hours before Rocky was to have landed at Caracas' Maiquetía airport, the Venezuelan...
...MARJORIE G. REID Lima, Ohio...
...Dictator General Juan Velasco Alvarado was informed privately that the Pelly amendment to the Foreign Military Sales Act of 1968 left Washington no alternative. For some reason, Velasco had neglected to inform his countrymen, and last week's disclosure from Washington brought a rush of questions in Lima. Velasco held a twelve-hour huddle with his Cabinet and produced a six point communiqué. If the ban on shipments is officially confirmed, it read, then the U.S. military missions currently in Peru might as well go home. It also charged that the ban violated the terms of the bilateral...
...priests, it was shocked by the recent resignations of two young, promising bishops. In Chile, the Most Rev. Gabriel Larrain Valdivieso, 44, auxiliary to the Cardinal-Archbishop of Santiago, left the priesthood for secular humanitarian work. In Peru, Bishop Mario Cornejo Radavero, 41, auxiliary to the Cardinal-Archbishop of Lima, reportedly brought his cardinal to tears by resigning to marry. Priestly defections have even touched the Vatican itself, where an honored member of the papal house hold, Monsignor Giovanni Musante (TIME, Mar. 21), had also left to marry...