Word: lima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World civilizations were once considered juvenile compared with the ancient cultures of the Old World, but recent discoveries are changing this view. On the dry Peruvian coast 40 miles south of Lima, French Archaeologist Frederic Engel of Lima's La Molina University is excavating a primitive agricultural village that was apparently going strong 6,000 years ago. Though this is later than the appearance of the first forms of agriculture in the Middle East, about 9,000 years ago, it is still a respectable...
...cellar has been home to Brothers Juan Carlos Cardoso, 46, and Luis Amadeo Cardoso, 41, making them easily the current champions in that treasured Latin American institution known as political asylum. Only Peru's Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, who fled to the Colombian embassy in Lima in 1949 - holed up for five years, three months, four days - ever approached their record...
Escape to the Sea. Educated in France and the U.S. (University of Texas), Belaúnde was one of Lima's most successful architects when he decided to enter politics in 1944, immediately won a seat in the federal assembly, and soon set his sights on the presidency. With fiery speeches and expansive promises, he came within 110,000 votes of beating Manuel Prado in 1956, and he has been campaigning ever since. In 1957, he fought a saber duel with a Congressman who called him a "demagogue and a conscious liar" (both men were slightly wounded). Two years...
...within the law." All he means by it is that the state will take better care of the poor, but the message gets a lot of mileage. In 1961 Odría was hit in the face by a potato during his first campaign venture outside the capital of Lima and he never set foot in the provinces again. This time, bankrolled by Belaúnde's disaffected conservatives, he is stumping the length of the country. The army obviously would not object if he won and -although not obviously-both Peru's best newspaper, La Prensa...
...other flags use only 37.* Argentina's depressed auto manufacturers, producing at scarcely 30% of capacity, are desperately trying to thin their ranks; but when Kaiser tried to do so, workers seized the plant and threatened to burn it along with management hostages trapped inside. Peru's Lima-Callao tramcar company, which recently pulled out of bankruptcy, is not permitted by the unions to fire anyone, although it has four workers for every real...