Word: lima
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South American writers a new self-confidence. While he remains a grand old anti-fascist liberal, most writers of subsequent generations have been more or less socialist. Some, like Pablo Neruda, put their life and art wholly at the command of the movement they support; some, like Jose Lezama Lima in Cuba, have differed with the revolutionists after giving them initial support; some, like Garcia Marquez, have kept away from direct political action yet still have served revolution in their writing...
...boys with perfect timing streaked their high school as the student body rose for the morning national anthem. An adult male streaker whipped up and down the aisles of a Pan American jumbo jet en route from London to New York. Senior Citizen Virgil Cleves, 67, was arrested in Lima, Ohio, for a bare stroll in the public square with equally bare Wanda Gray, 46. He was asking equal time for "snailing," he said, since he was too old to streak. In London's House of Commons, the danger of this latest U.S. aberration's infecting other countries...
Died. General Manuel Arturo Odría, 77, President of Peru from 1950 to 1956; of a heart ailment; in Lima. Although he encouraged economic growth, Odría used strong-arm rather than constitutional techniques. Upon seizing control of the government in 1948, he ruled for two years as head of a military junta, was then elected to the presidency...
...became most visible after Peru's leftist military government on Jan. 1 seized the U.S.-owned Cerro de Pasco Corp. The U.S. Government's response to the takeover of the largest mining company in Peru was discreet silence. Instead, quiet negotiations over compensation are going on in Lima between U.S. and Peruvian government representatives...
...first nine months of 1973. Provided that there is a sweetening of those terms, and terms for the other companies, Greene is said to have told the Peruvians that their applications for loans at the U.S. Export-Import Bank would be welcomed. Additionally, there are reports in Lima of U.S. banks' offering Peru a large ten-year credit line at 11% interest; Greene denies any connection with such an offer The betting in Peru is that President Juan Velasco Alvarado will accept some agreement in a month...