Word: lima
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Profile. For the past 2½years President Nixon has sought to present a "low profile," an understandable attitude on the part of a man who had rocks thrown at him in Lima and Caracas in 1958. Noting the tenth anniversary of the Alliance a fortnight ago, Nixon pointedly observed that "each nation must take the initiative and primary responsibility for meeting the challenges of its development...
...Davies, the road back was longer. He had been stationed in Peru just before his dismissal. He returned to Lima and opened a furniture-making business. After eleven years, during which his family increased to seven, he returned to Washington. "I thought our children should grow up in this country," he says. His Foreign and Other Affairs was published...
...living conditions for migrant workers. He also pointed to the dedication of Archbishop Helder Pessōa Cāmara of Recife to Brazil's poor, and the work of Peruvian Bishop Luis Barbarén, "the slum bishop," who devotes his time to the slum dwellers around Lima. One common denominator of such forthright action is a degree of risk, as Bishop Barbarén found out last week; Peruvian authorities arrested him as an "agitator in a cassock...
...Lima, Ohio, a 7-year-old boy appears to be recovering from one of the deadliest diseases of all (see MEDICINE...
Fatal Symptoms. Suspecting an adverse reaction to the vaccine, doctors admitted the boy to St. Rita's Hospital in Lima, where tests strongly suggested that he had contracted the disease. They then began a desperate battle to save the youngster by treating not the infection itself-which responds to drugs poorly, if at all, once it has begun -but the secondary effects that kill its victims. Placing Matthew in intensive care, they put a tube in his throat to enable him to breathe and prevent him from choking on his own saliva. They also monitored his heart to assure...