Word: lima
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Start Walking. Up to now, the "revolutionary" dictatorships of the left have been careful to avoid even the suggestion of kinship with the Communist world. "This is a nationalist, popular and Christian revolution," said Peru's President Juan Velasco Alvarado in a Lima speech marking the second anniversary of the military coup that toppled Belaúnde. "We are trying to find for the problems of Peru solutions derived from Peruvian reality." There is evidence too that the Soviets are being wary about writing mortgages on some of the new political experiments. One story has it that last fall...
...reports of unusual Soviet activity, U.S. intelligence stepped up aerial surveillance of Cuba in midsummer (TIME, July 27). Among other indicators was the fact that the huge Soviet AN-22 transports, used to fly earthquake relief supplies to Peru, were leaving Moscow with perhaps 65 passengers and arriving in Lima with only a dozen or so. The missing passengers, it is now assumed, were engineers who got off in Havana and went straight to Cienfuegos. The latest U-2 photos of the port show construction in progress of what are almost certainly bunkers for storing submarine-borne nuclear weapons...
...Lima, Peru...
Talking Boards. Now a distinguished German ethnographer has offered a fresh solution to the puzzle. The Incas, Dr. Thomas S. Barthel told the 39th International Congress of Americanists in Lima last week, did indeed have a primitive script. It has remained available, though unrecognized, through the centuries. Further, said the Tübingen University professor, he has translated about 25 of the symbols...
...Lima's death was not the only basis on which the protesters were able to unite. The demands of the protests, centered on more jobs and construction of low-income housing, have far-reaching appeal in both communities...