Word: lima
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...developing nations arrived at the U.N. well rehearsed. Only last week 81 nonaligned nations held a six-day conference in Lima, Peru, as a kind of curtain raiser for the U.N. session. With hundreds of delegates on hand, including 55 foreign ministers, the Lima meeting was also a showpiece for the variety and strength of the Third World's forces. There were Africans in bright flowing robes, Arabs bundled in business suits against the chilly, gray Lima winter, Indians wearing Nehru suits-and the world's only woman Foreign Minister, Madame Nguyen Thi Binh of South Viet...
Though the main item on the agenda at Lima was the world economy, the conferees spent a great deal of time on politics, mostly with a decidedly anti-American cast. Such "nonaligned" nations as North Korea and North Viet Nam were welcomed as full members of the conference. So was Panama, where U.S. control of the Canal Zone drew the sympathy of the delegates. Excluded from participation were South Korea and the Philippines, apparently because both governments permit American troops on their soil...
Another political ritual concerned the Arab-Israeli conflict. Syria, joined by the Palestine Liberation Organization, which was also given membership during the Lima conference, pressed for a resolution that Israel be expelled from the U.N. The measure was supported by most of the Arabs. "The condition for Arab aid is support for their fight against Israel," explained a Latin American diplomat. But Egypt, concerned about jeopardizing Kissinger's efforts to reach a new interim peace agreement, opposed the Syrian proposal. So did several Black African countries and others like Singapore, Argentina and Indonesia. In the end, the conference adopted...
After a week of endless speeches (14 were scheduled for one day; only six were delivered) and indecisive wrangling, the Lima conference seemed mostly to have reiterated arguments made in previous Third World convocations. But coming at a time when the industrialized world is beginning to show more sympathy to the poor countries' demands, the meeting at Lima served to underline two momentous facts about the rich-poor confrontation...
While delegates to the conference of nonaligned countries were winding up their meeting in Lima last week, host Peru did a little realigning of its own. In a swift, bloodless coup, Strongman Juan Velasco Alvarado was ousted, and left the palace freely for his home in the suburb of Chaclacayo. His No. 2 man, Francisco Morales Bermudez, took his place. The change, the new government said rather vaguely, would not only end "personality cults" but would also ensure a "free fatherland...