Word: lima
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guards they had taken as hostages. This time, it was all playacting: ABC is filming a two-hour television drama, Attica, based on Wicker's book about the 1971 uprising. Barred from using Attica itself, the film makers threw up a tent city in the yard of the Lima, Ohio, state hospital for the criminally insane so faithful in detail that Wicker shuddered. Faithful also is Actor George Grizzard, who plays Wicker. They were friends at the University of North Carolina; working around the drawling Wicker, said Grizzard, "I'm getting my Southern accent back...
DIED. Pedro Beltran, 81, former Peruvian Prime Minister and longtime publisher; of a heart attack; in Lima. Son of an aristocratic sugar grower, Beltran was educated at the London School of Economics. In 1934 he bought a dormant Lima newspaper, La Prensa, and despite lengthy absences to serve in government, managed to build it into his nation's most influential paper. A fiscal conservative who staunchly opposed Communism, he was named Finance Minister and Prime Minister by President Manuel Prado in 1959 and during the next two years managed to cut Peru's inflation rate from...
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...economic stories. Yet those complaints can also be made about the West's coverage of its own affairs. If Western reporting about the developing world is thin, that may be because news follows the realities of world power; Washington and Moscow are more newsworthy capitals than, say, Lagos and Lima, especially to Western readers. Indeed, Third World news outlets are as parochial as their Western counterparts; a 1975 State Department study of Latin American newspapers showed that they carried little news of other developing countries...
...built like a rugby front-row forward"), and it thus seemed possible that he could lead his faith into the 21st century. Plainly, the Cardinals had opted for a long pontificate. Just as plainly, they had chosen a man of extraordinary qualities and experience. A newspaper in Lima, Peru, greeted Wojtyla's election with the headline LABORER POET ACTOR PRIEST POPE. That and more: quarryman and factory work-in his youth, member of Poland's anti-Nazi underground, professor of philosophy and ethics, pastor with an unaffectedly common touch. On top of that he is more of an athlete...