Word: lima
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lima, where Vargas Llosa lives with his wife and three children, he is not only a cultural celebrity but a man who is expected to have the answers to public questions. This is both the blessing and the burden of many writers in Latin America and Europe, where literature and politics retain close ties. For an author in a poor An dean country with a large uneducated Indian population, the is sues and responsibilities are sharpened. "If you are a writer," says Vargas Llosa, "you are a privileged man in this kind of society." Many of his conservative countrymen have...
...British fleet. There had even been speculation that the air force had been too badly crippled by losses to re-enter the fray. The British claimed to have downed about 70 aircraft. But according to U.S. sources, the Argentines had also received reinforcements: ten Peruvian Mirages flown from Lima early last week...
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...Secretary Pym in Washington. The pair discussed the ideas for four hours, before Pym flew on to the U.N. After making some changes, they sent the proposal to London. Two days later, the British responded through their Ambassador to Washington Nicholas Henderson. The collective ideas were sent on to Lima, where representatives of the Argentine junta were waiting for them...
...politics of Peru, and as this is no part of your mission you ought to take its institutions and its people just as you find them." The first instructions went in 1844 from Acting Secretary of State Richard K. Cralle to John A. Bryan, U.S. charge d'affaires, Lima, Peru. The other guidelines were laid down by Secretary of State James Buchanan...