Word: lima
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush and his advisers still haven't solved their major remaining problem: how to move cleanly but loyally away from Reagan and establish Bush's credentials as a forceful, independent leader. Traveling to such secondary media markets as Evansville, Ind., and Lima, Ohio, last week, Bush was pursued by questions about Iran-contra, Ed Meese, the trade-bill veto and the Administration's lackluster civil rights record. In each case, the Vice President swallowed hard and forcefully stuck with the boss. That can't continue indefinitely. "Reagan knows that Bush must eventually cement his own relationship with the American people...
...Africa and Asia and lived for stretches in Spain and Iran. Last December, however, as McNamara was finishing up a two-year trek through South America, she stumbled into a nightmare involving Peruvian officials and Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), the shadowy, Maoist-oriented guerrilla group committed to overthrowing the Lima government. Her terrifying sojourn ended two weeks ago, as abruptly as it had begun, but not before she had spent four months in a prison, where she lived alongside members of one of the world's most secretive rebel groups...
...Fernando Lima of Mozambique, who was the last Black African to receive a Nieman, was a fellow...
Mario Vargas Llosa, 51, the author of such acclaimed novels as The War of the End of the World and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, had torn himself away from the proofs of his new book to embroil himself in Peru's latest crisis. Addressing the crowd in Lima, Vargas Llosa warned, "A totalitarian threat is hovering over our country." The menace: a move by Peruvian President Alan Garcia Perez to nationalize private banks...
...Peru stumbled into crisis, Garcia decided to nationalize the country's ten private banks. With Lima in charge of capital, Garcia argues, loans can be ( channeled to the small businesses and farms that the banks have traditionally ignored. Despite heated opposition from conservatives, the plan is expected to be passed by the 60-member Senate, where Garcia's party and its allies hold 32 seats...