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...only beans were like professors. Then they could go on leave and we'd see how much we miss them. After all, where would green, kidney, jelly, franks and, lima, chili and Orson be without beans backing them up? Or how about bag, ball, pole, stalk or Cecil without beans leading the way? Jack and the Stalk just wouldn't have made...
...Russian role in Peru continues to worry Washington, even though Lima has taken a definite turn to the right in the past year. Peru is still $500 million in hock to Moscow, and Peruvian pilots have been receiving flight training in Cuba from Soviet advisers...
LIVING WITH this middle-class family, it is hard to remember that Lima is under curfew after an attempted coup; that rumors of an uprising in Trujillo and the burning of the Sears building in the capital city had reached my ears this morning; and that a week ago, four tanks with rubber treads filed out of the barracks two blocks away headed for the center of Arequipa. No one talks politics at the party. As a university student who had been in Chile before, during, and after the Allende regime told me, "Politically Peru is 20 years behind Chile...
Reconstruction in the more than half of the country still under effective UNITA control is directed primarily by three UNITA-sponsored organizations, the National Association of Labor Unions (SINDACO), the League of Angolan Women (LIMA), and the Angolan Youth League. LIMA comprises more than 10,000 women who had initially been trained for combat during the war against the Portuguese minority regime. Still maintaining a military component, LIMA now has chapters throughout the Angolan countryside and concentrates on political mobilization of the populations in those areas, instructing women in effective techniques of village political organizing. Its Kwacha Institute in Sambo...
ARECENT TIME article on Puerto Rico carried the obligatory and classic photograph of a Latin American city. In the foreground stand shacks, slum alleys, and ragged brown children; in the background rise white concrete and glass office buildings. One can find such an image of inequality in Caracas, Lima, Mexico City, or San Juan. It appears to make a profound statement about contrasts in underdeveloped countries, until one recalls the famous photo poster of the Sixties showing dilapidated shacks, broken streets, and ragged black children. In that case, however, the city was Northeast Washington D.C., and the structure...