Word: oaxaca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team of Harvard Observatory scientists is now preparing for a trip south this spring to study a three and a half minute solar eclipse from a base near Oaxaca, Mexico...
...eclipse will also be visible from Nantucket and along a band south to Mexico Scientists from all over the world will meet at Oaxaca. however. because the chance of cloud cover is smaller there than elsewhere along the band...
...MEXICO CITY-The Mexican Army has occupied a 250-acre marijuana farm located in the southern state of Oaxaca, the Mexican Secretary of Defense reported yesterday. The army has recently assigned 5000 troops to assist the Federal police in seizures of drug fields...
...From Oaxaca and the middle of what he called with desperate facetiousness his "last tooloose-Lowrytrek," he wrote a British friend: "I have, since being here, been in prison three times. Everywhere I go I am pursued and even now, as I write, no less than five policemen are watching me. This is the perfect Kafka situation but you will pardon me if I do not consider it any longer funny . . . There is a church here for those who are solitary and the comfort you obtain from it is non-existent though I have wept many times there . . . Incidentally...
...which they can transfer to their children but cannot sell or mortgage to obtain desperately needed bank loans. The result is the atomization of landholdings: most Mexican farms average 15 acres in size. Grinding poverty has led to peasant invasions of private land in some states, notably Tlaxcala and Oaxaca, and the government has been forced to use soldiers to drive out the squatters. Díaz Ordaz, faithful to tradition, cannot bring himself to modify the ejido system. But he did promise loans to farmers for livestock, fertilizer and more farm implements...