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...students from the SAC are also members of the FRRAC, according to Epps. Two of the students are the SAC chairs Oswaldo A. Rubio '95 and Kimberly A. Patillo...
...five years. The El Niño of 1972, though less severe than the present one, nevertheless crippled the South American fishing industry. Although few of these episodes last longer than a year, two-year El Niños were recorded in 1877-79 and in 1940-42. Meteorologist Oswaldo Garcia notes that there are some disturbing similarities between the present El Niño and the 1877 episode, which may have contributed to flooding in California and a warm winter in the U.S., followed by an unusually hot summer. Eugene M. Rasmusson, a climate analyst at the National Weather...
...this case, the $1.25 million bribe that United Brands is alleged to have paid President Oswaldo Lopez Arellano is not an aberration, nor a return to the old days of banana republic politics, but a paradoxical confirmation of how far the role of United Fruit has evolved. In the spring of 1974, seven banana exporting countries got together and tried to assemble a banana producer's cartel in the style of OPEC. This might seem ludicrous, but the fact is that bananas are by far the world's most popular fruit, accounting for more than 40 per cent...
...Black, who swung his briefcase to smash a hole in a window of his office on the 44th floor of New York City's Pan Am Building and then jumped to his death. The disclosure helped bring on a Honduran coup that overthrew the government of President Oswaldo López Arellano...
...Honduras, a six-member committee investigating the bribe concluded that the recipient had been former Economy Minister Abraham Benna-ton Ramos. He and Honduran Chief of State Oswaldo Lopez Arellano were both ousted from office last month in the wake of the scandal...