Word: peru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year Argentina bought 25 subsonic Douglas A-4B fighters from the U.S. Chile promptly dashed out for more planes and was soon negotiating for the Hawker Hunters. Not to be outdone, Peru last week was discussing purchase of 16 Mach-2.1 English Electric Lightnings and a flock of advanced-model Hawker Hunters. Meantime, Venezuela was suddenly losing its love for its F-86 Sabre jets, which it bought from the U.S. five years ago. So it, too, was dickering-with Sweden for 20 Saab
...other Harvard scientists are also participating in the international study, but from a secure position in Cambridge. They will direct an experiment from here using the information relayed from a tracking telescope at Arequipa, Peru...
...noted, "where I came down the rapids in a raft." Over there was Tingo Maria, a new agrarian-reform project where 25,000 settlers will soon dwell. Off in the distance in the fertile Huallaga River Valley was Tarapoto, which now boasts the biggest cargo airport in Peru, after Lima...
...final communiqué, Peru promised to help find international funds to link Bolivia to the sea by road. The communiqué also provided that both countries would 1) improve the existing railroad service between La Paz and Peru's southern coast, 2) "formalize and enlarge" an agreement covering free navigation on the waters of the Amazon Basin, 3) discuss the possibility of a pipeline across Peru to transport Bolivian petroleum to a Peruvian coastal port...
...this week-with Brazil's President Humberto Castello Branco. Belaúnde got into a helicopter and whirred off to the isolated, primitive Peruvian village of Aguarunas, where his interpreter explained to the curious Indians that this tall, grey-haired white man was the President of something called Peru. While the Indians laughed and shrugged in confusion, Belaúnde threw an arm around one for a quick photograph, then popped back into his helicopter for another stop or two before returning home...