Word: punta
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...Soviet Union, including the removal from the country of some 3,500 Communist military advisers; 2) an end to Nicaraguan support for the Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador; 3) curtailment of the country's formidable military arsenal and of any plans to use Nicaragua's Punta Huete airport, still under construction, as a base for advanced military aircraft; 4) fulfillment of Sandinista promises to support political pluralism, meaning reversal of the country's drift toward a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship...
...Reagan Administration has accused the Sandinistas of building a military airfield near Managua that could handle any combat plane in the Soviet arsenal. For two years the Sandinistas have dismissed the charge. But wait. Transportation Minister Carlos Zarruck last week acknowledged that an airport is indeed being constructed at Punta Huete, about 13 miles northeast of the capital. Zarruck insisted that the facility is designed primarily for civilian traffic, though he did not rule out a military role. He said that the project is entirely a Nicaraguan undertaking and that it should be finished in 1986. Administration sources contend that...
...week began, the players in the debt poker game came together, appropriately enough, at the Hotel Casino San Rafael, the site of a meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank in the seaside resort of Punta del Este, Uruguay. Grinspun headed the Argentine delegation, while William Rhodes, representing Citicorp, led an eleven-member team of bankers. One banker joked that Punta del Este would witness its most explosive confrontation since three British cruisers challenged the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee off the shores of the resort in December...
...talks went nowhere until Jesuús Silva Herzog, Mexico's Finance Secretary, suddenly suggested a multinational loan for Argentina. Everyone liked the idea, and by the time the Punta del Este conference broke up on Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury was taking the lead in hammering out the details of a rescue plan. For the next 48 hours, negotiators and financial technicians worked almost round the clock in both Buenos Aires and Washington. Representatives of Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia joined in by telephone...
...Punta del Este, Uruguay...