Word: reconstructionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PALME: We must remember that the sensitivities will be very great, but they are realistic...Our thoughts were of the possibility of creating a new type of international machinery to channel reconstruction efforts so that they do not become the exclusive concern of any one country and become an international...
With this issue, The Crimson marks 70 years of continuous publication. The peace and war prosperity and depression, cynicism and faith, liberalism and conservatism of those years are captured on its pages. The course of American history is traced in the musty bound volumes of past papers. Only a few...
When Managua was first built in 1858-over the same 30-mile-wide fault area that was to shake it to rubble three times in the next 114 years-it was a creature of compromise. The site was chosen to end a stalemated battle between what were then Nicaragua'...
The odds are that the new capital will be built-perhaps with wider streets and lower, quake-resistant buildings -on the rubble of the old. Survivors are already starting to return to their jobs; 70% of the Managua area's industry survived the quake. Somoza's dreams of...
Even as Managua still smoldered, the Somoza regime began pondering reconstruction. Money posed no great problem; the Nixon Administration, which is anxious to burnish Washington's tarnished image in Latin America, would almost certainly be eager to help bankroll the building of a new capital. But where? Managua was...