Word: regional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last time the Central American governments coordinated a peace negotiation was in 1987 in Guatemala, when both the Reagan Administration and the Democratic Speaker of the House were concocting their own plans for the region. The regional agreement, known as the Arias Plan, was met with distrust and discouragement from the Republicans...
...happy coincidence, or perhaps a deliberate one, that the new trends toward peace are occurring while American diplomacy in the region lies dormant and uncertain...
...study broke up the region into several subdistricts, according to the Graduate School of Design's Norton Professor of Regional Planning Francois C.D. Vigier, one of the study's heads...
...Ukrainian Republic it appeared that at least 40 of 175 districts would have only one candidate on the ballot. Gorbachev made a hasty trip to the region, where he exhorted citizens and party officials to make better use of their democratic rights. Speaking to a group of coal miners in Donetsk, the Soviet leader warned that his reform program needed the Ukraine's support. Said he: "If every republic doesn't make its contribution, then of course perestroika will slip into neutral...
Details of the deal were not disclosed, but it was probably a bargain by French standards: prime vineyards in Chile sell for $4,000 to $6,000 an acre, compared with as much as $400,000 in France's Bordeaux region. The country has a host of grape-hospitable regions whose weather remains remarkably stable from year to year. Chilean grapevines, of mostly transplanted French and some German stock, are unscathed by the Phylloxera that devastated Californian and European vines in the 19th century. With an annual output of some 70 million gal., Chile ranks 13th among the world...