Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rights has become his hallmark. Seldom does he hold a press conference, offer a banquet toast or make a speech without mentioning it. At times Carter has been more direct, as when he delayed the sale of small arms and police weapons to the authoritarian governments of Argentina, El Salvador and Uruguay because they violate the human rights of their own dissident citizens. Aware of the controversy the issue has stirred abroad, Carter said to TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "We have a real problem. We don't want to interfere in other countries, but at the same time there...
...coffee trees. Now, with the Southern Hemisphere's winter half gone and no hurtful frost so far, Brazil expects to have a much better crop this year-14 million to 16 million bags, double last year's harvest. Two other big coffee producers, Colombia and El Salvador, are fearful of a further decline in prices, and have been selling their large 1977 crops early...
CHILE. Nixon defended his efforts to undermine Chile's elected Marxist President Salvador Allende. Said he: "There wasn't any question about his turning all the screws he possibly could in the direction of making Chile a Marxist state ... There wasn't any question that Chile was being used by some of Castro's agents as a base to export terrorism to Argentina, to Bolivia, to Brazil." When Frost responded that "Allende looks like a saint" compared with his U.S.-supported successor General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Nixon pointed at Frost and replied, "The right-wing dictatorship...
Died. Mauricio Borgonovo, 37, Foreign Minister of El Salvador who was kidnaped by leftist guerrillas last month; shot to death by his abductors; found on a road outside San Salvador. The killing of Borgonovo was one of many assassinations committed by both terrorist and government groups in the wake of the country's questionable February elections claimed by the military-backed government party. The wealthy businessman was kidnaped by members of the Farabundo Marti Popular Liberation Front, which demanded the release of 37 political prisoners in ex change for his life. When President Arturo Armando Molina refused to negotiate...
When I entered this University in 1970, American bombers were carpeting Vietnam and Salvador Allende had just been elected president of Chile. During the past four years, millions starved in Africa and Bangladesh, more Vietnamese were dismembered by bombs made in Wisconsin's dairy hills, and the Chilean president who had quickened the hopes of his people was lowered into an unmarked grave in a Santiago cemetery...