Word: isthmus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...L.B.J. ranch and played host to ambassadors from 20 Latin countries at San Antonio's HemisFair, itself a symbol of inter-American solidarity. The Administration hoped that the little summit in San Salvador would serve the practical purpose of revitalizing the floundering Central American Common Market. The five isthmus Presidents will discuss ways of hurdling the barriers dividing them, and Johnson's presence, a tangible symbol of U.S. interest, might help them along...
Still, Malaysia is by no means free from troubles. In the isthmus near Thailand hide some 600 Communist guerrillas, leftovers from the Communist-inspired civil war that ended in 1960. Others are clustered along the border in Borneo and sometimes fight alongside Indonesian raiders, who apparently have still not got the message that konfrontasi has ended...
...months the Thai government has been trying to come to grips with the sporadic Communist terrorism along the country's northeast frontier with Laos. Bangkok has devoted less attention to a similar but smaller wave of trouble far to the south, along the thin isthmus of Thailand that forms part of the Malay Peninsula. There, a pattern of forced "tax" collections, Red propaganda leaflets and occasional clashes with police patrols has suggested the presence of a regular second front of Communist guerrillas...
After Hawkins came Francis Drake, a seagoing genius who found the pulsing lifeline of the Spanish empire-the great artery of gold that flowed from Peru to the Isthmus of Panama, and from the Isthmus to Madrid-and tore at it like a tiger. In his most famous exploit, Drake sailed up the west coast of South America, sacking the Spanish seaports as he passed. At Tarapaza, "being landed, we found by the Sea side a Spaniard lying asleepe, who had lying by him 13. barres of silver; we tooke the silver, and left the man." Off Colombia he seized...
...West pass through the canal; such South American nations as Ecuador, Peru and Chile depend on it for between 75% and 90% of their total imports and exports. But ships have slowly outgrown the intricate network of three lock systems that carry them across the hump of the isthmus, and trade is expanding far beyond the canal's capacity to handle it. Over the last ten years, commercial traffic has climbed from 36 million tons annually to almost 65 million tons. Today, some ships lie to for 15 hours or more awaiting their turn. The biggest tankers and aircraft...