Box 4 LSF

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A report on President Carter's address to the OAS on U.S. policy toward Latin America, which included a commitment to the protection of human rights, promises of non?intervention and respect for the individuality of each Latin America nation; and a sample of the reactions in the Latin America press to the speech and their assessment of what the Carter policy toward Latin America will be. Interview: Thomas Buergenthal, professor of International Law at the University of...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: An oral history on the long-standing rivalry between the giants of South America ? Brazil and Argentina ? and how their quest for international prominence has intensified tensions between the two, with a consideration for the effects of their rivalry on Bolivia. Paraguay and Uruguay. Interview: Thomas Buergenthal (see above), explains the most difficult aspect of the campaign for the international human rights ? the implementation of the legal principles contained in...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: An examination of the changing nature of U.S.- Cuban relations and the mutual efforts to reestablish diplomatic ties, including a look at how normalization of their relations has been received in the U.S.A. and Latin America and how the elimination of some of the longstanding misconceptions on both sides since 1960 have begun to dissipate. Interview: Phillip Russell, author of two books, Cuba in Transition and Mexico in Transition, discusses the reasons why the U.S. should...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A report on how Castro's proclaimed Cuban support for African independence and black majority rule could be one of the major factors working against a thaw in the normalization of U.S. ? Cuban relations; and an oral history of the War of the Pacific from which the small country of Bolivia emerged as a landlocked nation. Interview: Riordan Roett, director of Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University, talks about U.S. foreign aid and the role of aid in general in...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A report on a recent announcement by Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain which gave three disputed islands in the Beagle Channel to Chile, temporarily settling a longstanding territorial dispute at the southernmost tip of South America. Interview: Sidney Weintraub, Dean Rusk professor at the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, examines the historical divergence of opinion between the U.S. and Latin America over development...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A report on the historical circumstances surrounding the 1903 Panama Canal Treaty and the reasons why the question of Canal ownership is still a major political issue today. Interview: George Fisher, political attaché at the Panamanian Embassy in Washington, discusses the original Canal Treaty from the Panamanian point of view. Recorded: May 26, 1977 Final Production: May 27, 1977 [Air Date]: June 13, 1977 Timings: v.o....

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A discussion of Venezuela's emergence as one of the lead in spokesman for the Third World resulting not only from national wealth but also from having gifted people in key government posts in the last two decades; and the second of a two?part report on the Panama Canal examines the evolution of the controversy over the Canal during the last 20 years. Interview: Keith Guthrie, treaty advisor in the Office of Panamanian Affairs at the Department of State, defines U.S....