Box 11 LSF

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A look at one of the repercussions of the 1980 Mariel boatlift from Cuba, a rising crime rate in the U.S., and a report on the free-market policies of Argentina's new economic minister, and how they may not be enough to turn the economy around. Interview: Gilka Wara Cespedes, a Bolivian ethnomusicologist, talks about tradition and change in the native music of the Andes. Recorded: January 20, 1982 (interview May 27, 1981) Final Production: January...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A special report on one of the most prominent and complex aspects of Latin American life?the festival. [Interviews:] Roberto DaMatta, a professor of anthropology at the University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, discusses the origins and meaning of the Carnaval tradition, and Richard Bauman, a professor of anthropology at The University of Texas at Austin, talks about the underlying social and economic significance of festivals in Latin America. Recorded: January...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A look at how affluent Mexican shoppers are providing relief for the recession-plagued U.S. economy; and a report on the success of a Laotian refugee settlement in French Guiana, which is helping to reverse that country's reputation as a ?green bell.? Interview: Emile McAnany, associate professor of radio-television-film at The University of Texas at Austin, talks about television news coverage of Central America and how it has portrayed the region over the past ten...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A report on a record grain harvest in Mexico that may help reduce that nations dependence on food imports from the United States; and a story on how the socialist government of France has aroused the ire of a conservative group in Brazil known as the Society for Tradition, Family, and Property. Interview: Peter Smith, a noted expert on Mexico at M.I.T, discusses the possible course of U.S-Mexico relations. Recorded: January 26, 1982 Final Production:...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A report on Argentina's threat to retake the Falklands/Malvinas islands; and a look at the problems that have beset Jari, the most ambitious development project ever designed to tame the Amazon. INTERV1EW: Carlos Fernando Chamorro, editor of the Nicaraguan pro-government newspaper Barricada, and Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, editor of the Nicaraguan opposition newspaper La Prensa, discuss the Sandinista Revolution and press freedom in Nicaragua. Recorded: February 17,...

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Contents: Report: A conversation on Central American politics and inter-American relations with one of Latin America's legendary political figures, former Costa Rican president José Figueres

Recorded: February 24, 1982

Final Production: February 25, 1982

[Air Date]: March 17, 1982

Timings: v.o. 28:55

Comments: Interview has been removed and put with LAR 82-36, for rerun purposes.

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Contents: Report: A special on-location report from Costa Rica on the nation's presidential elections and the current economic crisis, which threatens to undermine the country's traditional stability. Features interviews with President Luis Alberto Monge, U.S. ambassador Francis McNeil, and political scientist Tommie Sue Montgomery.

Recorded: March 3, 1982

Final Production: March 3, 1982

[Air Date]: March 24, 1982

Timings: v.o. 29:01

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Contents: Report: A special report on the role and the problems of science and technology in development.

Recorded: variouus 1979 and 1980

Final Production: November 30, 1980

[Air Date]: March 31, 1982

Timings: v.o. 28:44, m.o. 28:58

Comments: (80-52); rebroadcast 81-21, 82-13, 82-34

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A look at the economic benefits and drawbacks of Mexico's recent currency devaluation; a report on the problems facing Brazil's fuel alcohol program; and a story on Guatemala's recent national elections. Interview: Frank Larue, an exiled Guatemalan labor lawyer and human rights activist, discusses the roots of Guatemala's crisis and the growth of military rule. Recorded: March 17, 1982 Final Production: March 17, 1982 [Air Date]: April 7,...

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Contents: Report: A report on Bolivia's attempts to crack down on cocaine traffic; a lock at a dramatic resurgence of guerrilla warfare in Peru and how it could shake the foundations of civilian rule; and a stor1 on the demise of Chile's free market experiment. Interview: Paul Sigmund, a professor of politics at Princeton University, discusses the nature of the Chilean regime and the political effects of the nation's economic deterioration.