Box 13 LSF

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A series of reports dealing with ecology and resource issues in Latin America?a story on the only true butterfly migration in the world and how it is threatened by Mexican logging operations; a look at the involvement of Latin American nations in the diplomatic struggle over resources and sovereignty in Antarctica; and a report on a new agreement to clean up Caribbean pollution. Interview: Alvaro Ugalde, director of Costa Rica's national park system, talks about the...

Scope and Contents Contents: REPORT An examination of a recent crack?down on leftist groups and activities in the Dominican Republic; a story on contradictory reports concerning the fighting in El Salvador; a report on the political courtship of Hispanic?Americans by President Reagan at the recent meeting of the GI Forum in El Paso, featuring interviews with Assistant Secretary of State Langhorne Motley, and La Raza president Raul Ysaguirre. Interview: John McAward, associate director for human rights...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A story on the recent independence of the Caribbean island state of St. Kitts-Nevis; a look at Nicaragua's development of geothermal energy; a report on the Reagan administration's controversial sale to Argentina of heavy water, a principal component in the production of nuclear weapons; an analysis of Argentina's upcoming national elections after a decade of military rule. Interview: Sergio Bitar, a Chilean economist and former cabinet minister in the Allende government,...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A report on the debt crisis in Latin America and efforts to create a debtor's ?cartel?; a look at the Latin American focus of the Reagan administration's ?Project Democracy?; and a story on the potential rote of Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez in efforts to work out a negotiated peace in Central America. Interview: Ambassador Sol Linowitz, co-negotiator of the Panama Canal Treaties, discusses a series of important meetings called the Inter-American Dialogue....

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A special report on astronomy in the ancient Americas. Dr. John Carlson, the director of the Center for Archaeoastronomy at the University of Maryland and one of the world's foremost experts on Native American astronomy, examines the nature and importance of astronomy in pre-Columbian civilizations, and the controversy over the Grolier Codex, an ancient Maya manuscript. Recorded: n/a Final Production: n/a For Play: Monday, May 16, 1983 -...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A report on the Bolivian government's crackdown on right-wing death squads; a story on an independence agreement for the Dutch colony of Aruba, and the effect that could have on the rest of the Netherlands Antilles: and a special report on the Reagan administration's Central American policy, featuring the comments of administration officials, members of Congress, and Central American specialists. Interview: Jorge Lara-Braud, director of the Council on Theology and Culture...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A look at Argentina's official explanation for the ?Dirty War?; a story on Ecuadorian president Osvaldo Hurtado, and his nation's difficult economic and financial situation; and a report on the delicate civilian military balance in Honduras more than a year after the nation's return to democracy. Interview: Mike Conroy, an economist at The University of Texas and an expert on Honduras, talks about that nation's poverty and its political implications. Recorded:...

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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 Jose Figueres.

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Final Production: n/a

For Play: Monday, June 6, 1983 - Sunday, June 12, 1983

[Air Date]: June 8, 1983

Timings: p.o. 29:00

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A look at a recent meeting between the presidents of Brazil and Mexico in which they discussed their common economic problems and the conflict in Central America; a report on the continuing deterioration in U.S.- Nicaraguan relations and the battle in the U.S. Congress over covert operations against the Sandinista government. Interview: Lawrence Pezzulo, a former U.S. ambassador to Nicaragua, discusses the nature of the Sandinista government and U.S. policy toward...

Scope and Contents Contents: Report: A report on the Reagan administration's firing of two top officials?Thomas Enders, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, and Dean Hinton, ambassador to El Salvador; a look at the changes taking place within the FPL?the most radical of El Salvador's five guerrilla groups; and a story about the growing political unrest in Chile. Interview: Alain de Janvry, a professor of agricultural economics at the University of California at Berkeley, discusses the...