[ adj ] of or relating to the cerebral hemispheres <adj.pert>
Hemispheric \Hem`i*spher"ic\, Hemispherical \Hem`i*spher"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. h['e]misph['e]rique.] Containing, or pertaining to, a hemisphere; as, a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body.
Much of the interest in the identity of Abrams' successor stems from the uncertainty about the course Bush will follow on the two dominant hemispheric issues: Central America and Latin America's $420 billion foreign debt.
Meanwhile, the executive committee of the Inter-American Dialogue, a panel of prominent hemispheric leaders, called for normalization of relations if Sunday's elections are honest.
The U.S. representative, William Pryce, delivered a strong attack on Noriega's perceived attempts to steal Sunday's election but only three of the 30 other hemispheric countries joined in the criticism _ Venezuela, Peru and El Salvador.
A firm U.S. position that Moscow's ties to its two hemispheric clients must be reduced dramatically would be an acid test for the Kremlin to demonstrate whether the desire to shed such burdens is genuine.
We've got the best, the best." Arriving in Cartagena, Garcia said he would seek a new era of hemispheric cooperation in the drug war. "We have come to make up for lost time," he said.
The aim must not just be to ensure these accords do not raise obstacles to hemispheric economic integration.
However, hemispheric presidents passed up the opportunity to recognize that government last September.
"As long as the profit margin for cocaine is 12,000% from production cost to street value, the lure of trafficking will be irresistible," the panel said in the 50-page report, which covered a variety of hemispheric issues.
Gorbachev's comments were made during his first diplomatic trip to Latin America and seemed directed largely at Washington, whose hemispheric policy for years has been based on concerns about Soviet influence in the region.
The mediators are assigned to report back to their fellow hemispheric foreign ministers after June 5.
"We're moving toward hemispheric wide acceptance of the Panamanian government, general acceptance.
Plans were abandoned for a group communique from the summit participants on general themes of democracy and the environment, which had been proposed by the host government for the meeting Friday and Saturday of hemispheric leaders.
Since then, what was a penny-ante, $1.5 million arms deal has turned into one of the more bizarre episodes in recent hemispheric affairs: the tale of the mystery ship that won't go away.
Plans were subsequently abandoned for such a communique on general themes of democracy and environment, which had been proposed by the host government for the meeting of hemispheric leaders being held Friday and Saturday.
This is causing headaches for U.S. policy makers, who see Panama as one of the major hemispheric issues facing the new administration, ranking alongside debt, drug trafficking and Marxist penetration of Central America as priority problems.
The latter was President Bush's initiative in 1990 to speed economic integration in the Americas, opening up the possibility of a hemispheric free trade zone.
The administration has resisted significant involvement by other hemispheric governments in the Panama issue, but has now shifted its strategy somewhat after calling a halt to its own initiative.
"A hemispheric free trade zone is therefore an idea whose time has come," Ms. Purcell writes.
After all, Panama has never known democracy, and most hemispheric governments stifle political freedoms as well.
Mr. Mulroney was in New York to receive an award from the Pan American Society, which promotes hemispheric cooperation.
As Shultz was winding up his 10-day hemispheric tour Wednesday, the Senate for the first time since the Contra aid program began was rejecting a proposal for military aid for the rebels.
The Reagan administration has said that, aside from Cuba, no hemispheric country has supported Nicaragua's leftist government more enthusiastically than Mexico, which has played a leading role in the Central American peace process.
The fund was called for in President Bush's 1990 Enterprise for the Americas Initiative, aimed at creating a hemispheric free-trade zone.
In time, he may find hemispheric issues more appealing.