Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / Increased focus on the TBA after Hizballah-linked bombings in Buenos Aires (1992) and the Argentine- Israeli Mutual Association (1994), and again after the September 11 attacks in the United States, produced an increased understanding of Hizballah's fundraising operations, but also led Hizballah to shift its fundraising operations to other Latin American locations- to which the location, nature, and extent are largely unknown. This thesis develops a framework to identify where and how Hizballah conducts fundraising operations in Latin America. The focus of analysis is how host-nation characteristics, geo-strategic variables, and diaspora characteristics influence the nature and significance of Hizballah's fundraising operations in Paraguay and Ecuador. Hizballah's fundraising operations in Paraguay are shaped by favorable geo-strategic variables, hostnation characteristics, and diaspora characteristics. Predictably then, Hizballah employs a wide range of fundraising operations in Paraguay producing substantial profits. In Ecuador as well, geo-strategic variables and host-nation characteristics facilitate fundraising operations. More interesting however, Hizballah has likely tailored its fundraising operations to mitigate the influence of unfavorable diaspora characteristics and maximize the potential of favorable host-nation characteristics and geo-strategic variables. This thesis finds that diasporas are valuable to fundraising operations and outlines policy implications for their treatment by governments combating terrorist fundraising operations. / Lieutenant, United States Navy

During the opening decade of the Cold War, Canada, under the leadership of Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson, experienced a heightened sense of influence on global affairs, often described as the “Golden Age of Canadian Diplomacy.” This state of affairs led Canada to believe that it could punch above its weight and subsequently influence the United States of America’s foreign policy. Using the First Taiwan Strait Crisis as a microcosm of this “Golden Age”, understanding America’s behaviour during the crisis, and Canada’s involvement throughout, brings into question the validity of Canada’s grand influence and tempers the idea that Canada could significantly influence America’s policies. Beginning with the memoirs and biographies of the diplomats of the 1950s and then juxtaposing sources from the Canadian Department of External Affairs and American State Department, this thesis demonstrates that Canada did not play a significant part in the First Taiwan Strait Crisis. This is an odd result, considering that this crisis, which could have had devastating consequences for Canada if it had expanded from just the Offshore Islands, was a perfect opportunity for a country that was supposedly experiencing a Golden Age to flex its diplomatic clout. This thesis suggests that perhaps Canada’s inflated sense of self, which has persisted in the national conscience, can be attributed to the exaggerated importance the 1950s diplomats gave to themselves.

Thesis advisor: Sue Roberts / A collection of stories that explore the lives of men and women struggling with love, friendship, growing up and facing the world; all through the lens of Indian culture. Some of these characters are recent immigrants, some have lived in America for years. Regardless, they struggle with issues that are both connected to and separate from their status as Indian Americans. Here we have missed connections and realities. A desire to know as well as a desire to remain in the dark. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: English.

A zona de cisalhamento Sierra Ballena é um cinturão milonitico de até 6km de espessura e 75okm de comprimento formado por milonitos e ultramilonitos de diferentes tipos. Constitui o limite colisional entre o arco magmático de Pelotas e a margem passiva do Craton do Rio de La Plata. A temperatura e pressão de sua formação inicial dos milonitos oscilam no campo da fácies anfibólito, passando a xistos verdes e a feições rúpteis dos estágios tardios. Sua cinematica mostra ser essencialmente sinistral. Constitui simultaneamente com a zona de cisalhamento Além-Paraiba-Cubatão-Lancinha um dos sistemas de cisalhamento mais extensos do sudoeste de Gondwana. Sua reativação se deu durante vários períodos do Fanerozoico. O bloco leste é integrado por várias rochas graníticas aqui descritas, enquanto o bloco oeste apresenta granitos muito deformados, assim como uma sequência de rochas supracrustais do laualleja dobradas em dois eventos principais e características de sequência de margem passiva. Outra sequência supracrustal integrada por xistos miloniticos e possivelmente rochas vulcanicas, dominada por dobramento recumbente e foliação horizontal é descrita aqui pela primeira vez como Formação Fazenda el Fortim, situada entre o granito Aigua e a zona de cisalhamento sinistral Sierra Ballena. / Sierra Ballena Shear Zone is a mylonitic belt 6 Km wide and 750 Km long. It is composed by rnylonites and uItramylonites of different types, due to differences in composition of protoliths and intensity of deformation. It is the last Pre-Devonian event in the Uruguay-Rio Grande do Sul Shield. S.B.S.S.Z. is the collisional border between the Pelotas magmatic arc and the passive margin of the Rio de La Plata craton. Her mylonites register a large activity time because they present features corresponding to \"hot mylonites\" as well as \"cold\" ones. Initial formation pressure and temperature correspond to amphibolite facies following to greenschist to brittle in the late stages. Her kinematics shows essentially a synistral component as part of simple shear as well as transtensional. It constitutes simultaneously with the Alem-Paraiba-Cubatão-Lancinha Shear Zone one of the most extensive shear belts of SW Gondwana. Her ractivation occur in Phanerozoic times affecting Paraná Basin sediments and performing the borders of Meso-Caenozoic basins. The eastern block is mainly integrated by various granitic rocks which are here described; meanwhile the western block exposses highly deformed granites, and a supracrustal sequence. The supractustal have been folded in two events and are integrated by limestones, dolomites, marbles, metamicroconglomerates, metasiltstones and acid, basic and intermediate metalavas, as well as reworked tuff ; all of the Lavalleja Group. A supracrustal sequence integrated by mylonitized schists and possible acid metavulcanic rocks, dominated by recumbent folding and horizontal foliation is described here for the first time: Fazenda El Fortin Formation, situated between the Aiguá Granite and S.B.S.S.Z.

This thesis investigates urban development and locational memory in New York and Los Angeles during the mid to late twentieth century, as represented both materially in the landscape of the city and textually in fiction and memoir. I begin my study in Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles, where paved gardens and concretised river beds lie beneath the gridded urban landscape which hides the past and dislocates memory from what is visible in urban space. Next, through my analysis of Marshall Berman’s reflections on his childhood in the Bronx, I paint a picture of New York during the 1950s, during which the proposals of urban planner and master builder Robert Moses were put to work, dismantling many of the city’s pre-existing urban structures and its institutional memory. Subsequently I move to Los Angeles in the late 1960s, analysing two works of fiction by Joan Didion and Alison Lurie. In this chapter I explore California’s spatial and temporal indeterminacy. From imagined to remembered space, I next examine Didion’s family memoirs and personal essays in addition to D. J. Waldie’s reminiscences. I find that despite attempts to cultivate one’s personal history in textual form, a sense of loss is what is long remembered and hard to control. My thesis comes to a close with L. J. Davis and Paula Fox in the early 1970s when there was a new form of change afoot in the built environment in the form of gentrification. In the fragmented, automobile-dominated Los Angeles; in the dislocated Bronx; in California where the past seems to melt into air; and in brownstone Brooklyn, I show that the experience of what Sigmund Freud deems “the uncanny” is rife, appearing in the cracks between the absent and the present, the invisible and the visible, memory and history. The fissures and gaps in the narratives of each author reflect the various processes and consequences of the imposition of twentieth-century modernism in particular urban spaces during this period.

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Orientador: José Luis Bendicho Beired / Banca: Carlos Alberto Sampaio Barbosa / Banca: Marcela Cristina Quinteiros / Resumo: O jornal paraguaio La Tribuna foi fundado em 1925 e possuiu diferentes administrações ao longo de seus cinquenta e oito anos de existência. Na gestão de Oscar Paciello, entre 1978 e 1983, o diário adotou uma linha editorial analítica e se posicionou a respeito de assuntos políticos e econômicos da época. A presente dissertação tem como objetivo a análise das edições de La Tribuna no período em que foi dirigida por Paciello. Considerando esse veículo jornalístico como a fonte principal de nossa investigação e o objeto central deste estudo, pretendemos compreender o seu projeto político-ideológico, suas críticas em relação a certos aspectos da ditadura cívico-militar de Alfredo Stroessner, sua atuação frente a determinados temas e sua afirmação política junto à opinião pública paraguaia. Para isso, analisaremos editoriais, reportagens e artigos dos colaboradores do diário / Abstract: The Paraguayan newspaper La Tribuna was founded in 1925 and had different administrations throughout its fifty-eight years of existence. In the management of Oscar Paciello, between 1978 and 1983, the newspaper adopted an analytical editorial line and was positioned as to political and economical affairs of the time. The present master thesis aims to analyze of the editions of La Tribuna during the period in which it was directed by Paciello. Considering this journalistic vehicle as the main source of our research and the central object of this study, we intend to understand its political-ideological project, its criticism of certain aspects of the civic-military dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, its action on certain subjects and the its political affirmation in front of the Paraguayan public opinion. For this purpose, we will analyze editorials, news reports and articles of the newspaper's employees / Mestre

Graduation date: 1973

This study examines the relationship between fishing activities of Pacific Northwest albacore fishermen and the availability of albacore. Tactical responses of troll-boat fishermen were compared to changes in daily apparent albacore abundance. Tactical responses included boat aggregation and total applied effort (number of boats) within a particular area, and net daily distances traveled by individual boats and the medial center of the fleet. Apparent abundance estimates were derived from logbook catch records collected during the 1968, 1969 and 1970 seasons. Fishing power estimates of individual vessels allowed comparisons to be made of the most successful and least successful boats. In general, the most successful boats were larger, fished nearer the fleet center, traveled less net distance each day and caught more but smaller fish than the less successful boats. The magnitude of the differences between the most successful and least successful boats decreased progressively from 1968 to 1970. Apparent abundance fluctuations were synchronous in separate areas of the 1968 fishery but not in the 1969 and 1970 fisheries. Fluctuations tended to be periodic in 1969 and 1970 but not in 1968. No generalizations as to apparent abundance (patchiness, size of albacore concentrations) could be determined among years. Fishermen responded quickly to changes in apparent abundance during 1968. Boats were highly aggregated on days of high catches, and dispersed on days of low catches. Fishermen responses during 1969 were one day out of phase with catches. Boats aggregated one day after days of high catches, indicating that fishermen experienced difficulty in staying on concentrations of fish. In 1970 fishermen experienced no difficulty in staying on fish concentrations as record daily catches were reported. According to interviews and questionnaires, albacore fishermen rely heavily on inter-boat communications for planning their daily fishing tactics. A consequence of this reliance on radio communication appears to be a greater degree of boat aggregation and less willingness to scout in areas away from the central fleet area. Areas to the north and south of the central fleet were shown to have high estimates of albacore abundance but were exploited by very few boats. Greater dispersal of the fleet and use of several survey boats are suggested as a means of increasing the total fishing catch. / Graduation date: 1974