Word: annuled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...viewed the Bay of Angels in wintry Nice. And for Sophia Loren, 30, her dark glasses must have seemed rose-colored, because Producer Carlo Ponti, 52, has been granted French citizenship, and has carte blanche in France to marry her. He wed her before, but was forced to annul the marriage when their native Italy threatened bigamy proceedings; it does not recognize his 1957 Mexican divorce from his first wife. Carlo and Sophia celebrated with a tricolored cake, and Ponti displayed Gallic finesse when asked if they would remarry. "It is not excluded," said...
...around the U.S., and Fiat electrical motors-also made in Argentina-will soon go to Egypt. Last week the Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi, Italy's state oil monopoly, was reportedly negotiating with high-level Argentine officials, hoping to pick up the U.S. oil contracts that Illia has threatened to annul...
Since his election last July, Illia has said next to nothing about how he intends to govern. He is considered pro-West and pro-free enterprise, though he campaigned on a nationalistic platform threatening to annul the controversial oil contracts signed by Frondizi's government with foreign companies between 1958 and 1960. Last week, a national investigation board ruled that the contracts, in effect, were illegal. Yet Illia has said privately that the whole oil issue has been blown out of proportion, and he is expected only to renegotiate the contracts on terms more favorable to Argentina...
...rich land of grain and beef has drifted from crisis to crisis and from military faction to military faction, amid needless inflation, trade deficits and an eroding peso. Just before last month's twice-delayed popular elections finally came up, there were strong fears that the military would annul the result to prevent followers of the exiled Dictator Juan Perón from returning to power through a popular front they had formed with Frondizi's party. Instead, the army simply disqualified most of the front's electors. Angered, Perón then tried to discredit...
Last week the subject was very much in the limelight as Y.P.F. signed a new contract with Oklahoma's Kerr McGee Oil to drill an additional 350 wells. Two days later, Argentina's electoral college chose a new President, Arturo Illia, who has vowed to annul all the oil contracts...