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...South America by the Nazi underground escape organization. Wiesenthal said that on several occasions Bormann was seen nightclubbing with "the Mad Doctor of Auschwitz," Josef Mengele, who is now hiding in the jungles of Paraguay. Later, according to Wiesenthal, Bormann set up a colony of ex-Nazis in Argentina near the mountain town of Bariloche, where he remains today at the age of 71, well protected by thugs and armed guards...
...elsewhere, the country's living standard has risen to the highest level in South America. Lately, however, a tide of economic nationalism aimed at minimizing outside control of domestic resources has been on the flow in Latin America. Oil investment has been a frequent casualty. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Bolivia have put their oil-producing industries under state ownership. In Peru, the largest oil company has been expropriated. Last week a Colombian congressional committee recommended that the government nationalize foreign oil operations...
...areas most affected, Chile led the Western Hemisphere, losing 6.1% of its priests. Brazil (4.5%) and Argentina (3.2%) outpaced both Canada (2.6%) and the U.S. (2%). In Europe, Holland had the highest percentage (5.9%), Spain a surprising 2.3%, Italy 1.5% and even Ireland 1.3%. The Vatican study analyzed the formal reasons the priests gave for their departure: the breakdown revealed that a growing number of priests are now leaving because of identity crises and for ideological reasons. The percentage who leave simply to marry is decreasing...
...barely begun when it became apparent last week that the U.S. team was perhaps facing its toughest competition ever. The first surprise came in rowing, an event in which the U.S. copped six of seven first-place medals in the 1967 games. All but scuttled by crack crews from Argentina and Brazil, the U.S. oarsmen were unable to pull to a single victory. Unimpressed by Abner Doubleday's national origins, a seasoned Cuban baseball team then defeated a squad made up of U.S. collegians 4-3. The biggest shocker of all, though, happened in basketball, a sport in which...
...whoever divorces in Italy," says Mario Guttieres, a prominent Rome matrimonial lawyer, "love has been over for a long time." Take the case of Angiola Gattoronchieri. Married in 1907, she and her two sons were left behind eight years later when her husband took off for Argentina, never to be heard from again. She spent 56 years as one of Italy's "white widows"-women whose husbands have emigrated and left them behind, still legally and indissolubly married. Last week Signora Gattoronchieri, now 103 years old, became the oldest person to obtain a decree since divorce became legal...