Word: argentina
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...harshly antagonistic groups. In Latin America as a whole, a Marxist victory in Chile would enliven Fidel Castro's waning image and stand as the ultimate mockery to the U.S.'s loftily conceived but ineptly carried out Alliance for Progress. Chile's neighbors, notably Argentina, would most likely redouble their own harsh anti-Communist efforts. There is some fear among U.S. diplomats that the Soviet Union might seek to proffer its protection to Chile, just as it has to Cuba, thus establishing a second foothold in the Americas...
JUNE 1969: Terrorists fire-bombed 13 Buenos Aires supermarkets controlled by the Rockefeller family. Labor Leader August Timoteo Van-dor, boss of the huge metallurgical workers union in Argentina, was assassinated by five gunmen in downtown Buenos Aires...
...Guatemalan government refused to meet the guerrillas' demand for the release of 22 political prisoners. Curtis C. Cutter, U.S. consul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, was wounded in the shoulder but escaped kidnaping by gunning his car around a roadblock. MAY 1970: Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, former President of Argentina, was kidnaped from his home in Buenos Aires and killed...
During the century before its fall to the conquistadors, Inca civilization flourished with startling grandeur. Inhabiting the Andean slopes from what is now Ecuador and Peru down into Chile and western Argentina, the Incas cut paved roads through the mountains, laid out elaborate irrigation systems, erected high suspension bridges across deep ravines. For all their engineering skills, these early Americans have long puzzled scholars because, unlike all the great peoples of the ancient world, they seemed to have no written language. Did they pass on their culture from generation to generation only by word of mouth...
...former U.S. Senator from Maryland and brother of a onetime U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Bruce came by his diplomatic leanings naturally. During World War I, he spurned the socially acceptable officer's commission and enlisted in the Army. He served in the artillery ranks in France, where he earned his officer's epaulets. Following law school, he entered law practice in Maryland, then spent most of the next twelve years in private life...