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Presumed Dead. Charles G. Reid, 42, captain of Moore-McCormack Lines' cruise ship S.S. Argentina, who joined the company in 1949 as a junior officer, later skippered freighters before taking command of passenger vessels three years ago; after vanishing mysteriously from his ship (Moore-McCormack says he apparently committed suicide by jumping out his cabin window) en route from Jamaica to Bermuda...
...Argentina 131,778* Total...
Born in Smyrna on Jan. 20, 1906, the son of Socrates, a well-to-do tobacco dealer, he witnessed as a youth the savage Turkish invasion of 1922, during which an uncle was lynched in the town square. His family fled to mainland Greece. At 17, Aristotle embarked for Argentina with $60 in his pocket, to seek his fortune...
...palace and took Belaúnde into custody. Onlookers gathered as he was escorted out of the palace. "How do you like this?" Belaúnde shouted to them. "These are the traitors of the country!" The soldiers bundled him off to the airport and a flight to Argentina and exile...
...arrival in Argentina (which, along with Bolivia, promptly offered him asylum), Belaúnde asserted that he had been ousted by a mere cuartelezo-a barracks revolt. The bulk of the armed forces, he believed, was not involved. But the first communiqué issued by the junta was signed by the chiefs of all three Peruvian military services. Within hours after Belaúnde's departure, General Juan Velasco Alvarado, the 58-year-old army commander and president of Peru's Joint Chiefs of Staff, took the oath as his successor before a candlelit crucifix in the presidential...