Word: argentina
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...Argentina is wealthy, 92% literate, has relatively good transport and communications systems-and chronic political problems. The government, backed by the military, which threw out the previous freely elected President, has strong nationalistic leanings-some State Department officials are worried that the country could turn to isolationism. The party of exiled Dictator Juan Perón is still a force, but the strength of Castro Communism has declined...
...tapped to prosecute the Puerto Rican nationalists who, in 1954, shot up the Congress. Operating out of a Buenos Aires office decorated with a scarlet rug, wildly abstract art and carved African statuettes, Nuñez has set an ambitious goal: to make Valardel the Merrill Lynch of Argentina. "We have reached the point," says reform-minded Nuñez, "where it is necessary to prove not only that private initiative can make possible sound development but that the private sector can gain self-confidence through its ability to get a job done...
...Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa...
...Mormon he believes that "the strength of our country is in the family and the home, and that's where the emphasis should be." He has equally strong convictions about Chicago's future as an international trade center; Continental has opened a London office, is expanding into Argentina, Colombia and Japan...
...Argentina's Arturo Frondizi, Peru's Manuel Prado, Guatemala's Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, Ecuador's Carlos Arosemena, Dominican Republic's Juan Bosch, Honduras' Ramén Villeda Morales...