Word: argentina
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...country that regards itself as the most European and most civilized nation in Latin America, Argentina is curiously inept at governing itself...
LATIN AMERICA Argentina...
...Cordoba University in Argentina, rioting students refused to obey the school's administrators and demanded a voice in running things. They asked for relaxed entrance requirements, looser attendance rules, the virtual elimination of tuition. To eliminate narrow-minded professors who preached the dogma of the oligarchs, they also called for review of professorial qualifications...
...Borden Co. next month will move into pickles too. When Borden's acquires a Michigan pickle firm called Aunt Jane's Foods, no mouths will pucker in the modest Madison Avenue building from which robust Borden President Harold W. Comfort, 66, bosses an operation stretching from Argentina to Australia. Milk and milk products still account for 73% of Borden's sales, but Borden's has diversified so widely-into everything from applesauce to acetylene, wall coverings to wax beans-that no one is surprised any longer at even the most incongruous mixes. Diversification last year helped...
...bureaucracy and featherbedding, frightens off new foreign investors and inspires the remaining ones to kick up their prices to reap a quick profit before they too are grabbed. Through its anti-Dutch expropriations, Indonesia lost its best technicians and much of its export earnings, and is now nearly bankrupt. Argentina's $365 million budget deficit is due almost wholly to its losses from the nationalized railways and utilities that it took over during the Perón era from their British and U.S. owners. Warned a U.S. report on foreign aid, released last week by the Clay committee...