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...stay set. Characteristically, the goals Frondizi set for his journey to the U.S. and the U.N. last week were rigid-but realistic. He was determined to convince highly placed North Americans of his unwavering commitment to Western democracy, and he aimed to convince them that his kind of Argentina is worth helping. At the U.N. he resolved to cement his role as the independent-minded spokesman for Latin America now that Brazil's Jánio Quadros has come a cropper. Frondizi could count the trip a success on both scores...
...Frank & Blunt." A "breakfast meeting" with President Kennedy stretched nearly into lunch, and the talk-called "frank and blunt" by an official-was plainly fascinating. Frondizi thanked Kennedy for past U.S. aid, outlined future needs. Unlike many such pleas, Argentina's request was backed by accomplishment. Maneuvering his way past leftist and nationalist road blocks, Frondizi opened the government-monopoly oilfields to private foreign companies; in two years they produced so much oil that Argentina no longer spends $300 million annually on petroleum, even has the beginnings of an exportable surplus. Frondizi is unloading wasteful, government-run enterprises from...
...also catered to Cuba by playing down a newly discovered batch of Cuban diplomatic documents detailing plans for undermining Argentina's givernment...
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With similar business on his mind, Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi arrives in the U.S. this week. The avowed purpose for his journey is a speech before the U.N. General Assembly. But the success of the trip hangs most heavily on the crucial hours that the crisis-ridden Argentine President is scheduled to spend in informal conversation with Kennedy in New York City. Frondizi believes that the Alliance for Progress should focus on nations already on the road to economic maturity (i.e., Argentina) as an object lesson for less fortunate nations. Cost of the focus on Argentina...